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• Charles Darwin saw the importance of development in evolution

  February 18, 2025 Yongsheng Liu Nature

  evolutionary theory is challenged by the idea that organism development plays a part in evolution

• Why is it so hard to rewrite a genome?

  February 18, 2025 Michael Eisenstein Nature

  Synthetic biologists have the know-how and ambition to retool whole genomes. But the hidden complexity of biological systems continues to surprise them.

• Is Intelligent Life Inevitable?

  February 18, 2025 Mark Thompson Universe Today

  Biologists identified a series of “hard steps” on the journey from abiogenesis -- that life evolved naturally from non-living matter -- to modern civilisation.

• Quantum Milestones, 1935: What’s Wrong with Quantum Mechanics?

  February 18, 2025 David Lindley Physics, v.18

  Einstein and his coauthors claimed to show that quantum mechanics led to logical contradictions. The objections exposed the theory’s strangest predictions.

• Why it’s so hard to tell when Homo sapiens became a distinct species

  February 18, 2025 Colin Barras New Scientist

  The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, raising questions over what it really means to be human

• When did the first galaxies form? Earlier than we thought possible

  February 18, 2025 Leah Crane New Scientist

  By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies -- and a very strange young cosmos

• When did time begin? Hint: It wasn’t at the big bang

  February 18, 2025 Jon Cartwright New Scientist

  You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative definitions of time have other ideas

• Big Science Reveals Dirty Laundry

  February 18, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Before giving obeisance to Big Science, citizens should examine the books

• Almost Embracing Sanctity of Life

  February 18, 2025 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

  This Close

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  Rising Waters, Enduring Faith

  February 17, 2025 Sven Östring, ed. Avondale Academic Press

  Investigating the Historical & Global Reality of the Biblical Flood

• Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps

  February 17, 2025 University of Leeds

  The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet’s history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.

• What removing large chunks of brain taught me about selfhood

  February 17, 2025 Theodore H. Schwartz Aeon Media Group

  I’ve cut brains in half, excised tumours -- even removed entire lobes. The illusion of the self and free will survives it all

• Why Aren't There Any Flightless Bats?

  February 17, 2025 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Are Fake Science Papers Becoming a Danger, Not Just a Nuisance?

  February 17, 2025 Mind Matters

  It is exceedingly difficult to get a handle on exactly how big the problem is. Around 55,000 scholarly papers have been retracted to date, for a variety of reasons

• Evolutionist Says Evolution Evolves

  February 17, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  At risk of starting an infinite loop, a Darwinist playing computer games goes off the rails in Darwin worship

• Darwin, Kinsey, and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

  February 17, 2025 John G. West Evolution News & Science Today

• Did People Really Think Earth Was Flat Centuries Ago?

  February 16, 2025 Mind Matters

  How many times have you heard that Columbus had to overcome the opposition of benighted flat-earther churchmen to gain funding for his voyage from the Spanish Crown? The story is pure nonsense.

• A Catholic Priest Talks About Human Evolution

  February 16, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Fr. Martin Hilbert approaches the topic from the perspective of evidence, reason, and faith -- and realism about what is at stake in the discussion

• Active and Passive Academic Freedom

  February 15, 2025 Vinay Prasad Sensible Medicine

  Should the NIH consider Universities commitment to free expression as it gives out funds?

• Video

  Debate: Christianity or Secular Ethics, What's Best for Society?

  February 15, 2025 Lawrence Krauss .vs. Mike Jones YouTube

  This debate is sponsored by Atheists for Liberty, an organization devoted to preserving debates and dialogues between groups!

• Video

  How Did Mountains Form After Noah's Flood

  February 15, 2025 Beyond Is Genesis History? YouTube

  The Bible describes a global Flood in the days of Noah, stating that “all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered." But how deep were the floodwaters? Many assume they must have covered today’s towering mountains

• The Plasma Ball Metaphor for Consciousness

  February 15, 2025 Gregg Henriques Psychology Today

  Subjective consciousness can be likened to a plasma ball.

• How early human brains expanded over time

  February 15, 2025 Mo Costandi Big Think

  New research challenges old assumptions about the evolution of the human brain.

• Why Humans Aren’t That Biased

  February 15, 2025 Erik J. Larson Mind Matters

  and Machines Aren’t That Smart

• Does planetary evolution favor human-like life?

  February 14, 2025 Adrienne Berard Pennsylvania State University

  New theory proposes that humans -- and analogous life beyond Earth -- may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary evolution

• Where did we come from?

  February 14, 2025 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

  One of the perennially annoying things about the “historical Adam" discussion is theologians' obsession with Homo sapiens. I've tried to explain that looking for Adam at the base of the sapiens family tree is looking in the wrong place.

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  Physics and Cosmology: The Anthropic Principle

  February 14, 2025 Bernard Carr YouTube

  We should expect to observe that the universe in which we live must conform to the conditions required for our presence as observers. This is the unremarkable “Weak Anthropic Principle”

• Video

  Can AI Become Conscious?

  February 14, 2025 Jonathan Schooler YouTube

  AI consciousness, its possibility or probability, has burst into public debate, eliciting all kinds of issues from AI ethics and rights to artificial intelligence going rogue and harming humanity. We explore diverse views

• Rafter Is Briefly ‘Swallowed’ by Whale in Chile, as His Father Films

  February 14, 2025 John Bartlett and Alan Yuhas New York Times

  Paddling in the Strait of Magellan, Adrián Simancas was caught in a humpback’s lunge. “I realized that I was in something’s mouth and I had been eaten,” he said.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Human dispersal into East Eurasia

  February 14, 2025 Steven Abood and Hiroki Oota Journal of Physiological Anthropology, v.44

  ancient genome insights and the need for research on physiological adaptations

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A reassessment of the “hard-steps” model for the evolution of intelligent life

  February 14, 2025 Daniel B. Mills, et al. Science Advances, v.11, n.7

  According to the “hard-steps” model, the origin of humanity required “successful passage through a number of intermediate steps” that were intrinsically improbable in the time available for biological evolution on Earth.

• Surprising fossils suggest early animals survived outside of water

  February 14, 2025 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air -- a find that could rewrite the story of when life first left the oce

• The Human Mind’s Sophisticated Algorithm and Its Implications

  February 14, 2025 Mind Matters

  Winston Ewert argues that if some human cognition is algorithmic, that fact does not necessarily support a purely naturalistic view of intelligence

• How Evolutionists Overlook Signatures of Design

  February 14, 2025 Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Evolution News & Science Today

  The Case of Koalas

• Turtles All the Way Up

  February 13, 2025 Jessica Riskin The New York Review

  The idea that living beings have no free will might sound scientific today, but it remains as dogmatic as it has always been.

• How to Build the World’s Highest Mountain

  February 13, 2025 Nathaniel Scharping Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  The rocks of Mount Everest’s peak made an epic journey from seafloor to summit.

• Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago

  February 13, 2025 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe much later than assumed

• Video

  The More Science We Know, the More Plausible a Creator Is

  February 13, 2025 Stephen Meyer YouTube

  Where did the tension between Science and Faith begin? Intelligent Design can bring up a whole host of questions and controversy but it did not begin this way.

• Birds have developed complex brains independently from mammals

  February 13, 2025 University of the Basque Country EurekAlert!

  The pallium is the brain region where the neocortex forms in mammals, the part responsible for cognitive and complex functions that most distinguishes humans from other species.

• Would Science Miss Darwin?

  February 13, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  If evolutionism fell out of favor in academia, science would continue -- without a ball and chain

• Rocky Exoplanets Are Literally Being Vaporized

  February 13, 2025 Jake Hebert Institute for Creation Research

• Richard Dawkins, the Koala, and the Giraffe

  February 13, 2025 Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Evolution News & Science Today

• Sophisticated Energy Shield Found in a Shrimp

  February 13, 2025 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Tell Us Anything About God?

  February 12, 2025 Adam D. Hincks arxiv - Cornell University

  The apparent fine-tuning of several fundamental parameters that determine the properties of our Universe and make it hospitable to life is sometimes used as an argument for God from design. I review the concept

• The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world

  February 12, 2025 Emily Wilson New Scientist

  Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script

• Entropy Wins QM Challenges

  February 12, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics still tolerates no exceptions

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China

  February 12, 2025 Runsheng Chen, et al. Nature, v.638, p.441-448

  Recent macroevolutionary studies predict a diversification of early birds during the Jurassic period, but the unquestionable Jurassic bird fossil record is limited to Archaeopteryx

• The lost long tail of early bird evolution

  February 12, 2025 Stephen L. Brusatte Nature

  In the nineteenth century, the discovery of the fossil Archaeopteryx revealed how birds evolved from dinosaurs. A bird fossil of similar age to Archaeopteryx shows flight-aiding innovations such as the loss of a long tail.

• Early Earth’s cycles influenced the chemistry of the first life

  February 12, 2025 Evrim Yazgin Cosmos Magazine

  A team of researchers say their latest attempts to understand how molecules chemically reacted to form the basic building blocks of life on Earth are promising.

• How Can We Know That an Animal, or AI, Is Conscious?

  February 12, 2025 Thomas Suddendorf Psychology Today

  We readily attribute consciousness for three reasons.