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Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting
March 13, 2024 Nature
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb says that an interstellar meteor showered Earth with particles. At a planetary-science conference this week, researchers begged to differ.
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The 50th anniversary of a key paper on how bird flight evolved
March 19, 2024 Nature
For a century, scientists pondered whether bird flight evolved by animals gliding down from trees or by creatures running and flapping from the ground up. A landmark 1974 paper reset the debate to focus on the evolution of the flight stroke instead.
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Stone Age Humans Chose Their Rocks with Care
March 19, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Ancient humans possessed sophisticated knowledge of the properties of the stones they used to make tools.
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Passing Stars Shorten Earth’s Time Horizon
March 19, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Stars in the solar neighborhood could jostle planetary orbits, making it harder to turn back the clock and examine Earth’s orbital or climate history.
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Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes
March 18, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Scientists are making progress on illuminating how undersea sedimentary deposits called turbidites form and on reconstructing the complex histories they record. But it’s not an easy task.
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Origin of Bird Flight: Pick Your Miracles
March 21, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
(1) Powered flight arose only once; (2) No! it arose many times!
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Plant Receptors Are Designed to Control Immunity and Development
March 21, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity
March 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin
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How Free Will Probes Mind and Consciousness
March 19, 2024 YouTube
Free will seems so obvious, yet defies physical explanation. Free will probes consciousness by examining what it means to pick, choose, select, decide in the closed physical system of the world. But is ‘free will’ just a trick of the brain?
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Why Is the Origin of Life a Problem for Physics?
March 19, 2024 YouTube
Walker is most interested in whether or not there are “laws of life" related to how information structures the physical world that could universally describe life here on Earth and on other planets.
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Did the first cells evolve in soda lakes?
March 19, 2024 EurekAlert!
soda lakes on the early Earth could have supported key features of protocell development, with RNA copying and ribozyme activity taking place in the dry season and vesicle formation occurring during the wet season
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Carbon Dating at Gezer and the “Legend" of Saul, David, and Solomon
March 18, 2024 Associates for Biblical Research
When all the evidence is in, it is clear that the archaeological findings and recent radiocarbon dates demonstrate the detailed historical accuracy of the Bible with regard to Gezer. Those who would challenge the biblical record do so in vain.
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Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting
March 19, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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The world is both subjective and real
March 19, 2024 iai News
Endorsing perspectivalism
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Anti-Human Intelligence
March 20, 2024 Law & Liberty
We are rushing heedlessly into a world in which thinking men become ever more like insects.
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Mathematician wins 2024 Abel prize for making sense of randomness
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize for his work researching probability theory and the extremes of randomness
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‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch
March 19, 2024 Nature
Modified protein-design tool could make it easier to tackle challenging drug targets -- but AI antibodies are still a long way from reaching the clinic.
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Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible
March 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwinism Rationalizes Bad Habits
March 19, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
You can’t help yourself. You’re a victim of selection.
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Evolution Falsified?
March 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Rope Kojonen’s Achievement
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The Two-Sided Lottery Card Paradox and Infinity
March 18, 2024 Mind Matters
Assuming the infinite often leads to ridiculous conclusions.
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Mysterious ‘unparticles' may be pushing the universe apart
March 13, 2024 Live Science
New theoretical research suggests that a mysterious form of matter called “unparticles" could be the driving force behind the expansion of the universe.
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Loathed by scientists, loved by nature: sulfur and the origin of life
March 13, 2024 University of Arizona
A University of Arizona-led study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of life.
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Philosopher Debunks Scientism But Falls Into His Own Pit
March 18, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s not necessary to be a scholar in academia to recognize logical blunders. It just takes common sense.
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Understanding “Reductionism” and Intelligent Design
March 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Invisibility Isn't Science Fiction: It's Interesting Engineering
March 16, 2024 Mind Matters
Things are visible only when light strikes them but light can sometimes be manipulated so as not to strike them, with remarkable results.
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Why Pioneer Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield Said the Mind Is More Than the Brain
February 29, 2020 Mind Matters
He gave three lines of reasoning, based on brain surgery on over a thousand patients
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Anna Karenina and How To Read Long Books
March 16, 2024 Mind Matters
“One chapter at a time" is actually how books like Tolstoy's were intended to be read.
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What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?
March 18, 2024 YouTube
Two big ideas in biology: the evolution of species via mutation, fitness and natural selection; and the embryological development of individuals, from fertilized egg to whole organisms. How do these two big ideas -- “evo-devo,” as it’s called -- relate?
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God, String Theory, and the State of Physics
March 17, 2024 YouTube
the potential shortcomings of string theory, whether or not the world is a hologram, arguments for the existence of god, and the role of science in ethics
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Space, Time, and Einstein
July 30, 2020 YouTube
a wild ride into the mind of Albert Einstein, revealing deep aspects of the world that defy everyday experience. Using a visually rich canvas of animations, this leads you through all the startling conclusions of special relativity
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Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Consciousness?
March 12, 2024 YouTube
That the universe is fine-tuned for life, with multiple physical laws required to be within small ranges, is generally accepted. But can we then make the additional argument that the universe is somehow required to contain consciousness?
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Penrose Is Just Speculating!
March 18, 2024 YouTube
Penrose's phantom field is a purely mathematical entity that suddenly turns into physical matter, which is inconsistent with what we know physics does.
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Origin and Evolution of the Rhinos (Family Rhinocerotidae)
May 5, 2023
Applying Our Previous Tests for Gradualism, Punctuated Equilibrium and Intelligent Design
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Elephant Evolution: What Do We Really Know?
February 19, 2019
Another Test for Gradualism, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Intelligent Design
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Are Birds Living Dinosaurs?
February 15, 2021
A review of Alan Feduccia’s most recent book (2020): Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs | See Also Amazon
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Can Neo-Darwinism Explain the Origin and Variation of the Hummingbirds?
March 15, 2024
Applying the Facts Discovered by Mutation Genetics, Natural Selection, and Population Genetics to the Humming Birds
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On the Inordinate Amount of “Living Fossils” in the Flowering Plants (Angiospermae)
May 24, 2022
Or how Darwin’s “abominable mystery” has become even more “abominable” and “mysterious” during the last 150 years than ever before
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Arguments against the stereochemical theory of the origin of the genetic code
November, 2022 Biosystems
the stereochimical theory of the origin of the genetic code is innatural because is based on mechanisms that do not ensure with certainty the maintenance of the amino acid-codon (or -anticodon) correspondence
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Gene as a dynamical notion: An extensive and integrative vision
December, 2023 Biosystems
Redefining the gene concept, from traditional to genic-interaction, as a new dynamical version
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The saga of the false fossil foram Eozoon
February, 2023 European Journal of Protistology
Eozoon canadense, ‘the dawn animal of Canada', a large foraminifera, was announced in 1864 as the oldest fossil organism known.
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Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell
March 16, 2024 Science Alert
Small, shelled, and unassuming, chitons have eyes unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom.
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Building a brain: How does it generate its exquisite diversity of cells?
March 18, 2024 The Transmitter
High-throughput technologies have revealed new insights into how the brain develops. But a truly comprehensive map of neurodevelopment requires further advances.
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Is the Bible's Definition of Faith Opposed to Logic and Evidence?
March 15, 2024 Wintery Knight
Probably the biggest misconception that I encounter when defending the faith is the mistaken notion of what faith is.
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The connection between Darwin’s finches and bacterial flagellar motors
March, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.3, p.28-33
The evolution of specialized biological tools used by organisms tells a story about the environments that shaped them.
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Information, Coding, and Biological Function: The Dynamics of Life
February 14, 2024 Artificial Life
In the mid-20th century, two new scientific disciplines emerged forcefully: molecular biology and information-communication theory.
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Cognitive paradoxes and brain design
January 8, 2024 Journal of Multiscale Neuroscience, v.3, n.1, p.36-52
It is generally agreed amongst philosophers and neuroscientists that the main obstacle between the science of the brain and the conscious nature of the mind is rooted in an objective-subjective dichotomy.