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Book Review: Transhumanism and the Image of God by Jacob Shatzer
January 30, 2020 Apologetics 315
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Before Natural Selection There Was, and Remains, a Mystery
January 30, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Neanderthal ancestry also in African populations
January 30, 2020 Science Daily
After sequencing the Neanderthal genome, scientists discovered all present day non-African individuals carry some Neanderthal ancestry in their DNA.
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Sometimes Physicists Really Have To Work at Ignoring Fine-Tuning
January 30, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Podcast: Walter Bradley on the New, Expanded Edition of The Mystery of Life’s Origin
January 30, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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What If We Don’t Have to Choose Between Evolution and Adam and Eve?
January 30, 2020 Christianity Today
How insights from genealogy can help change the terms of a contentious debate.
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News Update/Commentary
How the human brain solves complex decision-making problems
January 30, 2020 Science Daily
A research team succeeded in discovering both a computational and neural mechanism for human meta reinforcement learning, opening up the possibility of porting key elements of human intelligence into artificial intelligence algorithms.
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Can Science Answer All the “Big” Questions?
January 30, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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The New Video of One of the Scariest Places on Earth
January 30, 2020 The Atlantic
For the first time, scientists have a clear view of the line where the giant Thwaites Glacier is leaking water into the ocean.
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How does the embryo make all its parts at just the right moments?
January 30, 2020 knowable magazine
Five Big Questions: If events weren’t properly timed, pandemonium would ensue. Researchers are ferreting out the internal clocks that control developmental sequence and scheduling.
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Modern tomatoes are very different from their wild ancestors
January 30, 2020 The Conversation
and we found missing links in their evolution
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Manganese Nodules Inconsistent with Radiometric Dating
January 30, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Africans Have More Neanderthal DNA than Previously Thought
January 30, 2020 The Scientist
A new analysis of more than 2,500 human genomes indicates that modern Eurasians who acquired Neanderthal DNA during past interbreeding migrated back to Africa and spread those sequences.
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In Praise of ‘Normal Science’
January 30, 2020 Forbes
A few weeks back, Sabine Hossenfelder published a piece with the provocative headline “Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years” that got a good deal of social-media attention.
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Molecular Machines Work for Us
January 30, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Life runs on machinery. Here are examples of machines that keep us humming.
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Neanderthals never lived in Africa, but their genes got there anyway
January 30, 2020 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Trees might be ‘aware' of their size
January 30, 2020 Science Daily
Birch trees adjust their stem thickness to support their weight.
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Did the Economist Really “Interview" an AI?
January 29, 2020 Mind Matters
Perhaps they have a private definition of what an interview “is"…
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Surprises in Cell Codes Reveal Information Goes Far Beyond DNA
January 29, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers: Homogenous RNA Could Emerge from a Primordial Mess
January 29, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Do Mysterious Particles Flying Out of Antarctica Threaten the Standard Model of Physics?
January 29, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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How did the last Neanderthals live?
January 29, 2020 BBC
In many ways, the last surviving Neanderthals are a mystery. But four caves in Gibraltar have given an unprecedented insight into what their lives might have been like.
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The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research
January 29, 2020 The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Not ‘Brains in a Dish’: Cerebral Organoids Flunk Comparison to Developing Nervous System
January 29, 2020 University of California, San Francisco
Widely Used Brain Organoids are ‘Confused’ and ‘Disorganized’ Compared to New Atlas of the Developing Human Brain
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Are scientists biased against Christians?
January 29, 2020 Public Library of Science
Exploring real and perceived bias against Christians in academic biology
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Were Neanderthals More Than Cousins to Homo Sapiens?
January 29, 2020 sapiens.org
These members of the genus Homo have long occupied two different branches on the family tree. But now that researchers think these groups interbred, scholars are giving serious consideration to whether we are the same species after all.
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What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality
January 29, 2020 New Scientist
What our senses allow us to experience may not reflect what actually exists. It may be a creation of our own consciousness, or a computer simulation designed by superintelligent beings
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Human Mutation Rates Steady Across Groups -- Except in the Amish
January 29, 2020 The Scientist
Researchers determined that the incidence of new genetic mutations is comparable in people of different ancestries, but lower in Amish people.
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Protein structure reveals how a malaria parasite imports a wide range of sugars
January 29, 2020 Nature
Unlike many sugar-transporting proteins, a transporter in one species of malaria parasite can import several types of sugar equally effectively, aiding the parasite’s survival. The structure of this protein reveals the reason for its versatility.
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Peer Review Is Science’s Wheel of Misfortune
January 29, 2020 Bloomberg
The system for evaluating the quality of research papers works little better than flipping coins. Budding scholars pay the price.
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News Update/Commentary
Molecular motors direct the fate of stem cells
January 29, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists used molecular motors to manipulate the protein matrix on which bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells are grown.
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News Update/Commentary
Understanding how cells defend their genome against invaders
January 29, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers discover new details of pathway essential to fertility
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The mysterious microbes shifting humanity's place in the tree of life
January 29, 2020 New Scientist
Puzzling, slow-living microbes named after Loki, the trickster of Norse mythology, are helping solve one of evolution's biggest mysteries: the origin of complex life
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News Update/Commentary
A host's genes likely influence the spread of antibiotic resistance
January 29, 2020 Science Daily
New findings in mSphere suggest that the genetic makeup of the host organism can influence the transfer of plasmids.
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Fine-tuning versus naturalness
January 28, 2020 Symmetry magazine
When observed parameters seem like they must be finely tuned to fit a theory, some physicists accept it as coincidence. Others want to keep digging.
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Wise Blood: The Principle of Overcoming in Disease and Immunity (Part 1)
January 28, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Squid brains approach those of dogs
January 28, 2020 University of Queensland
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Animal DNA is full of viral invaders and now we've caught them at it
January 28, 2020 New Scientist
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Population Growth Matches Bible and DNA Clock
January 28, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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You Can Trust Science! (to Reverse Itself)
January 28, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Hardly a week goes by without a press release announcing that a common scientific belief is wrong. What does this imply?
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Medical Journal Declares War on Natural Gas
January 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Wise Oysters, Galloping Sea Stars, and More: Biological Marvels Keep Coming
January 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Effort to Prove Galileo and Einstein Wrong Fails
January 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Only FIVE Neanderthal Extinction Theories? But Wait, One Actually Makes Sense
January 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Dark Energy Critics Are Outnumbered, We Are Told, and Its Defenders Are Digging In
January 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Gene gain and loss across the Metazoa Tree of Life
January 28, 2020 Nature Ecology & Evolution, v.4, n.4, p.524-533
Although recent research has revealed high genomic complexity in the earliest-splitting animals and their ancestors, the macroevolutionary trends orchestrating gene repertoire evolution throughout the animal phyla remain poorly understood.
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What's the Difference Between Belief in Dark Matter and Belief in God?
January 28, 2020 Real Clear Science
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Alien Nations: Why Life on Other Planets Will Resemble Ours
January 27, 2020 OneZero
Hard science offers a remarkably detailed portrait of how extraterrestrials may live -- and clues on where our own civilization is headed
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How we found a special maths equation hidden in rat whiskers
January 27, 2020 The Conversation
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News Update/Commentary
An egg a day not tied to risk of heart disease
January 27, 2020 Science Daily
The controversy about whether eggs are good or bad for your heart health may be solved, and about one a day is fine. A team of researchers found the answer by analyzing data from three large, long-term multinational studies.