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Technosignature from Proxima Centauri -- and why astronomers rejected it
December 9, 2021 Astronomy magazine
The forensic analysis of a potential signal from another civilization reveals how challenging the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is likely to become.
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Woke World Destroys Darwinian Evolutionary Biologist
December 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design
December 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Re Theology Unleashed as a Hindu site. Lots of people are now finding a voice to question materialism, naturalism, physicalism, and Darwinism.
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Burrowing Snakes Have Poor Eyesight, Challenging Theory
December 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
classic in devolution
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Against the Tide -- Back in New Formats, to Buy or Stream
December 9, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
plus John Lennox on Intelligent Design
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A New Moral Argument for Human Personhood
December 9, 2021 Reasons to Believe
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Evolutionary Biologists Aghast at Cultural Wokeism
December 9, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
They’ve suffered the evils of Cancel Culture, but what can they say about it? In their theory, culture evolves, too.
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New Evidence of Flood in Grand Canyon
December 9, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Burrowing snakes have far worse eyesight than their ancestors
December 9, 2021 Science Daily
An international team of scientists has demonstrated that burrowing snakes have undergone extensive vision gene loss over tens of millions of years of evolutionary history.
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Nothing New Under the Sun
December 9, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mammoth and Horse DNA Left in Freezer Rewrite Ice Age Extinctions
December 9, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine
New research reveals the ancient animals survived some 8,000 years later than previously thought
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Casey Luskin Defines Evolution and Explains How the Fossil Record Challenges Darwin
December 8, 2021 YouTube
One of the largest difficulties with evolution is the word itself. Supporters of Darwinian theory love to switch the word around so the average person can never be sure what they are talking about.
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Zebra finch songs alter the behaviour of their chicks' mitochondria
December 8, 2021 New Scientist
In warm weather, zebra finches sing heat calls to their unborn offspring, and this programs the nestlings to produce less heat inside their cells
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Ammonite muscles revealed in 3D from Jurassic fossil
December 8, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging.
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News Update/Commentary
Gravitational waves could be key to answering why more matter was left over after Big Bang
December 8, 2021 Science Daily
If researchers can detect Q-balls in gravitational waves, it could help explain why more matter than anti-matter was left over after the Big Bang.
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The Return to the God Paradigm
December 8, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Just in Time for Christmas: Knitwear Fit for a T. Rex
December 8, 2021 New York Times
The Natural History Museum in London outfitted its animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex in a colorful Christmas sweater.
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Did Alan Turing's Change of Heart Set AI on the Wrong Path?
December 8, 2021 Mind Matters
Erik Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, thinks Turing lost track of one really important way minds differ from machines
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The Ten Best Science Books of 2021
December 8, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine
From captivating memoirs by researchers to illuminating narratives by veteran science journalists, these works affected us the most this year
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When science mixes with politics, all we get is politics
December 8, 2021 Big Think
Who decides if science is right or wrong? Scientists, obviously. However, attacks from a variety of interest groups have undermined scientific credibility, with catastrophic results that cost lives and compromised our collective future.
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Giant planet imaged orbiting two massive stars
December 8, 2021 Nature
Direct imaging has revealed the existence of a large planet orbiting a binary system that contains the most massive planet-hosting stars detected so far. The discovery challenges existing models for how planets and stars form.
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News Update/Commentary
Orangutan mothers help offspring to learn
December 8, 2021 Science Daily
Orangutan mothers actively involved in their offspring’s skill learning
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Leonard Sax on Intelligent Design and the “Ambiguity of the Evidence”
December 8, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Jurassic Ammonites at 165 Mya Used Jet Propulsion Like Octopuses
December 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Can Gravitational Waves Help Account for Why There Is More Matter Than Antimatter?
December 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How the Fossil Record Challenges Darwin
December 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Under an Iron Sky: On the Entropy at the Start of the Universe
December 7, 2021 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Curiously, our Universe was born in a low entropy state, with abundant free energy to power stars and life.
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Nautilus Offers a “Primer" on Panpsychism
December 7, 2021 Mind Matters
Noting the growth in interest from science writers as well as neuroscientists and philosophers, the magazine offers four essays discussing current approaches
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Denisovans or Homo sapiens: Who were the first to settle (permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau?
December 7, 2021 Science Daily
Extinct Denisovans passed on genes that help Tibetans survive high altitudes
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Primates vs cobras: How our last common ancestor built venom resistance
December 7, 2021 Science Daily
The last common ancestor of chimps, gorillas and humans developed an increased resistance toward cobra venom, according to new research.
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Chromosomal Rearrangement Linked to Less Mobile Quail
December 7, 2021 The Scientist
The Scientist interviews evolutionary biologist Carles Vilà about how a large genomic inversion detected in common quail affects the birds’ physical characteristics and migratory behaviors.
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Smell Incredible Design
December 7, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Learn some amazing facts about the sense of smell brought to you Darwin-free by Swedish scientists.
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Answering Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design
December 7, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
with: Stephen Meyer, Seth Hart
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“The God Hypothesis Should Be Considered As a Possible Explanation for Our Universe.”
December 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
at Claremont Review of Books
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Bryozoa Add to Cambrian Explosion’s Impact: 35 Million Years Earlier Than Thought
December 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Origins of the Hebrews: New Evidence of Israelites in Egypt from Joseph to the Exodus
December, 2021 New Creation
| See Also book review
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The Miracle of Spiderwebs
December 7, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Investigation fails to replicate most cancer biology lab findings
December 7, 2021 New Scientist
The reliability of early-stage cancer biology research is called into question by an investigation that concludes more than half of experimental results can’t be replicated by independent scientists
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Study Finds Reproducibility Issues in High-Impact Cancer Papers
December 7, 2021 The Scientist
Researchers involved in an eight-year project to reproduce the findings of more than 50 high-impact papers struggled to get enough information to even carry out most of the experiments.
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We know how time will end, but not how it started
December 6, 2021 iai News
The mystery around the origin of time's arrow
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Iron integral to the development of life on Earth -- and the possibility of life on other planets
December 6, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers uncover the importance of iron for the development of complex life on Earth -- which also may hint at the likelihood of complex life on other planets.
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Calculate but don’t shut up
December 6, 2021 Aeon
The cliché has it that the Copenhagen interpretation demands adherence without deep enquiry. That does physics a disservice
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Climate adaptation, and the next great extinction: Books in brief
December 6, 2021 Nature
review of five of the week’s best science picks
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Biology Needs Design, Not Darwin
December 6, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists need to stop using Darwin like a lucky charm.
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Physicist: Science, by Nature, Can't Have a Theory of Everything
December 6, 2021 Mind Matters
Such a theory is a sort of religious quest that has united philosophers, theologians, and scientists, But is it possible?
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Maybe “Boson Clouds” Could Explain Dark Matter
December 6, 2021 Universe Today
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More Cambrian Woes for Evolution
December 6, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Retraction Watch Co-Founder on the Lab Leak Theory Re COVID
December 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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What ID Is and How We Should Defend It
December 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Egnor and Solms: What Does It Mean To Say God Is a Person?
December 5, 2021 Mind Matters
Mark Solms and Michael Egnor discuss and largely agree on what we can rationally know about God, using the tools of reason