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Beyond Materialism: Exploring the Mind-Brain Relationship
March 1, 2025 Mind Matters
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and philosopher Angus Menuge probe the relationship through philosophy, neuroscience, and information theory
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Video
Are There Multiple Universes?
February 28, 2025 YouTube
What is the extent of God’s creation? If there are multiple universes, did God create each of them? If an infinite number of universes, did God create all of them? Theists may be conflicted
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Distinct roles for precession, obliquity, and eccentricity in Pleistocene 100-kyr glacial cycles
February 28, 2025 Science, v.387, n.6737
Despite decades of research, precisely how the various parts of the solar insolation cycles affect glacial cycles is not known.
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How Do You Know the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow?
February 28, 2025 Answers in Genesis
Why the biblical worldview is the only answer to the problem of induction.
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There will never be a theory of everything
February 28, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Hoffman responds to his critics
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Did Sexual Selection Make Male Mosquitofish Really Smart?
February 28, 2025 Mind Matters
male mosquitofish possess impressive problem-solving skills and can successfully navigate mazes and other tests. Males that perform better have a higher chance of mating.
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How evolution might explain impatience
February 28, 2025 The Conversation
there is also a long tradition in psychology and economics that views impatience as, at least in part, a rational response to the world
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A Farewell to Physicalism
February 28, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
from biologist Michael Levin
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China Leads the World in Retracted Science Papers
February 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
Should we defund academia?
February 27, 2025 YouTube
In this video I explain why I think that academia will be mostly defunded in the coming decades. In a nutshell it’s because it’s for all practical purposes a planned economy and extremely inefficient.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology
February 27, 2025 Science, v.387, n.6737, p.1001-1007
Genome sequencing has allowed for a much greater understanding of how species relate to one another than did earlier morphology-based approaches.
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Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a man's brain into glass
February 27, 2025 Reuters
Here's how it happened
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How Ross Douthat’s Proselytizing Falls Short
February 27, 2025 The Atlantic
The columnist’s new book, Believe, argues for religion from a rational perspective. It won’t make a believer out of me.
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Fallout from Alzheimer Research Failures: Does Anything Work?
February 27, 2025 Mind Matters
Other research suggests that treating poor oral health, vision loss, and hearing loss might delay or reduce the effects of cognitive decline
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How did life develop on early Earth?
February 27, 2025 phys.org
New source of nitrogen discovered
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The Flood Explains Cold Slabs Deep in the Mantle
February 27, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
Two recent studies by different groups have concluded essentially the same thing: there are mysterious cold rock slabs at the bottom of Earth’s mantle that cannot be explained by conventional theories.
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News Update/Commentary
When birds lose the ability to fly, their bodies change faster than their feathers
February 27, 2025 Science Daily
Insights from this research could help scientists trying to determine whether a fossil bird, or a feathered dinosaur that isn't part of the bird family, was able to fly.
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News Update/Commentary
Violence alters human genes for generations
February 27, 2025 Science Daily
First study of its kind reveals epigenetic signatures of violence passesd to grandchildren.
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“12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design”
February 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
from Michael Kent
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Claim: Only Doctors Can Prevent Global Warming
February 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
Biology and Genes
February 26, 2025 YouTube
What is a gene? Molecular biology, genome, genetic engineering, as well as genes, define our century of biology. But what do these terms actually signify? How to understand each term precisely?
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Ancient glaciers paved way for life on Earth
February 26, 2025 Cosmos Magazine
By analysing zircon crystals in ancient rocks, geologists found that as glaciers flowed across the Earth’s surface, they carved deep into the crust and released key minerals from below.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago
February 26, 2025 Nature
Humans emerged across Africa shortly before 300 thousand years ago
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A compendium of human gene functions derived from evolutionary modelling
February 26, 2025 Nature
A comprehensive, computable representation of the functional repertoire of all macromolecules encoded within the human genome is a foundational resource for biology and biomedical research.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolutionary lability of a key innovation spurs rapid diversification
February 26, 2025 Nature
Rates of lineage diversification vary considerably across the tree of life, often as a result of evolutionary innovations
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Evolutionary flexibility to gain or lose tooth complexity sparks fish diversification
February 26, 2025 Nature
Why are some species more likely to diversify than others? For the largest group of vertebrates, ray-finned fishes, the ability to evolve by transitioning back and forth between simple and complex teeth fuelled their diversification.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons
February 26, 2025 Nature
Human accelerated regions (HARs) are conserved genomic loci that have experienced rapid nucleotide substitutions following the divergence from chimpanzees
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Scientific Sophistry Reduces Trust in Science
February 26, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Behind the rosy facade of objective scientists pursuing truth is a not-so-truthful side
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The lab resurrecting ancient proteins to unlock life’s secrets
February 26, 2025 Big Think
“I want to change the way we think about the past altogether,” says Dr. Betül Kaçar, an astrobiologist who studies the origin of life.
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Butterfly Wing Colors Explained by MicroRNA
February 26, 2025 The Scientist
The vivid wing patterns of butterflies, once attributed to a gene, are now traced to an overlooked microRNA.
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News Update/Commentary
Fish teeth show how ease of innovation enables rapid evolution
February 26, 2025 Science Daily
It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself
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News Update/Commentary
Comprehensive resource describes functions of more than 20,000 human genes
February 26, 2025 Science Daily
Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on human genes with genetic data collected from other organisms.
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News Update/Commentary
Bacteria consumed by immune cells become part of the cell
February 26, 2025 Science Daily
Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells alive
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New Paper Examines How the Complexity of Glycan Structures Points to Intelligent Design
February 26, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sci-fi thriller smartly interweaves time travel and memory
February 26, 2025 New Scientist
In his new novel Dissolution, Nicholas Binge plays with time travel and memory to craft a thriller reminiscent of Memento and Inception. It is well-deserving of its upcoming big screen treatment
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Black squirrels may be evolving due to roadkill in cities
February 25, 2025 New Scientist
Grey squirrels can actually come in black morphs, which are doing well in one US city because they're less likely to become roadkill
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Birds Defy Evolution Tales
February 25, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Birds are not dumb, but evolutionists are dumbfounded when trying to evolve them
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News Update/Commentary
‘Smarts' count: Evolution of intelligence
February 25, 2025 Science Daily
The Beatles said it best: Love is all you need. And according to new research, the same may be true in the animal kingdom. Well, at least for mosquitofish
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Can AI Replace Psychiatrists?
February 25, 2025 Mind Matters
Some programmers are trying…
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Ross Douthat Makes the Case that Religious Belief Is Rational
February 25, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Pointing to Design
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Permafrost mummies are unlocking the secrets of prehistory
February 25, 2025 New Scientist
The frozen remains of animals like mammoths, wolves and cave lions offer the most detailed picture yet of the last glacial period
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Unusual ‘soda lakes’ may have kick-started life on Earth
February 24, 2025 Science
Phosphorus leached from volcanic rocks in warm waters could have triggered reactions needed to launch biochemistry
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Unusual ‘soda lakes’ may have kick-started life on Earth by concentrating key compounds
February 24, 2025 Science
Phosphorus leached from volcanic rocks in warm waters could have triggered reactions needed to launch biochemistry
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Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 years ago
February 24, 2025 New Scientist
Preserved wooden spears from hundreds of thousands of years ago seem to have been suitable for throwing, not just close-range attacks
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These Fossilized Trees Are a Problem for Evolution
February 24, 2025 Answers in Genesis
Part 2 of “Shifting Sands Between Rocks and Fossils”
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Huge Volcanic Event on Jupiter's Moon Io
February 24, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Does Everyone Think We Should Exaggerate Scientific Advances?
February 24, 2025 Mind Matters
Many “breakthroughs” reported breathlessly in media are nowhere close to resulting in usable products or services
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“Multiple Minds” in Split-Brain Patients?
February 24, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles
February 24, 2025 New Scientist
Tracks and footprints found in New Mexico are by far the earliest evidence of people using primitive vehicles to transport things
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Book
Hume’s Counterfeit Check
February, 2025 Peter Lang
Hume’s essay “Of Miracles" has the reputation of providing, in Hume’s own words, an “everlasting check" to accepting reports of miracles. Author Robert Larmer demonstrates that this reputation is undeserved. | See Also Amazon