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Gunter Bechly vs Joshua Swamidass -- For and Against Intelligent Design
June 18, 2021 YouTube
Dr Gunter Bechly is a palaeontologist who became convinced that Darwinian evolution cannot explain the fossil record. He debates Intelligent Design with computational biologist Dr Joshua Swamidass who affirms an evolutionary account.
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Death: Child Grave from 80,000 Years Ago Shows Abstract Thinking
June 17, 2021 Mind Matters
The lovingly prepared site on the Kenyan coast held the remains of a 2–3 year-old child
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Octopuses Get Emotional About Pain, Research Suggests
June 17, 2021 Mind Matters
The smartest of invertebrates, the octopus, once again prompts us to rethink what we believe to be the origin of intelligence
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New method could reveal what genes we might have inherited from Neanderthals
June 17, 2021 Science Daily
Using neural networks, researchers have developed a new method to search the human genome for beneficial mutations from Neanderthals and other archaic humans. These humans are known to have interbred with modern humans
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Study identifies trigger for ‘head-to-tail' axis development in human embryo
June 17, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists have identified key molecular events in the developing human embryo between days 7 and 14 -- one of the most mysterious, yet critical, stages of our development.
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Dorsal navigation found in a flying insect
June 17, 2021 Science Daily
Sweat bees navigate through dark tropical forests guided by canopy patterns.
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Hubble data confirms galaxies lacking dark matter
June 17, 2021 Science Daily
The most accurate distance measurement yet of ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) NGC1052-DF2 (DF2) confirms beyond any shadow of a doubt that it is lacking in dark matter.
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Exploring a TEDx Talk that Argues Biology Is “Imperfect” with “Gigantic Mistakes”
June 17, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Fossils of rhino taller than a giraffe found in China
June 17, 2021 National Geographic
One of the largest land animals ever, the newfound species roamed between what is now the Tibetan Plateau and Pakistan more than 25 million years ago.
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Thoughts about Tooth Enamel
June 17, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The minerals that make up teeth provide another example of phenomenally detailed design.
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Darwin got sexual selection backwards, research suggests
June 17, 2021 The Conversation
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Ageing process is unstoppable, finds unprecedented study
June 17, 2021 The Guardian
Research suggests humans cannot slow the rate at which they get older because of biological constraints
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Reflecting on the Cancel!Ation of Richard Dawkins
June 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Comprehensive RNA-Atlas
June 17, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have built one of the most comprehensive catalogues of the human transcriptome ever
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Why Is The Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?
June 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Asked at Quillette
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The Sperm Count Culture War
June 16, 2021 Quillette
Attempts to make science conform to ideology have enjoyed a long and dispiriting history. For many centuries, religion was the main perpetrator,
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The Causes of Bad Science Reporting
June 16, 2021 Science-Based Medicine
A discussion of reasons why science reporting so often gives the wrong impression about various scientific studies.
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Deadly Facial Tumors Spur Tasmanian Devil Evolution: Study
June 16, 2021 The Scientist
The largest study to date of the animals’ genetics provides robust evidence that they are adapting to survive a highly lethal, contagious cancer scientists feared would cause their extinction.
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The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment
June 16, 2021 YouTube
If you ran evolution all over again, would you get humans? How repeatable is evolution?
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Ask the Trees
June 16, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Why dendrochronology is not evidence for an old earth
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Ancient genomes offer rare glimpse of Neanderthal family groups
June 16, 2021 Science
More than 49,000 years ago, a family of Neanderthals set up camp in a cave high in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, overlooking a river valley where bison, red deer, and wild horses roamed.
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How long-known genes continue to surprise researchers
June 16, 2021 Science Daily
Proteins are encoded by genes -- however, this information is divided into small coding sections, which are only assembled during a process called splicing. Various combinations are possible, some of which are still unknown.
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You’ll Never Guess What Just Collapsed
June 16, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
For generations, “Darwin’s Arch” in the Galápagos Islands stood as an unmovable monument to the life and work of Charles Darwin. A few weeks ago, on May 17, the arch collapsed.
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Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning for Scientific Discovery
June 16, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is the Universe Open-Ended?
June 16, 2021 nautil.us
An intriguing proposal about what makes reality tick under the surface.
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DNA of ‘Cave Woman’ Very Similar to Ours
June 16, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Genome of 35,000-to-40,000-year-old woman sequenced: A new study shows one of these oldest known humans is more like us than expected
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Intelligent Design Is Not What Most People Think It Is
June 15, 2021 Mind Matters
Widespread confusion about Intelligent Design leads us to address the question: What exactly is it?
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Is a Neuroscientific Revolution Underway?
June 15, 2021 Psychology Today
A recent book challenges much of what we know about the brain.
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Humans Might Be Making Genetic Evolution Obsolete
June 15, 2021 Real Clear Science
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Theistic evolution and the doctrine of death
June 15, 2021 Creation Ministries International
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Galactic Structure Gives Cosmologists Lumps
June 15, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How many times have we been told that “new physics” are needed to explain the universe?
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Plants use a blend of external influences to evolve defense mechanisms
June 15, 2021 Science Daily
Plants evolve specialized defense chemicals through the combined effects of genes, geography, demography and environmental conditions.
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Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”
June 15, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
Mesozoic cupules come to the rescue?
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World’s ‘Smallest Dinosaur’ Revealed to Be a Mystery Reptile
June 14, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine
Paleontologists analyzed two skulls and made the call, but aren’t sure about the exact type of animal they’ve discovered
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Rotifer Mocks Old-Age Credulity
June 14, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
This claim outdoes the Rip Van Winkle fable by four orders of magnitude.
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Fox-breeding experiment suggests domestication can boost brain size
June 14, 2021 New Scientist
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Making a meal of DNA in the seafloor
June 14, 2021 Science Daily
Specialized bacteria in the oceans seafloor consume and recycle nucleic acids from dead biomass
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Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment
June 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Physicist Brian Keating -- God Hypothesis Is a “Page-Turner”
June 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nelson: Evolution Morphing into Intelligent Design?
June 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?
June 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?
June 13, 2021 Quillette
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The role of source reliability in belief polarisation
June 13, 2021 Synthese
Psychological studies show that the beliefs of two agents in a hypothesis can diverge even if both agents receive the same evidence. This phenomenon of belief polarisation is often explained by invoking biased assimilation of evidence
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A Physicist's Defense of Reality, Despite Quantum Physics
June 13, 2021 Mind Matters
He explains why Eddington’s solid table really IS solid, even if, at the highest resolution, it is mostly empty space
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Do Any Dogs Go to Heaven? If So, Why?
June 13, 2021 Mind Matters
Neuroscientist Christof Koch was troubled as a child by the Catholic tradition that dogs like his beloved Purzel did not go to heaven
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New Discovery Shows Human Cells Can Write RNA Sequences Into DNA
June 12, 2021 Sci Tech Daily
Challenges central principle in biology
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Detectives Just Used DNA To Solve a 1956 Double Homicide
June 12, 2021 National Public Radio
They may have made history
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Biology Meets Engineering
June 12, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Instead of shaming Darwinism out of existence, a group is replacing it with something that works.
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Researchers Can't Explain: Memories Drift from Neuron to Neuron
June 12, 2021 Mind Matters
Memories are supposed to stay put in the neurons that lay them down. A recent study, published at Nature, shows that they move a lot…
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Neuroscientist: Conscious AI is not an insurmountable problem
June 12, 2021 Mind Matters