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Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America
March 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers Ask -- Serious Question -- Do Crabs Have Emotions?
March 25, 2022 Mind Matters
Recent research has created some unexpected ethical problems for the seafood industry
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Imaging Studies Fail Badly at Linking Brain and Behavior
March 25, 2022 Mind Matters
Aha! news stories about what brain imaging reveals about human behavior are probably based on studies whose findings would not be confirmed by further research.
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Memory Leans More on the Brain's Electric Field Than on Neurons
March 25, 2022 Mind Matters
MIT researchers compare the electric field to an orchestra conducting the neurons as players
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Lost genes may help explain how vampire bats survive on blood alone
March 25, 2022 Science News
Existing on a blood-only diet is something no other mammal can do
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5,000 Known Exoplanets and Counting
March 25, 2022 Answers in Genesis
The 5,000 known exoplanets are a problem for evolution because they defy naturalistic origins.
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Virus Alters Caterpillars’ Vision to Trick Them into Climbing
March 25, 2022 The Scientist
A study finds that a baculovirus that infects cotton bollworm larvae changes the expression of genes involved in light perception, driving them to seek heights that could favor viral transmission.
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New fossil proves turtle evolution … or does it?
March 25, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Ostrich necks act as a radiator to control their head temperature
March 25, 2022 New Scientist
Infrared images of ostrich necks show that they help the birds keep their heads cool in warm temperatures, lowering their heat stress and helping them reproduce more successfully
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Vampire bats adapted to drinking blood by shedding several genes
March 25, 2022 New Scientist
Genes lost during vampire bats’ evolution may have helped them to adapt to their exclusive blood diet which is high in iron and fluid and low in calories
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Is Intelligent Design advancing or in retreat? Casey Luskin & Adam Shapiro
March 25, 2022 YouTube
Casey Luskin argues that the Intelligent Design movement has never been stronger. Science historian Adam Shapiro responds.
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The Logic of Design Detection
March 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwinism and the “So What?” Question
March 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
John West’s Darwin Day in America
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A Whole New Family of Helpful Proteins Discovered in the Lung
March 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Imagine That!
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Traced: Human DNA's Big Surprise
March 25, 2022 YouTube
What happened to the ancient Egyptians? The Persians? The Romans? The Mayans? Are we their descendants? Recent genetic research uncovered surprising links between us and the peoples of old -- links that rewrite race, ethnicity and human history.
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Why Are “Skeptics” the Most Gullible People Around?
March 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Sponging on Fossils for Evolution
March 25, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
They’re not sponges. They’re just minerals. They didn’t evolve. They don’t help Darwin.
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News Update/Commentary
Stem cell secrets allow researchers to revamp reprogramming
March 25, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have identified factors required to generate naïve stem cells by reprogramming
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Scientists Tarred in Maori “Ways of Knowing” Uproar Resign from New Zealand’s Royal Society
March 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Do Poor Science Career Prospects Contribute to Far Out Theory and Cancel Culture?
March 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Universities?
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Ancient Hebrew curse tablet found by Katy archaeologist
March 24, 2022 Houston Chronicle
could be proof of older Bible timeline
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Are Birds Really Smarter Than Reptiles?
March 24, 2022 Mind Matters
Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…?
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Review of William Lane Craig’s ‘In Quest for the Historical Adam’
March 24, 2022 YouTube
In the last few years, apologist William Lane Craig has attacked biblical (‘young earth’) creation. However, he is not enamoured with many of the other compromise views.
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Opinion: Universities Are Failing the Next Generation of Scientists
March 24, 2022 undark.org
In a tight academic job market, graduate schools owe it to students to be transparent about their career prospects.
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Scientists develop the largest, most detailed model of the early universe to date
March 24, 2022 MIT News
Named after a goddess of the dawn, the Thesan simulation of the first billion years helps explain how radiation shaped the early universe.
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Time Inflation: Evolutionists Hide Miracles in Millions of Years
March 24, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Impossible changes in evolution get funded with reckless drafts on the bank of time.
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Undisclosed industry payments rampant in drug-trial papers
March 24, 2022 Nature
A quarter of medical researchers involved in clinical trials in Australia did not declare funding from pharmaceutical companies.
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Life as we know it would not exist without this highly unusual number
March 24, 2022 space.com
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Boa constrictors move ribs to avoid suffocating when they kill prey
March 24, 2022 New Scientist
The boa constrictor has developed a way to control air movement in its lungs using ribs in the lower part of its body, so it can breathe while it squeezes the life out of its prey
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Yale’s Steven Novella Falls for Origin-of-Life Hype
March 24, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Debate: “Is Intelligent Design Advancing?”
March 24, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Do Galaxies Retain a Memory of the Entire Universe?
March 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Fine Tuning of the Universe
March 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
“Who Ya Gonna Believe Me or Your Own Eyes?”
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Archaeologist claims to find oldest Hebrew text in Israel, including the name of God
March 24, 2022 The Times of Israel
Scholars date tiny ‘curse tablet,’ found at Mt. Ebal, to 1200 BCE -- which would prove Israelites were literate when they entered Holy Land; but findings have not been peer-reviewed
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News Update/Commentary
Once called cellular debris, tiny bubbles may play key role in understanding, treating diseases
March 24, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers used roundworms to discover extracellular vesicles carry RNA-binding proteins
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Popular male dolphins produce more offspring
March 24, 2022 Science Daily
The reproductive success of male dolphins is not determined by strength or age, but via social bonds with other males.
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Sounding off on evolution
March 24, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Did sound production and hearing evolve?
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Do octopuses, squid and crabs have emotions?
March 24, 2022 Science Daily
Octopuses can solve complex puzzles and show a preference for different individuals, but whether they, and other animals and invertebrates, have emotions is being hotly debated and could shake up humans' moral decision-making
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Mechanism that underlies local dopamine release in the brain
March 24, 2022 Science Daily
The research, conducted in mice, shows that another chemical messenger called acetylcholine can trigger the firing of dopamine neurons by binding to a part of these neurons not previously known to initiate firing.
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New Use for “Junk DNA”: Controlling Fear
March 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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So Why Aren’t the RNA OOL Researchers in the Running for the Nobel Prize?
March 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
OOL = Origin of Life
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What Can We Learn About the Universe from Just One Galaxy?
March 23, 2022 The New Yorker
In new research, begun by an undergraduate, William Blake’s phrase “to see a world in a grain of sand” is suddenly relevant to astrophysics.
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Why This Atheist Scientist Became a Believing Christian
March 23, 2022 YouTube
Dr. Sy Garte is a retired biochemist. For most of his life, he was an unbelieving atheist. In this interview, he details his journey from being an atheist scientist to a believing Christian.
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How the gut communicates with the brain
March 23, 2022 Science Daily
New research has discovered how the enteric nervous system -- or ‘second brain' -- can communicate with both the brain and spinal cord, which up until now had remained a major mystery.
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Facts Cannot be Ignored When Considering the Origin of Life #3
March 23, 2022 Answers Research Journal, v.15, p.49-58
Necessity of Matching the Coding and the Decoding Systems
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Computer Prof: We Can't Give Machines Understanding of the World
March 23, 2022 Mind Matters
Not now, anyway. Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute finds that ever larger computers are learning to sound more sophisticated but have no intrinsic knowledge
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Stan the T. rex found! World’s most expensive fossil finds home in a new museum
March 23, 2022 National Geographic
Mystery shrouded the dinosaur’s future after an anonymous buyer paid $31.8 million in 2020. Now Abu Dhabi confirms a new museum will house the prized skeleton.
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Facts Cannot Be Ignored When Considering the Origin of Life #2
March 23, 2022 Answers Research Journal
Challenges in Generating the First Gene-encoding Template DNA or RNA
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Modern animal life could have origins in delta
March 23, 2022 phys.org
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How language evolved: A new idea suggests it’s all just a game
March 23, 2022 New Scientist
Our mastery of language presents many mysteries, not least where grammar comes from and how children learn to speak so effortlessly. Now researchers argue that it all makes sense if you think of language as a game of charades