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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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Peer-reviewed Paper
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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Peer-reviewed Paper
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.
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Could Earth Life Survive on a Red Dwarf Planet?
March 15, 2024 Universe Today
Scientists can only make educated guesses about which exoplanets may be habitable. Even the closest exoplanet is four light-years away, and though four is a small integer, the distance is enormous.
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How did matter come to exist in our Universe?
March 15, 2024 Big Think
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
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Rapidly Dividing Bacteria Coordinate Gene Expression and Replication
March 15, 2024 The Scientist
E. coli divides faster than it can replicate its genome, while simultaneously expressing its genes. Scientists recently revealed the intricate molecular coordination that makes this possible.
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News Update/Commentary
New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter
March 15, 2024 Science Daily
A new study challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, in fact, it has no room for dark matter.
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Single mathematical model governs primate brain shape across species
March 15, 2024 New Scientist
An analysis of primate brains shows that the pattern of folds on the surface follows the same mathematical pattern across species
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Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics
March 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos
March 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Atheism’s Four Horsemen -- Where Are They Now?
March 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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West Virginia Passes Bill Protecting Teacher Rights to Answer Student Questions on “Scientific Theories”
March 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Philosophy of Free Will
March 15, 2024 YouTube
Free will is a classic and perennial problem in philosophy. It is a probe of profound issues of how the world works as well as how the mind works. What are the primary issues of free will? What are the opposing views? Can philosophical analysis help?
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Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution
March 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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The unselfish gene: a challenge to Richard Dawkins
March 14, 2024 YouTube
Denis Noble takes on Richard Dawkins on the causality of change in genetics. Do genes control the organism or does the organism control its genes? Can organisms change their DNA?
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Fine-Tuning of Universe Makes a Top Neuroscientist “Very Hopeful"
March 14, 2024 Mind Matters
Allen Institute’s Christof Koch talks about the assumptions underlying his consciousness theory -- which led many other neuroscientists to try to Cancel him
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Healthy Debate? No Thanks, Says National Association of Biology Teachers
March 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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At Chronicle of Higher Ed: Critical Thinking Isn't Just Chat
March 13, 2024 Mind Matters
Gary Smith and Jeffrey Funk test Big Tech’s chatbots for critical thinking skills before an academic audience -- with sobering but often hilarious results
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Is Our World, Post-1950, Really a Geological Epoch?
March 13, 2024 Mind Matters
Some earth scientists lobby for calling the past 75 years the Anthropocene epoch, giving it equal importance with the 16-million-year Upper Jurassic
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Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
March 13, 2024 YouTube
If the question is “What brought all into existence?” the answer is “Consciousness”. Some say this is a ‘cosmic consciousness’ of which our personal consciousness is a small part. Others believe that the ultimate consciousness is God.
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In search of sentience
March 14, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6688, p.1186
A provocative proposition paves the way for a long-overdue conversation about consciousness | See Also Amazon
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The humiliating truth behind Harvard astronomer’s “alien” spherules
March 13, 2024 Big Think
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here's the sober truth.
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‘Monumental’ experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started
March 9, 2024 Portland Press Herald
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Our solar system's ocean moons may be habitable -- and their icy shells could hold proof
March 5, 2024 space.com
Scientists think a process observed in Antarctic ice shelves must be at play on Europa and Enceladus.
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We May Have “Misunderstood the Universe," Nobel Prize Winner Says
March 13, 2024 Futurism (The Byte)