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.”
At Live Science: 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite may reveal the origin of Earth’s water
How amazing is this?! Possible answers to an important question about Earth’s history crash-land on a driveway in England.
“Every Cell Comes from a Preexistent Cell”
C. S. Lewis: “Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?”
At Evolution News: An Argument from C. S. Lewis for Intelligent Design
“ccording to Lewis in these essays, “universal evolutionism” has schooled us to think that in nature complicated functional things naturally arise from cruder and less complicated things.”
From Astronomy Now: Webb captures stunning new view of ‘Pillars of Creation’
These stunning images of the iconic Eagle Nebula provide an astounding view of the beauty seen within our galaxy.
At Phys.org: Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds
over the 3.7-3.8 billion year timescale that life has been present on Earth are rather strongly consistent with intelligent design.
At Evolution News: Meyer and Klavan: How the Multiverse Ruins Science…and Storytelling
David Klinghoffer writes: Stephen Meyer had a fascinating conversation with podcaster Andrew Klavan and his son Spencer Klavan. The topic: how the multiverse theory destroys not only science (as Meyer explains in Return of the God Hypothesis) but storytelling. The younger Klavan is Associate Editor at the Claremont Review of Books and an Oxford PhD in classics. Impressive Read More…
At Sci News: Ancient Retroviruses Make Up 8% of Human Genome, Researchers Say
“Whether the genetic remnants of human endogenous retroviruses can cause disease in people is still under study.”
At Live Science: 3.5 billion-year-old rock structures are one of the oldest signs of life on Earth
Stephanie Pappas writes: Fossils called stromatolites from Western Australia were created by microbes 3.48 billion years ago. Layered rocks in Western Australia are some of Earth’s earliest known life, according to a new study. The fossils in question are stromatolites, layered rocks that are formed by the excretions of photosynthetic microbes. The oldest stromatolites that Read More…
At SciTech Daily: Artemis I: Mega Moon Rocket Ready for Launch
The Artemis I mega Moon rocket is on the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is getting ready to launch the Orion spacecraft and its European Service Module. The first opportunity for launch is November 16 at 1:04 a.m. EST/local time (07:04 CET, 06:04 GMT). Artemis Read More…
At Evolution News: There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”
“There is no such thing as a settled theory of evolution. On that point, textbook orthodoxy is simply false.”
At Phys.org: Chemists create an ‘artificial photosynthesis’ system ten times more efficient than existing systems
“In nature, photosynthesis is performed by several very complex assemblies of proteins and pigments.”
Researchers have not been able to approach the efficiency of the natural process with artificial photosynthesis.
At Big Think: How reality is shaped by the speed of light
Adam Frank writes: KEY TAKEAWAYS When you look at a picture of a galaxy that is 75 million light-years away, you are seeing that galaxy at a time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Distance translates into time because the speed of light is finite. What you perceive as “now” is really layer after layer of light Read More…