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‘The Science' Suffers from Self-Inflicted Political Wounds
November 20, 2023 reason.com
A separation of science and politics might be called for.
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What is it like to be a crab?
November 20, 2023 Aeon
Consciousness science should move past a focus on complex mammalian brains to study the behaviour of ‘simpler’ animals
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Wonders of Creation: Chameleons
November 20, 2023 Apologetics Press
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists
November 20, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A perspective and research agenda
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How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?
November 20, 2023 New Scientist
Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that lived on in a world dominated by big-brained early humans. Recent archaeological discoveries, like stone tools, are revealing how they lived
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News Update/Commentary
AI system self-organizes to develop features of brains of complex organisms
November 20, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system allows it to develop features of the brains of complex organisms in order to solve tasks.
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Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design
November 20, 2023 ID the Future
A Beginner’s Guide
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Rewinding Paley’s Watch (Part 1)
November 20, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Why the argument for design only gets stronger over time
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The Eyes Have It: Another Case of Evolution Falsification
November 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A comparison of cephalopod eyes with mammal eyes does not demonstrate Darwinian evolution
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Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory
November 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Multiverse: Better in Fiction Than in Real Life?
November 19, 2023 Mind Matters
The multiverse may be “unscientific nonsense” or a “religious” belief, as some physicists assert but the rules of storytelling are not the laws of nature
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Mimetic Behavior in the Scientific Community
November 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Pew: Post-COVID, Trust in Science Dropped Significantly
November 18, 2023 Mind Matters
Most other institutions have taken a hit in trust as well. But what would it take for science in particular to pull out?
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Once a Supporter, Science Writer Airs Doubts About Free Will
November 18, 2023 Mind Matters
ChatGPT has set John Horgan thinking about whether he is just “ChatGPT-Me" himself
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Globalism vs. the scientific revolution
November 18, 2023 ars technica
A recent book takes a dim view of the Europe-centric view of the origin of science.
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Re-Thinking the ‘When’ and ‘How’ of Brain Death
November 18, 2023 Forbes
In an article published in MIT Technology Review, Rachel Nuwer wrote a thought provoking piece exploring the boundaries between life and death.
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Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left
November 18, 2023 The Guardian
At least nine hominin species once roamed the Earth, so what became of our vanished ancestors?
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An Argument from Ignorance?
November 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene
November 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Pressure, Propaganda, and Persecution through Mimesis
November 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
This Video Dismantles Darwinian Evolution
November 17, 2023 YouTube
Jennifer Rivera teaches us about the history of the Galápagos Islands, what natural selection is, and whether natural selection contradicts biblical creation
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‘No scientific evidence' that ancient human relative buried dead and carved art
November 17, 2023 Live Science
A new commentary blasts claims about Homo naledi featured in Netflix's “Unknown: Cave of Bones" documentary
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists have solved the damselfly color mystery
November 17, 2023 Science Daily
an international research team found that this genetic color variation that is shared between several species arose through changes in a specific genomic region at least five million years ago
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News Update/Commentary
Future of brain-inspired AI as Python code library passes major milestone
November 17, 2023 Science Daily
An open source code library for brain-inspired deep learning, called 'snnTorch,' has surpassed 100,000 downloads and is used in a wide variety of projects. A new paper details the code and offers a perspective on the future of the field.
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News Update/Commentary
New study reveals the genetics of human head shape
November 17, 2023 Science Daily
These findings help explain the diversity of human head shapes and may also offer important clues about the genetic basis of conditions that affect the skull, such as craniosynostosis.
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How Much Brain Do We Need to Be Human?
November 17, 2023 Answers in Genesis
The design and plasticity of the human brain shows God’s goodness.
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Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion
November 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Dembski Won the Argument with His Critics
November 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
New Edition of The Design Inference Shows How
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Book
The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities
November 16, 2023 Discovery Institute
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Purposeful universe
November 16, 2023 Aeon
Neither atheism nor theism adequately explains reality. That is why we must consider the middle ground between the two
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How did time begin, and how will it end?
November 16, 2023 BBC
Most things have a beginning and an end, including time itself. What was the spark that made it begin, and what will one day bring it to an end?
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Blog Post
Free Will and ChatGPT-Me
November 16, 2023
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Jurassic Park: why we’re still struggling to realise it 30 years on
November 16, 2023 The Conversation
DNA yields the most detailed information, compared to other molecules, on how closely species are related. However, DNA is extremely fragile and decays rapidly after an organism dies.
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News Update/Commentary
Much more than waste: Tiny vesicles exchange genetic information between cells in the sea
November 16, 2023 Science Daily
Extracellular vesicles play a much greater role in horizontal gene transfer in the ocean than previously assumed
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News Update/Commentary
How cell identity is preserved when cells divide
November 16, 2023 Science Daily
Study suggests 3D folding of the genome is key to cells' ability to store and pass on ‘memories' of which genes they should express
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News Update/Commentary
Birds set foot near South Pole in Early Cretaceous, Australian tracks show
November 16, 2023 Science Daily
Discovery provides oldest-known evidence for birds so far south
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Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?
November 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dembski Won the Argument with His Critics
November 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
New Edition of The Design Inference Shows How
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New Nicholas Researcher Finds Plants That Survived Dinosaur Extinction Pulled Nitrogen from Air
November 16, 2023 Duke University
Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day
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Jurassic Park: why we’re still struggling to realise it 30 years on
November 16, 2023 The Conversation
the premise of the movie -- extracting DNA from fossil insects preserved in amber to resurrect dinosaurs -- was given the credibility of publication by several high-profile studies on fossil amber
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Darwinism, an Excuse for Lazy Thinking
November 16, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Just say it evolved because of selective pressure, and your work is done
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An “Early'' Origin for Modern Echolocation in Bats
November 16, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species
November 15, 2023 New Scientist
We used to trace the origins of art to Stone Age Europe. Now we have evidence of artistic sensibility in earlier hominins, from Neanderthals to Homo erectus and beyond
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Did this chemical reaction create the building blocks of life on Earth?
November 15, 2023 phys.org
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The Free Will Debate Really Heated Up This Year
November 15, 2023 Mind Matters
Many commentators are weighing in; surprisingly, perhaps, well-known materialists are disputing the claim that there is no free will
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Does This Fix the Kalam Cosmological Argument?
November 15, 2023 YouTube
Philosopher Trent Horn offers some revisions to the Kalam Cosmological Argument.
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Dark matter's biggest competitor might just have been falsified
November 15, 2023 YouTube
an update on the biggest astrophysics drama of the year, that’s an observation which seems to be ruling out the most popular alternative to dark matter.
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Americans losing faith in science and scientists
November 15, 2023 Christian Post
but still value gov't investment in field
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How Black Holes Consume Entropy
November 15, 2023 Universe Today
Entropy is one of those fearsomely deep concepts that form the core of entire fields of physics (in this case, thermodynamics) that is unfortunately so mathematical that it’s difficult to explain in plain language. But we will give it a try.
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News Update/Commentary
Multiple evolutionary trajectories in aquatic crocodiles
November 15, 2023 Science Daily
In the geological past, several groups of crocodiles evolved towards a morphology adapted to marine life. An exhaustive study of their morphology has now shed light on the evolutionary mechanisms at work, thanks to three-dimensional reconstructions.