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Why scientists are mesmerized by the multiverse
January 15, 2024 Cosmic Log
The multiverse may be a cool (and convenient) concept for comic books and superhero movies, but why do scientists take it seriously?
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Why Science Points to God More Than Ever
January 15, 2024 Word on Fire
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Religion Is Still Evil
January 14, 2024 YouTube
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Can There Really Be an Ultimate Happiness Machine?
January 14, 2024 Mind Matters
Technology can do so much. Can it really provide an answer to the eternal human quest for happiness?
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A good journal breaks bad
January 14, 2024 Science-Based Medicine
The latest report from the American Academy of Pediatrics is filled with misinformation and missing key articles that support the well-researched conclusion that there is no legitimate evidence of negative health effects of glyphosate.
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Wild Hypothesis Suggests Insect Wings Arose from Gills
January 14, 2024 Science Alert
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Is Epicurus Smiling?
January 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Free Will: Essence and Nature
January 13, 2024 YouTube
Why is free will one of the hardest problems in philosophy? What are the core issues of free will and why do they seem to defy resolution? Most philosophers are pretty sure they have the answer -- but their answers all differ!
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New computer will mimic human brain -- and I'm kinda scared
January 13, 2024 YouTube
A lab in Australia is building a new supercomputer that will for the first time both physically resemble a human brain, and perform as many operations, about 228 trillion per second.
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Ancient DNA reveals first known case of sex-development disorder
January 12, 2024 Nature
Researchers identified six ancient humans with chromosomal conditions, including the earliest case of Turner syndrome.
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Is Consciousness an Illusion?
January 12, 2024 YouTube
Is consciousness something special in the universe, its own category, irreducible to physical laws, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolution, a superstition
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True Spiritual Awakening
January 12, 2024 YouTube
on Scripture Meditation & God's Voice
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God Is Spirit
January 12, 2024 YouTube
an important divine attribute in this second installment of the new animation series examining the attributes of God
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What Archaeology Reveals about the Historicity of the Exodus
January 12, 2024 YouTube
What the science of archeology reveal about the historicity of the exodus of Jews from Egypt. Is the exodus a myth? Or is there evidence it really occurred? This session took place at the 2023 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith
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Valley of lost cities found hidden in the Amazon
January 12, 2024 Independent (UK)
Cluster of lost cities at the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon rainforest is uncovered by archeologists
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A Darwinian Argument for a Global Government
January 12, 2024 Mind Matters
The evolutionary researchers worry that we have not evolved to be worthy of a global government and will face ecological ruin in consequence.
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Study uncovers potential origins of life in ancient hot springs
January 12, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists found that by mixing hydrogen, bicarbonate, and iron-rich magnetite under conditions mimicking relatively mild hydrothermal vent results in the formation of a spectrum of organic molecules, most notably including fatty acids
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Evolution Doesn’t Explain Cowbirds and Other Brood Parasites
January 12, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Why do some creatures leave their young for others to raise?
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Update on Cambrian Bryozoans
January 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?
January 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Biologist Michael Denton Explores the Miracle of Man
January 11, 2024 YouTube
Renowned biologist discusses “the miracle of man," the topic of his recent book by the same name. This lecture was presented as part of the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.
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Is Mathematics Eternal?
January 11, 2024 YouTube
Mathematics is like nothing else. The truths of math seem to be unrelated to anything else -- independent of human beings, independent of the universe. The sum of 2 + 3 = 5 would be true even if there were never any human beings!
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Deciphering the Hidden Meanings of Cave Art
January 11, 2024 Mind Matters
In many cases, there are more dots and lines than animals, which suggests some sort of early information system
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Rooting out scientific misconduct
January 11, 2024 Science v.383, n.6679, p.131
Scientific misconduct is an issue rife with controversy, from its forms and definitions to the policies that guide how allegations are handled.
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An unprecedented supramolecular structure brings new complexities to life
January 11, 2024 Chemistry World
The transcription factor FOXP3’s interactions with DNA present more evidence of the importance of disorder
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How to Strip Useless Darwinese from Science Articles
January 11, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s a bad habit that adds nothing. Time to acid-wash the Darwinese from science and get back to empirical rigor.
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Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard
January 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Another War of Words
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Freethought Matters
January 11, 2024 YouTube
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Biologist Explores the Miracle of Man
January 11, 2024 YouTube
This lecture was presented as part of the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.
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The Amyloid Hypothesis: Rewriting Life’s Origin Story
January 11, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
The question of how living organisms emerged from non-living matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in science. Despite numerous theories, a conclusive explanation remains elusive.
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Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity
January 11, 2024 Science Daily
The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia's Northern Territory; it'll set again in another 19 hours. The only hint of life is some scum in a few puddles and ponds. And among it lives a diverse microbial community of our ancient ancestors.
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Oldest known fossilized skin is 21 million years older than previous examples
January 11, 2024 Science Daily
It's the oldest example of preserved epidermis, the outermost layer of skin in terrestrial reptiles, birds, and mammals, which was an important evolutionary adaptation in the transition to life on land.
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This is the oldest fossilized reptile skin ever found -- it pre-dates the dinosaurs
January 11, 2024 Nature
Permian-period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizard-like creature.
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New Origin Story for Tyrannosaurus Rex Suggested by Fossil
January 11, 2024 New York Times
Researchers say the species they named Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis predated the dinosaur era’s great predator.
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Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity
January 11, 2024 University of California, Santa Barbara
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Anti-Hate Group Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave
January 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Canary Mission
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You may have a higher risk of MS and other diseases if you’re descended from these ancient people
January 10, 2024 Science
“Tour de force” ancient DNA study ties disease risk, physical traits in modern Europeans to Bronze Age herders
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The Evolution of Bats’ Super Immunity
January 10, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers generated complete genomes of two important bat species and explored their immune- and cancer-related genes.
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Why huge ape Gigantopithecus went extinct up to 295,000 years ago
January 10, 2024 New Scientist
The mysterious giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki died out up to 295,000 years ago, after failing to adapt to a changing climate and the food variability that went with it
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Ancient DNA reveals origins of multiple sclerosis in Europe
January 10, 2024 Nature
A huge cache of ancient genomes spanning tens of thousands of years reveals the roots of traits in modern Europeans.
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100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark
January 10, 2024 Nature, v.625, p.329-337
we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet, mobility and vegetation cover
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Why did the world’s biggest ape go extinct?
January 10, 2024 Nature
The 300-kilogram primate couldn’t adapt when a changing environment forced a dietary shift.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki
January 10, 2024 Nature
The largest ever primate and one of the largest of the southeast Asian megafauna persisted in China from about 2.0 million years until the late middle Pleistocene when it became extinct.
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Observing mammalian cerebellum development through an evolutionary lens
January 10, 2024 Nature
Tracking the gene-expression profiles of individual cerebellar cells during development in humans, mice and opossums revealed evolutionarily conserved as well as species-specific cellular and molecular features.
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The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery -- it’s empathy
January 10, 2024 ars technica
Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples’ faces doesn’t work to change minds.
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Systems Biology Cracks Life’s Engineered Intricacies
January 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
A Report from CELS
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Discovering the Real Adam and Eve!
January 10, 2024 YouTube
This presentation is about affirming both the reality and the biblical importance of Adam and Eve. Christians are split between the liberal camp, who tend to brush off Adam and Eve and the biblical camp who takes Adam and Eve seriously,
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AI Will Disrupt Everything -- But Forget the Robot Apocalypse!
January 10, 2024 Mind Matters
It will be a slow, steady, measured disruption, like the one the printing press created
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Engineers Follow Inspiring Creatures
January 10, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
From tiny to mighty, living creatures inspire human technology
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New research sheds light on an old fossil solving an evolutionary mystery
January 10, 2024 Science Daily
Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously believed.