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Evolutionists Exacerbate the Cambrian Explosion
July 21, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Two secular papers this month will not be welcome by Darwinians. They remove their biggest excuses.
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Cell Vesicles Wear Sophisticated Coats
July 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Defying Unguided Evolutionary Explanations
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Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace
July 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover filter-feeding basking sharks are warm-bodied like great whites
July 20, 2023 Science Daily
Shark shock
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When You Sync with Someone, Your Brains Wave Together
July 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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A New Level of Intelligent Design in Life
July 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Compact Factory Optimizes Shape for Efficiency
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A Mysterious Light Has Been Blinking in Space Every 21 Minutes for 35 Years
July 20, 2023 Popular Mechanics
Scientists have no idea what it is.
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New theory better explains how the brain stores memories
July 20, 2023 Medical Express
How useful a memory is for future situations determines where it resides in the brain, according to a new theory
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An Abandoned Arctic Military Base Just Spilled a Scientific Secret
July 20, 2023 Wired
During the Cold War, the US built a network of tunnels in the Greenland ice sheet. Sixty years later, the base has provided a critical clue about the climate crisis.
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The western world is besieged by criticisms -- academics must be free to investigate
July 20, 2023 The Irish Times
Powerful new pressures, such as ‘wokeism’ and cancel culture, should not be allowed to stifle scrutiny or debate
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Short arms and lanky legs: the genetic basis of walking on two legs
July 20, 2023 Nature
Genome-wide map reveals regions associated with skeletal changes that enabled humans to walk upright.
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The Fine-Structure Constant
July 20, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
Evidence of Design in Nature
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Amber Fossils: Comparing Explanations
July 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Explaining a fossil’s history is not an observation; it is an inference from assumptions
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Social and cognitive diversity in science: introduction
July 19, 2023 Synthese, v.202
Both social and cognitive diversity of different types is claimed to be epistemically beneficial. The challenge is to understand how an increase in a group’s diversity can bring about epistemic benefits
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The Origin-of-Life Hustle
July 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Stephen Meyer, James Tour
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Professor Dave Debates a Fellow Atheist
July 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Where does consciousness reside in the brain?
July 19, 2023 The Jerusalem Post
The researchers recorded electrical activity in the brains of epilepsy patients while showing them various images in an attempt to find out where persistent images are stored in the brain
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An 11-year-old boy caught a fish with ‘human-like teeth' in an Oklahoma pond
July 19, 2023 National Public Radio
A pacu -- a relative of the piranha, but with molar-like teeth -- was caught in a neighborhood pond in Oklahoma.
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Are Laws of Physics Beyond Doubt?
July 19, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Problems arise when attempting to explain the physical world purely by methodological naturalism
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Video
Clarity to the Origin of Life Debate
July 19, 2023 YouTube
Have scientists created life from non-life? Is chemical evolution a plausible theory for the origin of the first life on earth? Welcome to the first in a series of four conversations
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Is evolutionary biology racist?
July 19, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
Referring to an article from a young-earth creationist -- Oddly, its own headline and its discussion isn’t too far from what some “progressive” evolutionists maintain: evolutionary biology is racist, which explains the paucity of minorities in the field.
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Early humans were weapon woodwork experts
July 19, 2023 University of Reading
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The puzzle of the galaxy with no dark matter
July 19, 2023 Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
International research led by IAC and ULL has found the first evidence of a massive galaxy with no dark matter. The result is a challenge to the current standard model of cosmology.
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When You Sync with Someone, Your Brains Wave Together
July 18, 2023 Mind Matters
Neuroscientists have found that co-operation results in brain wave synchrony
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Unusual fossil shows rare evidence of a mammal attacking a dinosaur
July 18, 2023 EurekAlert!
Canadian and Chinese scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant-eating dinosaur.
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Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
July 18, 2023 University of Copenhagen
No, oxygen didn’t catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth’s first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?
July 18, 2023 Nature
Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny.
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Brain scans are putting a major theory of consciousness to the test
July 18, 2023 New Scientist
A proposed way to measure consciousness called integrated information theory has been tested using data from human brain scans, and seems to work
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Placenta: The overlooked organ with a lifelong impact on your health
July 18, 2023 New Scientist
The placenta is an incredible organ that we grow for a short period of time, yet it has a surprising long-term influence on our health. Researchers are now developing tools to spot placenta problems and improve the lives of future babies
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News Update/Commentary
Life on Earth didn't arise as described in textbooks
July 18, 2023 Science Daily
No, oxygen didn't catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth's first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Body Size Change Is Not Evolution
July 18, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists keep looking for laws to make Darwinism scientific. There are too many exceptions.
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Ants Build Landmarks for Navigation
July 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans
July 18, 2023 arXiv ... Cornell University
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Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light
July 17, 2023 Quanta Magazine
In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain whole underground ecosystems.
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When ET calls, can we be sure we’re not being spoofed?
July 17, 2023 University of California, Berkeley
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There were two big bangs
July 17, 2023 iai News
Did a dark big bang create most of the universe?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Cambrian explosion condensed
July 17, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
High-precision geochronology of the lower Wood Canyon Formation, Nevada
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Not-So-Simple Cilia
July 17, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Assumptions Distort Geological Dating
July 17, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
In a major geology journal, geologists admit that their dating schemes rest on questionable assumptions
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Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework
July 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Origin of Life and the Wonder of Daily Existence
July 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Return of the God Hypothesis
July 16, 2023 YouTube
an interview on the intelligent design theory, the evidence for the purposeful creation of life and the universe, and the critique of conventional approaches
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Bizarre ancient sea creature brings evolution mystery to the surface
July 16, 2023 ars technica
A new tunicate fossil, a close relative of vertebrates, is half a billion years old.
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Physicists Just Figured Out How Wormholes Could Enable Time Travel
July 16, 2023 Science Alert
Theoretical physicists have a lot in common with lawyers. Both spend a lot of time looking for loopholes and inconsistencies in the rules that might be exploited somehow.
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It's Becoming Clearer That the Mind Is Not the Brain
July 15, 2023 Mind Matters
The “science of consciousness” not only has no workable materialist theory but it’s unclear what such a theory should look like or explain
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Can Science Escape Faith-Based Belief? Maybe It Needs Them!
July 15, 2023 Mind Matters
Marcelo Gleiser insists, for better or worse, science is a faith-based enterprise
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Is the World Self-Organizing?
July 15, 2023 YouTube
Some say that there are deep ‘organizing principles’ in the laws of nature such that complexities are natural and expected outcomes.
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How James Webb telescope’s snapshots of infant universe transformed astronomy
July 15, 2023 The Guardian
‘Mindblowing’
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Can the Quantum Realm Explain Reality?
July 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Woodpeckers' heads act more like stiff hammers than safety helmets
July 14, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists had long wondered how woodpeckers can repeatedly pound their beaks against tree trunks without doing damage to their brains. This led to the notion that their skulls must act like shock-absorbing helmets.