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• Science Media Abandons Empiricism

  September 16, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  By failing to exercise restraint, reporters launch themselves into speculative fantasy islands

• A Profound Mystery Gave Earthworms The Most Chaotic Genomes Ever Seen

  September 15, 2024 Tessa Koumoundouros Science Alert

  Back around when worms wriggled out of saltwater and into freshwater, they experienced a cataclysmic rearrangement of their genetic material.

• Decade-Long Study Challenges Traditional Views of Evolution

  September 15, 2024 Arizona State University Sci Tech Daily

  A tiny species of water flea, nearly invisible to the naked eye, plays a vital role in freshwater ecosystems and provides a valuable insight into natural selection and evolution.

• Video

  Can Christians Solve the Problem of Evil?

  September 14, 2024 Is Genesis History? YouTube

  Drawing from the teachings of the early church fathers, the Genesis account, and evidence from the fossil record, paleontologist Kurt Wise seeks to offer a response to the “Problem of Evil."

• A sprinkling of cosmic dust may have helped kick-start life on Earth

  September 14, 2024 Victoria Corless space.com

  The origin of life on Earth has long remained a mystery.

• Fossil fish explains how tectonics played a key role in evolution

  September 14, 2024 Evrim Yazgin Cosmos Magazine

• RNA self-replication and abiogenesis

  September 14, 2024 Shaun Doyle Creation Ministries International

• The Formation of Our Digits Points to a Process with Foresight

  September 13, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Blog Post

  Language models tackle organizing definitions of life

  September 13, 2024 Mike Levin Forms of life, forms of mind

• Darwinism Degrades Logic

  September 13, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Materialists like to accuse “people of faith” of pseudo-science. Well, look again.

• More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

  September 13, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Early dark energy could resolve cosmology’s two biggest puzzles

  September 13, 2024 Jennifer Chu MIT News

  In the universe’s first billion years, this brief and mysterious force could have produced more bright galaxies than theory predicts.

• Video

  A Designed Cosmos: Your Toughest Questions Answered!

  September 13, 2024 Sean McDowell YouTube

  Jay Richards discusses the 20-year update to his classic book “The Privileged Planet." It lays out the case that our place in the cosmos is evidence for design, and discusses how the argument is even stronger today. Now we take your questions Live!

• Blog Post

  Is God a Strange Loop?

  September 13, 2024 John Horgan

  I recently hobnobbed with a writer, as obsessed with the mind-body problem as I am. The problem concerns, in a narrow sense, how matter makes mind, but it also encompasses the puzzles of consciousness, intelligence, free will, the self, meaning, morality…

• Without Entropy, There Would Be No Life

  September 13, 2024 Avshalom Elitzur and Simon Custer iai News

  Evolution depends on entropy

• Complex chemicals found on Enceladus improve prospects for life

  September 13, 2024 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  The Cassini mission’s samples from Saturn’s moon Enceladus have signs of various organic molecules that could be among the ingredients needed for life to get started

• When the Computer Tried Being a Mind, It Almost ...

  September 13, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Philosopher Andy Clark offered to explain the popular computational theory of mind to Robert Lawrence Kuhn -- but then a gap appeared

• Neanderthal Lineage Was Isolated for an Astonishing 50,000 Years

  September 12, 2024 Tessa Koumoundouros Science Alert

• We’ll Show You Our Perfect Solar Eclipses if You’ll Show Us Yours

  September 12, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Richards to Aliens

• Video

  The Universe As An Open System

  September 12, 2024 Denis Noble YouTube

  Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

• Video

  Consciousness and the Self

  September 12, 2024 David Chalmers YouTube

  Is self-awareness a uniquely human trait? Some animals seem to disagree. The deep significance of self-awareness is how on earth can physical processes in physical brains generate self awareness?

• Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms

  September 12, 2024 Peter A. Noble and Alex Pozhitkov The Conversation

  pushing the boundaries of life, death and medicine

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction

  September 12, 2024 Yadong Sun, et al. Science, v.385, n.6714, p.1189-1195

  Only a few of the many volcanism-driven hyperthermals during the Phanerozoic caused mass extinctions, and none of them approached the level of global species loss seen at the end of the Permian.

• News Update/Commentary

  Trilobite fossils from upstate New York reveal ‘extra' set of legs

  September 12, 2024 American Museum of Natural History Science Daily

  Discovery of fifth pair of head appendages helps researchers solve trilobite segmentation puzzle

• Dark matter search: Are scientists looking in the wrong direction?

  September 12, 2024 Don Lincoln Big Think

  A recent experiment challenges the leading dark matter theory and hints at new directions for uncovering one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries.

• Science Goes with the Cultural Flow

  September 12, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The Easter Island revision shows how science myths can track cultural values

• Mega El Niños may have played a part in the Permian mass extinction

  September 12, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  Extreme weather events lasting more than a decade could have killed off forests 250 million years ago, contributing to Earth's worst ever mass extinction

• how El Nino caused the greatest ever mass extinction

  September 12, 2024 Yadong Sun, et al. University of Bristol

  Mega ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research.

• Life: A History of Mergers

  September 12, 2024 James McInerney Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly

  this talk will journey through the tangled evolutionary history of life on Earth, exploring the pivotal role of symbiosis, horizontal gene transfer and the merging of evolving objects with other evolving objects, and how this has shaped the living world

• Exceptional new fish fossil sparks rethink of how Earth’s geology drives evolution

  September 12, 2024 Alice Clement and John Long The Conversation

  Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct.

• Cosmology is at a tipping point

  September 12, 2024 Andreea Font The Conversation

  we may be on the verge of discovering new physics

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies

  September 11, 2024 Logan D. Moore, et al. Nature

  Parasitoid wasps are exceptionally diverse and use specialized adaptations capable of manipulating the physiology and behaviour of host organisms.

• A New Theory Says the Universe Is Rebooting Itself

  September 11, 2024 Darren Orf Popular Mechanics

  Answering the question of how everything began was always going to be a difficult one, but humans have made incredible progress

• Body snatchers: these parasitoid wasps grow in adult fruit flies

  September 11, 2024 Nature

  Parasitoid wasps, which have larvae that grow in or on other organisms and eventually kill their hosts, are widely recognized for their vast biodiversity and fascinating ecology.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas

  September 11, 2024 J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, et al. Nature, v.633, p.389-397

  Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. It has captured the imagination of many owing to its archaeological record, which includes iconic megalithic statues called moai.

• Rapa Nui’s population history rewritten using ancient DNA

  September 11, 2024 Stephan Schiffels and Kathrin Nägele Nature

  By analysing the ancient genomes of individuals from Rapa Nui, researchers have overturned a contentious theory that the remote Pacific island experienced a self-inflicted population collapse before European colonization.

• Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory

  September 11, 2024 Benjamin Thompson and Nick Petrić Howe Nature

  Study refutes claim that mismanagement of natural resources led to population crash

• Famed Pacific island’s population ‘crash' debunked by ancient DNA

  September 11, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Genome analysis adds to mounting evidence against the idea that Rapa Nui’s population collapsed owing to overexploitation of natural resources.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The emerging view on the origin and early evolution of eukaryotic cells

  September 11, 2024 Julian Vosseberg, et al. Nature, v.633, p.295-305

  The origin of the eukaryotic cell, with its compartmentalized nature and generally large size compared with bacterial and archaeal cells, represents a cornerstone event in the evolution of complex life on Earth.

• Extreme solar storms and the quest for exact dating with radiocarbon

  September 11, 2024 T. J. Heaton, et al. Nature, v.633, p.306-317

  Radiocarbon (¹⁴C) is essential for creating chronologies to study the timings and drivers of pivotal events in human history and the Earth system over the past 55,000 years.

• Human embryo models are getting more realistic -- raising ethical questions

  September 11, 2024 Smriti Mallapaty Nature

  Dozens of labs around the world are striving to grow models of human embryos to study development, fertility and therapies. They are entering uncharted ethical territory.

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists expand the genetic alphabet to create new proteins

  September 11, 2024 Scripps Research Institute Science Daily

  The novel method uses sets of four RNA nucleotides -- rather than the natural three -- to encode new, synthetic building blocks into proteins

• Why the electron’s mass is vital to life in the Universe

  September 11, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Most fundamental constants could be a little larger or smaller, and our Universe would still be similar. But not the mass of the electron.

• Penguins Were Created to Swim

  September 11, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  A new 2024 fossil analysis fails to show that penguin flippers evolved from flight wings

• Darwin and the Problem of Pain

  September 11, 2024 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  The Brain’s Amazing Complexity

  September 11, 2024 Reasons to Believe YouTube

  biochemist Fuz Rana and Uditha Jayatunga discuss the amazing complexity of human and animal brains and the problem it poses for the evolutionary paradigm

• Why we haven’t evolved better knees -- new research

  September 11, 2024 Michael Berthaume The Conversation

  the human knee has a complex evolutionary history. And new research is showing how misunderstood it is.

• Multifaceted Mitochondria Maintain Mystique

  September 11, 2024 Shelby Bradford The Scientist

  Tiny but mighty, the mitochondria continue to surprise scientists with new insights into their diverse roles within cells.

• NASA okays mission to search for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa

  September 10, 2024 Michael Greshko Nature

  After resolving a threat to the spacecraft’s circuitry, the US space agency is now weeks away from launching the orbiter.

• When did humans leave the trees for the savannah -- or did they at all?

  September 10, 2024 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  Ancient humans are said to have evolved to leave the trees, where our primate ancestors lived, in favour of open grassy savannahs -- but we may have this idea wrong