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People with Half Their Brains Removed Do Well on Psych Tests
August 18, 2022 Mind Matters
In a recent study, adults who had had hemispherectomies as children -- to combat severe epilepsy -- performed within 10% of other study subjects on face and word recognition
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Evolution by Devolution
August 18, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How does evolution work? It subtracts things!
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The Miracle of the Human Heart Explained by a Biologist
August 17, 2022 Discovery Science
How many red blood cells are pumped out with each contraction of your heart? And what parts of nature had to be fine-tuned to make our respiratory and circulatory systems even possible?
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West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy
August 17, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Miracle of the Human Heart Explained by Biologist Michael Denton
August 17, 2022 YouTube
How many times will your heart beat in your lifetime? How many red blood cells are pumped out with each contraction of your heart? And what parts of nature had to be fine-tuned to make our respiratory and circulatory systems even possible?
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Why masses of new species have been staring us in the face all along
August 17, 2022 New Scientist
Cutting edge analyses are revealing that species of mammal are more numerous than we thought, with thousands more hiding in plain sight. These discoveries could be key to rescuing biodiversity and preventing future pandemics
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Prior Fitness and Dinosaurs
August 17, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Megalodon Was Bigger, Faster and Even Hungrier
August 17, 2022 New York Times
A 3-D model developed by researchers suggests that the extinct megashark was fiercer than paleontologists previously imagined.
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Harvard Researchers Have Linked Spirituality to Healthier Lives and Longer Lifespans
August 17, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Lungless salamanders develop lungs as embryos despite lung loss in adults for millions of years
August 17, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers find that Plethodontidae, a dominant family of salamanders, all of which are lungless as adults, actually develop lungs as embryos shedding light on the evolution of lung loss over millions of years.
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What if the Big Bang didn't happen?
August 17, 2022 Hot Air
astronomers looking at Webb
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Prokaryotes Are Capable of Learning to Recognize Phages
August 17, 2022 The Scientist
Immune defense genes in bacteria and archaea can identify viral proteins, a study finds, revealing similarities between the immune systems of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms.
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The Energetic Cost of Chewing May Have Shaped Hominin Evolution
August 17, 2022 The Scientist
The simple act of chewing gum can raise the body’s metabolic rate by as much as 15 percent, a study finds.
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Why the Multiverse is a “God-of-the-gaps” theory
August 17, 2022 Big Think
The false assumption the Multiverse relies on is that something which exists requires an explanation.
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Huge volcanic eruptions: time to prepare
August 17, 2022 Nature
More must be done to forecast and try to manage globally disruptive volcanic eruptions. The risks are greater than people think.
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Sac with a mouth and no anus wasn't our earliest ancestor after all
August 17, 2022 New Scientist
Saccorhytus coronarius lived around 500 million years ago and was thought to be a common ancestor of deuterostomes, making it the earliest known ancestor of humans, but it turns out to be on another branch of life
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New research model illuminates how organs communicate with each other
August 17, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers uncover the proteins involved in key communication networks, which could help us better understand conditions like cancer and obesity.
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When Animals Dream review: Making the case for ‘animalhood'
August 17, 2022 New Scientist
In his new book, David Peña-Guzmán argues that animals that can dream have a sense of self, and therefore a far more complex kind of “animalhood" than we thought possible
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Cartilage Evolution Baffles Evolutionists
August 17, 2022 Answers Research Journal, v.15, p.263-267
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Earth sciences researchers locate billion-year-old groundwater in South Africa
August 16, 2022 University of Toronto
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A Christian Theology of Science: Reimagining a Theological Vision of Natural Knowledge
August, 2022 Baker Academic
This book contains an intellectual history of theology's engagement with science during the modern period, critiques current approaches, and makes a constructive proposal for how a Christian theological vision of natural knowledge can be better pursued. | See Also Amazon
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Animal Mind -- Can You Clone Your Beloved Pet's Personality?
August 16, 2022 Mind Matters
People who can charge a great deal for cloning insist that the personality is not cloned… so why do it?
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The Problems of Evolution as a “March of Progress”
August 16, 2022 sapiens
The idea that evolution is a hierarchy of complexity with humans on top lurks in everything from biology classes to politics. It’s time to unlearn this false and harmful view.
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Darwinism at a Tipping Point
August 16, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Some leading evolutionists admit major problems with their theory yet keep trying to solve them by adding more problems
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Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism
August 16, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Intelligent Design and The Designer -- An Opinion
August 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Notorious dark-matter signal could be due to analysis error
August 16, 2022 Nature
Observations that physicists have so far failed to replicate could be the result of misinterpreted data.
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Robin Dunbar examines the possible evolutionary role of religious thinking
August 15, 2022 The Skeptic
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Materialists Have Been Bashing Intelligent Design Since Greece and Rome
August 15, 2022 Hill Faith
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People with half a brain removed do well at face and word recognition
August 15, 2022 New Scientist
Adults who had the left or right hemisphere of their brain removed as children to treat epileptic seizures had accuracy scores of over 80 per cent on word and face recognition tasks
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The Debate Over Design in the Early Church
August 15, 2022 YouTube
Current debates over whether nature displays evidence of intelligent design echo debates that took place in the first centuries of the Christian church. According to John West, there is much we can learn from those earlier debates.
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Faint distant galaxies spotted by JWST may be closer than they appear
August 15, 2022 New Scientist
Because of a calibration update for one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s main cameras, research using the first few weeks of data from the observatory may be flawed
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Road signs for immune defense cells
August 15, 2022 Science Daily
New international study generates insights into the inner workings of the adaptive immune response
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Weird and wonderful world of fungi shaped by evolutionary bursts, study finds
August 15, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity.
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How Fear Restructures the Mouse Brain
August 15, 2022 The Scientist
By combining deep learning and electron microscopy, researchers now have a more detailed understanding of how fear changes the brain.
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Best Bugs: How E. coli Evolves into a Stinkbug Symbiont
August 15, 2022 The Scientist
Experimental evolution study sheds new light on the origin of animal-microbe symbioses and what it takes for bacteria to support their insect hosts.
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Mammoth Support for Devolution
August 15, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Underwater Snow Gives Clues About Europa’s Icy Shell
August 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Mammoth Support for Devolution
August 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Newly Discovered Molecule Fights Off Over 300 Kinds of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
August 15, 2022 Science Alert
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Has a Superintellect Monkeyed with Our Universe's Physics?
August 14, 2022 Mind Matters
Groundbreaking astronomer Fred Hoyle was a staunch atheist but then he tried showing that carbon, essential to life, could form easily. Steve Meyer explains.
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‘Life hates surprises’: can an ambitious theory unify biology, neuroscience and psychology?
August 14, 2022 The Conversation
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James Webb Space Telescope Shows Big Bang Didn't Happen? Wait ...
August 13, 2022 Mind Matters
The unexpected new data coming back from the telescope are inspiring panic among astronomers
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Is dark matter real? Astronomy’s multi-decade mystery
August 13, 2022 Big Think
The key problem with the dark matter hypothesis is that nobody knows what form dark matter might take.
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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
August 13, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Why Breeding Smarter Humans Won't Work: Basic Genetics 101
August 12, 2022 Mind Matters
Biochemist Michael Denton explains that, in human genetics, everything is connected to everything else; geneticists call it pleiotropy
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Magical Thinking in Sauropod Evolution Footwork
August 12, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Giant dinosaurs needed foot pads to support their weight, so evolution gave it to them.
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Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike
August 12, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientific American finds the search for extraterrestrial intelligence racist and colonialist
August 12, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
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Genesis 1:29,30: Did animals suffer before the fall of Adam and Eve? Part 3
August 12, 2022 YouTube
Old-age views of the earth inevitably lead to a view of nature that must include predation, suffering, and pain. Yet do the Scriptures allow for this provision? In this series, Dr. Ken Coulson investigates