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More Research Undermines Climate Consensus
October 18, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What’s at stake is a threat of punishing all humans (except elitists) around the globe for what may be a natural phenomenon.
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The Search for the Universal Algorithm Continues
October 18, 2021 Mind Matters
Why does machine learning always seem to be rounding a corner, only to eventually hit a wall?
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News Update/Commentary
Mammalian motivation circuits: Maybe they’re born with it
October 18, 2021 Science Daily
Are animals born to seek rewards or avoid punishment? Researchers found that mice have pre-programmed neurons and circuits that process ‘positive' and ‘negative' stimuli.
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The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration
October 18, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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John West on the Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model of Science and Faith
October 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Seti: why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological
October 18, 2021 The Conversation
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Is Evil in the World Simply the Absence of Good?
October 17, 2021 Mind Matters
Christian Michael Egnor argues for that view. Then he and atheist Matt Dillahunty clash over whether a cause can be outside of time
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There Is No Such Thing As a Fossil Mind
October 17, 2021 Mind Matters
A chapter on evolutionary psychology in Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith (2021) looks at the curious discipline of evolutionary psychology
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Christian Egnor and Atheist Dillahunty Now Take Questions ...
October 17, 2021 Mind Matters
For example, “What is Mr. Egnor’s best evidence of any god that would make me believe?”
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Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is it ethical?
October 17, 2021 The Guardian
The first child born using the technique arrived last year. But can it really help reduce diseases in a new generation, or is it ‘techno-eugenics’?
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Bone Wonders Celebrated
October 17, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Illustra Media’s newest short film is a masterpiece of animation and design evidence in the human body
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“Junk DNA” Is Expressed Differently in Chimps and Humans
October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
and makes a difference in brain types
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Scripture Scholar John Oswalt Weighs in Critically on William Lane Craig’s Historical Adam
October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Is Ethan Siegel’s Big Bang and Parallel Universes Nonsense a Response to Steve Meyer?
October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Hank Hanegraff Interviews Neil Thomas
October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
a skeptic who is skeptical of Darwin
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Just Announced: Strange Signals from the Galaxy's Center
October 16, 2021 Mind Matters
Astronomers: “The brightness of the object also varies dramatically, by a factor of 100, and the signal switches on and off apparently at random. We’ve never seen anything like it.”
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Physicist: Copernican Principle Doesn't Make Earth Insignificant
October 16, 2021 Mind Matters
That, Marcelo Gleiser says, is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science
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Reptiles Evolved, De-Evolved, Re-Evolved Teeth
October 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Harvard Scientist Suggests That Our Universe Was Created in a Laboratory
October 16, 2021 Futurism
It's a compelling (and scary) theory.
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Meet the springhare: the first glow-in-the-dark African mammal known to science
October 16, 2021 Massive Science
Researchers discovered the springhare’s fluorescent abilities entirely by accident
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Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book
October 16, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
without mentioning him by name
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Michael Egnor Explains Why Matt Dillahunty Is Not an Atheist
October 15, 2021 Mind Matters
Not really, anyway, Egnor insists, because he keeps invoking a moral standard that can’t exist if materialist atheism is true
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GWT: A Leading Consciousness Theory Depends on Information Theory
October 15, 2021 Mind Matters
Not mechanism. If Global Workspace Theory (GWT) is a good approach to consciousness, there is no “consciousness spot” in the brain.
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Why are viruses considered non-living?
October 15, 2021 Cosmos Magazine
Viruses lack many of the features that are considered signs of life.
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News Update/Commentary
Plant-eating lizards on the cusp of tooth evolution
October 15, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers found that complex teeth, a hallmark of mammals, also evolved several times in reptiles, prompting the evolutionary success of plant-eating lizards. However, contrary to mammals their tooth evolution was not unidirectional.
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Tan and Stadler’s Recent Book Tackles Claims of Life from the Lab
October 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Finding Re Endangered Snakes Is the Opposite of Classic Theory
October 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
plus some interesting snake evolution news
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Our brains have a “fingerprint” too
October 15, 2021 EurekAlert!
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Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?
October 15, 2021 Scientific American
Developing quantum-gravity technologies may elevate us to a “class A” civilization, capable of creating a baby universe
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Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3
October 15, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation
October 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It
October 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Two Impacts, Not Just One, May Have Formed the Moon
October 14, 2021 Sky & Telescope
The Moon may have formed in a one-two punch, new simulations suggest.
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Melissa Cain Travis: Explaining the Uncanny “Cosmic Resonance” of Mathematics
October 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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How a mass extinction resulted in the rise of the snakes
October 14, 2021 ars technica
The Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction saw a snake-splosion of biodiversity.
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What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?
October 14, 2021 sapiens
Excavations at the site of 'Ubeidiya are at the heart of a debate about Homo erectus migrations, with profound implications for questions of human resilience and adaptability.
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Snakes started eating birds and mammals after dinosaurs went extinct
October 14, 2021 New Scientist
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Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, and Scientists Don't Know Why
October 14, 2021 Newsweek
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News Update/Commentary
Big differences found in male and female jojoba plant sex genes
October 14, 2021 Science Daily
New research suggests male and female jojoba plants have diverged so much, that the jojoba plant has more novel sex genes than any other known living organism.
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Classifier of Life Forms Linnaeus Gets the Chop Due to Concerns About Racism
October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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A 2010 Oxford U Press Book on “Unintelligent Design” Seems So Dated Now
October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Another Shot in the Campaign Against the Big Bang
October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Horrors! Our Stone Age Ancestors… SMOKED!!
October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Nobel Prize Medicine Win Solves a Mystery in Hot, Cold Sensing
October 13, 2021 Mind Matters
Researchers discovered the exact path by which chili peppers feel “hot” and mints feel “cold” when the signals reach our brains.
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An Engineering Perspective on the Bacterial Flagellum: Part 3 -- Observations
October 13, 2021 BIO-Complexity
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Surprise: the Big Bang isn’t the beginning of the universe anymore
October 13, 2021 Big Think
We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we're not so sure.
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News Update/Commentary
Primates’ ancestors may have left trees to survive asteroid
October 13, 2021 Science Daily
When an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs not related to birds and three-quarters of life on Earth, early ancestors of primates and marsupials were among the only tree-dwelling (arboreal) mammals that survived, according to a new study.
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News Update/Commentary
Genes and collective behavior
October 13, 2021 Science Daily
The targeted manipulation of individual genes in zebrafish larvae changes their behavioral responses to visual stimuli and thus affects the collective behavior of the animals.
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News Update/Commentary
Catching malaria evolution in the act
October 13, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers can now detect brand new mutations in individual malaria parasites infecting humans. Such high resolution could help us understand how parasites develop drug resistance and evade immune responses, and suggest potential treatment targets.
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News Update/Commentary
Did Venus ever have oceans?
October 13, 2021 Science Daily
Venus' thick CO2 atmosphere, extreme surface temperature and pressure, and sulphuric acid clouds are indeed a stark contrast to the conditions needed for life on Earth. This may, however, have not always been the case.