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Your Nose Smells in Stereo
November 7, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientific understanding of olfactory information content reaching the brain has just doubled
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Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually?
November 7, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not
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Robert Sapolsky is Wrong
November 6, 2023 Quillette
A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case.
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How to keep wildcats wild: ancient DNA offers fresh insights
November 6, 2023 Nature
Ancient-genomics studies are boosting efforts to save Scotland’s endangered ‘Highland tigers’ -- and keep them separate from domestic cats.
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Giant black hole is one of the earliest ever seen -- with clues for how these weird objects form
November 6, 2023 Nature
Data from the James Webb and Chandra space telescopes reveal a massive object in a galaxy that formed less than half a billion years after the Big Bang.
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The mind-body problem is ruining our health
November 6, 2023 iai News
Medicine’s Cartesian struggles
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The Moon Is Even Older Than Scientists Thought
November 6, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
How did the Moon form and how old is it? The most precise dating yet of Earth’s largest satellite found that it is much older than previously thought.
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Crabs evolved to live away from the ocean up to 17 different times
November 6, 2023 New Scientist
Unlike most other animal groups that left the sea behind, crabs have done it many times throughout their evolutionary history -- and some crab lineages have even reversed course back to the ocean
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How big is science’s fake-paper problem?
November 6, 2023 Nature
An unpublished analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature.
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Speciation Is Not Evolution
November 6, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Clearing up the misconceptions between species and biblical kinds
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Salty Sweat in a Desert Plant
November 6, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Deep Time Leads to Absurd Conclusion
November 6, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The circularity of assuming Darwinism and deep time slams headlong against logic
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Is Intelligent Design Compatible with Evolutionary Theory?
November 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
A Theologian Weighs In
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The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart
November 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Frogs were Florida's first-known vertebrates from the Caribbean
November 6, 2023 Science Daily
A new fossil study shows that frogs from the genus Eleutherodactylus are geologically the oldest Caribbean vertebrates to be found in Florida. They made the journey 20 million years ago, when much of Florida was still underwater.
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“Why I Went to WAR with Stephen Hawking!” Leonard Susskind
November 5, 2023 YouTube
What's really going on in a black hole? Why are there so many theories of everything? Did Leonard Susskind, one of the fathers of string theory, ever feel like an impostor? And why did he fight with Stephen Hawking?
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Blog Post
Free Will and the Sapolsky Paradox
November 5, 2023
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A Guide to the James Webb Telescope's View of the Universe
November 5, 2023 New York Times
The James Webb telescope is a giant leap in the history of stargazing.
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Can Evolution Create Free Will? A Neurologist Says Yes
November 5, 2023 Mind Matters
Could the impersonal natural force of evolution shape hierarchies in the human cerebral cortex so that we have the free will that it does not itself have?
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Conference;
ANNOUNCEMENT: Overlooked Scientific Revolutions in Natural Philosophy
November, 2023
The Forgotten Giants’ Shoulders -- 10-12 September 2024
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Who Should Fund Science?
November 4, 2023 Quillette
The notion that governments should fund science is built on falsehoods.
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Why AI Can't Compute Consciousness
November 4, 2023 YouTube
Contrary to popular belief that Artificial Intelligence will eventually become conscious, there are very good reasons for believing that consciousness is forever beyond computation, and thus is forever beyond the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence.
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Model Collapse: AI Chatbots Are Eating Their Own Tails
November 3, 2023 Mind Matters
The problem is fundamental to how they operate. Without new human input, their output starts to decay
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The divide between art and science is a mistake
November 3, 2023 iai News
Adding creativity into the method
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The Logic of Intelligent Design
November 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fundamentals Friday
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Conference;
Blue Ridge Creation Conference
November 3, 2023
Livestream the Fossils and the Flood Conference
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Evolutionary Environmentalist Dehumanizes People in Tree Worship
November 3, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Should trees be given equal rights to people? A dangerous trend is rooted in Darwinism.
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Triassic Kraken Hypothesis Provoked Scornful Darwinist Revenge
November 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Five Martian Mysteries That Have Scientists Scratching Their Heads
November 2, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Despite centuries of study and many spacecraft visits, the Red Planet still holds secrets. Here are just a few.
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Water Corridors Helped Homo sapiens Disperse out of Africa
November 2, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Wetland conditions during the last interglacial period in parts of the Levant helped propel our ancestors into Arabia, new research suggests.
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When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?
November 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
New secrets about cat evolution revealed
November 2, 2023 Science Daily
The project has helped researchers understand why cat genomes tend to have fewer complex genetic variations, and it revealed new insights into which parts of cat DNA are most likely to evolve rapidly and how they play a role in species differentiation.
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Human values in a digital age
November 2, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6670, p.523
Big Tech must center human rights in data decisions, argues a political scientist
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Blog Post
Forms of life, forms of mind
November 2, 2023
A short dialog between an applicant who doesn’t believe in free will and a hiring manager at a software company
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News Update/Commentary
Chimpanzees use hilltops to conduct reconnaissance on rival groups
November 2, 2023 Science Daily
Research on neighboring chimpanzee communities in the forests of West Africa suggests a warfare tactic not previously seen beyond humans is regularly used by our closest evolutionary relatives.
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The Ideological Transformation of Medical Journals
November 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Woke Watch
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The Big Bang Survives Two Tests
November 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Future of Manufactured Children
November 2, 2023 First Things
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Chicxulub: A Consensus with Big Questions
November 2, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
An asteroid that killed the dinosaurs but not the butterflies deserves skepticism.
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Homochirality and the Origin of Life
November 1, 2023 Apologetics Press
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Hearing from our Cretaceous ancestors: a remarkable fossil discovery in Jehol Biota
November 1, 2023 Springer Nature
The evolution of the middle ear in early therians remains enigmatic. Our recent discovery of a detached, microtype ear in a newly uncovered Early Cretaceous eutherian mammal addresses this mystery
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Is There a Problem with Skepticism?
November, 2023 Skeptical Inquirer, v.47, n.6
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Where did shoulders come from? Ancient fish reveal joint’s evolution
November 1, 2023 Science
Cleft in fossil skull suggests gill arches paved the way for shoulders, proposing solution to a long-standing mystery
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The universe’s puzzlingly fast expansion may defy explanation, cosmologists fret
November 1, 2023 Science
The controversial “Hubble tension” promises deep insight but, like dark matter and dark energy, could remain just another mystery
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Scientists Were Wrong for 5+ Decades About How Certain Cancer Drugs Work
November 1, 2023 American Council on Science and Health
Here's Why It Matters
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When Did Humans First Start Burying the Dead?
November 1, 2023 Mind Matters
One of the things paleontologists look for is special care taken in the placement of the deceased's body
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Why ATP? A Creation Model Perspective
November 1, 2023 Reasons to Believe
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Scientists Just Discovered a New Human Sense of Touch
November 1, 2023 Science Alert
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A new theory of matter may help explain life
November 1, 2023 iai News
Bridging the gap between physics and biology
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A ‘Big Whack’ Formed the Moon and Left Traces Deep in Earth, a Study Suggests
November 1, 2023 New York Times
Two enormous blobs deep inside Earth could be remnants of the birth of the moon.