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Cliff Swallows in Cayucos, California, USA. The nests were built on the bridge over Cayucos Creek. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Crossing the road has gotten easier for cliff swallows. Over generations, the mortal threat of speeding cars may have shortened their wings.

Over the last 30 years, the number of cliff swallows killed along roads in southwestern Nebraska has plunged, and the birds’ average wing length has shrunk, researchers report March 18 in Current Biology.

via Shorter-winged swallows evolve around highways | Life | Science News.

So, the birds evolved… or is that adaptation? What ever excuse AiG uses, I’m sure it’ll be with the best of science.

He’s the dilly-o. Unlike what the troll in South Korea who got ran out of the U.S. before he was arrested believes, Scripture has nothing to say about the origins of the universe. Further, unlike what Hambone and Hammy-K has said, God is still progressing Creation along, through creation and recreation. This is one of those examples.

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• Birds Might Be Evolving To Dodge Vehicles (sci-tech-today.com)
• Birds evolve shorter wings to survive on roads (newscientist.com)

Evolution, often perceived as a series of random changes, might in fact be driven by a simple and repeated genetic solution to an environmental pressure that a broad range of species happen to share, according to new research.

Princeton University research published in the journal Science suggests that knowledge of a species’ genes — and how certain external conditions affect the proteins encoded by those genes — could be used to determine a predictable evolutionary pattern driven by outside factors. Scientists could then pinpoint how the diversity of adaptations seen in the natural world developed even in distantly related animals.

via Princeton University – Far from random, evolution follows a predictable genetic pattern, Princeton researchers find.

Love this stuff….

A leading human origins researcher has come up with an idea that involves aggression between groups and the boom-bust cycles that have punctuated our spread into new environments.

Prof Ian Tattersall said there were few examples to rival the accelerated evolution that led to our species.

via BBC News – Conflict and ‘boom-bust’ explain humans’ rapid evolution.

First, love this stuff. This fits well with several pet theories of mine (Girard). Anyway… duh?

Also… Like this one too

Religious belief is very common in Homo sapiens, with almost all cultures having some kind of supernatural belief that is important to their sense of identity, although that’s about the only unifying characteristic of these ideas. Within the spectrum of human society is a similarly broad spectrum of religious beliefs. These range from the simple “animal spirits” who are responsible for the unexplained (but not much else) to a “High” or “King” God who takes an active role in the world, dictating morals of a people he created.

via How “god” evolved « EvoAnth.

The study is interesting. I’m saving this for later, for if you get a chance, let me know what you think.

According to modern science textbooks, life with intact DNA spontaneously arose from non-life long ago in a chemical ‘prebiotic soup’, and then gradually evolve into higher life forms, with living cells becoming plants, worms, clams, insects, reptiles, fish, birds, apes and man according to random chance and ‘natural selection’.

via The Fossil Record — Evolution Evidence or Creation Science?

No… that’s not what happened….

Say… I’m busy, but how many more mistakes can you find…