New Hominin Species Found in South Africa

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Siberian DNA evidence suggests new hominin species

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Creationism, Global Warming Denial and Scientific Integrity

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Recently considerable attention has been drawn to the fact that some errors were found in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, and the fact that, as revealed in a set of emails

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SF Bay Area Hiker Threatens the Foundations of Modern Science

One of the common refrains of the millions of people worldwide (more than 40 percent of the American public) who do not accept modern old-earth geology and evolutionary biology is that while some portions of modern science may be true, other portions, such as the notion that the earth and its fossils are many

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What have I learned?

As anyone who knows me (the editor of the sciencemeetsreligion.org website) will attest, I have feet planted firmly in both the scientific and the religious realms. On one hand, I am a well-known scientist, employed at a large research laboratory, with 3 books and over 125 published technical articles. Yet I also have deep religious

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