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Doublethink: Censor of the Year Calls for Free Speech
October 21, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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What Is Baraminology?
October 20, 2021 new creation
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What Can Mapping the Whole Brain Tell Us About Ourselves?
October 20, 2021 Mind Matters
Researchers attempting to map the brain must contend with massive complexity at every level, as a report in Nature shows
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Video
Jonathan Wells: Human Evolution, Darwinism, Fossils -- Science Uprising Expert Interviews
October 20, 2021 YouTube
In this brief bonus interview released as part of the Science Uprising series, biologist Jonathan Wells discusses science, Darwinism, the fossil record, Lucy, and how the media cover fossil finds.
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Ancient solar storm pinpoints Viking settlement in Americas exactly 1,000 years ago
October 20, 2021 National Geographic
An analysis of wood from L’Anse aux Meadows zeroes in on a cosmic event to reveal that the European seafarers were felling trees in Newfoundland in A.D. 1021.
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The Irrelevant Climate Change ‘Consensus'
October 20, 2021 American Thinker
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Crab found in 100-million-year-old amber is oldest modern-looking crab ever found
October 20, 2021 EurekAlert!
Discovery provides new insights into the evolution of crabs and when they spread around the world
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Before making a mammoth, ask the public
October 20, 2021 Nature
I turned down the role of adviser to a de-extinction company -- that task belongs to everyone.
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One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History of Science
October 20, 2021 nautil.us
A new history of the race to decipher DNA reveals Shakespearean plots of scheming.
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99-million-year-old crab discovered trapped inside amber
October 20, 2021 New Scientist
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Junk DNA Concept Is Mostly Dead
October 20, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Has the term “Junk DNA” finally been buried for good? It’s gone from 98.5% to close to zero percent.
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News Update/Commentary
Termite brains can grow in anticipation of a single moment of flight and light
October 20, 2021 Science Daily
In a dampwood termite colony only a select few will, quite literally, see the light. Researchers investigated how this group of individuals, who are destined to leave the nest, evolve differently in the brain region that processes vision.
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News Update/Commentary
New galaxy images reveal a fitful start to the Universe
October 20, 2021 Science Daily
New images have revealed detailed clues about how the first stars and structures were formed in the Universe and suggest the formation of the Galaxy got off to a fitful start.
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Is the Human Neck a “Mistake of Evolution”?
October 20, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?
October 20, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Jonathan Wells on Human Evolution, Darwinism, and Media Coverage of Fossils
October 20, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Only at Salon: The Human Neck Is an Evolution Mistake
October 20, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Crab Trapped in Amber at 99 Million Years Ago Is Remarkably Similar to Modern Crabs
October 20, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Red Blood Cells Activate Innate Immune System
October 20, 2021 The Scientist
Researchers link the ability of the cells to bind and present DNA from pathogens and cell death to anemia, which is common in COVID-19, and immune activation.
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News Update/Commentary
Savannah chimpanzees, a model for the understanding of human evolution
October 20, 2021 Science Daily
The genetically closest-to-humans evolutionary living relative
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Birth of undersea volcano off the east coast of Africa recorded in great detail
October 19, 2021 phys.org
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So-Called Junk DNA -- Genetic “Dark Matter” -- Is Actually Critical to Survival in Mammals
October 19, 2021 Sci Tech Daily
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Podcast: Peaceful Science on Adam & Eve
October 19, 2021 Apologetics 315
Dr. Swamidass is the rare scientist that has the ability to bridge the gap between atheistic naturalists and born-again Christians. Depending on how his elevator pitch on Adam & Eve is presented, either side might find his view controversial. Do you?
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Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past
October 19, 2021 The Guardian
Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies -- and hint at possibilities for our own
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A Hint of Dark Matter Sends Physicists Looking to the Skies
October 19, 2021 Quanta Magazine
After a search of neutron stars finds preliminary evidence for hypothetical dark matter particles called axions, astrophysicists are devising new ways to spot them.
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‘Science denialist': Vaccine scientists who question COVID policy compared to Big Tobacco
October 19, 2021 Just the News
British Medical Journal article retracts misleading claims about financial ties of Great Barrington Declaration “focused protection" trio to free-market philanthropist Charles Koch.
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Earth’s demise could rid galaxy of meaning, warns Brian Cox ahead of Cop26
October 19, 2021 The Guardian
Unique events that led to civilisation mean its demise could ‘eliminate meaning in galaxy for ever’
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Undermining Scripture Regarding Adam: An Initial Response to William Lane Craig
October 19, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Recently Dr. Craig published a book, In Quest of the Historical Adam, in which he argues that Adam is “mytho-history," a demonstrably wrong charge.
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New physics: latest results from CERN further boost tantalising evidence
October 19, 2021 The Conversation
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Extinct Japanese wolf is the closest wild relative of dogs yet found
October 19, 2021 New Scientist
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Famous South African Sardine Run Doesn’t Benefit Sardines: Study
October 19, 2021 The Scientist
An analysis suggests that a commercially important mass migration of fish may have no real adaptive value.
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SETI Is Built on the Myth of Evolutionary Progress
October 19, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Does intelligent design evolve from slime? That is just one of the absurdities in the SETI movement.
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News Update/Commentary
Amount of information in visible universe quantified
October 19, 2021 Science Daily
Estimate measures information encoded in particles, opens door to practical experiments
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News Update/Commentary
DNA tangles can help predict evolution of mutations
October 19, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have identified evolutionary hotspots in DNA where mutations are more likely. The study authors say these findings will help us in the future to predict the evolution of bacteria and viruses over time, which could aid vaccine design
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists gain new understanding of how brain cells talk -- which could help in the treatment of mental health conditions and memory diseases
October 19, 2021 Science Daily
Experts have discovered that reversing the modification of molecular messages at synapses in the human brain, may contribute to reversible mental health conditions such as anxiety, and memory diseases such as dementia.
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Attempt to Explain Away the Beginning of the Universe Fails to Distinguish Imagination from Reality
October 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Listen, or Watch: West and McLean on Science, C. S. Lewis’s Journey, and More
October 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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There Is No Such Thing as a Fossil Mind
October 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Response to the View That Evil Is the Absence of Good
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Here’s More on Canceled Prof Dorian Abbot’s Talk on Climate and Exoplanets -- Thursday
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Here’s a Lay-Friendly Explanation of the Critical Role “Junk DNA” Plays in Mammalian Development
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Physicist Reflects on Claims That the Universe Had No Beginning
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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And Now … Transposable Elements (Junk DNA) Shape the Evolution of Mammalian Development
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Book
Is Atheism Dead?
October 19, 2021 Salem Books
a highly entertaining, impressively wide-ranging, and decidedly provocative answer to that famous 1966 TIME cover that itself provocatively asked “Is God Dead?”
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The dust specks which are actually the building blocks of our genome
October 18, 2021 University of New South Wales
Scientists have found microchromosomes are the origin of all vertebrate genomes, meaning the human genome is less ‘normal' than we thought.
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Noble Gas Hints at Mars’s Rapid Formation
October 18, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A new study finds that Mars’s mantle is neon-rich, putting constraints on the planet’s formation history.
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So-called junk DNA plays critical role in mammalian development
October 18, 2021 Berkeley News
Viral elements called transposons have invaded mammalian genomes for millions of years and currently make up nearly half the DNA in the genomes of all living mammals.
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Understanding Science
October 18, 2021 Answers in Genesis
What forensics can teach us about our origins
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New Research Suggests Human-Like Footprints in Crete Date to 6.05 Million Years Ago
October 18, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine
The findings could upend scientists’ understanding of human evolution -- but the paper has proven controversial
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Mice that Survive Infection Pass on Stronger Immunity
October 18, 2021 The Scientist
Offspring of animals subjected to a real or simulated pathogen were more able to fend off disease, a study finds.