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Theory of Increasing Complexity Fails the Test of Science
April 8, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Microbial life in one of the most extreme ecosystems on Earth
April 8, 2025 Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB)
An international team led by the CAB, CSIC-INTA, and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, shows a novel platform for scientific exploration of the most remote places in Antarctica
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The Self-Domesticated Ape
April 7, 2025 The Long Now Foundation
We are apes that have invented ourselves.
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AI for research: the ultimate guide to choosing the right tool
April 7, 2025 Nature
Curious about using artificial intelligence to boost your research? Here are the programs you shouldn’t miss.
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Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
April 7, 2025 Quanta Magazine
Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.
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Hoping in Vain for Alien Life
April 7, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Astrobiologists and SETI advocates have little more than blind hope that life will be found beyond Earth
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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
April 7, 2025 New Scientist
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species
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‘Quantum Darwinism' may explain why we live in a shared reality
April 7, 2025 New Scientist
A framework inspired by evolution may demonstrate why two observers see the same non-quantum world emerge from the many fuzzy probabilities of the quantum realm
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At NIH, Bhattacharya Wants to Restore Open Inquiry
April 7, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Excerpts on Darwin
April 7, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”
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The Undiscovered Country… Discovered?
April 7, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists claim to find evidence which could finally reveal the nature of dark energy
April 5, 2025 Live Science
Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the ‘first observational evidence supporting string theory'
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Analysts: AIs Are Often Wrong But Never Uncertain
April 5, 2025 Mind Matters
Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis note that getting AIs to admit uncertainty is “one of the most important *unsolved* challenges" in the field
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When Top People “Must Be Right,” Dissent Becomes Mental Illness
April 4, 2025 Mind Matters
A healthcare historian looks at the history of the use of psychiatry to crush alternative viewpoints
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God Is Eternal
April 4, 2025 YouTube
In this fourth video of the Divine Attributes series, Dr. Craig explores God's relationship to time. What are some of the challenges? The tensions? Do the Scriptures speak to God and time?
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Einstein vs Bohr: Quantum reality is still up for grabs
April 4, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
The conflict at the heart of physics
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Why John Muir Chose Nature Over Machines
April 4, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Chinese Neanderthal technology raises some interesting questions
April 4, 2025 Mind Matters
For a long time, archaeologists thought people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. But this discovery says otherwise.
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Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet
April 4, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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‘Uniquely human’ language capacity found in bonobos
April 3, 2025 Science
In a first, researchers have seen a nonhuman animal combine different calls to make new meanings
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News Update/Commentary
Bees actively adjust flower choice based on color and distance
April 3, 2025 Science Daily
Updating ‘flower constancy' beyond Darwin's theory
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News Update/Commentary
Machine learning helps construct an evolutionary timeline of bacteria
April 3, 2025 Science Daily
Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.
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No, the “Kalam cosmological argument” doesn’t prove God’s existence
April 3, 2025 Big Think
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists must have a cause, and the “first” cause must be God. Is that valid?
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Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans
April 3, 2025 The Guardian
Phrases used to smooth over tense social situations have meanings beyond the sum of their parts
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Mammoth tusk flakes may be the oldest ivory objects made by humans
April 3, 2025 New Scientist
Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using mammoth tusks, a softer material than bone
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Transcriptional Hierarchies Exhibit Recurring Design Logic and Challenge Evolution
April 3, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives
April 3, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe, 1998–2019
April 3, 2025 Public Library of Science
The evolutionary dynamics of antibiotic resistance are not well understood, particularly the long-term trajectories of resistance frequencies and their dependence on antibiotic consumption.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Processes and Products of Turbidity Currents and Submarine Landslides
April 3, 2025 Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
in a Glacierized Fjord (Southwind Fjord, Baffin Island)
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Why Eugenics Is Tied to Evolution
April 3, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why one university now openly teaches eugenics, and thoughts on the failed attempt to disengage eugenics from Darwinian evolution
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Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God
April 3, 2025 Christian Union Vox
a bold and thoughtful analysis of the scientific and philosophical questions surrounding life’s beginnings
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Early Earth's first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline
April 2, 2025 phys.org
A study published in Nature reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical features remarkably like today's continental crust.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The place of explanation in scientific inquiry
April 2, 2025 European Journal for Philosophy of Science, v.15
Inference to the best explanation vs inference to the only explanation
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Skeletons from ‘green Sahara’ offer genetic peek at a lost human population
April 2, 2025 Science
Ancient DNA sheds light on a fleeting, lush interlude of North African prehistory
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Scientists discover that all humans come from the same mother
April 2, 2025 MSN
who lived 200,000 years ago in Botswana
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Hunga volcano eruption's unexpected Southern Hemisphere cooling effect challenges geoengineering assumptions
April 2, 2025 phys.org
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Asteroid Samples Suggest a Solar System of Ancient, Salty Incubators
April 2, 2025 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early solar system.
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Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected
April 2, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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first DNA profiles of ancient people who roamed a lush Sahara
April 2, 2025 Nature
The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population.
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Rare ancient DNA from Sahara opens a window on the region’s verdant past
April 2, 2025 Nature
Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural exchange, not large-scale migration.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage
April 2, 2025 Nature
Although it is one of the most arid regions today, the Sahara Desert was a green savannah during the African Humid Period between 14,500 and 5,000 years before present, with water bodies promoting human occupation and the spread of pastoralism
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News Update/Commentary
Galaxies die earlier than expected
April 2, 2025 Science Daily
A recent discovery deepens the tension between theoretical models of cosmic evolution and actual observations.
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Ancient alligator-sized amphibians died under mysterious circumstances
April 2, 2025 Popular Science
‘It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the water.'
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Eternity in Their Hearts: Rationality’s Linguistic Foundation
April 2, 2025 Answers Research Journal
Of all the animal world, only humans have the ability to perceive current circumstance in the context of time and space, make moral judgments about right and wrong, and therefore be culpable for intent, which requires premeditation.
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Fossil Graveyard of Giant Amphibians Found in Wyoming
April 2, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As big as alligators, these creatures died suddenly in a floodplain
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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
April 2, 2025 Quanta Magazine
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
Science ‘storytelling' urgently needed amid climate and biodiversity crisis
April 2, 2025 Science Daily
Scientists should experiment with creative ways of communicating their work to inspire action to protect the natural world
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News Update/Commentary
How this tiny snake could change our view of genetics
April 2, 2025 Science Daily
By analyzing the flowerpot snake's unique genome, scientists are uncovering how the tiny reptile repairs its DNA and prevents harmful mutations. The findings could deepen our understanding of human gene evolution.
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At a Science Journal: Humanity Is Just So Doomed
April 2, 2025 Mind Matters
Opinions differ as to the details of what will wipe us all out -- or maybe not
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Is Chemistry the Missing Piece in Creation Science?
April 2, 2025 Is Genesis History?
While geology and biology often take center stage in creation research, chemistry holds untapped potential to explain rock formation, mineral deposits, and even the chemical signatures left behind in the aftermath of the Flood.