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• Why Search for Extraterrestrial Life? Why Not Make It Ourselves?

  November 22, 2020 Mind Matters

  A NASA astrobiologist’s bold suggestion is likely to spark debate

• Diamonds Made in Minutes Without Heat

  November 21, 2020 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Researchers manufactured diamonds in minutes at room temperature, using shear stresses.

• Disharmonious Fossils

  November 21, 2020 Harry F. Sanders, III Answers in Genesis

  Though evolutionists point to the fossil record, fossils are often found where they are not expected which frequently cause revisions to their timelines.

• On Genetic and Biological Truth & Myth

  November 21, 2020 Mike Behe Uncommon Descent

• Bacterium Alters Its Genome to Adapt to New Conditions

  November 21, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• “Genes Within Genes” May Contribute to COVID-19’s Pandemic Potential

  November 21, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• Particle Physicist Offers 75 Reasons We Don't See Aliens

  November 21, 2020 Mind Matters

  But Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute gives high odds that we are the only intelligent beings in the galaxy

• News Update/Commentary

  Field geology at Mars' equator points to ancient megaflood

  November 20, 2020 Cornell University Science Daily

  Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars' equator around 4 billion years ago -- a finding that hints at the possibility that life may have existed there, according to data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.

• Reflections on the Predictability of Evolution

  November 20, 2020 Alix Mas, Yvan Lagadeuc, and Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse iScience, v.23, n.11

  Toward a Conceptual Framework

• News Update/Commentary

  Sexual lineage plays key role in transgenerational plasticity

  November 20, 2020 University of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Science Daily

  A new pair of articles has shown that sexual lineage matters for how offspring receive adaptations from parents in stickleback fish. Researchers studied how parents who were exposed to predators passed the behavioral information to their offspring

• Can We Find Purpose in a Universe with No Underlying Purpose?

  November 20, 2020 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  That’s the ambitious goal of a prominent science writer

• These plants seem like they’re trying to hide from people

  November 20, 2020 Jonathan Lambert Science News

  A plant used in Chinese traditional medicine has evolved camouflage in heavily harvested areas

• To explain away dark matter, gravity would have to be really weird, cosmologists say

  November 20, 2020 Adrian Cho Science

• Galápagos Finches -- A Paradigm of the Limits of Natural Selection?

  November 20, 2020 Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Evolution News & Science Today

• Does Behe Ignore Critics? Find Out in a Live Webinar Saturday

  November 20, 2020 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• The Bill Collector Comes. “Science” Candidates Did Poorly in the US Election

  November 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• Giant Viruses Integrate into Hosts’ Genomes, Maybe Shaping Their Evolution at Some Points

  November 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• In the Evolution Debate, How Truth Can Prevail

  November 20, 2020 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• Was Your Idea Too Creative?

  November 19, 2020 Robert J. Sternberg Inside Higher Ed

  eight different types of creators and how you can avoid having your work rejected when it's outside customary paradigms

• Do Time and Space Mean the Same Thing to Humans As to Computers?

  November 19, 2020 Mind Matters

  Futurist George Gilder tells us, humans don’t treat physical and chemical forces or clock pulses the way computers do

• Some of the Milky Way’s oldest stars aren’t where they’re expected to be

  November 19, 2020 Brian Koberlein Universe Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Bacteria convince their squid host to create a less hostile work environment

  November 19, 2020 University of Hawaii, Manoa Science Daily

  Bacteria living symbiotically within the Hawaiian bobtail squid can direct the host squid to change its normal gene-expression program to make a more inviting home, according to a new study.

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists discover roles for a cellular motor in cancer

  November 19, 2020 Huntsman Cancer Institute Science Daily

  Scientists have discovered new functions of a key cellular machine that regulates gene packaging and is mutated in 20 percent of human cancers.

• Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)

  November 19, 2020 Don Batten Creation Ministries International

  a biblical and scientific approach to climate change

• Capuchin monkeys spotted eating infant in rare act of cannibalism

  November 19, 2020 Joshua Rapp Learn New Scientist

• On the “Sisyphean Evolution of Darwin’s Finches”

  November 19, 2020 Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Evolution News & Science Today

• By Land or Sea: How Did Mammals Get to the Caribbean Islands?

  November 19, 2020 Philippe Münch, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, and Boris Marcaillou Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  A multidisciplinary team is jointly investigating mammal evolution and subduction dynamics to unravel how flightless land mammals migrated to the Greater Antilles and other Caribbean islands.

• The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare

  November 19, 2020 Andrew E. Snyder-Beattie, Anders Sandberg, K. Eric Drexler, and Michael B. Bonsall Astrobiology magazine

• Keep science irrational

  November 19, 2020 Michael Strevens Aeon

  Is hard data the only path to scientific truth? That’s an absurd, illogical and profoundly useful fiction

• Giant Viruses Can Integrate into the Genomes of Their Hosts

  November 19, 2020 Amanda Heidt The Scientist

  Rather than introducing small chunks of DNA as other viruses do, some giant viruses can contribute more than 1 million base pairs to a host’s genome, broadening the ways in which viruses may shape eukaryote evolution.

• Even Sherlock Holmes Can’t Explain African Dinosaurs

  November 19, 2020 Tim Clarey Institute for Creation Research

• News Update/Commentary

  The secret social lives of giant poisonous rats

  November 19, 2020 University of Utah Science Daily

  The African crested rat is the only mammal known to sequester plant toxins for chemical defense. The researchers also discovered an unexpected social life -- the rats appear to be monogamous and may even form small family units with their offspring.

• News Update/Commentary

  Giant aquatic bacterium is a master of adaptation

  November 19, 2020 Forschungsverbund Berlin Science Daily

  The largest freshwater bacterium lives in places that differ extremely in environmental conditions such as hot springs and ice water. The adaptation is probably achieved by a process which is unique to these bacteria

• We Are Urged: Keep Science Irrational

  November 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• Sabine Hossenfelder: The Black Hole Information Problem Is Not Solvable

  November 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• A new spin on flagellar rotation

  November 19, 2020 Natalie S. Al-Otaibi and Julien R. C. Bergeron Nature Microbiology, v.5, p.1455-1456

  Many bacteria rely on their flagella for motility, yet the molecular mechanism of flagellar rotation was previously unclear. Recently, multiple papers solved the atomic structure of the bacterial flagellum stator complex

• Darwin Is on the Roof -- New Book from Michael Behe, Available Now

  November 18, 2020 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Could Carbon Computing Make Computers More Environment Friendly?

  November 18, 2020 Mind Matters

  As a key component of life forms, carbon is abundant and energy efficient

• Study: The Human Brain and the Universe Are Remarkably Similar

  November 18, 2020 Mind Matters

  It looks as though the universe is not random but rather patterned in the way it unfolds

• The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolved. Because it’s unsolvable.

  November 18, 2020 Sabine Hossenfelder backreaction.blogspot.com

• The Bizarre Theories of the American School of Evolution

  November 18, 2020 Livia Gershon JSTOR Daily

  The paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope condemned women’s suffrage and Black Americans through an evolutionary lens.

• The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed

  November 18, 2020 Will Douglas Heaven MIT Technology Review

  The process used to build most of the machine-learning models we use today can't tell if they will work in the real world or not -- and that’s a problem.

• Our supposed earliest human relative may have walked on four legs

  November 18, 2020 Michael Marshall New Scientist

• News Update/Commentary

  Lurking in genomic shadows: How giant viruses fuel the evolution of algae

  November 18, 2020 Virginia Tech Science Daily

  Biologists have recently discovered that endogenous viral elements that originate from giant viruses are much more common in chlorophyte green algae than previously thought.

• News Update/Commentary

  The bull Y chromosome has evolved to bully its way into gametes

  November 18, 2020 Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Science Daily

  The research, more than a decade in the making, suggests that bulls' Y chromosomes have evolved dozens of copies of the same genes in a selfish attempt to make more males -- a move that is countered in the female-determining X chromosome.

• News Update/Commentary

  New test reveals AI still lacks common sense

  November 18, 2020 University of Southern California Science Daily

  Natural language processing (NLP) has taken great strides recently -- but how much does AI understand of what it reads? Despite advances, AI still doesn't have the common sense needed to generate plausible sentences.

• News Update/Commentary

  Unraveling a mystery surrounding embryonic cells

  November 18, 2020 University of California, Riverside Science Daily

  Neural crest study results could boost stem cell therapies

• News Update/Commentary

  Cichlid fishes from African Lake Tanganyika shed light on how organismal diversity arises

  November 18, 2020 University of Basel Science Daily

  Approximately 240 species of cichlid fishes have evolved in this lake in less than 10 million years. A research team has investigated this phenomenon of ‘explosive speciation' and provides new insights into the origins of biological diversity.

• Researchers: An Amino Acid Could Have Formed in Space Long Before Stars

  November 18, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• How Post-Modernism Can Strangle Research

  November 18, 2020 Uncommon Descent