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William Shatner and Our Privileged Planet
July 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design
July 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Earth's oldest-known rocks provide clues about early tectonics
July 4, 2023 EurekAlert!
Earth is currently the only planet known to harbor life -- thanks in large part due to the operation of plate tectonics, which cycles critical biogeochemical elements and maintains a planetary thermostat.
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Blog Post
Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?
July 4, 2023
I used to envision the frontier of mathematics as akin to Antarctica’s remote, forbidding Sentinel Range. But mathematics is beginning to resemble a factory in which robots do the heavy lifting.
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Blog Post
Evolution: Bible vs. Quran -- What Does Scripture Say?
July 4, 2023 Rational Religion
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Quasar ‘clocks' show Universe running five times slower soon after Big Bang
July 4, 2023 University of Sydney
Result confirms time-dilation expectations of Einstein's general relativity
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Light Shows in Nature Reflect the Wisdom of the Light-Giver
July 4, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
July 4th in America is celebrated with lights. Here are some celebrations of light within nature.
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Five sigma revisited
July 3, 2023 CERN Courier
Lyons traces the origins of the “five sigma” criterion in particle physics, and asks whether it remains a relevant marker for claiming the discovery of new physics.
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Incredible view of the Milky Way and more -- June’s best science images
July 3, 2023 Nature
The month’s sharpest science shots -- selected by Nature’s photo team.
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The evolution of archaeal flagellar filaments
July 3, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
As Dobzhansky stated, nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. But, creationists have used the bacterial flagellar system as an example of “irreducible complexity,” arguing that it could never have evolved from a simpler system.
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Creation, Convergence, and Crabs
July 3, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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The Atlantic cod may be five separate species rather than one
July 3, 2023 New Scientist
A genetic analysis of thousands of Atlantic cod has revealed they all belong to one of five distinctive groups, suggesting they aren't interbreeding and belong to different species
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The Design of the Seminal Fluid and Sperm Capacitation
July 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Exploration of novel αβ-protein folds through de novo design
July 3, 2023 Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
A fundamental question in protein evolution is whether nature has exhaustively sampled nearly all possible protein folds throughout evolution, or whether a large fraction of the possible folds remains unexplored.
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Video
What is Consciousness?
July 2, 2023 YouTube
Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers.
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4 reasons not teaching evolution in schools is immoral
July 2, 2023 The Conversation
Educators involved in curriculum design know one hard truth: you can’t fit in everything. Whatever the finished product, there will always be someone who thinks something important has been missed or something unnecessary has been included.
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Enantiomeric amplification of L amino acids
July, 2023 Creation Ministries International
part 3 -- using chiral impurities
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Empirical tests of scientific realism: A quantitative framework
July, 2023 Metaphilosophy, v.54, n.4, p.369-570
The scientific realism debate in philosophy of science raises some intriguing methodological issues. Scientific realism posits a link between a scientific theory's observational and referential success.
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The Flood origin of amber and insects in amber
July, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Enantiomeric amplification of L amino acids
July, 2023 Creation Ministries International
part 2 -- chirality induced by D-sugars
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Enantiomeric amplification of L amino acids
July, 2023 Creation Ministries International
part 1 -- irrelevant and discredited examples
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Honey from the rock?
July, 2023 Creation Ministries International
A fascinating fossil fiasco
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Video
Thermodynamics Expert Addresses Dave Farina: Chemistry Points to ID
July 1, 2023 YouTube
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The design of bacterial flagella
July, 2023 Creation Ministries International
part 1 -- flagellar design in model organisms
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Carbonyl sulfide-mediated prebiotic formation of peptides
July, 2023 Creation Ministries International
irrelevant for origin of life purposes
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The Evolution of Anti-Evolutionism
July, 2023 Skeptical Inquirer, v.47, n.4
Anti-evolutionism is a quintessential and particularly pernicious type of pseudoscience.
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The Ideological Subversion of Biology
July, 2023 Skeptical Inquirer, v.47, n.4
Biology faces a grave threat from “progressive” politics that are changing the way our work is done, delimiting areas of biology that are taboo and will not be funded by the government or published in scientific journals, ...
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Early Cretaceous angiosperm radiation in northeastern Gondwana
July, 2023 Earth-Science Reviews, v.242
Insights from island biogeography theory
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Video
Can Mutations Plus Co-option Produce Novel Structures? Part 5
July 1, 2023 YouTube
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This Arctic ichthyosaur should not exist
July 1, 2023 Big Think
A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
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There’s No Consciousness Spot in the Brain
July 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
The Philosopher Wins
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Science & the Wildness of Aslan
July, 2023 Salvo #65
An essay on Intelligent Design
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism
July, 2023
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These six distant galaxies captured by JWST are wowing astronomers
June 30, 2023 Nature
See researchers’ favourites from a survey of the deep Universe by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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The Myth of Tree Thinking
June 30, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
The instructions to build, maintain, and reproduce every kind of animal on Earth were placed within these organisms when the Lord Jesus created them.
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Why scientists haven’t cracked consciousness
June 30, 2023 Vox
The science of consciousness still has no theory.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Virus-like transposons cross the species barrier and drive the evolution of genetic incompatibilities
June 30, 2023 Science, v.380, n.6652
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Will science ever be able to create an artificial womb?
June 30, 2023 Genetic Literacy Project
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Ape family tree suggests human ancestors weren’t particularly violent
June 30, 2023 New Scientist
An evolutionary analysis of behavioural traits across primate species may shed light on the question of whether humans are violent by nature
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Epigenetic Mechanisms
June 30, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
Adaptive Master Regulators of the Genome
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Dethroning the Dogma “Mutations Occur at Random”
June 30, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Volcanoes Have Greater Impact on Climate than Thought
June 30, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists know less about geological influences on climate than the popular press claims
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Homo rudolfensis, Another Contentious Homo
June 30, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Discovery Institute Staff Evaluates Synthesis of “Design and Evolution”
June 30, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Peer-reviewed paper by Discovery Institute
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On the Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells
June 30, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science-free schooling for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox draws fire
June 30, 2023 Science
Researchers criticize no-strings funding for religious schools
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Tracing life’s origins with early Earth chemistry
June 30, 2023 Advanced Science News
What role could non-biological molecules have played in helping primitive biological and chemical systems evolve into their current, complex forms?
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Intelligence Is Unnatural, and Why That Matters
June 30, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time
June 29, 2023 Nature
Using beacon stars called pulsars, a decades-long effort has found space-time ripples that are light years wide.
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Video
The Death of Darwin (Evolution) -- The Becket Cook Show, Ep. 129
June 29, 2023 YouTube