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The Curious Connection Between Charles Darwin and John Brown
March 30, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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“RNA Is the Cornerstone of Cell Biology”
March 30, 2022 Uncommon Descent
forthcoming book
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Book
The Three Pillars of Evolution Demolished: Why Darwin Was Wrong
March 29, 2022 WestBow Press
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Book
Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science
March, 2022 Yale University Press
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Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight
March 29, 2022 New Scientist
The DNA of people who lived in Great Britain thousands of years ago has markers of natural selection at work -- and the driving force seems to have been a shortage of vitamin D
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Where did the Universe come from?
March 29, 2022 Big Think
To answer any physical question, you must ask the Universe itself. But what happens when the answers aren't around anymore?
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Alien life: What would constitute “smoking gun” evidence?
March 29, 2022 Big Think
Multiple lines of evidence -- physical, chemical, and biological -- must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
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News Update/Commentary
Roundworms’ egg cells have a backup plan
March 29, 2022 Science Daily
Study is first to uncover hidden mechanism that keeps cell division on track
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers identify key complex for ribosome generation
March 29, 2022 Science Daily
Findings could lead to new treatments for health problems ranging from neurodevelopmental disorders to cancer
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News Update/Commentary
Spiders use webs to extend their hearing
March 29, 2022 Science Daily
A newly published study of orb-weaving spiders has yielded some extraordinary results: The spiders are using their webs as extended auditory arrays to capture sounds, possibly giving spiders advanced warning of incoming prey or predators.
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Stone Structures Were Intelligently Arranged, Though We Don’t Know by Whom
March 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Design Inference
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Who was Cain’s wife?
March 29, 2022 Creation Ministries International
The Creation Answers Book (8th ed. 2019), Chapter 8
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Researchers Ask -- Serious Question -- Do Crabs Have Emotions?
March 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Intelligent Design: Theistic Implications?
March 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Wonder Material: Cartilage
March 29, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The formerly simple tissue turns out to be both more complex and masterly designed
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The More We Study Kinesin, the More Remarkable It Appears
March 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Our Cells Even Have Tentacles
March 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Origin of Life: But How Do Cells Come To Have “Borders” at All?
March 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Breaking into the black box of artificial intelligence
March 29, 2022 Nature
Scientists are finding ways to explain the inner workings of complex machine-learning models.
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How the COVID Pandemic Showed That Evidence-Based Medicine Is an Illusion
March 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Shades of “Junk DNA”?
March 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Tiny Bubbles Are NOT “Cellular Debris”
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Dawkins' Dubious Double Weasel and the Combinatorial Cataclysm
March 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Dawkins has successfully reduced a combinatorial explosion to a manageable problem ... or has he?
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What Do Hindus Think About the Big Bang? The Cyclic Universe?
March 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Hinduism posits a creator God but assumes the creation of cyclic universes
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Blog Post
The Illusion of Evidence-based Medicine
March 28, 2022
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Your Cells Have Weird ‘Tentacles' That Help Them Move Around
March 28, 2022 Science Alert
Here's how they work
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Evangelicals Have Four Proposals for Harmonizing Genesis and Evolution
March 28, 2022 Christianity Today
Loren Haarsma maps out the prevailing schools of thought on the origins of humanity and sin.
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Scientists Are Preparing for Our Best Shot Yet at Identifying Alien Life
March 28, 2022 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
Methane is a potential sign of life that the James Webb Space Telescope can readily detect on other worlds, reports a new study.
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Unprecedented videos show RNA switching ‘on’ and ‘off’
March 28, 2022 Northwestern University
RNA strands invade, displace one another to enable genetic decision making
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Redesigned CRISPR Gene Editing Tool Is 4,000 Times Less Error-Prone
March 28, 2022 Singularity Hub
CRISPR gene editing holds huge promise for tackling a wide range of inherited diseases, but concerns about unintended “off target” effects have slowed its rollout. A redesigned CRISPR system could finally have a practical solution to this problem.
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Tides
March 28, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs
March 28, 2022 New Scientist
A tiny snake-like animal that lived about 308 million years ago had evolved to lose its forelimbs
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News Update/Commentary
Hundreds of new mammal species waiting to be found, study says
March 28, 2022 Science Daily
Research suggests where these species may be ‘hidden'
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News Update/Commentary
How cells control their borders
March 28, 2022 Science Daily
Bacteria and yeast need to prevent leakage of numerous small molecules through their cell membrane. Biochemists have studied how the composition of the membrane affects passive diffusion and the robustness of this membrane.
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Anthropic Fine-Tuning as Evidence of Design
March 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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More to Appreciate About Kinesin, the “Workhorse of the Cell”
March 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Walking Wonder
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How Did Theistic Darwinism Get Started?
March 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Why Punctuated Equilibrium Did Not Rescue Modern Evolutionary Theory
March 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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So Now There Are Two Brains in Our Bodies That “Just Somehow Evolved”
March 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism
March 27, 2022 Mind Matters
Transhumanists seek the right not only to manipulate their own bodies but also those of their children, including mind clones, monoparent children, or benevolent AI
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So What Alien Tech Should the New Telescopes Be Looking For?
March 27, 2022 Mind Matters
As powerful new telescopes come on line, we will be able to look for chemical signatures of civilization, not just life
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How Venus flytraps give scientists insights on consciousness and anesthesia
March 27, 2022 Big Think
Anesthesia causes animals and humans to lose consciousness. A study found it has a similar effect on Venus flytraps.
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Book
Darwinian Racism: The Angry Ape
March 27, 2022 National Review
In his new book, Richard Weikart joins great anti-reductionists in offering indispensable knowledge, insight, sanity, and measure in our culture wars. | See Also Amazon
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Richard Weikart Gets Noticed at National Review
March 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Social Epistemology of Scientific Dissent
March 27, 2022 Philosophy of the Social Sciences, v.52, n.5
Responding to William Lynch’s Minority Report
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Episode 29: William Lane Craig's Quest for the Historical Adam, Part 2
March 27, 2022 YouTube
Join Todd and Paul as they discuss the science sections of Craig’s book with Dr. Marcus Ross of Cornerstone Educational Supply. How does Craig determine where to place Adam among the hominins? Are the criteria he uses satisfactory?
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Unexplained -- Maybe Unexplainable -- Numbers Control the Universe
March 26, 2022 Mind Matters
For example, brilliant physicist Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man”
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On Experiments That Could Prove Einstein Wrong
March 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Is Intelligent Design Theory Getting Ahead?
March 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America
March 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers Ask -- Serious Question -- Do Crabs Have Emotions?
March 25, 2022 Mind Matters
Recent research has created some unexpected ethical problems for the seafood industry