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C. S. Lewis and Theistic Evolution
October 28, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers Discover New Type of Nerve Cell in the Retina
October 28, 2021 University of Utah
The newly identified Campana cell could play a role in visual signal processing.
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It Begins at Last… T. H. Huxley, Darwin’s Bulldog, About To Be Cancelled
October 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
other early Darwinists to get the chop soon?
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Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery
October 28, 2021 ars technica
1952 Miller-Urey experiment showed organic molecules forming from inorganic precursors.
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Two California Condors Had Virgin Births, Researchers Say
October 28, 2021 Gizmodo
A new study describes two cases of parthenogenesis, in which birds laid viable eggs without breeding.
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Human species who lived 500,000 years ago named as Homo bodoensis
October 28, 2021 The Guardian
Species was direct ancestor of early humans in Africa and discovery has led to reassessment of epoch
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Spiders are much smarter than you think
October 28, 2021 Knowable magazine
Cognition researchers are discovering surprising capabilities among a group of itsy-bitsy arachnids
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Is the Great Neutrino Puzzle Pointing to Multiple Missing Particles?
October 28, 2021 Quanta Magazine
Years of conflicting neutrino measurements have led physicists to propose a “dark sector” of invisible particles -- one that could simultaneously explain dark matter, the puzzling expansion of the universe, and other mysteries.
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Refocus
October 28, 2021 Core Academy of Science
I feel like I've been a bit out of commission on my public engagement this year. I also feel like I've been incredibly busy, so that's weird. Anyway, here's a brief rundown of what's up.
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The Genes Vampires Lost
October 28, 2021 The Scientist
According to a preprint, the common vampire bat lacks 13 genes present in other bat species, which may help explain their blood-only diet and other curious aspects of their lifestyle.
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Miller Experiment Still Sells Building Blocks of Lie
October 28, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
After nearly 68 years, the Miller Experiment still has propaganda value. Update: just add glass chips, get more lies.
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News Update/Commentary
New species of human ancestor named: Homo bodoensis
October 28, 2021 Science Daily
Palaeoanthropologists have announced the naming of a new species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. This species lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, around half a million years ago, and was the direct ancestor of modern humans.
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Reasons to Believe: Eric Metaxas’s Powerful New Book, Is Atheism Dead?
October 28, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists’ Reaction to Ever More of the Cell’s Complexity in Its Own Environment
October 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Free Index to World’s Research Papers a Boon to Vast Literature Searches
October 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Reuters Puffs “Modern-Day Darwin” E. O. Wilson
October 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
bad timing or just plain tone deaf?
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Endangered birds experience ‘virgin birth,' a first for the species
October 28, 2021 National Geographic
Female California condors don't need males to have offspring -- joining sharks, rays, and lizards on the list of creatures that can reproduce without mating.
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Researchers Still Puzzled: Why Did Human Brains Shrink?
October 27, 2021 Mind Matters
Human brain volumes decreased by 10% in the last 40,000 years, coinciding with spectacular intellectual achievements
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New Film: C. S. Lewis As a Staunch Defender of the Mind's Reality
October 27, 2021 Mind Matters
Lewis started out thinking that “the findings of science have concluded that human reason” resulted merely from “natural selection with random mutations… to confer upon humans a reproductive advantage.”
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Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species
October 27, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Big Bang of Flowers, 50-100 Million Years Ago
October 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Debate: How Can a Cause and Effect Occur at the Same Time?
October 27, 2021 Mind Matters
In the broken window analogy, the brick becomes a cause simultaneously with the shattered glass becoming an effect
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What physicists get wrong about consciousness
October 27, 2021 iai News
Panpsychism as an interpretation of physics
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Virtual particles may be real particles out of phase with our reality
October 27, 2021 Medium
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Harvard's modern-day Darwin warns against humanity's downward slope
October 27, 2021 Yahoo! News
The Harvard University scientist who has called for setting aside half the planet as a nature preserve says the slope of human history will always be downward unless there is global cooperation to save existing species.
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Neutrino result heralds new chapter in physics
October 27, 2021 BBC
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Einstein’s demon-haunted quantum world
October 27, 2021 Big Think
Einstein hated “spooky action at a distance," but much to his chagrin, quantum mechanics remains as spooky as ever.
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T. H. Huxley about to be cancelled at Imperial College London
October 27, 2021 Why Evolution Is True
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When Was Adam Created?
October 27, 2021 Answers in Genesis
A biblical overview on the creation of Adam, how to read Genesis, when Adam was created, and other considerations about the first man
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New Animated Short on the Origin of Life Is a Lot of Fun
October 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Paleontologists Find “Possible” Dinosaur DNA from 125 Million Years Ago
October 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Flim Flam? Flash in the Pan?
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Apparently There Was Such a Thing As Marxist Astronomy
October 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent
wokeness isn’t new
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Fossil evidence unveils an early Cambrian origin for Bryozoa
October 27, 2021 Nature
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MicroBooNE’s new findings provide clues on longtime mystery in neutrino physics
October 27, 2021 University of Chicago
Fermilab experiment does not recreate earlier evidence for theoretical fourth kind of neutrino
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved and why they are unique only to mammals
October 27, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers trace the first tusks back to ancient mammal relatives that lived before the dinosaurs and shed light on the evolution of mammalian tusks by first defining what makes a tusk a tusk.
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Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales?
October 26, 2021 Hakai magazine
An ambitious project is attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with artificial intelligence, then talk back to them.
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The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity
October 26, 2021 New Phytologist
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Paleontologists Find Possible Dinosaur DNA
October 26, 2021 The Scientist
A report of preserved fragments of nuclei and chromatin in a fossilized femur of a 125-million-year-old Caudipteryx dinosaur elicits skepticism.
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Can just one equation describe the entire history of the universe?
October 26, 2021 Big Think
As the first Friedmann equation celebrates its 99th anniversary, it remains the one equation to describe our entire universe.
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The secret lives of cells -- as never seen before
October 26, 2021 Nature
Cutting-edge microscopy techniques are allowing researchers to spy on the innards of cells in all their crowded glory.
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Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online
October 26, 2021 Nature
Catalogue of billions of phrases from 107 million papers could ease computerized searching of the literature.
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Non-Darwinian Adaptive Radiation Proposed
October 26, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Human Origins -- The Scientific Imagination at Play
October 26, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why C. S. Lewis Doubted the Creative Power of Natural Selection
October 26, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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C. S. Lewis and the Argument from Reason
October 26, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Call-and-response circuit tells neurons when to grow synapses
October 25, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists explains signaling mechanism between astrocyte cells and neurons that regulates synaptic development
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New Animated Video Dismantles Origin-of-Life Hype
October 25, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Do We Live on a Privileged Planet?
October 25, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mammoths and other extinct Ice Age giants clung on longer than previously thought, DNA analysis suggests
October 25, 2021 CNN
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That Primate's Got Rhythm!
October 25, 2021 Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science