New dinosaurs found in Australia
  Three new dinosaur species are found in Queensland, Australia, and named after the Outback song Waltzing Matilda. BBC News Full Story |
Plants Save The Earth From An Icy Doom
When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth's surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over entirely? This has been a puzzle to climate scientists because leading models have indicated that over the past ...
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Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland
New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. ...
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Many characteristics of Mars, including ice, are similar to Earth, paper says
Mars gets as far as 250 million miles away, but many parts of it closely resemble places on Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather, says a Texas A&M University researcher in the current issue of Science magazine.
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Swine flu reaches into the lungs and gut
Studies of ferrets reveal details of disease.
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The Non-Evolution of God
By Nicholas Wade
Robert Wright’s new book, “The Evolution of God,” has a provocative title. But it’s a disappointment from the Darwinian perspective. He doesn’t mean real evolution, just the development of ideas about God.
He argues that our morality has improved over the centuries and that maybe the hand of the deity can be discerned in that progression, if one looks hard enough. But he leaves fuzzy the matter of whether he thinks a deity is there for real. There’s a moral order in history, he says, which “makes it reasonable to suspect that humankind in some sense has a ‘higher purpose.’” And maybe the source of that higher purpose, he writes, “is something that qualifies for the label ‘god’ in at least some sense of the word.”
This is not a terrible idea. Darwin himself had similar thoughts, but he later dropped the view that evolution had a higher moral purpose. New research on the biological roots of morality has drawn attention to another of Darwin’s ideas, that there is an innate disposition to moral behavior.
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The Great Debate...
by Danielle Joyner Kelley
“Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.” Genesis 2:1.
For anyone following the debate of science versus religion, a barrier appears in the arguments. People walk away from the debate with the feeling that Science and Christianity are mutually exclusive, that is, one cannot exist because of the other.
However, a barrier’s purpose is to divide, and humans are prone to jump on one side or another to eliminate confusion. People want to be clear about their position, and when you can see both sides you are labeled as someone who cannot make a decision.
In our society, this is seen over and over. There is Pro-Life and Pro-Choice, Republican and Democrat, black and white, welfare and wealthy. One doesn’t have to look any further than the success of certain political candidates who were the first to coin the term “middle class” to see that a division exists and that true success comes from removing the barrier and examining both sides.
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“Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.” Genesis 2:1.
For anyone following the debate of science versus religion, a barrier appears in the arguments. People walk away from the debate with the feeling that Science and Christianity are mutually exclusive, that is, one cannot exist because of the other.
However, a barrier’s purpose is to divide, and humans are prone to jump on one side or another to eliminate confusion. People want to be clear about their position, and when you can see both sides you are labeled as someone who cannot make a decision.
In our society, this is seen over and over. There is Pro-Life and Pro-Choice, Republican and Democrat, black and white, welfare and wealthy. One doesn’t have to look any further than the success of certain political candidates who were the first to coin the term “middle class” to see that a division exists and that true success comes from removing the barrier and examining both sides.
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Doubt, Deception, and Dogma: Science and Religion in Film
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Dinosaur mummy yields its secrets |
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A metre-long section of the fossil shows the size of the hadrosaur's scales A remarkably well-preserved fossil of a dinosaur has been analysed by scientists writing in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. They describe how the fossil's soft tissues were spared from decay by fine sediments that formed a mineral cast. Tests have shown that the fossil still holds cell-like structures - but their constituent proteins have decayed. The team says the cellular structure of the dinosaur's skin was similar to that of dinosaurs' modern-day descendants. |
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Theology on Thursday
One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1981 Paramount feature, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The hero of the film, Indiana Jones, is an adventurer and professor of archaeology. While lecturing, he quips to his students, “Archaeology is about facts, not truth. If it’s truth you’re interested in, Dr. Tyree’s philosophy class is down the hall.” There exists a contemporary myth which asserts scientists are concerned only with facts while philosophers and theologians are preoccupied with meaning. As a theologian, I am obviously a theist – one who believes in the existence of a transcendent, eternal divine being who is the ultimate origin of the universe. As such, I am decidedly not a naturalist – one who believes that blind chance and natural causes alone are sufficient to explain everything that exists. Theism and naturalism are competing worldviews which are unable to concede any ground to the other. As science historian William B. Provine of Cornell University, an avowed atheist and staunch evolutionist, has rightly observed, if naturalism (e.g., Darwinism) is true as he contends, then there is absolutely no ground for theism,...
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Re-Write The Textbooks: Key Genetic Phenomenon Shown To Be Different Than Believed
Because females carry two copies of the X chromosome to males’ one X and one Y, they harbor a potentially toxic double dose of the over 1000 genes that reside on the X chromosome. To compensate ...
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New Fossil Primate Suggests Common Asian Ancestor, Challenges Primates Such As 'Ida'
A new fossil primate from Myanmar (previously known as Burma) suggests that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, not ..
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Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy: Largest map of cold dust revealed
Astronomers have unveiled an unprecedented new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, peppered with thousands of previously undiscovered dense knots of cold cosmic dust -- the potential birthplaces of new stars. Made using observations from the APEX telescope in Chile, this survey is the largest map of cold dust so far, and will prove an invaluable map for observations made with the forthcoming ALMA telescope, as well as the recently launched ESA Herschel space telescope.
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Picking a Modern ‘Origin of Species’
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Kimberly White/ReutersStephen Hawking discussing theories on the origin of the universe in Berkeley, Calif., in 2007.
The homeboy won, but what do you expect when the homeboy isStephen Hawking, world-renowned cosmologist and black hole expert at the University of Cambridge, best-selling author, “Simpsons” and “Star Trek” guest star, and aspiring astronaut?
Kimberly White/ReutersStephen Hawking discussing theories on the origin of the universe in Berkeley, Calif., in 2007.In anonline poll of Cambridge University staff members and students, Dr. Hawking’s book, “A Brief History of Time,” has been voted the scientific publication from the last half-century that is most deserving to be remembered 150 years from now. The poll was done as a run-up to theDarwin Anniversary Festival, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s“On the Origin of Species”. The festival will take place in Cambridge, where Darwin spent much of his life, from July 6 to 10.
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Archaeological treasure trove surfaces in S.C.
- The (Hilton Head) Island Packet
HILTON HEAD — An archaeologist who’s been digging at the Topper Site in Allendale County for 11 years is uncovering new evidence that could rewrite America’s history.
University of South Carolina archaeologist Albert Goodyear found artifacts at this rock quarry site near the Savannah River that indicate humans lived here 37,000 years before the Clovis people. History books say the Clovis were the first Americans and arrived here 13,000 years ago by walking across a land bridge from Asia.
Goodyear’s discovery could prove otherwise.
His findings are controversial, opening scientific minds to the possibility of an even earlier pre-Clovis occupation of America.
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Most complete Earth map published
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Dino Tooth Sheds New Light On Ancient Riddle: Major Group Of Dinosaurs Had Unique Way Of Eating
Microscopic analysis of scratches on dinosaur teeth has helped scientists unravel an ancient riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs ate -- and exactly how ...
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The sound of light: Innovative technology shatters the barriers of modern light microscopy
Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen and the Technische Universitat Munchen are using a combination of light and ultrasound to visualize fluorescent proteins that are seated several centimeters deep into living tissue.
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Scientists create first working model of a 2-qubit electronic quantum processor
A team led by Yale University researchers has successfully implemented simple algorithms using a quantum processor based on microwave solid-state technology -- similar to that found in computers and cell phones. The new processor is far from conventional, however, in that it uses the potent power of quantum mechanics to bring the dream of quantum computing a small but significant step closer to reality.
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