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Defending Sin, in the Old Earth vs Young Earth Debate
February 23, 2025 YouTube
theologian and medical doctor Hans Madueme joins us as we survey his book “Defending Sin” where he extensively responds to the challenges to evolution
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Unraveling the Myths Surrounding the Shroud of Turin
February 23, 2025 Skeptic
Pseudoscience can often survive because of the continuous publication and dissemination of alleged new discoveries that cast doubt on the findings of “official science.” Mass media regularly republish these “discoveries"
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New Study Proposes that Cosmic Radiation Altered Virus Evolution in Africa
February 23, 2025 Universe Today
Astronomers have known for some time that nearby supernovae have had a profound effect on Earth’s evolution. For starters, Earth’s deposits of gold, platinum, and other heavy metals are believed to have been distributed to Earth by ancient supernovae.
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How Can We Know If Patients with Split Brains Have a Single Mind?
February 22, 2025 Mind Matters
[Split-brain surgery] leads to a broad breakdown of functional integration ranging from perception to attention. However, the breakdown is not absolute
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Does Jupiter have another water world moon?
February 22, 2025 Cosmos Magazine
Astronomers believe they have found evidence to support a 30-year-old theory that Jupiter’s moon Callisto has a saltwater ocean.
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Mammoth Bone Structure of 24,000 Years Ago Illuminates Stone Age
February 22, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The ‘‘biomolecular humanities’’? New challenges and perspectives
February 21, 2025 Cell Press
Biomolecular humanities is a developing transdisciplinary research area in which we see natural sciences and humanities increasingly integrated and conceived of as data production and scientific discovery entities on an equal basis.
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Modest telescope with big plans, SPHEREx will probe cosmic ‘inflation’ after Big Bang
February 21, 2025 Science
Spacecraft with gather and analyze infrared light in new ways to explain why our universe is “boring”
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Shocking deep sea discovery made in area where Bible says Moses parted Red Sea
February 21, 2025 Fox News
Scientists say the environment is so extreme that it defies what we know about life on Earth
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Time can move both forwards and backwards at the quantum scale
February 21, 2025 New Scientist
Physicists use mathematical assumptions in many situations that forbid time from moving backwards -- but that isn’t necessarily a reflection of quantum reality
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Humans Have Had Projectile Weapon Technology for 300,000 Years
February 21, 2025 IFL Science
Anatomically, both Neanderthals and Homo erectus were well-designed for throwing spears.
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What Has SETI Found?
February 21, 2025 Answers in Genesis
SETI, Seinfeld, and Other Things
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Evolution vs. Religion
February 21, 2025 YouTube
Two kinds of questions describe the relationship between evolution and religion. The first explores discrepancies, even contradictions, between the science of evolution and the beliefs of religion. The second examines how religion itself evolved.
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News Update/Commentary
Why GPT can't think like us
February 21, 2025 Science Daily
A new study reveals that while GPT models perform well on some analogy tasks, they fall short when the problems are altered, highlighting key weaknesses in AI's reasoning capabilities.
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Does Brain Surgery Prove That Free Will Isn’t Real?
February 21, 2025 Mind Matters
My fellow neurosurgeon Theodore Schwartz is mistaken in thinking that free will is an illusion. It is quite real
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Mammoth Bone Structure of 24,000 Years Ago Illuminates Stone Age
February 21, 2025 Mind Matters
several circular structures made from the bones of woolly mammoths, some of which are over 40 feet (12 meters) in diameter
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Experimental evolution of evolvability
February 21, 2025 Science, v.387, n.6736
Can the capacity to evolve be selected by natural selection for greater ability to evolve?
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AGI, the Halting Problem and the Human Mind
February 21, 2025 Mind Matters
Pat Flynn engaged in a thought-provoking discussion with Dr. Winston Ewert about the nature of human cognition and artificial intelligence, drawing from Ewert’s contribution to the book Minding the Brain
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Misinformation Scholar Becomes a Star Example of the Problem
February 21, 2025 Mind Matters
Hancock, the editor of a journal about “misinformation,” played his own role in spreading fake news, when he submitted testimony that included “hallucinated citations,” meaning they were not real.
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Blog Post
Dawkins and Picard Win This Year's Trotter Prize
February 20, 2025
A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard
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Surprising Chimpanzee Signal Reveals Secrets of Ape Communication
February 20, 2025 Scientific American
A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, culture and the meaning of sharing a language
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The story of mirror life: From intriguing idea to unprecedented threat
February 20, 2025 New Scientist
Grave warnings have been issued about the dangers of creating life forms using mirror-image molecules. How worried should we be?
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Gigantic star has gone through a rapid transformation and may explode
February 20, 2025 New Scientist
A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years -- an astronomical blink of an eye -- which suggests it may be getting ready to explode in a supernova
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Enabling evolvability to evolve
February 20, 2025 Science, v.387, n.6736, p.825-826
A multilevel population architecture enables bacteria to evolve increased adaptability
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Evaluating animal consciousness
February 20, 2025 Science, v.387, n.6736, p.822-824
An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically
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ICR Scientist Publishes Dino Protein in Mainstream Journal
February 20, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Which Universities Have the Most Science Papers Retracted?
February 20, 2025 Mind Matters
Two days before the end of 2021, administrators at Jining First People’s Hospital in Shandong, China, issued a highly unusual report. The hospital announced that it had disciplined some 35 researchers who had been linked to fraud in publications
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The Universe Wants to Evolve Humans
February 20, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s only natural, evolutionists at Penn State claim: planetary evolution favors our emergence
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Teaching Darwin: A Hypothetical Program
February 20, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Our common Neanderthal ancestor could be a million years old
February 19, 2025 New Scientist
The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, raising questions over what it really means to be human.
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Breakthrough quantum chip that harnesses new state of matter could set us on the path to quantum supremacy
February 19, 2025 Live Science
Microsoft scientists have created a quantum processor that taps into a rare state of matter that was first theorized in the 1930s, paving the way for a processor with a million qubits within years.
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The Soul Is More than Software
February 19, 2025 Commonweal magazine
The Church engages the AI revolution
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Dismantling of Amyloid World Hypothesis & YouTube Scientists
February 19, 2025 YouTube
critical analysis of the Amyloid World Hypothesis, arguing that key studies supporting it are misleading and highly engineered rather than natural.
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Biggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demand
February 19, 2025 Nature
An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new genomes.
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News Update/Commentary
Groundbreaking study reveals how topology drives complexity in brain, climate, and AI
February 19, 2025 Science Daily
Study introduces higher-order topological dynamics, unlocking new frontiers in science and technology
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Defending Human Exceptionalism in Munich
February 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers Push for Bonobo “Theory of Mind”
February 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
As a Cudgel Against Human Exceptionalism
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Can time emerge from a timeless world?
February 19, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Quantum gravity and the problem of time
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Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
February 19, 2025 Google Research
We introduce AI co-scientist, a multi-agent AI system built with Gemini 2.0 as a virtual scientific collaborator to help scientists generate novel hypotheses and research proposals, and to accelerate the clock speed of scientific discoveries.
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Molecular and Morphological Baraminology of Xenarthra
February 19, 2025 Answers Research Journal, v.18, p.87-96
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We are finally getting to grips with how plate tectonics started
February 19, 2025 New Scientist
Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed -- and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out
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We’re uncovering a radically different view of civilisation’s origins
February 19, 2025 New Scientist
The discovery that farming might not have been the catalyst for civilisation means we must completely rethink the timeline of the first complex societies
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When did life begin on Earth? New evidence reveals a shocking story
February 19, 2025 New Scientist
Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was hellishly hot and seemingly uninhabitable
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“60 Minutes” Segment Lauds Censorship
February 19, 2025 Mind Matters
Free speech can indeed be “weaponized," but according to the founders of the United States, it was intended to be a weapon against government overreach.
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Defining an Ape Theory of Mind Into Existence
February 19, 2025 Mind Matters
We are told that “recognizing when someone else lacks information” has been thought to be a distinctly human trait. Really?
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Strange corkscrew burrows and other unexpected structures discovered 4.7 miles deep in the Japan Trench
February 18, 2025 Live Science
New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular “reset" events that help sea creatures survive in the ocean's deepest reaches.
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The Search for SETI's Magic Frequency
February 18, 2025 Supercluster
The late Bob Gray once described Earth’s atmosphere as being like a dirty window that you can only partially see through.
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Junk DNA Revolution
February 18, 2025 YouTube
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Jupiter’s Moon Callisto Is Very Likely an Ocean World
February 18, 2025 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A closer look at previously disregarded observations reveals stronger evidence that a deep ocean lies beneath Callisto’s icy surface.
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Are There Multiple Universes?
February 18, 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?