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My Book In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design Is Now Out in an Expanded Edition
March 16, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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In the Current Evolution Debate, Don't Let Darwinists Tell You the History of Their Idea Is Irrelevant
March 16, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Science education standards become a battleground
March 17, 2015 Rapid City Journal (South Dakota)
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More Attempts to Explain Chirality
March 17, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
despite the hype in some reports, the highly-designed experiments only underscore the problem for origin of life theories
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Why Birds Don’t Crash
March 18, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A bird flying through a forest or city needs the reactions of a champion video gamer. It’s got the software to do it.
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News Update/Commentary
Planets in the habitable zone around most stars
March 18, 2015 Science Daily
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Protein sequencing solves Darwinian mystery of strange South American mammals
March 18, 2015 Science Daily
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How planthoppers got (and changed) their wings
March 18, 2015 Science Daily
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More than a million stars are forming in a mysterious dusty gas cloud in a nearby galaxy
March 18, 2015 Science Daily
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The baby spiders that munch up their mum
March 18, 2015 New Scientist, n.3013, p.18
it's a family meal with a ghoulish difference: young velvet spiders feast on their mother to help them survive in the desert
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Editing human embryos is genetics' new battleground
March 18, 2015 New Scientist, n.3013, p.6
Will pioneering work to alter genes in human germ cells or early embryos allow us to make superbabies, and is it ethical?
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Geology Upset: Wind Carves Canyons Fast
March 19, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
According to a new study, wind carves canyons ten times faster than water. This has implications for theories on Mars and Earth.
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Rethinking Evolution
March 20, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary articles often say that new data will cause them to rethink evolution. Maybe they’re not thinking deeply enough.
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Origin-of-life puzzle cracked
March 20, 2015 Science, v.347, n.6228, p.1298
study explains how three essential classes of molecules could have formed simultaneously
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Save Your Eyes: Take a Hike
March 21, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
An epidemic of myopia is swamping Asian health care institutions. The cause could depend on what side of the front door you tend to be.
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When Darwinists Tolerate Faith
March 22, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Francis Collins gets tolerable coverage in the secular media for his brand of Christian faith. That’s not necessarily good.
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Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science
December 1, 2014 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
January 1, 2015 Pegasus
see also Amazon
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Duck-Billed Dinos Gave T. rex a Run for Its Money
January 20, 2015 Scientific American
hadrosaurs could outrun tyrannosauruses because of the layout of the herbivores’ tail muscles
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How Science Can Inform Ethics and Champion Sentient Beings
January 20, 2015 Scientific American
the arc of the moral universe really is bending toward progress
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Secrets of Neandertal Cognition Revealed
February 1, 2015 Scientific American
analyses of anatomy, DNA and cultural remains have yielded tantalizing insights into the inner lives of our mysterious extinct cousins
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Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs?
February 20, 2015 Science Magazine
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Dragonflies: Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land
March 1, 2015 Yale University Press
see also Amazon
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Earth’s Water May Have Come from Comets, Asteroids or Something Else Entirely
March 1, 2015 Scientific American
to discover the origin of the oceans, scientists are investigating our solar system’s farthest reaches and earliest moments
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Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?
March 1, 2015 National Geographic
We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge--from climate change to vaccinations--faces furious opposition. Some even have doubts about the moon landing.
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Rapid Evolution Changes Species in Real Time
March 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
some species are evolving far more quickly than Darwin ever imagined
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Is There Life on Europa?
March 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
Jupiter’s watery moon might just prove hospitable
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Icy Worlds Might Be Alive on the Inside
March 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
many small, frozen worlds seem to have warm underground oceans, making the search for alien life more exciting -- and more confusing
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How to Stop a Killer Asteroid
March 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
when a civilization-ending space rock bears down on us, this nuclear option might just save our species
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The Quest to Resurrect Extinct Species
March 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
A father-son duo of biologists has set the stage for so-called de-extinction. But should we be doing this at all?
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The 9 limits of our planet … and how we’ve raced past 4 of them
March 5, 2015 TED
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Highly evolved bacteria found near hydrothermal vents
March 11, 2015 Science Daily
iron-oxidizing bacteria found along Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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Science and Culture, and a Tale of Two Cities
March 12, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Pioneer of creationism: An interview with geologist Clifford Burdick
March 18, 2015 Creation Revolution
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Prehistoric stone tools bear 500,000-year-old animal residue
March 19, 2015 Science Daily
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Did a volcanic cataclysm 40,000 years ago trigger the final demise of the Neanderthals?
March 20, 2015 Science Daily
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Dinosaur Footprints Uncovered on Beach After Giant Tide
March 23, 2015 ABC News
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Orbital Ice Age Theory Melts
March 23, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Orbital cycles do not cause ice ages, a new study suggests. Instead, the whole world experienced an ice age at the same time.
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Wandering Jupiter accounts for our unusual solar system
March 23, 2015 Science Daily
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Wrecking ball Jupiter paved way for Earth
March 24, 2015 New Scientist, n.3014, p.17
Jupiter may have ploughed through the early solar system, driving some of the first planets to a fiery death in the sun -- and cleared room for planets like Earth
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Animals Wonderful and Bizarre
March 24, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The variety of living organisms on our planet is astonishing and often surprising. Here are a few examples that have come to light in news reports.
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Privileged Species with Geneticist Michael Denton Gets Its Online Premiere
March 24, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Quantum experiment verifies Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance'
March 24, 2015 Science Daily
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Prehistoric super salamander was top predator, fossils suggest
March 24, 2015 Science Daily
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How Man Solves the Problem of Being a Multi-Cellular Organism
March 25, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Why Such Large Animals in the Fossil Record?
March 26, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
if size is a measure of evolutionary progress, things seem to have gone downhill since many fossils were deposited
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Should we thank god for civilisation?
March 26, 2015 New Scientist, n.3014, p.5
the idea that religion led to modernity is gaining momentum, but that doesn't mean it should lead civilisation now
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Theory of the strong interaction verified
March 26, 2015 Science Daily
supercomputer calculates mass difference between neutron and proton ... the fact that the neutron is slightly more massive than the proton is the reason why atomic nuclei have exactly those properties that make our world and ultimately our
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Mars rover finds long-chain organic compounds
March 27, 2015 Science, v.347, n.6229, p.1402-1403
complex carbon molecules show that clues to past life--if any--could survive harsh martian conditions
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Evidence-Based Cosmology
March 27, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
from what we observe, we can draw inferences without the need to posit occult phenomena