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Ginkgo ‘Living Fossil’ Trees Defy Evolution
August 31, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“200 million-year-old” ginkgo tree leaves showcased but their fossils often preserve original plant material
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The Fossils Still Say No: Capping a Cretaceous Conundrum
August 31, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Genomic data reveals new insights into human embryonic development
August 31, 2021 Science Daily
Whole-genome sequencing used to track the development from a single fertilized-egg to a human body
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Genes can respond to coded information in signals -- or filter them out entirely
August 31, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have demonstrated that genes are capable of identifying and responding to coded information in light signals. The study shows how a single mechanism can trigger different behaviors from the same gene.
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Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory
August 31, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Talking to “Science Deniers”?
August 31, 2021 Uncommon Descent
How about a bit of self-reflection first?
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How Engineering Destroys Faith in Darwinism
August 31, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinian Evolutionary Biologist Jerry Coyne Speaks Out on the War on Math
August 31, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Evolution as a Theological Research Program
August 30, 2021 Religions, v.12, n.9
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution interacted with non-empirical factors including a range of theological concerns. The influence of these theological concerns is typically modeled as secondary to that of empirical evidence.
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Genealogical Adam, Micro-Fossils, and Fowl Baramins
August 30, 2021 YouTube
with Todd Wood and Paul Garner
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The flower clock: How a small protein helps flowers to develop right and on time
August 30, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have found that KNUCKLES (KNU) stops a feedback loop between two genes, playing multiple roles to allow the proper formation of flower reproductive organs within a short time frame.
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Poll Claims a Majority of Americans Say They Accept Evolution
August 30, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Is evolution accepted by a majority of Americans? One reason is indoctrination into Darwinism
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Here’s a Great “Molecular Machines” Video
August 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Comb Jellies, Among the Oldest Life Forms, Lost Rather Than Gained Complexity
August 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Here’s a Podcast with Neil Thomas on His New Book, Taking Leave of Darwin
August 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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A U-Turn on Adam and Eve
August 30, 2021 Peaceful Science
BioLogos updates their scientific position on Adam and Eve. This is an important step forward and a key milestone in the conversation.
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A Neuroscience Theory That Actually Helps Explain the Brain
August 30, 2021 Mind Matters
Robert Epstein’s “transducer” theory is an instance of getting something right
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Is Brain Science Helping Us Understand Belief in God?
August 30, 2021 Mind Matters
To the extent that materialist researchers are still looking for a God switch in the brain, no, it doesn’t
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The mind does not exist
August 30, 2021 Aeon
The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are messy, harmful and distracting. We should get rid of them
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To Learn More Quickly, Brain Cells Break Their DNA
August 30, 2021 Quanta Magazine
New work shows that neurons and other brain cells use DNA double-strand breaks, often associated with cancer, neurodegeneration and aging, to quickly express genes related to learning and memory.
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Learning from a ‘living fossil'
August 30, 2021 Science Daily
As we live and breathe, ancient-looking fish known as bowfin are guarding genetic secrets that that can help unravel humanity's evolutionary history and better understand its health.
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Perceptions of supernatural beings reveal feelings about good and bad in humans
August 30, 2021 Science Daily
What transpires in comedies and cartoons when a character has a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is not far off from people's perceptions of the real world, finds a new study.
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Record number of ancient elephant bone tools discovered
August 30, 2021 Science Daily
Humans living about 400,000 years ago produced an unprecedented diversity of elephant bone tools, including pointed tools for carving meat and wedge-shaped tools for cracking open large femurs and other long bones.
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How Engineers Helped Save Biology from Evolutionary Theory
August 30, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Non-Materialist Science Is Wanted -- Dead or Alive
August 29, 2021 Mind Matters
Exploring a non-materialist approach to the mind has included a death threat for neurosurgeon Michael Egnor
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At a Certain Point, “Evolution” Becomes an Excuse for Not Thinking Clearly
August 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
cane toads
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Reptile’s Skull Changed Little in 22 Million Years
August 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Scientific American (and math) go full woke
August 29, 2021 Why Evolution Is True
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Can Science Really Engineer a Bigger Human Brain?
August 28, 2021 Mind Matters
Computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham wonders why we would bother. There is no strict relationship between brain size and intellectual achievement
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Robert Stickgold -- Can Consciousness be Non-Biological?
August 28, 2021 YouTube
If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experience as humans can be generated by non-biological entities (eventually).
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Privileged Address: An Excerpt from Neil Thomas’s Taking Leave of Darwin
August 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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The Insane Biology of: The Dragonfly
August 28, 2021 YouTube
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9 Things You Should Know About Secular Humanism
August 28, 2021 The Gospel Coalition
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Engineering a second genetic code in parallel with the normal one
August 27, 2021 ars technica
As if an Android phone could all of a sudden run iOS at the same time.
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Embryonic development in slow motion
August 27, 2021 Science Daily
Roe deer are among the few mammals whose embryos go into a particularly long period of dormancy. Using modern molecular methods, researchers have shown for the first time what exactly happens in the embryo during this phase.
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Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed
August 27, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is Methodological Naturalism Racist?
August 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent
asked by Lutheran religious studies professor
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Serious Questions Raised in Journal Around Origin-of-Life Claims
August 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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The Most Serious Outcome of the Replication Crisis in Science
August 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Discover Fossil of a 4-Legged Whale with a Raptor-Like Eating Style
August 27, 2021 National Public Radio
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Mystery of Grand Canyon's missing rocks may finally be solved
August 27, 2021 space.com
The ancient supercontinent Rodinia may be responsible.
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Darwinism Stretches Imaginations
August 27, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Is the Gumby Action Figure of Darwin made of Flubber or Silly Putty? Either material works, depending on the need of the moment.
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Is Methodological Naturalism Racist?
August 27, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers: Blind Mouse Pups Prepared for Sight
August 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Materialism Hangs on to Science Now
August 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent
not by evidence but by politics
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Characterizing amplifiers of natural selection and their optimization
August 27, 2021 Current Science Daily
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Evolution Denial Survey
August 26, 2021 NeuroLogica
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News Update/Commentary
Plants evolved ability to actively control water-loss earlier than previously thought
August 26, 2021 Science Daily
New research has shed light on when plants first evolved the ability to respond to changing humidity in the air around them, and was probably a feature of a common ancestor of both flowering plants and ferns.
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Cuttlefish Have Good Memories, Even in Old Age
August 26, 2021 Mind Matters
They are cephalopods and many types of cephalopod show a number of intelligent characteristics which we are only beginning to investigate
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New species of ancient four-legged whale discovered in Egypt
August 26, 2021 BBC
Scientists in Egypt have identified a new species of four-legged whale that lived around 43 million years ago.