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Distant starlight and the biblical timeframe
May 10, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Answering a most-asked question
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Bats buzz like hornets to scare off owl predators
May 10, 2022 Nature
Alarming impression is first known case of a mammal copying an insect to deter hostile species.
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Researchers Probe Genetics Behind a Lizard’s Odd Immune System
May 10, 2022 The Scientist
Deletions in the sleepy lizard genome leave it without an important type of T cells found in most other vertebrates.
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News Update/Commentary
Cells take out the trash before they divide
May 10, 2022 Science Daily
Cells may use this strategy to clear out toxic byproducts and give their offspring a clean slate
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News Update/Commentary
New research documents domestic cattle genetics in modern bison herds
May 10, 2022 Science Daily
A new study has revealed the strongest evidence to date that all bison in North America carry multiple small, but clearly identifiable, regions of DNA that originated from domestic cattle.
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News Update/Commentary
Rare discovery: How a gene mutation causes higher intelligence
May 10, 2022 Science Daily
When genes mutate, this can lead to severe diseases of the human nervous system. Researchers have now used fruit flies to demonstrate how, apart from the negative effect, the mutation of a neuronal gene can have a positive effect
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Anti-Racists Often Ignore This Non-Religious Source of Racism
May 10, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Complex human childbirth and cognitive abilities a result of walking upright
May 10, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have now used 3D simulations to show that childbirth was also a highly complex process in early hominins that gave birth to relatively small-brained newborns -- with important implications for their cognitive development.
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Result of “De-Extinction” Project Not Very Encouraging
May 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Nature Is Fine-Tuned for Human Existence
May 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Michael Denton’s new book
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Claim: Human Cognitive Abilities a Consequence of Walking Upright
May 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Claim: Why Human Brains Were Once Bigger
May 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Quantum biology explains DNA mutations
May 10, 2022 Cosmos Magazine
Quantum biologist discover proton tunneling of hydrogen bonds may cause mutations in DNA
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“The Miracle of Man”: New Book by Michael Denton
May 10, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Brain size determined the chances of survival among large animals, study finds
May 9, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers examining the mass extinction of animals over tens of thousands of years
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Blog Post
Brian Charlesworth on the errors of a new paper
May 9, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
that supposedly shows a fundamental assumption of neo-Darwinian evolution is wrong
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The Mysterious White Matter of the Brain
May 9, 2022 Mind Matters
It’s difficult to study but turns out to be very important
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Francis Collins and the 2020 Templeton Prize
May 9, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Did U of Tokyo Just Solve the Mystery of Life’s Origin?
May 9, 2022 ID the Future
reports on laboratory research recently presented in Nature Communications and in a University of Tokyo press release supposedly provides dramatic “new insights into the possible origin of life,” and specifically "the molecular evolution of RNA"
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Blog Post
Trust “The Science" They Say
May 9, 2022 Power Line
trust in science has become increasingly partisan
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The tempo of cetacean cranial evolution
May 9, 2022 Current Biology
Cetacean diversity was obtained through three key periods of rapid evolution
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Why ‘De-Extinction’ Is Impossible (But Could Work Anyway)
May 9, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Several projects are aiming to bring back mammoths and other species that have vanished from the planet. Whether that’s technically possible is beside the point.
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Science Stopper? Intelligent Design as a Fruitful Scientific Paradigm
May 9, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can Claims About Punctuated Equilibrium Accommodate the Scientific Data?
May 9, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Given the Newly Discovered Favorable Signs, What If Europa Is NOT Inhabited?
May 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Rescuing the Multiverse As a Science Concept… ?
May 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Why human brains were bigger 3,000 years ago
May 8, 2022 BBC
Our modern civilisation may be the most advanced to ever exist on Earth, but around 100 generations ago, our ancestors had brains that were larger than our own.
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A Purpose Must Underlie the Universe If Intelligent Beings Exist
May 7, 2022 Mind Matters
Theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser argues that intelligent life is extremely rare in the universe
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Do trees exist (scientifically speaking)?
May 7, 2022 Live Science
How did they even evolve?
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Can Materialistic Models Accommodate the Scientific Data?
May 7, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
830-million-year-old microorganisms in primary fluid inclusions in halite
May 6, 2022 Geology
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Human genetic engineering is coming
May 6, 2022 The Globe and Mail
We must discuss the social and political implications now
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Why Believing in the Multiverse Isn’t Madness
May 6, 2022 Universe Today
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We finally know how trilobites mated, thanks to new fossils
May 6, 2022 Live Science
A single fossil revealed the claspers.
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Gene Duplication Is Not a Credible Source of Evolutionary Progress
May 6, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Belief triumphs over facts in an evolutionist’s claim that duplicate genes can evolve new functions
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Did all life begin from a single, ancient cell?
May 6, 2022 Big Think
Probably not. Even though we're still investigating the origin of life, the evidence suggests that cells came much later.
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News Update/Commentary
Flip-flop genome
May 6, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers found that inversions in the human genome form more commonly than previously thought, which impacts our understanding of certain genetic diseases.
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Cell Fate: Another Hurdle for Evolution
May 6, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Ark Encounter
May 6, 2022 The Conversation
At a popular evangelical tourist site the image of a ‘wrathful God’ appeals to millions
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Ice core oscillations and abrupt climate changes: part 2 -- Antarctic ice cores
May 6, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Does Intelligent Design Make Predictions or Retrodictions?
May 6, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Pancomputationalism: Everything Is a Computation?
May 6, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Science Writers Complain About Online Harassment
May 6, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Book
The Miracle of Man: The Fine Tuning of Nature for Human Existence
May, 2022 Discovery Institute
For years, leading scientists and science popularizers have insisted humans are nothing special in the cosmic scheme of things. In this important and provocative new book, renowned biologist Michael Denton argues otherwise. | See Also Amazon
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You’ve likely heard of the brain’s gray matter
May 5, 2022 The Conversation
here’s why the white matter is important too
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News Update/Commentary
‘Lost' coral species resurrected
May 5, 2022 Science Daily
With about one-third of the world's corals currently under threat of extinction due to climate change, researchers have made the encouraging discovery of a ‘lost' species of coral that had been hidden for more than 50 years.
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Get a Load of This Souped-Up Hyperdrive Magnetotactic Bacterium
May 5, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Does Darwinian Theory Make the Same Predictions as Intelligent Design?
May 5, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Psychopathy Is an “Evolutionary Adaptation”
May 5, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Well, This Is Good News for Criminal Defense Lawyers
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Hybrid ‘Mystery Monkey' Discovered in Borneo
May 5, 2022 Newsweek