Cosmos and Life: Everything Points to a Paradigm Shift

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Why would most people avoid drinking stagnant water from a puddle or a swamp? Probably not for fear of ingesting some dissolved salts or minerals. Source
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What Is Consciousness For? Sixteen Theories Take a Crack at the Question

Albert Newen, anole lizards, Antonella Tramacere, Antonio Damasio, Axel Cleeremans, biology, Carlos Montemayor, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, Dogs, Eva Jablonka, Experience, Gianmarco Maldarelli, horses, Jacques Singer, Jonathan Birch, Jonathon D. Crystal, Julio Hechavarria, Kristin Andrews, Krzysztof Dołęga, Lars Chittka, Léa Moncoucy, Lucia Melloni, Maxime Janbon, memory, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Humphrey, Noam Miller, Olga Dyakova, Onur Güntürkün, philosophy, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Royal Society, Sarah Skeels, self-awareness, Simon Alexander Burns Brown, Simona Ginsburg, T.S. Eliot, Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, zoology
It sounds like we do not really know what we are looking for, which will doubtless complicate efforts to find it. Source
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“Peptideins”? Give Those Shorties Another Look

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Picture short, lonely bachelors in rented formal wear, leaning on the wall, nervously checking their watches at the annotation dance. Source
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Stop Signals in Disguise: How the Genetic Code Guards Against Frameshifts

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A frameshift mutation occurs as the result of indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides that is non-divisible by three. Source
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The Story of Everything Dazzled Me: I Wasn’t Prepared

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I’ve worked on successful documentary films, including a 2014 feature-length film that won multiple prizes; I’m not easily impressed. Source
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The Living Nano-Factory: Darwinists Ignore the Ultimate Information Enigma

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Information and orderly processes don’t happen by accident any more than a factory production line organizes itself out of unassembled constituent parts. Source
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Why Darwinian Theory Threatens the Declaration of Independence

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Dr. John West highlights how modern scientific discoveries in biology, physics, and cosmology are now reinforcing the core claims of the Declaration. Source
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Status Signaling in the Herd: Why Otherwise Good Scientists Sneer at Intelligent Design

Aldous Huxley, Bible, biology, chemists, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, J. Budziszewski, jobs, materialistic paradigm, Meaning, media, morality, natural law theory, Pandemic of Lunacy, peer pressure, Phillip Johnson, promotion, scientific reasoning, snake handlers, social status, status signaling, University of Texas at Austin, yahoos
"Here is Johnson, giving a very studious argument for ID, and the other fellow thinks it’s sufficient to say, 'I know it's wrong because my friend told me.'" Source
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Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

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Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Source
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A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

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The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Source
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