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• Dr. Explains Intelligent Design for Prager University

  June 9, 2023 Stephen C. Meyer Wintery Knight

• String theory under fire

  June 9, 2023 Omari Edwards iai News

  Brian Greene and Tasneem Zehra Husain questioned by Roger Penrose and Eric Weinstein

• New Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Models for Reconciling Science and Religion

  June 9, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  On Human Origins

• As Progressive Inquisitors Purge Classrooms of Intelligent Design, ‘ID’ Continues to Grow

  June, 2023 Casey Luskin Daily Wire

• The Gupta Scandal

  June 9, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Powerful microscope captures motor proteins in unprecedented detail

  June 8, 2023 Amanda Heidt Nature

  Called MINFLUX, the super-resolution method allows researchers to track molecules under cellular conditions.

• Octopuses edit their own genetic code to adapt to colder water

  June 8, 2023 Jacklin Kwan New Scientist

  When the temperature drops, octopuses recode their RNA in thousands of places to alter the proteins made in their nerve cells

• Plio-Pleistocene African megaherbivore losses associated with community biomass restructuring

  June 8, 2023 Faysal Bibi and Juan L. Cantalapiedra Science, v.380, n.6649, p.1076-1080

  Mammal faunas in the past were rich, with very large species on all continents, but the vast majority of these species are now extinct. It is reasonably well accepted that the arrival of humans led to extinction of these megafauna in many regions.

• Masters of acclimation: Octopuses adjust to cold by editing their RNA

  June 8, 2023 Marine Biological Laboratory EurekAlert!

  Octopuses use RNA editing to rapidly respond to environmental temperature changes by altering protein function

• News Update/Commentary

  When water temperatures change, the molecular motors of cephalopods do too

  June 8, 2023 University of California, San Diego Science Daily

  Working with live squid hatchlings, scientists find the animals can tune their proteome on the fly in response to changes in ocean temperature via the unique process of RNA recoding. The findings inspire new questions about basic protein function.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Temperature-dependent RNA editing in octopus extensively recodes the neural proteome

  June 8, 2023 Matthew A. Birk, et al. Cell, v.186, p.2544-2555

  Octopuses utilize RNA editing to rapidly respond to environmental temperature changes by altering protein function.

• An Incredible Display of the Brain’s Complexity

  June 8, 2023 Jonathan K. Corrado Institute for Creation Research

  The Cognitive Map

• Friendly Sparring, Verbal and Otherwise

  June 8, 2023 Andrew McDiarmid Evolution News & Science Today

  on a recent episode of The Bryan Callen Show

• Darwinism and the Secular Script for Masculinity

  June 8, 2023 Nancy Pearcey Evolution News & Science Today

  The Barbarian Within

• Ultraviolet light shapes the evolution of precancerous cells

  June 7, 2023 Elli Papaemmanuil Nature

  Much remains to be discovered about how premalignant cells become cancer cells. An analysis of the development of a type of human leukaemia implicates ultraviolet light in triggering a rare form of cancer.

• Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant

  June 7, 2023 Luciana G. Simões, et al. Nature, v.618, p.550–556

  In northwestern Africa, lifestyle transitioned from foraging to food production around 7,400 years ago but what sparked that change remains unclear. Archaeological data support conflicting views

• Was New Atheism a mistake?

  June 7, 2023 Freddie Sayers UnHerd

  Richard Dawkins on God, vaccines and his poetic spirit

• Quantum nothingness might have birthed the Universe

  June 7, 2023 Marcelo Gleiser Big Think

  There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.

• Life before air conditioning: Curly hair kept early humans cool

  June 7, 2023 Francisco Tutella Pennsylvania State University

  Tightly curled scalp hair protected early humans from the sun’s radiative heat, allowing their brains to grow to sizes comparable to those of modern humans.

• Scientists discover ‘lost world’ of early ancestors in billion-year-old rocks

  June 7, 2023 Australian National University EurekAlert!

  The discovery of a “lost world” of ancient organisms that lived in Earth’s waterways at least 1.6 billion years ago could change our understanding of our earliest ancestors.

• Statistical evaluation of character support reveals the instability of higher-level dinosaur phylogeny

  June 7, 2023 David Černý and Ashley L. Simonoff Scientific Reports

• Ancient DNA reveals how farming spread into northwest Africa

  June 7, 2023 Louise Humphrey and Abdeljalil Bouzouggar Nature

  Genomic data from bones and teeth found at archaeological sites across Morocco paint a picture of how Neolithic farmers and pastoralists spread into northwest Africa that is more complex than previously thought.

• Morality is declining, right? Scientists say that idea is an illusion

  June 7, 2023 Mariana Lenharo Nature

  Surveys show people around the world have believed for decades that morals are decaying -- but other survey data contradict that perception.

• What it means to practise values-based research

  June 7, 2023 Spoorthy Raman Nature

  Environmental scientist Max Liboiron ties principles of humility and accountability to research that respects people and their relationship with the land.

• A ‘lost world’ of early microbes thrived one billion years ago

  June 7, 2023 Heidi Ledford Nature

  Fat-like compounds in ancient rocks point to a vast array of previously unknown microorganisms that once dominated complex life on Earth.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown

  June 7, 2023 Jochen J. Brocks, et al. Nature

  Eukaryotic life appears to have flourished surprisingly late in the history of our planet. This view is based on the low diversity of diagnostic eukaryotic fossils in marine sediments of mid-Proterozoic age

• The illusion of moral decline

  June 7, 2023 Adam M. Mastroianni and Daniel T. Gilbert Nature

  people in at least 60 nations believe that morality is declining, for at least the past 70 years, and they attribute this decline both to the decreasing morality of individuals as they age and to the decreasing morality of successive generations

• Crocodiles can reproduce without males -- and maybe dinosaurs could too

  June 7, 2023 Christa Lesté-Lasserre New Scientist

  An egg laid by a female American crocodile with no access to males developed into a fully formed fetus in the first known case of “virgin birth" in a crocodilian

• Blinking is a Big Problem for Evolution

  June 7, 2023 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  New research supports creation, not evolution

• Lingering effects of Neanderthal DNA found in modern humans

  June 7, 2023 Cornell Chronicle

• Scientists Are Skeptical that Intelligence in Homo naledi “Erases Human Exceptionalism”

  June 7, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• How did cholesterol evolve? Oil trapped in ancient rocks hides clues

  June 7, 2023 Gretchen Vogel Science

  Residues more than 1 billion years old reveal new insights into early life on Earth

• Book

  The world is losing its religion. Revival is unlikely.

  June 6, 2023 Yonat Shimron Religion News Service

  REVIEW: Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society by Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun (NYU Press, 2023) | See Also Amazon

• News Update/Commentary

  Older trees accumulate more mutations than their younger counterparts

  June 6, 2023 eLife Science Daily

  A study of the relationship between the growth rate of tropical trees and the frequency of genetic mutations they accumulate suggests that older, long-lived trees play a greater role in generating and maintaining genetic diversity than short-lived trees.

• A Living and Symphonic Order

  June 6, 2023 Ann Gauger Evolution News & Science Today

  Appreciating Anthony Esolen

• Why AI Will Save the World

  June 6, 2023 Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz

  The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out. Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.

• Video

  Fact-Checking James Tour’s Embarrassing Debate Performance

  June 6, 2023 Professor Dave Explains YouTube

  Any rational person who watched my debate with James Tour was immediately struck by Tour's totally insane behavior, focused on chalkboard pageantry and shouting like a deranged lunatic for two full hours.

• Video

  Exposing the lies of Dave Farina, aka “Professor Dave"

  June 6, 2023 The God Talk YouTube

  Over seventy years of multidisciplinary investigations have unraveled that it is extremely unlikely that the Origin of LIfe could have happened without intelligent guidance.

• Stuffing Water into Bird Feathers

  June 6, 2023 Katherine Wright Physics Magazine

  Researchers have uncovered the details of how the feathers of a desert sandgrouse absorb water, a finding that could aid in the design of water-storing artificial materials.

• Scientists Shed Light on Mysterious Habits of Small-Brained Extinct Humans

  June 6, 2023 Jess Thomson Newsweek

• The Species Evolving in the Wrong Direction

  June 6, 2023 Jess Thomson Newsweek

  An adorable but critically endangered species of marsupial is evolving to be more vulnerable to predators, going in the opposite direction to what scientists want it to in order to survive.

• News Update/Commentary

  Electrical synapses in the neural network of insects found to have unexpected role in controlling flight power

  June 6, 2023 Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Science Daily

  experimental neurobiologists and theoretical biologists have solved a mystery that has been baffling scientists for decades. They have determined the nature of the electrical activity in the nervous system of insects that controls their flight.

• How Faith Can Improve Rigor and Creativity in Scientific Research

  June 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today

• Graves, engravings, and tools? Oh my!

  June 6, 2023 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

  In 2013, explorers working on the suggestion of Lee Berger discovered a cache of hominin bones in an extremely remote chamber of the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa. In 2015, the new hominin was introduced to the world

• How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research

  June 6, 2023 Gary Smith The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other statistical sins.

• Video

  “What evidence do we have for God's existence?"

  June 5, 2023 William Lane Craig YouTube

  Livermore Lab Events

• News Update/Commentary

  CRISPR/Cas9 reveals a key gene involved in the evolution of coral skeleton formation

  June 5, 2023 Carnegie Institution for Science Science Daily

  CRISPR/Cas9 technology helps identify cellular and molecular processes that could guide coral conservation and rehabilitation efforts

• Let’s Explore How Cosmology Influenced Christianity

  June 5, 2023 Melissa Cain Travis Evolution News & Science Today

• New Homo Naledi Cave Discoveries Upend What We Know About Being Human

  June 5, 2023 Aylin Woodward Wall Street Journal

  Findings indicate some cultural behavior unique to humans and Neanderthals also present in extinct species Homo naledi

• Burials and engravings in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene

  June 5, 2023 Agustin Fuentes, et al. bioRxiv

  contexts and evolutionary implications