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News Update/Commentary
How cells feel curvature

November 18, 2021 Institute of Science and Technology Austria Science Daily

Scientists find mechanism that allows cells to sense the curvature of tissue around them
New Ice Core Expected to Contain Creation Evidence

November 18, 2021 Jake Hebert Institute for Creation Research
News Update/Commentary
Paleontologists debunk fossil thought to be missing link between lizards and first snakes

November 18, 2021 Taylor & Francis Group Science Daily

Filling in the links of the evolutionary chain with a fossil record of a ‘snake with four legs' connecting lizards and early snakes would be a dream come true for paleontologists. But a specimen formerly thought to fit the bill is not the missing piece
How Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism

November 18, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
Why science and religion come together when discussing extraterrestrial life

November 18, 2021 Avi Loeb The Hill
Blog Post
Michael Shermer documents the decline and fall of Scientific American

November 18, 2021 Jerry Coyne Why Evolution Is True
‘Landmark' Study Gives Unprecedented Glimpse at Mysterious Phase of the Human Embryo

November 18, 2021 Natalie Handel Science Alert
News Update/Commentary
Dengue’s dance: Host immunity drives viral evolution

November 18, 2021 University of Florida Science Daily

New research provides evidence that host immunity drives evolution of the dengue virus. The research analyzes two decades of genetic variation from Thailand alongside population-level measures of infection and immunity.
News Update/Commentary
New cell discovered and shown to regulate heart rate

November 18, 2021 University of Notre Dame Science Daily

Researchers discovered a new type of cell in the heart that may help regulate heart rate, and could be an important key in understanding certain types of congenital heart defects and other diseases that involve the heart.
Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There

November 18, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today
Snake with Four Legs Turns Out Not To Be a Snake

November 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent

NO: paleontologists’ dream come true
Manufacturing a Science Consensus

November 18, 2021 at New Atlantis Uncommon Descent
How Even Random Numbers Show Evidence of Design

November 17, 2021 Mind Matters

Random number generators are actually pseudo-random number generators because they depend on designed algorithms
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Fossils: Mysterious Origins (Science Uprising, Ep. 9)

November 17, 2021 Discovery Science YouTube

It's often claimed that fossils provide convincing evidence for Darwinian evolution in the history of life. But is that really the case?
News Update/Commentary
One way genetic mutations occur during formation of eggs and sperm

November 17, 2021 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Science Daily

Investigators have employed mutant mice to study how the accumulation of genetic errors is managed during egg and sperm formation.
Why haven't we heard from aliens? There is a reason for the silence

November 17, 2021 Abigail Beall New Scientist

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been going on for 60 years without success. Given the hurdles to interstellar communication, that's just a blink of an eye
World's largest mass extinction may have begun with volcanic winter

November 17, 2021 Cameron Duke New Scientist

The end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago might have begun when eruptions triggered a volcanic winter
Why do we exist? The meaning of life isn’t to be found in the stars

November 17, 2021 Tiffany O'Callaghan New Scientist

We are tiny specks of life in a vast, indifferent cosmos -- but to say that decreases the value of our existence is to measure ourselves against the wrong thing
Why is quantum theory so strange? The weirdness could be in our heads

November 17, 2021 Daniel Cossins New Scientist

Quantum theory is peerless at explaining reality, but assaults our intuitions of how reality should be. It seems likely the fault lies with our intuitions
Human Birth Canal Is Well Designed

November 17, 2021 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

Human birth canal shown to be well designed, thereby demolishing one of the last few remaining claims of poor design
Unvarnished Fossil Record Is Bad News for Darwin

November 17, 2021 Science Uprising #9 Uncommon Descent
Neil Thomas’s Next Book Will Examine Darwinism As a Modern Creation Myth

November 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Video
Fossils: Mysterious Origins (Science Uprising, Ep. 9)

November 17, 2021 Discovery Science YouTube

It's often claimed that fossils provide convincing evidence for Darwinian evolution in the history of life. But is that really the case?
Why is the universe just right for life? Blame the multiverse

November 17, 2021 Richard Webb New Scientist

Physicists have long speculated why our universe seems “just right” for life. The most complex answer might be the simplest -- that every other universe also exists
Why is the universe intelligible? Things aren’t as clear as we think

November 17, 2021 Richard Webb New Scientist

We have made huge progress in understanding some bits of the cosmos, but we’ve hit a brick wall with things like quantum theory and our own minds. Is there a way round?
Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

November 17, 2021 Graham Lawton New Scientist

Dig down, and evolution by natural selection is just about spontaneous, sustained accumulation of complexity -- if life elsewhere exists, it’s likely to develop in the same way
False Biosignatures on Mars: Anticipating Ambiguity

November 17, 2021 Sean McMahon and Julie Cosmidis Journal of the Geological Society
Why do we grieve? The surprising origin of the feeling of loss

November 17, 2021 Catherine de Lange New Scientist

The debilitating pain we sometimes feel at the loss of those we love is an evolutionary mystery. It could all come down to what happens in our childhoods
At the Smithsonian It’s All Darwin, All the Time

November 17, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today

the nation’s museum
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William Dembski: Gauging the Success of Intelligent Design

November 16, 2021 Discovery Science YouTube

Mathematician and philosopher explains the theory of intelligent design and examines its successes and challenges over the past decades.
Can Wholly Random Processes Produce Information?

November 16, 2021 Mind Matters

Can information result, without intention, from a series of accidents? Some have tried it with computers…
New mission to scour our interstellar neighbourhood for planets that could sustain life

November 16, 2021 Donna Lu The Guardian

Privately funded Toliman telescope to be launched into low-earth orbit to search Alpha Centauri star system
Spider Webs Are Big Ears

November 16, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

A spider web is not just a trap for prey. It’s also a giant acoustic sensory antenna.
News Update/Commentary
Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils, study says

November 16, 2021 University of Edinburgh Science Daily

Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests.
Navigational Genius -- Not Just for the Birds

November 16, 2021 Eric Cassell Evolution News & Science Today
Harvard U Press Computer Science Author Gives AI a Reality Check

November 16, 2021 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today
Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience

November 16, 2021 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today
Book Excerpt: Navigational Genius of Insects

November 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Why, Contra Darwin, Do Male Snakes Eat Female Snakes?

November 16, 2021 at The Scientist Uncommon Descent
On Life from the Lab: “Information First” Is Essential

November 16, 2021 Rob Sheldon Uncommon Descent
Human Neurons, Brains, Much More Efficient Than Animal Ones

November 16, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

What was formerly thought to be “junk DNA” differs between humans and chimpanzees and plays a role in brain development
‘The Wonder of Science’

November 16, 2021 Lucien Tuinstra Creation Ministries International

Exploring the creation/evolution debate
Weak scale as a trigger

November 15, 2021 Nima Arkani-Hamed, Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo, and Hyung Do Kim Physical Review D, v.104

The weak scale trigger links the tuning of the Higgs mass to that of the cosmological constant
As data probe concludes, spider biologist placed on leave, has Ph.D. thesis ‘withdrawn’

November 15, 2021 Elizabeth Pennisi Science

Canadian university completes investigation into star ecologist Jonathan Pruitt, but does not release its findings
How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda

November 15, 2021 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today
“Just How Bad Is the Fossil Record for Darwin’s Theory?”

November 15, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

asked by new Science Uprising episode
Culture Watch: “This Is Us" Recognizes Limits of Machines

November 15, 2021 Jonathan Bartlett Mind Matters

Let's hope that this becomes a trend of popular culture dealing with the realities of technology and its limitations
Male Snakes Cannibalizing Females Present Evolutionary Puzzle

November 15, 2021 Chloe Tenn The Scientist

The Scientist speaks with organismal biologist Xavier Glaudas about possible reasons for his recent finding that male Montpellier snakes cannibalize female conspecifics.
Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

November 15, 2021 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today
The Mytho-History of Adam, Eve, and William Lane Craig

November 15, 2021 Casey Luskin Uncommon Descent