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Jordan Peterson Blasts Academia after Paper Defending Merit Rejected for ‘Hurtfulness’
April 28, 2023 Daily Wire
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Peer-reviewed Paper
In Defense of Merit in Science
April 28, 2023 Journal of Controversial Ideas, v.3, n.1
Merit is a central pillar of liberal epistemology, humanism, and democracy. The scientific enterprise, built on merit, has proven effective in generating scientific and technological advances, reducing suffering, narrowing social gaps,
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Is Adam a Myth?
April 28, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
Creation.Live Podcast: Episode 12
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Exoplanets May Support Life in the Terminator Zone
April 28, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A new study finds that the intersection between a searing dayside and a freezing nightside could be habitable.
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The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous
April 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Remembering Dr. John Morris
April 28, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Scientists in India protest move to drop Darwinian evolution from textbooks
April 28, 2023 Science
Decision marks troubling rejection of science, critics say
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Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design
April 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
God, Time, and Creation Once More
April 28, 2023 Talbot School of Theology Faculty Blog
'Is the Cause of the Universe God? Troubles with Craig's Theory of God's Relationship to Time in the Kalam Cosmological Argument.' ... One of the paper's arguments seeks to point out that the notion of a timeless cause of time is self-contradictory:
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Evolutionists Hold Mammal Party
April 28, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists collate hundreds of mammal genomes to display the explanatory power of Darwin trees, but are some important questions being begged?
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News Update/Commentary
Information ‘deleted' from the human genome may be what made us human
April 27, 2023 Science Daily
What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history
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News Update/Commentary
How dormant bacteria come back to life
April 27, 2023 Science Daily
Research provides answers to long-standing mystery of bacterial spores, illuminating new paths for disease prevention
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Darwin Evangelist Preaches World Peace by Natural Selection
April 27, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
David Sloan Wilson is still at it, seeing evolution as a hammer and every human problem as a nail.
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The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit
April 27, 2023 Wall Street Journal
Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union’s height.
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We probably have big brains because we got lucky
April 27, 2023 Popular Science
Life makes mistakes. A major genetic study shows how some of those mistakes worked out well for humans.
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Why Schrödinger's Cat is still the most controversial thought experiment in science
April 27, 2023 BBC: Science Focus
Nearly a century after its formulation, the paradox remains hotly debated among researchers.
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The Lifesaving Sled Dog Balto Had Genes unlike Those of Dog Breeds Today
April 27, 2023 Scientific American
The genome of the 1920s Siberian husky Balto suggests that greater genetic diversity and less inbreeding contribute to better health
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Maths unlocks molecular interactions that open window to how life evolved
April 27, 2023 Queensland University of Technology
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Huge cache of mammal genomes offers fresh insights on human evolution
April 27, 2023 Nature
The Zoonomia Project is helping to pinpoint genes responsible for animal-brain size and for human disease.
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Our best models of the Universe have a troubled past
April 27, 2023 Big Think
How do physicists solve a problem like entropy?
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Timeline: The evolution of life
April 27, 2023 New Scientist
The story of evolution spans over 3 billion years and shows how microscopic single-celled organisms transformed Earth and gave rise to complex organisms like animals
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Here Is What We Mean by Intelligent Design (And What We Don’t)
April 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Seeing humans through an evolutionary lens
April 27, 2023 Science, v.380, n.6643, p.360-361
A collection of mammalian genomes provides insights into human biology and evolution
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From Alpacas to Yaks, Mammal DNA Yields Its Secrets
April 27, 2023 New York Times
The genomes of monkeys, bats, whales and many other mammals are helping scientists tackle big questions about physiology, evolution and one very famous sled dog.
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We’re Seeing the First Wave of Applied Transhumanism
April 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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One star being eaten by another will take revenge as a black hole
April 27, 2023 New Scientist
Astronomers have found one huge star eating another, but the smaller star is predicted to eventually become a black hole and go on to feed off its companion
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Video
Origin of Life: You Can't Trust Everything You Hear
April 26, 2023 YouTube
Many popular science expositors overstate the evidence for the natural, chemical origin of life and promote gross misinformation to the public on this topic. This video reviews popular claims made about the origin of life
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6 fascinating solutions to the ever-baffling “mind-body problem”
April 26, 2023 Big Think
How does the mind interact with the body? Nobody really knows -- but these philosophers ventured an answer.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event
April 26, 2023 Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
a single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic
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Black-hole image reveals details of turmoil around the abyss
April 26, 2023 Nature
Observations of galaxy M87 show how the black hole at its centre relates to a long-seen stream of superheated matter.
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How can we prove the world is really quantum mechanical?
April 26, 2023 New Scientist
A 2021 paper has got physicists discussing whether our inability to use classical physics to describe reality on a quantum scale is a human failing -- and what proof is necessary to show that the world really is quantum mechanical
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Hawking’s Final Theorem Does Not Produce a Viable Theory of Cosmic Origins
April 26, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The problem of being blinded by your conclusion, then attempting to build a case to support it.
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Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go
April 26, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
New Religious Movements and Science
April, 2023 Cambridge University Press
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Whatever happened to the theory of everything?
April 25, 2023 Symmetry magazine
A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go?
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Astronomers try to catch titanic black hole clashes in action
April 25, 2023 Science
Merging supermassive binaries could be revealed through variations in optical and radio emissions
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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
April 25, 2023 Nature
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
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How Rosalind Franklin was let down by DNA’s dysfunctional team
April 25, 2023 Nature, v.616, p.630
The story of how the structure of DNA was found is one of team science from which one member was unforgivably excluded.
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Examining Einstein’s key theory through the cosmic “yin-yang”
April 25, 2023 Big Think
Is our Universe standing still? The cosmic microwave background offers clues.
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News Update/Commentary
Astrophysicists reveal the nature of dark matter through the study of crinkles in spacetime
April 25, 2023 Science Daily
resolving an outstanding problem in astrophysics: why do models that adopt ultramassive Dark Matter particles fail to correctly predict the observed positions and the brightness of multiple images of the same galaxy created by gravitational lensing?
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Book
An Introduction to Positive Evolutionary Psychology
April, 2023 Cambridge University Press
Over the past few decades, evolutionary psychology has shed light on such features of the human experience as mating, love, religion, aggression, warfare, physical health, mental health, and more.
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Chemical factors induce aggregative multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of animals
April 24, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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‘Truly gobsmacked’: Ancient-human genome count surpasses 10,000
April 24, 2023 Nature
The majority of sequences come from people who lived in Western Eurasia, but samples from other regions are on the rise.
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JWST spots planetary building blocks in a surprising galaxy
April 24, 2023 Nature
Planets might be more common throughout the Universe than previously thought, suggest results from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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An evolutionary route to warning coloration
April 24, 2023 Nature
Bright colours that signal toxicity can deter predators, but how such colours initially evolve without first endangering conspicuous organisms is a contentious issue. Analysis of amphibians offers an answer to the puzzle.
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What was the universe's first second like? These particles can tell us
April 24, 2023 New Scientist
If we could detect them, cosmic neutrinos would paint a picture of the universe in the instant after it began. A physicist has come up with a plan to do just that
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Monkeys are smarter than we thought
April 24, 2023 EurekAlert!
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The Moon: Formed in Just Hours?
April 24, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Algae in Swedish lakes provide insights to how complex life on Earth developed
April 24, 2023 Science Daily
By studying green algae in Swedish lakes, a research team has succeeded in identifying which environmental conditions promote multicellularity. The results give us new clues to the amazing paths of evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
Mudskippers could be key to understanding evolution of blinking
April 24, 2023 Science Daily
How and why did blinking originate? Researchers have studied the mudskipper, an amphibious fish that spends most of its day on land, to better understand why blinking is a fundamental behavior for life on land.