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Hot air over Mars, against the flow, vestigial ideas, and more!
“This model should cause everyone to re-evaluate what they’ve said before”—the words of a Duke University professor whose research turns the origins of bipedal walking on its head.
The fuss over martian methane—which had fueled hopes for life on the Red Planet—may be misplaced, according to a new study.
We first covered the excitement over the detection of methane in January, then followed up briefly last week. Although methane can have geological origins, it is more commonly produced biologically (on earth, anyway)—and thus the methane was considered a possible sign of martian life.
For the first time, astronomers have detected a planet that could be said to “swim against the flow”—orbiting in the opposite direction from the spin of its star.
Another study reminds us that the idea of “vestigial organs” is, itself, vestigial!
The premise behind the idea of vestigial organs is that our bodies contain “evolutionary leftovers”—once biologically necessary but now unimportant, lingering on only because they don’t outright kill us.
Two Christian evolutionists send a broadside our way with a USA Today opinion piece this week. But do they bring up anything new?
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