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Famed Scientist Sounds Off On Evolution Debate's Future

2012-05-27T09:19:37Z

NEW YORK -- Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.

Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself. Sometime in t...

Read more: Video, Richard Leakey, Evolution Debate, Creationism, Atheism, Paleoanthropology, Science, Evolution Creation Debate, Evolution, Science News, Science News

Denise M. Wilbanks: Why Is Everybody Always Pickin' on Me?

2012-05-25T12:24:05Z

There is nothing we must change in others, nothing to fix, nothing to touch. The mere reflection of our truest state of compassion and love moves mountains.

Read more: Evolution, Consciousness, Belief, Self-Awareness, Self-Transformation, Neale Donald Walsch, Spiritual Development, Personal Growth, Gps-Soul, Personal Development, Healthy Living News

James A. Shapiro: How Natural Genetic Engineering Solves Problems in Protein Evolution

2012-05-24T09:50:26Z

A good way to see how natural genetic engineering facilitates the evolutionary process is to review what we have learned about protein evolution.

Read more: Domain Accretion, Intelligent Design, Introns, Combinatorial Evolution, Natural Genetic Engineering, Protein, Domain Shuffling, Domains, Protein Evolution, Exons, Exon Shuffling, Science News

How Old Is Life On Earth, And How Do We Know?

2012-05-22T11:35:39Z

The Earth is 4.54 billion years old; 3.8 billion years ago, the very first life form came into existence; 225 million years ago, dinosaurs came on the...

Read more: Radioisotopes, Earth Age, Video, Half-Life, Paleontology, Talk Nerdy to Me, Carbon-14, Radiocarbon Dating, Science, Evolution, Cara Santa Maria, Science News, Fossils, Carbon Dating, Science News

Evan Eisenberg: The Natural Selection Of The Immortal Soul: A Thought Experiment (VI)

2012-05-22T12:27:07Z

Following Darwinian logic, we end up in some unexpected places. Of course, to get there we must accept the premise that the human mind might be capable of existing independently of the neuronal activity on which it usually depends.

Read more: Immortal Soul, Science, Religion and Science, Ancestor Worship, Life After Death, Natural Selection, Immortality, Evolution, Religion News

Why Popular Pet's Origins Are So Hard To Trace

2012-05-22T09:48:28Z

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer
Published: 05/22/2012 07:39 AM EDT on LiveScience

Humans' close relationship to dogs has so far obscu...

Read more: Video, Pets, Animal Evolution, Biology, Domesticated Animals, Salukis, Where Do Dogs Come From, Canines, Genetics, Evolution, Animals, Dog Origin, Dogs, Science News

Terry Gardner: PHOTOS: Dino Bones In Alberta

2012-05-22T07:00:00Z

"Alberta ... is one of the richest places in the world," says paleontologist Francois Therrien.

Read more: Paleontology, Alberta, Travel Deals, Canada, Evolution, Dinosaurs, Alberta Badlands, Royal Tyrrell Museum, Francois Therrien, Dinosaur Bones, Slideexpand, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Peter M. J. Hess, Ph.D.: The Titanic, Climate Change And Avoidable Tragedies

2012-05-21T12:02:48Z

Like the Titanic, our present-day industrial civilization is a marvel of human ingenuity, and yet, a reckoning looms on the horizon.

Read more: Titanic, Evolution, Overpopulation, Climate Change, Moral Obligation, Christianity, Green Faith, Climate Deniers, Religion News

Joel John Roberts: Charity Impossible: Do America's Charities Need Rescuing?

2012-05-20T16:58:11Z

Somehow, the social good charities that have an amazing ability to transform America's hurting people need help in creating brands that attract the eye of America's donors. We need the Robert Irvine of charities to help create a make-over in this changing new world.

Read more: Apple, Twitter, Poverty, Homelessness, Third World America, Ucla, Robert Irvine, Darwinism, Impact News

James A. Shapiro: Variation and Selection: What's the Difference? What Are the Issues?

2012-05-17T22:53:00Z

How could natural selection operate so that "the good ones spread in the population" if there were no positive variants in the first place? That is why I am confounded by Jerry Coyne's comment that he can explain natural genetic engineering by "garden variety natural selection."

Read more: Variation, Origin of Species, Epigenetics, Natural Genetic Engineering, Genetic Change, Natural Selection, Evolution, Darwin, Descent With Modification, Science News

Paul Spector, M.D.: Sweet Nothings? Sugar Substitutes and Weight Gain

2012-05-17T16:16:00Z

When man tampered with nature and uncoupled the sweetness sensory signal from caloric load, a pairing that we adjusted to for thousands of generations, our capacity to know when we had enough was eradicated.

Read more: Sugar Substitutes, Cyclamate, Nutrition, Evolution, Artificial Sweeteners, Diet, Splenda, Saccharine, Nutrasweet, Sugar, Sugar Substitute, Artificial Sweeteners Health, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy Living News

James A. Shapiro: Natural Genetic Engineering and Vitalism: What's the Difference?

2012-05-15T15:08:00Z

In a very complimentary blog entitled "Seeing Past Darwin II: James A. Shapiro," James Barham poses the following question and then chides me gently for not answering it: "But if natural selection cannot explain natural genetic engineering, what can?"

Read more: Natural Genetic Engineering, Hans Driesch, James Barham, Evolution, Cell Decision-Making, Cell Signaling, Cell Networks, Vitalism, Science News

James M. Gentile: Schools That Should Teach America About Teaching Science

2012-05-15T10:42:49Z

The Nation's Report Card on Science 2011, released last week by the federal government, showed modest improvement but raised even more concern about America's ability to grow the science-literate workforce needed in the 21st century.

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Rep. Barbara Lee: A New Dawn for STEM Education

2012-05-14T17:49:06Z

The STEM gap is a real and complex issue. We cannot overcome the challenges we face without the collaboration of educators, parents, industry partners and mentors and policymakers with the courage to fight for bold investment in STEM education.

Read more: Education, Careerbuilder, American Education, Public Schools, STEM Education, Elementary School Science, Science Education, Education News

Tom Huston: The Future Belongs to the Flip-Floppers

2012-05-14T14:17:26Z

The flip-flop is a moral impugnment, almost always issued by those whose code of ethics was first set in stone on Mt. Sinai and remains just as static today. The only problem is, human beings are not static or etched in stone.

Read more: Mitt Romney, Fox News, Philosophy, Evolution, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Obama Marriage Equality, Obama Evolution, Obama Gay Marriage, Obama Gay Marriage Evolving, Obama Flip Flop, Marriage Equality, Politics News

Marion C. Blakey: World's Largest Rocket Contest Launches STEM Careers

2012-05-11T14:25:19Z

Currently there are not enough young people studying STEM subjects, which would put them on the path to enter the industry and ensure that the United States continues to be the world's leader in aerospace.

Read more: Nasa, Stem, Team America Rocketry Challenge, National Association of Rocketry, Rocketry, STEM Education, Science Education, Students Science, Impact News

Priyamvada Natarajan: How Science Works

2012-05-11T12:22:00Z

The reality of how science works is in sharp contrast to the way most Americans seem to see it--perhaps as definitive, time-limited, and based on speculation or assertion.

Read more: Scientific Research, Science, Education Policy, Research, Education, Math and Science, Climate Science, Science Literacy, America-Science, Science Education, Science News

Jason Rosenhouse: When It Comes to Anti-Evolution Arguments, Americans Need to Be More Cynical

2012-05-10T14:32:25Z

Creationists, however, are perfectly happy to hold forth on a wide variety of subjects, including physics, biology, paleontology, genetics, anatomy and others. People study for years to become experts in any one of these disciplines, but this does not deter creationists in the slightest.

Read more: Mathematics, Anti-Evolution, Politics, Existence of God, Evolution, Creationism, Tennessee Evolution Bill, Culture, Science News

Expert: American Scores 'Unacceptable' On National Science Exams

2012-05-10T10:00:53Z

About a third of eighth-graders who took a national science exam in 2011 were proficient, according to results released Thursday, a statistic called "...

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Jane S. Smith: Are You A Mother Hen?

2012-05-09T16:07:29Z

A mother hen is who you want guarding your back. And front. Also warming your nest, finding your dinner and pecking through the grit of daily life to find the sustenance you need.

Read more: Chickens, Mothers Day, Mark Twain, Children, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Mother's Day 2012, Mother's Day, Mothers-Day-Pkg, Mother Hen, Parents News

Madeleine M. Kunin: Why Girls Should Create Video Games

2012-05-08T21:21:47Z

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family. But that's not all.

Read more: Women in Tech, Computer Science, Violence in Video Games, Women Computer Science, Science Education, Technology News

David Moshman: Should Creationist Teachers Have Academic Freedom?

2012-05-08T16:56:21Z

Academic freedom does not permit a teacher to ignore the approved curriculum or to indoctrinate a captive audience of students in his or her religious or political views, whatever those may be.

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Brandon G. Withrow: Study Shows That Left-handers Are Not the Product of Witchcraft After All

2012-05-02T16:57:00Z

A new study at Northwestern University shows that left-handedness is the product of cooperation and competition in evolution.

Read more: Left-Handed, Religion, Sports, Baseball, Evolution, Northwestern University, Study, Hockey, Science News

Jeff Morris: A Black Queen in a Blue Ocean: How Microbes Evolve to Depend on Each Other

2012-05-02T13:06:38Z

Why was it advantageous for the last common ancestor of all life to sacrifice self-sufficiency -- in other words, why is the world no longer the province of a small number of "jack of all trades" species?

Read more: Microorganisms, Evolution, Bacteria, Evolution Bacteria, Black Queen Hypothesis, Evolution Microorganisms, Prochlorococcus, Evolutionary Biology, Science News

Rob Brooks: Analytic Thinking Erodes Religious Belief

2012-05-01T18:20:20Z

Although there is considerable disagreement about whether education kills religious faith, people's chances of identifying as religious believers declines with scientific education and education in rational thinking.

Read more: Religion, Atheist, Atheism, Agnostic, Rationality, Science, Evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Faith, Religion and Science, Religion News