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Origin of Bird Flight: Pick Your Miracles
March 21, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
(1) Powered flight arose only once; (2) No! it arose many times!
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Plant Receptors Are Designed to Control Immunity and Development
March 21, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin
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News Update/Commentary
Rays were more diverse 150 million years ago than previously thought
March 21, 2024 Science Daily
New fossil ray species discovered in Bavarica, Germany: Aellopobatis bavarica from the Late Jurassic
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News Update/Commentary
How butterflies choose mates: Gene controls preferences
March 21, 2024 Science Daily
scientists identified a gene that is directly linked to evolutionary changes in a visually guided behavior
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‘Britain’s Pompeii’ reveals Bronze Age village frozen in time
March 20, 2024 CNN
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How to wrap your head around the most mind-bending theories of reality
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
From the many worlds interpretation to panpsychism, theories of reality often sound absurd. Here’s how you can figure out which ones to take seriously
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Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
A settlement in the east of England burned down in a fire 3000 years ago, falling into a muddy waterway that preserved everything inside the houses including tools, fabric, cooking pots and more
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Planet-eating stars hint at hidden chaos in the Milky Way
March 20, 2024 Nature
A handful of middle-aged stars seem to have gobbled up a planet, challenging assumptions about the stability of such systems.
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Anti-Human Intelligence
March 20, 2024 Law & Liberty
We are rushing heedlessly into a world in which thinking men become ever more like insects.
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Mathematician wins 2024 Abel prize for making sense of randomness
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize for his work researching probability theory and the extremes of randomness
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Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible
March 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Turing Tests of today are mistaken
March 20, 2024 iai News
How Goodhart's law holds back AI
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The acceptance of evolution
March 19, 2024 Public Understanding of Science
A developmental view of Generation X in the United States
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Three reasons why AI doesn’t model human language
March 19, 2024 Nature
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The 50th anniversary of a key paper on how bird flight evolved
March 19, 2024 Nature
For a century, scientists pondered whether bird flight evolved by animals gliding down from trees or by creatures running and flapping from the ground up. A landmark 1974 paper reset the debate to focus on the evolution of the flight stroke instead.
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Stone Age Humans Chose Their Rocks with Care
March 19, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Ancient humans possessed sophisticated knowledge of the properties of the stones they used to make tools.
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Passing Stars Shorten Earth’s Time Horizon
March 19, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Stars in the solar neighborhood could jostle planetary orbits, making it harder to turn back the clock and examine Earth’s orbital or climate history.
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How Free Will Probes Mind and Consciousness
March 19, 2024 YouTube
Free will seems so obvious, yet defies physical explanation. Free will probes consciousness by examining what it means to pick, choose, select, decide in the closed physical system of the world. But is ‘free will’ just a trick of the brain?
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Why Is the Origin of Life a Problem for Physics?
March 19, 2024 YouTube
Walker is most interested in whether or not there are “laws of life" related to how information structures the physical world that could universally describe life here on Earth and on other planets.
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Did the first cells evolve in soda lakes?
March 19, 2024 EurekAlert!
soda lakes on the early Earth could have supported key features of protocell development, with RNA copying and ribozyme activity taking place in the dry season and vesicle formation occurring during the wet season
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Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting
March 19, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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The world is both subjective and real
March 19, 2024 iai News
Endorsing perspectivalism
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‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch
March 19, 2024 Nature
Modified protein-design tool could make it easier to tackle challenging drug targets -- but AI antibodies are still a long way from reaching the clinic.
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Darwinism Rationalizes Bad Habits
March 19, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
You can’t help yourself. You’re a victim of selection.
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Evolution Falsified?
March 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Rope Kojonen’s Achievement
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Seriously, how ‘functional' is the human genome?
March 19, 2024 YouTube
Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk?
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What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?
March 18, 2024 YouTube
Two big ideas in biology: the evolution of species via mutation, fitness and natural selection; and the embryological development of individuals, from fertilized egg to whole organisms. How do these two big ideas -- “evo-devo,” as it’s called -- relate?
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Penrose Is Just Speculating!
March 18, 2024 YouTube
Penrose's phantom field is a purely mathematical entity that suddenly turns into physical matter, which is inconsistent with what we know physics does.
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Building a brain: How does it generate its exquisite diversity of cells?
March 18, 2024 The Transmitter
High-throughput technologies have revealed new insights into how the brain develops. But a truly comprehensive map of neurodevelopment requires further advances.
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Mammoth carcass was scavenged by ancient humans and sabre-toothed cats
March 18, 2024 New Scientist
A southern mammoth skeleton found in Spain bears cut marks from stone tools and bite marks from carnivore teeth, suggesting that both hominins and felids feasted on its meat
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Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes
March 18, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Scientists are making progress on illuminating how undersea sedimentary deposits called turbidites form and on reconstructing the complex histories they record. But it’s not an easy task.
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West Virginia opens the door to teaching intelligent design
March 18, 2024 Science
Governor poised to sign bill allowing teachers to discuss antievolutionary “theories”
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Carbon Dating at Gezer and the “Legend" of Saul, David, and Solomon
March 18, 2024 Associates for Biblical Research
When all the evidence is in, it is clear that the archaeological findings and recent radiocarbon dates demonstrate the detailed historical accuracy of the Bible with regard to Gezer. Those who would challenge the biblical record do so in vain.
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The Two-Sided Lottery Card Paradox and Infinity
March 18, 2024 Mind Matters
Assuming the infinite often leads to ridiculous conclusions.
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Philosopher Debunks Scientism But Falls Into His Own Pit
March 18, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s not necessary to be a scholar in academia to recognize logical blunders. It just takes common sense.
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Understanding “Reductionism” and Intelligent Design
March 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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God, String Theory, and the State of Physics
March 17, 2024 YouTube
the potential shortcomings of string theory, whether or not the world is a hologram, arguments for the existence of god, and the role of science in ethics
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Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics
March 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Invisibility Isn't Science Fiction: It's Interesting Engineering
March 16, 2024 Mind Matters
Things are visible only when light strikes them but light can sometimes be manipulated so as not to strike them, with remarkable results.
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Anna Karenina and How To Read Long Books
March 16, 2024 Mind Matters
“One chapter at a time" is actually how books like Tolstoy's were intended to be read.
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Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell
March 16, 2024 Science Alert
Small, shelled, and unassuming, chitons have eyes unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom.
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Marcus Ross vs. Hugh Ross Debate Review
March 15, 2024 YouTube
Days of Genesis
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Can Neo-Darwinism Explain the Origin and Variation of the Hummingbirds?
March 15, 2024
Applying the Facts Discovered by Mutation Genetics, Natural Selection, and Population Genetics to the Humming Birds
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Is the Bible's Definition of Faith Opposed to Logic and Evidence?
March 15, 2024 Wintery Knight
Probably the biggest misconception that I encounter when defending the faith is the mistaken notion of what faith is.
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Could Earth Life Survive on a Red Dwarf Planet?
March 15, 2024 Universe Today
Scientists can only make educated guesses about which exoplanets may be habitable. Even the closest exoplanet is four light-years away, and though four is a small integer, the distance is enormous.
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How did matter come to exist in our Universe?
March 15, 2024 Big Think
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
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Rapidly Dividing Bacteria Coordinate Gene Expression and Replication
March 15, 2024 The Scientist
E. coli divides faster than it can replicate its genome, while simultaneously expressing its genes. Scientists recently revealed the intricate molecular coordination that makes this possible.