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Stephen Meyer, Charlie Kirk: Return of WHAT God Hypothesis?
September 1, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Discover a Secret Messenger Between Fat and the Brain
September 1, 2022 Science Alert
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News Update/Commentary
Ferns finally get a genome, revealing a history of DNA hoarding and kleptomania
September 1, 2022 Science Daily
Two new articles are rewriting history with the first full-length genomes for homosporous ferns, a large group that contains 99% of all modern fern diversity.
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A Different Take on E. O. Wilson
September, 2022 Skeptical Inquirer, v.46, n.5
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover new kind of synapse in neurons' tiny hairs
September 1, 2022 Science Daily
The commonly overlooked protrusions called primary cilia contain special junctions that act as a shortcut for sending signals quickly and directly to the cell's nucleus, inducing changes to the cell's chromatin that forms chromosomes.
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Large Scientific Collaborations Aim to Complete Human Genome
September 1, 2022 The Scientist
Thirty years out from the start of the Human Genome Project, researchers have finally finished sequencing the full 3 billion bases of a person’s genetic code. But even a complete reference genome has its shortcomings.
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Big Science Intensifying Indoctrination
September 1, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Big Science has long excused indoctrination, but now they are going all in for “interventions” to target non-consensus views
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How to Sell Pseudoscience
September, 2022 Skeptical Inquirer, v.46, n.5
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Study of 300-million-year-old feces finds meat on the menu
August 31, 2022 phys.org
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Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause"?
August 31, 2022 Mind Matters
The incidental discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms
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Researchers Find More Ways That Human and Ape Brains Differ
August 31, 2022 Mind Matters
Underlying the significant differences in brain -- to say nothing of the vast difference in mind -- is a genetic mystery…
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Scientism Is Unbelievable
August 31, 2022 YouTube
Historian of science Michael Keas critiques the idea of “scientism," the claim that only science (not religion) is reasonable. He explains how this idea is based on fake stories about Christianity being at war with science in history.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Inheritance of somatic mutations by animal offspring
August 31, 2022 Science Advances, v.8, n.35
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‘I’ve got a dinosaur!’ African find illuminates dawn of dinos
August 31, 2022 Science
230 million years ago, the earliest dinosaurs thrived in mild climates
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Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa
August 31, 2022 New Scientist
A predecessor of the long-necked sauropods named Mbiresaurus raathi provides clues about how climate restricted the range of early dinosaurs
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Africa’s oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution
August 31, 2022 Nature
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News Update/Commentary
Corals pass mutations acquired during their lifetimes to offspring
August 31, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have documented that corals can pass mutations acquired during their lifetimes to their offspring, providing increased genetic diversity for potential evolutionary adaptation.
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Humanized Mice: More than the Sum of Their Parts
August 31, 2022 The Scientist
Scientists study human health in vivo with modified mice that molecularly mimic human biology.
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Natural Selection’s Death-Driven Worldview
August 31, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Monkeys Look for Patterns that Aren’t There -- Just Like Humans Do
August 31, 2022 The Scientist
Macaques continued to search for answers to an unsolvable laboratory task, seemingly refusing to believe that the correct answers were random and inconsistent.
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The Venus Flytrap’s Snap
August 31, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Evolution Fails to Explain the Vertebrate Camera-Type Eye
August 31, 2022 Answers Research Journal, v.15, p.277-283
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Flower Explosion Blows Evo Cred
August 31, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If a new estimate of flowering plant origins is not retracted, you can stop believing evolutionists now. They’re nuts.
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Quentin Smith -- What Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Mean?
August 31, 2022 YouTube
That the universe is ‘fine-tuned' is generally not controversial. The laws of physics have to be ‘just so' for anything we know, including ourselves, to exist. But why this is so and what this may mean is highly controversial.
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Who is Ancestor X? The biggest mystery in human evolution
August 31, 2022 New Scientist
The search for the direct ancestor of humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans has been protracted and puzzling. Now, fresh clues are adding a surprising twist to the tale
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The dangers of science behind closed doors
August 31, 2022 iai News
The growing gulf between science and the public
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information
August 31, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Silence of the Space Aliens
August 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Puzzled Because James Webb Is Seeing Stuff That Shouldn't Be There
August 30, 2022 The Byte
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The Silence of the Space Aliens
August 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Study Reveals Flaws in Popular Genetic Method
August 30, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Philosopher: I'm Neither Me, Myself Nor I ... Yet I Give Interviews!
August 30, 2022 Mind Matters
Theoretical philosopher Thomas Metzinger tells his interviewer “Nobody ever had or was a self. Selves are not part of reality.”
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The “Empty” Space in the Brain Has Vital Functions
August 30, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Extra-cellular space (ECS) -- the space between brain cells -- has important functions that are ‘mind boggling,’ too.
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle
August 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine
August 30, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Anima Anandkumar wants computer scientists to move beyond the matrix, among other challenges.
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Fungi evolved their weird and wild shapes in two big bursts
August 30, 2022 New Scientist
The vast array of shapes that fungi can take, including colourful mushroom caps and tangles of thread-like moulds, evolved in two big bursts hundreds of millions of years ago
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What on earth is a xenobot?
August 30, 2022 Aeon
The more we understand how cells produce shape and form, the more inadequate the idea of a genomic blueprint looks
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Major, Groundbreaking Increase in Hype in Grant Applications
August 30, 2022 The Scientist
Projects funded by the National Institutes of Health increasingly employ subjective and promotional language in describing research, a study finds.
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Will we ever define the conscious mind?
August 30, 2022 Big Think
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
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Evolutionary Dinosaur Analysis Leads to Bizarre Conclusion
August 29, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: More Guidance on Reading Jason Rosenhouse
August 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”
August 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Transits Through Milky Way’s Spiral Arms Helped Form Early Earth’s Continental Crust
August 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Can We Predict Evolution?
August 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Yes, Plants May Be Conscious Too, Says Researcher
August 29, 2022 Mind Matters
Paco Calvo has authored many papers in respected journals; his view is another instance of panpsychism overtaking materialism in science
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How We Know the Mind Is About Information, Not Matter or Energy
August 29, 2022 Mind Matters
The computer program’s world is one of binary 0 or 1 decisions but the physical world is one of many different shades of more or less
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Is your mind just a parasite on your physical body?
August 29, 2022 Freethink
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
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5 consensus ideas in astronomy that might soon be overturned
August 29, 2022 Big Think
From black holes to dark energy to chances for life in the Universe, our cosmic journey to understand it all is just getting started.
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Webb telescope spots CO2 on exoplanet for first time: What it means for finding alien life
August 29, 2022 Nature
Report heralds what’s to come from the landmark observatory, which is set to explore 76 worlds during its first year.
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Microscopy technique reveals hidden nanostructures in cells and tissues
August 29, 2022 MIT News
Separating densely packed molecules before imaging allows them to become visible for the first time.