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The Junk Shop of Andreas Wagner
June 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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No, Magnetic Field Collapse Did Not Trigger the Emergence of Animals
June 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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News Update/Commentary
Fish out of water: How killifish embryos adapted their development
June 6, 2024 Science Daily
A research group now reports that the early embryogenesis of killifish diverges from that of other species. Unlike other fish, their body structure is not predetermined from the outset.
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Chatbot Claude Starts to Grok Intelligent Design ...
June 6, 2024 Mind Matters
As a result of Grasso’s probing Claude now admits that labeling intelligent design as “pseudoscience” or “non-scientific across the board” was an over-generalization
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers upend theory about the formation of the Milky Way Galaxy
June 6, 2024 Science Daily
Research reveals a shocking discovery about the history of our universe: the Milky Way Galaxy's last major collision occurred billions of years later than previously thought.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Two-stage evolution of mammalian adipose tissue thermogenesis
June 6, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6700, p.1111-1117
Thermogenesis, the ability to generate heat and maintain body temperature in cold conditions, was an important adaptation that allowed mammals to thrive on Earth.
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The evolution of thermogenesis in mammals
June 6, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6700, p.1065-1066
Comparative genomics elucidates the steps enabling heat production in fat tissue
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Evolution No Help in Explaining Extinct Giants
June 6, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Expecting an evolutionary biologist to help explain things is like calling on a shaman for understanding
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The Enchanted Sleep of Andreas Wagner
June 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Earth’s Earliest Fresh Water and Dry Land Reveal Key Ingredients for Life
June 6, 2024 Khalifa University
Research Uncovers Presence of Ancient Hydrological Processes on Earth Older than 4 billion Years
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Our Highly Praised High School CHEMISTRY Class Starts August 26
June 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Unique trajectory of gene family evolution from genomic analysis of nearly all known species in an ancient yeast lineage
June 6, 2024 bioRxiv
Gene gains and losses are a major driver of genome evolution; their precise characterization can provide insights into the origin and diversification of major lineages. Here, we examined gene family evolution of 1,154 genomes
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A telescope on Earth just took an unbelievable photo of Jupiter's moon
June 6, 2024 Live Science
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Taking Out the Trash: An Alternative Cellular Disposal Pathway
June 6, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers reveal that cellular secretion removes defective mitochondria when lysosomes are dysfunctional.
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News Update/Commentary
‘Missing' early sea sponges discovered
June 5, 2024 Science Daily
Geobiologists reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge that had been missing from the fossil record. The discovery sheds new light on a conundrum that has stumped zoologists and paleontologists for years.
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Richard Dawkins, Morphogenesis, Epigenetics, Genes, Cell Biology
June 5, 2024 YouTube
Arias is the recipient of numerous awards, he is co-author of the biology textbook Principles of Development, which was awarded the Royal Society of Biology book prize.
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Did the Universe Begin?
June 5, 2024 YouTube
Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Some theologians contend that the universe did not need a beginning. Yet the universe is expanding, and so run the movie in reverse and there seems to be a beginning.
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Educating Chatbot Claude on ID and the Nature of Science
June 5, 2024 Mind Matters
When you are arguing with Claude, you are arguing with the internet -- well, with whatever slice the chatbot has scarfed up and processed, according to an algorithm
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News Update/Commentary
AIs are irrational, but not in the same way that humans are
June 5, 2024 Science Daily
Large Language Models behind popular generative AI platforms like ChatGPT gave different answers when asked to respond to the same reasoning test and didn't improve when given additional context
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Academic Publisher Retracts Over 11,300 Papers
June 5, 2024 Red State
Academic fraud is forcing Wiley, major publisher of scientific journals, to close 19 journals after some were overwhelmed by industrial-scale research fraud. In the last two years, Wiley has retracted over 11,300 papers containing some fraudulent content
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Can an emerging field called ‘neural systems understanding’ explain the brain?
June 5, 2024 The Transmitter
This mashup of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and even linguistics and philosophy of mind aims to crack the deep question of what “understanding” is, however un-brain-like its models may be.
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Human Neurons Play the Waiting Game
June 5, 2024 The Scientist
When it comes to development, an epigenetic clock may be responsible for human neurons’ slower maturation.
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Most Life on Earth is Dormant, After Pulling an ‘Emergency Brake’
June 5, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Many microbes and cells are in deep sleep, waiting for the right moment to activate. Biologists discovered a widespread protein that abruptly shuts down a cell’s activity -- and turns it back on just as fast.
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Mathematicians can't agree what ‘equals' means, and that's a problem
June 5, 2024 New Scientist
What does “equals" mean? For mathematicians, this simple question has more than one answer, which is causing issues when it comes to using computers to check proofs. The solution might be to tear up the foundations of maths
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The time between Palaeolithic hearths
June 5, 2024 Nature
Resolving the timescale of human activity in the Palaeolithic Age is one of the most challenging problems in prehistoric archaeology. The duration and frequency of hunter-gatherer camps reflect key aspects of social life and human–environment interactions
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Precision dating pinpoints time between use of ancient fireplaces
June 5, 2024 Nature
Knowing the occupation timescales for ancient sites offers insights into population dynamics. A dating approach now establishes the time frame during which prehistoric hearths were in use at a high level of precision.
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These Neanderthal fire pits offer an extraordinarily precise snapshot of ancient life
June 5, 2024 Nature
Researchers used traces of Earth’s changing magnetic field in sediments to identify the activity of ancient humans.
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What we do -- and don’t -- know about how misinformation spreads online
June 5, 2024 Nature
There are gaps in our understanding of how and why digital misinformation propagates. To help design effective interventions to minimize the spread of falsehoods, researchers need data and transparency from online platforms.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal
June 5, 2024 Nature
Although molecular clocks predict that sponges diverged in the Neoproterozoic era, their fossils have not been unequivocally demonstrated before the Cambrian period, possibly because Precambrian sponges were aspiculate and non-biomineralized.
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How to Survive as a Creationist in Science
June 5, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
To survive as a creationist, stay in the closet and accept evolution as God’s method of creation
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Persecution and the Art of “Darwinist” Writing
June 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Intelligent Design Is the Truly Scientific Method
June 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Casey Luskin
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The Ideological Subversion of Science
June 4, 2024 YouTube
They explore how societal pressures and cultural trends can distort scientific integrity, the implications for scientific progress, and the importance and limitations of safeguarding objectivity in the pursuit of knowledge.
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Life's Catalyst: RNA with Nobel Prize Winner Tom Cech
June 4, 2024 YouTube
How did life begin? What makes us human? Why do we get sick and grow old? For more than half a century, we've searched for answers to these questions in DNA.
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Educating Chatbot Claude About Design in the Universe
June 4, 2024 Mind Matters
In an age when “prebunking” drowns information, chatbots need to go back to school
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Our Universe Works, Yet Doesn't Make Sense ... and So?
June 4, 2024 Mind Matters
How can so much uncertainty lie placidly at the basis of our universe but disrupt nothing in particular? We even build better computers because of it
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News Update/Commentary
How symbiotic bacteria adapt to big environmental changes
June 4, 2024 Science Daily
Faced with a drastically changing environment following the closure of the Isthmus of Panama, symbiotic bacteria acquired new metabolic skills to enable their own survival.
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‘Extremely rare’ dinosaur discovered by 3 tweens
June 4, 2024 New York Post
My friends ‘don’t believe me that I found a T. rex’
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Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming
June 4, 2024 Quillette
We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science -- and were disinvited because of our politics.
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Evolutionists Try to Explain Away Living Fossils
June 4, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
You can’t play word games to deny extreme stasis. You can’t say living fossils really are evolving.
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Ann Gauger on EWTN, and Intelligent Design’s Universality
June 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Farm at the Center of the Universe
June 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Q&A with the Authors
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Intelligent Design in Philip Ball’s Non-ID Book
June 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Reading Between the Lines
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Creationism 101: Do we really need Genesis 1???
June 3, 2024 YouTube
Paul and Todd tackle this vital question by looking through the rest of the Bible to figure out if young age creationism is just an error inflated from one passage or if recent creation is the counsel of the entire scripture.
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Richard Dawkins vs Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The God Debate
June 3, 2024 YouTube
Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali discussed her recent conversion to Christianity, and whether the whole ‘New Atheism’ movement of which they had both been key members had done more harm than good.
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Big Questions in Free Will
June 3, 2024 YouTube
Free will is a perennial conundrum. The project brought together scientists, philosophers and theologians in a novel interdisciplinary initiative to develop new data and catalyze innovative ways of thinking.
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The Case Against Theism -- Refuting the Fine-Tuning Argument
June 3, 2024 YouTube
The fine-tuning argument is one of the most popular arguments for theism. In this video I argue that the fine-tuning argument fails for three reasons.
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Tiny Dot of Human Brain Tissue Reveals Unexpected Insights
June 3, 2024 Mind Matters
A speck of your brain can hold the data for 250 movies
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News Update/Commentary
Food drove the evolution of giraffes' long neck
June 3, 2024 Science Daily
A study explores body proportions of Masai giraffes, lending insight into why giraffes have such long necks and how this trait might have evolved.
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Fresh findings: Earliest evidence of life-bringing freshwater on Earth
June 3, 2024 Science Daily
New research has found evidence that fresh water on Earth, which is essential for life, appeared about four billion years ago -- five hundred million years earlier than previously thought.