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Does the Brain Constrain the Mind Instead of Creating It?
January 15, 2024 Mind Matters
There is no systematic, science-based reason today to think that’s not true and plenty of evidence suggests that it is
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A Darwinian Argument for a Global Government
January 12, 2024 Mind Matters
The evolutionary researchers worry that we have not evolved to be worthy of a global government and will face ecological ruin in consequence.
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Blog Post
The Deadly Rise of Scientism
December 31, 2023
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Book
The Essential Archaeological Guide to Bible Lands
January, 2024 Harvest House Publishers
Uncovering Biblical Sites of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World | See Also Amazon
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The Amyloid Hypothesis: Rewriting Life’s Origin Story
January 11, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
The question of how living organisms emerged from non-living matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in science. Despite numerous theories, a conclusive explanation remains elusive.
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Evolutionary feedback from the environment shapes mechanisms that generate genome variation
January 9, 2024 The Journal of Physiology
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Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
January 18, 2019 Discovery Institute
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A good journal breaks bad
January 14, 2024 Science-Based Medicine
The latest report from the American Academy of Pediatrics is filled with misinformation and missing key articles that support the well-researched conclusion that there is no legitimate evidence of negative health effects of glyphosate.
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Carnivorous plant traps help scientists explain the evolution of complex ‘composite' traits
January 5, 2024 phys.org
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Wild Hypothesis Suggests Insect Wings Arose from Gills
January 14, 2024 Science Alert
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News Update/Commentary
Largest diversity study of ‘magic mushrooms' investigates the evolution of psychoactive psilocybin production
January 9, 2024 Science Daily
Psilocybe arose much earlier than previously thought -- about 65 million years ago. The analysis revealed two distinct gene patterns, suggesting two independent acquisitions of psilocybin in its evolutionary history.
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News Update/Commentary
Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity
January 11, 2024 Science Daily
The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia's Northern Territory; it'll set again in another 19 hours. The only hint of life is some scum in a few puddles and ponds. And among it lives a diverse microbial community of our ancient ancestors.
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News Update/Commentary
Oldest known fossilized skin is 21 million years older than previous examples
January 11, 2024 Science Daily
It's the oldest example of preserved epidermis, the outermost layer of skin in terrestrial reptiles, birds, and mammals, which was an important evolutionary adaptation in the transition to life on land.
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News Update/Commentary
Study uncovers potential origins of life in ancient hot springs
January 12, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists found that by mixing hydrogen, bicarbonate, and iron-rich magnetite under conditions mimicking relatively mild hydrothermal vent results in the formation of a spectrum of organic molecules, most notably including fatty acids
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News Update/Commentary
New research sheds light on an old fossil solving an evolutionary mystery
January 10, 2024 Science Daily
Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously believed.
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News Update/Commentary
Study on lamprey embryos sheds light on the evolutionary origin of vertebrate head
January 10, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists study developing lamprey embryos to clarify the origin of vertebrate head, paving the way to a better understanding of ancestral vertebrates
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This is the oldest fossilized reptile skin ever found -- it pre-dates the dinosaurs
January 11, 2024 Nature
Permian-period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizard-like creature.
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Evolution Doesn’t Explain Cowbirds and Other Brood Parasites
January 12, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Why do some creatures leave their young for others to raise?
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Big Bang Cosmology Still in Crisis
January 15, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The lumpiness problem keeps getting worse, and most of reality remains unknown to science.
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Is Epicurus Smiling?
January 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Update on Cambrian Bryozoans
January 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Evidence of Common Design in a Magnetic Compass
January 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
in bats and other animals
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Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul
January 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?
January 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Anti-Hate Group Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave
January 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Canary Mission
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Science, too, is based on faith: The Problem of Induction
January 7, 2024 YouTube
How do we know that the laws of nature will continue to do what they have been doing so far? We don't. It's called the “Problem of Induction" and means that ultimately science is also based on faith, faith that the laws of nature will not fail us tomorrow
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Biologist Michael Denton Explores the Miracle of Man
January 11, 2024 YouTube
Renowned biologist discusses “the miracle of man," the topic of his recent book by the same name. This lecture was presented as part of the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.
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Video
Is Mathematics Eternal?
January 11, 2024 YouTube
Mathematics is like nothing else. The truths of math seem to be unrelated to anything else -- independent of human beings, independent of the universe. The sum of 2 + 3 = 5 would be true even if there were never any human beings!
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Deciphering the Hidden Meanings of Cave Art
January 11, 2024 Mind Matters
In many cases, there are more dots and lines than animals, which suggests some sort of early information system
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Rooting out scientific misconduct
January 11, 2024 Science v.383, n.6679, p.131
Scientific misconduct is an issue rife with controversy, from its forms and definitions to the policies that guide how allegations are handled.
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You may have a higher risk of MS and other diseases if you’re descended from these ancient people
January 10, 2024 Science
“Tour de force” ancient DNA study ties disease risk, physical traits in modern Europeans to Bronze Age herders
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Scientists discover mysterious ‘islands’ in seas of Saturn’s moon are actually organic matter
January 9, 2024 Independent (UK)
Researchers previously thought these were phantom islands caused by waves
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The Evolution of Bats’ Super Immunity
January 10, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers generated complete genomes of two important bat species and explored their immune- and cancer-related genes.
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Mysterious radio burst came from group of galaxies in distant universe
January 9, 2024 New Scientist
The Hubble Space Telescope has pinpointed the origin of the most distant known fast radio burst, which hit our planet in 2022
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An unprecedented supramolecular structure brings new complexities to life
January 11, 2024 Chemistry World
The transcription factor FOXP3’s interactions with DNA present more evidence of the importance of disorder
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Why huge ape Gigantopithecus went extinct up to 295,000 years ago
January 10, 2024 New Scientist
The mysterious giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki died out up to 295,000 years ago, after failing to adapt to a changing climate and the food variability that went with it
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Ancient DNA reveals origins of multiple sclerosis in Europe
January 10, 2024 Nature
A huge cache of ancient genomes spanning tens of thousands of years reveals the roots of traits in modern Europeans.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark
January 10, 2024 Nature, v.625, p.329-337
we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet, mobility and vegetation cover
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Why did the world’s biggest ape go extinct?
January 10, 2024 Nature
The 300-kilogram primate couldn’t adapt when a changing environment forced a dietary shift.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki
January 10, 2024 Nature
The largest ever primate and one of the largest of the southeast Asian megafauna persisted in China from about 2.0 million years until the late middle Pleistocene when it became extinct.
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Book
How we remember the dead by their digital afterlives
January 8, 2024 Nature
REVIEW: The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality by Timothy Recuber (NYU Press, 2023) | See Also Amazon
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How I fuse Western science with Traditional Knowledge
January 8, 2024 Nature
Indigenous Canadian ecologist Jennifer Grenz abandons colonial restoration dogma to reshape land systems according to community needs.
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Observing mammalian cerebellum development through an evolutionary lens
January 10, 2024 Nature
Tracking the gene-expression profiles of individual cerebellar cells during development in humans, mice and opossums revealed evolutionarily conserved as well as species-specific cellular and molecular features.
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How to Strip Useless Darwinese from Science Articles
January 11, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s a bad habit that adds nothing. Time to acid-wash the Darwinese from science and get back to empirical rigor.
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The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery -- it’s empathy
January 10, 2024 ars technica
Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples’ faces doesn’t work to change minds.
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Systems Biology Cracks Life’s Engineered Intricacies
January 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
A Report from CELS
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Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard
January 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Another War of Words
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AI Will Disrupt Everything -- But Forget the Robot Apocalypse!
January 10, 2024 Mind Matters
It will be a slow, steady, measured disruption, like the one the printing press created
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A Biochemist Begins To Sense the Limits of Materialism
January 9, 2024 Mind Matters
William Reville seems both confident and uncertain at the same time that science can crack the problem of consciousness
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The Theory of Evolution in the context of the divine revelations
January 8, 2024 Australasian Muslim Times
the Darwin Theory was considered as an offence on human dignity by scholars of the monotheistic religions. As a counter-reaction the monotheistic religions developed an antagonistic approach to anything that represented any notion of “evolution”