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The Historical Adam -- Part 3: A Worldview Based on Fact or Fiction
November 5, 2021 Biblical Science Institute
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Radiocarbon: A key tracer for studying Earth’s dynamo, climate system, carbon cycle, and Sun
November 5, 2021 Science, v.374, n.6568
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution
November 5, 2021 Science, v.374, n.6568, p.717-723
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Science Publisher Retracts 44 Papers for Being Utter Nonsense
November 5, 2021 Gizmodo
Unadulterated gibberish snuck into Springer Nature’s Arabian Journal of Geosciences, and not for the first time.
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Engineered Stem Cells Grant Geckos “Perfectly” Regenerated Tails
November 5, 2021 The Scientist
Geckos injected with neural stem cells modified to block cartilage growth developed the skeletal and nervous components normally lacking from regrown tails.
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A Single Transcription Factor Changes Ants to Queens
November 5, 2021 The Scientist
The transcription factor can also drive the opposite transition depending on which hormone activates it, according to a new study.
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Researchers: “The Human Genome Is Less ‘Normal’ Than We Thought.”
November 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Putting All Those Monkeys on a Raft Once Again…
November 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Whatever Happened to the Dawkins’s Weasel Program?
November 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
that could randomly produce meaningful sentences, using natural selection
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The Problem with the Big Bang Theory
November 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Supercomputer Simulates What Happens When Meteors Strike the Atmosphere
November 5, 2021 Universe Today
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Radiocarbon is key to understanding Earth's past
November 4, 2021 phys.org
Radiocarbon records are critical to understanding the history of Earth's climate, magnetic field, and the sun's activity, say researchers.
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How Information Becomes Everything, Including Life
November 4, 2021 Mind Matters
Without the information that holds us together, we would just be dust floating around the room
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The geological history of Tasmania, Australia
November 4, 2021 Creation Ministries International
From a biblical Flood perspective
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News from the Dinaledi Chamber
November 4, 2021 Core Academy of Science
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The problem with the Big Bang theory
November 4, 2021 CNN
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Killer Whales’ Low Genetic Diversity Offers a Warning for the Future
November 4, 2021 Hakai magazine
Even after thousands of years, many killer whale populations are still reeling from the genetic bottleneck of navigating the end of the last ice age.
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Escaping cosmology’s failing paradigm
November 4, 2021 iai News
Why we may be radically wrong about the universe’s size and expansion
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A child’s partial skull adds to the mystery of how Homo naledi treated the dead
November 4, 2021 Science News
Found in a narrow opening, the remains stoke possibility of ancient, deliberate cave disposals
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Sponge Genes Hint at the Origins of Neurons and Other Cells
November 4, 2021 Quanta Magazine
A new study of gene expression in sponges reveals the complex diversity of their cells as well as some possibly ancient connections between the nervous, immune and digestive systems.
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A Friend Says This Paper Illustrates That Universal Common Descent Is Untestable
November 4, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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New Book Focuses on Animal Intelligence As Not Product of Pure Randomness
November 4, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Mysterious Shards of Glass Are Strewn Across Miles of Desert
November 3, 2021 MSN
and we finally know why
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Does It Really Matter Whether Adam Was the First Man?
November 3, 2021 The Gospel Coalition
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Neuroscientist: Even Viruses Are Intelligent
November 3, 2021 Mind Matters
Antonio Damasio says, in the excerpt from his new book, that -- based on the evidence -- we cannot deny viruses “some fraction” of intelligence
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Terrawatch: Earth’s ‘boring’ plate tectonics period
November 3, 2021 The Guardian
Curious report suggests calm thousand millennia of ‘Boring Billion’ was more lively than thought
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Does modern cosmology prove the existence of God?
November 3, 2021 Big Think
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It's got to be God.
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The quantum experiment that could prove reality doesn't exist
November 3, 2021 New Scientist
We like to think that things are there even when we aren't looking at them. But that belief might soon be overturned thanks to a new test designed to tell us if quantum weirdness persists in macroscopic objects
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Revising Hominin Baraminology with Medoid Partitioning and Fuzzy Analysis
November 3, 2021 Answers Research Journal, v.14, p.451-462
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Hominins: Was I wrong????
November 3, 2021 Core Academy of Science
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Fossil Follies from Around the Science Literature
November 3, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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First Recipient of the Lysenko Award Was One of Dorian Abbot’s Cancellers
November 3, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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The Cambrian Explosion Just Got More Bang
November 3, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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The Discontinuous Fossil Record
November 3, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The tempo of Ediacaran evolution
November 3, 2021 Science Advances
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Citrullination was introduced into animals by horizontal gene transfer from cyanobacteria
November 3, 2021 Molecular Biology and Evolution
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Neuroscientist: Nervous Systems Alone Do Not Cause Consciousness
November 2, 2021 Mind Matters
Antonio Damasio, author of Feeling & Knowing (2021), points to the whole body as involved in consciousness
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University of Chicago Biochemist: All Living Cells Are Cognitive
November 2, 2021 Mind Matters
James Shapiro’s recent paper points out, with examples, that bacteria meet the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of “cognitive”
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Blog Post
What contemporary philosophers believe
November 2, 2021 Why Evolution Is True
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Vipers evolved either nose or eye horns depending on their habitat
November 2, 2021 New Scientist
The horns on vipers’ eyes could help camouflage their head in rocky areas or trees, while those with nose horns may blend in better on forest floors
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Origin of Species by Microbes?
November 2, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Moving speciation from chance variation to microbiomes still leaves it up to chance.
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News Update/Commentary
A life less obvious: Study sheds light on the evolution of underground microbes
November 2, 2021 Science Daily
Precambrian cratons -- some of Earth's oldest rocks -- were uninhabitable for microbes for much of their existence, with the longest period of habitability not much beyond a billion years, and many only for the past 50 million to 300 million years
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News Update/Commentary
Pinniped craniofacial musculature provides insight on its role in aquatic feeding
November 2, 2021 Science Daily
Pinnipeds -- a group including seals and walruses -- are relatively recently derived marine mammals that evolved from terrestrial carnivorans. Their recent adaptations to an amphibious lifestyle make their evolutionary anatomy of particular interest
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The Discontinuous Fossil Record Refutes Darwinian Gradualism
November 2, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Cancel Culture’s Hit on Medical Science
November 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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The Unique Origins of Humanity in the Fossil Record
November 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists: don’t feed the doubt machine
November 2, 2021 Nature
From climate to COVID, naivety about how science is hijacked promotes more of the same.
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Many scientists are atheists, but that doesn’t mean they are anti-religious
November 2, 2021 The Conversation
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Luskin: The “Big Bang” of Human Origins
November 2, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Giant leap taken in fighting antibiotic resistance
November 2, 2021 Science Daily
Antibiotic resistance outwitted by supercomputers