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• Are Sokal Hoaxes Really Helping Reform Science?

  December 2, 2021 Jonathan Bartlett Mind Matters

  The evidence is mixed. The current prank on Higher Education Quarterly prompts some questions

• Mammalian Embryos Might Not Need Primitive Streaks After All

  December 2, 2021 Dan Robitzski The Scientist

  The primitive streak, a structure that emerges during mammalian and avian gastrulation, might be a byproduct rather than a landmark of the embryonic development process.

• “Xenobot” Living Robots Can Reproduce

  December 2, 2021 Chloe Tenn The Scientist

  Biological robots made from frog cells can replicate by smooshing loose cells into new robots -- a reproduction method not seen in any other organism.

• Even more Laetoli prints -- but different!

  December 2, 2021 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

• Why most modern humans possess Neanderthal DNA

  December 2, 2021 Beth Shapiro Big Think

  Today, every Homo species is extinct besides humans. But one of our close evolutionary relatives still lives on in our DNA.

• The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet

  December 2, 2021 Jeffrey H. Schwartz Sapiens

  One anthropologist contends that far too many species have been lumped into one category: Our story is more complicated, he argues.

• Darwinists Twist Causation

  December 2, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Philosophers know that correlation is not causation. Darwinists routinely forget that.

• Why Is the Omicron COVID-19 Virus So Weird?

  December 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Ultra-Conserved Elements: New Paper, Same Old Results

  December 2, 2021 Cornelius Hunter Evolution News & Science Today

• Woke Atheist Rejects the New Atheists -- Not Woke Enough

  December 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Evolutionary Psychology: When We Looked In, No One Was There ...

  December 2, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Evo psych likely got started when psychologists wanted to get in on illuminating findings in evolution, like the Cambrian Explosion

• An Archaeological Dig Reignites the Debate Over the Old Testament’s Historical Accuracy

  December, 2021 Matti Friedman Smithsonian Magazine

  Beneath a desert in Israel, a scholar and his team are unearthing astonishing new evidence of an advanced society in the time of the biblical Solomon

• Is the Age of the Living, Self-Replicating Robot at Hand? No.

  December 1, 2021 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  Stem cells naturally reproduce themselves. The researchers working with frog stem cells merely found, via algorithms, one configuration that works better

• Stones smashed by horses can be mistaken for ancient human tools

  December 1, 2021 Graham Lawton New Scientist

  Horses kick and stamp on rocks to keep their hooves in good shape, and archaeologists have now realised this can result in a collection of sharp stones that look like the work of an ancient human toolmaker

• Video

  How Can the Church Handle Dissenting Views on Adam?

  December 1, 2021 Apologetics 315

  Dr. Craig discusses the importance of the Church’s response to various biblical perspectives on the historical Adam and Eve.

• Iron Law of Complexity: Complexity Adds But Its Problems Multiply

  December 1, 2021 Mind Matters

  That’s why more complexity doesn’t mean more things will go right; without planning, it means the exact opposite. The math is scary

• A “Theory of Everything” doesn’t make sense

  December 1, 2021 Marcelo Gleiser Big Think

  No matter how hard we try, we will never reach a final theory that unifies scientific knowledge. The very nature of science doesn't allow it.

• Deep learning dreams up new protein structures

  December 1, 2021 contact: Leila Gray University of Washington, School of Medicine

  A neural network trained exclusively to predict protein shapes can also generate new ones.

• A new species of early human?

  December 1, 2021 Matthew Robert Bennett and Sally Christine Reynolds The Conversation

  Why we should be cautious about new fossil footprint findings

• Is our solar system a cosmic oddity? Evidence from exoplanets says yes

  December 1, 2021 Stuart Clark New Scientist

  When we started finding planetary systems around other stars we thought many of them would be like ours. We’ve now found hundreds -- and it’s so far, so wrong

• New species of armoured dinosaur had a tail shaped like a fern frond

  December 1, 2021 Chen Ly New Scientist

  Stegouros elengassen, unearthed in Chile, had a strange flattened tail that looked like a fern frond -- a feature never seen before in an ankylosaur dinosaur

• Can Genetic Mutations Be Purged from the Genome?

  December 1, 2021 Harry F. Sanders, III Answers in Genesis

  How mutations could be removed from a genome through inbreeding, though the original integrity could not be restored in reality or in an evolutionary paradigm.

• Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style

  December 1, 2021 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  A set of 3.7-million-year-old footprints were initially thought to have been left by a bear walking upright, but have now been reinterpreted as the prints of an unidentified hominin that walked a little bit like a modern catwalk fashion model

• Horses Make Stone Tools

  December 1, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Animals can make stone tools not to use them as tools, but for fooling paleoanthropologists

• News Update/Commentary

  Footprints from site a at Laetoli, Tanzania, are from early humans, not bears

  December 1, 2021 Dartmouth College Science Daily

  Findings provide conclusive evidence that multiple species of hominins co-existed on the landscape

• Science Journal Editor Warns, Humans Are Going Extinct

  December 1, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Video

  Challenge to Origin of Life: Biopolymers (Long Story Short, Ep. 5)

  November 30, 2021 Discovery Science YouTube

  We’re often told that origin of life experiments have simulated the production of life’s building blocks under conditions that mimicked the early earth. Or at least that’s what many textbooks say. But is this really true?

• Would Cognition in Bacteria “Dethrone" Humans?

  November 30, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A cognition researcher’s approach to the question helps account for the growing popularity of panpsychism -- as an alternative

• For Ants, Building a Bridge Is No “Simple" Task

  November 30, 2021 Richard W. Stevens Mind Matters

  There is nothing “simple” about designing neural systems and the computer systems to receive and interpret neural sensory inputs

• Why we can’t travel back in time?

  November 30, 2021 Paul Sutter ars technica

  If the inability to time travel were a fundamental part of our Universe, you’d expect equally fundamental physics behind that rule.

• Another ‘Sokal’ Hoax?

  November 30, 2021 Eric Kelderman The Chronicle of Higher Education

  the latest imitation calls an academic journal’s integrity into question

• Biblical Creation and Intellectual Foolishness

  November 30, 2021 Jake Hebert Institute for Creation Research

• Dragon Man Upsets the Textbooks on Human Evolution

  November 30, 2021 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  For the third time in 2020-2021, books about human evolution must be rewritten. Not so fast! Major problems exist with the Homo longi fossil.

• The Oceans Point to a Young Earth

  November 30, 2021 Jeffrey P. Tomkins and Tim Clarey Institute for Creation Research

• Early Land Plant Evolution?

  November 30, 2021 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Two New Papers Support Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

  November 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Rocky Exoplanets Turn Out To Feature Exotic Rocks

  November 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

  November 30, 2021 Henry Gee Scientific American

  Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse

• News Update/Commentary

  Ancient lineage of algae found to include five ‘cryptic' species

  November 30, 2021 University of Göttingen Science Daily

  All land plants originated from a single evolutionary event when freshwater algae got a foothold on land. The group of algae that would later give rise to land plants had already been living in freshwater and terrestrial habitats for over one b.y.

• Give Parents a Say in Education? Imagine That!

  November 30, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Ants Do Trigonometry: A Problem for Darwinism

  November 30, 2021 Eric Cassell Evolution News & Science Today

• Identity Politics Is Taking Over Astronomy

  November 30, 2021 Ian Oxnevad Real Clear Science

• Blog Post

  Latest Academic Hoax Is a Doozy

  November 29, 2021 Steven Hayward PowerLine

• Why Panspychism Is Starting to Push Out Naturalism

  November 29, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A key goal of naturalism/materialism has been to explain human consciousness away as “nothing but a pack of neurons.” That can’t work

• Trust in science and scientists grows amid pandemic

  November 29, 2021 Joseph Choi The Hill

• Spiders Have Built-In Algorithm to Construct Webs

  November 29, 2021 Jeffrey P. Tomkins Institute for Creation Research

• Darwin-Free Science Is Possible

  November 29, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Scientists can just report the evidence without evolutionary stories. Here’s a good example and a bad example.

• When AI fails, the Results Are Sometimes Amusing. Sometimes Not.

  November 29, 2021 Mind Matters

  Robert J. Marks, Justin Bui, and Samuel Haug examine five instances where AI went wrong, sometimes on the world stage

• Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago

  November 29, 2021 Clare Wilson New Scientist

  The extra-large, dagger-like canine teeth seen in male great apes have been missing from human ancestors for at least 4.5 million years -- possibly because females opted for less aggressive partners

• Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind

  November 29, 2021 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  Evidence from asteroids shows that charged particles from the sun can turn dust grains into water -- a process that could be useful for space exploration too