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News Update/Commentary
Colliding ribosomes activate RNA repair
November 15, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers discover how ribosomes contribute to the recognition and removal of RNA crosslinking damage.
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Why zero-point energy is a scam
November 15, 2023 Big Think
The term “zero-point energy" has at least two meanings, one that is innocuous and one that is a great deal sexier (and scammier).
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Is the Universe fine-tuned for life? Here are 3 answers
November 15, 2023 Big Think
Two of the answers add a dimension to physics that doesn’t belong there. Maybe we could call it “astrotheology."
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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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Intricate Design Found in Sperm Cells
November 15, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Research is proving that a supposed simple cell is far more complex than once thought
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James Tour and Lee Cronin to Discuss Origin of Life at Harvard Roundtable
November 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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To Create Functional Proteins, Evolution Would Need a Miracle
November 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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How AI avatars of the deceased could transform the way we grieve
November 14, 2023 New Scientist
Companies are now offering chatbots that appear to come from beyond the veil. But psychologists say this “grief tech" may interfere with the patterns of brain activity through which we adapt to loss
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Will Neuroscience Ever Accommodate Immaterial Consciousness?
November 14, 2023 Mind Matters
Joseph Green offers an informative account in Minding the Brain of the current state of neuroscience. What we now know is remarkable -- but so is what we don’t
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News Update/Commentary
Previously unknown luminescence revealed in ten deep sea species and an order of sea cucumbers
November 14, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers present evidence of previously unknown luminosity in 10 deep-sea species, suggesting underestimated diversity. The authors stress the importance of considering the ecological role of bioluminesence and the need for conservation.
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Is Religious Faith Compatible with Scientific Thinking?
November 14, 2023 Psychology Today
Integrating faith-based and evidence-based beliefs in a mentally-healthy way.
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Homo Naledi Probably Didn’t Bury Their Dead or Make Rock Art After All
November 14, 2023 IFL Science
Researchers recently claimed that this small-brained hominid deliberately buried its dead 100,000 years before modern humans did.
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The Biggest Questions: How did life begin?
November 14, 2023 MIT Technology Review
AI is helping chemists unpick the mysteries around the origins of life and detect signs of it on other worlds.
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News Update/Commentary
‘Bouncing' comets could deliver building blocks for life to exoplanets
November 14, 2023 Science Daily
How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. Now, researchers have shown how comets could deposit similar building blocks to other planets in the galaxy.
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40 failed predictions of Evolution
November 14, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Anemones are first known animals to follow the sun like plants do
November 14, 2023 New Scientist
Snakelocks anemones are the first known “heliotropic” animals -- their tentacles point towards the sun, tracking its movements like plants do
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The Latest Study from the James Webb Space Telescope
November 14, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Bars Theories of Galaxy Formation and Structure
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Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting
November 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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To Create Functional Proteins, Evolution Would Need a Miracle
November 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
No scientific evidence for cognitively advanced behaviors and symbolism by Homo naledi
November 13, 2023 Science Daily
A new study casts doubt on claims that Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin dating to between 335-241,000 years ago, deliberately buried their dead and produced rock art in Rising Star Cave, South Africa.
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HLD 6 -- an ancient Chinese skull that’s hard to fit into current evolutionary ideas
November 13, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Epigenetics: Performing the Genome
November 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The first dinosaur egg was leathery
November 13, 2023 EurekAlert!
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Wonders of Creation: Bats
November 13, 2023 Apologetics Press
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News Update/Commentary
New discovery on how green algae count cell divisions illuminates key step needed for the evolution of multicellular life
November 13, 2023 Science Daily
An international research team has made an unexpected discovery of a biased counting mechanism used by the single-celled green alga Chlamydomonas to control cell division.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of taste: Early sharks were able to perceive bitter substances
November 13, 2023 Science Daily
New genetic data show that humans and sharks share bitter taste receptors, even though their evolutionary pathways separated nearly 500 million years ago.
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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit
November 13, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.
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Why Even Einstein Couldn’t Unite Physics
November 13, 2023 Universe Today
Near the end of his life Einstein worked tirelessly to find a way to unite electromagnetism with gravity. He could not, and never did, the notes scattered on his desk scrawled with fruitless probes and useless hypotheticals.
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Recreation of ancient seawater reveals which nutrients shaped the evolution of early life
November 13, 2023 phys.org
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The multiverse is unscientific nonsense
November 13, 2023 iai News
It's all mere speculation
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Young children trounce large language models in a simple problem-solving task
November 13, 2023 Big Think
AIs can imitate but not innovate -- for now, at least.
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Beneficial Mutations Don’t Exist
November 13, 2023 Answers in Genesis
How equivocation provides false legitimacy to the story of evolution
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Only an Immaterial Mind Can Ask “How Does Life Work?"
November 12, 2023 Mind Matters
Science writer Philip Ball, facing cancer surgery, struggles to find meaning and purpose in a wholly material world. He is looking in the wrong place
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Determinism vs. free will: A scientific showdown
November 12, 2023 ars technica
Two books delve into what science may tell us about whether we have free will.
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‘Dark Big Bang' Theory Argues a Second Cosmological Origin Event Could Help Resolve Dark Matter Mystery
November 12, 2023 The DeBrief
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Illustra Highlights a Monarch Wonder
November 12, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Learn about butterflies that live long and fly thousands of miles to an exact spot they have never seen
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Company Names “Nature” to Board of Directors
November 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Exopsychology: The Psychology of No One We Ever Knew
November 11, 2023 Mind Matters
The academic attempt to establish a psychology of alien intelligences -- for whose existence we have no evidence -- tells us something about ourselves
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Must AI Inevitably Degenerate into Nonsense, through “Model Collapse”?
November 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Yes, the Film on Near-Death Experiences Is Another “Hated Hit"
November 10, 2023 Mind Matters
As with Sound of Freedom, critics trashed After Death but audiences loved it. And the critics just aren’t keeping up with the science
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Darwinian Anthropology Is Inherently Elitist
November 10, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A study on African hunter-gatherer singing borders on racism, elitism, and malpractice
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How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs, or Not
November 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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What’s Wrong With Peer Review?
November 10, 2023 Wall Street Journal
A series of high-profile retractions has raised questions about the process used by scientific and medical journals to decide which studies are worthy of publication.
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Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
ahead of new book edition
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Footwear from Over 75,000 Years Ago? Some Fascinating Hints
November 9, 2023 Mind Matters
Some researchers focus on changes in human foot bones, others on evidence of foot protection on ancient trackways
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Galápagos finches, rapid speciation, and recent creation
November 9, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Mutation bias and adaptation in bacteria
November 9, 2023 Microbiology, v.169, n.11
Genetic mutation is largely a stochastic force. However, there is ample evidence showing that mutations can also exhibit strong biases, with some mutation types and certain genomic positions mutating more often than others.
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Darwinism Is Useless in Fossil Discoveries
November 9, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Like a rabbit’s foot, Darwinian paleontologists hope saying “evolution” will bring them good luck
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How Sunflowers “See'' the Sun
November 9, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design?
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
First Check the Data