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Evolution Is Not an Engineer; It’s a Dumb Idol
April 28, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinists routinely idolize natural selection granting it godlike powers
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The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Systematics
April 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
systematics is the relationships between organisms
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The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Paleontology
April 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Physicist Eric Hedin Was Bullied by Atheists But Not Squashed
May 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Is Risk Aversion Ruining Science?
April 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Claim: Complex Cells Started Without Oxygen
May 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Atheism Not As Rational As You Think?
May 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Apparently, the Machinery of Sleep Is Very Complex
May 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
new sleep molecule:
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Strong Emergence Principle Emerges in Biology
April 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Studying Volcanoes through Myths, Legends, & Other Unconventional Data
April 22, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Studying historic eruptions through a storytelling lens often improves our understanding of and ability to prepare for such events.
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Tonga Eruption Made Waves in Earth’s Ionosphere
April 21, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The blast from Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai produced far-reaching ionospheric disturbances, including one with an initial speed of up to 950 meters per second.
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Local adaptation in coral reefs
April 28, 2022 Science, v.376, n.6592, p.471-473
Spatial variation in lagoon habitats at the Clerke Reef atoll has given rise to corals with increased tolerance to heat.
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Myths, Legends, and Buried Hair
April 22, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
In our May issue of Eos, we’re seeking out innovations in volcanology.
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Darwin Was Wrong: Your Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Your Emotions
April 27, 2022 Scientific American
The emotion AI industry, courts and child educators are unknowingly relying on a misunderstanding of Darwin’s ideas
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Evolutionary Origin of Biological Function and Complexity
March 20, 2013 Journal of Molecular Evolution, v.76, p.185–191
The identification of dynamic kinetic stability (DKS) as a stability kind that governs the evolutionary process for both chemical and biological replicators, opens up new avenues for uncovering the chemical basis of biological phenomena.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Gene loss and compensatory evolution promotes the emergence of morphological novelties in budding yeast
April 28, 2022 Nature Ecology & Evolution
Deleterious mutations are generally considered to be irrelevant for morphological evolution. However, they could be compensated by conditionally beneficial mutations, thereby providing access to new adaptive paths.
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Behe: Magnetotactic Bacteria and Other Micro-Wonders
April 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Universe Is Fundamentally Off Kilter?
April 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Video
Young Earth Creationism
February 25, 2022 YouTube
Gideon Lazar and Jimmy Akin will debate the resolution “the earth was created a few thousand years ago".
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Can Universal Common Descent be Tested?
April 27, 2022 YouTube
of the Discovery Institute
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Canceled Science: Scientific Discoveries Some Atheists Don't Want You To See
April 26, 2022 YouTube
Eric Hedin, author of Canceled Science, explains how he was canceled by the scientific establishment and reflects on the lessons he learned during the experience. He also discusses scientific evidence which points to a Creator.
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Bacteria: Superheroes of the Microbial World (Secrets of the Cell, Episode 6)
April 28, 2022 YouTube
Join biochemist Michael Behe as he explores marvels of the microscopic world, including bacteria with their own navigation systems, microbes that eat plastic waste, and microscopic bugs that can shoot 60 molecular “bullets” every second.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
X-ray Dating of a Turin Shroud’s Linen Sample
April 11, 2022 Heritage, v.5, n.2, p.860-870
On a sample of the Turin Shroud, we applied a new method for dating ancient linen threads by inspecting their structural degradation by means of Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering
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Opinion: Risk Aversion Is Ruining Science
April 27, 2022 undark.org
To nurture scientific discovery, universities and grant institutions must do a better job of rewarding failure.
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Earliest Evidence of Plate Tectonics Found in 3.8-Billion-Year-Old Crystals
April 24, 2022 Forbes
A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa hold the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics
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The spreading of the seafloor has slowed, and scientists aren’t sure why
April 23, 2022 Washington Post
The slowdown could mean a drop in greenhouse emissions from volcanoes, which are affected by the seafloor-creating process
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To Find Alien Life, Scientists Are Solving Puzzles of Saturn Moon Titan
April 27, 2022 cnet.com
Unlocking the mysteries of Titan's landscape could open doors in the quest to find extraterrestrial beings.
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All RNA and DNA Base Types Are Found in Meteorites, Study Claims
April 27, 2022 The Scientist
The discovery could add weight to the hypothesis that the building blocks of life on Earth originally came from space, but some scientists note the possibility of contamination.
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An “oracle” for predicting the evolution of gene regulation
March 11, 2022 MIT News
Researchers create a mathematical framework to examine the genome and detect signatures of natural selection, deciphering the evolutionary past and future of non-coding DNA.
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He Fast-Forwarded Evolution into the Future
April 27, 2022 nautil.us
Forty years ago, a paleontologist pictured Earth millions of years from now. His vision is a wake-up call for us today.
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New research provides better understanding of skin’s durability
April 25, 2022 Binghamton University (SUNY)
Human skin has evolved to allow maximum durability and flexibility, according to new research from Binghamton University.
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Do singularities exist in nature?
April 27, 2022 Big Think
Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.
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Book
Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science
March, 2022 Yale University Press
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How ancient DNA hit the headlines
April 26, 2022 Nature
The origins, politics and motivations of the people who sequence age-old genomes.
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Evolutionary Indoctrination Works When Debate Is Forbidden
April 27, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Proof that evolutionary indoctrination works and that the evidence does not matter
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Controversial claim that the universe is skewed could upend cosmology
April 27, 2022 New Scientist
Our understanding of the universe is underpinned by the cosmological principle: the assumption that, on the grandest scales, it looks more or less the same in all directions. What if that's wrong?
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Outlining Intelligent Design’s Positive Argument
April 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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At the Bottom of the Glass, God Is Waiting
April 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Investigating the Evidence for Intelligent Design
April 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
in biochemistry and other fields
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Male Spiders Have Found a Way To Avoid Getting Eaten by Their Mates?
April 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Scientific Publishing As a Scam
April 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Does time really exist?
April 26, 2022 Big Think
We take for granted that time is real. But what if it's only an illusion, and a relative illusion at that? Does time even exist?
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Scientific Publishing Is a Scam Fed by the Government
April 27, 2022 Real Clear Science
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Could the Blueprint for Life Have Been Generated in Asteroids?
April 26, 2022 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientists have just found the last two units of DNA and RNA in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA could be formed in a meteorite, this discovery demonstrates that these genetic parts are available for delivery
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Conference;
Geology through a cultural lens -- Diverse perspectives on the natural world
April, 2022 Goldschmidt Conference (geochemistry), Hawaii
Theme 15 will feature the Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation and the share Papakū Makawalu epistemology and methodology -- Papakū Makawalu is one dynamic Hawaiian world view of the physical, intellectual, and spiritual foundations from which life cycles emerge
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Methane could be the key to discovering alien life in space, scientists say
April 16, 2022 Study FInds
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All four of the key DNA building blocks have been found in meteorites
April 26, 2022 New Scientist
We have now discovered all four building blocks of DNA in meteorite samples, suggesting that space rocks may have delivered the compounds to Earth, contributing to the origin of life
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Shaky Science Instruction Pervades Middle School Classrooms
April 25, 2022 undark.org
A shortage of qualified science educators may be hurting efforts to help more Americans learn how science works.
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Frogs have acquired DNA from snakes with the help of parasites
April 26, 2022 New Scientist
Horizontal DNA transfer, once thought to be a rare event, has occurred between snakes and frogs at least 54 times in the past 85 million years
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News Update/Commentary
‘I know this song!' Evolutionary keys to musical perception
April 25, 2022 Science Daily
When we hear a song that we already know, we can identify it even if it is not an exact version of the original. If it sounds higher or lower, faster or slower, or if the instruments are different from the known version, humans can identify it