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• Is the Exodus a Myth?

  November 5, 2024 Titus Kennedy The Gospel Coalition

  The Israelites’ exodus from Egypt is a major narrative referenced throughout the Bible, and it’s known by millions around the world. But many question whether the exodus really happened

• Ancient Mesopotamian clay seals offer clues to the origin of writing

  November 5, 2024 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay -- and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing

• Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

  November 5, 2024 Sophie Berdugo New Scientist

  Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age

• Cells have more mini ‘organs’ than researchers thought

  November 5, 2024 Allan Albig The Conversation

  unbound by membranes, these rogue organelles challenge biology’s fundamentals

• Can Brain Structure Alone Explain Why We Have Language?

  November 5, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  How human languages came to exist is an unsolved mystery within science

• Burials from 120,000 Years Ago: Was It Neanderthals vs. Others?

  November 5, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  researchers who studied 32 graves (17 Neanderthal and 15 Homo sapiens) from that era onward found both similarities and differences

• Can We Save Science from Fools and Knaves?

  November 5, 2024 Mind Matters

  a look at potential reforms in light of the growing reproducibility crisis in science.

• Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

  November 5, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Modern Science Tolerates Fools and Knaves. Here's a Solution

  November 4, 2024 David Randall Real Clear Science

  The latest research fraud scandal concerns one Eliezer Masliah. He’s one of the world’s leading researchers into Alzheimer’s and it looks as if he fabricated a good deal of his data.

• Scientists Create Plant-Animal Hybrids That Photosynthesize

  November 4, 2024 Pandora Dewan Newsweek

  The breakthrough promises to revolutionize medical research and scale up the production of lab-grown meat.

• Blog Post

  Remembering Michael Ruse

  November 4, 2024 Bill Dembski

  Philosopher of biology Michael Ruse died Friday, November 1, 2024. Paradoxically, he was ardent in his Darwinism, mild in his atheism, and fair-minded to intelligent design.

• Black Holes Could Be the Mysterious Force Expanding the Universe

  November 4, 2024 Michelle Starr Science Alert

  From the winding down of clocks to the death of stars, everything seems destined to eventually grind to a halt. But there's one really, really big thing to which this doesn't seem to apply, at all.

• Video

  Do Humans Need Souls?

  November 4, 2024 Nancey Murphy YouTube

  Is the ‘real you’ a special substance that is nonphysical and immortal? Most regular people would agree, but most scientists would not. What are you? A body alone that is dead forever once it dies? A soul temporally inhabiting a body?

• Video

  The crisis in physics is real: Science is failing

  November 4, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  I apologize that my videos sometimes lack nuance and explain why I think we are witnessing the failure of science.

• Neanderthals Buried Their Dead, But in Strangely Different Ways

  November 4, 2024 David Nield Science Alert

  Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago.

• Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in ‘Pompeii-type' events?

  November 4, 2024 Columbia Climate School phys.org

  Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ecosystem in what is now northeast China.

• Paintbrush of the Creator

  November 4, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Heat can flow backwards in a gas so thin its particles never touch

  November 4, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  A surprising reversal of our usual understanding of the second law of thermodynamics shows that it may be possible for heat to move in the “wrong” direction, flowing from a cold area to a warm one

• News Update/Commentary

  Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in ‘Pompeii-type' events?

  November 4, 2024 Columbia Climate School Science Daily

  Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a new study.

• News Update/Commentary

  Persistent problems with AI-assisted genomic studies

  November 4, 2024 University of Wisconsin, Madison Science Daily

  Researchers are warning that artificial intelligence tools gaining popularity in the fields of genetics and medicine can lead to flawed conclusions about the connection between genes and physical characteristics

• Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in ‘Pompeii-type' events?

  November 4, 2024 Columbia Climate School EurekAlert!

  China's famous fossils may have a more ordinary explanation

• AI Pessimists vs True Believers: A Deepening Divide

  November 4, 2024 Jeffrey Funk Mind Matters

  There is a growing divide about AI even among AI experts but many of them like polarizing content, just as the consumers of political information do

• Earth May Survive the Sun’s Demise

  November 4, 2024 Damond Benningfield Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

• Existentialist Science: Darwin as Proto-Absurdist

  November 4, 2024 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Once thought a fantasy, effort to sequence DNA of millions of species gains momentum

  November 4, 2024 Elizabeth Pennisi Science

  Project has read 3000 genomes but needs billions to finish grand vision of sequencing all complex life

• In politically sensitive study, India looks to DNA to track ancient migrations

  November 4, 2024 Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar Science

  Hindu nationalists have resisted findings that migrants from European Steppe played key role in nation’s history

• We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

  November 3, 2024 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Math Prof: Monkeys Can't Type Out Shakespeare in Our Universe

  November 2, 2024 Mind Matters

  University of Technology Sydney mathematicians Associate Professor Stephen Woodcock and Jay Falletta decided to test the oft-heard Infinite Monkey Theorem

• Did Stephen Hawking End His Career by Giving Up on Truth?

  November 2, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A philosopher argues the case. But has the rejection of truth in physics spread widely into popular culture?

• Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

  November 2, 2024 Peter Biles Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Biological evolution is dead in the water of Darwin's warm little pond

  November, 2024 Olen R. Brown and David A. Hullender Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, v.193, p.1-6

  co-origination of required biochemical processes makes the origin of life probabilistically absurdly improbable even when all assumptions are chosen to unreasonably favor evolutionary theories

• World's largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms

  November 1, 2024 James Woodford New Scientist

  DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Cognitive ease at a cost

  November, 2024 Matthias Stadler, et al. Computers in Human Behavior, v.160

  LLMs reduce mental effort but compromise depth in student scientific inquiry

• Life evolves. So do minerals. How about everything else?

  November 1, 2024 Paul Voosen Science

  Proposed “natural law” broadening evolution finds support

• What's so special about the human brain?

  November 1, 2024 Kerri Smith Nature

  Torrents of data from cell atlases, brain organoids and other methods are finally delivering answers to an age-old question.

• Video

  Enormous Folded Layers in Utah

  November 1, 2024 Beyond Is Genesis History? YouTube

  John Whitmore examines the unique geological story of the Uinta Mountains through a young-earth perspective, highlighting how their distinctive rock formations and layers align with the Flood model.

• The multiverse is metaphysics, not science

  November 1, 2024 Quentin Ruyant iai News

  What's missing in the multiverse debate

• News Update/Commentary

  Bee gene specifies collective behavior

  November 1, 2024 Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf Science Daily

  Researchers investigate how the complex, cooperative behavior of honey bees (Apis mellifera) is genetically programmed so that it can be passed on to subsequent generations.

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolutionary paths vastly differ for birds, bats

  November 1, 2024 Cornell University Science Daily

  New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds.

• News Update/Commentary

  The reasons flowers wilt could explain how plants spend (and save) their energy

  November 1, 2024 Macquarie University Science Daily

  Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management strategy in plants, millions of years in the making.

• How To Sue a Chatbot for Causing Suicide

  November 1, 2024 Richard W. Stevens Mind Matters

  If your child committed suicide because an online chatbot effectively encouraged him to do so, could you sue the chatbot makers?

• New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

  November 1, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• The world’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest

  November 1, 2024 Helena Kudiabor Nature

  A vast colony of aspen clones could hold clues about how ancient organisms protect their genomes from harmful mutations.

• The Crisis in String Theory is Worse Than You Think…

  October 31, 2024 Peter Woit Not Even Wrong

  We live in the wrong kind of world to be described by string theory. No physicist has ever won a big prize for string theory. I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is not the real world that we live in. So we need to start over.

• The Gas Exchange Problem Insurmountable by Chance

  October 31, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  In Part Two of Dr Smith’s guest article, he applies irreducible complexity to how complex animals get oxygen to cells.

• What Science Owes to Faith, Hope, and Love

  October 31, 2024 Stephen Dilley Evolution News & Science Today

• Secure ancient animal remains from permafrost

  October 31, 2024 Raul Ramos, et al. Science, v.386, n.6721, p.501

  As permafrost thaws, entombed animal carcasses, many from now-extinct species, become unearthed. Despite being tens of thousands of years old, ancient remains often emerge in an exquisite state of preservation

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Fine-Tuning and the Multiverse Argument Against Naturalism

  October 30, 2024 Rad Miksa TheoLogica

  The multiverse is often invoked by naturalists to avoid a design inference from the fine-tuning of the universe. I argue that positing that we live in a naturalistic multiverse makes it plausible that we currently exist in a problematic skeptical scenario

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The oldest tadpole reveals evolutionary stability of the anuran life cycle

  October 30, 2024 Mariana Chuliver, et al. Nature, v.636, p.138-142

  Anurans are characterized by a biphasic life cycle, with an aquatic larval (tadpole) stage followed by an adult (frog) stage, both connected through the metamorphic period in which drastic morphological and physiological changes occur.

• Free Will: A Materialist Thinks It Might Somehow Be Real

  October 30, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Psychiatrist Ralph Lewis thinks that Darwinian evolution can explain human consciousness but now hesitates to debunk free will