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Scientists Warn of Extreme Bias in Brain Aging Research
October 28, 2023 Science Alert
‘Grave Consequences'
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Book
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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Video
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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News Update/Commentary
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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News Update/Commentary
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?
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News Update/Commentary
How bat teeth and jaws evolved for a diverse dinnertime
October 26, 2023 Science Daily
Fruit, nectar, bugs and blood
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News Update/Commentary
Roosters might recognize themselves in the mirror
October 26, 2023 Science Daily
Scrape, cluck, lay eggs -- that's it? Anyone involved in chicken farming knows that the animals are capable of much more.
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Chloroplast Construction Reflects Creation
October 26, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Darwinism as a Driver of Useless Busy Work
October 26, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What drives some scientists to absurd levels of ‘much ado about nothing’?
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A Robot Is Built Using Cockroach Biomimicry
October 26, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Paper Digest
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The Incredible Design of Muscles
October 26, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Key Earthlike Feature
October 26, 2023 New York Times
A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have had plate tectonics that could have made it more hospitable to life.
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The Incredible Design of Muscles
October 26, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
After Death: The Science Behind the Movie
October 25, 2023 YouTube
Discovery Science
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The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch
October 25, 2023 New Scientist
Monika Schleier-Smith is testing the idea that space-time emerges, like a hologram, from quantum interactions by attempting to make it in the lab
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News Update/Commentary
Study suggests that having common ancestors can jeopardize fertility for generations
October 25, 2023 Science Daily
New research provides rare direct evidence showing that increased homozygosity -- meaning two identical alleles in a genome -- leads to negative effects on fertility in a human population.
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News Update/Commentary
Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton
October 25, 2023 Science Daily
Microfossils discovered by University of Leicester scientist date back half a billion years
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Staring at the Sun -- close-up images from space rewrite solar science
October 25, 2023 Nature
Researchers have never had such detailed views of our nearest star.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Heavy element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST
October 25, 2023 Nature
The mergers of binary compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes are of central interest to several areas of astrophysics
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Pluto Volcano Must Be Young
October 25, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A cryo-supervolcano on Pluto cannot be as old as the planet. What made it erupt relatively recently?
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Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology
October 25, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Paper Digest
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The Prophet in the White Lab Coat Who Declares, “Thus Saith the SCIENCE”
October 25, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
John West on C. S. Lewis
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A Mirror Reveals a Surprise About Bird Brains
October 25, 2023 New York Times
A modified version of the classic mirror test suggested that roosters recognize their reflections.
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Cosmology’s crisis challenges scientific realism
October 25, 2023 iai News
MOND vs Dark Matter
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Integrating Historical Witnesses in Biblical Chronology
October 25, 2023 Answers Research Journal
Biblical chronology is an essential component of the young-earth creationist perspective, because it provides a way to calculate the age of the earth by working backward through biblical data from a fixed point in history.
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Video
Genesis and Science: The Past, Present, and Future
October 25, 2023 YouTube
Even though I am a creationist, I am keenly aware of how many bad arguments have soiled the name of creationist thought. All participants in this conversation know this and are very cognizant of the absolute necessity of putting truthfulness first.
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Neuroscience Has Never Provided Much Evidence for Materialism
October 24, 2023 Mind Matters
In a chapter of the new book, Minding the Brain, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor points out that many great neuroscientists were non-materialists
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Humans and Neanderthals mated 250,000 years ago, much earlier than thought
October 24, 2023 Live Science
A comparison of the genomes of a Neanderthal who lived 120,000 years ago in Siberia with those from modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa has revealed insight into the migratory and interbreeding history of both species.
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How an Antarctic Octopus Adapted to the Cold
October 24, 2023 Physics Magazine
Enzymes that span the cell membranes of an octopus of the genus Pareledone have acquired mutations that enable them to catalyze reactions well at low temperatures.
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Largest-ever computer simulation of the universe escalates cosmology dilemma
October 24, 2023 space.com
"I am at a loss."
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Rock collected by Apollo 17 astronaut in 1972 reveals moon's age
October 24, 2023 Reuters
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The “dark biosphere”: Do mirror-image lifeforms exist?
October 24, 2023 Big Think
This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.
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The golden age of astrobiology will change everything
October 24, 2023 Big Think
A true scientific view of if, where, and when extraterrestrial life exists is within our grasp thanks to biosignatures and technosignatures.
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News Update/Commentary
Astrophysicists scan the Galaxy for signs of life
October 24, 2023 Science Daily
Astrophysicists are scanning the Universe for 'technosignatures' emanating from distant planets that would provide support for the existence of intelligent, alien life. Researchers plan to monitor millions of star systems.
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News Update/Commentary
Finding the genes that help kingfishers dive without hurting their brains
October 24, 2023 Science Daily
researchers found that the diving birds have unusual mutations to the genes that produce tau: a protein that helps stabilize tiny structures in the brain, but which can build up in humans with traumatic brain injuries or Alzheimer's disease
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Blog Post
Scientific American is back to distorting the facts to buttress its ideology
October 24, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
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Morgan Freeman Would Like to Tell You the History of Everything
October 24, 2023 New York Times
In an interview, Freeman discusses narrating the Netflix documentary “Life on Our Planet,” which goes from the dawn of time to the present day.
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Three More Fossils Appear Earlier Than Thought
October 24, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
They appear earlier than thought, but show no sign of evolutionary transition
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A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism
October 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Hidden Service Animals
October 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Earthworms Are Only the Beginning