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The tree of life is a metaphor used to describe the relationships between organisms, both living and extinct. Its use dates back to at least the early 1800s. It was employed by Charles Darwin to express the concept of the branching divergence of varieties and then species in a process of common descent from ancestors.…
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JERUSALEM — An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that features the archangel Gabriel is at the centre of a new exhibit in Jerusalem, even as scholars continue to argue about what it means. The so-called Gabriel Stone, a metre-tall tablet said to have been found 13 years ago on the banks…
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A giant "monumental" stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Israel has archaeologists puzzled as to its purpose and even how long ago it was built. The mysterious structure is cone shaped, made of "unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders," and weighs an estimated 60,000 tons the researchers said. That makes…
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New life discovered 7 miles below sea level in Mariana Trench as scientists have found a large and thriving community of microbes living in one of the deepest points on Earth. According to Weather.com, new life discovered 7 miles below sea level in Mariana Trench as many in the scientific community excited as microbes have been found…
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A young earth creationist is accusing Sea World of "evolutionary indoctrination." Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, says the new dinosaur exhibit at the marine mammal park in Australia pushes Darwinism on children. Ham's family visited Dinosaur Island, the new attraction at Sea World on the Gold Coast, Australia, which opened in June and…
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The bacteria can sustain life in the sky for thousands of miles Scientists have finally discovered life in the heavens above—in the clouds, that is. An analysis of hailstones recovered from a May 2009 storm has uncovered several different types of bacteria and organic materials that could potentially allow bacteria to survive in storm clouds. "We…
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In a perplexing archaeological find, researchers have discovered the body of a Roman woman with a tumor in her pelvis embedded with four deformed teeth. Scientists say that the 30-something woman, interred in a necropolis near Lleida, in the Catalonia region of Spain, died some 1,600 years ago. A condition known to doctors as an…
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A telescope in South America has captured a spectacular new view of an intricate cloud of interstellar dust in the famed Orion constellation. The new space cloud photo, taken by the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, reveals what astronomers call the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex in unprecedented detail. It gives scientists a glimpse into the…
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A long-awaited article on a Coptic papyrus fragment believed to reference the wife of Jesus has been left out of the Harvard Theological Review, furthering doubts about the artifact’s authenticity. The scholarly journal was slated to publish a major article on the finding this month after Karen King, a professor of early Christianity at Harvard…
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