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Big Science Shocked at Its Own Cluelessness
November 4, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Major journal blames the public for how out of touch Big Science finds itself.
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News Update/Commentary
Near-atomic ‘maps' reveal structure for maintaining pH balance in cells
November 4, 2020 Science Daily
For the first time, scientists have visualized a new class of molecular gates that maintain pH balance within brain cells, a critical function that keeps cells alive and helps prevent stroke and other brain injuries.
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News Update/Commentary
New species of ancient cynodont, 220 million years old, discovered
November 4, 2020 Science Daily
Fossilized jaw bone fragments of a rat-like creature found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona last year are in fact a newly discovered 220-million-year-old species of cynodont or stem-mammal, a precursor of modern-day mammals.
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Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells
November 4, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Advice to Experts on Humility
November 4, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Newly Discovered Lizard Skull Is “Perplexing” Its Place in Tree of Life Uncertain
November 4, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An early Cambrian euarthropod with radiodont-like raptorial appendages
November 4, 2020 Nature, v.588, p.101-105
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An early Cambrian euarthropod with radiodont-like raptorial appendages
November 4, 2020 Nature
Resolving the early evolution of euarthropods is one of the most challenging problems in metazoan evolution. Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Cambrian period have contributed important palaeontological data to deciphering this evolutionary process
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A Neuroscientist on Why We Can Build Human-Like Brains
November 4, 2020 Mind Matters
Manuel Brenner, a particle physicist as well as a neuroscientist, thinks pattern recognition is the answer
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How Dinosaurs Crossed the Oceans
November 4, 2020 science2.0
The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, which means dinosaurs must have crossed miles of open water to get there.
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Could Symbiosis with Bacteria Play a Role in the Widespread Use of Magnetic Navigation in Animals?
November 4, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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George Gilder: Can a Computer Model a Brain?
November 4, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Have Researchers Developed a Computer Algorithm that Explains the Origin of Life?
November 4, 2020 Reasons to Believe
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Where Evolutionary Tree Diagrams Come From: Evidence for Evolution (Part 9)
November 4, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Scientists aghast as hopes for landslide Biden election victory vanish
November 4, 2020 Nature
With so many votes cast for Trump in US election, some researchers conclude that they must work harder to communicate the importance of facts, science and truth.
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Four ways Trump has meddled in pandemic science -- and why it matters
November 3, 2020 Nature
How US President Donald Trump and his administration have silenced scientists, meddled in their reports and ignored their advice.
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The Brain Is Not a Computer and Big Data Is Not a Big Answer
November 3, 2020 Mind Matters
These claims are mere tales from the AI apocalypse, as George Gilder tells it, in Gaming AI
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Large Gem Crystals Grew within Hours: Consistent with Rapid Granite Formation on a Young Earth
November 3, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Did a Black Hole Give Birth to Our Universe?
November 3, 2020 Forbes
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News Update/Commentary
Model of multicellular evolution overturns classic theory
November 3, 2020 Science Daily
Cells can evolve specialized functions under a much broader range of conditions than previously thought, according to a study.
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A Friend Writes To Remind Us of the Anniversary of Phillip E. Johnson’s Death
November 3, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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In Addition to Other Weird Characteristics, the Platypus Has Biofluorescent Fur
November 3, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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There Is Now a Philosophy of Plant Biology -- and a Call for Abstracts
November 3, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Barriers to an Unguided Origin of Life: Biophysicist Helen Hansma Enters the Debate
November 2, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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John Lennox: What Atheist Made Me Sweat? Plus Advice for Debaters
November 2, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Did GPT-3 Really Write That Guardian Essay Without Human Help?
November 2, 2020 Mind Matters
Fortunately, there’s a way we can tell when the editors did the program’s thinking for it
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Neanderthal children grew and were weaned similar to us
November 2, 2020 EurekAlert!
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Corals are first animals seen to pass on mutations acquired as adults
November 2, 2020 New Scientist
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War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy for over 100,000 years
November 2, 2020 The Conversation
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Pterosaur Feathers: Another Myth Exploded
November 2, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has been supported by claims that feathers existed on the flying reptiles called pterosaurs.
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News Update/Commentary
Lizard skull fossil is new and ‘perplexing' extinct species
November 2, 2020 Science Daily
A new species of extinct lizard, Kopidosaurus perplexus, has just been described. The second part of the name is a nod to the ‘perplexing' matter of just where the extinct lizard should be placed on the tree of life.
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News Update/Commentary
Two centuries of Monarch butterflies show evolution of wing length
November 2, 2020 Science Daily
North America's beloved Monarch butterflies are known for their annual, multi-generation migrations in which individual insects can fly for thousands of miles.
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News Update/Commentary
Genomic data ‘catches corals in the act' of speciation and adaptation
November 2, 2020 Science Daily
A new study revealed that diversity in Hawaiian corals is likely driven by co-evolution between the coral host, the algal symbiont, and the microbial community.
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How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System
November 2, 2020 New Yorker
At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.
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Douglas Axe: The Sway of Self-Image in Evolutionary Debates
November 2, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Protein Chemist Doug Axe Nails Self-Image Problem in Biology
November 2, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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More Evidence of Epigenetic Control of Genes
November 2, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Coronavirus Lives in a World Full of Tricksters and Does a Lot of That Itself
November 2, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinism & the Devolution of Story
November, 2020 Salvo magazine
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New Organic Compounds “Could Have” Formed the First Cells
November 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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We Are Told: There Are 300 Million Potentially Inhabitable Worlds in the Galaxy
November 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Book
What Is Life?
November, 2020 Scribe
understand biology in five steps | See Also Amazon
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Video
Shroud of Turin
November, 2020 Vimeo
This video documents the evidence that converted me from a skeptic who held to the Medieval Forgery hypothesis into a believer in the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin as the genuine burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
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Can We Make Brains in a Dish? Can We Make Minds in a Dish?
November 1, 2020 Mind Matters
Experiments with brain organoids have left many wondering whether we should be concerned about creating brains-in-a-dish
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New Study Finds Earliest Evidence for Mammal Social Behavior
November 1, 2020 Burke Museum
A new study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution finds the earliest evidence of mammal social behavior that goes back to the Age of the Dinosaurs.
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The Great Fox Spider of Britain Is Back from Extinction
November 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Crispr Gene Editing Can Cause Unwanted Changes in Human Embryos
October 31, 2020 New York Times
Instead of addressing genetic mutations, the Crispr machinery prompted cells to lose entire chromosomes.
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The Fantastic Capacity for Believing the Incredible
October 31, 2020 News Intervention
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Study puts Denisovans on roof of the world
October 31, 2020 Cosmos Magazine
Findings expand understanding of humans in eastern Asia.
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Video
Debate on Intelligent Design
October 30, 2020 YouTube
a friendly, but spirited debate between Behe and Swamidass over intelligent design, especially as it relates to the notion of “irreducible complexity" and the challenge this poses (as Dr. Behe would argue) to modern evolutionary theory.