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What was the first “art”? How would we know?
November 2, 2021 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Recently discovered cave paintings and bone carvings offer new perspectives on long-held questions about art’s origins -- not to mention the nature of art itself.
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Two New Films About Faith and Skepticism
November 1, 2021 The Gospel Coalition
I heard someone remark recently that, in our secular age, the main struggle skeptics have with Christianity is not just that it is implausible, but that it is immoral.
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The silent build-up to a super-eruption
November 1, 2021 University of Geneva
Geologists from the UNIGE and Peking University have developed a technique that makes it possible to estimate the maximum size of a future super-eruption of Toba volcano in Sumatra.
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Microbes may have lived in the underground for more than a billion years
November 1, 2021 phys.org
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Uncovering the Secrets Behind Earth’s First Major Mass Extinction
November 1, 2021 Syracuse University
A team of researchers have published a new study in Nature Geoscience exploring the cause of the Late Ordovician mass extinction.
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Coming to the Defense of Classical Logic
November 1, 2021 Mind Matters
Classical logic belongs to everyone and can be equally wielded by anyone
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The demons haunting thermodynamics
November 1, 2021 Physics Today
The contradictory implications of statistical mechanics have worried physicists and philosophers for centuries. Does our present-day knowledge allow us to exorcize those philosophical demons?
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Opinion: Being, Feeling, and Knowing: Our Path to Consciousness
November 1, 2021 The Scientist
The idea that minds and consciousness might be generated by the nervous system alone is false.
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Tusk, Tusk: Evolutionists Surprised by Tusk Evolution
November 1, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The evidence is against Darwinian evolution of tusks but Harvard biologists are excited by tusk evolution anyway
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Biology Transcends the Limits of Computation
November 1, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Unusual Island Life Forms May Have Been Genetically Pre-Coded To Vary
November 1, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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A Thoughtful Critique of Philip Goff’s Panpsychism
November 1, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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A new undersea volcano is born east of Africa
November 1, 2021 Physics Today, v.74, n.11, p.17
Geophysical and oceanographic observations establish how a deep magma chamber fueled an extraordinary eruption.
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News Update/Commentary
Mammals’ noses come from reptiles’ jaws
November 1, 2021 Science Daily
Evolutionary development of facial bones studied in embryos and fossils
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Big Tech Wants to Control the Future; Here’s What We Can Do About That
November 1, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Humanity: Natural Selection’s Ultimate Challenge According to C. S. Lewis
November 1, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The information continuum model of evolution
November, 2021 Biosystems, v.209
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Book
Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the Mysterious Origin of Ingenious Instincts
November, 2021 Discovery Institute
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New Book, Animal Algorithms, Spells Fresh Trouble for Darwinism
November 1, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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7 Things You May Not Know About Charles Darwin
October 31, 2021 Discover magazine
History books may have left out the wacky details about the Father of Evolution
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Philosopher: Panpsychism Is Not in Conflict with Physics at All
October 31, 2021 Mind Matters
Responding to criticism from physicists Sabine Hossenfelder and Sean Carroll, Philip Goff points out that panpsychism is not a dualist perspective
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Scan a Pumpkin, See a Beautiful World of Design
October 31, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History af Humankind
October 31, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Canceled Exoplanets Prof Dorian Abbot at The Wall Street Journal
October 31, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Physicist: If Humans Died Out, the Galaxy Might Lose All Meaning
October 30, 2021 Mind Matters
Ahead of a big climate change conference, Brian Cox assesses the prospect of other habitable planets or their civilizations much more soberly than we often hear
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Theoretical Physicist: Colonizing Mars Is a Ridiculous Idea
October 30, 2021 Mind Matters
Making Mars habitable (terraforming) has been kicking around engineering circles for decades. What are the chances, given Moore’s Law-level increases in technology?
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How Exoplanets Have Made the Search for ET Respectable
October 30, 2021 Mind Matters
Recent years have seen a marked change from official skepticism to official curiosity, which includes more generous funding for the search
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Video
The Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser, Debunked
October 30, 2021 YouTube
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Universities require Christian clubs to promote non-Christian views to get funding: lawsuits
October 30, 2021 Just the News
Appeals court punished University of Iowa twice this year for similar actions against Christian clubs.
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“Twisted” Human Birth Canal “Evolved” To Be Good Design
October 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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A Review of Steve Meyer’s The Return of the God Hypothesis
October 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Jurassic Graveyard Reveals Oldest Evidence That Dinosaurs Traveled in Herds
October 29, 2021 Geology In
The discovery included more than 100 dinosaur eggs and the partial skeletons of 80 juvenile and adult dinosaurs.
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The End of Science
October 29, 2021 American Thinker
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Dragonflies Make the Most of a Tiny Brain
October 29, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Paleoecology: Prehistoric eggshells
October 29, 2021 Science, v.374, n.6567, p.575-576
Archaeological evidence indicates that cassowary eggs were exploited by humans in New Guinea from the Late Pleistocene to the early Holocene.
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Is Online Learning Poised to Replace Universities?
October 29, 2021 Mind Matters
Perhaps sooner than we think, if present trends continue. A degree may confer only social status -- which depends on others’ acceptance
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Can Proteins Bind Based Only on Their Shapes?
October 29, 2021 energy.gov
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Same RNA Acts in Neurodegeneration and Cancer
October 29, 2021 The Scientist
The long noncoding RNA MINCR, implicated in ALS and Alzheimer’s disease as well as several types of cancer, appears to function differently when present at high versus low levels.
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Spider Uses its Web Like a Giant Engineered Ear
October 29, 2021 The Scientist
Bridge spiders “outsource” their hearing by building webs that double as acoustic arrays, allowing them to perceive sounds from great distances.
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The Fossils Still Say No: The Post-Flood Providential Pleistocene
October 29, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Snails, Slugs, and Semi Slugs: A Perfect Evolutionary Transition?
October 29, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Carnegie Museum biologist suggests a new evolutionary history for snails and slugs but fails to account for differences in anatomy and lack of evidence.
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News Update/Commentary
Why do humans possess a twisted birth canal?
October 29, 2021 Science Daily
Extraordinary shape makes births more difficult, but guarantees stability
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Hot Chimps! No Evolution Here
October 29, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What does a new study about savanna chimpanzees say about evolution? Anything the evolutionists want it to say.
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News Update/Commentary
Linking the past and present: Reconstructing the dragonfly and damselfly family tree
October 29, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers used transcriptomics (a type of gene sequencing) calibrated using information from the fossil record to create the first phylogenetic reconstruction of the insect order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), covering 105 species.
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“Charles Darwin Will Be Next If His Great Defender Is Toppled”
October 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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An Interesting Take on How Science Splutters Out Amid Cries of “Trust the Science!”
October 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Reshuffling of Early Human Names Results in New Name, Homo Bodoensis
October 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Why Just Anything Can't Happen Given an Infinite Number of Universes
October 28, 2021 Mind Matters
We can see why not, using simple mathematical reasoning in this universe
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Why does nearly every genetics paper mention cancer?
October 28, 2021 Cosmos Magazine
How does this affect our understanding of the human genome?
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Introducing the Lysenko Award
October 28, 2021 Minding the Campus
Trofim Lysenko Award for the Suppression of Academic Speech