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One hundred million years ago a termite was wounded and its abdomen split open. The resin of a pine tree slowly enveloped its body and the contents of its gut.
In what is now the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar, the resin fossilized and was buried until it was chipped out of an amber mine.
The resin [...]

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In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.
Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors.
Some 50 million years ago, [...]

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ReligiousDispatches.org
By Eric Reitan
April 29, 2009
Just the other day a friend forwarded me a mass-mailed promotion for Free Inquiry magazine (a publication in which, incidentally, I had an article published a couple of years ago). The brochure was emblazoned with the following warning: “If you wish to avoid spending eternity roasting in HELL, do not open [...]

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from earnedmedia.com
Contact: Joni Sullivan Baker, Buoyancy PR, 513-319-3231
CINCINNATI, April 1 /Christian Newswire/ — It’s not an April fool’s joke. Even though it’s now been 150 years since Charles Darwin sparked the creation/evolution debate, conservative Christians and scientists are still wrangling over the origin of man.
Throughout the 2009 year, organizations all over the world are marking [...]

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By Sara Goudarzi
For the first time, scientists have observed in real-time evolutionary changes in one species driven by competition for resources from another.
In a mere two decades, one of Charles Darwin’s finch species, Geospiza fortis, reduced its beak size to better equip itself to consume small-sized seeds, scientists report in the July 14 issue of [...]

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AP – LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A controversial Kentucky museum that trumpets the Bible story of creation and rejects evolution is making room for an odd guest: Charles Darwin.
A new exhibit at the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum argues that natural selection — Darwin’s explanation for how species develop new traits over time — can [...]

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From religiousfacts.com:
Below is an index of the religious affiliations or belief systems of celebrities (both living and dead; in film, television, music, literature, academics and politics), listed in alphabetical order by last name.
Obligatory disclaimer: this index simply indicates the most prominent religious associations of various celebrities, which encompass a wide range of religious commitment, belief [...]

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