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Schools Don’t Teach Evolution Dogmatically Because They’re…Underfunded?

July 28, 2017 Sarah Chaffee Evolution News & Science Today
Is Sean Carroll a Boltzmann Brain?

July 31, 2017 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today
Canaanite DNA Episode Reveals Limits of Science and of Science Reporting

August 4, 2017 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today
In Science Education, Academic Freedom Makes Progress Across America

August 5, 2017 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today
Solar Eclipses Still Inspire Science

August 7, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
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Black holes pervade the universe, celestial census indicates

August 7, 2017 University of California, Irvine Science Daily
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New look at archaic DNA rewrites human evolution story

August 7, 2017 Science Daily

contradicts convention on Denisovans, Neanderthals, modern humans
Hailed as the “Next Darwin,” MIT’s Jeremy England Sheds Little Light on Life’s Origins

August 8, 2017 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today
Philosopher in NY Times: The Universe Has No Purpose, But We Can Pretend…

August 8, 2017 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today
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New theory on the origin of dark matter

August 8, 2017 Science Daily

theoretical physicists present an alternative to the WIMP paradigm
Cultural Evolution Theory: Darwin Fail on Arrival

August 9, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines

here’s why theories on the evolution of human culture are doomed from the get-go
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A note on that fired Google engineer (a biology major)…

August 9, 2017 Uncommon Descent
How Is Purpose Related to Teleology in Nature?

August 9, 2017 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today
Evolutionary Biologist Now Wants Doctors to Kill Suicidal Depressed People

August 9, 2017 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today
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Fruit fly mutation foretells 40 million years of evolution

August 9, 2017 Florida State University Science Daily
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First winged mammals from the Jurassic period discovered

August 9, 2017 Science Daily

160-million-year-old fossils suggest a new model of life -- gliding -- for the forerunners of mammals, in an evolutionary parallel to modern mammal gliders
Scientists Pressured to Go PC on Gender

August 10, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines

secular scientists face a dilemma: say what is politically correct, or state the biological facts about human sexual differences
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San Salvador pupfish acquired genetic variation from island fish to eat new foods

August 10, 2017 Science Daily

study finds that ecological and genetic factors both contributed to rise of new pupfish species
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Origins of DNA folding suggested in archaea

August 10, 2017 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Daily
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Chimpanzees learn rock-paper-scissors

August 10, 2017 Science Daily

new study shows that chimps' ability to learn simple circular relationships is on a par with that of 4-year-old children
Textbooks Refuted -- Three Case Studies

August 11, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
Evolution Confirmed? The Philosophy of Naturalism

August 11, 2017 Cornelius Hunter Evolution News & Science Today
On Origin of Life, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Delivers Chastisement to Jeremy England

August 11, 2017 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today
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Where is everybody? The implications of cosmic silence

August 11, 2017 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Science Daily
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Scientists map sex chromosome evolution in pathogenic fungi

August 11, 2017 Duke University Science Daily

swaps at the centromere had been thought impossible
Surprising Fossils Upset Evolutionary Expectations

August 12, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines

here are some notable fossil finds that tell stories, not necessarily the Darwin kind
Ouch: A Slashing New Anti-Darwin Biography from Darwin’s Own Publisher

August 14, 2017 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today
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Change in protein production essential to muscle function

August 14, 2017 Baylor College of Medicine Science Daily
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Viruses up their game in arms race with immune system

August 14, 2017 Penn State Science Daily
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Experiments cast doubt on theory of how Earth was formed

August 14, 2017 Goldschmidt Conference Science Daily
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Meadow of dancing brittle stars shows evolution at work

August 14, 2017 University of Cambridge Science Daily
Solar Eclipses and Life

August 15, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
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How head-on collisions of DNA protein machines stop replication

August 15, 2017 Science Daily

the collisions promote mutations that may help bacteria adapt to stress
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Seven complete specimens of new flower, all 100 million years old

August 15, 2017 Oregon State University Science Daily
Curricula on Intelligent Design Are Urgently Needed -- And Here They Are!

August 16, 2017 Daniel Reeves Evolution News & Science Today
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Problems with DNA replication can cause epigenetic changes that may be inherited for several generations

August 16, 2017 Centre for Genomic Regulation Science Daily
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Mystery of how first animals appeared on Earth solved

August 16, 2017 Australian National University Science Daily
Chinks in the Climate Science Data

August 17, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines

Consensus can be more robust than the data it rests on. That’s true in Darwinism, and appears to be true in climate science, according to some published doubts.
Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

August 17, 2017 Jay W. Richards Evolution News & Science Today
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Female mouse embryos actively remove male reproductive systems

August 17, 2017 Science Daily

novel insights into how sex-specific reproductive systems arise
More Sources of Error in Climate Models

August 18, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines

We continue examining findings that call into question the certainty of scientific consensus about global warming. Here are interesting papers from leading peer-reviewed science journals.
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Gene variant activity is surprisingly variable between tissues

August 18, 2017 CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Science Daily
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Mechanisms explaining positional diversity of the hindlimb in tetrapod evolution

August 18, 2017 Science Daily

researchers at Nagoya University uncover the gene and protein involved in the determination of the hind legs in tetrapods
Stop the Silly Darwin Stories

August 20, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines

What happens when consensus enforces conformity, and doubters are excluded? In the case of Darwinism, you get utter nonsense. This must end.
“Nature’s Rights” Constitutional Amendment Is Proposed

August 20, 2017 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolutionary arms 'chase'

August 21, 2017 University of Utah Science Daily

new study challenges paradigm on plant-herbivore coevolution
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Antarctic salt-loving microbes provide insights into evolution of viruses

August 21, 2017 University of New South Wales Science Daily
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How plants turn off genes they don't need

August 21, 2017 University of Pennsylvania Science Daily
The Multiverse Is Science’s Assisted Suicide

August 22, 2017 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today
I Witnessed the Perfect Solar Eclipse in Missouri. Amazing!

August 22, 2017 Jonathan Witt Evolution News & Science Today