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Human remains in tomb are best-preserved ever found in Pompeii
August 17, 2021 The Guardian
Former slave who rose through the social ranks was interred at necropolis of Porta Sarno before AD79
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The Basic Building Blocks & the Origin of Life
August 17, 2021 YouTube
We’re often told that origin of life experiments have simulated the production of life’s building blocks under conditions that mimicked the early earth. Or at least that’s what many textbooks say. But is this really true?
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The Basic Building Blocks & the Origin of Life (Long Story Short, Ep. 4)
August 17, 2021 YouTube
We’re often told that origin of life experiments have simulated the production of life’s building blocks under conditions that mimicked the early earth. Or at least that’s what many textbooks say. But is this really true?
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Science's Limitations According to a Futurist
August 17, 2021 Mind Matters
Danaylov rightly warns against a blind embrace of science
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Why Do Some People's Minds Become Much Clearer Near Death?
August 17, 2021 Mind Matters
Arjuna Das and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor discuss the evidence for terminal lucidity at Theology Unleashed “where Eastern theology meets Western skepticism.”
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We are effectively alone in the universe
August 17, 2021 Big Think
It does not matter if intelligent life exists elsewhere. We will never find each other.
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Tiny human brain grown in lab has eye-like structures that ‘see' light
August 17, 2021 New Scientist
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Researchers Transfer a Human Protein Into Plants to Supersize Them
August 17, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine
While a promising route to boosting crop yields, experts say more work needs to be done to understand why the tweak works
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Immunity and Creation Science
August 17, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Why God created the human immune system in a pre-Fall world and other considerations from a biblical creation perspective
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Scientists Are Proposing a Radical New Framework to Redefine Life on Earth
August 17, 2021 Science Alert
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Cities are making mammals bigger
August 16, 2021 Florida Museum
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How Do New Organs Evolve? A Beetle Gland Shows the Way.
August 16, 2021 Quanta Magazine
The evolution of a defensive gland in beetles shows how organs can arise from novel cells carving out new functional niches for their neighbors.
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Does a Belief in a Historical Adam and Eve Matter to Christianity?
August 16, 2021 Apologetics 315
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Natural Selection Is a Reckless Driver
August 16, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Natural selection is blind and doesn’t care where it is headed. If it drives anything, it drives creatures extinct. Get out of the car.
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New theory of life’s multiple origins
August 16, 2021 Science Daily
What if life evolved not just once, but multiple times independently? Researchers now argue that in order to recognize life's full range of forms, we must develop a new theoretical frame that permits ‘multiple paths' to life.
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How the malaria parasite defends itself from fever is unveiled
August 16, 2021 Science Daily
Study describes a gene that activates a protective response against high temperatures and other adverse conditions within the host
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Development and evolution of dolphin, whale blowholes
August 16, 2021 Science Daily
New research is shedding light on how the nasal passage of dolphins and whales shifts during embryonic development from emerging at the tip of the snout to emerging at the top of the head as a blowhole.
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Croft, Continued: I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens
August 16, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Randomness Depends on Order
August 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Buddhist Monks' Bodies Decay Very Slowly at Death
August 15, 2021 Mind Matters
According to traditional meditation lore, they are in a meditative state (thukdam) until their consciousness is clear; only then does the body begins to decay
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Douthat: Science gives us more reason than ever to believe in God
August 15, 2021 Why Evolution Is True
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New insights into how the ‘first brain' works in the gut
August 15, 2021 Science Daily
New research explains how the gut nervous system causes propulsion
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Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis
August 15, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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William Lane Craig and Alvin Planting Rank in Top Ten of World Philosophers
August 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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ENCODE Foe Dan Graur Isn’t Sure If Jesus Existed
August 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Ancient Comb Jelly More Complex Than Its Modern Relatives?
August 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Reading Steve Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis
August 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Reflections on Twitter
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Could Dark Energy Be a Misinterpretation of the Data?
August 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Eddy Nahmias -- Does Brain Science Eliminate Free Will?
August 14, 2021 YouTube
Who's the boss, me or my brain? Brain data does not favor free will. But there seems to be more to me than my brain? Is that illusion? How to judge among the diverse and competing claims about free will?
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Physicist Despairs over Vacuum Energy
August 14, 2021 backreaction.blogspot.com
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What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common
August 14, 2021 Scientific American
Theories that try to explain these big metaphysical mysteries fall short, making agnosticism the only sensible stance
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A Guide to Finding Faith
August 14, 2021 New York Times
In the modern era, there are reasons to find the idea of God more plausible than ever.
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Steven Weinberg and the twilight of the godless universe
August 14, 2021 The Jerusalem Post
With the passing last month of Steven Weinberg, the world lost a great theoretical physicist.
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Polar Bears Use Stones to Kill Walruses
August 14, 2021 Mind Matters
The unexpected bear behavior was dismissed as folklore in the past although there is certainly evidence of other life forms using rocks as tools
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Ancient comb jelly had more complex nerves than its modern relatives
August 14, 2021 New Scientist
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Dragon Man, the Newest Human “Cousin”?
August 14, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists suggest Chinese “Dragon Man” is a 100,000-year-old hominid while biblical creationists understand discovery in light of post-Babel dispersion
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Three-layered control of mRNA tails
August 13, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have characterized how the essential mRNA poly(A) tails are synthesized in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The study reveals several mechanisms controlling poly(A) tail lengths and hereby ensuring the robustness of gene expression.
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Discovery of a subset of human short introns spliced out by a distinct mechanism
August 13, 2021 Science Daily
Pre-mRNA splicing in a subset of human short introns is governed by a distinct mechanism involving a new splicing factor, new research finds.
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Genetic program protects neurons from degeneration
August 13, 2021 Science Daily
Study finds genes in fruit flies that are presumed to have a similar function in humans
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Was there a historical Adam & Eve?
August 13, 2021 YouTube
How should Christians understand the Adam and Eve story in Genesis? Is it scientifically plausible that humanity can be traced back to a first human couple? What does it mean for the concept of ‘Original Sin’.
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Origins of mutation
August 13, 2021 Science Daily
Computational analysis reveals sources of genetic variations
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Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism
August 13, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Brain Does Not Create the Mind; It Constrains It.
August 13, 2021 Mind Matters
Near-death experiences in which people report seeing things that are later verified give some sense of how the mind works in relation to the brain
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Could Dark Energy Simply Be a Misinterpretation of the Data?
August 13, 2021 Forbes
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The Secret to Design Detection
August 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic
August 13, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Snakes Evolved Venom Fangs Multiple Times
August 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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CERN: New Exotic Particle, Tetraquark, Discovered
August 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Reconstructing Ancestral Proteins
August 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Chase Nelson at Inference Review
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A Design Inference with Respect to Neanderthal Art
August 12, 2021 Uncommon Descent