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# evolution
# evolution
Do we owe our ability to walk on two legs to a sudden burst of supernovae activity lasting for nearly five million years, or are researchers connecting dots that don't need to be connected?
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Intelligent life on Earth may owe its existence to an ancient virus which inserted its genetic code and machinery into early tetrapods and now helps their neurons talk to each other.
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If Darwin never published his treatise, we'd still have a theory of evolution almost identical to the one we have today thanks to his contemporaries.
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Creationism, now done in the best labs a stock photo license can buy.
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Creationists aren't happy with scientists' discoveries showing dinosaurs not as giant brutes, but diverse, nimble, and often bird-like.
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Why do creationists insist on demanding evidence that's been produced so many times over?
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South Korea inexplicably allows its creationists to censor passages about evolution in science textbooks.
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Creationists expect science to tell them soothing tales about their place in the universe. That's just not going to happen.
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Believe it or not, DNA is not the only hereditary molecule out there. In fact, it's one of many molecules that could form the backbone of gene pools.
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Forget millions of years of evolution and key mutations. Humans apparently owe their existence magic mushrooms from another dimension.