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• Scientists Admit Genetic Data Timing Uncertain

  March 17, 2012

  “The inability to observe past mutation rates means that the timing of events from genetic data remains uncertain,” report Cambridge geneticists.

• Mutated Sense of Taste

  March 17, 2012

  Many meat-eating mammals have mutated sweet sense.

• Fossil Gap Closes More Missing Links

  March 10, 2012

  The gap closes but transitions are still lacking.

• Tomb Trackers

  March 10, 2012

  Searchers yet again claim to have found Jesus’ tomb.

• Common Ancestor Hidden in Burgess Shale

  March 10, 2012

  Burgess Shale said to shelter “the most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans.”

• Which Version of History Do Fossils Reflect?

  March 10, 2012

  Fossil diversity “accurately reflects history”—but which version of history?

• Australian Take on the Creation Museum

  March 10, 2012

  Australian television program gets up close with the Creation Museum.

• Editorials Debate Value of Sanitized Bible

  March 3, 2012

  Editorial discusses the supposed usefulness of a "sugarcoated" Bible.

• Secret of Life? . . . Still Not Found

  March 3, 2012

  Stable molecules still don’t hold the secret spark of life.

• Infanticide Is Contraception?

  March 3, 2012

  Ethicists’ logical conclusion could reclassify infanticide as a form of contraception.

• South Africa’s Abstract Thought

  March 3, 2012

  South Africa’s “earliest known evidence of abstract thought”

• Dawkins, Canterbury, and the Baroness—Agnosticism, Compromise, and Tolerance

  March 3, 2012

  During a public “dialogue” at Oxford, “the world’s most famous atheist,” Richard Dawkins, told the Archbishop of Canterbury he couldn’t be sure God didn’t exist.

• The Battle of Bible Translation

  Feb. 25, 2012

  “. . . the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God” (1 John 4:14–15).

• Primordial Soup Debate

  Feb. 25, 2012

  Was primordial soup a warm pond or a hot salty ocean? Evolutionists debate.

• Our Scarred Moon

  Feb. 25, 2012

  Moon story stretches to accommodate unexpectedly recent activity.

• NYC Schools Evict Churches

  Feb. 25, 2012

  NYC schools evict churches.

• Ultrafast Parasite Evolution

  Feb. 25, 2012

  Bird parasite said to “evolve” rapidly while losing information.

• Mother of All Living?

  Feb. 18, 2012

  Ancient sponges take center stage as “our great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother.”

• Forbid Them Not

  Feb. 18, 2012

  Atheist websites scramble to stack the deck.

• Peppered Moth Again

  Feb. 18, 2012

  Peppered moth: “the poster child of Darwinian evolution”

• Epigenetic On-Off Switches

  Feb. 18, 2012

  Epigenetic inheritance allows rapid adaptation without loss—or gain—of information.

• How the Zebra Got its Stripes

  Feb. 18, 2012

  So, how did the zebra get its stripes?

• The Ancient Mega-Clone

  Feb. 11, 2012

  Models suggest massive Mediterranean meadows are millenary mega-clones.

• Synapses Speak

  Feb. 11, 2012

  Dramatic difference found between human and chimpanzee brains.

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