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New Book from DI Press, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, Praised by Three Nobel Laureates
April 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Many widely read scientific writers of our day mistakenly attribute the concepts of the expanding universe and the Big Bang to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein. | See Also Amazon
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Oldest ever ice offers glimpse of Earth before the ice ages
April 22, 2024 Science
Climate snapshots suggest carbon dioxide levels were surprisingly modest during ancient warm period
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How volcanoes shaped our planet -- and why we need to be ready for the next big eruption
April 22, 2024 Nature
The world should learn from past disasters and prepare for the effects of future, inevitable volcanic catastrophes, a wide-reaching book teaches us. | See Also Amazon
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Your perception of time is skewed by what you see
April 22, 2024 Nature
Features of a scene such as size and clutter can affect the brain’s sense of how much time has passed while observing it.
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Was Your Body Intelligently Designed?
April 22, 2024 YouTube
Medical doctor Howard Glicksman and systems engineer Steve Laufmann discuss the incredible design and functionality of the human body in this presentation taped at the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith sponsored by Discovery Institute
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Some scientists say insects are conscious -- it doesn't settle anything
April 22, 2024 New Scientist
A group of around 40 scientists signed a declaration calling for formal acknowledgement of consciousness in a range of animals, including insects and fish – but the evidence is still lacking
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Some ‘Junk DNA’ Serves a Purpose
April 22, 2024 Quanta Magazine
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Magical Thinking by Evolutionists
April 22, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Natural selection is a magic wand to evolutionists. It creates scientists from fish.
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Shapeshifters: Octopus Superpowers
April 22, 2024 YouTube
Secrets of the Octopus
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The new science of life's origins and distribution in the universe
April 22, 2024 YouTube
The study of the origins of life and its possible existence beyond the earth has long lived in the liminal space between science, quasi-scientific speculation, and nonsense. Nevertheless, questions in this field are among the greatest unanswered problems
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Do Cracks in Rocks Explain Life’s Origin?
April 22, 2024 Reasons to Believe
A team of German researchers recently published results of a prebiotic simulation study in which they claim that thermal gradients could drive the generation of biopolymers (chains of molecules) on early Earth.
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Is the Earth itself a giant living creature?
April 22, 2024 Vox
An old, much-ridiculed hypothesis said yes. It’s time to take it seriously.
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To find life in the universe, look to deadly Venus
April 22, 2024 University of California, Riverside
Earth-like but incapable of hosting life
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The key problem with the “brain in a vat” thought experiment
April 22, 2024 Big Think
Even with the best technology imaginable, you'd probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
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The Quick Fix
April 22, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Atheist’s “find and replace” function
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Battle Butterflies
April 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
April 22, 2024 YouTube
General relativity, Black holes, Hawking radiation, Aliens, Holographic principle, Dark energy, Dark matter, Quantum mechanics, Simulation, AGI, Complexity, Consciousness, Naturalism, Limits of science, Mindscape podcast, Einstein
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Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research
April 22, 2024 ID the Future
A Washington Post headline recently declared that a “monumental experiment suggests how life on earth may have started.” The reality, however, is far more sobering.
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Reconstructing prehistoric viral genomes from Neanderthal sequencing data
April 21, 2024 bioRxiv
Several hypotheses were proposed to address the problem of Neanderthals’ extinction.
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We Have Free Will! His final interview
April 21, 2024 YouTube
In our interview, we tackled fascinating problems like free will, human consciousness, ethics, and the philosophy of science. He also explained why he’s sounding the alarm on AI! Shortly after our interview, Daniel sadly passed away at the age of 82.
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What is the longest match between the human and chimpanzee genomes?
April 21, 2024 YouTube
Human-chimpanzee similarity is a hotly-debated topic in the evolution-creation wars. Are we 98, 95, 90, or 85% similar? One way to get at the question is to ask what is the longest stretch of DNA that is shared between the two species.
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Free Will and Decision Making
April 20, 2024 YouTube
What is the relationship between free will and decision-making, the capacity of individuals to select among options or choices usually based on certain criteria. It would seem that, in principle, decision-making can exist outside of free will
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Consciousness and the Dennett Paradox
April 20, 2024
Daniel Dennett died yesterday, April 19, 2024. When he argues that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrates, paradoxically, how conscious he is, and he makes his audience more conscious.
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Exploring Microbial Dark Matter
April 19, 2024 The Scientist
An open-source search engine helps scientists identify hundreds of microbial metabolites in a matter of seconds.
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The Magnetic Heart of the Milky Way
April 19, 2024 New York Times
Every new generation of eyes sees a new version of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago
April 19, 2024 New Scientist
A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the possibility that hominins could have reached North America much earlier than we thought
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Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans
April 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Do insects have an inner life? Animal consciousness needs a rethink
April 19, 2024 Nature
A declaration signed by dozens of scientists says there is ‘a realistic possibility’ for elements of consciousness in reptiles, insects and molluscs.
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Why Determinism Fails (You are Free to Disagree!)
April 19, 2024 YouTube
Are humans physical machines determined by the laws of chemistry and physics? Has science shown that free will is a myth? Sean and Scott invite Biola philosophy professor Greg Ganssle to discuss the recent book Determined by Robert Sapolsky.
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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness
April 19, 2024 Quanta Magazine
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.
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Bayesian Balance
April 19, 2024 Skeptic
how a tool for Bayesian thinking can guide us between relativism and the truth trap
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God’s creation: dealing with apparent malevolent design in nature
April 19, 2024 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: Why Did God Create Viruses, Bacteria, and Other Pathogens? by Jerry Bergman and James Hoff (Westbow Press, 2023) | See Also Amazon
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How the unlikely friendship of Pauli and Jung led to the discovery of CPT symmetry
April 19, 2024 Nature Reviews Physics
In 1931, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung took on an unusual patient, the brilliant young physicist, Wolfgang Pauli. Arthur I. Miller tells the story of their friendship, how they impacted each other’s work, and reflects on creativity.
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New Evidence Noah’s Flood REALLY Happened
April 19, 2024 YouTube
new Grand Canyon research confirms the Bible and debunks what atheists have been telling you. Andrew Snelling shares new research that points to the layers in the Grand Canyon being formed during the biblical flood.
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Jupiter's Moon Io has been Volcanically Active for Billions of Years
April 18, 2024 Caltech
Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system. During its 1.8-day orbit, this moon is gravitationally squeezed by Jupiter, leading to volcanic eruptions larger than any on Earth today.
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William Lane Craig's mytho-history
April 18, 2024 YouTube
critical discussion on Craig's book The Quest for the Historical Adam
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What's the Essence of Consciousness?
April 18, 2024 YouTube
Consciousness is what mental activity feels like, the private inner experience of sensation, thought and emotion. Consciousness is like nothing else. But what is consciousness, the essence of consciousness, at its most fundamental level?
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Modified Gravity Strikes Back
April 18, 2024 YouTube
Most astrophysics are pretty convinced that 80% of the matter in the universe is some invisible stuff that they can’t detect -- dark matter.
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Moroccan Dinosaurs in Marine Rocks, Too
April 18, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Survival of the Nicest? Now They Tell Us.
April 18, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Struggle for existence? No; love makes the world go round
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Use Artificial Intelligence to Challenge Evolution
April 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Imagining other worlds
April 18, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6693, p.278
An astronomer offers a vivid portrait of exoplanet landscapes | See Also Macmillan
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News Update/Commentary
RNA's hidden potential: New study unveils its role in early life and future bioengineering
April 18, 2024 Science Daily
Study sheds light on the molecular evolution of RNA and its potential applications in nanobiotechnology.
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Some White Dwarfs Might be Older than Previously Thought
April 18, 2024 Physics Magazine
A process that reheats some white dwarfs might mean they are much older than previously thought, indicating a potential need to recalculate the age of stellar populations such as the Milky Way.
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Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved
April 17, 2024 New Scientist
We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but simple organisms with a multicellular life stage offer intriguing clues
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Mutations Battle Living Fossils
April 17, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Attempts to harmonize living fossil research with mutation research fail
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Genetic variant identified that shaped the human skull base
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
This study provides a greater understanding of human disease and evolution.
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Drawing a line back to the origin of life
April 17, 2024 University of Cambridge
molecules, vital to the development of life, could have formed from a process known as graphitisation. Once verified in the laboratory, it could allow us to try and recreate plausible conditions for life's emergence.
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How Does Pure Math Generate Matter?
April 17, 2024 YouTube
How does pure mathematics generate matter? And how did the Big Bang arise from nothing? No matter how much we know about physics and how deeply we understand the Universe, there are still many fundamental questions that no one has answers to.
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An 11-Year-Old Girl’s Fossil Find Is the Largest Known Ocean Reptile
April 17, 2024 New York Times
When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs.