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Blog Post
Media Lying About Climate and Hurricanes
October 4, 2022
It's time to state the obvious.
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Computer Takeover Won't Happen, Say a Scientist and Philosopher
October 4, 2022 Mind Matters
Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith say that the Singularity advocates are missing something fundamental about computers vs. humans
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Here’s how life on Earth might have formed out of thin air and water
October 4, 2022 Popular Science
When droplets of water react with the air, life-starting things may happen.
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Demonstrations of quantum entanglement earn the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2022 Physics Today
By investigating the mysteries of quantum mechanics, Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger also set the stage for emerging quantum technologies.
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The Big Bang Bust-Up
October 4, 2022 iai News
HowTheLightGetsIn debates the origin of the universe
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Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose
October 4, 2022 New Scientist
A series of chemistry experiments suggest that a molecule that provides energy for all living cells, called ATP, could have been forged in geothermal vents in the ocean or created in freshwater ponds
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‘Pale blue dot' planets like Earth may make up only 1% of potentially habitable worlds
October 4, 2022 space.com
We may need to look for “pale yellow dots" instead.
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Is theoretical physics broken? Or is it just hard?
October 4, 2022 Big Think
When you don't have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
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Can God Be Proved Mathematically?
October 4, 2022 Scientific American
Some mathematicians have sought a logical proof for the existence of God. Here’s what they discovered
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News Update/Commentary
‘Kipferl': Guiding the defense against jumping genes
October 4, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers describe how different types of repetitive DNA elements are controlled by the same silencing mechanism in fruit fly ovaries. Central to their findings is an uncharacterized protein that the researchers named ‘Kipferl'
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient chemistry may explain why living things use ATP as the universal energy currency
October 4, 2022 Science Daily
An early step in metabolic evolution set the stage for emergence of ATP as the universal energy carrier
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Our ancestors’ prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps
October 3, 2022 New Scientist
Early humans evolved a faster fetal growth rate than other apes about a million years ago, suggesting it could have played a role in the evolution of our species
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Nobel win for Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA
October 3, 2022 ABC News (Associated Press)
Swedish scientist Svante Paabo has won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries on human evolution
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Do Fish Skulls Show Evolution?
October 3, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Symbiotic Organs: Extreme Intimacy with the Microbial World
October 3, 2022 The Scientist
All multicellular creatures interact with bacteria, but some have taken the relationship to another level with highly specialized structures that house, feed, and exploit the tiny organisms.
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Black holes can’t trash info about what they swallow -- and that’s a problem
October 3, 2022 ars technica
Solving the information paradox could unlock quantum gravity and unification of forces.
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New Nobel Laureate, Svante Pääbo, on the “Politics” of Paleontology and Humans Origins
October 3, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why does time go forwards, not backwards?
October 3, 2022 BBC
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The 5 greatest puzzles in fundamental physics
October 3, 2022 Big Think
From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic ones, solving any of these puzzles could unlock our understanding of the Universe.
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Can stringy physics rescue the universe from a catastrophic transformation?
October 3, 2022 space.com
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News Update/Commentary
The fountain of life: Water droplets hold the secret ingredient for building life
October 3, 2022 Science Daily
Chemists discover key to early Earth chemistry, which could unlock ways to speed up chemical synthesis for drug discovery
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The Humble Bee
October 3, 2022 Answers in Genesis
A Flying Supercomputer!
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover dual-function messenger RNA
October 3, 2022 Science Daily
A new study has discovered an unprecedented pathway producing telomerase RNA from a protein-coding messenger RNA (mRNA).
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Ancient DNA pioneer Svante Pääbo wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 3, 2022 Science
By sequencing genomes of extinct hominins, Pääbo explored “what makes us uniquely human”
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Is the body key to understanding consciousness?
October 2, 2022 The Guardian
A new understanding of the fundamental connection between mind and body explains phenomena such as phantom limbs, and has surprising implications
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Chemists journey to the center of the Earth
October 2, 2022 Chemical & Engineering News
The chemistry of the core drives our planet’s magnetic field and holds clues about Earth’s history. Geochemists are going to extremes to understand it
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Life: Designed to not evolve
October, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater
October, 2022 Res Philosophica, v.99, n.4, p.403-425
The Dangers of Global and Local Ontologies in Scientific Metaphysics
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Blind Cave Fish as a Model System for Continuous Environmental Tracking and Adaptive Engineering
October, 2022 Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.58, n.4, p.289-296
Catching the Vision
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Molecular Baraminology of Primates
October, 2022 Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.59, p.72-80
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The Big Whimper
October, 2022 The New Atlantis
Why cosmology may not end with a bang
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A Scientist’s Arduous Path from Hard Atheism to Faith
October, 2022 Salvo, n.62
a long surrender
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Fast folding cells perform a truly amazing feat … and have from the beginning
October, 2022 Creation Ministries International
One of the biggest mysteries in biology is how the body’s cells fold up long protein molecules.
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Darwin, Marx, and two letters
October, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Video
Miraculously preserved 1-million-year-old human skull discovered in China
September 30, 2022 CNN
Chinese archaeologists discovered an incredibly well-preserved 1-million-year-old Homo erectus skull, filling a major gap in our understanding of human evolution.
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Creation Pioneer David Coppedge
September 30, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Pine Trees’ Fragrances Help Neighbors Battle Bark Beetles
September 30, 2022 The Scientist
Polluted air impedes the trees’ ability to read one another’s signals, a study finds.
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Walking Whales and Why All Critiques of the Waiting Time Problem Fail
September 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Creation Pioneer John Baumgardner
September 30, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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T-Rex Skeleton Expected to Fetch Up to $25 Million at Auction
September 29, 2022 Bloomberg News
A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil will go to auction at Christie’s in Hong Kong in November
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Goliath -- the BHG
September 29, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Seven archaeological evidences for the biblical giant
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Revisiting the first dinosaur park
September 29, 2022 Science
A once-ridiculed sculpture display is worth a second look
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Earth was seasoned by countless blows
September 29, 2022 Science
astronomers have yet to definitively find an Earth-like planet with the necessary characteristics to support life. Does this apparent rarity of Earth-like planets have something to do with the way Earth was formed?
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News Update/Commentary
Human ‘blastoids' offer medical hope but also deep ethical challenges
September 29, 2022 Science Daily
Research performed on human blastoids, a research model of an early embryo built out of stem cells, may allow scientists to understand better what causes birth defects and lost pregnancies, and so prevent them.
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An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin
September 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem
September 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Violent conflict in Myanmar linked to boom in fossil amber research, study claims
September 29, 2022 Science
Among hundreds of scientific publications, almost none include Myanmar researchers
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Biologists Use Genetic Circuits to Program Plant Roots
September 28, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Using inserted genetic circuitry, synthetic biologists controlled the growth of plant roots for the first time.
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Ancient fish fossils highlight the strangeness of our vertebrate ancestors
September 28, 2022 Science News
Nearly 440-million-year-old finds from China are of some of the first vertebrates with jaws
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News Update/Commentary
Revealing the genome of the common ancestor of all mammals
September 28, 2022 Science Daily
The reconstructed ancestral genome could help in understanding the evolution of mammals and in conservation of modern animals. The earliest mammal ancestor likely looked like the fossil animal ‘Morganucodon' which lived about 200 million years ago.