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Pew: Post-COVID, Trust in Science Dropped Significantly
November 18, 2023 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 YouTube
Jennifer Rivera teaches us about the history of the Galápagos Islands, what natural selection is, and whether natural selection contradicts biblical creation
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Purposeful universe
November 16, 2023 Aeon
Neither atheism nor theism adequately explains reality. That is why we must consider the middle ground between the two
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Carbon Dating Reveals the Timing of Puerto Rican Cave Art
November 9, 2023 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.
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How did time begin, and how will it end?
November 16, 2023 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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Blog Post
Free Will and ChatGPT-Me
November 16, 2023
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‘No scientific evidence' that ancient human relative buried dead and carved art
November 17, 2023 Live Science
A new commentary blasts claims about Homo naledi featured in Netflix's “Unknown: Cave of Bones" documentary
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Jurassic Park: why we’re still struggling to realise it 30 years on
November 16, 2023 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.
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The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species
November 15, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
Scientists have solved the damselfly color mystery
November 17, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
Much more than waste: Tiny vesicles exchange genetic information between cells in the sea
November 16, 2023 Science Daily
Extracellular vesicles play a much greater role in horizontal gene transfer in the ocean than previously assumed
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News Update/Commentary
Future of brain-inspired AI as Python code library passes major milestone
November 17, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
No scientific evidence for cognitively advanced behaviors and symbolism by Homo naledi
November 13, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
How cell identity is preserved when cells divide
November 16, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
Birds set foot near South Pole in Early Cretaceous, Australian tracks show
November 16, 2023 Science Daily
Discovery provides oldest-known evidence for birds so far south
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News Update/Commentary
New study reveals the genetics of human head shape
November 17, 2023 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.
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How Much Brain Do We Need to Be Human?
November 17, 2023 Answers in Genesis
The design and plasticity of the human brain shows God’s goodness.
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Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion
November 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?
November 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dembski Won the Argument with His Critics
November 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
New Edition of The Design Inference Shows How
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The Free Will Debate Really Heated Up This Year
November 15, 2023 Mind Matters
Many commentators are weighing in; surprisingly, perhaps, well-known materialists are disputing the claim that there is no free will
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Will Neuroscience Ever Accommodate Immaterial Consciousness?
November 14, 2023 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 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 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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Book
The Best Argument for God
October, 2023 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
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The first dinosaur egg was leathery
November 13, 2023 EurekAlert!
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Wonders of Creation: Bats
November 13, 2023 Apologetics Press
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News Update/Commentary
Previously unknown luminescence revealed in ten deep sea species and an order of sea cucumbers
November 14, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
New discovery on how green algae count cell divisions illuminates key step needed for the evolution of multicellular life
November 13, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of taste: Early sharks were able to perceive bitter substances
November 13, 2023 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.
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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit
November 13, 2023 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.
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Is Religious Faith Compatible with Scientific Thinking?
November 14, 2023 Psychology Today
Integrating faith-based and evidence-based beliefs in a mentally-healthy way.
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If Scientists Were Angels
October, 2023 The New Atlantis
Francis Bacon has been charged with robbing science of its innocence. But what if we’ve all been reading him wrong?
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Homo Naledi Probably Didn’t Bury Their Dead or Make Rock Art After All
November 14, 2023 IFL Science
Researchers recently claimed that this small-brained hominid deliberately buried its dead 100,000 years before modern humans did.
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Americans losing faith in science and scientists
November 15, 2023 Christian Post
but still value gov't investment in field
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How Black Holes Consume Entropy
November 15, 2023 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.
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The Biggest Questions: How did life begin?
November 14, 2023 MIT Technology Review
AI is helping chemists unpick the mysteries around the origins of life and detect signs of it on other worlds.
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Why Even Einstein Couldn’t Unite Physics
November 13, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
Multiple evolutionary trajectories in aquatic crocodiles
November 15, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
‘Bouncing' comets could deliver building blocks for life to exoplanets
November 14, 2023 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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News Update/Commentary
Colliding ribosomes activate RNA repair
November 15, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers discover how ribosomes contribute to the recognition and removal of RNA crosslinking damage.
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Darwinism, an Excuse for Lazy Thinking
November 16, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Just say it evolved because of selective pressure, and your work is done
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An “Early'' Origin for Modern Echolocation in Bats
November 16, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Recreation of ancient seawater reveals which nutrients shaped the evolution of early life
November 13, 2023 phys.org
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The multiverse is unscientific nonsense
November 13, 2023 iai News
It's all mere speculation
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Why zero-point energy is a scam
November 15, 2023 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).
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Young children trounce large language models in a simple problem-solving task
November 13, 2023 Big Think
AIs can imitate but not innovate -- for now, at least.
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Is the Universe fine-tuned for life? Here are 3 answers
November 15, 2023 Big Think
Two of the answers add a dimension to physics that doesn’t belong there. Maybe we could call it “astrotheology."
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Two Million Years Ago, This Homo Erectus Lived the High Life
October 13, 2023 Smithsonian Magazine
Dating of a child’s fossilized jaw and teeth suggest our relatives lived at altitude earlier than once thought
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40 failed predictions of Evolution
November 14, 2023 Creation Ministries International