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Three More Views: The Historical Adam & Eve
January 19, 2024 YouTube
Three papers were presented at the 2023 conference of the Evangelical Theological Society --- Kenton Sparks: The Non-Historical Adam and Eve View // Andrew Loke: The Genealogical Adam and Eve View // Marcus Ross: A Young Earth and Recent Adam and Eve
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Fine-Tuning of the Optics of the Human Eye
January 19, 2024 YouTube
Physicist Brian Miller explores the amazing design and optimization of the human eye in this talk from the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.
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How Do We Know What We Know?
January 18, 2024 YouTube
What is knowledge? What is belief? How is belief justified? What justifies us in believing what we believe? Is justified belief knowledge? These questions constitute “epistemology” -- the theory of knowledge.
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Multiverse: Where Do We Go from Here?
January 19, 2024 YouTube
The stunning realization that there may be multiple universes has progressed from speculative metaphysics (or science fiction) to serious theoretical cosmology to data-rich observational cosmology to majority-accepted conventional wisdom.
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Scientists Deceive Public on RNA Replication
January 20, 2024 YouTube
Rob Stadler dissects Origin of Life science claims
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Astrophysicists find Big Ring of Galaxies that Should Not Exist
January 19, 2024 YouTube
The thing isn’t just huge, it’s also a huge problem for our understanding of how the universe works. Because it shouldn’t exist. I’m somewhat afraid that all other astrophysicists will try to ignore this, which is why I thought we should talk about it.
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What Things are Conscious?
January 17, 2024 YouTube
Consciousness is the great mystery of inner awareness. Where does it exist? Humans, obviously. Animals? Which animals? Chimps, elephants, dolphins, dogs? Termites, snails, amoeba, bacteria? What about non-biological intelligences like supercomputers
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Multiverse & Fine-Tuning
January 20, 2024 YouTube
You've heard of the fine-tuning argument, but what about the multiverse hypothesis? Dr. Craig briefly overviews this popular theory and why it fails to explain away a cosmic designer.
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Who is the REAL Behemoth?
January 19, 2024 YouTube
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God is a Delusion
January 18, 2024 YouTube
Oxford Union Speech
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Why promote the Shroud of Turin?
January 19, 2024 YouTube
First of all, the aim of making the Shroud of Turin known is not to induce anyone to worship a linen cloth. But the Shroud is a tremendous tool for apologetics.
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Dogged by climate change and human hunters, a mammoth's life is written in her tusks
January 17, 2024 Science
Elma's travels offer rare glimpse into the challenges that drove her species to extinction
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Nearby galaxy's giant black hole is real, ‘shadow' image confirms
January 18, 2024 Science
To zoom in, Event Horizon Telescope wants to add more radio dishes to its network -- and go to space
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Open-endedness in synthetic biology
January 19, 2024 Science Advances, v.10, n.3
A route to continual innovation for biological design
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Will the Driving Force for Space Exploration Be a Religious Cult?
January 20, 2024 Mind Matters
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Philosopher Explains How We Can Know That Consciousness Is Real
January 17, 2024 Mind Matters
Last Friday, YouTube philosophy channel Closer to Truth aired an interview with analytical philosopher Galen Strawson on the question “Is consciousness an illusion?”
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Consciousness Wars Still Simmer, Despite Peacekeeping Efforts
January 19, 2024 Mind Matters
The field of consciousness studies has been in turmoil since over 100 researchers signed a letter last September, attacking neuroscientist Christof Koch’s leading Integrated Information Theory (IIT) theory of consciousness.
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Artificially Smart: Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education
January 17, 2024 Mind Matters
Understanding needs to remain the metric by which students are evaluated
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A Case Study in Why Peer Review May Be Unreformable
January 17, 2024 Mind Matters
McIntosh and Hudson Vitale illustrate, by their very zeal to eliminate pro-life researchers, the built-in corruption of the peer review process
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New Studies Point to Ways We Might Reduce the Effects of Dementia
January 19, 2024 Mind Matters
They were trying to find out what effect the Big Five personality traits -- conscientiousness, extraversion, openness to experience, neuroticism, and agreeableness -- had on the progress of dementia.
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Chicken Whisperers? Humans Learn To Interpret Chicken-ese Quickly
January 19, 2024 Mind Matters
A recent paper in Royal Society Open Science found that humans can interpret chicken emotions by their clucks.
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Does Mathematics Belong to an Eternal Realm?
January 21, 2024 Mind Matters
In a recent episode of Closer to Truth, Robert Lawrence Kuhn hosted California State University philosophy professor Mark Balaguer, who defended the proposition that mathematics belongs to an eternal realm.
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New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain"
January 18, 2024 Mind Matters
It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain.
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Psychiatrist Looks at Mindfulness from a Christian Perspective
January 21, 2024 Mind Matters
UCLA research psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz notes that the word “heart” in the biblical sense means the seat of consciousness, the seat of our spirit
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Did the Black Death shape the human genome? Study challenges bold claim
January 17, 2024 Nature
An ancient-DNA study of medieval Cambridge found no sign of genes that helped people to survive the plague, casting doubt on an earlier study.
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Ancient DNA reveals first known case of sex-development disorder
January 12, 2024 Nature
Researchers identified six ancient humans with chromosomal conditions, including the earliest case of Turner syndrome.
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Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills
January 19, 2024 Nature
Poor-quality studies are polluting the literature -- a group will study the businesses that produce them to stem the flow of bogus research.
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The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?
January 17, 2024 Nature
There are dozens of theories of how the brain produces conscious experience, and a new type of study is testing some of them head-to-head.
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How a forgotten physicist’s discovery broke the symmetry of the Universe
January 15, 2024 Nature
When Rosemary Brown identified a strange particle decay 75 years ago, it set events in motion that would rewrite the laws of physics.
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Humans first reached China thousands of years earlier than we thought
January 18, 2024 New Scientist
A fresh look at an archaeological site in northern China that was excavated in the 1960s has confirmed Homo sapiens was present there about 45,000 years ago
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Can quantum hints in the brain revive a radical consciousness theory?
January 17, 2024 New Scientist
With anaesthetics and brain organoids, we are finally testing the idea that quantum effects explain consciousness -- and the early results suggest this long-derided idea may have been misconstrued
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Life in the Universe: It’s either everywhere or nowhere
January 18, 2024 Big Think
Two scientists recently wagered a bottle of whiskey. The bet? Whether we'll find evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life in the next 15 years.
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What was it like when the first living worlds formed?
January 18, 2024 Big Think
Life became a possibility in the Universe as soon as the raw ingredients were present. But living, inhabited worlds required a bit more.
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Biology or technology: Which moves more information per second?
January 19, 2024 Big Think
The answer is set to change in the year 2113, a recent estimate suggests.
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Was the Big Bang a white hole?
January 15, 2024 iai News
The timeless origin of the universe
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Blog Post
The Chaoplexity Delusion
January 20, 2024
The Mandelbrot set symbolizes chaoplexologists’ hope that, with the help of ever-more-powerful computers, they can discover simple principles underpinning diverse, complicated things, from brains to economies.
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Why animals shrink explained with new evolution theory
January 18, 2024 University of Reading
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No, the James Webb Space Telescope hasn’t found life out there -- at least not yet
January 16, 2024 ars technica
There is a robust debate ongoing in the scientific community.
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Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe
January 19, 2024 Quanta Magazine
As measurements of distant stars and galaxies become more precise, cosmologists are struggling to make sense of sparring values.
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Cosmic strings can break -- and when they do, they shake the universe
January 18, 2024 Live Science
Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap -- and how we could feel the fallout.
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Universal process that wires the brain is consistent across species
January 17, 2024 Live Science
A new modeling study helps confirm that key connections in the brain are formed in the same way across different animal species, likely including humans.
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Cryo-microscopy reveals nano-sized copy machine implicated in origin of life
January 16, 2024 Science Daily
RNA is thought to have sparked the origin of life by self-copying. Researchers have now revealed the structure of an ‘RNA copy machine' through cryo-EM. This breakthrough sheds light on a primordial RNA world.
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Machine learning reveals sources of heterogeneity among cells in our bodies
January 17, 2024 Science Daily
The findings of this research are expected to have far-reaching effects, such as improvement in the efficacy of chemotherapy treatments, or set a new paradigm in the study of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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How does one species become many?
January 18, 2024 Science Daily
A global team of biologists has compiled nearly two decades of field data for more than 3,400 Darwin's finches in the Galapagos Islands to identify the relationship between beak traits and the longevity of individual finches.
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Feeding mode of ancient vertebrate tested for first time
January 16, 2024 Science Daily
A feeding method of the extinct jawless heterostracans, among the oldest of vertebrates, has been examined and dismissed by scientists, using fresh techniques.
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Where do Poisonous Invasive Plants Fit in God's Creation?
January 18, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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A closer look at evolutionary ethics -- part 3
December, 2022 Creation Ministries International
What’s wrong with being wrong
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Incompleteness Theorems Point to a Hidden Realm
January 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Research Questions the Human Nature of Homo habilis
January 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform
January 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today