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String theory is dead
February 23, 2023 iai News
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Big dino, little dino: how T. rex’s relatives changed their size
February 23, 2023 Nature
‘Impressive’ fossil analysis reveals why some dinosaurs were massive but their cousins were tiny.
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery of massive early galaxies defies prior understanding of the universe
February 23, 2023 Science Daily
Six massive galaxies discovered in the early universe are upending what scientists previously understood about the origins of galaxies in the universe.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of dinosaur body size through different developmental mechanisms
February 23, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists puzzling over how such wildly different dinosaur sizes evolved recently found -- to their surprise -- that smaller and larger theropod dinosaurs like these didn't necessarily get that way merely by growing slower or faster.
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News Update/Commentary
Single gene causes sea anemone's stinging cell to lose its sting
February 23, 2023 Science Daily
When scientists disabled a single regulatory gene in a species of sea anemone, a stinging cell that shoots a venomous miniature harpoon for hunting and self-defense shifted to shoot a sticky thread that entangles prey instead, according to a new study.
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Nobody Can Explain Early Galaxies
February 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Mature galaxies right near the beginning -- this repeated theme has secular theorists at wit’s end
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Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I
February 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
An Engineering Marvel
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The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why
February 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Arrows Found in 54,000 Year-Old Cave
February 23, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Why “Junk DNA” Sequences Are Not Deleted
February 23, 2023 Uncommon Descent
Because Evolution, We Are Told, “Rejects Them”
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Developmental strategies underlying gigantism and miniaturization in non-avialan theropod dinosaurs
February 23, 2023 Science, v.379, n.6634, p.811-814
Over evolutionary history, many different taxa have evolved very large body sizes. The general consensus has been that an animal grows to a large size based on an increase in growth rate.
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Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem
February 22, 2023 Journal for General Philosophy of Science, v.54, p.59-286
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The endocast from Dana Aoule North (DAN5/P1)
February 22, 2023 American Journal of Biological Anthropology
A 1.5 million year-old human braincase from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
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The Webb Telescope Spots Six Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist
February 22, 2023 Time
Early galaxies, so the rule goes, were pipsqueaks. Or at least that’s what the rule used to be.
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Animals' ‘sixth sense' is more widespread than previously thought
February 22, 2023 phys.org
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The Carbon Canyon Fold, Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona
February 22, 2023 Answers Research Journal
sandstone beds look as though they were bent smoothly while they were still unlithified and soft. Such a conclusion is preposterous if there were ~450 million years between deposition
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There is no evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang
February 22, 2023 Big Think
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we've seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven't.
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Europe’s first humans hunted with bows and arrows
February 22, 2023 Nature
A cave site in France holds hundreds of tiny stone points, alongside remains thought to belong to Homo sapiens.
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The amazing ways electricity in your body shapes you and your health
February 22, 2023 New Scientist
Your cells crackle with electric signals that guide embryonic development and heal wounds. If we can learn to tweak this “bioelectric code”, we might be able to prevent cancer and even grow new limbs
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News Update/Commentary
A new model offers an explanation for the huge variety of sizes of DNA in nature
February 22, 2023 Science Daily
Why is ‘junk DNA' not deleted from the original genome over millions of years of evolution?
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Zombie Science: Vestigial Organs Are Back!
February 22, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The vestigial organ claim: The belief that will not die -- evolutionists attempt to resurrect it again!
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Meet the Ghostly Organisms that Rescue the Planet
February 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang
February 22, 2023 Nature, v.616, p.266-269
Galaxies with stellar masses as high as roughly 1011 solar masses have been identified out to redshifts z of roughly 6, around 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
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A Remarkably Candid Statement About an Unsolved Evolutionary Puzzle
February 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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What the Higgs boson tells us about the universe
February 21, 2023 Symmetry magazine
The Higgs boson is the only fundamental particle known to be scalar, meaning it has no quantum spin. This fact answers questions about our universe, but it also raises new ones.
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Video
A Theory of Biological Design
February 21, 2023 YouTube
Engineer Steve Laufmann discusses a theory of biological design. | See Also Your Designed Body
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Artificially Intelligent Offense?
February 21, 2023 Quillette
ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense.
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There is Only Entropy
February 21, 2023 Skeptic
Unifying the Narrative of Science
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ChatGPT answers physics questions like a confused C student
February 21, 2023 Big Think
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
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Mars rover sensors may not be sensitive enough to find signs of life
February 21, 2023 New Scientist
While testing Mars rover sensors in the Atacama desert, researchers inadvertently found a variety of unclassifiable microorganisms called “the dark biome”
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Infants outperform AI in ‘commonsense psychology'
February 21, 2023 Science Daily
New study shows how infants are more adept at spotting motivations that drive human behavior
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Gene variations for immune and metabolic conditions have persisted in humans for more than 700,000 years
February 21, 2023 Science Daily
Genetic study of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans points to the importance of ‘balancing selection' in evolution
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More Fossils Contradict Evolutionary Tales
February 21, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How many more anomalies will it take to overturn the Darwin empire with its assumption of gradual evolutionary progress?
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Jim Tour Unmasks Inaccurate Commentary on the Origin of Life
February 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
and Steve Benner’s Double Standard
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Yeast Gives Evidence of “Genes-in-Waiting”
February 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria
February 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Everybody Believes in Intelligent Design Where Money Is Concerned
February 21, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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How Did Microproteins Appear from Nowhere?
February 21, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Book
Darwin Comes to Africa: Social Darwinism and British Imperialism in Northern Nigeria
February, 2023 Discovery Institute
Charles Darwin fathered not just a scientific theory, but a toxic social ideology that fueled racist colonial policies in Africa. In this sobering book, an African scholar traces the insidious impact of Darwinian ideas on British imperial policies | See Also Amazon
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Transhumanism, and the image of God
February 21, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists make stunning discovery, find new protein activity in telomeres
February 20, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers made the stunning discovery that telomeres contain genetic information to produce two small proteins, one of which they found is elevated in some human cancer cells, as well as cells from patients suffering from telomere-related defects.
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Video
11 Archaeological Finds for the Gospels
February 20, 2023 YouTube
Titus Kennedy's top 10 archaeological discoveries and his response to one challenge against the reliability of the Gospels. From the discovery of the Herod Coins to the Temple Building in John 2, we talk about many artifacts and findings
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How your brain decides what to think
February 20, 2023 The Conversation
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How Earth’s molecules got their “handedness”
February 20, 2023 Ohio State University
Researchers propose new mechanism for early chemical evolution
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An Amazing Plant Defense
February 20, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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When Darwin Came to Africa
February 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Spinosaur Brain Shows “Preadaptation” for Catching Fish
February 20, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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We Can’t Seem To Copy the “Natural Engineering” of the Human Heart
February 20, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Why Artificial Intelligence Can Never Outpace Humans
February 20, 2023 The Federalist
The truth is that there are dimensions to humans that no AI, no matter how advanced, will ever be able to replicate.
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Can Creationists Accept Evolution?
February 17, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Evolution is antithetical to Scripture, even within a young-earth paradigm.