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#1 of Our Top Stories of 2016: Happy New Year! Why the Royal Society Meeting Mattered

Editor's note: As the year winds down, the editorial staff of Evolution News looks back on 2016 and recalls the Top 10 stories of the year that was. We wish you a merry and meaningful holiday season and a wonderful and prosperous New Year. If you haven't done so already, please take a moment to consider the unique news resource we offer here daily.

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#2 of Our Top Stories of 2016: Douglas Axe Liberates Readers from Tyranny of Evolution "Experts"

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Here We Go Again: For Complex Life, Just Add Fertilizer

It's such an easy point. A child can grasp it. You may have all the ingredients you want, in the right quantities, but without a builder, nothing functionally complex will emerge. Here, we'll bring you tons of lumber, nails, and pipe. Need wire? Have all you want. Anything else? Just ask, and we'll throw it in at no extra charge: screws, paint, glass. Why, we will even lay a bunch of tools on the ground beside the pile.

Now, let it sit there, exposed to the sun and rain for as long as you l...

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2016: Poll Shows Broad Support for Teaching Evidence For and Against Darwin

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In a Technocratic Age, Redefining Family Bonds

This year, I took my mother into my home for the last five months of her life as she was dying. Was I providing her with "unpaid care"? NO! I was being her son.

Yet, in our technocratic era, it seems that family members caring and providing for each other are increasingly perceived as a monetized activity. Reuters reports:

Millions of U.S. children with special needs receive care from family members that would cost billions of dollars if it was instead provided by home health aides receiving...

On the Cambrian Explosion, Keith Miller's BioLogos White Paper Falls Short

The Cambrian explosion is a major mystery for Darwinian evolution, so it may be no surprise that the theistic evolutionary group BioLogos has compiled a mixed record in analyzing the event. Back in 2010, we noted that the BioLogos page on the fossil record didn't even mention the Cambrian explosion. Then, in response to Stephen Meyer's 2013 book Darwin's Doubt, reviewers for BioLogos struggled to come to a consensus. Instead they reached conflicting conclusions.

Some claimed that the Cambri...

#4 of Our Top Stories of 2016: Denton's Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis Is a "Best Book" of 2016

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You Already Support Goliath with Your Tax Dollars; Won't You Consider Balancing the Scales?

As the year winds down, let me share with you some of the past day's correspondence via Twitter that I think you'll find illustrative. Yesterday I started receiving taunting tweets from an individual I'd never heard of, Matthew Herron, directing me to his blog where he is identified as Senior Research Scientist in the School of Biology at Georgia Tech. Dr. Herron had authored a post ("Lies of omission and straight-up lies") reaching back to the David Coppedge discrimination case and specific...

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2016: Real-Time Censorship as PLOS ONE Retracts "Proper Design by Creator" Paper

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#6 of Our Top Stories of 2016: BIO-Complexity Addresses the Problem of Biological Innovation

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