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A vintage engraving of Adam in the Garden of Eden

A biblical and scientific Adam

by Vern S. Poythress

Science | A challenge to evangelicals who have backed away from an historic Adam, using a theologically informed look at ape ancestry genetic claims

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/a_biblical_and_scientific_adam]

TOO MUCH? A protest outside the Novartis headquarters in New York.
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Customer care

by Daniel James Devine

Science |  Doctors are pushing back against skyrocketing drug prices

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/customer_care]

Developing cloned human embryos

Cloning for the ego, not the science

by Daniel James Devine

Science |  This week's announcement that U.S. scientists have created stem cells from cloned human embryos is an achievement we shouldn't be proud of, pro-life medical…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/cloning_for_the_ego_not_the_science]

Moderate warriors?
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Moderate warriors?

by Daniel James Devine

Science |  Obama’s Cabinet picks on energy and environment have had nice things to say about natural gas

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/moderate_warriors]

James Hansen
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Just warming up

by Daniel James Devine

Science |  A top global warming doomsayer leaves NASA to pursue activism

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/just_warming_up]

Protesters against human gene patents outside the Supreme Court Monday.

Trying to simplify science

by Daniel James Devine

Supreme Court |  Analogies involving chocolate chip cookies and baseball bats help the high court weigh the right to issue gene patents

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/trying_to_simplify_science]

Robert Edwards

Inventor of test tube babies dies

by Daniel James Devine

Obituary |  Nobel Prize winner Robert Edwards, a University of Cambridge professor known as the “father of in vitro fertilization,” died Wednesday at the age of 87…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/inventor_of_test_tube_babies_dies]

Oceans turn up the AC on global warming

Oceans turn up the AC on global warming

by Daniel James Devine

Science |  The world’s oceans acted like giant air conditioners during the last decade, according to a new study. By absorbing heat from the air, the oceans played a…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/oceans_turn_up_the_ac_on_global_warming]

Heather has two mommies
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Heather has two mommies

by Daniel James Devine

Science |  A proposed fertility technique would create children with genes from three parents

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/heather_has_two_mommies]

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.

Politicians: Evolving or mutating?

by Marvin Olasky

Politics |  Monday’s New York Times praised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his “evolution from a proponent of gun rights to the shepherd of legislation that would…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/politicians_evolving_or_mutating]

Abu Qatada

Midday Roundup: Britain protects terrorist from jail time in Jordan

by Leigh Jones

Newsworthy |  Respecting terrorists’ rights. Lawyers for the British government lost their bid to have a radical Muslim cleric deported to Jordan, where he faces…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/03/midday_roundup_britain_protects_terrorist_from_jail_time_in_jordan]

FLOAT ON: A Palestinian woman swimming in the Dead Sea.

Raising the Dead Sea

by Daniel James Devine

Science |  Will an ambitious water project revive a sinking salty sea?

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/03/raising_the_dead_sea]

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