On the Origin of Science and Culture Today

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First, the conversation delves into the site’s launch in December 2004, when the modern intelligent design movement and the Internet were both relatively new. Source
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Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

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The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Source
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Fact Check: New “Complete” Chimp Genome Shows 14.9 Percent Difference from Human Genome

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I suspect that this radical finding has implications — for human exceptionalism and more — that people will be discussing for a long time. Source
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Fact Check: Did Scientists Really Detect Evidence of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b?

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The molecule is dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), and on Earth its sole known source is life (specifically, marine phytoplankton algae). Source
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