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Stanford's Censorship: An Interview with Dr. Scott Atlas
May 8, 2024 Stanford Review
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Arts Major Cracks Hard Math Through Practice, Practice, Practice
May 10, 2024 Mind Matters
She became an engineering prof that way. The war on math is certainly not over but the warriors may be starting to find themselves on the back foot
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Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead?
May 9, 2024 The Conversation
There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests
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News Update/Commentary
New sex-determining mechanism in African butterfly discovered
May 9, 2024 Science Daily
In a study of a species of African butterfly, researchers have discovered a previously undescribed molecular mechanism of how the sex of an embryo is initially specified.
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News Update/Commentary
New Rhizobia-diatom symbiosis solves long-standing marine mystery
May 9, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean.
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News Update/Commentary
Chimps learn and improve tool-using skills even as adults
May 7, 2024 Science Daily
Prolonged learning capacity might be key to evolution of tool use in chimps and humans
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Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense
May 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Twisting Evidence Against Evolution into Evidence for Evolution
May 9, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Freed from serious critique by non-Darwinists, evolutionists can twist any data into support for their Darwinist ideology
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An Example of Chance and Necessity, or Programming?
May 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Antibiotic Resistance
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolvability predicts macroevolution under fluctuating selection
May 9, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6696, p.688-693
Macroevolution pertains to patterns over long time scales and change across diverged lineages. Microevolution, on the other hand, operates on ecological time scales and populations, and questions of local adaptation are often the focus.
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Long ago, a lake on Mars might have been sprawling with microbes
May 3, 2024 space.com
Curiosity discovered manganese oxide in bedrock in a Martian region that may have been a shoreline billions of years ago.
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A Laser Zapped the Rocks on Mars and Revealed a Long-Lost Water World
May 7, 2024 Popular Mechanics
Evidence suggests the Red Planet once mirrored Earth’s blue oceans.
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Consciousness came before life
May 8, 2024 iai News
The fundamental cause of evolution
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The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’
April 2, 2024 The Guardian
New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thought
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Did Homo Erectus Have Language, Build Boats, and Sail Across Oceans?
April 17, 2024 IFL Science
Humans may have had language for millions of years.
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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution
May 8, 2024 New Scientist
From large and shell-covered to tiny and jelly-like, the developmental story of eggs offers a way to rethink the story of life, says Jules Howard in his new book Infinite Life
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Ancient DNA traces family lines and political shifts in the Avar empire
April 24, 2024 Nature
Genetic pedigrees spanning nine generations uncover the social organization of a nomadic empire that dominated much of central and eastern Europe from the sixth to the early ninth century.
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‘Milestone’ discovery as JWST confirms atmosphere on an Earth-like exoplanet
May 8, 2024 Nature
55 Cancri e is too hot to support life as we know it, but could provide clues about Earth’s formation.
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Bursa: Not a Vestigial Organ
May 8, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A seemingly useless tissue was often surgically removed until it was found to be very important
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Puppy-dog eyes in wild canines sparks rethink on dog evolution
May 5, 2024 Nature
The eyebrows of the African wild dog have scientists wondering whether other dogs can make the irresistible ‘puppy-dog eyes’ expression.
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Assuming Design, Researchers Achieve a Breakthrough in Understanding Circulatory System
May 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Astounding: The Role of Motor Proteins in Cell Division
May 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can This Man PROVE That God Exists?
May 3, 2024 YouTube
Meyers firmly rejects the idea that a scientific worldview leads to atheism, arguing instead that ‘the universe requires a creator or cause’. Morgan and Meyers agree that the question of God’s existence is tied to more than just cold hard facts
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Proof of Consciousness
May 4, 2024 YouTube
What can we actually prove scientifically about consciousness? Is there any experiment we can do to come up with conclusive answers? Where does scientific inquiry meet the mysteries of human experience?
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Snowball Earth and Multiple Ice Ages?
May 3, 2024 YouTube
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
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What can DNA tell us about the truth of the Bible?
May 1, 2024 YouTube
With what we now know about DNA, can we trust that the biblical creation account is true? Could all of humanity have really come from two people? Where did the various races and ethnicities come from? What were the Neanderthals?
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Bonobos Are More, Not Less, Aggressive Than Chimps
May 7, 2024 Mind Matters
Tracking males of both types of ape every waking hour shattered the pop science “hippie ape” illusion
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Was Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?
May 5, 2024 Mind Matters
Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense
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Again with the ‘Plants Are Intelligent' Nonsense
May 5, 2024 Mind Matters
It seems to me that the ultimate point of these “plants are persons too”–type stories is to undermine human exceptionalism
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Can an Atheist Believe in Life After Death
May 5, 2024 Mind Matters
An atheist philosopher makes the case at Closer to Truth
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Blog Post
Why Specified Complexity is Key to Detecting Design
May 5, 2024
In plain English what specified complexity is and why it is able to detect design
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolution of new enzymes by gene duplication and divergence
April 6, 2020 Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Thousands of new metabolic and regulatory enzymes have evolved by gene duplication and divergence since the dawn of life.
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The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes
May 2, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could come down to how prokaryotic genomes respond to a small population size.
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News Update/Commentary
Did a magnetic field collapse trigger the emergence of animals?
May 3, 2024 Science Daily
Evidence suggests a weak magnetic field millions of years ago may have fueled the proliferation of life
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Key events in the Bible confirmed using radiocarbon dating
May 4, 2024 Live Science
The research combined radiocarbon dating with measurements of atmospheric radiocarbon from tree rings to build a chronology of the settlement and destruction of Jerusalem
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Reflections on punctuated equilibria
May 2, 2024 Paleobiology
It is a pleasure to be invited to contribute to the celebration of the publication of “punctuated equilibria” (“punk eek”) 50 years ago -- the canonical version I did with Steve Gould
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The time of appearance of the genetic code
March, 2024 BioSystems, v.237
I support the hypothesis that the origin of the genetic code occurred simultaneously with the evolution of cellularity. That is to say, I favour the hypothesis that the origin of the genetic code is a very, very late event in the history of life on Earth.
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What Counts as Consciousness
May 6, 2024 nautil.us
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
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Sperm Whale Clicks Could Hide a Surprisingly Complex ‘Alphabet'
May 8, 2024 Science Alert
Members of the conservation initiative Project CETI discovered series of clicks less than 2 seconds in length act as codas -- basic units (phonemes) of cetacean speech.
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Former Atheist Leader Shares Christianity with Richard Dawkins, and the Room Erupts
May 5, 2024 Red State
Originally from Somalia, Hirsi Ali left her home country in her early 20s and dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of women subjugated by Islam.
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Unscientific American
April, 2024 City Journal (New York)
Science journalism surrenders to progressive ideology.
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5 Things Science Cannot Explain (but Theism Can)
May 1, 2024 Crossway
The heart of scientism is the conviction that science can explain virtually everything. If there is not a valid scientific explanation for an event or state, then that is not properly an object of our knowledge.
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Was Alchemy Magic, Science, or Both?
May 1, 2024 Skeptical Inquirer
What if, rather than a bunch of mystical nonsense occupying an uncomfortable space between religion and science, alchemy deserves to be respected as having been a legitimate pursuit for knowledge
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Enuma Elish: Did It Influence Genesis 1?
May 7, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Does Genesis share a Mesopotamian worldview?
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Epistemic language in news headlines shapes readers’ perceptions of objectivity
May 6, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
We investigated how subtle differences in epistemic language in headlines (e.g., “believe” vs. “know“) affect readers’ inferences about whether claims are perceived as matters of fact or mere opinion.
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New theory of gravity solves accelerating universe
May 3, 2024 iai News
Massive Gravity and the end of dark energy
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Evolution as a Theological Research Program
August 30, 2021 Religions, v.12, n.9
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution interacted with non-empirical factors including a range of theological concerns. The influence of these theological concerns is typically modeled as secondary to that of empirical evidence.
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Could alien life be hiding in the rings of Saturn or Jupiter?
May 7, 2024 space.com
"I like the idea of thinking about creative places where life could be."
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Genetic code of life is a developing story
May 2, 2024 Irish TImes
The near-universality of the DNA code is convincing evidence modern life traces back to a single ancestor
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Bird tracks before birds existed?
April, 2024 Creation Ministries International