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News Update/Commentary
New study helps pinpoint when Earth's plate subduction began
December 9, 2020 Science Daily
Several billion-year-old rocks tell the story of the planet's transition from alien landscape to one of continents, oceans, and ultimately life
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News Update/Commentary
Researcher adds to timeline of human evolution by studying an island fox
December 9, 2020 Science Daily
Nearly two decades ago, a small-bodied ‘human-like' fossil, Homo floresiensis now nicknamed ‘Hobbit', was discovered on an island in Indonesia
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Honeybees found using tools, in a first -- to repel giant hornet attacks
December 9, 2020 National Geographic
In Vietnam, Asian honeybees use feces to ward off the cousins of “murder hornets." The finding could help protect bees in other countries with invasive wasps.
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How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat -- water
December 9, 2020 Nature
Living things depend on water, but it breaks down DNA and other key molecules. So how did the earliest cells deal with the water paradox?
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Gypsies Massacred as Part of the Darwinian Eugenic Holocaust
December 9, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Desperately Defending Darwin
December 9, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The desperation with which biologists and the media defend Darwin betrays underlying fear of creationists.
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Do we have free will or are all our decisions predetermined?
December 9, 2020 New Scientist
According to the laws of physics, everything we do follows inevitably from what happened before -- and yet we’re convinced we can change the world. Can we?
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Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you
December 9, 2020 New Scientist
Foreign cells within our bodies help determine our mental states and even contribute to our immune defences -- making it tricky to define where you end and the others begin
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution may be to blame for high risk of advanced cancers in humans
December 9, 2020 Science Daily
Most people no longer produce Siglec-12 protein, but some of those who do are at twice the risk for advanced cancer
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News Update/Commentary
Paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary history
December 9, 2020 Science Daily
With the help of newly discovered skulls and skeletons in recent years, researchers have demonstrated that a group of ‘dinosaur precursors,' called lagerpetids, are the closest relatives of pterosaurs.
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News Update/Commentary
Neanderthals buried their dead: New evidence
December 9, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have demonstrated, using a variety of criteria, that a Neanderthal child was buried, probably around 41,000 years ago, at the Ferrassie site (Dordogne, France).
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News Update/Commentary
Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability to fly
December 9, 2020 Science Daily
Most insects can fly. Yet scores of species have lost that extraordinary ability, particularly on islands.
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News Update/Commentary
A simple rule drives the evolution of useless complexity
December 9, 2020 Science Daily
New study shows that proteins become biochemically addicted to complex interactions without adaptation.
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News Update/Commentary
Archaeopteryx fossil provides insights into the origins of flight
December 9, 2020 Science Daily
Research reveals earliest flight-related moulting strategy in 150-million-year ancient bird
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Origin of Life: Jeremy England’s Search for a Natural Explanation
December 9, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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If the multiverse exists, are there infinite copies of me?
December 9, 2020 New Scientist
According to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the universe is constantly dividing and taking you with it -- so would you recognise your other selves if you met them?
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Researchers: There Is New Evidence That Neanderthals Buried Their Dead
December 9, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Antarctica Space Signals Cited As Evidence of a Parallel Universe
December 9, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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The Latest “More Complex Than Thought”: Visual Short-Term Memory
December 9, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Google's Leading AI Ethics Researcher Fired, Amid Controversy
December 8, 2020 Mind Matters
Her research team targeted Google’s “cash cow”: advertising
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Blog Post
The Search for Adam and Eve: Human Origins According to Scripture and Science
December 8, 2020
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News Update/Commentary
New findings shed light on the repair of UV-induced DNA damage
December 8, 2020 Science Daily
The impact of the protein degradation system on DNA damage recognition and repair
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News Update/Commentary
Visual short-term memory is more complex than previously assumed
December 8, 2020 Science Daily
Contrary to previous assumptions, visual short-term memory is not merely based on one kind of information about an object, such as only its colour or only its name. Rather, several types of information can be retained simultaneously in short-term memory.
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Are strange space signals in Antarctica evidence of a parallel universe?
December 8, 2020 Astronomy magazine
Odd detections at the South Pole have so far defied explanation, inviting theories beyond conventional physics.
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How Neutral Theory Altered Ideas About Biodiversity
December 8, 2020 Quanta Magazine
The simple insight that most changes are random had a profound effect on genetics, evolution and ecology.
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Did the universe's creator hide a message in the cosmos?
December 8, 2020 Live Science
Why a physicist is looking for that message.
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Using Stories To Inculcate Darwinism
December 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Does Communication Between Predator and Prey Shape Evolution?
December 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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AI: Still Just Curve Fitting, Not Finding a Theory of Everything
December 7, 2020 Mind Matters
The AI Feynman algorithm is impressive, as the New York Times notes, but it doesn’t devise any laws of physics
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New fundamental knowledge of the “abdominal brain”
December 7, 2020 Karolinska Institutet
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Why We've Failed to Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness
December 7, 2020 Psychology Today
Our traditional model example, cortical vision, isn't intrinsically conscious.
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Early Man: Toumai Deposed
December 7, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the latest human evolution mistake
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News Update/Commentary
Pupils can learn more effectively through stories than activities
December 7, 2020 Science Daily
Storytelling -- the oldest form of teaching -- is the most effective way of teaching primary school children about evolution, say researchers.
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Where Will Cancel Culture End? Meet Dorian Abbot
December 7, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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There Is a Limit to How Messy Origin of Life Can Be
December 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Letter from Michael Behe That a Chemistry Journal Wouldn’t Publish in 2004
December 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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On the Influence of Religious Assumptions in Statistical Methods Used in Science
December 7, 2020 Religions, v.11, n.12
For several centuries, statistical testing has been used to support evolutionary theories. Given the diverse origins and applications of these tests, it is remarkable how consistent they are.
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Why Consciousness Shows That Materialism Is False
December 7, 2020 Mind Matters
The mind refutes materialism in a rather straightforward way
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Do We Really Remain the Same Person Throughout Our Lives?
December 6, 2020 Mind Matters
Or is the continuity of our selves just an illusion?
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Excerpt: Letter to the Journal of Chemical Education
December 6, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Neanderthal Y chromosome is closer to us than thought
December 6, 2020 CNRS News
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How One Medic Moved from Theistic Evolution to Intelligent Design
December 6, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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New Book: God and the World of Insects
December 6, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Astronomer Bets a Cup of Coffee That We'll Encounter ET by 2036
December 5, 2020 Mind Matters
Seth Shostak points to the increase in the number of exoplanets identified and the increase in computing power
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We Won't Find ET on Ocean Planets, Researchers Say
December 5, 2020 Mind Matters
We will see few extraterrestrials if a great many promising exoplanets are Waterworlds
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Is Infinity Real?
December 5, 2020 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Design Arguments for God & “Irreducible Complexity”
December 5, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Information Is the Currency of Life. But What Is It?
December 4, 2020 Mind Matters
How do we understand information in a universe that resists resolution into one single, simple system?
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Video
William Dembski -- Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism?
December 4, 2020 YouTube
What would it take for consciousness to defeat materialism or physicalism? This is the worldview that only the physical is real, which is the dominant view of scientists and philosophers.
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Old Fat Not Worth Chewing: Evolutionary Tale Update
December 4, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It took two years, but now evolutionists have been falsified more properly.