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A Biblical History of Sea Cows
March 12, 2025 New Creation
Within the creation model, sea cows offer an interesting take on biogeographical expansion after the Flood. After all, being aquatic, though air-breathers, sea cows were outside the Ark and survived the turbulent Flood.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The earliest human face of Western Europe
March 12, 2025 Nature
Who the first inhabitants of Western Europe were, what their physical characteristics were, and when and where they lived are some of the pending questions
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An archaic European face more than one million years old
March 12, 2025 Nature
The partial midface of a hominin fossil has been found in northern Spain, and dates to a million years ago. Its discovery enables the exploration of the facial features of early Europeans and enhances our understanding of evolutionary history
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Did Mars harbour life? One of the strongest signs yet is spotted in a peculiar rock
March 12, 2025 Nature
The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity -- or not.
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Ancient DNA shows Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa
March 12, 2025 Nature
Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.
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Fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European
March 12, 2025 Science
Ancient remains suggest at least two types of early humans roamed Europe about 1 million years ago
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Aspects of Consciousness?
March 12, 2025 YouTube
We offer distinctive approaches to consciousness including cognitive science, phenomenology, and even the implications of aesthetics like fiction and films. We observe the richness of consciousness studies.
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Consciousness: Reductionism’s Final Hill -- the One To Die On?
March 12, 2025 Mind Matters
The reductionist has no more information than anyone else about the origin of human consciousness and isn’t making any better sense of the evidence we do have
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AI in Biology: What Difference Did the Rise of the Machines Make?
March 12, 2025 Mind Matters
AI works very well for proteins that lock into a single configuration, as many do. But intrinsically disordered ones don’t play by those rules
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Understanding the Non-Material Nature of Coded Information Via a Three-Dimensional Framework
March 12, 2025 Answers Research Journal
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Wittgenstein vs Dawkins: Is God a scientific hypothesis?
March 12, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Religious language is not scientific language
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The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’
March 12, 2025 Quanta Magazine
Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look -- and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have atmospheres in the first place.
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Adaptation Without Darwinism
March 12, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Copying and pasting genetic information contradicts mutation and selection
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We modelled how early human ancestors ran
March 12, 2025 The Conversation
and found they were surprisingly slow
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News Update/Commentary
New research could revolutionize our understanding of the universe
March 12, 2025 Science Daily
Black holes: not endings, but beginnings? -- they may transition into ‘white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our current understanding of these cosmic giants.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Religion, Perceptions of Scientists’ Moral Culture, and Support for Science in the United States
March 12, 2025 American Sociological Review, v.90, n.2, p.257-290
Recent advances in the sociology of science and religion suggest that people associate scientists with moral values in addition to factual knowledge, and that concerns about scientists’ morality are why members of some religious groups are more critical
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Are we really doomed?
March 12, 2025 New Scientist
An entertaining guide to humanity's extinction ... Few people could write so genially, even humorously, about our existential crisis. Henry Gee can, in his excellent new book The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire | See Also Amazon
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Member Spotlight -- Dr. Don DeYoung
March 11, 2025 YouTube
a CRS member since 1972 and also served as CRS Board Member/President for many years
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Sex Determination: It’s in the Genes -- Sometimes
March 11, 2025 The Scientist
Animals across the tree of life have developed a mind-boggling variety of ways to become male or female.
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Philosophy of Biology: Classifying Species & Individuals
March 11, 2025 YouTube
What is the classification system in biology, the taxonomy used to categorize organisms in a structured hierarchy? What are species and individuals in biological and evolutionary contexts, and what is the relationship between them?
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Why Technology Will Never Replace the Mind
March 11, 2025 YouTube
Socrates in the City
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Archaeologists in Israel Uncover One of the Oldest Burial Grounds in the World
March 11, 2025 Haaretz
100,000-year-old remains from Tinshemet Cave are of same age as other early burials found in Israel, and point to a broad shared culture between Sapiens and Neanderthal
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Scientists have definitively taken us beyond the Big Bang
March 11, 2025 Big Think
Since the dawn of history, humans have pondered our ultimate cosmic origins. Now in the 21st century, science has gone beyond the Big Bang.
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Evidence for Stephen Hawking's unproven black hole theory -- at the bottom of the sea
March 11, 2025 Live Science
The recent discovery of a stupendously powerful neutrino has left scientists scratching their heads. New research suggests it could be evidence that Stephen Hawking was right about the nature of black holes and the early universe.
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Astronomers Excited about Failure
March 11, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
JWST and other instruments continue falsifying prior dogmas
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Revenge of the Turtle Lady
March 11, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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The biggest coincidence in human evolution
March 11, 2025 New Scientist
Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means of communicating with each other -- how did it crop up independently at about the same time?
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AI in Biology: AI Meets Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
March 11, 2025 Mind Matters
Protein folding -- the process by which a protein arrives at its functional shape -- is one of the most complex unsolved problems in biology
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Dembski, Ewert, and Intelligent Design in Polish
March 11, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
“A Game Changer”
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The universe's water is billions of years older than scientists thought
March 11, 2025 Live Science
A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang -- meaning life could have evolved billions of years earlier than previously thought.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination
March 11, 2025 Biological Reviews
Plant pollination by insects represents one of the most transformative and iconic ecological relationships in the natural world.
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Great Lakes formed a lot earlier than previously thought
March 11, 2025 Bridge Michigan
It is widely known by lovers of the Great Lakes that their unique shape was caused by glaciers melting and receding northward.
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The limits of neuroscience
March 10, 2025 The Transmitter
Truly understanding the brain requires a set of conditions we’re unlikely to meet: that knowledge about the brain is finite, and that we have both access to that knowledge and the means to understand it.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of plant network: 600 million years of stress
March 10, 2025 Science Daily
From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that conquered land long ago. The success of land plants is surprising
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News Update/Commentary
James Webb Space Telescope reveals unexpected complex chemistry in primordial galaxy
March 10, 2025 Science Daily
Astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The research team, using JWST revealed something extraordinary in the galaxy: significant amounts of oxygen.
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The 9 Unsolved Mysteries Mathematicians Can’t Stop Thinking About
March 10, 2025 Scientific American
Mathematicians discuss some of the most compelling unsolved problems in the field
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Consciousness before birth? Imaging studies explore the possibility
March 10, 2025 Science
Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins
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Strange Squeaks: A Uniquely Human Gene Alters Mouse “Songs”
March 10, 2025 The Scientist
A human-specific NOVA1 variant changed mouse vocalizations, potentially providing insights into the evolution of language.
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Standing Up for Scientocracy
March 10, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Said the wise man to Ithiel, the leech has two daughters: “Give, give.”
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Volcanic activity billions of years ago set the stage for Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere
March 10, 2025 phys.org
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Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?
March 9, 2025 YouTube
We human beings sit roughly midway between the sizes of atoms and galaxies, and both must be so perfectly structured for us to exist. It’s called ‘fine-tuning’ and it’s all so breathtakingly precise that it cries out for explanation.
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Scopes Trial Centennial Events
March 9, 2025 Core Academy of Science
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial. It's definitely a strange event all the way around. Part media circus, part legal showdown, part religious debate
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Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places
March 9, 2025 Mind Matters
Reductionism is nonsense, and “consciousness” is not nestled in clusters of neurons
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Lucy “Missing Link" Fossils and the Pygmy Human Hypothesis
March 8, 2025 YouTube
Creationists have long argued that Lucy and her kind were nothing more than an extinct ape. In this video, Chris presents an alternative view, which he refers to as “the pygmy human hypothesis."
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Cosmology and Creation
March 8, 2025 YouTube
How do physicists and philosophers who believe in God harmonize the discoveries of cosmology with the doctrine of creation? How does cosmology enhance or erode their belief in God? If God exists, must the universe have had a beginning?
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Epigenetics: How It’s Shaking Up Darwin’s Theory
March 8, 2025 YouTube
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Sex may have evolved as a way to pool resources during tough times
March 7, 2025 New Scientist
How sexual reproduction came about has long been a mystery, but an evolutionary model suggests it could have started with cells fusing to increase their food reserves
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The Biblical Worldview Is the Only Answer for Induction
March 7, 2025 Answers in Genesis
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Does the multiverse explain our fundamental constants?
March 7, 2025 Big Think
There are some 26 fundamental constants in nature, and their values enable our Universe to exist as it does. But where do they come from?
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The world is not a quantum wave function
March 7, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Why reality is non-local and the wave function isn't real