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• The Turing Tests of today are mistaken

  March 20, 2024 Raphaël Millière iai News

  How Goodhart's law holds back AI

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The acceptance of evolution

  March 19, 2024 Jon D. Miller, et al. Public Understanding of Science

  A developmental view of Generation X in the United States

• Three reasons why AI doesn’t model human language

  March 19, 2024 Johan J. Bolhuis, et al. Nature

• The 50th anniversary of a key paper on how bird flight evolved

  March 19, 2024 Kevin Padian Nature

  For a century, scientists pondered whether bird flight evolved by animals gliding down from trees or by creatures running and flapping from the ground up. A landmark 1974 paper reset the debate to focus on the evolution of the flight stroke instead.

• Stone Age Humans Chose Their Rocks with Care

  March 19, 2024 Nathaniel Scharping Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Ancient humans possessed sophisticated knowledge of the properties of the stones they used to make tools.

• Passing Stars Shorten Earth’s Time Horizon

  March 19, 2024 Kimberly M. S. Cartier Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Stars in the solar neighborhood could jostle planetary orbits, making it harder to turn back the clock and examine Earth’s orbital or climate history.

• Video

  How Free Will Probes Mind and Consciousness

  March 19, 2024 Richard Swinburne YouTube

  Free will seems so obvious, yet defies physical explanation. Free will probes consciousness by examining what it means to pick, choose, select, decide in the closed physical system of the world. But is ‘free will’ just a trick of the brain?

• Video

  Why Is the Origin of Life a Problem for Physics?

  March 19, 2024 Sara Walker YouTube

  Walker is most interested in whether or not there are “laws of life" related to how information structures the physical world that could universally describe life here on Earth and on other planets.

• Did the first cells evolve in soda lakes?

  March 19, 2024 PNAS Nexus EurekAlert!

  soda lakes on the early Earth could have supported key features of protocell development, with RNA copying and ribozyme activity taking place in the dry season and vesicle formation occurring during the wet season

• Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting

  March 19, 2024 Elise Cutts Quanta Magazine

  Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

• The world is both subjective and real

  March 19, 2024 Paul Franks iai News

  Endorsing perspectivalism

• ‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch

  March 19, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Modified protein-design tool could make it easier to tackle challenging drug targets -- but AI antibodies are still a long way from reaching the clinic.

• Darwinism Rationalizes Bad Habits

  March 19, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  You can’t help yourself. You’re a victim of selection.

• Evolution Falsified?

  March 19, 2024 Casey Luskin and Stephen Dilley Evolution News & Science Today

  Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

• Video

  Seriously, how ‘functional' is the human genome?

  March 19, 2024 Biblical Genetics YouTube

  Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk?

• Video

  What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?

  March 18, 2024 Closer To Truth YouTube

  Two big ideas in biology: the evolution of species via mutation, fitness and natural selection; and the embryological development of individuals, from fertilized egg to whole organisms. How do these two big ideas -- “evo-devo,” as it’s called -- relate?

• Video

  Penrose Is Just Speculating!

  March 18, 2024 Stephen C. Meyer YouTube

  Penrose's phantom field is a purely mathematical entity that suddenly turns into physical matter, which is inconsistent with what we know physics does.

• Building a brain: How does it generate its exquisite diversity of cells?

  March 18, 2024 Tomasz Nowakowski and Karthik Shekhar The Transmitter

  High-throughput technologies have revealed new insights into how the brain develops. But a truly comprehensive map of neurodevelopment requires further advances.

• Mammoth carcass was scavenged by ancient humans and sabre-toothed cats

  March 18, 2024 Jeanne Timmons New Scientist

  A southern mammoth skeleton found in Spain bears cut marks from stone tools and bite marks from carnivore teeth, suggesting that both hominins and felids feasted on its meat

• Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes

  March 18, 2024 Valerie Sahakian, et al. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Scientists are making progress on illuminating how undersea sedimentary deposits called turbidites form and on reconstructing the complex histories they record. But it’s not an easy task.

• West Virginia opens the door to teaching intelligent design

  March 18, 2024 Jeffrey Mervis Science

  Governor poised to sign bill allowing teachers to discuss antievolutionary “theories”

• Carbon Dating at Gezer and the “Legend" of Saul, David, and Solomon

  March 18, 2024 Bryant G. Wood Associates for Biblical Research

  When all the evidence is in, it is clear that the archaeological findings and recent radiocarbon dates demonstrate the detailed historical accuracy of the Bible with regard to Gezer. Those who would challenge the biblical record do so in vain.

• The Two-Sided Lottery Card Paradox and Infinity

  March 18, 2024 Robert J. Marks Mind Matters

  Assuming the infinite often leads to ridiculous conclusions.

• Philosopher Debunks Scientism But Falls Into His Own Pit

  March 18, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  It’s not necessary to be a scholar in academia to recognize logical blunders. It just takes common sense.

• Understanding “Reductionism” and Intelligent Design

  March 18, 2024 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  God, String Theory, and the State of Physics

  March 17, 2024 Lawrence Krauss YouTube

  the potential shortcomings of string theory, whether or not the world is a hologram, arguments for the existence of god, and the role of science in ethics

• Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

  March 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today

• Invisibility Isn't Science Fiction: It's Interesting Engineering

  March 16, 2024 Mind Matters

  Things are visible only when light strikes them but light can sometimes be manipulated so as not to strike them, with remarkable results.

• Anna Karenina and How To Read Long Books

  March 16, 2024 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  “One chapter at a time" is actually how books like Tolstoy's were intended to be read.

• Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell

  March 16, 2024 Clare Watson Science Alert

  Small, shelled, and unassuming, chitons have eyes unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom.

• Video

  Marcus Ross vs. Hugh Ross Debate Review

  March 15, 2024 What Your Pastor Didn’t Tell You YouTube

  Days of Genesis

• Astronomers Are Snapping Baby Pictures of Planets by the Dozen

  March 15, 2024 Phil Plait Scientific American

  Snapshots of a plethora of planet-forming disks offer more than just eye candy -- they also reveal some fundamental aspects of how worlds are born

• Can Neo-Darwinism Explain the Origin and Variation of the Hummingbirds?

  March 15, 2024 Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

  Applying the Facts Discovered by Mutation Genetics, Natural Selection, and Population Genetics to the Humming Birds

• Is the Bible's Definition of Faith Opposed to Logic and Evidence?

  March 15, 2024 Wintery Knight

  Probably the biggest misconception that I encounter when defending the faith is the mistaken notion of what faith is.

• Could Earth Life Survive on a Red Dwarf Planet?

  March 15, 2024 Evan Gough Universe Today

  Scientists can only make educated guesses about which exoplanets may be habitable. Even the closest exoplanet is four light-years away, and though four is a small integer, the distance is enormous.

• How did matter come to exist in our Universe?

  March 15, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?

• Rapidly Dividing Bacteria Coordinate Gene Expression and Replication

  March 15, 2024 Kamal Nahas The Scientist

  E. coli divides faster than it can replicate its genome, while simultaneously expressing its genes. Scientists recently revealed the intricate molecular coordination that makes this possible.

• News Update/Commentary

  New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter

  March 15, 2024 University of Ottawa Science Daily

  A new study challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, in fact, it has no room for dark matter.

• Single mathematical model governs primate brain shape across species

  March 15, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  An analysis of primate brains shows that the pattern of folds on the surface follows the same mathematical pattern across species

• Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

  March 15, 2024 Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Evolution News & Science Today

• Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness

  March 15, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Philosophy of Free Will

  March 15, 2024 Daniel Dennett YouTube

  Free will is a classic and perennial problem in philosophy. It is a probe of profound issues of how the world works as well as how the mind works. What are the primary issues of free will? What are the opposing views? Can philosophical analysis help?

• Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution

  March 15, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Book

  In search of sentience

  March 14, 2024 Philip Ball Science, v.383, n.6688, p.1186

  A provocative proposition paves the way for a long-overdue conversation about consciousness | See Also Amazon

• What proportion of the human genome is actually functional?

  March 14, 2024 Robert Carter Creation Ministries International

  And how much variation is tolerable?

• Newly Discovered War Machines in the Immune System

  March 14, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• West Virginia Passes Bill Protecting Teacher Rights to Answer Student Questions on “Scientific Theories”

  March 14, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  The unselfish gene: a challenge to Richard Dawkins

  March 14, 2024 Denis Noble YouTube

  Denis Noble takes on Richard Dawkins on the causality of change in genetics. Do genes control the organism or does the organism control its genes? Can organisms change their DNA?

• Fine-Tuning of Universe Makes a Top Neuroscientist “Very Hopeful"

  March 14, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Allen Institute’s Christof Koch talks about the assumptions underlying his consciousness theory -- which led many other neuroscientists to try to Cancel him

• Healthy Debate? No Thanks, Says National Association of Biology Teachers

  March 14, 2024 Herman B. Bouma Evolution News & Science Today