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In 1984 and again in 1999, the National Academy of Sciences, the nation?s most eminent scientific organization, produced books on the evidence supporting the theory of evolution and arguing against the introduction of creationism or other religious alternatives in public school science classes. On Thursday, it produced a third. But this volume is unusual, people who worked on it say, because it is intended specifically for the lay public and because it devotes much of its space to explaining the differences between science and religion, and asserting that acceptance of evolution does not require abandoning belief in God. ..... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/us/04 .…
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2 Peter 3:11-13 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Notice that the verse does not say that the elements will be destroyed: When you "melt" something, it changes from a solid to a liquid and takes a different form. God's Creation fascinates me. I was watching this documentary about the Magellan spa…
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Who knew the Weasley family trademark?a shock of bright red hair?was tens of thousands of years old? Fictional wizards and J.K. Rowling aside, researchers Carles Lalueza-Fox of the University of Barcelona, Spain and Holger Rompler of the University of Leipzig in Germany announced last week that Neanderthals, who died out 35,000 years ago, had the same distribution of hair and skin color as modern human European populations. By inference, that means that about 1 percent of Neanderthals must have been redheads, with pale skin and freckles. ... http://www.livescience.com/history/0711 ... -hair.html
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I am not 100% sure where the best forum to link to this study is, but I could see it fitting in here as something of an apologetic article on the first 9 chapters of Genesis. References To Genesis In The Book Of Job I have been preaching my way through the book of Job, and the Lord has laid this study on my heart the last few days. It is a study of a different nature, but one I found worthwhile to dig into.
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Are some religious leaders missionaries for evolution? It may seem a bit strong to call some Christian leaders ?missionaries for evolution,? but, in fact, leaders in many denominations will make an all-out effort to promote evolution. While some Bible-upholding leaders oppose what they?re doing, their voices are often drowned out. Evolutionists can capitalize on this confusion in the church. Sometimes church leaders are some of their strongest allies! Here?s what the Paleontological Society said in an evolution tract written for the general public: ?Many people of faith, including scientists, find no conflict between evolution and their religion; in fact, m…
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Mike Huckabee responds to evolution question...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A partially mummified hadrosaur discovered by a teenager in North Dakota may be the most complete dinosaur ever found, with intact skin that shows evidence of stripes and perhaps soft tissue, researchers said on Monday. http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceN ... cienceNews
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Prehistoric sea ?monster? discovered Remains of reptile measuring 40 feet long might be a new species updated 10:15 a.m. CT, Tues., Dec. 4, 2007 OSLO, Norway - Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric "monster" reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before recorded by science, researchers said Tuesday. Initial excavation of a site on the Svalbard islands in August yielded the remains, teeth, skull fragments and vertebrae of a reptile estimated to measure nearly 40 feet long, said Joern Harald Hurum of the University of Oslo. "It seems the monster is a new species," he told The Associated Press. The reptile appears be the same species as a…
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Did Life Originate in a Mica Sandwich Sitting in Primordial Waters? New hypothesis suggests spaces between mica layers may have provided exactly the right conditions for earliest life Earth's first life form may have developed between the layers of a chunk of mica sitting like a multilayered sandwich in primordial waters, according to a new hypothesis. The mica hypothesis, which was developed by Helen Hansma of the National Science Foundation (NSF), proposes that the compartments between layers of mica -- a common mineral that cleaves into smooth sheets -- could have provided the shelter and protection needed for molecules to organize into cells... http://www.nsf.gov…
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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - One of our closest ancestors had more in common with gorillas than previously thought, with males of the species taking far longer to reach maturity than females, scientists said on Thursday. Males of Paranthropus robustus -- an extinct relative of humans that lived almost 2 million years ago -- continued to grow well into adulthood, before a lucky few finally established "harems" of females for breeding. The result was a big difference in size between males and females. "This is exactly what you see in gorillas and a variety of other primates, but not so much in humans or chimpanzees," said Charles Lockwood of University Colleg…
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A clam dredged from Icelandic waters had lived for 400 years - is this the longest-lived animal known to science? http://www.physorg.com/news112870855.html This could give us an idea how people could live a long time before Noah's Flood.
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Mankind 'shortening the universe's life' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 21/11/2007 Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too. # Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes # Quantum theory and relativity explained # Surfer Dude's Theory of Everything - The Movie The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating the consequences for the cosmos of quantum theory, the most successful theory we have. Over the past few years, cosmologists have taken this powerful theory of what happens at the level of subatomic particles and tried…
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The sun, as I read it, is forever. That means it can not burn out in billions of years, as science says will happen. Guess the new heavens are different than these ones! Sorry, science, your guesswork is way off here.
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The flood believed to be behind the Noah?s Ark myth kick-started European agriculture, according to new research by the Universities of Exeter and Wollongong, Australia. .... http://www.physorg.com/news114703512.html :roll
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Using supercomputers to compare portions of the human genome with those of other mammals, researchers at Cornell have discovered some 300 previously unidentified human genes, and found extensions of several hundred genes already known. ... http://www.physorg.com/news114446301.html
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Have you guys seen this from Mary Schweitzer, popped up a couple years ago, they sure don't look 70 million years old... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/ http://www.answersingenesis.org/creatio ... /blood.asp
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Theory that explains how galaxies stick together called into question Two Canadian astronomers think there is a good reason dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to make up the bulk of matter in the universe, has never been directly detected: It doesn't exist. Dark matter was invoked to explain how galaxies stick together. The visible matter alone in galaxies ? stars, gas and dust ? is nowhere near enough to hold them together, so scientists reasoned there must be something invisible that exerts gravity and is central to all galaxies. Last August, an astronomer at the University of Arizona at Tucson and his colleagues reported that a collision between two huge…
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Someone had recently told me that there can only be 240 million or billion (not quite sure) gene combinations and that this can scientifically prove the resurrection and back up the bible. I don't recall exactly what he had told me, only that the resurrection and the recycling of gene combinations are linked somehow. Does anyone know what he's talking about? Love, Madeline
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Melting glaciers in Western Canada are revealing tree stumps up to 7,000 years old where the region's rivers of ice have retreated to a historic minimum, a geologist said today. ... http://www.livescience.com/environment/ ... tumps.html
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A gene responsible for the development of fins in a primitive fish also helped shape the hands, feet and wings of every land animal alive today. Researchers studying the Australian lungfish Neoceradotus found one of its fin-sprouting genes also guides the growth of digits in land vertebrates?those creatures with backbones. ... http://www.livescience.com/animals/0710 ... ngers.html Just because we are similiar to certain degrees doesn't mean we came from them. We just happened to be made by the same God.
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A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava beds of India, are now the prime suspect in the most famous and persistent paleontological murder mystery, say scientists who have conducted a slew of new investigations honing down eruption timing. ... http://www.physorg.com/news112894459.html
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Like bringing to life a naked mannequin, scientists are using genetic and physical evidence found in fossils to clothe the skeletal remains of our closest hominid relatives, the Neanderthals. More and more, they seem familiar. Bones from two Neanderthals yielded valuable genetic information that adds red hair, light skin and perhaps some freckling to our extinct relatives. The results, detailed online today by the journal Science, suggest that at least 1 percent of Neanderthals were redheads. .... http://www.livescience.com/health/071025-red-heads.html So I guess I better tell my hubby that he is actually a caveman (he is red-haired) :frog
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Just kidding...
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People often strangely consider something more valuable once they own it. Now scientists find this same apparently irrational behavior in chimps, a finding that could help shed light on the human mind. ... (more) http://www.livescience.com/animals/0710 ... wment.html They should have studied dogs when they become possessive of their toys or bones.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Neanderthals, often portrayed as grunting, club-carrying brutes, may have been capable of sophisticated speech, researchers said on Thursday. A DNA analysis shows Neanderthals share with humans two key changes in the FOXP2 gene known to be involved in speech, raising the possibility the species possessed some prerequisites for language, the researchers said. ... http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceN ... cienceNews