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ChatGPT Violates Its Own Model
February 1, 2023 Mind Matters
Based on these exchanges, we can at least say the chatbot is more than just the ChatGPT neural network
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News Update/Commentary
319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal
February 1, 2023 Science Daily
The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.
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News Update/Commentary
The bubbling universe: A previously unknown phase transition in the early universe
February 1, 2023 Science Daily
What happened shortly after the universe was born in the Big Bang and began to expand? Bubbles occurred and a previously unknown phase transition happened, according to particle physicists.
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Geneticists Light Up Debate on Salmon Conservation
February 1, 2023 The Scientist
Splitting Chinook salmon into two groups based on their DNA could aid conservation efforts. But some researchers argue that this would be a misuse of the data.
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Could a hidden variable explain the weirdness of quantum physics?
February 1, 2023 Big Think
We have searched and searched but have never found one.
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3 new studies indicate a conflict at the heart of cosmology
February 1, 2023 Big Think
The Universe isn't as “clumpy" as we think it should be.
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Theistic Evolution Is Not the Real Problem!
February 1, 2023 Answers in Genesis
The billions of years timeline undergirds the secular attack on the Bible.
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Dubious Views on Octopus Evolution
February 2, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Neanderthals hunted enormous elephants that fed 100 people for a month
February 1, 2023 New Scientist
The extinct straight-tusked elephant was even larger than modern African elephants, making it unclear if Neanderthal hunters could take one down, but a newly analysed trove of bones suggests it was possible
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Book
On the Origin of Speciesism, Part 1
February 2, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
REVIEW: Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism Is Pushing Planetary Boundaries by Brian Swartz and Brent D. Mishler, eds. (Springer, 2022). | See Also Amazon
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Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences
February 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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NASA Persecution Case Reaches a Grim Anniversary
February 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Biologist Advocates Biology Without Species
January 26, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
What Could Go Wrong?
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New Study: The Milky Way Is Exceptional
January 30, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
With rapidly increasing heat and drought, can plants adapt?
January 31, 2023 Science Daily
One plant that successfully invaded deserts was already adapted to life on arid rock outcrops
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe
January 31, 2023 Science Daily
Analysis combines Dark Energy Survey, South Pole Telescope data to understand evolution of universe
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Cambrian cirratuliform Iotuba denotes an early annelid radiation
February 1, 2023 Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v.290, n.1992
The principal animal lineages (phyla) diverged in the Cambrian, but most diversity at lower taxonomic ranks arose more gradually over the subsequent 500 Myr. Annelid worms seem to exemplify this pattern
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How Scientific Is ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Science?
January 31, 2023 American Council on Science and Health
its luster has become tarnished by greed -- the desire of the research community to tap into research funds, the pressure on scientists to publish or perish, and publishers of scientific journals seeking to maximize profits
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An Interview with Alister McGrath
January 25, 2023 Ad Fontes
The Apologist Retires
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Blog Post
Multiverse or God
January 30, 2023 Salvo magazine
Which is the Better Origin Story?
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Unidentified aerial annoyance: Full disclosure or dubious UFO nonsense?
January 31, 2023 space.com
Whatever is at play here, organizations are taking close encounters with weirdness seriously.
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‘Less clumpy’ universe may suggest existence of mysterious forces
January 31, 2023 The Guardian
Survey could mean there is a crucial component missing from so-called standard model of physics
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A Manufactured New Sin: Speciesism
February 1, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new thought crime takes direct aim at Genesis and human exceptionalism
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‘De-Extinction’ Company Will Try to Bring Back the Dodo
January 31, 2023 Gizmodo
Colossal Biosciences also intends to resurrect the thylacine and woolly mammoth -- an ambitious agenda, considering no extinct species has ever been brought back.
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New Engineering Ideas from Biology
January 31, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blinded by a Defunct Theory
January 31, 2023 Mind Matters
The “interaction problem" is everywhere we look in physics, but the dogma of materialism remains
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Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars
January 30, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them.
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Is ChatGPT groundbreaking? These experts say no.
January 28, 2023 Popular Science
Meta's Chief AI scientist claims that Google, Meta, and other startups are working with very similar models.
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Mercury helps to detail Earth's most massive extinction event
January 26, 2023 phys.org
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Meet the man who has transformed our understanding of evolution
January 30, 2023 CNN
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News Update/Commentary
The other paleo diet: Rare discovery of dinosaur remains preserved with its last meal
December 21, 2022 Science Daily
Unusual fossil reveals more about the diet of Microraptor, a bird-like dinosaur with four wings
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Diet of Cretaceous Feathered Dinosaur Included Mammals
December 21, 2022 Science News
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Fossil offers ultra rare piece of evidence showing a dinosaur eating a mammal
December 21, 2022 EurekAlert!
Preserved gut contents of Microraptor show the species had a more diverse diet than previously thought
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First evidence found of a dinosaur eating a mammal
December 21, 2022 phys.org
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Generalist diet of Microraptor zhaoianus included mammals
December 20, 2022 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
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AI Has Successfully Imitated Human Evolution -- and Might Do It Even Better
January 30, 2023 Popular Mechanics
The implications are staggering.
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Evolution Ex Machina
January 30, 2023 Answers in Genesis
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Reflections on the Life of Adventurer and Creation Scientist Dr. John Morris
January 29, 2023 Answers in Genesis
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Will Machine Learning Help Us Find Extraterrestrial Life?
January 30, 2023 SETI Institute
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Mitochondrial Metabolism Dictates Neurons’ Growth Rate
January 30, 2023 The Scientist
Altering the rate of respiration in mitochondria changes how fast neurons grow, making mouse neurons grow more like human ones and vice versa
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Dawkins refers to own experience of sexual abuse by priest…
January 2, 2013 Christian Post
Atheist professor Richard Dawkins has clarified remarks he made when he stated that being taught to believe in an eternal hell as a child is worse than being sexually abused, reminding critics that he himself was abused by a priest at a young age.
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The human genome needs updating
January 29, 2023 The Guardian
But how do we make it fair?
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No, the Big Bang theory is not ‘broken'
January 30, 2023 space.com
Here's how we know
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Will an AI be the first to discover alien life?
January 30, 2023 Nature
SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, is deploying machine-learning algorithms that filter out Earthly interference and spot signals humans might miss.
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The oldest complete jawed vertebrates from the early Silurian of China
September 28, 2022 Nature, v.609, p.954-958
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DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks
January 31, 2023 New Scientist
Artificial intelligences need specific training to excel at a task, but now a more generally intelligent one from DeepMind has performed as well as humans in a virtual world test
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Animals that care for young may have more mutations and evolve faster
January 30, 2023 New Scientist
An experiment in beetles shows that when parents care for their young, the population accumulates more mutations over time, but this may have benefits
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Microraptor Ate Mammals But Was Not a Dinosaur
January 30, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Dr. John Morris Is at Home with His Lord
January 29, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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The Non-Evolution of Sauropod Dinosaurs
January 30, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A dinosaur expert uses the e-word evolution 20 times, but never once explains how these huge beasts could have actually evolved