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Earth’s Outstanding Fitness for Life, and Its Implication for Intelligent Design
January 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Dallas Conference
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Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?
January 23, 2024 YouTube
If the deep laws of the universe had been ever so slightly different human beings wouldn’t, and couldn’t, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning, obvious and not-so-obvious, have problems or complexities.
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Tech Billionaires and Their Science Fiction Dreams
January 23, 2024 Mind Matters
They're mistaking cautionary tales for instruction manuals.
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The Theory That Consciousness Is a Quantum System Gains Support
January 23, 2024 Mind Matters
Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function
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The Secrets of the Sea Hidden High in the Andes
January 23, 2024 Hakai magazine
The rich fossil deposits in Colombia’s mountains could unlock a deeper understanding of ancient oceans -- and the country’s paleontologists are struggling to do them justice.
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Zombie Vestigial Organ Argument Arises
January 23, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The case of a “poorly designed organ” argument that was resurrected … and then reburied!
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An Allegory of Denial
January 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
As incredible as it must seem to us, the predominant view of educated people from this other world was that radios and televisions functioned without any input from broadcast stations.
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News Update/Commentary
Complex green organisms emerged a billion years ago
January 23, 2024 Science Daily
Research team led by Göttingen University investigates the emergence of multicellularity
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Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem
January 22, 2024 New Scientist
Chemical analysis of rocks found in South Africa shows that ancient microorganisms sustained themselves in a variety of ways, adding to evidence for an early origin of life on Earth
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A legendary cosmologist on how to find a deeper theory of the universe
January 22, 2024 New Scientist
Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles, who helped create our model of how the universe evolved, discusses dark matter, the value of iconoclastic ideas and the astronomical anomalies to keep your eye on
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Shallow soda lakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth
January 22, 2024 Science Daily
phosphate can concentrate in environments at the very high levels needed for the basic molecules of life to emerge. A shallow, salty lake in western Canada gives new support to Darwin's idea that life could have emerged in a ‘warm little pond.'
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In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility
January 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Quantum Mystery Resolved: The Cheshire Cat Experiment
January 22, 2024 YouTube
In this experiment, a particle is supposedly separated from one of its properties, for example its spin or polarization. It’s called the Cheshire cat because that particle is kind of like the cat and its disembodied property is kind of like the grin
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Gregory Chaitin's New Books About Math Make It Actual Fun
January 22, 2024 Mind Matters
He is a favorite podcast guest of ours and, it turns out, a fan of Mind Matters News
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Will Scientists Be Forced To Consider the Occult As Science?
January 22, 2024 Mind Matters
When the World Economic Forum invited a witch to Davos to offer incantations, it was more than just window dressing
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Top Harvard cancer researchers accused of scientific fraud
January 22, 2024 ars technica
Researchers accused of manipulating data images with copy-and-paste.
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Evaluating the current state of evolution acceptance instruments
January 22, 2024 Evolution: Education and Outreach
a research coordination network meeting report
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New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text
January 22, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.
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Does Science Cause Christians to Deconvert?
January 22, 2024 Reasons to Believe
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Artificial General Intelligence as an Idol for Destruction
January 22, 2024
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Watchdog Group Calls Professor Dave “Anti-Semite of the Week”
January 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Plus an Appeal to the New Atheists
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Does Mathematics Belong to an Eternal Realm?
January 21, 2024 Mind Matters
In a recent episode of Closer to Truth, Robert Lawrence Kuhn hosted California State University philosophy professor Mark Balaguer, who defended the proposition that mathematics belongs to an eternal realm.
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Psychiatrist Looks at Mindfulness from a Christian Perspective
January 21, 2024 Mind Matters
UCLA research psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz notes that the word “heart” in the biblical sense means the seat of consciousness, the seat of our spirit
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The Flood/Post-Flood boundary
January 21, 2024 YouTube
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Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a ‘Weird Fusion' of Life
January 21, 2024 Science Alert
Euglenids are a group of unicellular eukaryotes that gain energy through both photosynthesis, like a plant, and through consuming other beings, like an animal.
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Coincidences of our Sun and Moon: Are Earthlings Exceptionally Lucky?
January 21, 2024 The DeBrief
there are two coincidences at play: the near equality of the lunar and solar sizes in our sky and the fact that we live on Earth while this coincidence is happening
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The Next Generation LIFE Telescope Could Detect Some Intriguing Biosignatures
January 21, 2024 Universe Today
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Design patterns of biological cells
January 21, 2024 BioEssays
Design patterns are generalized solutions to frequently recurring problems.
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Scientists Deceive Public on RNA Replication
January 20, 2024 YouTube
Rob Stadler dissects Origin of Life science claims
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Multiverse & Fine-Tuning
January 20, 2024 YouTube
You've heard of the fine-tuning argument, but what about the multiverse hypothesis? Dr. Craig briefly overviews this popular theory and why it fails to explain away a cosmic designer.
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Will the Driving Force for Space Exploration Be a Religious Cult?
January 20, 2024 Mind Matters
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The Chaoplexity Delusion
January 20, 2024
The Mandelbrot set symbolizes chaoplexologists’ hope that, with the help of ever-more-powerful computers, they can discover simple principles underpinning diverse, complicated things, from brains to economies.
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Three More Views: The Historical Adam & Eve
January 19, 2024 YouTube
Three papers were presented at the 2023 conference of the Evangelical Theological Society --- Kenton Sparks: The Non-Historical Adam and Eve View // Andrew Loke: The Genealogical Adam and Eve View // Marcus Ross: A Young Earth and Recent Adam and Eve
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Fine-Tuning of the Optics of the Human Eye
January 19, 2024 YouTube
Physicist Brian Miller explores the amazing design and optimization of the human eye in this talk from the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.
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Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills
January 19, 2024 Nature
EXCLUSIVE: Poor-quality studies are polluting the literature -- a group will study the businesses that produce them to stem the flow of bogus research.
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Multiverse: Where Do We Go from Here?
January 19, 2024 YouTube
The stunning realization that there may be multiple universes has progressed from speculative metaphysics (or science fiction) to serious theoretical cosmology to data-rich observational cosmology to majority-accepted conventional wisdom.
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Astrophysicists find Big Ring of Galaxies that Should Not Exist
January 19, 2024 YouTube
The thing isn’t just huge, it’s also a huge problem for our understanding of how the universe works. Because it shouldn’t exist. I’m somewhat afraid that all other astrophysicists will try to ignore this, which is why I thought we should talk about it.
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Who is the REAL Behemoth?
January 19, 2024 YouTube
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Why promote the Shroud of Turin?
January 19, 2024 YouTube
First of all, the aim of making the Shroud of Turin known is not to induce anyone to worship a linen cloth. But the Shroud is a tremendous tool for apologetics.
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Open-endedness in synthetic biology
January 19, 2024 Science Advances, v.10, n.3
A route to continual innovation for biological design
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Consciousness Wars Still Simmer, Despite Peacekeeping Efforts
January 19, 2024 Mind Matters
The field of consciousness studies has been in turmoil since over 100 researchers signed a letter last September, attacking neuroscientist Christof Koch’s leading Integrated Information Theory (IIT) theory of consciousness.
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New Studies Point to Ways We Might Reduce the Effects of Dementia
January 19, 2024 Mind Matters
They were trying to find out what effect the Big Five personality traits -- conscientiousness, extraversion, openness to experience, neuroticism, and agreeableness -- had on the progress of dementia.
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Chicken Whisperers? Humans Learn To Interpret Chicken-ese Quickly
January 19, 2024 Mind Matters
A recent paper in Royal Society Open Science found that humans can interpret chicken emotions by their clucks.
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Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills
January 19, 2024 Nature
Poor-quality studies are polluting the literature -- a group will study the businesses that produce them to stem the flow of bogus research.
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Biology or technology: Which moves more information per second?
January 19, 2024 Big Think
The answer is set to change in the year 2113, a recent estimate suggests.
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Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe
January 19, 2024 Quanta Magazine
As measurements of distant stars and galaxies become more precise, cosmologists are struggling to make sense of sparring values.
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New Research Questions the Human Nature of Homo habilis
January 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Just Bribe Everyone -- It's Only the Scientific Record
January 19, 2024 Science
When we last visited the lively, ever-evolving world of shady scientific publishing, we saw publication brokers offering journal editors kickbacks to push their papers into print, and here's plenty more about it in a new article here at Science.
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Could quantum physics be the key that unlocks the secrets of human behaviour?
January 19, 2024 The Conversation
Human behaviour is an enigma that fascinates many scientists. And there has been much discussion over the role of probability in explaining how our minds work.
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Paper Trail
January 18, 2024 Science
In the latest twist of the publishing arms race, firms churning out fake papers have taken to bribing journal editors