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Everyone Seems To Be Looking for the “Seat of Consciousness"
October 30, 2020 Mind Matters
Does consciousness have a seat at the table? Wait a minute. Isn’t consciousness the TABLE?
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There Could Be at Least 300 Million Potentially Habitable Worlds in The Milky Way
October 30, 2020 Science Alert
There are many unanswered questions about our place in the Universe. Why are we here? What is the likelihood of our existence? Could there be others like us out there in the galaxy?
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Rethinking Darwin’s Theory of Atoll Formation
October 30, 2020 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Atolls have a long and complex history related to seafloor evolution, and Darwin’s model is only the beginning of the story.
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James Randi (1928-2020)
October 30, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Cosmology Shrieks in the Dark
October 30, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Secular cosmologists keep spending more and more money looking for dark matter. So far it’s all trick and no treat.
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What 50 gravitational-wave events reveal about the Universe
October 30, 2020 Nature
Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos’s history.
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Whitewashing Evolution with Borrowed Paint
October 30, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Will Quantum Mechanics Produce the True Thinking Computer?
October 30, 2020 Mind Matters
Quantum computers come with real world problems of their own
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As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder
October 30, 2020 Gizmodo
The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt. Turns out that platypuses were hiding yet another conspicuous feature: They can glow in the dark.
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The scariest things in the universe are black holes -- and here are 3 reasons
October 30, 2020 The Conversation
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Claims of 100-Million-Year-Old Bacteria Unfounded
October 30, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Soft Tissue Fossils Reveal Incriminating Trends
October 30, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Weird ring-shaped molecule on Titan could be a building block to life
October 30, 2020 New Scientist
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Genesis Impact Movie
October, 2020 Genesis Apologetics
Do natural history museums display the truth about origins? There is another view ...
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This Exoplanet Shouldn’t Exist
October 29, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Astronomers are baffled by a Neptune-sized exoplanet with an atmosphere that should have burned up long ago.
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News Update/Commentary
Denisovan DNA in the genome of early East Asians
October 29, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists identify 34,000-year-old Early East Asian of mixed Eurasian descent
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News Update/Commentary
Boo! How do Mexican cavefish escape predators?
October 29, 2020 Science Daily
Study on escape evolution reveals vast differences in startle reflex responses between cavefish populations
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News Update/Commentary
Where were Jupiter and Saturn born?
October 29, 2020 Science Daily
An additional planet between Saturn and Uranus was kicked out of the Solar System in its infancy
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And Now: Remote Control Mechanisms in Cells
October 29, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Crispr Gene Editing Can Lead to Big Mistakes in Human Embryos
October 29, 2020 Wall Street Journal
Columbia University study of Crispr technology found it made unwanted chromosomal changes in human embryos
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Why, As a Neurosurgeon, I Believe in Free Will
October 29, 2020 Mind Matters
The spiritual aspect of the human soul, sadly, leaves its signature in epilepsy
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The Bizarre Species That Are Rewriting Animal Evolution
October 29, 2020 Nature
Early fossils with guts, segmented bodies and other sophisticated features reveal a revolution in animal life -- before the Cambrian explosion.
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New Genome Sequences Reveal Undescribed African Migration
October 29, 2020 The Scientist
An analysis of the genomes of people from 50 ethnolinguistic groups in Africa spots 62 genes under positive selection and 3 million more genetic variants than previously documented.
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Ancient Dog DNA Shows Early Spread Around the Globe
October 29, 2020 New York Times
Research on fossil canine genomes is expanding and producing some surprises about the lives of dogs and humans in prehistoric times.
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Ancient dog DNA reveals 11,000 years of canine evolution
October 29, 2020 Nature
Genomes trace how the animals moved around the world -- often with humans by their side.
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James Randi (1928–2020)
October 29, 2020 Nature
Illusionist who exposed fraud to showcase the perils of credulity.
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The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
October 29, 2020 Quanta Magazine
In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information, which seems impossible by definition. The work appears to resolve a paradox that Stephen Hawking first described five decades ago.
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Dogs were domesticated once from a lost population of wolves
October 29, 2020 ars technica
Our history with dogs is complicated, according to a study of ancient dog DNA.
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Precambrian Creature Scrunches the Origin of Life Even Further
October 29, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Did a Recent Meteor Hit Bring Us Closer to the Origin of Life on Earth?
October 29, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Against the Tide: The Darkening Intellectual Scene
October 29, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Closing the Case on the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
October 28, 2020 The Gospel Coalition
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The Scientific Method and the Flat Earth II
October 28, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Giant lizards learnt to fly over millions of years
October 28, 2020 University of Bristol
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Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains
October 28, 2020 Quanta Magazine
Deep neural networks, often criticized as “black boxes,” are helping neuroscientists understand the organization of living brains.
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The Dingo Enigma
October 28, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
An acknowledged big problem for evolution
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Peer-reviewed Paper
150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency
October 28, 2020 Nature
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Lab-grown brains and the debate over consciousness
October 28, 2020 Nature
The chances of mini-brains becoming sentient, and a UK government decision threatens gender diversity in academia.
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These bizarre ancient species are rewriting animal evolution
October 28, 2020 Nature
Early fossils with guts, segmented bodies and other sophisticated features reveal a revolution in animal life -- before the Cambrian explosion.
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What is a Protocell?
October 28, 2020 AZO Life Sciences
Formed from the aggregation of abiotic components, protocells are the precursors to modern living cells. Despite being non-living, protocells display characteristics akin to biological cells.
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News Update/Commentary
Models for potential precursors of cells endure simulated early-Earth conditions
October 28, 2020 Science Daily
Membraneless compartments -- models for a potential step in the early evolution of cells -- have been shown to persist or form, disappear, and reform in predictable ways through multiple cycles of dehydration and rehydration.
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Message in Matter: Intelligent Design in the Atoms
October 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design
October 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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“Bizarre” Fossil Is Thought To Solve Half-Billion Year Old Mystery
October 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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What? An Honest Admission About the Bacterial Flagellum from Darwin-Driven Biology?
October 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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John Sanford and James Tour Discuss Science and Faith
October 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover new organic compounds that could have helped form the first cells
October 28, 2020 Science Daily
Chemists studying how life started often focus on biopolymers like peptides and nucleic acids, but modern biopolymers don't form easily without help from living organisms. A possible solution to this paradox is that life started using different components
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How Plants Can Count and Remember with No Brain
October 28, 2020 Mind Matters
Plants like the Venus Flytrap can time things by the chemicals circulating in their systems
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Researchers: Human Brains Are Prewired to Recognize Words
October 28, 2020 Mind Matters
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First winged reptiles were clumsy flyers, research suggests
October 28, 2020 The Guardian
Analysis of early Pterosaurs fossils shows they are likely to have been ungainly in flight