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| ARTICLES AND VIDEOS - February 2024 |
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PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND COSMOLOGY
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| Twenty questions about the Big Bang answered in less than 20 minutes |
Wintery Knight |
| Ten Tough, Terrific Quantum Books |
John Horgan |
| A physicist tries to avoid the fact of design in our universe… |
Mind Matters |
| Mario Livio - The Anthropic Principle: Meaning & Significance |
YouTube - Closer to Truth |
| From Astrophysicist Paul Sutter — Multiverse Madness! |
Evolution News |
| Multiverses Are Pseudoscientific Bulls**t |
John Horgan |
| The biggest questions about the Universe's beginning |
Big Think |
| Did the Universe have zero entropy when it first began? |
Big Think |
| James Webb telescope finds ancient galaxy larger than our Milky Way and it's threatening to upend cosmology |
Live Science |
| Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait, what? |
YouTube - Sabine Hossenfelder |
| The quantum world: Dreams and delusions | Roger Penrose Sabine Hossenfelder Michio Kaku and more! |
YouTube - The Institure of Art and Ideas |
| Stephen Hawking was actually overdue for a critical look |
Uncommon Descent |
| What was it like when dark energy rose to prominence? |
Big Think |
| Is dark matter subatomic particles, a superfluid, or both? |
Aeon |
| New physics theory: Singularities could be everywhere -- And they might explain dark matter |
YouTube - Sabine Hossenfelder |
| Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell? |
Ars Technica |
| Should we abandon the multiverse theory? | Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose, Michio Kaku |
YouTube - The Institure of Art and Ideas |
| Is the Schrödinger Equation True? |
John Horgan |
| String Theory Nonsense Makes Comeback |
YouTube - Sabine Hossenfelder |
Creation: Young or Old? - A Dialogue with Marcus Ross & Hugh Ross
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Ratio Christi at Liberty University |
| How long will life persist in our Universe? - Ask Ethan |
Big Think |
| A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now It's Falling Apart. |
Quanta Magazine |
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EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY
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| The Cambrian Explosion: A deeper look at the appearance of various phyla in the geologic column |
Geoscience Research Institute |
| The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess |
Evolution News |
| The Vindhyan Controversy and Debunking Alleged Ediacaran and Cambrian Fossils |
Evolution News |
| Algal Microfossils Show No Evolution |
ICR |
| Chronospecies, a Sinking Ship |
Evolution News |
| Is Tiktaalik really an evolutionary transition? Interviews with Dr. Matt McLain |
YouTube - Creation Unfolding |
| T. rex Out of Nowhere |
ICR |
| Geological evidence of a worldwide flood |
YouTube - Biblical Creation Trust |
| Taphonomy, the Fossil Record, and Clues about the End of the Flood by Dr Leonard Brand |
YouTube - Logos Research Associates |
| Snakes do it faster better: How a group of scaly legless lizards hit the evolutionary jackpot |
Science Daily |
| The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes |
Science |
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BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY
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| Astrophysicist explains the problems with naturalistic origin of life |
Wintery Knight |
| Debate and 60 Day Challenge Review: No One Can Solve these Origin of Life Questions | Lee Cronin |
YouTube - Dr. James Tour |
| From Nature, a Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research |
Evolution News |
| On the Origin of Life, a Measure of Intelligent Design’s Impact on Mainstream Science |
Evolution News |
| A Darwinian Dilemma: The Paradox of Reproduction |
Evolution News |
| What Is the Essence of Life? |
Evolution News |
| Is the “RNA world” hypothesis a good naturalistic explanation for the origin of life? |
Wintery Knight |
| Membranes are functionalized by a proteolipid code |
BMC Biology |
| Does the Miller-Urey experiment tell us anything about how life originated on Earth? |
Wintery Knight |
| How molecular 'handedness' emerged in early biology |
Science Daily |
| What’s the best explanation for the origin of life for atheists? |
Wintery Knight |
| Forget what you thought you knew about eukaryote evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Exploring God's Intelligent Design of Viruses By Dr. Tyler Manning |
YouTube - Reasons to Believe |
| Ten Evolutionary Fairytales |
Answers in Genesis |
| The Body's Thermostat Resembles Human Technology |
Evolution News |
| The incredible shrinking human genome |
YouTube - Biblical Genetics |
| Getting It Together: Tethers, Handshakes, & Multitaskers in the Cell |
Evolution News |
| Butterfly and moth genomes mostly unchanged despite 250 million years of evolution |
Science Daily |
| It's time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life |
Nature |
| Denis Noble in Nature: "Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life" |
Evolution News |
| Life: Designed to not evolve |
Creation |
| Rescuing Chance for Darwinism |
Evolution News |
| Why "Junk DNA" May Be Placeholder for Ignorance |
Evolution News |
| Are non-protein coding RNAs junk or treasure? |
Wiley Online Library |
| The Exquisite Design of Egg Cells |
Evolution News |
| Shelled Eggs Crack Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Mechanism discovered that protects tissue after faulty gene expression |
Science Daily |
| 19 Before And After Photos Of Butterfly And Moth Transformations |
Bored Panda |
| The Conserved Complexity of Eye Cell Types |
ICR |
| 'Genomic time machine' reveals secrets of our DNA |
Science Daily |
| Are Memories "Stored" in the Brain? |
Evolution News |
| How the brain's internal compass guides the body |
Science Daily |
| Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells |
Quanta Magazine |
| How Flies Control Eyes Size |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin |
Evolution News |
| Sophistication in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems |
Evolution News |
| The appendix plays a hidden role in gut health |
NPR |
| Why insects navigate more efficiently than robots |
Science Daily |
| Ants: An utterly different model of a large communal society |
Mind Matters |
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ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES
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| Asked at Psychology Today: Were Neanderthals religious? |
Mind Matters |
| New Evidence for Human Nature of Neanderthals |
Evolution News |
| Did Neanderthals Use Glue? Researchers Find Evidence that Sticks |
NYU |
| Ken Dark 2023 Archaeology of Jesus' Nazareth |
YouTube - Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society |
| Could human consciousness be a recent historical development? |
Mind Matters |
| Top Five Questions on the Origin of Language |
Evolution News |
| Homo habilis 'Handy Man' Getting Fired |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Human Origins and the Beginning of Art |
Evolution News |
| Indo-European languages: The debate over their origin and spread |
Knowable Magazine |
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HISTORY / PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY
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| How a Militant Marxist (and Atheist) Found God |
YouTube - Sean McDowell |
| Oxford Mathematician Explains Why Atheism Isn’t True |
YouTube - Daily Dose of Wisdom |
| A New Look at Three Deep Questions - Eric Hedin |
Evolution News |
| Prof: There’s a growing number of verified near-death experiences |
Mind Matters |
| Near-death: What people learn when they are (briefly) dead - Gary Habermas |
Mind Matters |
| Near death: Why corroborated NDEs can’t just be explained away |
Mind Matters |
| Why doesn’t God just do something dramatic to prove He exists? - Michael Egnor |
Mind Matters |
| Atheist: Why ID Is Not "God of the Gaps" |
Evolution News |
| Darwin's "God Wouldn't Do It This Way" Argument |
Evolution News |
| We must put an end to scientism |
The Institute of Art and Ideas |
| Specified Complexity Made Simple |
Bill Dembski |
| Why can’t our memories be “stored” in the brain? - Michael Egnor |
Mind Matters |
| The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science: 2024 Update |
Roger Pielkejr |
| Who Should You Trust? Why Appeals to Scientific Consensus Are Often Uncompelling |
Skeptic |
| Philosopher: Non-materialism is fashionable orthodoxy now |
Mind Matters |
| What Really Happened at the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate? |
Evolution News |
| New Book: Darwin’s Bluff: The Mystery of the Book Darwin Never Finished |
Discovery Institute |
| Darwin’s Bluff — Continued
| Evolution News |
| Does the World Need Another Book About Darwin? |
Evolution News |
| For Darwin Day, Shedinger Calls Darwin's Bluff |
Evolution News |
| Darwin Online has virtually reassembled the naturalist’s personal library |
Ars Technica |
| The (Mis)Education of Religion and the American Founding |
Minding the Campus |
| William Lane Craig lectures on the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus |
Wintery Knight |
| N.T. Wright lectures on the seven mutations caused by resurrection of Jesus |
Wintery Knight |
| What are the historical arguments for the post-mortem appearances of Jesus? |
Wintery Knight |
| Why is theology the most important empirical science? - Eric Holloway |
Mind Matters |
| Lectures on science apologetics for a general audience |
Wintery Knight |
| Belief in the soul is found in every time and place |
Mind Matters |
| Samir Okasha - Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology |
YouTube - Closer to Truth |
| Scientific Censorship Appears to Be Increasing |
Evolution News |
| Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and "The Game of Life" |
John Horgan |
| Andy Clark - What is Consciousness? |
YouTube - Closer to Truth |
| Patrick Haggard - How Brain Scientists Think About Consciousness |
YouTube - Closer to Truth |
| Hall of Mirrors: The many ways consciousness baffles researchers |
Mind Matters |
| Alan Guth - Must the Universe Contain Consciousness? |
YouTube - Closer to Truth |
| Dean Zimmerman - What is the Mind-Body Problem? |
YouTube - Closer to Truth |
| Does the Bible teach Christians to expect happiness or suffering? |
Wintery Knight |
| The Weaponization of "Scientific Consensus" |
The Honest Broker |
| Why Appeals to Scientific Consensus Are Often Uncompelling |
Skeptic |
| The Consensus Conspiracy |
Brownstone Institute |
| Stifling Opposition Is the Real "Anti-Science" |
Evolution News |
| The Strongest Neuroscience Arguments in the Free Will Debate |
Psychology Today |
| How neuroscience disproved free will and then proved it again |
Mind Matters |
| My reply to free will deniers: Show me by Michael Egnor |
Mind Matters |
| Are the new atheists losing their “Cool” quotient? |
Mind Matters |
| Mark D. Linville: Does Darwinian evolution make morality rational? |
Wintery Knight |
| Bad News for the "Theist on the Street" |
Evolution News |
| Discovering the Real Adam and Eve! by Dr John Sanford |
YouTube - Logos Research Associates |
| Designed Evolution? Sorry, Wrong Universe |
Evolution News |
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| Human intelligence is fundamentally different from machine intelligence |
Mind Matters
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| Information content of note transitions in the music of J. S. Bach |
Physical Review Research
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| Shannon and Kolmogorov Information |
Evolution News
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| When a brilliant man has a very confused perspective … |
Mind Matters
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| AGI: Machines vs. Organisms |
Evolution News
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| AGI: The Oracle Problem |
Evolution News
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| William Dembski: Destroy the AI idol before it destroys us |
Mind Matters
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| AI and Wall Street’s hype curve - Robert J. Marks |
Mind Matters
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| What if we lost the power to think abstractly? |
Mind Matters
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| Will deepfakes be used to “show” us that computers can now think? |
Mind Matters
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| Why, despite all the hype we hear, AI is not one of us |
Mind Matters
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| Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences |
Evolution News
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| Is your mind bigger than the universe? Well, look at it this way… |
Mind Matters
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| Political correctness now a bullying tactic aimed at stifling legitimate debate |
Irish Times
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| Why mainstream media can no longer really fight censorship |
Mind Matters
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