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• Chimps choose stone tools like our ancient human ancestors did

  January 6, 2025 Evrim Yazgin Cosmos Magazine

  Scientists have found that today’s chimpanzees select stones to use as tools in a similar way to human ancestors who lived about 2.5 million years ago.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Tracing ancient solar cycles with tree rings and radiocarbon in the first millennium BCE

  January 6, 2025 Nicolas Brehm, et al. Nature Communications, v.16

  Understanding solar variability is critical, but direct observations are limited to 400 years of sunspot records. To extend this timeline, cosmic ray-produced radionuclides like ¹⁴C in tree-rings provide invaluable insights.

• Does Lucy Prove Evolution?

  January 5, 2025 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

  Last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Lucy skeleton, and Paul Garner and I recorded a two-part episode of Let's Talk Creation discussing the skeleton and its interpretation

• Recovering the Right Brain in a Scientistic Culture

  January 5, 2025 Peter Biles Evolution News & Science Today

• The Cosmic Debate: Divine Design or Random Chance?

  January 5, 2025 Sarah Norman Newsbreak

  Science, while a powerful tool for understanding the universe, has its limitations, particularly in addressing questions of existence beyond empirical observation.

• Where Should We Search for Extraterrestrial Life?

  January 5, 2025 Avi Loeb The Debrief

  The task of astrobiologists who seek evidence for extrasolar microbes is as simple as imitation. Primitive forms of extraterrestrial life should exist under physical conditions that were nurtured in natural environments similar to those on Earth.

• Is creation care a gospel issue?

  January 4, 2025 John Samuel and Richard Buggs Evangelicals Now

  If Jesus is Lord of all the earth, we cannot separate our relationship to Christ from how we act in relation to the earth.

• Gene Inherited from Neanderthals Influenced the Shape of Our Teeth

  January 4, 2025 David Nield Science Alert

  A new study identifies 18 genome regions that influence tooth size and shape, of which 17 have not been linked to our chompers before -- and shows how genetic variation affects tooth dimensions across ethnicities.

• Are cats and dogs smarter than babies?

  January 4, 2025 Marilyn Perkins Live Science

  It's possible to compare some aspects of animal and human intelligence, but not all researchers like to.

• Steve Meyer and Comic Brad Stine on Insect Mimicry, and More

  January 4, 2025 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Some bacteria evolve like clockwork with the seasons

  January 3, 2025 University of Texas, Austin Science Daily

  The longest natural metagenome time series ever collected, with microbes, reveals a startling evolutionary pattern on repeat

• News Update/Commentary

  Oldest-known evolutionary ‘arms race'

  January 3, 2025 American Museum of Natural History Science Daily

  Hundreds of punctured shells from the Cambrian illuminate unique predator-prey interactions in the ocean 517 million years ago

• Researchers Surprised To Find Human Brains Preserved 12,000 Years

  January 3, 2025 Mind Matters

  Brains usually dissolve within days after death. Depending on environmental conditions, though, five processes can preserve brains for hundreds or even thousands of years, researchers concluded after analyzing records of over 4,400 brain fossils

• Edge of Sentience Summarizes Research on Animals', AIs' Feelings

  January 3, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  And animal rights laws as well. But there is a dark side to Jonathan Birch’s approach too…

• Video

  Why Science Reveals a God-Ordained Universe

  January 3, 2025 Sean McDowell YouTube

  A grim anti-human outlook has taken hold of the public imagination, teaching us all to view ourselves as random products of a cruel and uncaring natural world. This worldview, which allegedly comes from science, is sorely out of date.

• Video

  Nature's Hidden Intelligence: Morphic Fields

  January 3, 2025 Rupert Sheldrake YouTube

  Sheldrake is often called a most original thinker, perhaps because throughout his career he has managed to combine open-mindedness with critical scientific thinking.

• A Scientific Controversy About Warm-Blooded Animals

  January 3, 2025 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Video

  Anthropological and Christological Compositionalism

  January 2, 2025 Reasonable Faith YouTube

  At the 2024 joint conferences of the Evangelical Theological and Philosophical Societies, William Lane Craig gives a lecture illuminating some surprising connections between the two fields of Theological Anthropology and Christology.

• ‘Dinosaur Highway' with 166-Million-Year-Old Footprints Found in Quarry

  January 2, 2025 Tom Howarth MSN

  In an extraordinary paleontological finding, researchers have uncovered a series of massive dinosaur trackways dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period, approximately 166 million years ago.

• Watch video of ‘dinosaur highway' found with hundreds of giant Jurassic-era tracks

  January 2, 2025 Mary Walrath-Holdridge USA Today

  Discovered at the Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, southern England, the prints are believed to be from the middle Jurassic era, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham said

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Finding functional microproteins

  January 2, 2025 Sikandar Azam, Feiyue Yang, and Xuebing Wu Trends in Genetics

  Thousands of microproteins with unclear functional significance are synthesized in human cells and other organisms.

• Researchers find series of dinosaur footprints at UK quarry

  January 2, 2025 ABC News (Australia)

  Researchers say they have uncovered 200 footprints dating back 166 million years ago, which belong to five separate dinosaurs.

• Is There a Fundamental Logic to Life?

  January 2, 2025 Matt Williams Universe Today

  there is ample evidence that convergence and constraints play a strong role in limiting the types of evolutionary domains life can achieve

• News Update/Commentary

  Gene expression in the human brain: cell types become more specialized, not just more numerous

  January 2, 2025 University of California, Santa Barbara Science Daily

  Our brain's exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species. Yet humans share upwards of 95% of our genome with chimpanzees, our closest living relatives.

• News Update/Commentary

  Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair

  January 2, 2025 Hubrecht Institute Science Daily

  Researchers discovered that the protein Hmga1 plays a key role in heart regeneration in zebrafish. In mice, this protein was able to restore the heart by activating dormant repair genes without causing side effects

• How Much Can AI Help Us Understand Animal Language?

  January 2, 2025 Mind Matters

  At Wired, Cambridge zoologist Arik Kershenbaum reports that the Collier–Doolittle prize are offered for cracking the code of animal language using machine learning and AI. He predicts a bright future

• Wokeness Poisons Atheism Too: The Tale of Jerry Coyne

  January 2, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  When evolutionary biologist Coyne questioned Woke “gender” claims, the Freedom From Religion Foundation removed his article, citing the “distress” he caused

• Soft Tissue Wars: Latest Inadequate Excuse

  January 2, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Four European scientists couldn’t find original collagen in ichthyosaur bones, but how hard did they look?

• Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life

  January 2, 2025 Molly Herring Quanta Magazine

  Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.

• Darwin’s Zombies Are Still Shambling Along

  January 2, 2025 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Spencer Klavan Asks: What Is the Universe Made Of?

  January 2, 2025 Emily Sandico Evolution News & Science Today

• Scientists track changes at the Yellowstone supervolcano

  January 1, 2025 Elizabeth Weise USA Today

  Could it blow again?

• Is the Moon there when nobody looks? Reality and the quantum theory

  January, 2025 N. David Mermin Physics Today, v.78, n.1, p.28-39

  Einstein maintained that quantum metaphysics entails spooky actions at a distance; experiments have now shown that what bothered Einstein is not a debatable point but the observed behavior of the real world.

• News Update/Commentary

  Revealing a key mechanism of rapid centromere evolution

  January 1, 2025 University of Tokyo Science Daily

  Researchers clarify a key mechanism of genetic element insertions in the centromere, the ‘waist' of a chromosome

• Video

  3d animated blood flow of the heart

  January, 2025 YouTube

• Evolution

  January, 2025 Answers in Genesis

  What is “evolution,” and how does it relate to creation? Discover how evolution supposedly works, its history, myths, and effect on Christian theology.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Drug delivery dynamics dictate evolution of bacterial antibiotic responses

  January, 2025 John C. Crow, et al. Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology

  Recent studies suggest that the initial evolution of microbes occupying new niches favors mutations in regulatory pathways.

• Embodied Minds

  January, 2025 Michael Levin Tufts University

  understanding diverse intelligence in evolved, designed, and hybrid complex systems

• We finally know where to look for life on Mars

  January 1, 2025 Paul Sutter space.com

  If -- and it is a big if -- there is life to be found on the Red Planet, scientists say follow the methane.

• Psychology has a consciousness problem

  January 1, 2025 Iris Berent Big Think

  The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.

• Video

  How Does DNA Uncover a Biblical History of Humankind?

  January 1, 2025 Kurt Wise YouTube

  Two different stories of human history exist: one defined by the supernatural creation of humanity as recorded in the Book of Genesis, the other by natural processes of evolution. Which history does the evidence support?

• Video

  Dark Energy Is Not Real, New Data Analysis Finds

  January 1, 2025 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  According to our current understanding of astrophysics, the universe is growing at an ever-increasing rate. The most-accepted model for this expansion attributes the accelerated expansion to dark energy -- but what if it’s wrong?

• Video

  Physics of Fine-Tuning

  January 1, 2025 Bernard Carr YouTube

  The fine-tuning of the constants of nature, which seems required for the existence of stars and planets and certainly for life and mind, is a fascinating feature of our universe.

• The immortal jellyfish

  January, 2025 Joel Tay Creation Ministries International

  The phoenix of the sea

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  “Assembly Theory” in life-origin models: A critical review

  January, 2025 David Lynn Abel BioSystems, v.247

  Assembly Theory conflated with its cousins -- Complexity Theory, Chaos theory, Quantum Mechanics, Irreversible Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Molecular Evolution theory -- collectively have great naturalistic appeal

• Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”

  January 1, 2025 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024

• Mind Matters News: Top Ten Stories of 2024

  December 31, 2024 Mind Matters

  ... with some brief comments on their significance

• How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans

  December 31, 2024 Laura Spinney New Scientist

  The surprise discovery that ancient human DNA can survive in sediments and soil is revolutionising the study of Paleolithic minds, behaviours and lifestyles

• Scientists Identify New Species from Crystal-Filled Dinosaur Egg

  December 30, 2024 Hannah Crawford MSN

  Geodes form over thousands of years. These beautiful spherical rocks are even more remarkable when they turn out to be dinosaur eggs! This phenomenon is not uncommon.

• Gene Complexity Showcases Engineered Versatility

  December 30, 2024 Jeffrey P. Tomkins Institute for Creation Research