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Subject Nota Bene: Darwin’s Nagging Doubt: New Paper Confirms New Genes Required for Cambrian Explosion
Date October 21, 2020 10:16 PM
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A new paper in _eLife_ found that 157 new genes were required during the Cambrian explosion.

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Scientific Paper Reaffirms New Genes Required for Cambrian Explosion ([link removed])
The notion that many genes would be required for the Cambrian explosion may seem unsurprising — what probably is surprising is that anyone would challenge the idea that the Cambrian animals required new genes. After Darwin's Doubt came out, ID-critics actually doubled-down on their claims that the Cambrian animals didn't require new genes! How's that working out for them?

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Stephen Meyer, John Lennox: Against the Tide Sweeps Away Atheist “Power Play” ([link removed])
Stephen Meyer sat down with _Against The Tide_’s star, Oxford mathematician John Lennox, to talk about Lennox’s life and his thoughts on the ultimate question: Does the universe bear a “stamp” indicating the guidance of a designing intelligence? Lennox’s answer is yes.

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ID by Another Name? Astronomer Says 50 Percent Chance We’re Living in Computer Simulation ([link removed])
_Scientific American_ reports on a Bayesian approach to an interesting question: do we live in “base reality” or a computer simulation? They give it odds of about fifty-fifty either way.

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A Darwinist Recognizes (Some of) the Stakes in the Intelligent Design Debate ([link removed])
Here is a Darwinist with a fair and clear-headed understanding of the intellectual and spiritual stakes in the evolution debate. Or rather, some of the stakes. Jamie Milton Freestone concludes that evolution, if you do think about it seriously, probably can’t be reconciled with religious belief.

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“Castro Consensus”: Scientific Paper Takes a Fresh Look at Scientific Agreement ([link removed])
Those who hold minority opinions argue that the consensus should not be worshipped but questioned. At a time when free speech faces increasing pressure from social media, traditional media, and other power centers, sometimes in the name of the “consensus,” minorities know well the power of groupthink.

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