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When Scholars Simply Don't Want To Believe Something Obvious ...
December 21, 2022 Mind Matters
… they are very good at developing clever arguments to avoid seeing it
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A Generic Response to William Lane Craig Concerning Genre and Genealogies in Genesis
December 21, 2022 Answers Research Journal
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Birds Resist Darwinian Scenarios
December 21, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Bird evolution scenario attempts fail, illustrating how evolution-tinted glasses can blind experts to the facts
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“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask
December 21, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
The other paleo diet: Rare discovery of dinosaur remains preserved with its last meal
December 21, 2022 Science Daily
Unusual fossil reveals more about the diet of Microraptor, a bird-like dinosaur with four wings
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Diet of Cretaceous Feathered Dinosaur Included Mammals
December 21, 2022 Science News
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Fossil offers ultra rare piece of evidence showing a dinosaur eating a mammal
December 21, 2022 EurekAlert!
Preserved gut contents of Microraptor show the species had a more diverse diet than previously thought
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First evidence found of a dinosaur eating a mammal
December 21, 2022 phys.org
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Drying process could be key step in the development of life
December 21, 2022 University of Wisconsin, Madison
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“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask
December 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Neanderthal Man Had a Thing for Big Eagles -- and Hyenas
December 20, 2022 Mind Matters
But we haven’t found evidence that Neanderthals were much interested in dogs
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Will Chatbots Put Writers Out of Business?
December 20, 2022 Mind Matters
Some writers are saying yes. Machines can now do mediocre, run of the mill writing
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NIH denies scientists access to genetic databases if research deemed stigmatizing
December 20, 2022 The College Fix
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Conscious Machines May Never Be Possible
December 20, 2022 Wired
No matter how smart it may seem, people won’t be saying “It’s conscious!” about an AI in 2023.
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News Update/Commentary
Network neuroscience theory best predictor of intelligence
December 20, 2022 Science Daily
A new analysis offers the clearest picture yet of how various brain regions and neural networks contribute to a person's problem-solving ability in a variety of contexts, a trait known as general intelligence
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News Update/Commentary
Orangutan communication sheds light on human speech origins
December 20, 2022 Science Daily
Orangutans' tree-dwelling nature means they use their mouth, lips and jaw as a ‘fifth hand', unlike ground-dwelling African apes. Their sophisticated use of their mouths, mean orangutans communicate using a rich variety of consonant sounds.
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Hint of crack in standard model vanishes in LHC data
December 20, 2022 Nature
Discrepancy in measurement of a type of particle decay had raised hopes of new physics.
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Small and speedy animals perceive time faster than big, slow creatures
December 20, 2022 New Scientist
A comparison of 138 species finds that dragonflies perceive changes in their environment five times faster than humans and 400 times faster than starfish
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Living in trees may have given great apes vocal skills for consonants
December 20, 2022 New Scientist
A comparison of consonant-like sounds in great apes suggests an arboreal lifestyle may have been a step towards complex speech in our ancestors
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ABG Cosmology: Anything But God
December 20, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Cosmologists can admit total ignorance about origins and publish “science” articles, as long as they remain ABG.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Generalist diet of Microraptor zhaoianus included mammals
December 20, 2022 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
| See Also online document
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Secrets revealed by ancient DNA in 2022
December 20, 2022 CNN
The Black Death’s legacy, Neanderthal family ties, and others
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What Sort of Ethics Would Aliens Practice?
December 20, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Perfectly Preserved Insects and Plants Point to Warm Greenland Future
December 20, 2022 Scientific American
A mile-long ice sample extracted by the U.S. military while it was studying whether to arm Greenland with nuclear missiles during the cold war is yielding insights into the Greenland ice sheet’s future in a warming world
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The Mechanisms of Noah's Flood
December 19, 2022 YouTube
at “A Flood of Evidence" conference with the El Paso Creation Network in 2022
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Large Learning Models Are an Unfortunate Detour in AI
December 19, 2022 Mind Matters
Even though LLMs have no way of assessing the truth or falsity of the text they generate, the responses sound convincing
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Bursting Oil Bubble Chemistry and More
December 19, 2022 YouTube
Concluding the discussion on Lee Cronin, this episode peers into the manufactured oil bubbles from his lab, looking for any resemblance of life's necessary machinery, either in modern cellular life or some prehistoric, protocellular precursor.
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Marine Invertebrate Antibiotic
December 19, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Stresses and hydrodynamics: Scientists uncover new organizing principles of the genome
December 19, 2022 Science Daily
Discovery offers insights into the genome's functionality
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The Pseudoscience of Psychoanalyzing Aliens
December 19, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
One cannot determine the motives of speculative beings that are completely unknown
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Let’s Thank the Scientists Who Uplift Us
December 19, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Salt of the Earth Regulates Habitability
December 19, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Universe May Be More Unstable Than You Think
December 19, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Scholars Criticize Scientific Models
December 18, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Modeling is common in the sciences, but models and reality are different things. Two recent articles warn that models can generate misleading conclusions.
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The Miracle of Man
December 18, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Why Many Researchers Now See the Brain As a Quantum System
December 18, 2022 Mind Matters
The hypothesis is that the brain relies on quantum physics, not classical physics, to power thinking processes
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Why We Should Not Trust Chatbots As Sources of Information
December 18, 2022 Mind Matters
A linguist and an information theorist say that chatbots lack any awareness of the information they provide -- and that matters
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Your Designed Body: Engineering Hurdles
December 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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How JWST revolutionized astronomy in 2022
December 16, 2022 Nature
The far-seeing observatory has served up revelations from the most distant reaches of the Universe to a moon orbiting Saturn.
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C-SPAN Asks Marks: How Can AI Be Made Sentient? Innovative?
December 16, 2022 Mind Matters
If they were hoping for a computers to be their best buddies, they might be disappointed in the computer engineer’s answer
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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2022
December 16, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
From scientists uncovering the first dinosaur built to swim to finding a new species that looked a lot like T. rex, these were the year’s biggest stories
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The universe may be more unstable than you think
December 16, 2022 Astronomy magazine
The cosmos is considered metastable, which means there is a chance it could fall apart -- or it already has.
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Darwinism Is the Scrooge of Science
December 16, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Character becomes twisted in Darwinism; righteousness is trashed, and vice is rationalized.
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This Year’s Most Thought-Provoking Brain Discoveries
December 16, 2022 Scientific American
Neural circuits that label experiences as “good” or “bad” and the emotional meaninglessness of facial expressions are some standouts among 2022’s mind and brain breakthroughs
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The Giant Armadillo Glyptodon and the Abrupt Origin of Xenarthrans
December 16, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Adam or Apes Dallas Film Premiere
December 15, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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This ancient language puzzle was impossible to solve -- until a PhD student cracked the code
December 15, 2022 Popular Science
The discovery makes it possible to translate any word written in Sanskrit.
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Comet Impacts Could Bring Ingredients for Life to Europa’s Ocean
December 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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What Is Art Without the Human Mind?
December 15, 2022 Mind Matters
AI art tools can wow us with technical skill, but fail to generate meaning
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Fossil Defies So-Called Brain Evolution
December 15, 2022 Institute for Creation Research