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Do Darwin Critics Reject Evolution Because They’re Anti-Communists?
June 2, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Carl Weinberg Says Yes
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This Australian grasshopper gave up sex 250,000 years ago and it’s doing fine
June 2, 2022 The Conversation
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Models as Felicitous Falsehoods
June, 2022 Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, v.26, n.1, p.7-23
I argue that models enable us to understand reality in ways that we would be unable to do if we restricted ourselves to the unvarnished truth.
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Nature’s God: Why Christians Should Accept the Theory of Evolution
June, 2022 Skeptic, v.27, n.2
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Archerfish Defy Notion that Complex Vision Requires a Cortex
June 1, 2022 The Scientist
The fish species is separated from mammals by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, yet its seemingly primitive brain can handle many of the same elaborate visual tasks.
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Eukaryogenesis: The Rise of an Emergent Superorganism
June 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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A Little-Known Structure Tells Our Brains What Matters Now
June 1, 2022 Mind Matters
Work with monkeys and mice has shed light on the filtering role of a neglected feature of the mammalian brain
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AI Expert: Stop Distinguishing Between AI, Human and Animal Minds
June 1, 2022 Mind Matters
Aaron Sloman’s approach to minds sounds a bit like panpsychism -- which is increasingly accepted in science -- but there are differences
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Video
Fossil Footprints Show That Hydroplate Theory is Wrong
June 1, 2022 YouTube
I'm joined by Christian Ryan, a geology student to discuss Ichnofossils and a recent Answers Research Journal paper.
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Guardians of the brain: how a special immune system protects our grey matter
June 1, 2022 Nature
The nervous and immune systems are tightly intertwined. Deciphering their chatter might help address many brain disorders and diseases.
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Lizard can switch from female to male before birth, but not vice versa
June 1, 2022 New Scientist
Some offspring of the spotted snow skink, a lizard found in Tasmania, are born anatomically male but are genetically female
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Origin of Life Theory Involving RNA-Protein Hybrid Gets New Support
June 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Theology Meets Philosophy of Science
June, 2022 Loyola University Maryland
Religious Studies in collaboration with the SET Foundations Project calls for papers that integrate practice-based philosophy of science with topics in philosophy of religion and theology.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
What we have learned about evolutionary genome change in the past 7 decades
June, 2022 Biosystems, v.215-216, 104669
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Study suggests that most of our evolutionary trees could be wrong
June 1, 2022 University of Bath
Scientists say convergent evolution is much more common than previously thought
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How the Multiverse could break the scientific method
June 1, 2022 Big Think
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
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The Delusions of Cosmology
June 1, 2022 iai News
The metaphysical assumptions behind the science
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News Update/Commentary
Investigators ID gene critical to human immune response
June 1, 2022 Science Daily
Study suggests a potential target for future therapies to prevent or treat inflammatory diseases
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News Update/Commentary
How electric fish were able to evolve electric organs
June 1, 2022 Science Daily
A new study explains how small genetic changes enabled electric fish to evolve electric organs. The finding might also help scientists pinpoint the genetic mutations behind some human diseases.
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News Update/Commentary
Study suggests that most of our evolutionary trees could be wrong
June 1, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists say convergent evolution is much more common than previously thought
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Evolutionary Trees Are All Wrong
June 1, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
We didn’t say it. They did. But how can we trust what they are saying now?
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Rejecting Evolution Because of Anti-Communism?
June 1, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Charge by Cornell U Press Book Fails to Detonate
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How Could Life Evolve from Cyanide?
June 1, 2022 Quanta Magazine
How did life arise on Earth? Steven Strogatz speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Jack Szostak and Betül Kaçar, a paleogeneticist and astrobiologist, to explore our best understanding of how we all got here.
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Asked at “The Scientist": Do Invertebrates Have Feelings?
May 31, 2022 Mind Matters
Just as vertebrates differ greatly in intelligence and sentience, invertebrates may differ greatly too. The seafood industry is taking heed.
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Stephen Meyer Answers Questions about the Judeo-Christian Origins of Science
May 31, 2022 YouTube
This Q and A was presented at the 2022 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith in January 2022.
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What's the oldest tree on Earth -- and will it survive climate change?
May 31, 2022 National Geographic
Bristlecone pines in the western U.S. have been alive for nearly 5,000 years, but an upstart Patagonian cypress challenges that record.
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The Universe is flat. Here’s what that teaches us.
May 31, 2022 Big Think
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
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News Update/Commentary
Cuttlefish camouflage may be more complex than previously thought
May 31, 2022 Science Daily
European cuttlefish may combine two distinct neural systems that process specific visual features from its local environment, and visual cues relating to its overall background environment to create the body patterns camouflage itself on the sea floor
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News Update/Commentary
What guppy guts can teach us about evolution
May 31, 2022 Science Daily
Evans and Fitzpatrick have pushed those insights a step further, showing the guppies' potential to help probe big questions about how microbes living in host organisms contribute to health, survival and quality of life.
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Examining “Professor Dave’s” Absurd Attack on Casey Luskin
May 31, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Can Black Holes Point to the Creator?
May 31, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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How Plate Tectonics, Mountains and Deep-Sea Sediments Have Maintained Earth’s ‘Goldilocks’ Climate
May 31, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The Problems & Successes of Intelligent Design
May 30, 2022 YouTube
Dr. Joshua Swamidass joined me to discuss some of his criticisms of Intelligent Design. We talked about his story and the successes and failures of the movement.
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2022 YouTube Film Festival: The Workhorse of the Cell
May 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells
May 30, 2022 New Scientist
A synthetic membrane that contains key proteins used in cell division could one day help artificial cells replicate themselves
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Do Ants Think? Yes, They Do -- But They Think Like Computers
May 30, 2022 Mind Matters
Computer programmers have adapted some ant problem-solving methods to software programs (but without the need for complex chemical scents)
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Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells
May 30, 2022 New Scientist
A synthetic membrane that contains key proteins used in cell division could one day help artificial cells replicate themselves
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Information Theory: Evolution As the Transfer of Information
May 29, 2022 Mind Matters
Information follows different rules from matter and energy, which might change the way we see evolution
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Chemical Evolution of Amino Acids and Proteins?
May 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Impossible !!
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2022 YouTube Film Festival: The Magician’s Twin
May 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
a short documentary exploring C. S. Lewis’s life-long struggle to find intelligent design in a world filled with pain
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Why Scientists Think There Might Be Life on Europa
May 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Jupiter’s moon Europa, somewhat smaller than Earth’s moon, may have surface water and organic chemicals, researchers say
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Ancient Inventions That Feel Like Modern Ones
May 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Tim Brinkhof looks at inextinguishable Greek fire and the 2000-year-old Chinese seismograph, among other wonders
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Can nucleobases and self-replication arise from non-living chemicals?
May 28, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Quantum Mechanic Communication in Cells
May 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
a paradigm shift in biology
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News Update/Commentary
A cushy lab life has its evolutionary costs -- when it comes to fish, that is
May 27, 2022 Science Daily
An animal's ability to adapt to its environment is clearly key to its survival, but does that ability come at a physiological cost? A clever experiment comparing laboratory zebrafish with their wild relatives suggests it does.
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The Threat That Deepfakes Pose to Science Journals
May 27, 2022 Mind Matters
Image manipulation has been a problem for decades but convincing deepfakes could magnify the problem considerably
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Luskin Explores Design Evidence from Geology
May 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Were dinosaurs warm- or cold-blooded?
May 27, 2022 Cosmos Magazine
New method of fossil analysis tells us that most dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like their modern descendants, birds.
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Troubles with the Tree of Life
May 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Genome Reveals Clues to Giraffes’ “Blatantly Strange” Body Shape
May 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent