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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms
December 11, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise.
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Inconsistency Turns Up Again for Cosmological Observations
December 11, 2023 Physics, v.16
A new analysis of the distribution of matter in the Universe continues to find a discrepancy in the clumpiness of dark matter in the late and early Universe, suggesting a fundamental error in the standard cosmological model.
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Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists
December 11, 2023 Nature
Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour.
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Were Neanderthals soulful inventors or strange cannibals?
December 11, 2023 Nature
To understand the true otherness of Neanderthals, researchers must rethink the meaning they give to their archaeological finds, argues a new book.
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Fossil Leaf Miners
December 11, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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How Scientific Materialism Begot Woke Ideology
December 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Stephen Meyer and Spencer Klavan on the Book of Nature
December 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Is There an Author?
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The oldest black hole ever observed, dating to dawn of universe
December 10, 2023 The Guardian
Exclusive: astronomers surprised at size of 13bn-year-old object, which raises new questions about where black holes came from
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Early Humans Chose Their Toolmaking Rocks with Care
December 9, 2023 Mind Matters
Different types of flint were useful for different purposes 70,000 to 30,000 years ago
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Can the Simplest Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?
December 8, 2023 Mind Matters
Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “overwhelmingly white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs
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Exposing Discovery Institute Part 8
December 8, 2023 YouTube
Moving right along through the DI roster of loser apologists, we get to Jonathan Wells
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Is Consciousness Entirely Physical?
December 8, 2023 YouTube
if consciousness is the output of the physical brain by itself, however complex, then consciousness as physicalism would defeat those who believe, or hope for, the existence of nonphysical realities
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Woke Ideology as Scientific Materialism’s Legitimate Offspring
December 8, 2023
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COP28 vs Science
December 8, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The UN climate conference is making world-shattering decisions based on questionable scientific inference
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Cretaceous Insect Chimera Illustrates a Design Principle
December 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design?
December 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Consider the Bacterial Flagellum
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Dinosaurs
December 8, 2023 YouTube
We discuss how the fossil record can be reconciled with a young earth creationist point of view, predators before the fall, Behemoth and Leviathan, dragons, the serpent of Genesis 3 and much more!
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Tyrannosaur’s Stomach Contents Have Been Found for the First Time
December 8, 2023 Scientific American
The fossilized stomach contents of a tyrannosaur have been found for the first time, revealing what the fearsome predator ate
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‘Dark force' theory could solve 2 open cosmic mysteries
December 8, 2023 space.com
“Now there is an intriguing possibility that dark matter may be more complex and vibrant than we expected."
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic mutations that promote reproduction tend to shorten human lifespan
December 8, 2023 Science Daily
A study based on a review of genetic and health information from more than 276,000 people finds strong support for a decades-old evolutionary theory that sought to explain aging and senescence.
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News Update/Commentary
New genes can arise from nothing
December 8, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers described a mechanism that creates DNA palindromes of small regulatory genes. Under suitable circumstances, these palindromes evolve into microRNA genes.
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The world’s largest proteins? These mega-molecules turn bacteria into predators
December 8, 2023 Nature
A candidate for the largest known protein might help killer aquatic bacteria to devour other microbes -- but it’s not easy to study the behemoths, or prove they’re even real.
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Mice Pass the Mirror Test -- Not a Self-Knowledge Test
December 7, 2023 Mind Matters
Whether an animal recognizes its own image surely has less to do with self-awareness than with the role that sight -- as a sense -- plays in its life
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Can AI Write Screenplays for Films You'd Want To See?
December 7, 2023 Mind Matters
That issue was the heart of the Hollywood writers’ strike. How was it resolved? Or WAS it resolved?
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In Light of Contemporary Physics, Does Physical Reality Have a Cause or Beginning?
December 7, 2023 YouTube
atheist philosopher Daniel Linford and Christian philosopher Andrew Loke debate
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Culturally determined interspecies communication between humans and honeyguides
December 7, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6675, p.1155-1158
Honeyguides, a species of African bird, are well known to guide other species to beehives. Their closest and most successful collaborators are humans.
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Molecular Fossils Shed Light on Ancient Life
December 7, 2023 University of California, Davis
Using tools from geology and genetics, researchers are uncovering evidence of a shift in how the first living things ate, based on molecular fossils, organic traces from billion year-old rocks.
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Plant fossils turn out to be turtles in ‘unusual misidentification’
December 7, 2023 The Guardian
Re-examination finds what were taken to be veins of leaves are actually bone growth patterns
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ChatGPT often won't defend its answers -- even when it is right
December 7, 2023 Science Daily
ChatGPT may do an impressive job at correctly answering complex questions, but a new study suggests it may be absurdly easy to convince the AI chatbot that it's in the wrong.
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“Bird-Like'' Tracks Before Birds
December 7, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era
December 7, 2023 Science Daily
New model suggests that volcanic eruption combined with ocean detoxification pushed Earth's biology to tipping point
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Pat-a-Pan: Chimp-Bonobo Myth Debunked
December 7, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Everyone has been told that chimps are aggressive and bonobos are cooperative. It’s not true.
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The Interactome Multiplies Specified Complexity
December 7, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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People, not the climate, caused the decline of the giant mammals
December 7, 2023 Aarhus University
For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past several thousand years. A new study from Aarhus University confirms that climate cannot be the explanation.
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Big Bang observatory tops wish list for big US physics projects
December 7, 2023 Nature
Report also supports projects of unprecedented scale to study dark matter, neutrinos and the Higgs boson.
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Neuroscience Must Be Dualist, Whether or Not “Science" Allows It
December 6, 2023 Mind Matters
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Flood Expert Finds Evidence for Noah’s Flood
December 6, 2023 YouTube
If there really was a global flood -- as the Bible has always said -- then there should be abundant evidence of that fact, right?
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Earth may have had all the elements needed for life within it all along
December 6, 2023 The Conversation
contrary to theories that these elements came from meteorites
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First map of human limb development reveals unexpected growth processes
December 6, 2023 Wellcome Sanger Institute
Scientists reveal unprecedented insights into human limb development, including the many intricate processes that govern their formation.
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Why didn’t gamma radiation prevent life on Earth from starting?
December 6, 2023 Cosmos Magazine
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Response to “The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird”
December 6, 2023 Answers Research Journal, v.16, p.577-593
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‘The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird’
December 6, 2023 Answers Research Journal, v.16, p.595-634
Reply to the Response to
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New Book on Scopes Trial Exposes Racism
December 6, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
This is the first book documenting the fact that the Scopes Trial was, at its heart, about racism
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Nature’s Wonder -- A Tale of Two Scientists
December 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate
December 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era
December 6, 2023 Indiana University
New model suggests that volcanic eruption combined with ocean detoxification pushed Earth’s biology to tipping point
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Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’
December 6, 2023 Nature
Polar ice, coral reefs and other Earth systems could cross irrevocable thresholds soon, but urgent action could stave off the worst effects.
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Humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?
December 6, 2023 Nature
Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves more than 45,000 years ago, but their art is disappearing rapidly. Researchers are trying to discover what’s causing the damage and how to stop it -- before the murals are gone forever.
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Why the Turing Test Is Becoming Obsolete
December 5, 2023 Mind Matters
Chatbots can easily pass the test without doing any thinking at all
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News Update/Commentary
Can signs of life be detected from Saturn's frigid moon?
December 5, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have shown unambiguous laboratory evidence that amino acids transported in the ice plumes of Saturn's moon, Eceladus, can survive impact speeds of up to 4.2 km/s