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News Update/Commentary
New theory unites Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics
December 4, 2023 Science Daily
The prevailing assumption has been that Einstein's theory of gravity must be modified, or ‘quantized', in order to fit within quantum theory.
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News Update/Commentary
Earliest-known fossil mosquito suggests males were bloodsuckers too
December 4, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have found the earliest-known fossil mosquito in Lower Cretaceous amber from Lebanon. What's more, the well-preserved insects are two males of the same species with piercing mouthparts
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Renowned Chemist on Origin-of-Life
December 4, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
Put Up or Shut Up
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Fire, engravings, burial all bogus???
December 4, 2023 Core Academy of Science
The remarkable remains from the Dinaledi chamber were first published in 2015. Lee Berger's research team claimed they were members of genus Homo (our own genus) but that they were a species new to science. They called it Homo naledi
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Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset
December 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Lessons from Julia Galef
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How to Overcome Scientism
December 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Behaving Badly
December 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Suppressing Intelligent Design Was Only the Start
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Video
The electrical origins of life
December 4, 2023 YouTube
Modern cells use electrical charges on membranes to drive their metabolism, which in turn makes the building blocks of genes and proteins. Lane shows that equivalent processes were possible in ancient hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.
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Do Scientists Need To Learn To Lie More Believably?
December 3, 2023 Mind Matters
As public trust in science diminishes, one serious proposal that scientists should manipulate our beliefs for our own good
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Fossils and the Flood (Part Two)
December 3, 2023 YouTube
Scientist Paul Garner joins us again to discuss his book “Fossils and the Flood.” Informed by the latest creationist scholarship and richly illustrated -- this book reconstructs the world before and after the Genesis Flood in unprecedented depth
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Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?
December 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Search for ET Should Quit Claiming Earth Is Not Special
December 2, 2023 Mind Matters
How will we assess the raw probability of being alone in this universe when we have no other universe to compare with ours?
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Live with William Dembski
December 2, 2023 YouTube
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Whales designed or evolved: part 1 -- the fossils
December, 2023 Creation Ministries International
Darwin suggested that whales might have descended from bear-like creatures, but until the 1980s there was no fossil evidence to support the evolution of whales from terrestrial mammals.
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A new ‘marine crocodile’ discovery on the Jurassic coast of England
December, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Origin of the Moon
December 1, 2023 Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, v.89, n.1, p.53-102
The Earth-Moon system is unusual in several respects. Identification of a model for lunar origin that can satisfactorily explain all of these features has been the focus of decades of research.
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Book
An evolutionist guide to the supposed hominin fossils
December, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.3, p.36-41
REVIEW: The Human Lineage by Matt Cartmill and Fred H. Smith (Wiley, 2022) | See Also Amazon
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Prebiotically plausible peptides don’t self-assemble to produce useful catalytic amyloids
December, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.3, p.135-140
Plausibility for the Amyloid World Hypothesis has been claimed through experiments using synthetic zinc-binding heptapeptides able to hydrolyse p-nitrophenyl acetate.
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No evidence for heart evolution
December, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.3, p.68-72
no direct evidence of heart evolution exists, and a study of the hearts of living animals is the only way that an evolutionary theory can be created.
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Whales designed or evolved: part 1 -- the fossils
December, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.3, p.121-127
Darwin suggested that whales might have descended from bear-like creatures, but until the 1980s there was no fossil evidence to support the evolution of whales from terrestrial mammals.
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Irresolvable problems with Neo-Darwinism -- experts calling for a new theory of evolution
December, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.3, p.73-78
Recently, there have been some surprising confessions from people committed to the prevalent view of origins. This, of course, is neo-Darwinian evolution
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The evolution of sweat glands stymies evolutionists
December, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.3, p.63-67
Although temperature regulation is a critical consideration in evolution, no progress has been made towards a viable explanation of the evolution of these systems in the past century.
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Enantiomeric amplification of L-amino acids: part 5
December, 2023 Creation Ministries International
sublimation based on serine octamers
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolution of the RNA world: From signals to codes
December, 2023 Biosystems, v.234
The accumulated material in evolutionary biology, greatly enhanced by the achievements of modern synthetic biology, allows us to envision certain key hypothetical stages of prebiotic (chemical) evolution.
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The non-evolution of the human liver
December, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Amyloids don’t form under plausible prebiotic conditions
December, 2023 Creation Ministries International
It has been claimed that a synthetic amyloid can direct the sequence-, regio-, and stereo-selective condensation of amino acid synthesis, thus allegedly supporting the Amyloid world hypothesis.
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Can Money Be Pure Information? Merely a Trusted Idea?
December 1, 2023 Mind Matters
A group of pragmatic Pacific Islanders put that concept to the test centuries ago
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Enantiomeric amplification of L-amino acids: part 4
December, 2023 Creation Ministries International
based on subliming valine
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Meteorites likely source of nitrogen for early Earth
December 1, 2023 Science magazine
Micrometeorites originating from icy celestial bodies in the outer Solar System may be responsible for transporting nitrogen to the near-Earth region in the early days of our solar system.
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Molecular movie captures DNA repair from start to finish
December 1, 2023 Chemistry World
An international team of researchers has used time-resolved ultrafast crystallography to follow the progress of DNA repair by a photolyase enzyme.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Gene as a dynamical notion: An extensive and integrative vision
December, 2023 Biosystems
Redefining the gene concept, from traditional to genic-interaction, as a new dynamical version
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News Update/Commentary
A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension
December 1, 2023 Science Daily
The universe is expanding. How fast it does so is described by the so-called Hubble-Lemaitre constant. But there is a dispute about how big this constant actually is
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Mendelian speciation: part 1
December, 2023 Creation Ministries International
what is the abundant source of significant biodiversity?
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An evolutionist guide to the supposed hominin fossils
December, 2023 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: The Human Lineage by Matt Cartmill and Fred H. Smith (Wiley, 2022) | See Also Wiley
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Scientists issue major warning over world’s most dangerous volcanoes
December 1, 2023 Metro (UK)
Scientists have warned that some of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes are understudied, making it harder to predict if or when they may erupt.
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News Update/Commentary
Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools
December 1, 2023 Science Daily
Paleolithic humans in the Middle East selected flint for their cutting tools based on differences in the mechanical properties of the rock. They seem to have purposefully selected the most suitable rocks for fashioning into tools
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Bird Tracks Found in Early Dinosaur Strata
December 1, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Either a dinosaur walked on bird feet or evolutionists are way off on their story of bird origins
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Meiotic DNA breaks drive multifaceted mutagenesis in the human germ line
December 1, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6674
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Ceres, a window into how planets could harbor life
December, 2023 Physics Today, v.76, n.12, p.54-55
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Exactly How Much Life Is on Earth?
December 1, 2023 New York Times
According to a new study, living cells outnumber stars in the universe, highlighting the deep, underrated link between geophysics and biology.
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The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent
December 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year
December 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness
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Wonders of Creation: Hummingbirds
December 1, 2023 Apologetics Press
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Book
Fine-tuned water
December, 2023 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: The Wonder of Water: Water’s profound fitness for life on Earth and mankind by Michael Denton (Discovery Institute, 2016) | See Also Amazon
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AI interprets the Central Dogma and Genetic Code
December, 2023 Trends in Biochemical Sciences, v.48, n.12, P1014-1018
two paradigms that provide insight into the capabilities and limitations of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT): its ability to (i) define a core biological concept (the Central Dogma of molecular biology); and (ii) interpret the genetic co
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Scientists Build Tiny Biological Robots from Human Cells
November 30, 2023 New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Is the Turing Test Dead?
November 30, 2023 IEEE Spectrum
Researchers wonder whether improved large language models require new tests for machine intelligence
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A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity
November 30, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians prove a theorem that illuminates the geometry of universes with tiny amounts of mass.
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Could Life Exist in Molecular Clouds?
November 30, 2023 Universe Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries
November 30, 2023 Nature Human Behavior
Decades after the scientific debate about the anthropogenic causes of climate change was settled, climate disinformation still challenges the scientific evidence in public discourse.