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Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology
October 25, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Paper Digest
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The Prophet in the White Lab Coat Who Declares, “Thus Saith the SCIENCE”
October 25, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
John West on C. S. Lewis
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A Mirror Reveals a Surprise About Bird Brains
October 25, 2023 New York Times
A modified version of the classic mirror test suggested that roosters recognize their reflections.
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Cosmology’s crisis challenges scientific realism
October 25, 2023 iai News
MOND vs Dark Matter
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Integrating Historical Witnesses in Biblical Chronology
October 25, 2023 Answers Research Journal
Biblical chronology is an essential component of the young-earth creationist perspective, because it provides a way to calculate the age of the earth by working backward through biblical data from a fixed point in history.
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Genesis and Science: The Past, Present, and Future
October 25, 2023 YouTube
Even though I am a creationist, I am keenly aware of how many bad arguments have soiled the name of creationist thought. All participants in this conversation know this and are very cognizant of the absolute necessity of putting truthfulness first.
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Neuroscience Has Never Provided Much Evidence for Materialism
October 24, 2023 Mind Matters
In a chapter of the new book, Minding the Brain, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor points out that many great neuroscientists were non-materialists
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Humans and Neanderthals mated 250,000 years ago, much earlier than thought
October 24, 2023 Live Science
A comparison of the genomes of a Neanderthal who lived 120,000 years ago in Siberia with those from modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa has revealed insight into the migratory and interbreeding history of both species.
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How an Antarctic Octopus Adapted to the Cold
October 24, 2023 Physics Magazine
Enzymes that span the cell membranes of an octopus of the genus Pareledone have acquired mutations that enable them to catalyze reactions well at low temperatures.
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Largest-ever computer simulation of the universe escalates cosmology dilemma
October 24, 2023 space.com
"I am at a loss."
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Rock collected by Apollo 17 astronaut in 1972 reveals moon's age
October 24, 2023 Reuters
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The “dark biosphere”: Do mirror-image lifeforms exist?
October 24, 2023 Big Think
This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.
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The golden age of astrobiology will change everything
October 24, 2023 Big Think
A true scientific view of if, where, and when extraterrestrial life exists is within our grasp thanks to biosignatures and technosignatures.
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News Update/Commentary
Astrophysicists scan the Galaxy for signs of life
October 24, 2023 Science Daily
Astrophysicists are scanning the Universe for 'technosignatures' emanating from distant planets that would provide support for the existence of intelligent, alien life. Researchers plan to monitor millions of star systems.
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News Update/Commentary
Finding the genes that help kingfishers dive without hurting their brains
October 24, 2023 Science Daily
researchers found that the diving birds have unusual mutations to the genes that produce tau: a protein that helps stabilize tiny structures in the brain, but which can build up in humans with traumatic brain injuries or Alzheimer's disease
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Blog Post
Scientific American is back to distorting the facts to buttress its ideology
October 24, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
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Morgan Freeman Would Like to Tell You the History of Everything
October 24, 2023 New York Times
In an interview, Freeman discusses narrating the Netflix documentary “Life on Our Planet,” which goes from the dawn of time to the present day.
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Three More Fossils Appear Earlier Than Thought
October 24, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
They appear earlier than thought, but show no sign of evolutionary transition
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A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism
October 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Hidden Service Animals
October 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Earthworms Are Only the Beginning
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Meyer Asks, “What Is Science? Is Intelligent Design Science?”
October 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Terminology Tuesday
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Psychologist Talks to Top Primatologist
October 23, 2023 YouTube
They discuss how Game Theory applies to human behavior across iterative rounds of play, the unexpected success of the tit-for-tat principle, the role of dopamine in the anticipation of the future, and the objective reality of transcendent structures
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Can Science Explain Everything?
October 23, 2023 YouTube
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When did humans start burying their dead?
October 23, 2023 Live Science
Ancient caves mark the beginning of recorded burial rituals, but there's still so much we don't know about the history of human graves.
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Where did all those structures inside complex cells come from?
October 23, 2023 knowable magazine
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
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Fossilized Molecules Reveal a Lost World of Ancient Life
October 23, 2023 Quanta Magazine
A new analysis of billion-year-old sediments fills a gap in the fossil record, uncovering a dynasty of early eukaryotes that may have gone on to shape the history of life on Earth.
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A student asked her cosmology professor the meaning of life.
October 23, 2023 Big Think
Here was his response. “To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.”
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News Update/Commentary
Fungal evolution discovered: Mycena can now invade living hosts
October 23, 2023 Science Daily
New research demonstrates that bonnets can find their ways into young, healthy trees and plants, where they try to cooperate. In doing so, they have made an evolutionary leap which challenges our understanding of the ecological roles of fungi.
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Reimagining knowledge
October 23, 2023 iai News
From Kant to Biomimicry: a new Enlightenment for the 21st Century
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Mysterious mouse mummies found atop lofty volcanoes
October 23, 2023 Nature
Naturally freeze-dried leaf-eared mice found above 6,000 metres show mammals can dwell at extraordinary heights.
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The moon is 40 million years older than we thought it was
October 23, 2023 New Scientist
A new look at the age of zircon crystals in a lunar rock sample brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has revealed that the moon formed at least 4.46 billion years ago
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Does Darwin’s Theory of Sexual Selection Explain Anything?
October 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It does not explain the origin of new traits, but only the frequency of some existing traits
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Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific
October 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve
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Did the Infant Universe Resemble a Needle or a Sphere?
October 22, 2023 Medium
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How Does AI ‘Think’?
October 22, 2023 Wall Street Journal
Despite all the talk about the AI revolution, the only thing we know for sure is that we can’t really know what’s coming
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2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
October 21, 2023 YouTube
The artificial intelligence revolution has implications for all of us. Are we doomed to the dystopias of George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World? Or will it be a transhumanist utopia?
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Modern Neuroscience Does Not Disprove Free Will
October 21, 2023 Mind Matters
In a chapter of Minding the Brain (2023), Cristi L. S. Cooper looks at the current state of neuroscience research on free will
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Translucent microbe deviates from universal genetic code
October 20, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Decades of genetics research suggest that nearly all living things, whether human, bacteria, fungus, or plant, use the same basic genetic code. But a tiny ciliate protozoa, fished out of a pond in the United Kingdom, breaks all the usual rules
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The Holmdel Horn, a Cosmic Shrine in New Jersey, Stays Put
October 20, 2023 New York Times
The radio telescope that discovered the Big Bang has survived a real estate battle -- for now.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Live-bearing cockroach genome reveals convergent evolutionary mechanisms linked to viviparity in insects and beyond
October 20, 2023 Cell Press, v.26, n.10
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Rapid ozone depletion after humidification of the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga Eruption
October 20, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6668
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai eruption of 2022 injected huge amounts of water into the stratosphere
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Why I believe in God
October 20, 2023 YouTube
John Lennox engages in a candid and unreserved interview with fellow Christian apologist and Oxford-educated theologian Amy Orr-Ewing
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Is the Hard Problem Really So Hard?
October 20, 2023 nautil.us
The qualities of our experience seem impossible to describe scientifically, but maybe we’re just not thinking about them right.
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Study finds the Universe is a black hole (kind of)
October 20, 2023 Cosmos Magazine
If you’ve ever wondered how size, mass, and relative densities of objects make up our Universe, a fun new study by Australian National University has some answers.
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News Update/Commentary
Does urbanization trigger plant evolution?
October 20, 2023 Science Daily
Urban environments have become hotspots for understanding how rapid evolution occurs in response to extreme environmental changes. These habitats exert selective pressures on resident organisms that impact their evolutionary trajectories.
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Why the free will debate hinges on intent
October 20, 2023 Big Think
Neural imaging has shown that the brain has “decided” what we’re going to do before we make a conscious choice -- but is this even relevant to free will?
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Plants Do Calculus
October 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A simple shoot emerging from the soil can add, subtract, and integrate multiple dynamic signals over time
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How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?
October 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
My question for P. Z. Myers
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New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis
October 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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The Mirror Test: The Key to a Sense of Self?
October 19, 2023 Mind Matters
When fish and ants pass the test for “a higher sense of self” -- but dogs and even kids in some cultures don’t -- we should ask some questions