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The world’s most expensive dinosaur and more
August 2, 2024 Nature
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
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Venus’ “continents” suggest surprising link to early Earth
August 2, 2024 Monash University
Scientists have discovered that Venus’ vast plateaus, known as tesserae, may have formed through processes similar to those that created the Earth’s earliest continents billions of years ago.
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The Academic Culture of Fraud
August 2, 2024 Palladium
Schrag’s investigation that uncovered the fraudulent papers began as a tangent from his work uncovering doctored images used in studies supporting simufilam, an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Seeing plants anew
August 2, 2024 Aeon
The stunningly complex behaviour of plants has led to a new way of thinking about our world: plant philosophy
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Convergent evolution of plant prickles by repeated gene co-option over deep time
August 2, 2024 Science, v.385, n.6708
Sharp projections derived from plant epidermis, known as prickles, are found across many plant species, the most iconic perhaps being roses. However, the genetic basis of prickles is unknown in many species
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The Role of Ancient DNA in Modern Traits
August 2, 2024 Real Clear Science
Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness -- specifically schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder
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How Children’s Books Indoctrinate Children in Darwinism
August 2, 2024 Answers in Genesis
A review of several leading popular children’s books on science found that those reviewed taught evolution dogmatically, often using incorrect information.
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News Update/Commentary
What gave the first molecules their stability?
August 2, 2024 Science Daily
The origins of life remain a major mystery. How were complex molecules able to form and remain intact for prolonged periods without disintegrating?
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil shows how penguins' wings evolved
August 2, 2024 Science Daily
A tiny fossil penguin plays a huge role in the evolutionary history of the bird, an international study shows.
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News Update/Commentary
Sea level changes shaped early life on Earth, fossil study reveals
August 2, 2024 Science Daily
Shifts in the Earth's continental plates that drove long-term changes in sea level set the stage for the evolution of the earliest animals on Earth
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News Update/Commentary
Half a billion-year-old spiny slug reveals the origins of mollusks
August 2, 2024 Science Daily
Exceptional fossils with preserved soft parts reveal that the earliest mollusks were flat, armored slugs without shells. The new species, Shishania aculeata, was covered with hollow, organic, cone-shaped spines.
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Rccks' Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious"
August 2, 2024 Mind Matters
When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage
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Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids
August 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Phosphite oxidizing bacteria: support for evolutionary origin-of-life theory?
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.13-15
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Book
A deficient and defective doctrine of creation
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.32-37
REVIEW: The Doctrine of Creation: A constructive Kuyperian approach by Bruce Riley Ashford and Craig G. Bartholomew (IVP Academic, 2020)
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Combining Adam and evolution: an exercise in futility
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.28-31
REVIEW: The Origin of Humanity and Evolution: Science and Scripture in conversation by Andrew Ter Ern Loke (T&T Clark, 2022)
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Book
The end of ‘New Atheism’?
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.20-24
REVIEW: Coming to Faith Through Dawkins: 12 Essays on the pathway from new atheism to Christianity by Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath, eds. (Kregel Publications, 2023)
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Contamination of meteorite samples with terrestrial amino acids
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.7-11
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Book
Entertaining storytelling about the presumed evolution of mammals
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.37-40
REVIEW: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A new history from the shadow of the dinosaurs to us by Steve Brusatte (Mariner Press, 2022)
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Design without a designer?
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.48-53
the unsolved problem of coordination
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The design of bacterial flagella: part 2
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.54-61
flagellar diversity across bacterial species
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Life did not originate from amyloids and ATP
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.85-95
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Non-existence of error correction in plausible prebiotic amyloids
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.127-130
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How Darwin evaded the lack of evidence for his theory
August, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.2, p.25-27
REVIEW: Darwin’s Bluff: The mystery of the book Darwin never finished by Robert F. Shedinger (Discovery Institute Press, 2022)
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The end of ‘New Atheism’?
August, 2024 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: Coming to Faith Through Dawkins: 12 Essays on the pathway from new atheism to Christianity by Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath, eds, (Kregel Pub, 2023)
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How Darwin evaded the lack of evidence for his theory
August, 2024 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: Darwin’s Bluff: The mystery of the book Darwin never finished by Robert F. Shedinger (Discovery Institute Press, 2022)
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4 Reasons to Believe Evolution is NOT True
August 1, 2024 Apologetics Press
The origin of life, its complexity, and its genetic information prohibit evolution from even starting, and the oft’-cited textbook evidences for the evolution of that life are all either erroneous, irrelevant, or inadequate.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Natural selection is cognitive selection
August, 2024 Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, v.190, p.170-184
Biology in the 21st century
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Book
Entertaining storytelling about the presumed evolution of mammals
August, 2024 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A new history from the shadow of the dinosaurs to us by Steve Brusatte (Mariner Press, 2022) | See Also Amazon
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Book
A deficient and defective doctrine of creation
August, 2024 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: The Doctrine of Creation: A constructive Kuyperian approach by Bruce Riley Ashford and Craig G. Bartholomew (IVP Academic, 2020) | See Also Amazon
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Doubting Dawkins
August, 2024 Chronicles magazine
Converts to the 2000s’ New Atheism have finally realized how glib and intellectually flimsy its leaders were.
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The lie of Ape to Angel
August 1, 2024 iai News
Modern wisdom from ancient fossils
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Five decades of missing matter
August, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.8, p.34-43
Groups on both sides of the Iron Curtain hypothesized in the 1970s that a yet-unknown material makes up most of the mass in the universe.
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Video
The fine tuning argument's hidden assumptions
August 1, 2024 YouTube
We consider the claim that multiverse is a logical fallacy and delve into the paper "How not to be generous to fine tuning skeptics."
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Exceptional Cambrian Fossils Baffle Evolutionists
August 1, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How did thousands of trilobites and other complex animals get buried together without damage?
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News Update/Commentary
When it comes to DNA replication, humans and baker's yeast are more alike than different
August 1, 2024 Science Daily
The findings visualize for the first time a molecular complex -- called CTF18-RFC in humans and Ctf18-RFC in yeast -- that loads a ‘clamp' onto DNA to keep parts of the replication machinery from falling off the DNA strand.
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Video
How Science Proves God!
August 1, 2024 YouTube
Bergsma is Professor of Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. A former Protestant pastor, Dr. Bergsma entered the Catholic Church in 2001 while getting his Ph.D. in Bible from the University of Notre Dame.
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Review Article Explores Design Patterns in Biological Cells
August 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Contamination of meteorite samples with terrestrial amino acids
August, 2024 Creation Ministries International
Meteorites, the source of most extraterrestrial material, are believed to have provided a wide variety of proteinogenic amino acids (AA) according to Origin of Life researchers.
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Complete sequencing of ape genomes
July 31, 2024 bioRxiv
We present haplotype-resolved reference genomes and comparative analyses of six ape species, namely: chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan, and siamang.
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A Test for Life Versus Non-Life
July 31, 2024 New York Times
In a new book, physicist Sara Walker argues that assembly theory can explain what life is, and even help scientists create new forms of it.
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Why Science Will Never Explain Consciousness
July 31, 2024 Psychology Today
Explaining consciousness in physical terms is conceptually impossible.
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Organ systems of a Cambrian euarthropod larva
July 31, 2024 Nature
The Cambrian radiation of euarthropods can be attributed to an adaptable body plan.
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Mass extinction 66 million years ago triggered rapid evolution of bird genomes
July 31, 2024 University of Michigan
Shortly after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, life for non-avian dinosaurs ended, but the evolutionary story for the early ancestors of birds began.
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How did Neanderthals disappear?
July 31, 2024 CNN
New DNA analysis sheds light on the mystery
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The difficulty of defining death
July 31, 2024 iai News
How technology complicates the meaning of death
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Mollusk Shell Not the Product of Time and Chance But of Design
July 31, 2024 Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.459-464
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Why Life Couldn’t Have Evolved from Non-Living Chemicals
July 31, 2024 YouTube
Atheists must believe that living creatures evolved from non-living chemicals, via a process commonly called chemical evolution (aka abiogenesis). But real scientific laws, especially of chemistry and information theory, refute this.
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Time travel sci-fi novel is a rip-roaringly good thought experiment
July 31, 2024 New Scientist
An ordinary-looking valley has a secret -- each of its neighbours is 20 years removed in time. Scott Alexander Howard's debut is heartfelt and deeply enjoyable
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What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary origins
July 31, 2024 New Scientist
From Neanderthals to Australopithecus and Paranthropus, the more we’ve learned about ancient hominins, the harder it has become to define what a human is