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Peer-reviewed Paper
Earth shaped by primordial H2 atmospheres
April 12, 2023 Nature, v.616, p.306-311
Earth’s water, intrinsic oxidation state and metal core density are fundamental chemical features of our planet. Studies of exoplanets provide a useful context for elucidating the source of these chemical traits.
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Amber fossils reveal dinosaurs and beetles had symbiotic relationship
April 17, 2023 New Scientist
Remains preserved in amber from 105 million years ago are the oldest evidence of a mutually beneficial relationship between dinosaurs and arthropods
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Early break-up of eastern African forests shaped our ape ancestors
April 13, 2023 New Scientist
Forests in eastern Africa started turning into grassland 10 million years earlier than previously thought, which may have driven the evolution of upright apes
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Retina Design
April 20, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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On the Origin of Natural Law by Materialism
April 19, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Attempts to prove that the universe’s origin occurred purely as a result of natural law fail
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The Transition to Modern Science
April 19, 2023 Answers Research Journal
The Philosophy of Science 3
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Beaches Erode Too Fast for Deep Time
April 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Within a few thousand years, half of earth’s coastlines| will erode away. How long has that been going on?
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Biostatistician Makes “Own Goal” in Argument Against Dembski
February 23, 2016 Uncommon Descent
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The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies
April 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology
April 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Shall We Baptize Darwin?
April 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
a Catholic biologist reflects
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New Book Offers the CATHOLIC Case for Intelligent Design
April 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Do Plant Galls Falsify Darwinism?
April 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Michael D. Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis and Scientism
March 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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A New Look at Natural Selection
April 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity
April 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Hostility Against Churches
April, 2023 Family Research Council
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Leading Evolution Compassionately
January, 2023 Herbivorize Predators
We believe all species should be herbivorous, because suffering is universal and all beings experience it. That's why we are researching and discovering ways to direct the evolution of feeding strategies.
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Blog Post
My Controversial Diatribe Against “Skeptics”
April 10, 2023 the science writer
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Never-before-seen Bible chapter discovered using UV light
April 12, 2023 Independent (UK)
‘Until recently, only two manuscripts were known to contain the Old Syriac translation of the gospels’
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52 million-year-old bat skeleton belongs to a never-before-seen species
April 12, 2023 Live Science
The bat skeletons unearthed in southwest Wyoming are the oldest ever found, and their discovery has sparked a reshuffle in the bat family tree.
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Transcending the Evolution-Creation Debate
April 12, 2023 Crisis magazine
Recent scientific developments and philosophical interpretations of these developments can lead to a greater unity among Catholics debating evolution.
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Why some cosmologists found the Big Bang offensive
April 12, 2023 Big Think
For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
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The mystery of the human genome's dark matter
April 12, 2023 BBC
Twenty years ago, an enormous scientific effort revealed that the human genome contains 20,000 protein-coding genes, but they account for just 2% of our DNA. The rest of was written off as junk -- but we are now realising it has a crucial role to play.
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Quantum Biology and the Origin of Life
April 13, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Understanding the difference between the mind and the brain
April 7, 2023 Nature
Neuroscientist Chantel Prat is keen to understand why, despite a growing awareness of diversity and its importance, we still sometimes struggle to accept different perspectives.
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Genome reveals how the skate got its wings
April 12, 2023 Nature
Genome sequencing, combined with methods for deducing how genomic regions interact, have now provided insight into how the wings that give skates and rays their characteristic shapes evolved more than 200 million years ago.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang
February 22, 2023 Nature, v.616, p.266-269
Galaxies with stellar masses as high as roughly 1011 solar masses have been identified out to redshifts z of roughly 6, around 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
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How octopuses taste with their arms
April 12, 2023 Nature
Ultra-specialized proteins enable octopuses and squids to taste surfaces with their suckers -- and these proteins are tailored to each animal’s way of life.
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How I use ChatGPT responsibly in my teaching
April 12, 2023 Nature
Large language models are here to stay. Here’s how I’m incorporating them
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How Stephen Hawking flip-flopped on whether the Universe has a beginning
April 10, 2023 Nature
The question of what the Big Bang really represented still bamboozles cosmologists -- and Hawking provided more than one answer.
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Tadpole embryos grow strong jaws if they sense shrimp in the water
April 13, 2023 New Scientist
Mexican spadefoot toad embryos that sense lots of shrimp in the water before they are born grow bigger and stronger jaws, ready for their first meals after hatching
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Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination
April 11, 2023 New Scientist
There is probably a plane of knowledge beyond the grasp of human minds. But mathematician and physicist David Wolpert says it is still possible to explore this unimaginable realm
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News Update/Commentary
How an African bird might inspire a better water bottle
April 11, 2023 Science Daily
An extreme closeup of feathers from a bird with an uncanny ability to hold water while it flies could inspire the next generation of absorbent materials.
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News Update/Commentary
New textile unravels warmth-trapping secrets of polar bear fur
April 10, 2023 Science Daily
Engineers invents bilayered fabric, 30% lighter than cotton and far warmer
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News Update/Commentary
How skates learned to fly through water
April 12, 2023 Science Daily
Genes are not the only drivers of evolution. The iconic fins of skates are caused by changes in the non-coding genome and its three-dimensional structure, an international research team reports.
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Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
April 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
God's Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design
April, 2023 Sophia Institute Press
In an age of rising unbelief, top Catholic thinkers show how, more than ever, both science and reason affirm the words of the great Catholic poet Gerard Manley Hopkins: “The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” | See Also Amazon
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Bacterial origin of a key innovation in the evolution of the vertebrate eye
April 10, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Since the time of Charles Darwin, explaining the stepwise evolution of the eye has been a challenge. Here, we describe the essential contribution of bacteria to the evolution of the vertebrate eye
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Blog Post
Partisan Science is Bad for Science and Society
April 5, 2023 Heterodox
It has become common in the last decade for top scientific journals and scientific institutions to become involved in political advocacy, but when science becomes partisan, public trust decreases.
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Fascism’s History Offers Lessons about Today’s Attacks on Education
April 7, 2023 Scientific American
Moves in Florida to control public education mirror past fascist strategies in ways that are disquieting for American democracy, a historian argues
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The first dinosaurs in China
May, 2023 Gondwana Research, v.117, p.261-273
Dating Late Triassic footprint fossils from the Sichuan Basin
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Life may have survived far north of equator during ‘Snowball Earth’
April 4, 2023 Science
Ancient deep freeze might have been less bleak and prolonged than previously believed
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How like the kiwi we are
April 11, 2023 Aeon
To understand helpless human babies, our big brains and oddly involved dads, look to the evolution of birds not mammals
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Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity
April 11, 2023 Quanta Magazine
As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells now growing in labs are giving us our best glimpses of the forerunners of all complex life.
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Bible exhibit challenges belief that faith and science have nothing to do with each other
April 11, 2023 Fox News
NASA astronaut endorses museum's ‘Scripture and Science' exhibit -- Bible not in conflict with science
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News Update/Commentary
Stowaways in the genome
April 11, 2023 Science Daily
Thousands of unknown viruses hide in the DNA of unicellular organisms
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News Update/Commentary
Male yellow crazy ants are real-life chimeras
April 11, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers discovered that males of the yellow crazy ant have maternal and paternal genomes in different cells of their body and are thus chimeras.
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Hawking Left Our Privileged Planet on an Absurd Note
April 12, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
His Legacy Might Be Called ‘On the Origin of a Fine-Tuned Universe from Nothing’
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Contributions to a British Association Discussion on the Evolution of the Universe
October 24, 1931 Nature, v.128, p.704-706
“Is the universe expanding at about the rate indicated by the spectra of the nebulæ”