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A Reader Asks: Is It True That There Is No Self?
February 25, 2021 Mind Matters
The assertion that self is an illusion is not even wrong -- it’s self-refuting, like saying “I don’t exist” or “Misery is green”
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Andrei Linde -- What Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Mean?
February 25, 2021 YouTube
That the universe is ‘fine-tuned' is generally not controversial -- the laws of physics have to be ‘just so' for anything we know, including ourselves, to exist. But why this is so and what this may mean is highly controversial.
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70,000 never-before-seen viruses found in the human gut
February 25, 2021 Live Science
These viruses invade gut bacteria, but what they do is still a mystery.
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Why Do Physicists Say a Multiverse Has To Exist?
February 25, 2021 Forbes
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We've finally figured out why there were no medium-sized dinosaurs
February 25, 2021 New Scientist
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Are Creationists Conspiracy Theorists?
February 25, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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The first organism to use oxygen may have appeared surprisingly early
February 25, 2021 Science
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Suzan Mazur Wonders What’s Got into Eugene Koonin and Dieter Braun
February 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Paleontologists discover new insect group after solving 150-year-old mystery
February 25, 2021 Science Daily
A research team uncovers how fossil dragonfly relatives have been misclassified due to their striking similarity
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Caterpillars Stifle Plants’ Chemical Warning Cries
February 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Science Reporting Is One of the Saddest Casualties of the Schools of Journalism
February 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Asteroid dust found in crater closes case of dinosaur extinction
February 24, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by finding a key piece of evidence: asteroid dust inside the impact crater.
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Can Insects, Bacteria, and Plants Have Personalities Too?
February 24, 2021 Mind Matters
If personality amounts to observed individual differences in behavior, the answer is yes, though the issues are more complex for plants
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How did dogs get to the Americas?
February 24, 2021 phys.org
An ancient bone fragment holds clues
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Scientists describe earliest primate fossils
February 24, 2021 University of Washington
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Where Are They, All Those Aliens?
February 24, 2021 YouTube
Most scientists assume that the universe must be populated with innumerable alien intelligences and civilizations -- after all, we humans can't be so special. OK, so where are they, these “innumerable alien intelligences and civilizations"?
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Questions Raised About How an Ancient Hominin Moved
February 24, 2021 The Scientist
A new analysis of the hand of the 4.4-million-year-old partial skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus indicates that the human ancestor may have climbed and swung through trees like chimpanzees do.
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Evolution of the Vertebrate Kidney Baffles Evolutionists
February 24, 2021 Answers in Genesis
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Pasteur Was Right: Abiogenesis Is Impossible
February 24, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Still trying to disprove Pasteur … and still failing! It is becoming more obvious that origin of life by purely natural processes cannot occur
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Evidence that Earth's first cells could have made specialized compartments
February 24, 2021 Science Daily
New research provides evidence that the “protocells" that formed around 3.8 billion years ago, before bacteria and single-celled organisms, could have had specialized bubble-like compartments that formed spontaneously
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Hitler Vindicated Because Darwin Was the Source of His Ideas
February 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Bones of Contention: A New Clue As to How Dogs Got to the Americas
February 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Eric Hedin Has a New Book Out
February 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent
That Ball State physicist whose ID course was cancelled
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Scientists capture the choreography of a developing brain
February 24, 2021 Science Daily
The formation of a brain is one of nature's most staggeringly complex accomplishments. The intricate intermingling of neurons and a labyrinth of connections also make it a particularly difficult feat for scientists to study.
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Why Do Researchers Wonder Whether Animals Have Personalities?
February 23, 2021 Mind Matters
Every friend of dogs, cats, or birds knows what some researchers struggle to prove. Let’s take a look at what they found
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When Amazon Erased My Book
February 23, 2021 First Things
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42,000-Year-Old Trees Enable Accurate Analysis of Earth’s Last Magnetic Field Reversal
February 23, 2021 SciTech Daily
Radiocarbon measurements on the remains of 42,000-year-old New Zealand kauri trees provide the basis for better calibration of geological archives of this period.
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Solving the Light Travel Time Problem
February 23, 2021 Answers in Genesis
An overview of the light travel time problem, how different biblical creationists have addressed it, and the dasha solution to the problem
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What Subduction Teaches About Intelligent Design
February 23, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Response to Terrell Clemmons on Darwinism
February 23, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Winston Ewert Discusses the Dependency Graph of Life
February 23, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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A memory without a brain
February 23, 2021 Science Daily
How a single cell slime mold makes smart decisions without a central nervous system
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Animals on the Ark
February 23, 2021 Creation Ministries International
A troubling conundrum for compromise views
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Microbes Travel the Globe
February 23, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The tiniest of life forms are able to traverse continental distances on wings of the wind.
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‘Jumping genes' repeatedly form new genes over evolution
February 22, 2021 Science Daily
A new study investigates how genetic elements called transposons, or ‘jumping genes,' are added into the mix during evolution to assemble new genes through exon shuffling.
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The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans and continents like here on Earth
February 22, 2021 Science Daily
According to a new study, Earth, Venus and Mars were created from small dust particles containing ice and carbon. The discovery opens up the possibility that the Milky Way may be filled with aquatic planets.
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Can a Person Believe in Both God and Darwinian Evolution?
February 22, 2021 Wintery Knight
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Can the laws of physics disprove God?
February 22, 2021 The Conversation
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Living Fossils: The Horseshoe Crab Story
February 22, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Living fossils continue to amaze and surprise scientists
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How Algae Do Fine When Tossed at Sea
February 22, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Answering Another Objection to Intelligent Design: “You Can’t Prove God Exists”
February 22, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Renowned Chemist James Tour’s Episodes 1-3 on Origin of Life
February 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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At Wall Street Journal: Science Needs Critics, Not Cheerleaders
February 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Astronomers: Maybe There Really Isn’t a Planet Nine
February 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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At Salvo: What Will Darwin’s Faithful Do As the Edifice Slowly Crumbles?
February 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How Walter Bradley Broke Down Campus Anti-Christian Prejudice
February 21, 2021 Mind Matters
Bradley has been a very successful mechanical engineering researcher but he has never lost sight of larger goals, such as religious freedom at universities
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Theoretical Physicist Argues, The Sim Universe Is Pseudoscience
February 21, 2021 Mind Matters
It’s a lot of fun in science fiction and some scitech celebs buy in. But Sabine Hossenfelder and others explain why it’s fiction
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A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture
February 21, 2021 Huixiang Voice
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Free Ratio Christi Online Conference on Science and Faith
February 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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New Paper by Steiner Thorvaldsen on Intelligent Design and Natural Theology
February 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent