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• Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA

  April 14, 2025 Vukašin Gligorić, Gerben A. van Kleef, and Bastiaan T. Rutjens Nature Human Behaviour

  Trust in scientists is a key predictor of compliance with science-based solutions to societal challenges.

• Is Darwinism a ‘Potemkin’ Theory of Evolution?

  April 13, 2025 Michael Behe The American Spectator

  The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for something more plausible.

• Honeybees ‘Shimmering' to Warn off Danger Shows God's Incredible Design

  April 13, 2025 Ben Zeisloft The Western Journal

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  Origin of Life Crisis: Rice Professor Calls Out Bad Science at Harvard

  April 13, 2025 James Tour YouTube

  Tour critiques scientific theories on life's origins, highlighting major unsolved chemical problems, and presents historical arguments supporting Jesus Christ's resurrection

• Is the Human Race Evolving Toward a Final Spiritual Unity? Part 2

  April 13, 2025 Mind Matters

  Teilhard thought that evolution needed to be seen from the inside, viewing humans not only as observers of evolution but also as its products

• Fearing paper on evolution might get them deported, scientists withdrew it

  April 11, 2025 Mark Johnson Washington Post

• The Reptilian Renaissance

  April 11, 2025 Matthew Wills JSTOR Daily

  Think reptiles like crocodiles and caimans are slow learners? It’s probably because you’re human.

• Video

  Is God the Cause of a Fine-Tuned Universe?

  April 11, 2025 Ernan McMullin YouTube

  Our universe is astounding in that the laws of physics have to be perfect beyond belief for stars and planets, and for human beings, to even exist. Does this demonstrate, if not prove, an intelligence behind the universe, who many call God?

• The genetic architecture of and evolutionary constraints on the human pelvic form

  April 11, 2025 Liaoyi Xu, et al. Science, v.388, n.6743

  The obstetrical dilemma stems from a conflict between the optimal pelvic structure for bipedalism and what is required for successfully birthing infants with larger brains than previous hominins.

• Consciousness is fundamental

  April 11, 2025 Annaka Harris The Institute of Art and Ideas

  What physics shows us about consciousness

• News Update/Commentary

  ‘Internet of nature' helps researchers explore the web of life

  April 11, 2025 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Science Daily

  The paper reveals that species not only exchange matter and energy but also share vital information that influences behavior, interactions, and ecosystem dynamics -- revealing previously hidden characteristics of natural ecosystems.

• Did the Enlargement of the Human Brain Depend on Two Genes?

  April 11, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The genes, unique to humans, spurred brain growth when introduced in mice and chimpanzee stem cells

• University Science War: Ideas vs “Dollars per Net Square Footage”

  April 11, 2025 Jeffrey Funk Mind Matters

  Katalin Karikó, obscure and mistreated at the University of Pennsylvania, won the Nobel Prize. Shouldn’t we have some questions?

• Nonhuman Animal Dignity

  April 11, 2025 Simon Coghlan Philosophy Compass, v.20, n.4

  This paper examines ‘animal dignity’ and details four possible kinds

• What Ape Genomes Are Teaching Us About Ourselves

  April 10, 2025 primatology.net

  New, near-complete ape genomes are reshaping ideas about human evolution -- and highlighting just how much innovation nature hides in its repeated sequences.

• Mysterious human fossil found in Taiwan was a Denisovan

  April 10, 2025 Dyani Lewis Nature

  Analysis of ancient proteins identifies jawbone as belonging to archaic human group.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan

  April 10, 2025 Takumi Tsutaya, et al. Science, v.388, n.6743, p.176-180

  Denisovans are a Pleistocene hominin lineage first identified genomically and known from only a few fossils.

• At the dawn of life, did metabolism come first?

  April 10, 2025 Viviane Callier knowable magazine

  Some scientists propose that in the beginning, geochemistry gave way to biochemistry -- with no genetic material necessary. Only later did RNA and DNA appear.

• Mercury is weird because of a ‘hit-and-run' incident in its youth

  April 10, 2025 Sharmila Kuthunur Live Science

  “What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure without needing to consider multiple collisions or extremely rare conditions."

• Biological Function Found in Cyanide

  April 10, 2025 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Refuting the toxin myth: Cyanide turns out to be an essential compound (in tiny amounts)

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  Every Eye in the Animal Kingdom

  April 10, 2025 Wired YouTube

  Lars Schmitz guides us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have, and the evolutionary advantages they've unlocked across species.

• News Update/Commentary

  Genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order

  April 10, 2025 Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf Science Daily

  They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important at faster growth, they are located near the origin of DNA replication.

• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  April 10, 2025 Martin Hilbert Evolution News & Science Today

  “The Catholic Darwin”

• A 30,000-Year-Old Feather Is a First-of-Its-Kind Fossil

  April 9, 2025 Grace van Deelen Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  A new analysis of a fossil found in 1889 has unveiled the presence of zeolites -- and an entirely new mineralization method.

• What makes us human? Milestone ape genomes promise clues

  April 9, 2025 Humberto Basilio Nature

  DNA sequences for chimpanzees, orangutan and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other apes.

• Long-awaited ape genomes give new insights into their evolution -- and ours

  April 9, 2025 Benjamin Thompson and Shamini Bundell Nature

  New sequencing analyses fill in long-awaited gaps in the genomes of six ape species

• Jurassic fossil reveals the origin of parasitic thorny-headed worms

  April 9, 2025 Nature

  A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm has been dated to the Jurassic period. It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called Rotifera, thus bridging the evolutionary gap between jawed rotifers and parasitic, jawless acanthocephalans.

• Hunter-gatherers journeyed by sea to Malta

  April 9, 2025 Dylan Gaffney Nature

  Evidence reveals that people reached Malta 8,500 years ago. Hunter-gatherers made the long trip there 1,000 years before agricultural societies arrived.

• Complete ape genomes offer a close-up view of human evolution

  April 9, 2025 Lukas Kuderna Nature

  Scientists have fully sequenced the genomes of six living ape species, enabling long-awaited comparisons of hard-to-assemble genomic regions.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Complete sequencing of ape genomes

  April 9, 2025 DougAhn Yoo, et al. Nature, v.641, p.401-418

  The most dynamic and repetitive regions of great ape genomes have traditionally been excluded from comparative studies. Consequently, our understanding of the evolution of our species is incomplete.

• A Jurassic acanthocephalan illuminates the origin of thorny-headed worms

  April 9, 2025 Cihang Luo, et al. Nature

  a diverse endoparasitic group that infect a wide range of vertebrates and invertebrates

• Mystery ‘interstellar icy objects’ are carrying the seeds of life

  April 9, 2025 Ashley Balzer Vigil Astronomy magazine

  These icy bodies contain organic molecules -- and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

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  What is Consciousness: Data or Information?

  April 9, 2025 Galen Strawson YouTube

  To study consciousness comprehensively and rigorously, what kinds of data or information are relevant? Data/information for Materialism theories, which are subject to the scientific method, can be well defined. But what about non-Materialism theories?

• Higgs boson may be driving the Universe’s expansion

  April 9, 2025 Andrey Feldman Advanced Science News

  Scientists assume that inflation was driven by hypothetical inflaton particles, which scientists think could be the Higgs boson.

• Dire Wolf De-Extinction Debate Divides Scientists

  April 9, 2025 Rebecca Roberts The Scientist

  Created by editing the gray wolf genome, two dire wolves are the subject of vastly-differing opinions on what it means to bring back an extinct species.​​​​​

• The ‘true face’ of Lucy, humanity’s most famous ancestor

  April 9, 2025 Sarah Knapton The Telegraph (UK)

  Scientists ‘blend art and science’ to reconstruct the appearance of a primate who lived 3.2 million years ago

• Thinking in Dark Times

  April 9, 2025 Taner Akcam Armenian Mirror-Spectator

  The End of Tradition and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

• Information Imperialism: The Battle for Free Access Heats Up

  April 9, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Headline incidents are only one part of an international trend toward attempted government control of the news stream

• Can AI really decode dead languages?

  April 9, 2025 Mind Matters

  Or is it too late?

• News Update/Commentary

  ‘Hidden galaxies': Key to unlocking some of universe's secrets

  April 9, 2025 Royal Astronomical Society Science Daily

  If their existence is confirmed it would ‘effectively break current models of galaxy numbers and evolution'.

• News Update/Commentary

  Six ape genomes sequenced telomere-to-telomere

  April 9, 2025 University of Washington School of Medicine Science Daily

  A definitive reference has become openly available for comparative evolutionary studies of humans and the apes closest to us on the tree of life

• Dire Wolves Are Still Extinct

  April 9, 2025 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Great Lakes basins may have formed millions of years ago from activity deep in the Earth

  April 8, 2025 Adriana Pérez Chicago Tribune

  long before glaciers

• Teilhard de Chardin’s Ideas Find Resonance Inside the Vatican 70 Years After His Death

  April 8, 2025 Edward Pentin National Catholic Register

  The works of the controversial French Jesuit were formally censured by the Vatican in 1962.

• Did Scientists Actually De-Extinct the Dire Wolf?

  April 8, 2025 Andrea Thompson Scientific American

  Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype

• Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf

  April 8, 2025 Katie Hunt CNN

• They're not dire wolves

  April 8, 2025 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

  Time magazine has a cover story this week on Colossal Biosciences' latest research progress in de-extinction. They claim repeatedly in the article that three recently born wolf pups are dire wolves

• The Necessity of Believing in a Historical Adam

  April 8, 2025 Terry Mortenson Answers in Genesis

  In recent years, in an effort to harmonize the evolutionary story and timeline with Scripture, a growing number of professing evangelicals have been doubting or denying Adam’s existence or at least denying some of the details about Adam in Genesis.

• The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages

  April 8, 2025 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  It’s incredibly tricky to pin down the origin of the language that led to the words spoken everywhere between Spain and India -- and it’ll be even harder to be sure we’ve got it right

• Space could emerge from time

  April 8, 2025 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  An investigation of the changing behaviour of a single quantum bit through time has uncovered a tantalising similarity to the geometry of three-dimensional space