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• The Search for the Universal Algorithm Continues

  October 18, 2021 Jonathan Bartlett Mind Matters

  Why does machine learning always seem to be rounding a corner, only to eventually hit a wall?

• The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration

  October 18, 2021 John G. West Evolution News & Science Today

• Is Evil in the World Simply the Absence of Good?

  October 17, 2021 Mind Matters

  Christian Michael Egnor argues for that view. Then he and atheist Matt Dillahunty clash over whether a cause can be outside of time

• There Is No Such Thing As a Fossil Mind

  October 17, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A chapter on evolutionary psychology in Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith (2021) looks at the curious discipline of evolutionary psychology

• Christian Egnor and Atheist Dillahunty Now Take Questions ...

  October 17, 2021 Mind Matters

  For example, “What is Mr. Egnor’s best evidence of any god that would make me believe?”

• Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is it ethical?

  October 17, 2021 Philip Ball The Guardian

  The first child born using the technique arrived last year. But can it really help reduce diseases in a new generation, or is it ‘techno-eugenics’?

• Bone Wonders Celebrated

  October 17, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Illustra Media’s newest short film is a masterpiece of animation and design evidence in the human body

• “Junk DNA” Is Expressed Differently in Chimps and Humans

  October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  and makes a difference in brain types

• Scripture Scholar John Oswalt Weighs in Critically on William Lane Craig’s Historical Adam

  October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Is Ethan Siegel’s Big Bang and Parallel Universes Nonsense a Response to Steve Meyer?

  October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Hank Hanegraff Interviews Neil Thomas

  October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  a skeptic who is skeptical of Darwin

• Just Announced: Strange Signals from the Galaxy's Center

  October 16, 2021 Mind Matters

  Astronomers: “The brightness of the object also varies dramatically, by a factor of 100, and the signal switches on and off apparently at random. We’ve never seen anything like it.”

• Physicist: Copernican Principle Doesn't Make Earth Insignificant

  October 16, 2021 Mind Matters

  That, Marcelo Gleiser says, is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science

• Reptiles Evolved, De-Evolved, Re-Evolved Teeth

  October 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Meet the springhare: the first glow-in-the-dark African mammal known to science

  October 16, 2021 Shakira Browne Massive Science

  Researchers discovered the springhare’s fluorescent abilities entirely by accident

• Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book

  October 16, 2021 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

  without mentioning him by name

• Michael Egnor Explains Why Matt Dillahunty Is Not an Atheist

  October 15, 2021 Mind Matters

  Not really, anyway, Egnor insists, because he keeps invoking a moral standard that can’t exist if materialist atheism is true

• GWT: A Leading Consciousness Theory Depends on Information Theory

  October 15, 2021 Mind Matters

  Not mechanism. If Global Workspace Theory (GWT) is a good approach to consciousness, there is no “consciousness spot” in the brain.

• Why are viruses considered non-living?

  October 15, 2021 Jake Port Cosmos Magazine

  Viruses lack many of the features that are considered signs of life.

• News Update/Commentary

  Plant-eating lizards on the cusp of tooth evolution

  October 15, 2021 University of Helsinki Science Daily

  Researchers found that complex teeth, a hallmark of mammals, also evolved several times in reptiles, prompting the evolutionary success of plant-eating lizards. However, contrary to mammals their tooth evolution was not unidirectional.

• Tan and Stadler’s Recent Book Tackles Claims of Life from the Lab

  October 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Finding Re Endangered Snakes Is the Opposite of Classic Theory

  October 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  plus some interesting snake evolution news

• Our brains have a “fingerprint” too

  October 15, 2021 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EurekAlert!

• Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?

  October 15, 2021 Avi Loeb Scientific American

  Developing quantum-gravity technologies may elevate us to a “class A” civilization, capable of creating a baby universe

• Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

  October 14, 2021 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

  October 14, 2021 Jonathan Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• Two Impacts, Not Just One, May Have Formed the Moon

  October 14, 2021 Asa Stahl Sky & Telescope

  The Moon may have formed in a one-two punch, new simulations suggest.

• How a mass extinction resulted in the rise of the snakes

  October 14, 2021 Doug Johnson ars technica

  The Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction saw a snake-splosion of biodiversity.

• What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?

  October 14, 2021 Josie Glausiusz sapiens

  Excavations at the site of 'Ubeidiya are at the heart of a debate about Homo erectus migrations, with profound implications for questions of human resilience and adaptability.

• Snakes started eating birds and mammals after dinosaurs went extinct

  October 14, 2021 Chen Ly New Scientist

• Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, and Scientists Don't Know Why

  October 14, 2021 Ed Browne Newsweek

• News Update/Commentary

  Big differences found in male and female jojoba plant sex genes

  October 14, 2021 University of Queensland Science Daily

  New research suggests male and female jojoba plants have diverged so much, that the jojoba plant has more novel sex genes than any other known living organism.

• Classifier of Life Forms Linnaeus Gets the Chop Due to Concerns About Racism

  October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• A 2010 Oxford U Press Book on “Unintelligent Design” Seems So Dated Now

  October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Another Shot in the Campaign Against the Big Bang

  October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Horrors! Our Stone Age Ancestors… SMOKED!!

  October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Nobel Prize Medicine Win Solves a Mystery in Hot, Cold Sensing

  October 13, 2021 Mind Matters

  Researchers discovered the exact path by which chili peppers feel “hot” and mints feel “cold” when the signals reach our brains.

• An Engineering Perspective on the Bacterial Flagellum: Part 3 -- Observations

  October 13, 2021 Waldean A. Schulz BIO-Complexity

• Surprise: the Big Bang isn’t the beginning of the universe anymore

  October 13, 2021 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we're not so sure.

• News Update/Commentary

  Primates’ ancestors may have left trees to survive asteroid

  October 13, 2021 Cornell University Science Daily

  When an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs not related to birds and three-quarters of life on Earth, early ancestors of primates and marsupials were among the only tree-dwelling (arboreal) mammals that survived, according to a new study.

• News Update/Commentary

  Genes and collective behavior

  October 13, 2021 University of Konstanz Science Daily

  The targeted manipulation of individual genes in zebrafish larvae changes their behavioral responses to visual stimuli and thus affects the collective behavior of the animals.

• News Update/Commentary

  Catching malaria evolution in the act

  October 13, 2021 Texas Biomedical Research Institute Science Daily

  Researchers can now detect brand new mutations in individual malaria parasites infecting humans. Such high resolution could help us understand how parasites develop drug resistance and evade immune responses, and suggest potential treatment targets.

• News Update/Commentary

  Did Venus ever have oceans?

  October 13, 2021 Université de Genève Science Daily

  Venus' thick CO2 atmosphere, extreme surface temperature and pressure, and sulphuric acid clouds are indeed a stark contrast to the conditions needed for life on Earth. This may, however, have not always been the case.

• Monkey Bias: New Science Uprising Episode Out Today at Noon!

  October 13, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Does Morality Really Exist? If So, Does It Come from God?

  October 13, 2021 Mind Matters

  Matt Dillahunty now challenges Michael Egnor: There is no way to know whether a moral doctrine represents any reality apart from belief

• Can Einstein’s forgotten theory of space solve the cosmology crisis?

  October 13, 2021 Paul M. Sutter New Scientist

  Decades ago, Einstein concocted a theory in which space doesn't just curve, but swirls like a cyclone. Now it is making a comeback because it could fix several of the biggest problems in cosmology

• Studies on Labrid Fish Confirm Operational Gravity Well Model for Adaptation

  October 13, 2021 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• Ethan Siegel Makes Another Paper Assault on the Big Bang

  October 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Science Uprising 8: Why Materialism Needs Ape Ancestors

  October 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Templeton Flirts with Finding Purpose in Biology

  October 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  but fully natural purpose!