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Video
Did the Universe Begin?
April 26, 2024 YouTube
Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Yet the universe is expanding, and so run the movie in reverse and there seems to be a beginning. What stakes are riding on whether the universe had a beginning?
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What Is Consciousness?
April 25, 2024 YouTube
Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers.
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Philosophy of Biological Information
April 25, 2024 YouTube
What is information in biology? information is essential for analyzing data and testing hypotheses. But what is information in evolution, population genetics, levels of selection, and molecular genetics? Is computational biology transformational?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The genetics of niche-specific behavioral tendencies in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes
April 25, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6694, p.470-475
Lake Tanganyika contains one of the most impressive adaptive radiations, with about 250 species of cichlid occupying a variety of niches. Much research has focused on understanding the drivers of this and other adaptive radiations.
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A gene mutation turned these fish into intrepid explorers
April 25, 2024 Science
That behavioral change could explain the remarkable diversity of cichlid fish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika
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The Golden Numbers
April 25, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Evolutionists theorize that the universe came into being through random means. Nature, however, does not display randomness. In fact, it exhibits quite the opposite.
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How DNA Reveals God’s Design
April 25, 2024 Answers in Genesis
DNA’s Code: The Signature of God
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The Science of Being Wrong
April 25, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
In a process of continual correction, when does one arrive at certainty?
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With Hybrid Brains, These Mice Smell Like a Rat
April 25, 2024 Columbia University Irving Medical Center
If mice ever wonder what it’s like to experience the world as a rat, some are now able to live that dream, at least when it comes to the sense of smell.
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SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent
April 25, 2024 The Byte
The James Webb Telescope is going to be the one that does it, too.
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‘Shut up and calculate’: how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality
April 25, 2024 Nature
By suppressing questions they considered too ‘philosophical’, post-war physicists created an unquestioning orthodoxy that influences science to this day.
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A Closer Look at Natural Law
April 25, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
In my last post on the science of purpose, I pointed out that modern science took its inspiration from a belief that the universe was governed by immutable laws of nature emanating from the mind of God.
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Understanding John Walton's Cosmic Temple
April 24, 2024 YouTube
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Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”
April 24, 2024 Legal Insurrection
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Galaxy found napping in the primordial Universe
April 24, 2024 Nature
Observations have revealed a galaxy that stopped forming stars earlier than expected. This discovery offers clues about when the first galaxies emerged and sheds light on how stars formed when the Universe was in its infancy.
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Ancient DNA traces family lines and political shifts in the Avar empire
April 24, 2024 Nature
Genetic pedigrees spanning nine generations uncover the social organization of a nomadic empire that dominated much of central and eastern Europe from the sixth to the early ninth century.
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First glowing animals lit up the oceans half a billion years ago
April 24, 2024 Nature
Family tree of ‘octocorals’ pushes origin of bioluminescence back to 540 million years ago, when the first animal species developed eyes.
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DNA from ancient graves reveals the culture of a mysterious nomadic people
April 24, 2024 Nature
Hundreds of genomes shed light on the marriage habits and social norms of the Avar people of central Europe.
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How gliding marsupials got their ‘wings’
April 24, 2024 Nature
Researchers find the genetic mutations that allow some marsupials to soar, and an ultra-accurate clock is put through its paces on the high seas.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms
April 24, 2024 Nature
A robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological dominance.
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Retractions are part of science, but misconduct isn’t -- lessons from a superconductivity lab
April 24, 2024 Nature
Journals, funders and institutions that employ researchers all want to produce or disseminate rigorous scientific knowledge -- and all can learn lessons from misconduct cases.
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Marsupial genomes reveal how a skin membrane for gliding evolved
April 24, 2024 Nature
A parachute-like skin membrane, the patagium, evolved independently in several marsupial species. Genomic analysis suggests that this trait came about through different changes to the regulation of the same gene.
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A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality
April 24, 2024 New Scientist
The Large Hadron Collider is testing entanglement in a whole new energy range, probing the meaning of quantum theory -- and the possibility that an even stranger reality lies beneath
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Blog Post
Origins 2024 reminder!
April 24, 2024 Core Academy of Science
want to make sure the word is getting out about Origins 2024 ... the conference is definitely on! This summer, we'll be meeting in St. Louis, MO on July 21-24
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The True Fathers of the Big Bang
April 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Why can't robots outrun animals?
April 24, 2024 Science Daily
Robotics engineers have worked for decades to create a robot that can run as well as an animal. And yet, it remains the case that many animals are capable of feats that would be impossible for robots that exist today.
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News Update/Commentary
Discovering cancers of epigenetic origin without DNA mutation
April 24, 2024 Science Daily
A research team has discovered that cancer can be caused entirely by epigenetic changes that contribute to how gene expression is regulated, and partly explain why, despite an identical genome, an individual develops very different cells
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists unveil genetics behind development of gliding
April 24, 2024 Science Daily
A key gene helps explain how the ability to glide has emerged over-and-over during marsupial evolution
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Are Birds Dinosaurs?
April 24, 2024 Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.223-309
A Critical Analysis of Fossil Findings
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How Could a Camera Eye Evolve in a Worm?
April 24, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The story of three annelid branches: Why evolutionists claim they took very different paths
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7 Scientific Reasons why Darwinian Evolution is a Myth
April 23, 2024 YouTube
In this video we are joined by Dr. Marco Fasoli who holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge. Using science, he exposes many of the flaws in Darwin's theory of evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
Frog species evolved rapidly in response to road salts
April 23, 2024 Science Daily
Wood frogs have evolved increased salt tolerance over 25 years
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The unsurprising non-detection of intelligent aliens
April 23, 2024 Big Think
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where's everyone else?
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Bioluminescence may have evolved 300 million years earlier than scientists previously thought
April 23, 2024 Popular Science
New findings illuminate its origin story.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells
April 23, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers use innovative approaches to build functional cells, bridging the gap between synthetic and living materials
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Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Defies Deep Time
April 23, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New photos of Io are in from Juno, prompting discussions about time.
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Book
New Book from DI Press, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, Praised by Three Nobel Laureates
April 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Many widely read scientific writers of our day mistakenly attribute the concepts of the expanding universe and the Big Bang to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein. | See Also Amazon
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Oldest ever ice offers glimpse of Earth before the ice ages
April 22, 2024 Science
Climate snapshots suggest carbon dioxide levels were surprisingly modest during ancient warm period
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Book
How volcanoes shaped our planet -- and why we need to be ready for the next big eruption
April 22, 2024 Nature
The world should learn from past disasters and prepare for the effects of future, inevitable volcanic catastrophes, a wide-reaching book teaches us. | See Also Amazon
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Your perception of time is skewed by what you see
April 22, 2024 Nature
Features of a scene such as size and clutter can affect the brain’s sense of how much time has passed while observing it.
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Video
Was Your Body Intelligently Designed?
April 22, 2024 YouTube
Medical doctor Howard Glicksman and systems engineer Steve Laufmann discuss the incredible design and functionality of the human body in this presentation taped at the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith sponsored by Discovery Institute
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Some scientists say insects are conscious -- it doesn't settle anything
April 22, 2024 New Scientist
A group of around 40 scientists signed a declaration calling for formal acknowledgement of consciousness in a range of animals, including insects and fish – but the evidence is still lacking
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Some ‘Junk DNA’ Serves a Purpose
April 22, 2024 Quanta Magazine
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Magical Thinking by Evolutionists
April 22, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Natural selection is a magic wand to evolutionists. It creates scientists from fish.
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The new science of life's origins and distribution in the universe
April 22, 2024 YouTube
The study of the origins of life and its possible existence beyond the earth has long lived in the liminal space between science, quasi-scientific speculation, and nonsense. Nevertheless, questions in this field are among the greatest unanswered problems
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Do Cracks in Rocks Explain Life’s Origin?
April 22, 2024 Reasons to Believe
A team of German researchers recently published results of a prebiotic simulation study in which they claim that thermal gradients could drive the generation of biopolymers (chains of molecules) on early Earth.
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Is the Earth itself a giant living creature?
April 22, 2024 Vox
An old, much-ridiculed hypothesis said yes. It’s time to take it seriously.
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To find life in the universe, look to deadly Venus
April 22, 2024 University of California, Riverside
Earth-like but incapable of hosting life
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The key problem with the “brain in a vat” thought experiment
April 22, 2024 Big Think
Even with the best technology imaginable, you'd probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
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The Quick Fix
April 22, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Atheist’s “find and replace” function