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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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Predictions for the Guppy from the Engineering/Design Model
May 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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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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Enuma Elish: Did It Influence Genesis 1?
May 7, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Does Genesis share a Mesopotamian worldview?
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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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Are Guppies Examples of Darwinian Macroevolution?
May 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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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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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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Lay Science Reporters Perpetuate Evolutionary Myths
May 6, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Myths are homologous by common descent of mutations in logic. Or is that by design?
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Two Measures of Intelligent Design’s Advance
May 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Peer-Reviewed Publications and ID 3.0
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C. S. Lewis on the Unique Gullibility of the Elites, and More
May 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
John West in Conversation with Eric Metaxas
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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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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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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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Key events in the Bible, such as the settlement and destruction of Jerusalem, 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 ancient city.
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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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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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New theory of gravity solves accelerating universe
May 3, 2024 iai News
Massive Gravity and the end of dark energy
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A Wonderful Debate About “Junk DNA”
May 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Casey Luskin Versus Dan Stern Cardinale
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Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent
May 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan
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Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by squeezing geysers
May 3, 2024 New Scientist
Simulations of the crust of early Earth show that cycles of pressure caused by geysers or tidal forces could have generated cell-like structures and even very simple proteins
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Dark energy is tearing the Universe apart. What if the force is weakening?
May 3, 2024 Nature
The first set of results from a pioneering cosmic-mapping project hints that the repulsive force known as dark energy has changed over 11 billion years, which would alter ideas about how the Universe has evolved and what its future will be.
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Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion
May 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha
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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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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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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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Can Consciousness be Non-Biological?
May 2, 2024 YouTube
If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experience as humans can be generated by non-biological entities (eventually).
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Darwin meets Dickinson
May 2, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6695, p.516
The biologist and the poet shared deep sensibilities about the natural world
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Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first
May 2, 2024 CNN
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented.
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Unravelling life’s origin: five key breakthroughs from the past five years
May 2, 2024 The Conversation
There is still so much we don’t understand about the origin of life on Earth.
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Orangutan treats wound with pain-relieving plant
May 2, 2024 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Researchers observe a wild orangutan applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal
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Webb telescope probably didn’t find life on an exoplanet -- yet
May 2, 2024 University of California, Riverside
Claims of biosignature gas detection were premature
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Face of Female Neanderthal Revealed
May 2, 2024 Real Clear Science
A new Netflix documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan
May 2, 2024 Scientific Reports, v.14
Although self-medication in non-human animals is often difficult to document systematically due to the difficulty of predicting its occurrence, there is widespread evidence of such behaviors
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Endosymbiosis Under the Microscope
May 2, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Do microbes get married and become one? Is this an example of evolution?
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Was a Key to Photosynthesis Evolution Discovered?
May 2, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness
May 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Being a Bat
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“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives
May 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Some Key Quotes
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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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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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Does Quantum Mechanics Imply Multiple Universes?
May 1, 2024 YouTube
Dive into the deepest quantum mystery: how do we transition from a haze of possibilities to the concrete reality we experience? Does the answer require a profusion of universes, each shaped by different quantum outcomes?
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A shocking beginning to star formation
May, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.5, p.36-42
The birth of stars is tightly entangled with interstellar shocks, which makes shocked regions a paradise for astrochemistry.
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The real butterfly effect and maggoty apples
May, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.5, p.30-35
Even though the Navier-Stokes equations are deterministic, it seems that you cannot make predictions beyond a fixed time horizon, no matter how small the initial uncertainty.
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Casey Luskin Versus Rutgers Biologist Dan Cardinale
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Debate: Thursday, May 2
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Here’s a List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting)
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Another Call for a “New Synthesis”
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today