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Earth’s magnetic dipole collapses, and life explodes
April, 2025 Physics Today, v.78, n.4, p.26-33
The present-day magnetic field protects life, but an ancient phase when it nearly collapsed corresponded with a key step in evolution. Changes in the planet’s deep interior may have started it all.
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The animals revealing why human culture isn't as special as we thought
April 1, 2025 New Scientist
Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique
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Darwinists Animalize Humans
April 1, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
We share many physical traits with primates, but our minds are exceptional.
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We Can Learn About the Mind from Damaged Brains
April 1, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Life Is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe
April 1, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Evolution of Atmospheric Composition and Climate
April, 2025 Geochemical Perspectives, v.14, n.1
Why Earth is a Habitable Planet
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AI Will Seem to Be Alive
April, 2025 The New Atlantis
How to judge prudently what kinds of beings they will be
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The design of bacterial flagella--part 3
April 1, 2025 Creation Ministries International
motility behaviour and gear change mechanisms ... Flagella are more than just propellers -- see what else they can do.
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The Rivers That Science Says Shouldn’t Exist
April 1, 2025 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
At first glance, these waterways make no sense. A new review article details why they are the way they are.
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Do Tree Rings Prove an Old Earth?
April 1, 2025 Apologetics Press
Tree ring analysis of the oldest known living trees on the planet is said to disprove the Flood and biblical Creation. Upon deeper examination of the evidence, however, the alleged ages of the bristlecone pine trees are likely much younger
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How Evolutionary Theory Confuses the Study of Human History
April 1, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Case of the Stone Spheres
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Book
The grossly falsified Scopes Monkey Trial -- modern implications
April 1, 2025 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: The Other Side of the Scopes Monkey Trial: At its heart the trial was about racism by Jerry Bergman (Wipf and Stock, 2023) | See Also Wipf and Stock
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Beetle beats the drought
April, 2025 Creation Ministries International
Living in a desert is not a walk in the park. It takes some special designs to cope with high temperatures and hot sand -- for example, getting sufficient nourishment and water.
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Questions About Consciousness
April 1, 2025 Closer To Truth
Is consciousness fundamental? What is required for consciousness? What things are conscious? Can AI ever be conscious? ... Annaka Harris is the New York Times bestselling author of “Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind"
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Book
Adam obscured by novel interpretations
April, 2025 Journal of Creation, v.39, n.1, p.22-26
BOOK REVIEW: Perspectives on the Historical Adam and Eve: Four views by Kenneth D. Keathley, ed. (B&H Academic, 2024) | See Also Amazon
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Substance dualism arguments
April, 2025 Journal of Creation, v.39, n.1, p.32-37
BOOK REVIEW: The Substance of Consciousness: A comprehensive defense of contemporary substance dualism by Brandon Rickabaugh and J. P. Moreland (Wiley, 2024) | See Also Amazon
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The design of bacterial flagella, part 3
April, 2025 Journal of Creation, v.39, n.1, p.88-97
motility behaviour and gear change mechanisms
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Enantiomeric amplification of L-amino acids
April, 2025 Creation Ministries International
using aspartic acid on an achiral Cu surface ... a possible natural solution for the origin of L-only amino acids in proteins
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Science journals report on limited tests with paid peer review
April 1, 2025 Mind Matters
Recently, we reported that a new science journal, Journal of the Academy of Public Health, is in the works, trying to break the mold. One new idea they are trying out is paying for the time-consuming task of peer review.
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Are Colleges Beyond Saving?
April 1, 2025 Mind Matters
They need to rediscover the purpose of higher education
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Human brains differ more from chimps’ than once thought
April 1, 2025 Mind Matters
It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 per cent of our DNA with chimps!” without stopping to consider something rather obvious
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Does Fine-Tuning Point to God?
April 1, 2025 YouTube
Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and director of its centre for theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book “The Elegant Universe”
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Scientists discover major differences in how humans and AI ‘think'
March 31, 2025 Live Science
Study finds that AI fundamentally lacks the human capability to make creative mental connections, raising warning signs for how we deploy AI tools.
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Evaluating Theories of Consciousness
March 31, 2025 Closer To Truth
What criteria should we use to compare and contrast diverse theories? Evaluating Materialism theories, like seeking neural correlates of consciousness, use the scientific method. But what about theories that are not Materialism?
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The Enduring Self and the Case for Substance Dualism
March 31, 2025 Mind Matters
On our most recent podcast, philosophers make the case that if mind is illusion, so too is the scientific enterprise
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Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin
March 31, 2025 New Scientist
Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how it did so
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Human Evolution and the Inner Ear
March 31, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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The 2022 Nobel prize was a nail in the coffin for materialism
March 31, 2025 YouTube
Donald Hoffman explains why material scientists will soon be left behind, as the understanding that matter cannot be fundamental spreads. Professor Hoffman says the 2022 Nobel Prize was a crucial moment in dispensing with physicalism
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“Make America Healthy Again”: The new Lysenkoism
March 31, 2025 Science-Based Medicine
Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial. Will his results be as disastrous?
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Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not
March 31, 2025 The Long Now Foundation
Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future.
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Eating ‘Family Style’ May Have Set the Stage for Life as We Know It
March 31, 2025 New York Times
Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.
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News Update/Commentary
Physical forces encouraged evolution of multicellular life
March 31, 2025 Science Daily
a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is based on the fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding by Stentor, a relatively giant unicellular organism.
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The stagnation of physics
March 31, 2025 Aeon
Physicists today need to jettison the all-too-attractive myth that they are uncovering the hidden reality of our Universe
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How Everything Became “Evolution”
March 31, 2025 Answers in Genesis
evolutionists are faced with the reality that none of their other stories can be demonstrated scientifically, so they are desperate to show “evolution in action” to the world to validate their worldview
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There's more to evolution than genes
March 31, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Life's complexity cannot be explained by random mutations alone
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Much Ado About Microevolution
March 31, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A bragging scientist fools himself about finding natural selection in lizards
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Earth’s Lost Timeline
March 30, 2025 Sci Tech Daily
Rusty Rocks Reveal Billion-Year-Old Secrets
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How a Neurosurgeon Showed That Abstract Thought Is Immaterial
March 30, 2025 Mind Matters
Wilder Penfield, one of the first neurosurgeons to split human brains in half to relieve epilepsy, found much more than a treatment
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Metaphysics vs. Materialism?
March 29, 2025 Closer To Truth
Metaphysics asks the most profound questions, then uses sophisticated philosophical analysis to seek the deepest truths. What happens when metaphysics trains its analytical guns on ‘materialism’, the claim that only the physical is real?
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What Damaged Brains Tell Us About the Mind
March 29, 2025 Mind Matters
They often provide mute evidence that the human mind is not simply the output of the brain
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Why Was the Earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand So Devastating?
March 28, 2025 Scientific American
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar caused widespread shaking and likely considerable damage because of a lack of buildings built to withstand temblors
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Mysterious Giants May Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists
March 28, 2025 Science Alert
Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize.
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Dinosaur Fuzz Is Not Protofeathers
March 28, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Trying to prove some dinosaurs evolved into birds still doesn’t fly
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AI Peer Review Called “Inevitable” by Some, “Disaster” by Others
March 28, 2025 Mind Matters
The whole debate raises a question: How much original thought goes into peer review anyway? And what purpose does it ultimately serve?
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Cosmology Crises Are Only Getting Worse
March 28, 2025 YouTube
The branch of physics that deals with the universe, is facing a crisis right now. Four crises, actually. Let’s take a look at the biggest problems with our current understanding of the universe and how we got here to begin with.
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John Lennox on AI and the Fate of Humanity
March 28, 2025 YouTube
What does the future hold for humanity? How should we think about the rise of virtual reality and the metaverse? What worldviews are behind AI? Does AI point to the existence of an Intelligent Designer?
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Why Did Our Very Ancient Ancestors Collect Ball-Shaped Stones?
March 28, 2025 Mind Matters
Over a million years ago, it seems that some of our ancestors hiked through valleys in East Africa, searching for volcanic spheres
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Why the cat wags her tail
March 28, 2025 Aeon
Here’s a puzzle: how could evolution favour such a costly, frivolous and fun activity as animal play?
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The Standard Cosmology Model May Be Breaking
March 28, 2025 Physics, v.18
Measurements of millions of galaxies suggest that dark energy changes over time and is more complicated than previously thought.
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Nobelist Thomas Cech on “Junk RNA”
March 28, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today