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Pew: Post-COVID, Trust in Science Dropped Significantly

November 18, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

Most other institutions have taken a hit in trust as well. But what would it take for science in particular to pull out?
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This Video Dismantles Darwinian Evolution

November 17, 2023 Answers in Genesis YouTube

Jennifer Rivera teaches us about the history of the Galápagos Islands, what natural selection is, and whether natural selection contradicts biblical creation
Purposeful universe

November 16, 2023 Philip Goff Aeon

Neither atheism nor theism adequately explains reality. That is why we must consider the middle ground between the two
Carbon Dating Reveals the Timing of Puerto Rican Cave Art

November 9, 2023 Grace van Deelen Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

New dates from cave art pigment add to evidence that Indigenous Puerto Ricans inhabited the island for millennia.
How did time begin, and how will it end?

November 16, 2023 Michael Marshall BBC

Most things have a beginning and an end, including time itself. What was the spark that made it begin, and what will one day bring it to an end?
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Free Will and ChatGPT-Me

November 16, 2023 John Horgan
‘No scientific evidence' that ancient human relative buried dead and carved art

November 17, 2023 Patrick Pester Live Science

A new commentary blasts claims about Homo naledi featured in Netflix's “Unknown: Cave of Bones" documentary
Jurassic Park: why we’re still struggling to realise it 30 years on

November 16, 2023 Tiffany Shea Slater and Maria McNamara The Conversation

DNA yields the most detailed information, compared to other molecules, on how closely species are related. However, DNA is extremely fragile and decays rapidly after an organism dies.
The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species

November 15, 2023 Kate Douglas New Scientist

We used to trace the origins of art to Stone Age Europe. Now we have evidence of artistic sensibility in earlier hominins, from Neanderthals to Homo erectus and beyond
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Scientists have solved the damselfly color mystery

November 17, 2023 Lund University Science Daily

an international research team found that this genetic color variation that is shared between several species arose through changes in a specific genomic region at least five million years ago
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Much more than waste: Tiny vesicles exchange genetic information between cells in the sea

November 16, 2023 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Science Daily

Extracellular vesicles play a much greater role in horizontal gene transfer in the ocean than previously assumed
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Future of brain-inspired AI as Python code library passes major milestone

November 17, 2023 University of California, Santa Cruz Science Daily

An open source code library for brain-inspired deep learning, called 'snnTorch,' has surpassed 100,000 downloads and is used in a wide variety of projects. A new paper details the code and offers a perspective on the future of the field.
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No scientific evidence for cognitively advanced behaviors and symbolism by Homo naledi

November 13, 2023 Griffith University Science Daily

A new study casts doubt on claims that Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin dating to between 335-241,000 years ago, deliberately buried their dead and produced rock art in Rising Star Cave, South Africa.
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How cell identity is preserved when cells divide

November 16, 2023 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Science Daily

Study suggests 3D folding of the genome is key to cells' ability to store and pass on ‘memories' of which genes they should express
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Birds set foot near South Pole in Early Cretaceous, Australian tracks show

November 16, 2023 Emory University Science Daily

Discovery provides oldest-known evidence for birds so far south
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New study reveals the genetics of human head shape

November 17, 2023 University of Pittsburgh Science Daily

These findings help explain the diversity of human head shapes and may also offer important clues about the genetic basis of conditions that affect the skull, such as craniosynostosis.
How Much Brain Do We Need to Be Human?

November 17, 2023 Kaia Kloster Answers in Genesis

The design and plasticity of the human brain shows God’s goodness.
Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

November 17, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

Fossil Friday
Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?

November 16, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today
Dembski Won the Argument with His Critics

November 16, 2023 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

New Edition of The Design Inference Shows How
The Free Will Debate Really Heated Up This Year

November 15, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

Many commentators are weighing in; surprisingly, perhaps, well-known materialists are disputing the claim that there is no free will
Will Neuroscience Ever Accommodate Immaterial Consciousness?

November 14, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

Joseph Green offers an informative account in Minding the Brain of the current state of neuroscience. What we now know is remarkable -- but so is what we don’t
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Does This Fix the Kalam Cosmological Argument?

November 15, 2023 Reasonable Faith YouTube

Philosopher Trent Horn offers some revisions to the Kalam Cosmological Argument.
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Dark matter's biggest competitor might just have been falsified

November 15, 2023 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

an update on the biggest astrophysics drama of the year, that’s an observation which seems to be ruling out the most popular alternative to dark matter.
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The Best Argument for God

October, 2023 Patrick Flynn Sophia Institute Press

Flynn clearly identifies what is at stake and then provides you with cogent, accessible, yet potent defenses to counter those arguments that atheists routinely make to justify their claim that there is no God. | See Also Amazon
The first dinosaur egg was leathery

November 13, 2023 Chinese Academy of Sciences EurekAlert!
Wonders of Creation: Bats

November 13, 2023 Eric Lyons Apologetics Press
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Previously unknown luminescence revealed in ten deep sea species and an order of sea cucumbers

November 14, 2023 Nagoya University Science Daily

Researchers present evidence of previously unknown luminosity in 10 deep-sea species, suggesting underestimated diversity. The authors stress the importance of considering the ecological role of bioluminesence and the need for conservation.
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New discovery on how green algae count cell divisions illuminates key step needed for the evolution of multicellular life

November 13, 2023 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Science Daily

An international research team has made an unexpected discovery of a biased counting mechanism used by the single-celled green alga Chlamydomonas to control cell division.
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Evolution of taste: Early sharks were able to perceive bitter substances

November 13, 2023 University of Cologne Science Daily

New genetic data show that humans and sharks share bitter taste receptors, even though their evolutionary pathways separated nearly 500 million years ago.
Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

November 13, 2023 Charlie Wood Quanta Magazine

Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.
Is Religious Faith Compatible with Scientific Thinking?

November 14, 2023 Joe Pierre Psychology Today

Integrating faith-based and evidence-based beliefs in a mentally-healthy way.
If Scientists Were Angels

October, 2023 Louise Liebeskind The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon has been charged with robbing science of its innocence. But what if we’ve all been reading him wrong?
Homo Naledi Probably Didn’t Bury Their Dead or Make Rock Art After All

November 14, 2023 Ben Taub IFL Science

Researchers recently claimed that this small-brained hominid deliberately buried its dead 100,000 years before modern humans did.
Americans losing faith in science and scientists

November 15, 2023 Leonardo Blair Christian Post

but still value gov't investment in field
How Black Holes Consume Entropy

November 15, 2023 Paul M. Sutter Universe Today

Entropy is one of those fearsomely deep concepts that form the core of entire fields of physics (in this case, thermodynamics) that is unfortunately so mathematical that it’s difficult to explain in plain language. But we will give it a try.
The Biggest Questions: How did life begin?

November 14, 2023 Michael Marshall MIT Technology Review

AI is helping chemists unpick the mysteries around the origins of life and detect signs of it on other worlds.
Why Even Einstein Couldn’t Unite Physics

November 13, 2023 Paul M. Sutter Universe Today

Near the end of his life Einstein worked tirelessly to find a way to unite electromagnetism with gravity. He could not, and never did, the notes scattered on his desk scrawled with fruitless probes and useless hypotheticals.
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Multiple evolutionary trajectories in aquatic crocodiles

November 15, 2023 University of Liège Science Daily

In the geological past, several groups of crocodiles evolved towards a morphology adapted to marine life. An exhaustive study of their morphology has now shed light on the evolutionary mechanisms at work, thanks to three-dimensional reconstructions.
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‘Bouncing' comets could deliver building blocks for life to exoplanets

November 14, 2023 University of Cambridge Science Daily

How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. Now, researchers have shown how comets could deposit similar building blocks to other planets in the galaxy.
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Colliding ribosomes activate RNA repair

November 15, 2023 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Science Daily

Researchers discover how ribosomes contribute to the recognition and removal of RNA crosslinking damage.
Darwinism, an Excuse for Lazy Thinking

November 16, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

Just say it evolved because of selective pressure, and your work is done
An “Early'' Origin for Modern Echolocation in Bats

November 16, 2023 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research
Recreation of ancient seawater reveals which nutrients shaped the evolution of early life

November 13, 2023 University of Oxford phys.org
The multiverse is unscientific nonsense

November 13, 2023 Jacob Barandes iai News

It's all mere speculation
Why zero-point energy is a scam

November 15, 2023 Don Lincoln Big Think

The term “zero-point energy" has at least two meanings, one that is innocuous and one that is a great deal sexier (and scammier).
Young children trounce large language models in a simple problem-solving task

November 13, 2023 Ross Pomeroy Big Think

AIs can imitate but not innovate -- for now, at least.
Is the Universe fine-tuned for life? Here are 3 answers

November 15, 2023 Marcelo Gleiser Big Think

Two of the answers add a dimension to physics that doesn’t belong there. Maybe we could call it “astrotheology."
Two Million Years Ago, This Homo Erectus Lived the High Life

October 13, 2023 Brian Handwerk Smithsonian Magazine

Dating of a child’s fossilized jaw and teeth suggest our relatives lived at altitude earlier than once thought
40 failed predictions of Evolution

November 14, 2023 Don Batten Creation Ministries International