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A Philosopher Explains Why Thinking Matter Is Impossible
February 19, 2020 Mind Matters
He’s right but Captain Kirk tumbled to it before him. So did a medieval poet
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Philosophical-ish Objections to Intelligent Design: A Response to Paul Draper
February 19, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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But Why Not Go For It with Human Eugenics?
February 19, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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40 Trillion Cells in Your Body, Each Poses a Mystery -- Episode 2 of Secrets Series Is Now Up
February 19, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Expert Contra Dawkins, Why Eugenics Wouldn’t Really Work
February 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Harvard Astronomer Is Back: Radio Bursts Could Be Aliens
February 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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At MercatorNet: For Once, a Woke “Ethicist” Gets Shut Down by People with Disabilities
February 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Science Media Have Strange Standards for Assessing Corruption…
February 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Black Death discovery offers rare new look at plague catastrophe
February 18, 2020 National Geographic
An unexpected archaeological find in an ancient abbey may reveal how rural populations handled the ravages of a deadly epidemic.
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Micro-robot eyes inspired by jumping spider
February 18, 2020 Creation Ministries International
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Is Sex Binary?
February 18, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Latest Feathered Dinosaur Confuses Categories
February 18, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Rules of life: From a pond to the beyond
February 18, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have conducted experiments in the nutrient-poor Cuatro Cienegas Basin in Mexico. Their goal was to shed light on how fundamental features of an organism's genome affect its ability to thrive in an extreme environment.
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News Update/Commentary
Stress in small children separated from their parents may alter genes
February 18, 2020 Science Daily
Several studies show that small children cared for outside the home, especially in poor quality care and for 30 or more hours per week, have higher levels of cortisol than children at home.
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News Update/Commentary
Genes from scratch: Far more common and important than we thought
February 18, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered that de novo genes -- genes that have evolved from scratch -- are both more common and more important than previously believed.
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Help a Darwinist Tell Boys from Girls
February 18, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery at ‘flower burial' site could unravel mystery of Neanderthal death rites
February 18, 2020 Science Daily
The first articulated Neanderthal skeleton to come out of the ground for over 20 years has been unearthed at one of the most important sites of mid-20th century archaeology: Shanidar Cave, in the foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Whole-proteome tree of life suggests a deep burst of organism diversity
February 18, 2020 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Tree of life (ToL) is a metaphorical tree that captures a simplified narrative of the evolutionary course and kinship among all living organisms of today.
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Desperation to Keep Dinosaur Soft Tissue Old
February 18, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The big guns are out to prove dinosaur blood vessels and collagen really can last tens of millions of years. Do they succeed?
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50,000-year-old remains suggest Neanderthals buried their dead
February 18, 2020 New Scientist
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Jerry Coyne Jumps into the Dawkins Eugenics Row
February 18, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Double slits with single atoms
February 18, 2020 Physics World
Thomas Young’s double-slit experiment is famous for demonstrating the principle of interference. Murray explains why it’s now possible to carry out an equivalent experiment using lasers that have excited individual rubidium atoms
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Intelligent Design in Birds, Insects Inspires Aeronautics and More
February 18, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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If Human Eugenics Wouldn’t Work, Human Evolution Has a Big Problem
February 18, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Archaeologists receive letter from biblical era
February 18, 2020 EurekAlert!
Hebrew University team unearths Canaanite temple at Lachish; find gold artifacts, cultic figurines, and oldest known etching of Hebrew letter ‘Samech'
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New Discoveries in Human Anatomy
February 18, 2020 The Scientist
Using advanced microscopy and imaging techniques, scientists have revealed new parts of the human body and overturned previous misconceptions.
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Should animals with human genes or organs be given human rights?
February 18, 2020 New Scientist
Gene-edited pigs and brain implants are blurring the lines of what it means to be human, so our morals and laws may need to change to include beings that are “substantially human”
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Until the End of Time tries to use physics to find the meaning of life
February 18, 2020 New Scientist
Brian Greene's new book argues that life is rare and extraordinary, probably transient, and that in the search for purpose, the only significant answers are ones we create
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RNA: Scientists have discovered a new layer in the genetic code of life
February 17, 2020 Science Norway
Our cells contain a previously unknown layer of information. This layer facilitates a whole new level of regulation that might make us more adaptable. Or sick, when the system fails. Welcome to the new world of epitranscriptomics.
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How a quantum technique highlights math’s mysterious link to physics
February 17, 2020 Science News
Verifying proofs to very hard math problems is possible with infinite quantum entanglement
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SETI Wants Your Money to Look at Nothing
February 17, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Since one cannot prove a universal negative, SETI believers can search forever without accountability.
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On Evolution, Can’t We All Just Get Along?
February 17, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Richard Dawkins Says Eugenics Works Because He Assumes We Are Just Like Animals
February 17, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Reproductive genome from the laboratory
February 17, 2020 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Max Planck researchers have for the first time developed a genome the size of a minimal cell that can copy itself
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Why Eliminative Materialism Cannot Be a Good Theory of the Mind
February 17, 2020 Mind Matters
Thinking that the mind is simply the brain, no more and no less, involves a hopeless contradiction
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Why the Mind Cannot Just Emerge from the Brain
February 17, 2020 Mind Matters
The mind cannot emerge from the brain if the two have no qualities in common
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Mysterious, looping space signal could be aliens, says Harvard scientist
February 17, 2020 cnet.com
Astronomers detected powerful radio signals from across the cosmos in a weird pattern. A Harvard professor says E.T. is on the table of possible explanations.
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65,000-year-old plant remains show the earliest Australians spent plenty of time cooking
February 17, 2020 The Conversation
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Scholars Debate Causes of Women’s Underrepresentation in STEM
February 17, 2020 The Scientist
Two new commentaries on a contested 2018 study about gender disparities in STEM fields clash over whether sex differences or social inequalities are to blame for the lack of women scientists and engineers.
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This Prehistoric Mega Turtle Was a Big Boy
February 17, 2020 Popular Mechanics
Its carapace weighed more than 2,524 pounds alone.
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Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins Bizarrely Defends Eugenics
February 16, 2020 Daily Wire
‘Works for Cows, Horses, Pigs,’ but ‘Fight It on Moral Grounds’
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Dark Matter Still a Mystery
February 16, 2020 Bible Science Forum
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Dawkins makes a tweet
February 16, 2020 Why Evolution Is True
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Four Ways That the Progress of Experimental Science Conflicts with Atheism
February 16, 2020 Wintery Knight
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Is Transhumanism Uncomfortably Tempting?
February 16, 2020 Mind Matters
An ethicist asks us to stop and reflect
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Psychology’s Fake Superiority Over Religion
February 16, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Yet they never learn.
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Michael Aeschliman in National Review -- Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism
February 16, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Jerry Coyne Takes a Stand: Sex Is Binary
February 16, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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At Upcoming CSS Conference: “Does Anyone Come to Christian Faith by a Rational Process?”
February 16, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Evolution Weekend Downplays Darwin, Morphs into Climate Concern, Muffles Racism Issue
February 16, 2020 Uncommon Descent