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An inconstant Hubble constant?
May 20, 2021 University of Michigan
U-M research suggests fix to cosmological cornerstone
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Does Imperfection Discredit Design?
May 20, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If God created humans perfect, why do so many mistakes occur in producing new life? Atheists argue we were not created, but evolved by natural selection of errors called mutations
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Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the ‘Pirate Bay of Science’
May 20, 2021 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
Facing lawsuits and legal trouble, archivists are working to save 77TB of freely available scientific data.
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News Update/Commentary
A plant-fungi partnership at the origin of terrestrial vegetation
May 20, 2021 Science Daily
450 million years ago, the first plants left aquatic life. Researchers have now succeeded in demonstrating that this colonization of land by plants was made possible by a partnership between plants and fungi.
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Is the INK4a/ARF Overlap a Settled Example of Poor Design?
May 20, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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New “Three Views” Book Explores the Relationship of Faith and Science
May 20, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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It from Bit: What Did John Archibald Wheeler Get Right -- and Wrong?
May 20, 2021 Mind Matters
In a chapter in a forthcoming book, William Dembski explores the strengths and weaknesses of Wheeler’s perspective that the universe is, at bottom, information
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Dr. Jane Goodall Receives 2021 Templeton Prize, Biggest Single Award of 60-Year Career
May 20, 2021 Templeton Prize
Goodall joins past laureates Mother Teresa and Francis Collins as first female ethologist to receive one of the world’s largest individual lifetime achievement awards
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Timely Reminder from the New Atlantis That You Are Not Galileo
May 20, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Wort Und Wissen Conference May 28-30, 2021
May 20, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Did the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 Bya Support or Suppress Life?
May 20, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Where did the universe's antimatter go? Scientists inch closer to solving the mystery
May 19, 2021 Astronomy magazine
New particle accelerator data from the T2K experiment could finally tell us where all the antimatter went.
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What If We're Wrong?
May 19, 2021 Areo
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In Silico review: The ambitious project to recreate the human brain
May 19, 2021 New Scientist
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Why “Red" Is Such a Problem in Philosophy
May 19, 2021 Mind Matters
“Red” is an example of qualia, concepts we can experience that have no physical existence otherwise
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The mysterious microbes that gave rise to complex life
May 19, 2021 Nature
As scientists learn more about enigmatic archaea, they’re finding clues about the evolution of the complex cells that make up people, plants and more.
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Optimality Recognized in Core Biological Infrastructure
May 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ann Coulter: I Will NOT Be Scienced!
May 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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New! Speakers/Topics for the Linnean Society’s Meeting on Teleonomy vs. Teleology
May 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
May 28-29 online
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolution of the genetic code
May 18, 2021 Transcription, v.12, n.1, p.28-53
a highly detailed scheme that describes the placements of all amino acids in the standard genetic code
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Newly Discovered Glycosylated RNA Is All Over Cells: Study
May 18, 2021 The Scientist
Prior to a 2019 preprint, “glycoRNAs” weren’t known to exist. Now, the researchers who found them say they’re on lots of cells and may play a role in immune signaling.
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Mathematics: From the mind of God
May 18, 2021 Creation Ministries International
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How Do We Decide if Something Is Well Designed or Poorly Designed?
May 18, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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This California Story Shows What a Mess the Whole Concept of Speciation Is In
May 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Darwin’s Arch, famed rock formation in Galápagos Islands, collapses
May 18, 2021 Seattle Times
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Young people taught to differentiate facts and speculations about the theory of evolution -- today
May 18, 2021 Magazine Buzz
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Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras Are Living Proof.
May 18, 2021 Quanta Magazine
Studies of sleep are usually neurological. But some of nature’s simplest animals suggest that sleep evolved for metabolic reasons, long before brains even existed.
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Video
Geoffrey West -- Can Mathematics Elucidate Evolution?
May 18, 2021 YouTube
What are applications of mathematics to research in evolution? What are categories or examples where mathematics generates deep insights?
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Response to Sabine Hossenfelder’s Claim That There Is No Free Will
May 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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We’re NOT Claiming That the Collapse of Darwin’s Arch in the Galapagos Is Some Kind of a Symbol
May 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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An Unbroken Record of Climate During the Age of Dinosaurs
May 17, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A scientific drilling project in China has retrieved a continuous history of conditions from Earth’s most recent “greenhouse” period that may offer insights about future climate scenarios.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Neo-darwinism still haunts evolutionary theory
May 17, 2021 International Journal of Organic Evolution
A modern perspective on Charlesworth, Lande, and Slatkin (1982)
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The (In)Significance of the Scopes Trial
May 17, 2021 The Gospel Coalition
It’s time to retire the myth that fundamentalists retreated from cultural engagement.
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Should Scientists Play God?
May 17, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
MIT Biological Engineer Says YES!
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Mars may have had recent volcanic eruptions -- which is great news for finding life
May 17, 2021 Popular Science
New evidence points to volcanic activity just 50,000 years ago, a short timespan in the grand scheme.
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Earth's Axis Has Secretly Shifted
May 17, 2021 Popular Mechanics
And it's mostly our fault.
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When Scientific Orthodoxy Resembles Religious Dogma
May 17, 2021 Scientific American
Those who refuse to consider an unconventional idea in science are disturbingly similar to those who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope
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Book
Re-examining Evolution Through the Theological Lens of Ḥujjatul Islām
May 17, 2021 Traversing Tradition
REVIEW: Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm by Shoaib Ahmed Malik (Routledge, May 2021) | See Also Amazon
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Headlines lie again!
May 17, 2021 Core Academy of Science
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Can Machines Control Our Brains?
May 17, 2021 Quanta Magazine
Advances in brain-computer interface technology are impressive, but we’re not close to anything resembling mind control.
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From apes to birds, there are 65 animal species that “laugh”
May 17, 2021 ars technica
Laughter is spread widely across mammals and occurs in birds, too.
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News Update/Commentary
Four new species of sponge that lay undiscovered in plain sight
May 17, 2021 Science Daily
The ocean is a big place with many deep, dark mysteries. Humans have mapped no more than 20% of the sea, and explored less. Even the kelp forests of Southern California hide species not yet described by science.
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News Update/Commentary
Sperm help ‘persuade' the female to accept pregnancy
May 17, 2021 Science Daily
Sperm are generally viewed as having just one action in reproduction -- to fertilize the female's egg -- but studies are overturning that view.
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Stephen Hawking Was Actually Overdue for a Critical Look
May 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Can Darwinian Theory Explain the Rise and Fall of Businesses?
May 17, 2021 Mind Matters
The fashionable field of organizational ecology says yes -- organizations are like animals in nature
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The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology" Be Real Science?
May 16, 2021 Mind Matters
The study of the neuroscience of mental states, including religious belief, is a reasonable pursuit but neurotheology, as a science, faces huge obstacles
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Eating Itself: Woke University Condemns Darwin for White Supremacy
May 16, 2021 Red State
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60 Years Later, is it Time to Update the Drake Equation?
May 16, 2021 Universe Today
Drake and Sagan were motivated to hold the very first SETI conference, wherein the subject of looking for possible extraterrestrial radio signals would be discussed.
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Larry Krauss Article at Inference Review
May 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Linnean Society Is Sponsoring a Meeting on Teleonomy in Living Systems
May 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
28-29 June 2021