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News Update/Commentary
Geoscientists shed a light on life's evolution 800 million years ago
March 22, 2023 Science Daily
Is nitrate responsible for algae, flowers, and even your neighbors? A team of geoscientists have unearthed evidence that may indicate yes.
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Much Ado About Ryugu
March 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Uracil, a molecule found in RNA, has been reported in an asteroid. From media hype, one would think they discovered life in outer space.
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Giant Ants Buried in Receding Flood Rocks
March 23, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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A Biochemical Icon of Intelligent Design, ATP Synthase Does More than Spin
March 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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I Got Canceled by the National Science Teaching Association
March 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry
March 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
shown by peer-reviewed paper
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Darwin a Slavery Abolitionist? Aw, Come On!
March 23, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Video
Origin of Life: Controversial Chemist Shakes up Scientific Community
March 14, 2023 YouTube
Problems with Primordial Soup
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Trilobite Ocelli Found; Like Compound Eyes, They Popped Into Existence
March 21, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The so-called median eyes of many arthropods were thought to be missing in trilobites, but have now been discovered
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The universe might be shaped like a doughnut, not like a pancake
March 21, 2023 Live Science
The universe may be flat, but could still be shaped like a doughnut, weird patterns in leftover light from the Big Bang suggest.
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How Authoritarianism in Science Prevents Objective Evaluation of Darwinism
March 22, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Mockery is not an argument. Let the science speak.
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You Are Not Going to Be AI’s “Pet”
March 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Robert J. Marks on Fox News
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A Failed Attempt to Turn Darwin into Wilberforce
March 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Black Sea flood: definitely not the Flood of Noah
April, 2000 CEN Technical Journal, v.14, n.1, p.40-44
Widely publicised claims have been made in the media that scientists have found positive proof for Noah’s Flood at the edges of the Black Sea. Details of the find are examined and the claim compared with the record of Noah’s Flood in the Bible.
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The Day the Mesozoic Died
March 13, 2023 JournalAZ (Yavapai College)
Charles Darwin hypothesized that extinction is a key feature of organic evolution, as it opens up the path for diversification for species that fill ecological niches. Most extinctions are slow and cumulative; however, the death of the dinosaurs was fast
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Can synthetic polymers replace the body’s natural proteins?
March 20, 2023 University of California, Berkeley
Most life on Earth is based on polymers of 20 amino acids that have evolved into hundreds of thousands of different, highly specialized proteins. But is all that variety necessary? Could biology work just as well with fewer building blocks
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Zooming in on the brains of babies
March 20, 2023 knowable magazine
New tools are helping neuroscientists investigate why early life is such a crucial time for neural development
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News Update/Commentary
New eyes discovered in trilobites
March 20, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have detected previously overlooked eyes whose form and function could help to improve the evolutionary classification of archaic arthropods.
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News Update/Commentary
Genes that form specific bones in the womb heal them later in life
March 20, 2023 Science Daily
Turning up stem cell signal lessened age-related loss of bone healing in mice
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Thalattosuchians -- Extinct Crocodile Relatives?
March 20, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and causality inside out
March 20, 2023 New Scientist
In his final years, Stephen Hawking tackled the question of why the universe appears fine-tuned for life. His collaborator Thomas Hertog explains the radical solution they came up with
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Life Is Devolving from a Past World of Giants
March 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Almost every type of organism was larger in the past. Why is the world impoverished of giants today?
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The Role of Learning in the Honey Bee Waggle Dance
March 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture
March 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin and the “Eyre Affair”
March 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
A Speculative Tale
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Let’s Help Harvard Understand Intelligent Design
March 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Engineering Language Enters Biology
March 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
The Case of the Endosome
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Video
Clever Seagull Cracks Open Shell -- Bird Intelligence
March 31, 2018 YouTube
Seagull's ingenious method to break open shell by dropping it over the rocks and eating what's inside. Is it tool usage?
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What is life? Scientists still can’t agree.
March 16, 2023 Vox
Science writer Carl Zimmer explains why this question has been so hard to answer.
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The algorithmic origins of life
February 6, 2013 Journal of the Royal Society Interface, v.10, n.79
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Tiny, ‘fairy-like’ robots that could replace dying bumblebees: ‘Superior to its natural counterparts’
March 20, 2023 MSN - Microsoft
Researchers in Finland have developed small, fairy-like robots that can fly, which could help to pollinate vital crops across the globe.
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Newly revealed ancient galaxies generate excitement
March 14, 2023 Physics Today
Peering at some of the universe’s oldest galaxies, the JWST finds that they were surprisingly numerous, massive, and organized.
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The Artificial Intelligence Black Box and the Failure of Intent and Causation
April, 2018 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, v.31, n.2, p.889-938
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A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator
March 19, 2023 The Guardian
Thomas Hertog worked with cosmologist on a new book after he shared his doubts about A Brief History of Time
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The early universe was crammed with stars 10,000 times the size of our sun
March 19, 2023 space.com
When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Gigantic footprint of a theropod dinosaur in the Early Jurassic of Poland
August, 2001 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v.46, n.3, p.441-446
This discovery, along with a previous find in Arizona, provides ichnological evidence of a global occurrence of gigantic predatory dinosaurs in the Early Jurassic. | See Also pdf
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Free Will Is Real
March 16, 2023 Skeptic (Reading Room)
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Breaking into the black box of artificial intelligence
March 29, 2022 Nature
Scientists are finding ways to explain the inner workings of complex machine-learning models.
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Laws of cause and explanation
March 18, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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At light speed, Einstein’s equations break down and nothing makes sense
March 16, 2023 Big Think
Everything everywhere all at once.
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‘Terminator zones’ on distant planets could harbor life
March 16, 2023 University of California, Irvine
These in-between regions could be prime sites for liquid water
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil site is ‘Rosetta Stone' for understanding early life
March 17, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers who analyzed the 400 million-year-old cache, found in rural north-east Scotland, say their findings reveal better preservation of the fossils at a molecular level than was previously anticipated.
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Fact Check: Imagining Darwin’s Abolitionism
March 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Skeptic Argues Free Will Is Real
March 18, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist
March 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Could Sex Evolve?
March 17, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Still baffling after all these years: a new PNAS article reinforces the difficulty of explaining the evolution of sex
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GPT-4 is here: what scientists think
March 16, 2023 Nature
Researchers are excited about the AI -- but many are frustrated that its underlying engineering is cloaked in secrecy.
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How stem cells make a human brain
March 16, 2023 Nature
Technical “tour de force” allows researchers to trace the family tree of crucial brain cells.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolutionary transitions from camouflage to aposematism
March 16, 2023 Science, v.379, n.6637, p.1136-1140
Using bright coloration to warn predators off of toxic prey, or aposematism, presents a conundrum in evolution. How do brightly colored organisms survive long enough to warn predators when they are easier to predate than their cryptic peers?
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OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world
March 15, 2023 ars technica
“ARC's evaluation has much lower probability of leading to an AI takeover than the deployment itself."