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• Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

  August 20, 2024 Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer Evolution News & Science Today

• On Evolution, Mathematicians Need Not Be Silent

  August 20, 2024 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  ‘Masters of shape-shifting': How darkling beetles conquered the world

  August 20, 2024 Australian National University Science Daily

  Large-scale genomic analysis of darkling beetles, a hyper-diverse insect group, rolls back the curtain on a 150-million-year evolutionary tale of one of Earth's most ecologically important yet inconspicuous creatures

• What Was It Like to Be a Dinosaur?

  August 20, 2024 Amy M. Balanoff and Daniel T. Ksepka Scientific American

  New fossils and analytical tools provide unprecedented insights into dinosaur sensory perception

• Video

  Major Discoveries About LUCA -- Organism All Life Evolved From

  August 20, 2024 Anton Petrov YouTube

  in this video, we will talk about LUCA -- Last Universal Common Ancestor

• Astrology shown to be no better than random guessing

  August 19, 2024 Tom Leslie New Scientist

  Astrologists claim to be able to use the motion of the planets and stars to make predictions about people's lives, but a detailed study has found that they rarely even agree with each other

• Video

  Prepare to be Amazed: Bill Dembski's Insights on Intelligent Design!

  August 19, 2024 Mike Licona YouTube

  Dembski is a prominent mathematician and philosopher renowned for his groundbreaking work on Intelligent Design. Discover how his research provides compelling scientific and philosophical evidence for an intelligent force behind creation

• Most Americans Believe God Played a Role in Human Origins

  August 19, 2024 Aaron Earls Religion Unplugged

  Most U.S. adults believe human beings came about because of divine intervention, but there’s disagreement over what that involvement looked like.

• Should we knock science off of its pedestal?

  August 19, 2024 Max G. Levy Sequencer magazine

  The credibility we lend to science and scientists should not obviate the need for criticism.

• Rebuilding the Genome of Woolly Mammoths

  August 19, 2024 Laura Tran The Scientist

  A well-preserved 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin sample with fossils of ancient chromosomes could offer a glimpse into the history of life.

• Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes

  August 19, 2024 Steve Nadis Quanta Magazine

  The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that’s fueling the universe’s expansion may be weakening. One community of theoretical physicists expected as much.

• Chimp Chat Study Confirms Language is Human

  August 19, 2024 Brian Thomas Institute for Creation Research

• Rubberduck Reporters Gullible to Science Shamans

  August 19, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Science reporters regurgitate whatever scientists say about things they can’t possibly know

• Materialism Is a Totalistic Claim

  August 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today

  Here’s Why That Matters

• Examining the Fine-Tuning Argument by Elimination

  August 19, 2024 Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer Evolution News & Science Today

• Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

  August 19, 2024 Richard Weikart Evolution News & Science Today

  Life Devalued

• Genetics Journal Pushes Soft Public-Health Authoritarianism

  August 17, 2024 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• A Fix for Science’s ‘Existential Meaning’ Problem

  August 17, 2024 Ross Pomeroy Real Clear Science

  Science has given us so much. ... But there are those who argue that science has also taken away something in the process: a sense of existential meaning.

• When an Advanced AI Faces Off Against a Five-Year Old ...

  August 17, 2024 Mind Matters

  Many problems don't turn on complex reasoning but on knowing how the world works

• Researcher: AI Can't Be Conscious Because It Is Not Alive

  August 17, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Consciousness is not computation. Without the ability to experience events from one phase to the next (sentience), we could not really be conscious

• Patterns can't explain life's complexity

  August 16, 2024 Perry Marshall iai News

  Bacteria and viruses are agents and communicate

• Blog Post

  The Odds on an Empty Cosmos

  August 16, 2024 Paul Gilster

  “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” But let’s ponder this: Would we prefer to live in a universe with other intelligent beings, or one in which we are alone?

• The New Archaeology Wars: How Cancel Culture and Identity Politics Have Corrupted Science

  August 16, 2024 Elizabeth Weiss Skeptic

  a federal law requires skeletal remains and certain artifacts (such as grave goods and sacred objects) from past populations to be turned over to culturally affiliated present-day Native American tribes

• If the Big Bang wasn’t the first thing ever, what caused it?

  August 16, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.

• Largest animal genome sequenced -- and just 1 chromosome is the size of the entire human genome

  August 16, 2024 Tia Ghose Live Science

  Scientists sequenced the largest known animal genome in a species of lungfish -- ancient fish that breathe air.

• The odds of quantum weirdness being real just got a lot higher

  August 16, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  An experiment to test distant particles’ ability to correlate their behaviour is one of the strongest pieces of evidence that classical ideas about reality are incorrect

• Three Ways to Formulate the Fine-Tuning Argument

  August 16, 2024 Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer Evolution News & Science Today

  An Introduction

• How Roots Become Jackhammers

  August 16, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

  August 16, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid formed in Solar System’s outer reaches

  August 15, 2024 Michael Marshall Nature

  Rock samples hold clues to origin of impactor that sparked a mass extinction 66 million years ago.

• Dino-killing asteroid cam from beyond Jupiter

  August 15, 2024 Adam Mann Science

  Trace metals found at extinction layer implicate rare, carbon-rich type of meteorite

• Ruthenium isotopes show the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid

  August 15, 2024 Mario Fischer-Gödde, et al. Science, v.385, n.6710, p.752-756

  The geologic boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene eras 66 million years ago is marked by worldwide deposits from an impact at modern Chicxulub, Mexico. The impact coincides with a mass extinction

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Compensatory mutations potentiate constructive neutral evolution by gene duplication

  August 15, 2024 Philippe C. Després, et al. Science, v.385, n.6710, p.770-775

  The evolution of protein complexes in which individual proteins are not functional on their own has garnered a great deal of curiosity. Navigating the gain of a new function with a partner is doubly difficult

• The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence

  August 15, 2024 Melanie Mitchell Science, v.385, n.6710

  “Can machines think?” So asked Alan Turing in his 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” Turing quickly noted that, given the difficulty of defining thinking, the question is “too meaningless to deserve discussion.”

• Language evolution in primates

  August 15, 2024 Steffen R. Hage Science, v.385, n.6710, p.713-714

  Human speech evolution is not just about having a speech-ready brain and vocal apparatus

• 47-Year-Old ‘Wow! Signal' Mystery Solved?

  August 15, 2024 Christopher Plain The Debrief

  Arecibo Observatory scientists think they have an answer

• Patterns are alive, and we are living patterns

  August 15, 2024 Michael Levin iai News

  Intelligent beings need not be embodied

• How we reconstructed the ancestor of all life on Earth

  August 15, 2024 Edmund R. R. Moody and Sandra Álvarez-Carretero The Conversation

  Understanding how life began and evolved on Earth is a question that has fascinated humans for a long time, and modern scientists have made great advances when it comes to finding some answers.

• Unusual Origin Found for Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

  August 15, 2024 Becky Ferreira New York Times

  A study adds strong evidence to the hypothesis that the deadly rock came from a family of objects that originally formed well beyond the orbit of the planet Jupiter.

• Video

  Groundbreaking chemist defines all of life in 2 words

  August 15, 2024 Lee Cronin YouTube

  Cronin, the Regis Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, says there is a significant disconnect between the physics of the universe and the biological processes we observe.

• Earth’s days once got 2 hours longer -- and that may have triggered one of the biggest evolutionary explosions in history

  August 15, 2024 Tia Ghose Live Science

  The moon once drifted thousands of miles farther away, and Earth's days got 2.2 hours longer, a new study finds.

• Trying To Refute Free Will Without Being Sure What It Is ...

  August 15, 2024 Mind Matters

  Stephen Barr offers some thoughts on neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky’s Determined, which argues against free will

• Of Course Cats Grieve! But How To Research It ... ?

  August 15, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The challenge is separating the cat’s feelings from those of the human interpreter

• Climate Change: What the Science Says

  August 15, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The popular media is not giving the whole story

• An Evolutionary Theorist Plays with Words

  August 15, 2024 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

  Let’s See How Far It Gets Him

• Intelligent Design “Has a Valid Point with Regard to the … Limits of Neo-Darwinism”

  August 15, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  statement by James Shapiro

• Video

  The Most Controversial Physics Theories

  August 14, 2024 Sean Carroll Curt Jaimungal

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The genomes of all lungfish inform on genome expansion and tetrapod evolution

  August 14, 2024 Manfred Schartl, et al. Nature, v.634, p.96-103

  The genomes of living lungfishes can inform on the molecular-developmental basis of the Devonian sarcopterygian fish-tetrapod transition.

• Stonehenge’s Altar Stone origins reveal advanced ancient Britain

  August 14, 2024 Lucien Wilkinson Curtin University

  Great Scott!

• Stonehenge’s enigmatic centre stone was hauled 800 kilometres from Scotland

  August 14, 2024 Nisha Gaind and Roff Smith Nature

  By assessing the age of ancient crystals, researchers have traced the monument’s greenish Altar Stone to a northern rock basin.