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Video
The Multiverse is REAL
March 4, 2024 YouTube
visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford
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A New Challenge for Lee Cronin
March 4, 2024 YouTube
Live at Champion Forest
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News Update/Commentary
A model for the evolution of intelligence
March 4, 2024 Science Daily
Study finds ability to solve food puzzles is the only predictor of innovation, brain size in wild birds
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How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins
March 4, 2024 New Scientist
What did NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to sample Bennu discover? Mission leader Dante Lauretta says the asteroid could hold clues about how life began
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Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought
March 4, 2024 New Scientist
The ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the best places we have found to search for alien life, but it might have less oxygen than researchers had thought
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Modeling the origins of life: New evidence for an ‘RNA World'
March 4, 2024 phys.org
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Is Earth the only Goldilocks planet?
March 4, 2024 Astronomy magazine
Some scientists believe the universe is teeming with life. Others aren’t so sure.
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Oolers Beat Dead RNA Horses
March 4, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists find it hard to let go of implausible stories. They keep them alive with all their “might.”
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Oldest known animal sex chromosome evolved in octopuses 380 million years ago
March 4, 2024 Nature
Result reveals for the first time how some cephalopods determine sex.
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Orgelian Specified Complexity
March 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Where did India’s people come from? Massive genetic study reveals surprises
March 4, 2024 Science
Analysis confirms Iranian influx, but also finds genes from Neanderthals and a mysterious human ancestor
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These gars are the ultimate ‘living fossils’
March 4, 2024 Science
Fish’s genomes are so static that groups whose last common ancestor lived during the time of the dinosaurs can produce fertile hybrids today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The genomic signatures of evolutionary stasis
March 4, 2024 International Journal of Organic Evolution
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The Impact of the Chicxulub Asteroid
March 3, 2024 A View from the Right
the impact (in both senses of the term) of the Chicxulub asteroid, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula and caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction.
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How functional is the human genome? Part 1
March 3, 2024 YouTube
Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk? This is a question that is not only being asked in the creation-evolution debate; it is a question raging in the ivory tower as well.
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Can Informational Realism Help Sort Out the Mind-Body Problem?
March 3, 2024 Mind Matters
According to William Dembski, informational realism asserts that the ability to exchange information is the defining feature of reality
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Do We Need Quantum Gravity?
March 2, 2024 YouTube
Brian Keating --- Are singularities real? Or are we just fooling ourselves? And if they’re not real, why do we need a theory of quantum gravity?
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On the Trail of the Denisovans
March 2, 2024 New York Times
DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet -- perhaps even in the Pacific islands.
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Will the origin of life ever be uncovered?
March 2, 2024 YouTube
Institute of Art and Ideas
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The connection between Darwin’s finches and bacterial flagellar motors
March, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.3, p.28-33
The evolution of specialized biological tools used by organisms tells a story about the environments that shaped them.
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The First Geologists?
March, 2024 GSA Today, v.34, n.3-4, p.4-10
The rate of evolutionary brain growth (encephalization) in African human ancestors increased dramatically at ca. 3.5 Ma. Crude stone tools first appear in fluvial sediments in eastern Africa at about this time, as does evidence for tool-assisted butchery
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Why Do Universities Ignore Good Ideas?
March 1, 2024 Mind Matters
Funding agencies see if the researcher is tenured or has already received funding. It's a vicious cycle.
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Why Humans Can't “Share the Spotlight” with Tool-Using Animals
March 1, 2024 Mind Matters
As the Ivy League war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out -- and they don’t even notice
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The connection between Darwin’s finches and bacterial flagellar motors
March, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.3, p.28-33
The evolution of specialized biological tools used by organisms tells a story about the environments that shaped them.
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Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus
March 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room and the Limits of Understanding
March 1, 2024
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Accurate phenotypic self-replication as a necessary cause for biological evolution
March, 2024 Biosystems, v.237
Highly accurate replication of cellular phenotype is a universal phenomenon in all of life since LUCA and is often taken for granted as a constant in evolutionary theory.
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News Update/Commentary
Convergent evolution of algal CO2-fixing organelles
March 1, 2024 Science Daily
proteins of a CO2-fixing organelle revealed various pyrenoid-associated proteins among algal groups, suggesting the independent evolution of pyrenoids in different algal groups.
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Atheist MIT Professor Converts to Christianity After Discovering THIS
March 1, 2024 YouTube
Picard shares the story of her journey to God. Along the way, she unpacks the critical realization that science, as wonderful as it is, is not the only vehicle to bring us to Truth and that many aspects of human life simply fall outside of science
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News Update/Commentary
New insights on how galaxies are formed
March 1, 2024 Science Daily
Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error.
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The First Human Embryo Model from Embryonic Stem Cells
March 1, 2024 The Scientist
Jacob Hanna developed a method for replicating embryogenesis outside of the uterus to understand the underlying mechanisms.
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Piltdown Lizard Was Too Good to Check
March 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics
March 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
How first cells could have formed on Earth
February 29, 2024 Science Daily
New phospholipid discovery brings researchers closer to understanding how primordial cells emerged during origin of life.
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Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever
February 29, 2024 New York Times
A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s blue whales.
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A Serpentine ‘Explosion’ 125 Million Years Ago Primed Snakes for Rapid, Diverse Evolution
February 29, 2024 Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers say an evolutionary “singularity” led to several small, quick changes in snake species, from legless bodies and flexible skulls to chemical-sensing abilities
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How did life on earth begin?
February 29, 2024 Washington Post
The chemical puzzle just became clearer
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Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure
February 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is There a Solution to Low Quality Research in Science?
February 29, 2024 Mind Matters
Molecular biologist Henry Miller and statistician Stanley Young explain why statistical techniques like meta-analysis won’t solve the basic problem
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Google Gemini Presents a Past That Never Happened
February 29, 2024 Mind Matters
You can't trust a bot to give you a history lesson, turns out.
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Is AI the Triumph of Left-Brained Thinking? What Follows?
February 29, 2024 Mind Matters
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist argues that it is and asks us to consider what its cultural lean toward the “left brain” is doing to us
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Book
Knowing the Neanderthal
February 29, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6686, p.956
An archaeologist seeks to strip away modern misconceptions about our extinct relatives | See Also Amazon
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Critical junctions in evolution
February 29, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6686, p.951-952
Key traits set the course of de novo visual system evolution in marine mollusks
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The Consensus Conspiracy
February 29, 2024 Brownstone Institute
What is a consensus? What is a conspiracy? At its heart it is a group of people thinking that something is most likely correct or good or the best way to do or think about something.
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News Update/Commentary
The Golgi organelle's ribbon structure is not exclusive to vertebrates, contrary to previous consensus
February 29, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers report that the Golgi ribbon, an organelle structure previously thought to be exclusive to vertebrates, is also present in animal taxa, including mollusks, earthworms, and sea urchins.
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Two-Timers in the Darwin Party
February 29, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary rates vary by seven orders of magnitude. What kind of theory is that?
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Study sheds new light on ancient volcanoes' environmental impact
February 29, 2024 EurekAlert!
Mercury rising
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Methodological Naturalism, Analyzed
February 29, 2024 Springer
I present and evaluate three interpretations of methodological naturalism (MN), the principle that scientific explanations may only appeal to natural phenomena
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Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design -- Part 1
February 29, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Adaptive Genome Modification on the Fly
February 29, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
RNA Editing