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New Book Presents C. S. Lewis as Warrior Against Evolutionary Naturalism
December 28, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
C.S. Lewis: The most effective anti-evolutionist of the last century
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Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Creationism Now Online
December 28, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Is astrobiology serious science?
December 28, 2023 Nature Astronomy
Is the scientific status of astrobiology undermined by the lack of evidence for alien life, the problematic influence of science fiction, or the use of ‘astrobiology’ as a buzzword for attracting funding? Here we defend the emerging discipline.
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Why Quantum Mechanics Defies Physics
December 27, 2023 Universe Today
the period from 1905, when Einstein first published his solution to the photoelectric puzzle, to the 1960’s, when a complete, well-tested, rigorous, and insanely complicated quantum theory of the subatomic world finally emerged, is quite the story.
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Earth's intense gravity may rip space rocks apart, reducing the risk of ‘planet killer' asteroids
December 27, 2023 Live Science
Earth and other terrestrial planets probably use their gravitational forces to tear apart asteroids -- but this creates more streams of smaller asteroids.
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Great Ideas, Like All Ideas, Are Immaterial in Principle
December 27, 2023 Mind Matters
The main reasons we hear more ideas today is that we are building on basic past ideas plus there are many more human beings and communications systems
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Theistic evolutionist organization targets children with a new book
December 26, 2023 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: God’s Cosmic Cookbook: Your complete guide to making a universe by Elizabeth Cole (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2023) | See Also Amazon
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We Owe Our Lives to the Moon
December 26, 2023 Universe Today
Life appeared on Earth through a series of lucky coincidences, and that luck started with our Moon. None of the other planets of the inner solar system have significant moons.
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Researchers argue back and forth about whether we’ve spotted an exomoon
December 26, 2023 ars technica
Years after Kepler shut down, people are arguing over whether it spotted exomoons.
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Why ‘resurrection biology’ is gaining traction around the world
December 26, 2023 CNN
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Is Evolution Destroying Modern Medicine?
December 26, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Impersonal, insensitive health care is a symptom of a Darwinian worldview
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Monkeys in Thailand took up stone tools when covid-19 stopped tourism
December 26, 2023 New Scientist
Long-tailed macaques on the island of Koh Ped appear to have learned a new way to forage when the pandemic put a stop to feeding by tourists
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Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital
December 26, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 7 Story of 2023
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How jellyfish regenerate functional tentacles in days
December 25, 2023 University of Tokyo
At about the size of a pinkie nail, the jellyfish species Cladonema can regenerate an amputated tentacle in two to three days -- but how?
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Is Materialism Starting to Crack?
December 25, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Some papers in journals offer hope that materialist assumptions are weakening
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Another “Vestigial” Organ Has “Absolutely Critical” Functions
December 25, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2023
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Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells
December 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 9 Story of 2023
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How Supersymmetry Saved String Theory
December 23, 2023 Universe Today
String theory, like most revolutions, had humble origins. It started in the 1960’s as an attempt to understand the strong nuclear force. Quantum field theory wasn’t seeming to cut it, and so physicists were eager for something new.
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Unexpected cosmic clumping could disprove our best understanding of the universe
December 23, 2023 Live Science
The tension, centered around a value for cosmic lumpiness known as S8, could join the Hubble tension in dethroning our best picture of how the universe evolved.
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Are Neanderthals and Homo sapiens the same species?
December 23, 2023 Live Science
Scientists have been vollying the question back and forth for more than a century.
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Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning -- and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope
December 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 10 Story of 2023
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Researchers study a million galaxies to find out how the universe began
December 22, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have analyzed more than one million galaxies to explore primordial fluctuations that seeded the formation of the structure of the entire universe.
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Herds and Shepherds in Cosmology
December 22, 2023 science2.0
There are reasonable grounds for thinking that the total truth about the origin and evolution of the Universe is beyond our reach. Nonetheless, there is widespread propaganda claiming that absolute truth about the Universe has already been obtained
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A Shift to Open Landscapes May Have Changed Human Language Ever After
December 22, 2023 Science Alert
A Miocene-era shift from dense forests to open plains may have caused ancient hominids to move from vowel-based to consonant-based calls
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Is the Four-Legged Snake Tetrapodophis a Missing Link or Not?
December 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Co-Option and Protein Homology Don’t Explain the Evolution of the Flagellum
December 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Google Overreach
December 22, 2023
a long Twitter/X post about Google repackaging blogger Nate Hake’s content and thereby making it unnecessary to visit his blog, thus undercutting his business.
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3D preservation of trilobite soft tissues sheds light on convergent evolution of defensive enrollment
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
The study reveals the soft undersides of enrolled trilobites and the evolutionary mechanism that allows arthropods to enroll their bodies for protection from predators and adverse environmental conditions.
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Discovery: Plants use ‘Trojan horse' to fight mold invasions
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
Plant RNA defense systems hidden in unassuming ‘bubbles'
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An Outstanding Year for Intelligent Design
December 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why the Universe Might be a Hologram
December 21, 2023 Universe Today
A quarter century ago, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence, an intriguing holographic connection between gravity in a three-dimensional universe and quantum physics on the universe’s two-dimensional boundary.
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Poisonous gas wave may have snuffed out half of all sea life in Earth's 1st mass extinction
December 21, 2023 Live Science
About 510 million years ago, a deadly combination of low oxygen and surging hydrogen sulfide may have been what decimated 45% of all ocean life.
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Cells of the future: A key to reprogramming cell identities
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
The dynamic journey of DNA replication timing and its impact on cellular plasticity
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A trillion scents, one nose
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
Smell's sensory magic emerges from intricate developmental mechanism that tailors each of nose's sensory cells
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Insects already had a variety of defense strategies in the Cretaceous
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were already using a wide variety of tactics to protect themselves from predators 100 million years ago.
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10 of the most mystifying open questions in science
December 21, 2023 Big Think
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
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AI consciousness: scientists say we urgently need answers
December 21, 2023 Nature
Researchers call for more funding to study the boundary between conscious and unconscious systems.
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Big Questions in Free Will
December 21, 2023 YouTube
Free will seems obvious, simple, common; but it’s subtle, profound, maddening. Free will probes the deep nature of human existence. But big questions have big problems. How to make progress?
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Mt. Ebal Curse Tablet Defeated?
December 21, 2023 YouTube
Has the “curse tablet" discovery at Mt. Ebal been proven false? Scott Stripling offers his first public response as to why he still believes the tablet is genuine.
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Genetic insight on ice sheet history
December 21, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6677, p.1356-1357
Octopus DNA reveals timing of the most recent collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
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Does It Take a PR Agency To Make Neanderthals Human?
December 21, 2023 Mind Matters
It’s interesting to watch how science writing on Neanderthals has changed over the years
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To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future
December 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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What Caused the Cambrian Explosion?
December 21, 2023 YouTube
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An Alternative to the Academic Wasteland
December 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Stepping in It
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Mainstream Media Discover “Nature Rights”
December 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Einstein was wrong about quantum mechanics
December 20, 2023 iai News
Embracing spooky action at a distance
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The laws of physics were broken in 2023 -- by sperm
December 20, 2023 New Scientist
New Scientist's most popular story of the year was about the discovery that sperm break Isaac Newton's third law of motion
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Human Evolution Dates Are Unreliable
December 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Leading nature museum admits flaws in all dates for human ancestors
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The Year in Computer Science
December 20, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer scientists developed algorithms that solved long-standing problems.
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The Christmas Star -- A Sign of Design
December 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today