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Was Your Body Intelligently Designed?
April 22, 2024 YouTube
Medical doctor Howard Glicksman and systems engineer Steve Laufmann discuss the incredible design and functionality of the human body in this presentation taped at the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith sponsored by Discovery Institute
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Why Determinism Fails (You are Free to Disagree!)
April 19, 2024 YouTube
Are humans physical machines determined by the laws of chemistry and physics? Has science shown that free will is a myth? Sean and Scott invite Biola philosophy professor Greg Ganssle to discuss the recent book Determined by Robert Sapolsky.
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News Update/Commentary
New butterfly species created 200,000 years ago by two species interbreeding
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have shown that an Amazonian butterfly is a hybrid species, formed by two other species breeding together almost 200,000 years ago.
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News Update/Commentary
RNA's hidden potential: New study unveils its role in early life and future bioengineering
April 18, 2024 Science Daily
Study sheds light on the molecular evolution of RNA and its potential applications in nanobiotechnology.
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The sounds of science -- a symphony for many instruments and voices
April 15, 2024 Physica Scripta, v.99
Despite its amazing quantitative successes and contributions to revolutionary technologies, physics currently faces many unsolved mysteries
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Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus is able to support life
April 17, 2024 The Conversation
my research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells there
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Some ‘Junk DNA’ Serves a Purpose
April 22, 2024 Quanta Magazine
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Blog Post
Consciousness and the Dennett Paradox
April 20, 2024
Daniel Dennett died yesterday, April 19, 2024. When he argues that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrates, paradoxically, how conscious he is, and he makes his audience more conscious.
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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness
April 19, 2024 Quanta Magazine
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.
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Genomic ancestry and social dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France
February 26, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Since the early Holocene, western and central Europe was inhabited by a genetically distinct group of hunter-gatherers.
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Some White Dwarfs Might be Older than Previously Thought
April 18, 2024 Physics Magazine
A process that reheats some white dwarfs might mean they are much older than previously thought, indicating a potential need to recalculate the age of stellar populations such as the Milky Way.
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Magical Thinking by Evolutionists
April 22, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Natural selection is a magic wand to evolutionists. It creates scientists from fish.
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The not-so-ponderous pelican
January, 2023 Creation, v.45, n.1, p.28-31
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Physicist Studying SARS-CoV-2 Virus Believes He Has Found Hints We Are Living in a Simulation
April 17, 2024 IFL Science
Studying the evolution of the virus, he found signs that the information entropy decreased over time.
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Bayesian Balance
April 19, 2024 Skeptic
how a tool for Bayesian thinking can guide us between relativism and the truth trap
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This Lava Tube in Saudi Arabia Has Been a Human Refuge for 7,000 Years
April 17, 2024 New York Times
Ancient humans left behind numerous archaeological traces in the cavern, and scientists say there may be thousands more like it on the Arabian Peninsula to study.
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How AI avatars of the deceased could transform the way we grieve
November 14, 2023 New Scientist
Companies are now offering chatbots that appear to come from beyond the veil. But psychologists say this “grief tech" may interfere with the patterns of brain activity through which we adapt to loss
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Book
Evolutionary flights of fancy
April, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.1, p.26-29
REVIEW: Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design & Evolution by Richard Dawkins (2021) | See Also Daedalus Books
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Misrepresenting creationism
April, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.1, p.40-44
REVIEW: Early Christian Readings of Genesis One by Craig Allert (IVP Academic, 2018) | See Also InterVarsity Press
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Extreme genome scrambling in marine planktonic Oikopleura dioica cryptic species
April 15, 2024 Genome Research
Genome structural variations within species are rare. How selective constraints preserve gene order and chromosome structure is a central question in evolutionary biology that remains unsolved.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Microbial Diversity and Open Questions about the Deep Tree of Life
April 15, 2024 Genome Biology and Evolution, v.16, n.4
the transformative impact and inherent limitations of metagenomics and single-cell genomics on our understanding of microbial diversity and their integration into the Tree of Life
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Europa’s Ocean Might Lack the Ingredients for Life
April 12, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The lack of volcanism and tectonic activity on Europa’s seafloor might hinder the moon’s potential to host living organisms.
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic variant identified that shaped the human skull base
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
This study provides a greater understanding of human disease and evolution.
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Exploring Microbial Dark Matter
April 19, 2024 The Scientist
An open-source search engine helps scientists identify hundreds of microbial metabolites in a matter of seconds.
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Drawing a line back to the origin of life
April 17, 2024 University of Cambridge
molecules, vital to the development of life, could have formed from a process known as graphitisation. Once verified in the laboratory, it could allow us to try and recreate plausible conditions for life's emergence.
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Flowers may be more ancient than dinosaurs
April 9, 2024 The Conversation
but scientists can’t agree on when they evolved
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The Magnetic Heart of the Milky Way
April 19, 2024 New York Times
Every new generation of eyes sees a new version of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago
April 19, 2024 New Scientist
A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the possibility that hominins could have reached North America much earlier than we thought
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An 11-Year-Old Girl’s Fossil Find Is the Largest Known Ocean Reptile
April 17, 2024 New York Times
When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs.
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Moroccan Dinosaurs in Marine Rocks, Too
April 18, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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What’s wrong with being wrong
April, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.1, p.104-111
part 4a -- a more than cursory look into evolutionary ethics
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Survival of the Nicest? Now They Tell Us.
April 18, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Struggle for existence? No; love makes the world go round
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Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans
April 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Use Artificial Intelligence to Challenge Evolution
April 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Science Paper
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William Lane Craig's mytho-history
April 18, 2024 YouTube
critical discussion on Craig's book The Quest for the Historical Adam
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Does Brain Science Eliminate Free Will?
April 14, 2024 YouTube
Who’s the boss, me or my brain? Brain data does not favor free will. In the famous Libet experiment, my brain makes decisions prior to my conscious sense of making that decision -- brain activity precedes personal awareness.
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What's the Essence of Consciousness?
April 18, 2024 YouTube
Consciousness is what mental activity feels like, the private inner experience of sensation, thought and emotion. Consciousness is like nothing else. But what is consciousness, the essence of consciousness, at its most fundamental level?
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How Does Pure Math Generate Matter?
April 17, 2024 YouTube
How does pure mathematics generate matter? And how did the Big Bang arise from nothing? No matter how much we know about physics and how deeply we understand the Universe, there are still many fundamental questions that no one has answers to.
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Modified Gravity Strikes Back
April 18, 2024 YouTube
Most astrophysics are pretty convinced that 80% of the matter in the universe is some invisible stuff that they can’t detect -- dark matter.
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Archaeology Related to the Judges -- Othniel, Ehud and Deborah
April 14, 2024 YouTube
a 350-year archaeological and historical journey through the book of Judges with Dr. Scott Stripling. The Judges era was a time of foreign subjugation, moral decay, and idolatry.
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Brightest gamma ray burst of all time emerged from collapsing star
April 12, 2024 Science
JWST spies an expected supernova but a puzzling lack of heavy elements
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Book
Imagining other worlds
April 18, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6693, p.278
An astronomer offers a vivid portrait of exoplanet landscapes | See Also Macmillan
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News Update/Commentary
Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human -- defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins -- and produced a ‘bizarre' evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage -- that revises the start and end dates for many of our early ancestors.
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The universe may be dominated by particles that break causality and move faster than light
April 17, 2024 Live Science
With the nature of the universe's two most elusive components up for debate, physicists have proposed a radical idea: Invisible particles called tachyons, which break causality and move faster than light, may dominate the cosmos.
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Ancient human evolution is “unparalleled” in nature
April 17, 2024 Cosmos Magazine
Interspecies competition in ancient humans saw an evolutionary trend that is the complete opposite of almost all other vertebrates, according to a new study.
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The sympathetic nervous system arose in the earliest vertebrates
April 17, 2024 Nature
The sympathetic nervous system, which enables the fight-or-flight response, was thought to be present only in jawed vertebrates. Analysis of a jawless vertebrate suggests that this system might be a feature of all animals with a spine.
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Humans and their livestock have sheltered in this Saudi Arabian cave for 10,000 years
April 17, 2024 Nature
Saudi herders have travelled the same routes for millennia, cave discovery suggests.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Heat flows enrich prebiotic building blocks and enhance their reactivity
April 3, 2024 Nature, v.628, p.110-116
The emergence of biopolymer building blocks is a crucial step during the origins of life. However, all known formation pathways rely on rare pure feedstocks and demand successive purification and mixing steps to suppress unwanted side reactions
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Peer-reviewed Paper
CryoEM structures reveal how the bacterial flagellum rotates and switches direction
April 17, 2024 Nature Microbiology
Bacterial chemotaxis requires bidirectional flagellar rotation at different rates. Rotation is driven by a flagellar motor, which is a supercomplex containing multiple rings.
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Could JWST solve cosmology’s big mystery? Physicists debate Universe-expansion data
April 15, 2024 Nature
Results from the telescope could help to end a long-standing disagreement over the rate of cosmic expansion. But scientists say more measurements are needed.