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How a Chemist Came To Think That All Life Forms Are Conscious
July 31, 2024 Mind Matters
Emeritus professor of chemistry Addy Pross explains the reasoning process: A universal Darwinism can generate cognition in chemistry
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Study Unravels the Mystery of Fish Hearing
July 31, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Study identifies universal blueprint for mammalian brain shape
July 30, 2024 Science Daily
The cerebral cortex follows the same folding patterns across mammalian species, following a universal fractal shape
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Modern astrophysics answers Isaac Newton’s oldest question
July 30, 2024 Big Think
Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.
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‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality
July 30, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Experiments that test physics and philosophy as “a single whole” may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe.
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Predatory conferences are on the rise. Here are five ways to tackle them
July 30, 2024 Nature
Early-career researchers are being targeted by organizers of exploitative meetings. There needs to be more awareness and perhaps legal redress over this dangerous development.
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Hybrids between two species can produce “swarms” that flourish
July 30, 2024 ars technica
Humans may be part of a hybrid swarm. And we’re making more of them.
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Phylogenetic Trees Are Not Evidence
July 30, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Phylogenetic trees are often evolutionary fairy tales posing as science.
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Did the Wily Neanderthal Save Time While Preparing Meals?
July 30, 2024 Mind Matters
An enterprising archaeology team tried cooking birds using methods only available to Neanderthals -- and learned some things, including how to avoid burned fingers
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“The Fact Is that I Think Neo-Darwinism Is Dead”
July 30, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Oxford Biologist Denis Noble
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The two different genealogies of Jesus are both true at the same time
July 30, 2024 YouTube
There are two conflicting genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament. Anyone can see that the name lists in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 are not at all similar. Worse, 1 Chronicles 3 adds a third conflicting genealogy for a pivotal person in these lists
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Oldest rocks on Earth may contain strange and ancient life forms
July 30, 2024 New Scientist
Fossils in rocks that are 3.8 billion years old have puzzled biologists as they look nothing like modern cells, but now it seems they may be an ancient precursor life form that was unable to control its structure
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Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism
July 30, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists untangle interactions between the Earth's early life forms and the environment
July 29, 2024 Science Daily
The atmosphere, the ocean and life on Earth interacted over the past 500-plus million years in ways that improved conditions for early organisms to thrive.
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Do We Need the Right Half of the Human Brain?
July 29, 2024 Mind Matters
Generally, we do. Yet what happened when one woman lost the right half of her brain as an adult was unexpected
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Lampreys Devolved
July 29, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Another evolutionary transitional form appears instead to be a degenerate form
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Creationism 101: The Days of Creation
July 29, 2024 YouTube
From the formation of the universe on day one to the culmination of God's rest on the seventh, we describe what is known and unknown. What is the firmament? How are there days without a sun? What kind of event could make a continent?
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Challenges to Terraforming Mars Highlight the Intelligent Design of Earth
July 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Saturn’s Moon Titan as a Habitability Test
July 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived
July 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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How matter becomes life, in 7 minutes
July 29, 2024 YouTube
there is a significant disconnect between the physics of the universe and the biological processes we observe. This discrepancy makes for a difficult challenge in understanding how inanimate matter evolves into breathing, thinking, life forms
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Renowned Chemist Exposes Lies About Origin of Life
July 29, 2024 YouTube
explaining the massive problems with the official narrative of how life began
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Discussion on Evolution, Religion, and More
July 29, 2024 YouTube
I had just given my lecture and was answering questions when a rather small man with a loud voice and a highly articulate manner stood up and began berating me in what I initially thought was an aggressive manner.
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Why we might finally be about to see the first stars in the universe
July 29, 2024 New Scientist
The first generation of stars changed the course of cosmic history. Now, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we have a real chance of spotting them
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The picture of early-human origins in Africa grows more complex
July 28, 2024 Washington Post
Researchers say multiple groups of early modern humans intermingled and spread across Africa, not just in small areas in the east and south, before moving to Europe and Asia.
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How Rare Are We? Hubris Inhibits the Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Cosmos
July 28, 2024 The Debrief
It is flattering for us as humans to imagine we are rare. If there is no one as good as we are, our self-esteem gets a boost.
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Do We Really Need to Believe in Free Will?
July 28, 2024 Psychology Today
Believing in free will may actually hinder therapy's progress.
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Complex life on Earth may be much older than thought
July 28, 2024 BBC
A group of scientists say they have found new evidence to back up their theory that complex life on Earth may have begun 1.5 billion years earlier than thought.
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‘A remarkable conspiracy': Why is matter neutral?
July 28, 2024 Live Science
Frank Close tells us about the history of particle physics, and what it means that charge in our universe's matter is so closely balanced.
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Nature's Incredible Rotating Motor
July 28, 2024 YouTube
(It’s Electric!)
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Bacterial flagellar motor's hypothetical assembly on a workbench
July 28, 2024 YouTube
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Heart Attack Doctor Asks, Is Death Now Reversible?
July 28, 2024 Mind Matters
If new findings in resuscitation techniques hold up, says Sam Parnia in his new book, brain conditions now deemed irreversible may be reversible
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A Modular Theory of Assembly
July 27, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Responding to Lee Cronin
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Species and speciation in systematics and life
July 27, 2024 YouTube
Society of Systematic Biologists, Presidential Address
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How our genome is like a generative AI model
July 26, 2024 MIT Technology Review
Our genetic code works a bit like DALL-E, apparently
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Disassembling Assembly Theory: Exposing Its Fatal Defects
July 26, 2024
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The Hardest Questions on the Kalam Cosmological Argument
July 26, 2024 YouTube
William Lane Craig answers a range of tough inquiries regarding the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God. Special thanks to Nemanja Jurišić and NT Podkast Serbia for this interview.
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The ancestor of all modern birds probably had iridescent feathers
July 26, 2024 EurekAlert!
A family tree of 9,409 bird species helped scientists figure out why there are so many colorful birds in the tropics and how these colors spread over time
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The Breathtaking Complexity of Information Within Cells
July 26, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Despite their microscopic size, cells are immensely complex and uniquely engineered to process vast amounts of information.
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Lampreys possess a ‘jaw-dropping' evolutionary origin
July 26, 2024 Science Daily
Invasive, blood-sucking fish ‘may hold the key to understanding where we came from'
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New understanding of fly behavior has potential application in robotics, public safety
July 26, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists have identified an automatic behavior in flies that helps them assess wind conditions -- its presence and direction -- before deploying a strategy to follow a scent to its source.
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Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues
July 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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The Science of Twins and the Human Fascination with Them
July 25, 2024 Real Clear Science
There is no question that behavioral and medical science advances have happened largely because twins yield a wealth of information just by being themselves.
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Seeing the consciousness forest for the trees
July 25, 2024 iai News
Towards a map of consciousness
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NASA Did Not Say It Found Life on Mars. But It’s Very Excited About This Rock.
July 25, 2024 New York Times
The rock, studied by NASA’s Perseverance rover, has been closely analyzed by scientists on Earth who say that nonmicrobial processes could also explain its features.
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The Chimps Who Learned to Say ‘Mama’
July 25, 2024 New York Times
Old recordings show captive chimps uttering the word, which some scientists believe may offer clues to the origins of human speech.
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Yellowstone Study Reveals Never-Before-Seen Organisms Living in Hot Springs
July 25, 2024 Newsweek
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The first fossil collectors
July 25, 2024 Science, v.385, n.6707, p.375
REVIEW: Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick (Scribner, 2024) | See Also Amazon
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Why Did Our Universe Begin?
July 25, 2024 YouTube
That the universe began seems astonishing. What brought it about? What forces were involved? How did the laws of nature generate the vast expanse of billions of galaxies of billions of stars and planets in the structures that we see today?
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The Paleoproterozoic Wopmay Origen and Stromatolites
July 25, 2024 YouTube
Historical Geology looks at the geological history of the earth from its inception to the present. Here Ken Coulson discusses the evidence from a conventional perspective, but digresses as certain topics overlap with a young-age creationist perspective