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How Did Descartes Come To Make Such a Mess of Dualism?
August 3, 2021 Mind Matters
Mathematician René Descartes strictly separated mind and matter in a way that left the mind very vulnerable
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Fruit baskets from fourth century BC found in ruins of Thonis-Heracleion
August 2, 2021 The Guardian
‘Incredible’ discoveries at submerged ancient city off coast of Egypt have lain untouched
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Mating Contests Among Females, Long Ignored, May Shape Evolution
August 2, 2021 Quanta Magazine
Showy male competitions over mating privileges have grabbed scientists’ attention more often, but new work hints that sexual selection is also widespread among females.
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More research needed to predict eruption of supervolcanoes
July 27, 2021 phys.org
Scientists say it is extremely challenging to try and predict when a supervolcano might erupt again due to the sheer diversity of events that have gone before.
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Harvestman genome helps explain how arachnids got grasping legs
August 3, 2021 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Neanderthals indeed painted Andalusia’s Cueva de Ardales
August 2, 2021 Science Daily
The coloring is apparently almost 65,000 years old but until now, a part of the scientific community attributed it to a natural coating of iron oxide deposited by flowing water. However, that hypothesis has just been rejected.
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After 60 years, scientists find the missing link in our body’s blood pressure control
August 3, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have determined the location of natural blood-pressure barometers inside our bodies that have eluded scientists for more than 60 years.
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News Update/Commentary
Exercise improves health through changes on DNA
August 2, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists say their research shows how exercise remodels DNA in skeletal muscle, so that new signals are established to keep the body healthy.
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Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights
August 3, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
How sex cells get the right genetic mix -- An interdisciplinary approach solves a century-old puzzle
August 3, 2021 Science Daily
A new discovery explains what determines the number and position of genetic exchanges that occur in sex cells, such as pollen and eggs in plants, or sperm and eggs in humans.
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In a New Book, Longtime Agnostic Dumps Darwin
August 2, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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One Day, a Longtime Agnostic Suddenly Realized That Darwinism Couldn’t Be True
August 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Stephen Meyer, James Croft: Philosophers Battle Over the God Hypothesis
August 2, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why a Mechanic Infers Design
August 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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The Non-Coding Human Genome Is Being Filled In
August 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Religion Is Far Too Complex to Have a Single Evolution Story
August 2, 2021 Mind Matters
Casey Luskin reflects on Yuval Noah Harari’s thesis that religion evolved through stages because humans needed it in order to co-operate in larger groups
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How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch with Reality
July, 2021 Issues in Science and Technology
A failure of self-correction in science has compromised climate science’s ability to provide plausible views of our collective future.
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Science Confirms the Bible Again in Ground-Breaking Grand Canyon Research
July 31, 2021 Answers in Genesis
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p53 Unleashes Endogenous Retroviruses to Tackle Tumors: Study
July 29, 2021 The Scientist
New experiments suggest the famous tumor-suppressing protein uses viral elements lingering in the genome to get cancerous cells to announce their presence to the immune system.
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On the Origin of Consciousness by Naturalistic Speculation
August 2, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Consciousness, and how it evolved, is the greatest mystery in the Universe! It baffles scientists after decades of research.
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The Multiverse Is “No Better Than God”
August 1, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Bird Flight Highlighted
August 1, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new release from Illustra Media combines some of its best clips on birds plus new material into a short film on flight
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Water on Mars? It Is More Likely Clay, Many Now Think
August 1, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Dualism Is Best Option for Understanding the Mind and the Brain
July 31, 2021 Mind Matters
Theories that attempt to show that the mind does not really exist clearly don’t work and never did
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Big Brains May Have Helped Birds Survive Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
July 30, 2021 Inside Science
A fossil skull from a bird that lived in the time of dinosaurs sheds light on how the ancestors of modern birds escaped extinction.
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Evolutionary chaos as butterflies, wasps, and viruses have a three-way war
July 30, 2021 ars technica
The evolutionary pressures result in some pretty complicated host interactions.
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Baraminology by Cluster Analysis: A Response to Reeves
July 14, 2021 Answers Research Journal
In his recently-published critiques, Reeves provides numerous important suggestions for the improvement of baraminology as well as pointed criticism of baraminic distance correlation (BDC).
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Genes Shared with Viruses Protect Caterpillars from Parasitic Wasps
June 30, 2021 The Scientist
A newly identified gene family named “parasitoid killing factor” is found in both insect-infecting viruses and their hosts, although researchers can’t yet tell where they originated.
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Why animals recognise numbers but only humans can do maths
July 28, 2021 The Conversation
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The Universe: How did it get here & why are we part of it?
October 4, 2019 YouTube
Celebrated mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose talks to renowned Christian philosopher William Lane Craig about God and the Universe. Could the fundamental nature of reality, the Big Bang and the fine tuning of the Universe point towards a creator
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Water on the Planetary Science Brain
July 30, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Hydrocephaly is a physical brain ailment; Hydrobioscopy is a philosophical brain malady
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In the absence of genetic variation, asexual invasive species find new methods of adapting to their environment
July 30, 2021 Science Daily
New research has found that two types of weevils, common yet invasive beetles in many parts of the world, have been using epigenetic changes to adapt and respond to different toxins in the plants they eat.
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When “Following the Science” Meant Joining the Nazis
July 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Is Math Real?
July 31, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Attempts To Explain Away Religion Don’t Explain Anything
August 1, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Oldest Known Archaea Microbes Found at 3.42 Billion Years Ago?
August 1, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Geology As Not a Safe Field for Persons of Color
July 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
apparently, some people have noticed the nonsense
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How Science Points to Meaning in Life
July 27, 2021 Mind Matters
The earliest philosopher of science, Aristotle, pioneered a way of understanding it
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How We Can Know Mental States Are Real?
July 28, 2021 Mind Matters
Mental states are always “about” something; physical states are not “about” anything
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The Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud in 1988 and its Aftermath
July 27, 2021 academia.edu
an English language Bibliography
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890-million-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found
July 28, 2021 National Geographic
The mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.
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The Forecast for Exoplanets is Cloudy but Bright
July 26, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Clouds make climate modeling on Earth difficult. Identifying -- and even defining -- atmospheric phenomena on other planets is the next big exoplanet challenge.
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Unveiling the Next Exoplanet Act
July 26, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
In August, Eos looks at what the first round of observations with the James Webb Space Telescope might reveal about faraway worlds.
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Oddballs of the Exoplanet Realm
July 26, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The list of planets in other star systems includes zombies, hot giants, puffballs, and even a few Tatooines. Zowie!
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Two groups of whales evolved massive heads for different reasons
July 30, 2021 New Scientist
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Fossil of ancient sponge soaks up Darwinian doubts
July 28, 2021 The Times (UK)
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The Fossils Still Say No: Jostle in the Jurassic
July 30, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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The Tyranny of Consensus Thinking
July 30, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Diversity of life and the ‘paradox of sex'
July 29, 2021 Science Daily
New research finds that sexual reproduction and multicellularity drive diversity among different species.
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News Update/Commentary
Planetary scientist puts Mars lake theory on ice with new study that offers alternate explanation
July 29, 2021 Science Daily
Interdisciplinary investigation of the planet’s south pole points to clays being the likely culprit