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New Study Shows Enzymes Couldn't Evolve
November 10, 2011 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Whiskers Marked Milestone in Evolution of Mammals from Reptiles
November 10, 2011 Science Daily
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Animal Plan: It Works Well
November 10, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Selling Confabulation as Science
November 11, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Parasites drove human genetic variation
November 11, 2011 Nature News
adapting to pathogens was more important than climate and diet in driving natural selection
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What ate dinosaurs? Old crocs
November 12, 2011 The Economist
even in their heyday, dinosaurs were not quite as dominant as popular myth makes them out to be
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What dinosaurs ate: The belly of the beast
November 12, 2011 The Economist
a chance discovery from China suggests some dinosaurs lived in trees
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News to Note
November 12, 2011 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Darwin Still Rules from the Grave
November 12, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Phillip Johnson Re-Buries Darwin
November 13, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Whale Fossils: Challenge or Support for Evolution?
November 14, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Reclaiming 'intelligent design' with stunning photos
November 15, 2011 New Scientist
Princeton University's Art of Science photo competition celebrates awe-inspiring visions of science
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Astrophysics and Extinctions: News About Planet-Threatening Events
October 7, 2011 GSA Release No. 11-64
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Giant Kraken Lair Discovered
October 10, 2011 GSA Release No. 11-65
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Luminous grains of sand determine year of historic storm flood
October 10, 2011 GSA Release No. 11-70
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Initial burst of oceanic crust accretion in the Red Sea due to edge-driven mantle convection
November 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.11, p.1019-1022
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Conception to birth -- visualized
November 14, 2011 YouTube (TEDtalks)
a powerful medical visualization showing human development from conception to birth and beyond
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Why Scientists Need Christianity
November 16, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Intelligent Design Debate Still Raging on Two Decades Later
November 16, 2011 The Christian Post
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Skeleton of ancient human relative may yield skin
November 16, 2011 New Scientist
as London's Natural History Museum takes delivery of two replica fossils, palaeontologists hint that they have mummified skin
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News Update/Commentary
Pristine Reptile Fossil Holds New Information About Aquatic Adaptations
November 16, 2011 Science Daily
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Dark days of the Triassic: Lost world
November 16, 2011 Nature News
did a giant impact 200 million years ago trigger a mass extinction and pave the way for the dinosaurs
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News Update/Commentary
Massive Volcanoes, Meteorite Impacts Delivered One-Two Death Punch to Dinosaurs
November 17, 2011 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Date and Rate of Earth's Most Extreme Extinction Pinpointed
November 17, 2011 Science Daily
results stem from largest ever examination of fossil marine species
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How both macho and meek persist
November 17, 2011 Science News
vole study shows one way that evolution preserves diversity
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Earth's 'Time Capsules' May Be Flawed
November 17, 2011 Science NOW
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News Update/Commentary
Dinosaur Isle fossil hunt reckless, SNH say
November 18, 2011 BBC News
tonnes of rock has been disturbed at a Jurassic site on Skye in what has been described as one of Scotland's most reckless acts of fossil collecting
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Late Bloomers: "New" Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution
November 18, 2011 Scientific American
sixty "de novo" genes, many active in the cerebral cortex, arose from once-quiet stretches of DNA after humans split off from chimpanzees more than five million years ago
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Neutrino experiment replicates faster-than-light finding
November 18, 2011 Nature News
latest data show the subatomic particles continue to break the speed limit
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Book
The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty
April 1, 2011 Princeton University Press
see also Amazon
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Book
Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain
November 1, 2011 Harper Collins
see also Amazon
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Skyscraper-sized asteroid set to buzz Earth
November 9, 2011 New Scientist, n.2838, p.4
a space rock about the size of the Empire State Building is set to come closer to Earth than any other asteroid of its size in 35 years
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Warm water lured landlubber animals back to the sea
November 9, 2011 New Scientist, n.2838, p.19
vertebrates moved out of the sea and onto land 365 million years ago, but since then 31 groups have gone back -- only when the water was warm, though
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Ancient whales were worm food
November 10, 2011 Nature, v.479, p.153
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Recent Synchronous Radiation of a Living Fossil
November 11, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6057, p.796-799
despite their ancient origin, the majority of extant cycad species radiated within the past 10 million years
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Aliens don't need a moon like ours
November 13, 2011 New Scientist, n.2838, p.10
the moon was thought to prevent the Earth's tilt -- and its climate -- from shifting dangerously, making things stable for life, but moonless worlds might be stable enough after all
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View a colossal telescopic eye into the cosmic past
November 16, 2011 New Scientist, n.2839, p.30-31
in the Atacama desert, Chile, the world's most advanced visible-light observatory catches rays that have taken billions of years to travel across the cosmos
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Single gene can make you appear kinder
November 16, 2011 New Scientist, n.2839, p.21
"cuddle chemical" gene variations may influence how kind and trustworthy you appear
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Multiple routes to mammalian diversity
November 17, 2011 Nature, v.479, p.393-396
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Earthquake risk has not risen
November 17, 2011 Nature, v.479, p.271
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Ancient creature's surprising sight
November 17, 2011 Nature, v.479, p.270
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Evolutionary Time Travel
November 18, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6058, p.893-895
with clever and challenging lab experiments, researchers are forcing species to become multicellular, develop new energy sources, and start having sex
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Book
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
January 1, 2012 Palgrave Macmillan
see also Amazon
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Lower-latitude mammals as year-round residents in Eocene Arctic forests
June 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.6, p.499-502
evidence for the establishment of warm adapted fauna in the Arctic before the onset of the Cenozoic glaciation
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Bedload transport of mud by floccule ripples--Direct observation of ripple migration processes and their implications
June 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.6, p.483-486
Challenges the common view that mud equals low energy depositional environment. It shows that it is possible for mud to be deposited in high hydrodynamic energy settings. It is not always clear how to distinguish t
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Biogenic origin for Earth's oldest putative microfossils
July 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.7, p.631-634
supports the biogenicity of the controversial Apex Chert microfossils
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Paradox of late Paleozoic glacioeustasy
August 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.8, p.715-718
Modeling of the Late Paleozoic ice sheets shows that orbital variations cannot produce modulation of ice volume sufficient to account for 100m of sea level change. One would need increases of pCO2
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Mid-Cretaceous seafloor spreading pulse: Fact or fiction?
August 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.8, p.687-690
rather than being related to an acceleration of spreading-rates in the mid-Cretaceous, high sea level is the result of emplacement of a lot of new oceanic crust during the whole Cretaceous
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Ontong Java Plateau eruption as a trigger for the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event
September 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.9, p.855-858
strengthens and explores the correlation between Oceanic Anoxic Event 1 and the Ontong Java large igneous province
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Reigniting the Cretaceous-Palaeogene firestorm debate
December 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.12, p.1147-1148
information on environmental perturbations and triggering of wildfires as a consequence of the impact