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Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank
September 26, 2024 New Scientist
Astronomers listened for radio signals emanating from planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, but found no evidence of any interplanetary communications
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Fixing the Kalam Cosmological Argument
September 26, 2024 YouTube
Reasonable Faith
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Is There Evidence for Intelligent Design?
September 26, 2024 YouTube
we dove headfirst into the implications of the SETI project, the Rare Earth hypothesis, and the possibility of habitable planets in other solar systems. Together, we explored the probabilities and challenges of the search for extraterrestrial life
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News Update/Commentary
These fish use legs to taste the seafloor
September 26, 2024 Science Daily
Sea robins are unusual animals with the body of a fish, wings of a bird, and walking legs of a crab. Now, researchers show that the legs of the sea robin aren't just used for walking. In fact, they are bona fide sensory organs
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News Update/Commentary
AI trained on evolution's playbook develops proteins that spur drug and scientific discovery
September 26, 2024 Science Daily
harness the natural variations of millions of proteins generated by evolution over deep time and extract the underlying dynamics needed for workable solutions to biotech challenges
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When the Mediterranean dried to a salty crust, life was devastated
September 26, 2024 Science, v.385, n.6716, p.1403
Tens of thousands of fossils detail the sea’s dramatic loss and eventual rebound
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Can evolution-based studies inform modern medicine?
September 26, 2024 Science, v.385, n.6716, p.1420-1421
Comparative genomic analyses provide mechanistic clues to cardiac muscle regulation
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Alien Phone Calls Could Be Quantum, And We're Not Ready to Hear Them
September 26, 2024 Science Alert
For a galaxy that ought to be buzzing with alien radio waves, space seems awfully quiet.
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Crying Evolution, Evolution, When There Is No Evolution
September 26, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here’s how the Darwin Party keeps Darwinism alive using propaganda tactics
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My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor
September 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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What If The Universe DID NOT Start With The Big Bang?
September 26, 2024 YouTube
Does our modern understanding of the universe still insist on a point-like Big Bang? Recent work actually gives us a way to avoid the beginning of time.
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Medicine’s “Sacred Space” -- Grossly Violated
September 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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This Black Hole Has a Cosmic Wingspan
September 25, 2024 New York Times
Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.
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First evidence of life colonizing deep into the bedrock of Greenland
September 25, 2024 phys.org
microorganisms lived deep within the fractured bedrock of Greenland 75 million years ago. The work is published in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
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Does Consciousness Challenge the Limits of Materialism?
September 25, 2024 YouTube
What would it take for consciousness to defeat materialism or physicalism? ... Here’s what it would take: our inner awareness, our experience of what things feel like, could not be explained by physical brain alone That’s it. A tall order, though.
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Don't Believe in Noah's Flood? You Might Have a Case of Geological Myopia
September 25, 2024 YouTube
Despite the number of large-scale, catastrophic events we have witnessed in recent history, many geologists are reluctant to accept the reality of a worldwide Flood in the days of Noah, or that certain geologic features were formed rapidly.
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Protein behavior can be predicted with simple math
September 25, 2024 Science Daily
Mutations affect protein stability following remarkably simple rules
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Bacterial ‘flipping' allows genes to assume different forms
September 25, 2024 Science Daily
inversions, which cause a physical flip of a segment of DNA and change an organism's genetic identity, can occur within a single gene, challenging a central dogma of biology -- that one gene can code for only one protein.
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Brazilian fossils reveal jaw-dropping discovery in mammal evolution
September 25, 2024 Science Daily
The discovery of new cynodont fossils from southern Brazil by a team of palaeontologists has led to a significant breakthrough in understanding the evolution of mammals.
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Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the grape family
September 25, 2024 Science Daily
Until now, it was believed that plants of the grape family arrived at the European continent less than 23 million years ago. A study on fossil plants draws a new scenario
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Brazilian fossils reveal homoplasy in the oldest mammalian jaw joint
September 25, 2024 Nature
The acquisition of the load-bearing dentary-squamosal jaw joint was a key step in mammalian evolution.
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A jaw-dropping discovery about early mammals
September 25, 2024 Nature
Mammals feed using a jaw hinge formed by dentary and squamosal bones. Fossil evidence reveals that this type of joint evolved independently in an extinct species of mammalian relatives called cynodonts.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The genetic architecture of protein stability
September 25, 2024 Nature
There are more ways to synthesize a 100-amino acid protein (20100) than there are atoms in the universe. Only a very small fraction of such a vast sequence space can ever be experimentally or computationally surveyed
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A Leggy Tyrannosaur Emerges from a Mexican Desert
September 25, 2024 New York Times
Scientists say that the fossil of a close relative of Tyrannosaur rex bolsters their case for a distinctive southern population of the fearsome dinosaurs.
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The New Narrative
September 25, 2024 Answers in Genesis
There’s a new narrative out there, and it’s not a Christian-based narrative.
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Nanostructures in the deep ocean floor hint at life’s origin
September 25, 2024 EurekAlert!
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Quantized Redshifts Are Still Being Discussed
September 25, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If redshifts of extragalactic objects are indeed quantized, big bang cosmology will be a casualty
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Christian Philosophy facing Naturalism
September 24, 2024 Cracow, Poland
an international conference dedicated to the problems of Christian Philosophy
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Invitation to Wonder
September 24, 2024 The Saint Constantine School
arguments for the necessity of wonder, tension, and balance within our approach to education
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From Puzzles to Prison: Jonathan Wells in His Own Words
September 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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This Lawsuit Could Change Science
September 24, 2024 YouTube
Science is crazy, but the craziest part is getting your work published. Scientists write it for free, review it for free, and then commercial publishers sell their work for a big profit. Now, a psychologist is suing the biggest scientific publishers
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What is a cell type, really? The quest to categorize life’s myriad forms
September 24, 2024 Nature
Scientists have more information than ever on how cells differ -- but they still resist easy grouping.
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NASA’s bold new mission is our best chance of finding aliens. Here's why
September 24, 2024 BBC
If life exists elsewhere in the Solar System, one of the most likely places is Jupiter's moon Europa.
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Is True Artificial Intelligence Possible? A Science Perspective
September 24, 2024 Mind Matters
Many will conclude that true AI -- AI that thinks like humans -- must be possible because we hear so much about it from so many sources
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Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and stop ageing
September 24, 2024 New Scientist
In most vertebrates, a pattern of chemical marks on the genome is a reliable indicator of age, but in axolotls this clock seems to stop after the first four years of life
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Not All Scientists Are Happy About the Politicization of Big Science
September 24, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientific American’s endorsement of a leftist presidential candidate may be the last straw for some
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In Our World, Multiple Levels of Intelligent Design
September 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Farewell to Jonathan Wells, Iconoclastic Scientist
September 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
It is with both sadness and fondness that we report that our longtime colleague and friend Jonathan Wells died on September 19, 2024, having reached on that very day his 82nd year.
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News Update/Commentary
Potential indicators of life on other planets can be created in a lab
September 23, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers find certain biosignature molecules may not indicate life is present, contrary to popular thought.
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Hans Madueme Defending Sin! Part 2
September 23, 2024 YouTube
they get down to really deep issues as they wrestle with the actual relationship of science and faith. How do believers go about reconciling what they see in science and in Scripture? Is there a right way?
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Did the Universe Begin to Exist?
September 23, 2024 YouTube
Craig explains the evidence that the universe had a beginning, and then he also considers the different models that attempt to explain the evidence
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Do Science and Religion Conflict?
September 23, 2024 YouTube
How to think about God afresh? Can we consider God -- God’s possible existence, God’s essence and nature -- without preconceived assumptions or biases? What questions arise when our target of inquiry might be the Creator of the universe?
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From chaos to order: Proteins can re-structure themselves to create important substances
September 23, 2024 Science Daily
The protein ‘MIPS' changes its internal structure when it becomes active. Its disordered active centre becomes a defined structure with special functions. The protein plays a key role in the production of vitamin B8
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Oldest and coldest: JWST claims a first for exoplanet imaging
September 23, 2024 Nature
JWST has opened a window on exoplanet imaging by observing the planet ε Indi Ab directly. The planet’s existence had been inferred, but its age and temperature made the discovery difficult to confirm -- until now.
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Can AI feel distress? Inside a new framework to assess sentience
September 23, 2024 Nature
From artificial-intelligence algorithms to zebrafish, this book takes a precautionary approach to assessing how sentient such entities are.
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A Big Ring in the sky challenges modern cosmology
September 23, 2024 Advanced Science News / John Wiley & Sons
The discovery of colossal structures like the Big Ring is reshaping established theories about the physics of the Universe.
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A Creationist Becomes an Evolutionist
September 23, 2024 Bergman's Books
The Case History of Janet Kellogg Ray
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Does Pauli Exclusion Rescue Dino Protein?
September 23, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Perhaps no other fossil discoveries have rocked the world of paleontology more than original organics like proteins in old bones.
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Science publishing is a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme
September 23, 2024 iai News
Something is killing science
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How Will Media Address Growing Doubts About Darwin?
September 23, 2024 Mind Matters
In the water flea study, the doubts sound as if they are coming from inside the house. One news story sheds light on a reporting strategy