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Dinosaur Convergence Loses Its Grasp
July 7, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It looks like a T. rex but it wasn’t, they say; Darwin Flubber rescues the tale.
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Record-setting quantum entanglement connects two atoms across 20 miles
July 7, 2022 New Atlas
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The laws of the universe are changing
July 7, 2022 iai News
An interview with the physics pioneer
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This Simple Fish May Have Been One of the First Vertebrates
July 7, 2022 The Scientist
A fossil analysis suggests that the yunnanozoan, a wormlike fish that flourished around 520 million years ago, sported structures that were the precursors of the head and jaws of modern vertebrates.
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News Update/Commentary
A new giant dinosaur gives insight into why many prehistoric meat-eaters had such tiny arms
July 7, 2022 Science Daily
Discovery provides insight about the evolution and anatomy of big, carnivorous dinosaurs
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News Update/Commentary
The beginning of life: The early embryo is in the driver's seat
July 7, 2022 Science Daily
One often thinks that the early embryo is fragile and needs support. However, at the earliest stages of development, it has the power to feed the future placenta and instructs the uterus so that it can nest.
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News Update/Commentary
Human-like robots may be perceived as having mental states
July 7, 2022 Science Daily
Some people perceive robots that display emotions as intentional agents, study finds
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Accumulation and maintenance of information in evolution
July 7, 2022 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Selection accumulates information in the genome -- it guides stochastically evolving populations towards states (geno-type frequencies) that would be unlikely under neutrality.
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A passing star shifting Neptune’s orbit could wreck the solar system
July 6, 2022 New Scientist
If a star flying past our solar system moved Neptune's orbit by just 0.1 per cent, it could eventually cause the other planets to smash into one another or get thrown out of the solar system entirely
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Higgs boson turns ten: the mysteries physicists are still trying to solve
July 6, 2022 Nature
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Higgs boson’s discovery, and supporting scientists who stutter.
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Human Brain Has Many More Language Connections Than Chimp Brain
July 6, 2022 Mind Matters
That finding isn’t surprising in principle but the researchers pinned down specific areas of greater connectivity
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Darwin Sausage Factory Exposed
July 6, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A look inside the sausage factory where Darwinism is manufactured could leave a visitor retching.
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Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine
July 6, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can We Eliminate the Idea of Function from Biology?
July 6, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
a philosopher and a biologist want to try
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The Holy Rollers: Christians Who Gamble for God
July 6, 2022 Mind Matters
Not only have many successful players been Christians, probability theory was developed in part by a philosopher who became a devout Christian
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Can AI Really Predict Crime a Week in Advance? That's the Claim.
July 6, 2022 Mind Matters
University of Chicago data scientists claim 90% accuracy for their algorithm using past data -- but it’s hard to evaluate
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Video
AI Apocalypse: Will Thinking Machines Replace Humans?
July 6, 2022 YouTube
Computer engineer Robert J. Marks talks about how artificial intelligence (AI) has influenced our society as well as the hype which has surrounded AI. This talk was presented at the 2022 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith.
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What does it mean when we say that space-time is expanding?
July 6, 2022 New Scientist
When it comes to something as complex as space-time, intuition comes in different ways, depending on the level of science you have access to
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‘Supergene’ wreaks havoc in a genome
July 6, 2022 University of Rochester
Rochester biologists used population genomics to study a selfish ‘supergene’ that skews genetic inheritance.
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Michio Kaku's Embarrassing Stance on UFOs
July 6, 2022 Real Clear Science
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Phyla of Tiny Filter Feeders Find a New Spot on the Tree of Life
July 6, 2022 The Scientist
A new study using fairly complete genetic datasets of two phyla of small suspension feeders (Ectoprocta and Entoprocta) reopens the debate on the phylogenetic relationships between them and other animals.
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The simulation hypothesis is a dangerous illusion
July 6, 2022 Big Think
The simulation hypothesis states that we are living in a simulation created by a technologically advanced species. If we are living in a simulation, so are our simulators. Only the First Simulator -- namely, “God" -- has any agency.
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Miracle of Man: The Problem of Phosphorus
July 6, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari
July 6, 2022 Current Affairs
The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.
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Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens More Often Than Anyone Thought
July 5, 2022 The Scientist
DNA passed to and from all kinds of organisms, even across kingdoms, has helped shape the tree of life, to a large and undisputed degree in microbes and also unexpectedly in multicellular fungi, plants, and animals.
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Do Mutations Provide New Genetic Information?
July 5, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The source of new genetic information is still a large thorn in the side of evolutionary theory. Has it been finally settled?
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Speciation of Bears, Birds, and Bacteria is not Evolution
July 5, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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God’s Design: Strategic Routing of the RLN
July 5, 2022 Answers in Genesis
The recurrent laryngeal nerve’s detour serves an important designed function
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Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse
July 5, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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For AI to Be Creative, Here’s What It Would Take
July 5, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Machines with Minds? The Lovelace Test vs. the Turing Test
July 5, 2022 Mind Matters
The answers computer programs give sometimes surprise me too -- but they always result from their programming
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Mars Rovers Will Need to Dig Deeper If They Want to Find Evidence of Life
July 5, 2022 Universe Today
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Pufferfish Don’t Need Functional Stomach, Inflate Instead
July 5, 2022 The Scientist
The fish use their stomach to swell up to three times their size. Is this why they can’t use the organ to digest proteins?
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4. How Almost Any Number Can Encode the Library of Congress
July 5, 2022 Mind Matters
That’s a weird, counterintuitive -- but quite real -- consequence of the concept of infinity in math
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Evolutionary biologists are ever adapting to progress in science
July 5, 2022 The Guardian
Many discoveries since the modern synthesis have been incorporated into evolutionary biology without substantially changing its major tenets
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10 surprising facts about the Big Bang Theory
July 5, 2022 Big Think
It's the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it's still not the very beginning of everything.
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The Woolly Mammoth
July 4, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Study explores coevolution of mammals and their lice
July 4, 2022 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Peter Higgs: the man behind the God particle
July 4, 2022 Nature
A friend’s close look at a reclusive physicist and his community.
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Particle physics isn’t going to die -- even if the LHC finds no new particles
July 4, 2022 Nature
On the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, it’s worth emphasizing that there’s a lot more to particle physics than particle hunting.
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Happy birthday, Higgs boson! What we do and don’t know about the particle
July 4, 2022 Nature
Physicists are celebrating ten years since the Higgs boson’s discovery. But many of its properties remain mysterious.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers use AI to detect new family of genes in gut bacteria
July 4, 2022 Science Daily
Novel discovery by molecular biologists could help fight GI infections
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News Update/Commentary
Connectivity of language areas unique in the human brain
July 4, 2022 Science Daily
Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain has expanded more than previously thought.
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Can We Eliminate the Idea of Function from the Study of Life?
July 3, 2022 Mind Matters
The question is, can biology journals take away what they did not give, without harming their own enterprise?
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Why Free Will Is Philosophically and Scientifically Sound
July 3, 2022 Mind Matters
As Michael Egnor points out in a recent podcast, it has been nearly a century since determinism was toppled in physics
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3. In Infinity, Lines and Squares Have an Equal Number of Points
July 3, 2022 Mind Matters
We can demonstrate this fact with a simple diagram
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Explosion of life on Earth linked to heavy metal act at planet’s centre
July 3, 2022 The Guardian
Formation of solid iron core 550m years ago restored magnetic field and protected surface
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Could We Ever Recover Dinosaur DNA?
July 3, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Another Paper on the Uses of Junk DNA
July 2, 2022 Uncommon Descent
which means something else for Dan Graur to be grumpy about
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Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study
July 2, 2022 Biology & Philosophy, v.37