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Beauty Evades the Clutches of Materialism
March 27, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Accelerated gene evolution through replication-transcription conflicts
March 28, 2013 Nature, v.495, p.512-515
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Preservation of ovarian follicles reveals early evolution of avian reproductive behaviour
March 28, 2013 Nature, p.495, p.507-511
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Tubicolous enteropneusts from the Cambrian period
March 28, 2013 Nature, v.495, p.503-506
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Tubular worms from the Burgess Shale
March 28, 2013 Nature, v.495, p.458-459
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Trilobite fossil spotted
March 28, 2013 Nature, v.495, p.412
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Scientific Findings Can Be Counterintuitive
March 28, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here are examples of recent claims in science that seem to contradict what some would consider intuitively obvious. They should be kept in mind when evaluating other widely-accepted scientific truisms, like evolution.
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Multiple Instances of Ancient Balancing Selection Shared Between Humans and Chimpanzees
March 29, 2013 Science, v.339, n.6127, p.1578-1582
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Universe's High-Def Baby Picture Confirms Standard Theory
March 29, 2013 Science, v.339, n.6127, p.1513
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News to Note
March 30, 2013 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Time to get smarter about stupidity
April 2, 2013 New Scientist, n.2910, p.5
if we want to avoid repeating past mistakes, we must acknowledge that even the brightest people can do monumentally daft things
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Travels in Geology: Famous fossils and spectacular scenery at British Columbia's Burgess Shale
January 1, 2013 Earth Magazine (American Geosciences Institute)
- Getting there and getting around the Burgess Shale
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Greenland defied ancient warming
January 23, 2013 Nature, v.493, p.459-460
but Antarctic glaciers may be more vulnerable than thought
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A detection of Milankovitch frequencies in global volcanic activity
February 1, 2013 Geology, v.41, n.2, p.227-230
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Trove of Neanderthal fossils found in Greek cave
April 1, 2013 NBC News (Live Science)
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Scientists Discover Layer of Liquified Molten Rock in Earth's Mantle
March 20, 2013 National Science Foundation
hidden magma layer could play role in shaping the geologic face of our planet
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Nothing about Molecular Machines Makes Sense without Intelligent Design
March 28, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Our Ears Are Amazing! They Must Have Evolved
March 29, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Will Open-Access Publishing Break the Darwinist Stranglehold?
April 3, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
April 1, 2013 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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RNA: The genome's rising stars
April 4, 2013 Nature, v.496, p.127-129
as the once-fringe field of long non-coding RNA moves into the limelight, young researchers could reap the benefits
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Mega-Eruption: Scientists Connect a Mass Extinction to a Major Lava Flow
April 4, 2013 Time Magazine
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Freckled Trilobites Had Great Eyes
March 29, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darlings of the Cambrian Explosion, trilobites had spotted markings and sophisticated eyes. Some have been exceptionally well preserved as fossils, down to the level of individual cells.
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Acts & Facts, v.42, n.4 (pdf)
April 1, 2013 Institute for Creation Research
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North American Geology All Wrong
April 3, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
researchers are stating that beliefs about the origin of western mountains in North America are all wrong
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Stars of Jurassic Park to remain featherless
April 3, 2013 New Scientist, n.2911, p.6
despite mounting evidence that many dinosaurs were feathered, the director of Jurassic Park 4 appears set on keeping them leathery
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News Update/Commentary
A Comet, Not an Asteroid, May Have Killed the Dinosaurs
April 4, 2013 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery of 1,800-Year-Old 'Rosetta Stone' for Tropical Ice Cores
April 4, 2013 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
How Life May Have First Emerged on Earth
April 4, 2013 Science Daily
foldable proteins in a high-salt environment
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News Update/Commentary
Origin of Life: Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered
April 4, 2013 Science Daily
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Meteorites could have been source of life's batteries
April 4, 2013 New Scientist, n.2911, p.13
dissolved in volcanic ponds, meteorites could have provided early life with the chemicals it needed to store energy
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News to Note
April 6, 2013 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Bimbo Eruptions in the Solar System
April 6, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
planetary origin theories come across as popular and charismatic, till some little moon pops off and says, “Yoo-hoo! Remember me?”
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Extreme Cosmos: A Guided Tour of the Fastest, Brightest, Hottest, Heaviest, Oldest, and Most Amazing Aspects of Our Universe
July 1, 2012 Perigee (Penguin)
see also Amazon
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Dr. Ben Carson, Creationist
April 1, 2013 The American Conservative
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Before They've Even Seen Stephen Meyer's New Book, Darwinists Waste No Time in Criticizing Darwin's Doubt
April 4, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Wesley Snipes Raises Creationist Hopes for Kent Hovind
April 9, 2013 Forbes
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What Would a World Without Darwin Look Like?
April 8, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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From the Halls of Science: Dancing Sea Lion, Talking Monkeys
April 9, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Design by Any Other Name
April 9, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Vatican seeks to rebrand its relationship with science
April 11, 2013 CNN
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Ancient humanlike skeleton is 'weird mosaic'
April 11, 2013 CNN
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The Malay Archipelago
April 11, 2013
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Laughing Matters
April 8, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why is it that scientists need to investigate “the evolutionary origins” of anything humans do?
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The Hunt for Selection in the Genes
April 9, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
One might think that 154 years after Darwin’s book about it, natural selection would be empirically obvious. The journal Nature went on a search for it in DNA.
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Using Finagle’s Rules in Cosmology
April 10, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
fudging and finagling often underlie the confident-sounding claims of cosmologists
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Baby dinos pumped their muscles inside the egg
April 10, 2013 New Scientist, n.2912, p.15
a rare clutch of fossil dinosaur embryos reveals how sauropods grew so fast
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Nude crashing stars spark radiation bursts
April 10, 2013 New Scientist, n.2912, p.14
Earth looks safer thanks to a new model that suggests intense gamma-ray bursts stem from rare stellar collisions that can't happen in our galaxy
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Twist in dark matter tale hints at shadow Milky Way
April 10, 2013 New Scientist, n.2912, p.8-9
the universe could have a dark side, complete with dark-matter atoms, a dark force and a mirror version of our own galaxy
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Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic remains
April 11, 2013 Nature, v.496, p.210-214