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Microbes that gave rise to all plants and animals became multicellular 1.6 billion years ago, tiny fossils reveal
January 24, 2024 Science
Early eukaryotes found in ancient Chinese rock formation offer a “grand vision of life”
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What reality does quantum theory describe? QBism has a radical answer
January 25, 2024 Big Think
Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.
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The white hole illusion
January 25, 2024 iai News
The Big Bang was not a white hole
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Scientists Are Finally Taking Altered States of Consciousness Seriously
January 25, 2024 MIT Press Reader
If we want to understand our consciousness, we must not be afraid to break new ground.
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West Virginia May Allow the Teaching of Intelligent Design in Classrooms
January 25, 2024 Answers in Genesis
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News Update/Commentary
Research of water droplet interfaces that offer the secret ingredient for building life
January 24, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists have experimental evidence that the key step in protein formation can occur in droplets of pure water.
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Revisiting Homo floresiensis
December, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Here, many aspects of the Homo floresiensis finds are considered, including dating, tools, contrasting views, and morphology, particularly regarding the LB1 skeleton. Cretinism, a likely explanation, is also discussed.
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Are Trees Well Designed?
January 25, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Paper Digest
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Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?
January 25, 2024 YouTube
Everything in the universe has a beginning, but how can the universe as a whole have a beginning? Does the cosmos come with a start date? Does a universal commencement make sense? What would it possibly mean? And what if there are multiple universes?
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Famous Scientist Confronted with Logical Case for God
January 24, 2024 YouTube
the two sat down together 4 years ago to talk about God & the Origin of the Universe and, as was expected, the conversation was epic! This clip features one of my favorite sections of that conversation
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Philosophy of Extraterrestrial Life & Diverse Intelligences
January 24, 2024 YouTube
What could life be as we don’t know it? Three transitions. Non-life to life. Life to intelligent life. Intelligent life to technological civilization. Fermi’s Paradox: with at least 10 to the 22nd power planets in the universe, the evidence for alien life
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How Quantum Theory Related to Consciousness
January 24, 2024 Mind Matters
Experimental physicist Rob Sheldon explains the background to Hameroff and Penrose’s contested quantum consciousness theory, which is beginning to be tested
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Citizen Scientist Forrest Mims Tells His Remarkable Life Story
January 24, 2024 Mind Matters
In his new book “Maverick Scientist,” he details the ups and downs of an extraordinarily productive life in science, with few credentials to hide behind
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Can AI Really Start Doing Evil Stuff All by Itself?
January 25, 2024 Mind Matters
We need to first talk to the man in the mirror before we go around blaming transistor circuit boards for what’s wrong in the world
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New pieces in the puzzle of first life on Earth
January 24, 2024 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Research team discovers complex microbial communities in ecosystems over 3 billion years ago
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A Bird’s-Eye View of a Technicolor World
January 23, 2024 New York Times
Scientists have devised a new video system that reveals how animals see color, and us.
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A shallow lake in Canada could reveal how life on Earth began
January 24, 2024 space.com
Soda lakes may resemble Darwin's ‘warm little ponds' where life on Earth got started.
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The hagfish genome and the evolution of vertebrates
January 23, 2024 Nature
As the only surviving lineages of jawless fishes, hagfishes and lampreys provide a critical window into early vertebrate evolution
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Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem
January 22, 2024 New Scientist
Chemical analysis of rocks found in South Africa shows that ancient microorganisms sustained themselves in a variety of ways, adding to evidence for an early origin of life on Earth
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A legendary cosmologist on how to find a deeper theory of the universe
January 22, 2024 New Scientist
Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles, who helped create our model of how the universe evolved, discusses dark matter, the value of iconoclastic ideas and the astronomical anomalies to keep your eye on
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News Update/Commentary
Chemists use the blockchain to simulate over 4 billion chemical reactions essential to the origins of life
January 24, 2024 Science Daily
a team of chemists have asked computers to generate the largest network ever created of chemical reactions which may have given rise to prebiotic molecules on early Earth
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Mainstream Dinosaur Extinction Doubts
January 25, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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In Prestigious Journal, Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction
January 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sunlight on the Puzzle of Prebiotic RNA?
January 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Earth’s Outstanding Fitness for Life, and Its Implication for Intelligent Design
January 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Dallas Conference
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The Flood/Post-Flood boundary
January 21, 2024 YouTube
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Quantum Mystery Resolved: The Cheshire Cat Experiment
January 22, 2024 YouTube
In this experiment, a particle is supposedly separated from one of its properties, for example its spin or polarization. It’s called the Cheshire cat because that particle is kind of like the cat and its disembodied property is kind of like the grin
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The Illusion of Free Will
October 18, 2023 YouTube
His book discusses the neurobiology behind the illusion of free will, and he effectively demolished claims of numerous philosophers, including Dennett and others, that some magic occurs between the level of neurons and the level of the full brain
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How Life Differs from Matter: It Intentionally Uses Information
January 24, 2024 Mind Matters
Astrophysicist Adam Frank asks an interesting question: Does biology move more information per second than technology? Life, he says, is fundamentally different from matter and energy in that it intentionally uses information:
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Tech Billionaires and Their Science Fiction Dreams
January 23, 2024 Mind Matters
They're mistaking cautionary tales for instruction manuals.
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The Theory That Consciousness Is a Quantum System Gains Support
January 23, 2024 Mind Matters
Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function
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Gregory Chaitin's New Books About Math Make It Actual Fun
January 22, 2024 Mind Matters
He is a favorite podcast guest of ours and, it turns out, a fan of Mind Matters News
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Will Scientists Be Forced To Consider the Occult As Science?
January 22, 2024 Mind Matters
When the World Economic Forum invited a witch to Davos to offer incantations, it was more than just window dressing
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Just Bribe Everyone -- It's Only the Scientific Record
January 19, 2024 Science
When we last visited the lively, ever-evolving world of shady scientific publishing, we saw publication brokers offering journal editors kickbacks to push their papers into print, and here's plenty more about it in a new article here at Science.
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Top Harvard cancer researchers accused of scientific fraud
January 22, 2024 ars technica
Researchers accused of manipulating data images with copy-and-paste.
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An Informed Cosmos: Essays on Intelligent Design Theory
July, 2023 Wipf & Stock
Along with a foreword by philosopher of science and leading design theorist Stephen C. Meyer, and a wide range of recommended resources, An Informed Cosmos offers an informed overview of the contemporary case for intelligent design. | See Also Amazon
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Could quantum physics be the key that unlocks the secrets of human behaviour?
January 19, 2024 The Conversation
Human behaviour is an enigma that fascinates many scientists. And there has been much discussion over the role of probability in explaining how our minds work.
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New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text
January 22, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.
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Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a ‘Weird Fusion' of Life
January 21, 2024 Science Alert
Euglenids are a group of unicellular eukaryotes that gain energy through both photosynthesis, like a plant, and through consuming other beings, like an animal.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Non-avian dinosaur eggshell calcite can contain ancient, endogenous amino acids
January 15, 2024 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.365, p.1-20
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Meteorite Analysis Shows Earth's Building Blocks Contained Water
January 9, 2024 Cal Tech
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Does Science Cause Christians to Deconvert?
January 22, 2024 Reasons to Believe
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The Secrets of the Sea Hidden High in the Andes
January 23, 2024 Hakai magazine
The rich fossil deposits in Colombia’s mountains could unlock a deeper understanding of ancient oceans -- and the country’s paleontologists are struggling to do them justice.
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Coincidences of our Sun and Moon: Are Earthlings Exceptionally Lucky?
January 21, 2024 The DeBrief
there are two coincidences at play: the near equality of the lunar and solar sizes in our sky and the fact that we live on Earth while this coincidence is happening
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The Scientific Literature on GMOs and Pesticides Is Being Distorted
January 24, 2024 Real Clear Science
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Artificial General Intelligence as an Idol for Destruction
January 22, 2024
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The Next Generation LIFE Telescope Could Detect Some Intriguing Biosignatures
January 21, 2024 Universe Today
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Leave no stone unturned in search for an explanation of consciousness
January 17, 2024 New Scientist
A solid theory of human consciousness eludes us, which is why seemingly fringe ideas such as those that rely on quantum effects in the brain are still worth pursuing
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A window into plant evolution: The unusual genetic journey of lycophytes
January 18, 2024 Science Daily
these plants have maintained a consistent genetic structure for over 350 million years, a significant deviation from the norm in plant genetics.
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Zombie Vestigial Organ Argument Arises
January 23, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The case of a “poorly designed organ” argument that was resurrected … and then reburied!