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Fossils and the Flood (Part One): Digging for Truth Episode 220
November 26, 2023 YouTube
scientist Paul Garner discusses his book “Fossils and the Flood.” Informed by the latest creationist scholarship and richly illustrated -- this book reconstructs the world before and after the Genesis Flood in unprecedented depth and detail
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What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?
November 26, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Momentous Discovery Shows Neanderthals Could Produce Human-Like Speech
November 25, 2023 Science Alert
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Plant Fungus Has Been Caught in an Evolutionary Leap
November 25, 2023 Science Alert
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The Explicitly Human Experience of Growing Up As a Twin
November 25, 2023 Mind Matters
A philosopher muses on growing up as one of a set of two people
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A rugged yet easily navigable fitness landscape
November 24, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6673
How many mutations does it take to move from one genetic fitness peak to another in a fitness landscape?
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Spotted and Striped: Why Many Animals Have Elaborate Patterns
November 24, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists are at a loss to explain the patterns that adorn many diverse animals
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The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era
November 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go
November 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Attempt to Tackle Censorship in Science Begins Well, Falls Flat
November 23, 2023 Mind Matters
Scientists, we are told, censor “for the greater good.” Well yes, but ALL censors say that. Has anyone ever censored explicitly “for the greater harm”?
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Everyday Evidence of the Mind's Reality: The Placebo Effect
November 23, 2023 Mind Matters
The placebo effect -- you get better because you think you will -- may be getting stronger, as researchers manipulate it more effectively
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‘Treasure trove’ of new CRISPR systems holds promise for genome editing
November 23, 2023 Nature
An algorithm that can analyse hundreds of millions of genetic sequences has identified DNA-cutting genes and enzymes that are extremely rare in nature.
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Worm’s butt grows eyes and then swims away to make babies
November 22, 2023 Cosmos Magazine
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Why Research Fraud Is Getting Worse
November 22, 2023 James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Until we disincentivize number-fudging, academic scientists will continue to cheat.
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Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA
November 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
recognized by newly published paper in BioEssays
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More Details on Sperm Design Published
November 22, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Yet more experimental research documents intelligent design of sperm cells
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey
November 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Remembering C. S. Lewis on Intelligent Design
November 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ancient DNA uncovers past migrations in California
November 22, 2023 Nature
Genomic data from ancient humans who lived up to 7,400 years ago, sampled from across California and Mexico, unveil patterns of migration that could explain how some Indigenous languages spread in parts of North America.
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Genes are often uninformative for dating species’ origins
November 22, 2023 Nature
The time frame of a species’ origins provides context for evolutionary questions. However, dates from fossils are often inconsistent with estimates from genetic data. Emerging evidence points to a new explanation for this discrepancy.
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C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism
November 22, 2023 ID the Future
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Understanding the Genius of The Design Inference
November 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution
November 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
different yet the same
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Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence
November 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Theistic Evolution Undermines Inerrancy
November 21, 2023 YouTube
several reasons why William Lane Craig's view of the historical Adam undermines the inerrancy of the Bible
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Is Science Slipping Away on Us by Degrees?
November 21, 2023 Mind Matters
Science writers weigh in on misrepresentation of science history, reasons for loss of trust, and whether physics is ripe for a revolution
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What Do Bees' Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?
November 21, 2023 Mind Matters
If sentience, like intelligence, can be independent of phylogeny (place in Darwin’s tree of life), the conventional picture of evolution might need rethinking
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Our brains are not able to ‘rewire’ themselves, despite what most scientists believe
November 21, 2023 University of Cambridge
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The MOND alternative to dark matter is wrong
November 21, 2023 iai News
What next for cosmology?
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How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?
November 21, 2023 New Scientist
We keep spotting molecular “biosignatures” in the atmospheres of planets beyond Earth, but it isn't clear if any of them can provide definitive evidence that we’re not alone
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News Update/Commentary
Looking for ‘LUCA' and the timing of cellular evolution
November 21, 2023 Science Daily
LUCA is the ‘last universal common ancestor' of all living organisms. What LUCA looked like is unknown, but it must have been a cell with among others ribosomal proteins and an ATP synthase.
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News Update/Commentary
Neanderthals were the world's first artists
November 21, 2023 Science Daily
Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France) were actually made by Neanderthals. The findings reveal that the Neanderthals were the first humans with an appreciation of art.
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Darwinism Played a Central Role in Nazi Crimes
November 21, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A fact documented by a new study published by the leading medical journal The Lancet
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Proteins Are Rare and Isolated -- And Thus, Cannot Evolve
November 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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39 Scientists Release Paper Documenting Censorship in Science
November 20, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
scientists censor scientists
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On Free Will
November 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris
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Blog Post
My Doubts about The End of Science
November 20, 2023
Sabine Hossenfelder takes a hard look at my end-of-science thesis in this video. I have doubts about my thesis too, as I confess below.
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‘The Science' Suffers from Self-Inflicted Political Wounds
November 20, 2023 reason.com
A separation of science and politics might be called for.
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What is it like to be a crab?
November 20, 2023 Aeon
Consciousness science should move past a focus on complex mammalian brains to study the behaviour of ‘simpler’ animals
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Wonders of Creation: Chameleons
November 20, 2023 Apologetics Press
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists
November 20, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A perspective and research agenda
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How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?
November 20, 2023 New Scientist
Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that lived on in a world dominated by big-brained early humans. Recent archaeological discoveries, like stone tools, are revealing how they lived
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News Update/Commentary
AI system self-organizes to develop features of brains of complex organisms
November 20, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system allows it to develop features of the brains of complex organisms in order to solve tasks.
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Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design
November 20, 2023 ID the Future
A Beginner’s Guide
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Rewinding Paley’s Watch (Part 1)
November 20, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Why the argument for design only gets stronger over time
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The Eyes Have It: Another Case of Evolution Falsification
November 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A comparison of cephalopod eyes with mammal eyes does not demonstrate Darwinian evolution
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Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory
November 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Multiverse: Better in Fiction Than in Real Life?
November 19, 2023 Mind Matters
The multiverse may be “unscientific nonsense” or a “religious” belief, as some physicists assert but the rules of storytelling are not the laws of nature
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Mimetic Behavior in the Scientific Community
November 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Pew: Post-COVID, Trust in Science Dropped Significantly
November 18, 2023 Mind Matters
Most other institutions have taken a hit in trust as well. But what would it take for science in particular to pull out?