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Darwin’s Tree Chopped Down
June 29, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists lied, people died, but you can trust what they’re saying now.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers develop online portal to show how biases in RNA sequences affect gene expression
June 29, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers explain the importance of identifying and understanding how differences between tissues and cells alter gene expression without changing the underlying genetic code.
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News Update/Commentary
Enzyme of bacterial origin promoted the evolution of longhorned beetles
June 29, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have resurrected the primordial enzymes, which first appeared in a common ancestor of longhorned beetles. Horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to the beetle as well as gene duplications promoted the evolution of this family
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Why scientists really, really want to know if there was ever life on Mars
June 29, 2022 Vox
If there was life on Mars billions of years ago -- even just microbial life -- it could change our understanding of how life begins.
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New kangaroo described -- from Papua New Guinea
June 29, 2022 Science Daily
The new description of the fossil kangaroo has found that, rather than being closely related to Australian kangaroos, it most likely belongs to a unique genus of more primitive kangaroo found only in PNG.
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What Is Life?
June 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Mars Curiosity Rover Collects Rock Samples Containing Key Ingredient of Life
June 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The origins and future of the Grand Canyon
June 29, 2022 Knowable magazine
How old is the Grand Canyon? Will the Colorado River run dry? Learn about how the Big Ditch formed, and the present state and uncertain future of the Colorado River watershed
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When a Neurosurgeon and a Biologist Keep on Arguing ...
June 28, 2022 Mind Matters
… we suspect some pretty basic science issues are involved
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Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?
June 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness
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Marks: Artificial Intelligence Is No More Creative Than a Pencil
June 28, 2022 Mind Matters
You can use a pencil -- but the creativity comes from you. With AI, clever programmers can conceal that fact for a while
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Do we need a new theory of evolution?
June 28, 2022 The Guardian
A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists -- and the conflict may determine the future of biology
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Adult Body Proportions Partly Solved
June 28, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Progress in solving the mystery of adult-size similarity in animals: New genetic process sheds light on how organ proportionality works
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How did vertebrates first evolve jaws?
June 28, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists reveal clues about the evolutionary origin of jaws by studying the embryonic development of zebrafish -- an approach known as ‘evo-devo.'
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Tadpoles undergo surprising number of vision changes when becoming frogs
June 28, 2022 Science Daily
It's already known that tadpoles go through a physical metamorphosis on their way to becoming a frog, but what wasn't known is how their vision adapts at a molecular level across the life stages to a strikingly different environment.
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Role identified for key gene in developmental disability syndrome
June 28, 2022 Science Daily
Single gene previously linked to rare syndrome of epilepsy, autism and developmental disability
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Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected
June 28, 2022 CNN
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Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?
June 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”
June 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Did Life Originate on Earth or in the Cosmos? Part 2
June 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ may be more than a million years older than previously thought
June 27, 2022 Purdue University
Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Australopithecus at Sterkfontein, South Africa
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Why the paradoxes of infinity still puzzle us today
June 27, 2022 Big Think
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
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5 revolutionary cosmic ideas that turned out to be wrong
June 27, 2022 Big Think
No matter how beautiful, elegant, or compelling your idea is, if it disagrees with observation and experiment, it's wrong.
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New way in which T cells learn to tell friend from foe
June 27, 2022 Science Daily
As part of this early education, specialized thymus cells ‘pose' as different tissues, teaching the immune system how to recognize both friend and foe. Immune cells that mistakenly react to the body's own proteins are eliminated or reassigned.
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Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind' may be more than a million years older than previously thought
June 27, 2022 Science Daily
This would make them older than Dinkinesh, also called Lucy, the world's most famous Australopithecus fossil.
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Virus discovery offers clues about origins of complex life
June 27, 2022 Science Daily
The discovery offers tantalizing clues about the origins of complex life and suggests new directions for exploring the hypothesis that viruses were essential to the evolution of humans and other complex life forms.
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Models and Theories: A Philosophical Inquiry
June, 2022 Reutledge (Taylor & Francis)
the nature of scientific models and theories has been a widely debated topic within the philosophy of science for many years
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Intelligent Design Gets Its Own Car
June 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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More on Self-Replicating Machines
June 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?
June 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Can’t We Drink Saltwater?
June 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Archaeologists Believe They Found the Oldest Hebrew Text in Israel
June 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
including the name of God
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Can Squirrels Really Be Socially Unjust? Check Their Privilege?
June 27, 2022 Mind Matters
A recent paper suggests that the animal world, untroubled for aeons by any notion of conscience, has a lot to answer for
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Anthropologist Wows Scientists
June 27, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Rogue planets with weird atmospheres and no star could host life
June 27, 2022 New Scientist
Worlds that hold onto their dense primordial atmospheres of hydrogen and helium may stay warm enough to maintain liquid water on their surfaces, even without starlight
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Just Do the Science, Please
June 27, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It is totally unnecessary and unhelpful to toss the e-word “evolved” into lab reports. Kick the habit.
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Why Venus spins backwards
June 27, 2022 BBC - Sky at Night magazine
Why does planet Venus rotate backwards when compared with all the other planets?
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Gold miner in Canada finds mummified 35,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth
June 26, 2022 The Guardian
Discovery in the Klondike ranks as the most complete mummified mammal found in the Americas
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Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”
June 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Could Life Evolve from Cyanide?
June 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The Battle Over the Human Mind Split Two Great Thinkers
June 26, 2022 Mind Matters
Charles Darwin opted for a materialist model; his co-theorist Alfred Russel Wallace insisted that the mind was not just the brain
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Cats Do Catnip a Favor by Chewing It
June 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Earth’s oldest known wildfires raged 430 million years ago
June 24, 2022 Science News
Fossilized charcoal points to atmospheric oxygen levels of at least 16 percent
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Predicting rough times ahead for teaching about evolution?
June 24, 2022 Panda's Thumb
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How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life
June 24, 2022 Scientific American
A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight
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Early Humans Were Present in Southeast Britain 620,000 Years Ago
June 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso
June 24, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Did Consciousness Evolve? An Illustrated Guide
June 24, 2022 MIT Press Reader
Two leading voices in evolutionary consciousness science explore the subject through words and images.
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The Software of the Gaps: An Excerpt from Non-Computable You
June 24, 2022 Mind Matters
In his just-published book, Robert J. Marks takes on claims that consciousness is emerging from AI and that we can upload our brains
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Research has overturned endosymbiosis
June 24, 2022 Creation Ministries International
the unbridgeable gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes remains