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25 Years Later, Embryonic Stem Cell Research Has Been a Complete Failure
November 1, 2023 Life News
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Starfish body is a head, say scientists
November 1, 2023 University of Southampton
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Fossil evidence for a pharyngeal origin of the vertebrate pectoral girdle
November 1, 2023 Nature
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A radical evolutionary makeover gave echinoderms their unusual body plan
November 1, 2023 Nature
Echinoderms such as starfish are unusual for their five-fold body symmetry. Maps of gene-expression patterns show how this body plan was acquired, and that the genes specifying head structures do the heavy lifting.
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News Update/Commentary
How the fish got its shoulder
November 1, 2023 Science Daily
A new analysis of the bones and muscles in ancient fish gives new clues about how the shoulder evolved in animals -- including us.
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Understanding the Limits of Scientism
November 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Gary Habermas on the Scientific Evidence for Near-Death Experiences
November 1, 2023 YouTube
On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with Habermas about his chapter evaluating the evidence for near-death cases in the new book Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science.
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Genesis, Geology, and the Future of Creationist Thought
November 1, 2023 YouTube
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Empty Words: Convergent Evolution
October 31, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“Convergent Evolution” is an attempt to explain the inexplicable by Darwinian processes
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Billions of Biological Nanomachines Point to Christ's Workmanship
October 31, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Trait Variation: Engineered Alleles, Yes! Random Mutations, No!
October 31, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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The dust that may have killed the dinosaurs
October 31, 2023 Physics Today
Paleoclimate simulations suggest that only dust could have shut down photosynthesis for two years after the Chicxulub impact.
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Bacterial Flagella: Molecular Motors Show Masterful Design
October 31, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Successfully Called These Researchers’ Bluff
October 31, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rogues’ Gallery Comes in Pairs
October 31, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A new trove of free-floating planets, smaller and paired up more than expected, challenges stellar and planet formation models.
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3 Astronomical Evidences from Deep Space that Counter the Big Bang Theory
October 31, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
The Creation Podcast: Episode 60
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Fixing the Problem with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
October 31, 2023 The Scientist
A new strategy prevents reprogramming-induced epigenetic aberrations in human induced pluripotent stem cells.
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News Update/Commentary
How sunflowers see the sun
October 31, 2023 Science Daily
Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers 'see' the sun to follow it? Plant biologists show that they use a different, novel mechanism from that previously thought.
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Blood-sucking fish had flesh-eating ancestors
October 31, 2023 Nature
Two ‘superbly preserved’ fossil lampreys from the Jurassic period help piece together the past of the unusual jawless fish.
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Parasites are the bedrock of life and evolution. It's time to give them the respect they deserve
October 31, 2023 Salon
Without parasites, our web of life would be weaker and less diverse. We should conserve them like other species
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Stone Age people may have worn flip-flops over 75,000 years ago
October 31, 2023 ZME Science
Unearthed ancient footprints challenge our understanding of footwear history.
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On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Successfully Called These Researchers’ Bluff
October 31, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Did dust from the Chicxulub asteroid impact kill the dinosaurs?
October 30, 2023 Nature
Fine particles kicked up by the collision could have blocked out the Sun for years, resulting in global cooling and disastrous consequences for ecosystems.
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News Update/Commentary
The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health
October 30, 2023 Science Daily
The study reveals that the genetic variant observed, which affects zinc regulation, could have signified an evolutionary advantage in our ancestors' adaptation to the cold
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Two bee species become one as researchers solve identity puzzle
October 30, 2023 Science Daily
A new study has found that what were thought to be two different species of native Australian bee are in fact one.
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Evolutionists Deceive Themselves about Consciousness
October 30, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Nature cannot select consciousness unless you make it an idol
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A Possible Crisis in the Cosmos Could Lead to a New Understanding of the Universe
October 30, 2023 Scientific American
Several unexplained measurements are threatening to upend scientists’ understanding of the universe’s origin and fate
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AI Meets Its Match: The Butterfly Effect
October 30, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Artificial intelligence algorithms fail to account for a key limitation in weather prediction.
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New species of mosasaur named for Norse sea serpent
October 30, 2023 Science Daily
With ‘transitional' traits that place it between two well-known mosasaurs, the new species is named after a sea serpent in Norse mythology, Jormungandr, and the small North Dakota city Walhalla near to where the fossil was found.
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Frightening Abuses of Science: A Conversation with Wesley J. Smith
October 30, 2023 YouTube
Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. These are not horror stories playing at your local movie theater. They're playing out in labs, hospitals, and institutes across America.
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How we will discover the mysterious origins of life once and for all
October 30, 2023 New Scientist
Seventy years ago, three discoveries propelled our understanding of how life on Earth began. But has the biggest clue to life's origins been staring biologists in the face all along?
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Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from -- and whether machines can have it
October 30, 2023 Nature
To understand where artificial intelligence might be heading, we must first understand what consciousness, the self and free will mean in ourselves.
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Intelligent Design at High Altitudes
October 30, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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These Tiny, Beautiful Wasps Eat the Hearts Out of Cockroaches
October 29, 2023 New York Times
Jewel wasps carve up cockroaches like jack-o’-lanterns in a way scientists have never seen before.
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Why Are Eccentric Theories of Consciousness Tolerated?
October 29, 2023 Mind Matters
Even prominent theorists have held eccentric theories of consciousness. It stems from the apparent impossibility of deriving human consciousness from the material substances of the brain
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Scientists Warn of Extreme Bias in Brain Aging Research
October 28, 2023 Science Alert
‘Grave Consequences'
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Herman Bavinck Teaches Us to Accept Science’s Limits
October 28, 2023 The Gospel Coalition
REVIEW: Christianity and Science by Herman Bavinck (Crossway, 2023) | See Also Amazon
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Genetic methods enable the use of fossil lipids as biomarkers for oxygen-producing primordial bacteria
October 27, 2023 EurekAlert!
New study in Nature Ecology & Evolution provides important basis for deciphering the evolutionary history of life on Earth
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New Study Confirms Discontinuities in the History of Plants
October 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Significance of Folds in Tapeats Sandstone at Grand Canyon
October 27, 2023 YouTube
Not only was the Tapeats Sandstone rapidly deposited at the beginning of the Flood, but detailed investigation demonstrates it was folded while still soft as the Flood ended.
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Secrets of the Universe
October 27, 2023 YouTube
insights into the basic laws of the universe and their surprising simplicity -- including his latest work on an alternative to the cosmological inflation model
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How life evolved the power to choose
October 27, 2023 Princeton University Press
Do you ever wonder if you’re really in charge of your own actions? We certainly seem to be capable of making decisions and guiding our own behavior, for our own reasons. At least, it feels that way most of the time.
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Researchers solve protein mystery
October 27, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have uncovered that proteins use a common chemical label as a shield to protect them from degradation, which in turn affects motility and aging.
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When Did Humans Evolve Language?
October 27, 2023 Discover magazine
When did language start? Find out why the exact timeline for the evolution of language remains up for debate among researchers.
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Evolutionary chance made this bat a specialist hunter
October 27, 2023 Science Daily
It is generally believed that, for millions of years, bats and the insects they hunt at night have adapted to each other in an evolutionary arms race to become better at finding or avoiding each other. Now, a new study shows that this may not be the case
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Materialists Choose to Believe in Determinism
October 27, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why do materialists fail to see the self-refuting flaw in denial of free will?
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Understanding the Biochemistry -- and Intelligent Design -- of Muscle Contraction
October 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Middle ear innovation in Early Cretaceous eutherian mammals
October 26, 2023 Nature Communications
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Can Roger Penrose Explain Consciousness Through Physics?
October 26, 2023 Mind Matters
The Nobel Laureate physicist makes clear that he only wants a theory of human consciousness if the explanation comes down to physics
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What is the shape of space itself?
October 26, 2023 Big Think
Einstein's theory of general relativity introduced the concept of space having a shape. So, what is the shape of space?