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Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized
January 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?
January 9, 2024 YouTube
For the brain and mind to be the same thing, mind must be entirely the output of brain. This means the mind must be the brain -- literally, identically. If so, then the physical world is likely all that exists.
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“There’s no evidence for aliens!”
January 9, 2024 YouTube
In this clip, she walks us through the science and the speculations around aliens. But it's not just about little green men or sci-fi movies -- she's digging deep into what finding alien life really means for us and our understanding of life itself.
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Is Consciousness an Illusion?
January 12, 2024 YouTube
Is consciousness something special in the universe, its own category, irreducible to physical laws, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolution, a superstition
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True Spiritual Awakening
January 12, 2024 YouTube
on Scripture Meditation & God's Voice
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Free Will: Essence and Nature
January 13, 2024 YouTube
Why is free will one of the hardest problems in philosophy? What are the core issues of free will and why do they seem to defy resolution? Most philosophers are pretty sure they have the answer -- but their answers all differ!
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Religion Is Still Evil
January 14, 2024 YouTube
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Freethought Matters
January 11, 2024 YouTube
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God Is Spirit
January 12, 2024 YouTube
an important divine attribute in this second installment of the new animation series examining the attributes of God
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Biologist Explores the Miracle of Man
January 11, 2024 YouTube
This lecture was presented as part of the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.
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What Archaeology Reveals about the Historicity of the Exodus
January 12, 2024 YouTube
What the science of archeology reveal about the historicity of the exodus of Jews from Egypt. Is the exodus a myth? Or is there evidence it really occurred? This session took place at the 2023 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith
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New computer will mimic human brain -- and I'm kinda scared
January 13, 2024 YouTube
A lab in Australia is building a new supercomputer that will for the first time both physically resemble a human brain, and perform as many operations, about 228 trillion per second.
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Valley of lost cities found hidden in the Amazon
January 12, 2024 Independent (UK)
Cluster of lost cities at the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon rainforest is uncovered by archeologists
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Can There Really Be an Ultimate Happiness Machine?
January 14, 2024 Mind Matters
Technology can do so much. Can it really provide an answer to the eternal human quest for happiness?
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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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The Deadly Rise of Scientism
December 31, 2023
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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