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Bird tracks before birds existed?
April, 2024 Creation Ministries International
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Reassessing human-chimpanzee genetic similarity
April, 2024 Creation Ministries International
The similarity of the human and chimpanzee genomes is a critical question in the creation–evolution debate. Tomkins estimated the two genomes were on the order of 85% similar.
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Insignificant concentrations of peptides form in water: part 2
April, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.1, p.136-149
Most origin of life (OoL) models require long peptides to be present in water
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Insignificant concentrations of peptides form in water: part 1
April, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.1, p.126-135
Large peptides (proteins) must satisfy 10 requirements concurrently to be relevant for origin of life (OoL) models.
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Whales designed or evolved: part 2 -- anatomy and genetics
April, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.1, p.104-109
Darwin suggested that whales might have descended from bear-like creatures. However, until the 1980s there was no fossil evidence to support the evolution of whales from terrestrial mammals.
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Book
Supernaturally designed navigators
April, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.1, p.36-39
BOOK REVIEW: Supernavigators: Exploring the wonder of how animals find their way by David Barrie, 2019
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Book
Fine-tuned light
April, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.1, p.31-36
BOOK REVIEW: Children of Light: The astonishing properties of sunlight that make us possible by Michael Denton (Discovery Institute Press, 2018)
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God’s creation: dealing with apparent malevolent design in nature
April, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.1, p.19-21
BOOK REVIEW: Why Did God Create Viruses, Bacteria, and Other Pathogens? by Jerry Bergman and James Hoff (Westbow Press, 2023)
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Fossil range expansions continue
April, 2024 Journal of Creation, v.38, n.1, p.12-14
Creationists have regularly published on fossil range expansions. They have found in the conventional geological literature either fossils that conventional geologists believe are older, or living fossils that extend the fossil range upward
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Truth and Trust in Large Language Models
April 1, 2024 substack
How much truth is ChatGPT or Gemini giving us? How much can we trust their answers to queries? As we'll see, LLMs can lay no claim to truth.
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The most anti-science belief you can hold is that science is a religion
April 1, 2024 salon
A new theory wonders if all matter could be “conscious" -- before scientists hand-wave it, they should hear it out
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Aeon: “The Cell Is Not a Factory”
April 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
It’s Far More Complex
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Highlights from review of genetic research on the Denisovans
April, 2024 Creation Ministries International
In 2008 a scrap of human finger bone was discovered in Denisova Cave, an isolated cave in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia, and its mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was sequenced in 2010.
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Homo bodoensis
April, 2024 Creation Ministries International
‘The muddle in the middle’
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes
April 1, 2024 Nature
Despite tremendous efforts in the past decades, relationships among main avian lineages remain heavily debated without a clear resolution. Discrepancies have been attributed to diversity of species sampled, phylogenetic method, etc.
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Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm
April 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The importance of continents, oceans and plate tectonics for the evolution of complex life
April, 2024 Altimetric
implications for finding extraterrestrial civilizations
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ATP synthase motor
April, 2024 Creation Ministries International
The molecular motor that spins faster than piston and turbine engines
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Ancient quarries in Israel reveal where Homo erectus hunted and butchered elephants
March 31, 2024 Live Science
Researchers suggest ancient quarry sites in Israel were favored because they were close to elephant migration routes.
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Do extraordinary claims really require extraordinary evidence?
March 29, 2024 The Skeptic
The proclamation “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” was oft spoken by astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. He was not the first to express some version of the sentiment, but definitely popularised that particular phrase.
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Blog Post
Is “Information” Eternally Conserved?
March 29, 2024
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New documentary features scientists who risked challenging the ‘climate crisis’ narrative
March 29, 2024 Just the News
“Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth" interviews scientists who say, but challenging the dominant narrative on climate change, they've faced professional repercussions.
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New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution
March 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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“Creation Myths” Misquotes and Misrepresents Junk DNA Video
March 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Astonishing DNA complexity update
March 28, 2024 Creation Ministries International
the 97% of the human DNA that does not code for protein is not leftover ‘junk DNA’ from our evolutionary past, as previously thought, but is virtually all being actively used right now in our cells
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Joe Lieberman, the Sabbath, and Intelligent Design
March 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Polar ice is melting and changing Earth’s rotation
March 28, 2024 CNN
It’s messing with time itself
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More Ignorance About Bird Flight Admitted
March 28, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Fifty years of speculation has offered no solution to how birds fly
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Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg
March 28, 2024 substack
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Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm
March 28, 2024 substack
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Scientists made a six-legged mouse embryo -- here’s why
March 28, 2024 Nature
A rodent with two extra limbs instead of genitals shows the crucial role of a gene pathway in determining the fate of a primordial structure.
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Early galaxy seen by JWST contains giant young stars and supernovae
March 28, 2024 New Scientist
The light signature from GLASS-z12, one of the most distant galaxies we have ever seen, suggests some of its stars have already exploded as supernovae
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Is Complexity an Argument Against Design?
March 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”
March 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Which animals were on Noah's ark?
March 27, 2024 National Geographic
These are history's theories
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Video
answering your submitted questions
March 27, 2024 YouTube
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Bill Dembski at Substack
March 27, 2024 Substack
Why I'm joining, What you can expect
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Did God Create New Species Out of Thin Air?
March 27, 2024 Reasons to Believe
On the off chance that I ever come to question Christianity, I find it hard to think I would abandon my conviction that a Creator played a role in the origin and design of life.
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The radical conservative case for genetic enhancement
March 27, 2024 Genetic Literacy Project
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A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans
March 27, 2024 bioRxiv
Understanding the series of admixture events and population size history leading to modern humans is central to human evolutionary genetics.
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Video
Everyone Should Watch Climate
March 27, 2024 Wintery Knight
The Movie to Understand Climate Change
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A global timekeeping problem postponed by global warming
March 27, 2024 Nature
The historical association of time with the rotation of Earth has meant that Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) closely follows this rotation1. Because the rotation rate is not constant, UTC contains discontinuities (leap seconds)
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Climate change has slowed Earth’s rotation -- and could affect how we keep time
March 27, 2024 Nature
The effect of melting polar ice could delay the need for a ‘leap second’ by three years.
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Melting ice solves leap-second problem -- for now
March 27, 2024 Nature
Humans’ effect on the polar ice sheets is slowing Earth’s rotation, posing challenges for its alignment with the official time standard. Two researchers discuss the science behind the slowdown and the impact it has on timekeeping.
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How climate change is affecting global timekeeping
March 27, 2024 Nature
Melting polar ice could delay major time adjustment, and the strange connection between brain inflammation and memory.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Revealing uncertainty in the status of biodiversity change
March 27, 2024 Nature
Biodiversity faces unprecedented threats from rapid global change. Signals of biodiversity change come from time-series abundance datasets for thousands of species over large geographic and temporal scales.
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News Update/Commentary
Not unique to humans but uniquely human
March 27, 2024 Science Daily
researchers identify factor involved in brain expansion in humans
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Meet the Materialist Magicians
March 27, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Normal science: not uncritical or dogmatic
March 27, 2024 Synthese
When Kuhn first published his Structure of Scientific Revolutions he was accused of promoting an “irrationalist” account of science.
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Missing Link Uncovered
March 26, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
A New Origin Story of How the Continents Developed