Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have discovered a previously unknown social interaction that unites the colony, linking ants across developmental stages: adults, larvae, and pupae (an immobile stage, not unlike Read More…
At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy Is the “Mother of all Chicken-and-Egg Problems”
David Klinghoffer writes: Here’s a really devilish problem to pose to your favorite friend, teacher, or relative who’s a Darwinist true believer. As Your Designed Body co-author Steve Laufmann observes, the relationship between an embryo and its mother is a relationship between unequals. The embryo’s systems are not yet complete so it depends on its mother for Read More…
From MSN: Orion capsule watches the moon eclipse Earth at farthest point of Artemis odyssey
Impressive achievements by the Artemis 1 mission.
From Evolution News: Prigogine’s Self-Organization vs. Specified Biological Complexity
Self-organization, exemplified in “dissipative structures” (Prigogine), which can arise in systems maintained far from thermodynamic equilibrium, result in a decrease in information and do not constitute a natural explanation of information-rich biological systems.
At Big Think: Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement
As a physicist whose research involved computational nano-electronics, for which the entire physical schema relied upon quantum mechanical transport of electrons through molecular structures, it would seem to be a “no-brainer” that quantum processes (including entanglement) are prevalent in brain activity.
At Science Daily: Exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life living in caves
Spelunking on Mars? I’m sure it could be fascinating, but it bears keeping in mind that environment doesn’t produce life.
The Thought that Stops Thought
“G. K. Chesterton wrote, ‘It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith.'”
At Evolution News: Intelligent Design and Man’s Free Will
C. S. Lewis: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
According to sources: Sam Harris has deleted his Twitter account
Here: “The move comes after the Waking Up podcast host was slammed for stating that he hated Trump to such an extent that he wouldn’t have cared if Hunter Biden “had the corpses of children in his basement” in the lead up to the 2020 election.” Readers may better remember Harris as a prominent new Read More…
Man-ape chasm of differences
“Human beings have mental powers that include the material mental powers of animals but in addition entail a profoundly different kind of thinking.”
At Science News: This ancient worm might be an important evolutionary missing link
“Lophophorates are a collection of sea creatures with a murky past.”
At Evolution News: Intelligent Design and the Regularity of Natural Law
This article addresses one of the most commonly raised objections to the reality of God as Creator – Why did God not make a perfect world?
At Reasons.org: More Evidence for a Beautiful Universe
Burov and Burov: “The laws of nature are fine‐tuned not only with
respect to the anthropic principle but to be discoverable as well.”
At Phys.org: Genes and languages aren’t always found together, says new study
If a specific language evolved along with a specific people group, it isn’t clear that this would result in an innate ability to become fluent in any human language, as children raised in cross-cultural settings have demonstrated.
At Space.com: NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft aces close moon flyby in crucial engine burn
“Orion zoomed just 80 miles (130 kilometers) above the lunar surface Monday (Nov. 21) at 7:44 a.m. ET. and completed an engine burn needed to continue its historic mission.”