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News Update/Commentary
Scientists gain new understanding of how brain cells talk -- which could help in the treatment of mental health conditions and memory diseases
October 19, 2021 Science Daily
Experts have discovered that reversing the modification of molecular messages at synapses in the human brain, may contribute to reversible mental health conditions such as anxiety, and memory diseases such as dementia.
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Attempt to Explain Away the Beginning of the Universe Fails to Distinguish Imagination from Reality
October 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Listen, or Watch: West and McLean on Science, C. S. Lewis’s Journey, and More
October 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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There Is No Such Thing as a Fossil Mind
October 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Response to the View That Evil Is the Absence of Good
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Here’s More on Canceled Prof Dorian Abbot’s Talk on Climate and Exoplanets -- Thursday
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Here’s a Lay-Friendly Explanation of the Critical Role “Junk DNA” Plays in Mammalian Development
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Physicist Reflects on Claims That the Universe Had No Beginning
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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And Now … Transposable Elements (Junk DNA) Shape the Evolution of Mammalian Development
October 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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So-called junk DNA plays critical role in mammalian development
October 18, 2021 Berkeley News
Viral elements called transposons have invaded mammalian genomes for millions of years and currently make up nearly half the DNA in the genomes of all living mammals.
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Understanding Science
October 18, 2021 Answers in Genesis
What forensics can teach us about our origins
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New Research Suggests Human-Like Footprints in Crete Date to 6.05 Million Years Ago
October 18, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine
The findings could upend scientists’ understanding of human evolution -- but the paper has proven controversial
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Mice that Survive Infection Pass on Stronger Immunity
October 18, 2021 The Scientist
Offspring of animals subjected to a real or simulated pathogen were more able to fend off disease, a study finds.
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More Research Undermines Climate Consensus
October 18, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What’s at stake is a threat of punishing all humans (except elitists) around the globe for what may be a natural phenomenon.
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The Search for the Universal Algorithm Continues
October 18, 2021 Mind Matters
Why does machine learning always seem to be rounding a corner, only to eventually hit a wall?
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News Update/Commentary
Mammalian motivation circuits: Maybe they’re born with it
October 18, 2021 Science Daily
Are animals born to seek rewards or avoid punishment? Researchers found that mice have pre-programmed neurons and circuits that process ‘positive' and ‘negative' stimuli.
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The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration
October 18, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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John West on the Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model of Science and Faith
October 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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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
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There Is No Such Thing As a Fossil Mind
October 17, 2021 Mind Matters
A chapter on evolutionary psychology in Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith (2021) looks at the curious discipline of evolutionary psychology
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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?”
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Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is it ethical?
October 17, 2021 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’?
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Bone Wonders Celebrated
October 17, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Illustra Media’s newest short film is a masterpiece of animation and design evidence in the human body
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“Junk DNA” Is Expressed Differently in Chimps and Humans
October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
and makes a difference in brain types
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Scripture Scholar John Oswalt Weighs in Critically on William Lane Craig’s Historical Adam
October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Is Ethan Siegel’s Big Bang and Parallel Universes Nonsense a Response to Steve Meyer?
October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Hank Hanegraff Interviews Neil Thomas
October 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
a skeptic who is skeptical of Darwin
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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.”
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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
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Reptiles Evolved, De-Evolved, Re-Evolved Teeth
October 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Meet the springhare: the first glow-in-the-dark African mammal known to science
October 16, 2021 Massive Science
Researchers discovered the springhare’s fluorescent abilities entirely by accident
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Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book
October 16, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
without mentioning him by name
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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
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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.
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Why are viruses considered non-living?
October 15, 2021 Cosmos Magazine
Viruses lack many of the features that are considered signs of life.
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News Update/Commentary
Plant-eating lizards on the cusp of tooth evolution
October 15, 2021 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.
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Tan and Stadler’s Recent Book Tackles Claims of Life from the Lab
October 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Finding Re Endangered Snakes Is the Opposite of Classic Theory
October 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
plus some interesting snake evolution news
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Our brains have a “fingerprint” too
October 15, 2021 EurekAlert!
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Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?
October 15, 2021 Scientific American
Developing quantum-gravity technologies may elevate us to a “class A” civilization, capable of creating a baby universe
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Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3
October 15, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation
October 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It
October 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Two Impacts, Not Just One, May Have Formed the Moon
October 14, 2021 Sky & Telescope
The Moon may have formed in a one-two punch, new simulations suggest.
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Melissa Cain Travis: Explaining the Uncanny “Cosmic Resonance” of Mathematics
October 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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How a mass extinction resulted in the rise of the snakes
October 14, 2021 ars technica
The Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction saw a snake-splosion of biodiversity.
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What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?
October 14, 2021 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.
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Snakes started eating birds and mammals after dinosaurs went extinct
October 14, 2021 New Scientist
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Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, and Scientists Don't Know Why
October 14, 2021 Newsweek
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News Update/Commentary
Big differences found in male and female jojoba plant sex genes
October 14, 2021 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.