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Philosophy of Evolution & Religion
December 30, 2024 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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Chimp/Human DNA (Dis)similarities
December 30, 2024 YouTube
the question is not about percent similarity. Instead, the question is, "How many mutational changes are necessary to explain these differences in (an assumed) 6.5 million years?" They simply might not have enough time.
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Sometimes the Hive Mind Wins Against the Human Mind
December 30, 2024 Mind Matters
At ZME Science, Mihai Andrei reports on a recent experiment pitting longhorn ants against humans
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Evolution Journal Editors Resign After AI Takes Over
December 30, 2024 Mind Matters
Publisher Elsevier seems to have created a lot of extra work for the editors by introducing AI-generated errors into the publishing process
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How AI is unlocking ancient texts -- and could rewrite history
December 30, 2024 Nature
From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries.
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Researchers solve 200 year volcanic mystery
December 30, 2024 University of St Andrews
In 1831, a massive volcanic eruption spewed sulphurous gases into the atmosphere, reflecting sunlight and causing a global cooling of approximately 1°C. This cold weather, well-documented worldwide, led to widespread crop failures and devastating famines.
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2024 in Review
December 30, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Thanks to readers and supporters of Creation-Evolution Headlines in 2024. Here is a review of this year’s posts.
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Richard Dawkins the New Cultural Christian
December 30, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 3 Story of 2024
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Vampire hedgehogs, pirate spiders and fishy fungi
December 29, 2024 BBC
the strangest new species of 2024
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Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Again
December 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 4 Story of 2024
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Evolution: What Will Humans Look Like in 50,000 Years?
December 28, 2024 Newsweek
Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in agreement that the phenomenon is still occurring.
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A sad end for the Journal of Human Evolution
December 28, 2024
A joint statement announces the resignation of the entire editorial board, while disclosing for the first time the use of AI in article production.
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Why Are Bed Bugs So Hard To Kill?
December 28, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
Scientists Uncover Genetic Survival Secrets
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How Should We Think About God's Existence?
December 28, 2024 YouTube
God exists? God does not exist? What kinds of Gods? It’s no challenge to find flaws and fallacies on all sides. Can we step away from old arguments and ask how to approach God’s existence? What’s the process? What’s the way of thinking?
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Biochemist Shares New Evidence for God
December 28, 2024 YouTube
Mind Blowing!
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Time Travel That Works? Not Exactly
December 28, 2024 Mind Matters
Popular Mechanics has another look at a claim that a specific type of time travel is possible. The biggest barrier to taking time travel concepts seriously is this: Time travel would enable a man to go back and kill his grandmother.
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The Parallel Universe Is Out There -- If Only You Believe ...
December 28, 2024 Mind Matters
At Newsweek last Monday science writer Tom Howarth threw cold water on the idea that NASA had discovered a parallel universe
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New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry
December 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 5 Story of 2024
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Science's Blind Spot: Free Will
December 28, 2024 YouTube
Do We Have Free Will? Moral Responsibility & The Meaning of Life
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Human Skin Has Its Own Immune System
December 27, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A revolutionary discovery reveals intelligent design in our largest body organ
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Tiny Fossilized Embryos Reveal Stunning Details of Life Half a Billion Years Ago
December 27, 2024 Science Alert
Tiny balls of mineral are opening a new window into the history of life on Earth -- the fossilized embryos of animals that lived during the early Cambrian period, some 535 million years ago.
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This Physicist Says We’re Using Maths Entirely Wrong
December 27, 2024 YouTube
Intuitionist mathematics is the idea that the entire discipline of maths is a mental construct based on human thought rather than a platonic realm of eternal truths. ... that is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so strange
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The Radio Frequency Spectrum: A Finite Natural Resource
December 27, 2024 Mind Matters
The increasing demand for the radio frequency spectrum that our wireless technologies depend on is unsustainable long-term
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Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research
December 27, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 6 Story of 2024
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A Fossil That Kept Scientists Guessing
December 27, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Is Humanity the Pinnacle?
December 26, 2024 The Debrief
a cosmic perspective on intelligence and survival
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This Ancient Lake was a Death Trap for Fossil Fish!
December 26, 2024 YouTube
As the world recovered from Noah's Flood, local and regional-sized natural disasters buried plants and animals as they attempted to recolonize the earth. Geologist Dr. John Whitmore takes us to an ancient lakebed in Utah
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News Update/Commentary
How do monkeys recognize snakes so fast?
December 26, 2024 Science Daily
rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales as a visual cue. His findings highlight an evolutionary adaptation of primates to identify snakes based on specific visual features
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Michael Shermer: Wokeness Poisons Science and I Am No Longer Woke
December 26, 2024 Mind Matters
A number of well-known one-way skeptics and atheists are beginning to feel the consequences of prescribed insufferable virtue
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Liberal Prof: Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives
December 26, 2024 Mind Matters
Robert Shedinger’s findings certainly changed his perception of the nature of the controversy over Darwinism
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Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Evolution
December 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 7 Story of 2024
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Sorry, Dr. Coyne: There Is No Religion-Science Conflict
December 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Did Astronomers Just Prove Dark Energy Is an Illusion?
December 25, 2024 YouTube
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Fly vs. wasp: Stealing a defense move helps thwart a predator
December 25, 2024 Science Daily
Biologists inserted a gene into other flies, making these flies resistance to wasps. This discovery shows that horizontal gene transfer may be more common in animals than people thought.
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Reagan’s Personal Argument for Intelligent Design
December 25, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2024
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An AI system has reached human level on a test for ‘general intelligence’
December 24, 2024 The Conversation
Here’s what that means
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Biology, Physiology, and DNA
December 24, 2024 YouTube
What are biological theories, their scope and depth? How do biologists think? How do they conduct their research and construct their theories? What happens when traditional theories are challenged?
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Two Views on The Bible, Science, and Human Origins
December 24, 2024 YouTube
In this episode, two Christian scholars, Dr. Peter Enns and Dr. William Lane Craig, discuss differing views on the historicity of Adam and Eve.
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For Christmas, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe
December 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Physicists in 2024 searched the quantum realm for the truth about time
December 24, 2024 New Scientist
Two separate theoretical studies published this year argued that time itself is bound up in the odd quantum property of entanglement, but deep mysteries remain
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What Does Intelligent Design of the Universe Really Mean?
December 24, 2024 Mind Matters
Mathematician Granville Sewell offers some thoughts at American Spectator about the evidence for design in the universe
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What If? The Threat of Sentient AGI
December 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Experts remain skeptical of consciousness ever arising in an artificial intelligence system, but imagining “What if?” adds a layer of caution to even attempting to reach that goal.
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Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans
December 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 9 Story of 2024
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The Cell Division Challenge to Eukaryogenesis -- and to Evolution
December 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Geochemical surveys of ancient copper industry in King Solomon's mines
December 23, 2024 phys.org
King Solomon's mines did not pollute environment
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Toward a Second Law for Living Systems
December 23, 2024 Physics, v.17
A new theory related to the second law of thermodynamics describes the motion of active biological systems ranging from migrating cells to traveling birds.
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If You Talk About Dark Matter, Think Twice!
December 23, 2024 YouTube
Inspired by Sabine Hossenfelder
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How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs
December 23, 2024 New York Times
The smart machines, it turns out, are dreaming up riots of unrealities that help scientists track cancer, design drugs, invent medical devices, uncover weather phenomena and even win the Nobel Prize.
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Darwin Gives Unwanted Gifts
December 23, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwin’s helpers are delivering something worse than lumps of coal
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Three Thousand Years of Darwinism
December 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today