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Can Genetic Mutations Be Purged from the Genome?
December 1, 2021 Answers in Genesis
How mutations could be removed from a genome through inbreeding, though the original integrity could not be restored in reality or in an evolutionary paradigm.
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Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style
December 1, 2021 New Scientist
A set of 3.7-million-year-old footprints were initially thought to have been left by a bear walking upright, but have now been reinterpreted as the prints of an unidentified hominin that walked a little bit like a modern catwalk fashion model
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Horses Make Stone Tools
December 1, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Animals can make stone tools not to use them as tools, but for fooling paleoanthropologists
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News Update/Commentary
Footprints from site a at Laetoli, Tanzania, are from early humans, not bears
December 1, 2021 Science Daily
Findings provide conclusive evidence that multiple species of hominins co-existed on the landscape
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Science Journal Editor Warns, Humans Are Going Extinct
December 1, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Ancient footprints hint at mysterious human relative with a strange walk
December 1, 2021 National Geographic
Long written off as bear tracks, prints at a site in Tanzania suggest early humans walked on two feet in surprisingly diverse ways. But questions abound.
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Reliable and accessible commentary
December, 2021 Journal of Creation
REVIEW: Genesis (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) by Andrew E. Steinmann (IVP Academic, 2019) | See Also InterVarsity Press
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Evolution of the human skin
December, 2021 Journal of Creation
Our skin is unique, employing a very different design and construction compared to that of all other mammals, including our closest primate ‘relatives’.
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The problematic evolution of mammary glands
December, 2021 Journal of Creation
milking the ‘soured’ evidence for all it’s worth
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Irreducible complexity remains a fatal problem for Darwinian evolution
December, 2021 Journal of Creation
REVIEW: A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics by Michael J. Behe (Discovery Institute, 2020) | See Also Amazon
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History of biology with unsubstantiated tributes to evolution
December, 2021 Journal of Creation
REVIEW: Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin (Pantheon, 2020) | See Also Amazon
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Developments in paleoanthropology
December, 2021 Journal of Creation
This paper discusses some of the more recent fossil finds and/or developments in paleoanthropology from a creationist perspective.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview
December, 2021 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, v.90, p.68-76
Popular works, by the likes of Richard Dawkins, deflect associations with eugenics and social Darwinism, but also extend the reach of Darwinism beyond biology into social policy, politics, and ethics.
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Challenge to Origin of Life: Biopolymers (Long Story Short, Ep. 5)
November 30, 2021 YouTube
We’re often told that origin of life experiments have simulated the production of life’s building blocks under conditions that mimicked the early earth. Or at least that’s what many textbooks say. But is this really true?
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Would Cognition in Bacteria “Dethrone" Humans?
November 30, 2021 Mind Matters
A cognition researcher’s approach to the question helps account for the growing popularity of panpsychism -- as an alternative
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For Ants, Building a Bridge Is No “Simple" Task
November 30, 2021 Mind Matters
There is nothing “simple” about designing neural systems and the computer systems to receive and interpret neural sensory inputs
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Why we can’t travel back in time?
November 30, 2021 ars technica
If the inability to time travel were a fundamental part of our Universe, you’d expect equally fundamental physics behind that rule.
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Another ‘Sokal’ Hoax?
November 30, 2021 The Chronicle of Higher Education
the latest imitation calls an academic journal’s integrity into question
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Biblical Creation and Intellectual Foolishness
November 30, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Dragon Man Upsets the Textbooks on Human Evolution
November 30, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
For the third time in 2020-2021, books about human evolution must be rewritten. Not so fast! Major problems exist with the Homo longi fossil.
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The Oceans Point to a Young Earth
November 30, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Early Land Plant Evolution?
November 30, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Two New Papers Support Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves
November 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Rocky Exoplanets Turn Out To Feature Exotic Rocks
November 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct
November 30, 2021 Scientific American
Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient lineage of algae found to include five ‘cryptic' species
November 30, 2021 Science Daily
All land plants originated from a single evolutionary event when freshwater algae got a foothold on land. The group of algae that would later give rise to land plants had already been living in freshwater and terrestrial habitats for over one b.y.
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Give Parents a Say in Education? Imagine That!
November 30, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ants Do Trigonometry: A Problem for Darwinism
November 30, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Identity Politics Is Taking Over Astronomy
November 30, 2021 Real Clear Science
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Alien Hunters Have Spent 60 Years Finding New Solutions for the Drake Equation
November 30, 2021 Evon Media
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Latest Academic Hoax Is a Doozy
November 29, 2021 PowerLine
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Why Panspychism Is Starting to Push Out Naturalism
November 29, 2021 Mind Matters
A key goal of naturalism/materialism has been to explain human consciousness away as “nothing but a pack of neurons.” That can’t work
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Trust in science and scientists grows amid pandemic
November 29, 2021 The Hill
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What do Creationists Believe about Human Evolution?
November 29, 2021 YouTube
Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, will argue that understanding the creationist treatment of human evolution requires an understanding of theological doctrine.
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Spiders Have Built-In Algorithm to Construct Webs
November 29, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Recycling of tectonic plates a key driver of Earth’s oxygen budget
November 29, 2021 Science Daily
A new study has identified serpentinite -- a green rock that looks a bit like snakeskin and holds fluids in its mineral structures -- as a key driver of oxygen recycling, which helped create and maintain the sustaining atmosphere for life on Earth.
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Darwin-Free Science Is Possible
November 29, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists can just report the evidence without evolutionary stories. Here’s a good example and a bad example.
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When AI fails, the Results Are Sometimes Amusing. Sometimes Not.
November 29, 2021 Mind Matters
Robert J. Marks, Justin Bui, and Samuel Haug examine five instances where AI went wrong, sometimes on the world stage
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Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago
November 29, 2021 New Scientist
The extra-large, dagger-like canine teeth seen in male great apes have been missing from human ancestors for at least 4.5 million years -- possibly because females opted for less aggressive partners
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Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind
November 29, 2021 New Scientist
Evidence from asteroids shows that charged particles from the sun can turn dust grains into water -- a process that could be useful for space exploration too
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New discovery opens the way for brain-like computers
November 29, 2021 University of Gothenburg
A study has succeeded for the first time in combining a memory function with a calculation function in the same component.
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DNA of future deep-space explorers could become more ‘error prone’ in microgravity
November 29, 2021 frontiers
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WATCH: American Universities Create First ‘Self-Replicating Living Robots’
November 29, 2021 Daily Wire
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Oldest-known fossils of mysterious human lineage uncovered in Siberian cave
November 29, 2021 Live Science
The newly discovered Denisovan bones are 200,000 years old.
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Extinct swordfish-shaped marine reptile discovered
November 29, 2021 McGill University
A new 130-million-year-old marine reptile fossil sheds light on the evolution of hypercarnivory of these last-surviving ichthyosaurs
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Interesting research, but no, we don’t have living, reproducing robots
November 29, 2021 ars technica
Don't believe the hype -- this isn't reproduction or replication.
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New Episode of Long Story Short -- Is the Origin of Biopolymers a Snap?
November 29, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sabine Hossenfelder Explains Why Antimatter Doesn’t Fall Up
November 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Humans Have Evolved to Stay Active Even in Old Age, New Hypothesis Claims
November 28, 2021 Science Alert
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Evaluating William Lane Craig's Views on Genesis, Adam and Eve
November 28, 2021 Wintery Knight