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• Google creates self-replicating life from digital ‘primordial soup'

  July 9, 2024 Matthew Sparkes New Scientist

  A digital “primordial soup" with no rules or direction can lead to the emergence of self-replicating artificial life forms, in an experiment that may hint at how biological life began on Earth

• When did human ancestors start walking on two legs?

  July 9, 2024 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  Anthropologists have been arguing for 20 years about whether Sahelanthropus, a hominin that lived about 7 million years ago, was one of the first bipedal apes

• Video

  William Lane Craig's 700,000-year-old “Adam"?

  July 9, 2024 Marcus Ross YouTube

  William Lane Craig is a well-known, erudite scholar and Christian philosopher. In his latest book, The Quest for the Historical Adam, Lane claims that Genesis 1-11 should be understood as mytho-history. That is, myth that overlays an historical backbone

• AAAS Tries to Influence Elections

  July 9, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Farewell to unbiased science. The AAAS has gone political. You know what that means.

• View: Universities Should Not Speak Up Against Dissenting Profs!

  July 9, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Jay Bhattacharya and Wesley J. Smith respond to an article in a medical journal arguing that universities SHOULD censure dissenters on the faculty

• Written by Human or Bot? Researchers Have a New Way to Tell

  July 9, 2024 Mind Matters

  After the use of chatbots surged in 2023, some common words appeared much more often in the abstracts of journal papers, hinting at AI origin

• Singing -- A Remarkable Gift, by Design

  July 9, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Ancient genomes reveal over two thousand years of dingo population structure

  July 8, 2024 Yassine Souilmi, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  Dingoes are an iconic element of Australia’s biodiversity, but evidence-based management and conservation of dingoes depend on understanding their origins and population history.

• The Primal Testament: Parallels between Evolutionary and Biblical History

  July 8, 2024 Graeme Finlay Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology, v.3, p.87-135

  Evolutionary biology is regarded with suspicion in some theological circles. However, the era of DNA sequencing, allowing linear side-by-side comparisons of our genome with those of related species, has revealed how our genome has incrementally developed

• Blog Post

  Francis Crick’s Depressing Hypothesis

  July 8, 2024 John Horgan

  Crick got a kick out of skewering wishful thinking, like my belief in free will. But was he right that we are “nothing but a pack of neurons”?

• Baffled by human diversity

  July 8, 2024 Jacob Zellmer Aeon

  Confused 17th-century Europeans argued that human groups were separately created, a precursor to racist thought today

• New Evidence for Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT)?

  July 8, 2024 Jake Hebert Institute for Creation Research

• News Update/Commentary

  Brain size riddle solved as humans exceed evolution trend

  July 8, 2024 University of Reading Science Daily

  The largest animals do not have proportionally bigger brains -- with humans bucking this trend -- a new study has revealed.

• Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

  July 8, 2024 Colin Barras New Scientist

  Recent fossil finds suggest that big brains weren't an evolutionary asset to our ancestors but evolved by accident -- and are likely to shrink again in the near future

• Evolutionary story of Australia's dingoes revealed by ancient DNA

  July 8, 2024 James Woodford New Scientist

  Dingoes, the native wild dogs of Australia, arrived on the continent more than 3000 years ago and their gene pool has had little input from domestic dogs

• Closer Look Found Important Functions in Junk RNA

  July 8, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Did evolutionists’ belief in genomic junk delay important discoveries?

• Herding Chromosomes in the Mitosis Corral

  July 8, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Evolutionary Model Can’t Account for Singing

  July 8, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Life Only Needed a Small Amount of Oxygen to Explode, Scientists Find

  July 7, 2024 Clare Watson Science Alert

  It's long been thought that a monumental surge in oxygen fuelled the Cambrian explosion some 540 million years ago, breathing life into Earth's biosphere to generate a rich array of stunningly complex animal species.

• When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult ...

  July 7, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious

• SETI Pseudoscience Passes Peer Review

  July 6, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Impossibilities presented as probabilities and ignorance presented as science

• Hypothesis: Yes, ET Existed -- But Mainly in the Past

  July 6, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A recent paper introduces the idea of cryptoterrestrials, technologically advanced civilizations on Earth, perhaps from earlier geological eras, as the source of the UAPs/UFOs

• Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  July 5, 2024 Aaron Weimann, et al. Science, v. 385, n.6704

  A series of epidemic clones emerged and expanded between 1850 and 2000, indicating recent selective pressures, possibly driven by industrialization, associated pollution, and human population change and underpinned by major changes in bacterial physiology

• Video

  Academia Is Broken!

  July 5, 2024 Pete Judo YouTube

  Stanford Nobel-Prize Scandal Explained

• Is the universe a game?

  July 5, 2024 Marcus Du Sautoy New Scientist

  Generations of scientists have compared the universe to a giant, complex game, raising questions about who is doing the playing -- and what it would mean to win

• Will AI Soon Help Animals Talk to Us?

  July 5, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Many animals have a natural tendency to hide their problems for self-protection. AI trained on massive animal datasets might suss them out

• Physicists: Perhaps Life Is a Unique State of Matter

  July 5, 2024 Mind Matters

  A physics gathering next week at the University of Rochester will explore the significance of the fact that life, unlike non-life, needs and uses information

• Medical Nanomachines: Our Future Boon -- or Bane?

  July 5, 2024 Mind Matters

  James Tour’s molecular jackhammers could become a new treatment for cancer, says engineering prof Karl Stephan

• Time Wanderers Debunk Popular Scenario of Mammalian Evolution

  July 5, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Cosmic Rays Shed Light on Stone Age Timelines

  July 5, 2024 Caroline Hasler Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Signatures of a long-ago solar storm, recorded in tree rings, helped researchers date a 7,400-year-old settlement in northern Greece.

• Video

  Q&A About the Universe with Top Physicist

  July 5, 2024 Neil Turok YouTube

  Welcome to Rethinking the Foundations brought to you by Curt Jaimungal at Theories of Everything.

• The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishing

  July 4, 2024 C. Brandon Ogbunu Undark

  Scientists who spend time peer-reviewing manuscripts don’t get rewarded for their efforts. It’s time to change that.

• Will Contact with Non-Human Intelligence Involve Aliens or AI?

  July 4, 2024 Avi Loeb The Debrief

  Large Language Models with Artificial Intelligence (AI) are neural networks whose hardware is very different from the human brain.

• Scientists stunned to find termite mounds have been lived in for 34,000 years

  July 4, 2024 Gerald Imray Independent

  ‘We knew they were old, but not that old’

• A new model for defining life across the Universe

  July 4, 2024 Adam Frank Big Think

  Physicists have increasingly begun to view life as information-processing “states of matter” that require special consideration.

• Unraveling the Complex Mysteries of Embryonic Beginnings

  July 4, 2024 Shelby Bradford The Scientist

  Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz followed the aesthetic allure of the embryo to better understand the start of development.

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists map how deadly bacteria evolved to become epidemic

  July 4, 2024 University of Cambridge Science Daily

  Pseudomonas aeruginosa found to exploit immune defect to persist in cystic fibrosis patients

• News Update/Commentary

  Not so selfish after all: Viruses use freeloading genes as weapons

  July 4, 2024 University of California, San Diego Science Daily

  Phage viruses, which are increasingly used to treat antibiotic resistance, gain an advantage by cutting off a competitor's ability to reproduce

• Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy

  July 4, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  Giving AI systems the ability to focus on particular brain regions can make them much better at reconstructing images of what a monkey is looking at from brain recordings

• Vulture Design Highlighted

  July 4, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Illustra Media’s new short film proves that ugly things can be beautiful in their own way

• Why Panpsychism (Everything Is Conscious) Is Gaining Ground

  July 4, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Many life forms do unexpectedly remarkable things. It is simpler to broaden the circle of consciousness than to keep on trying to prove that human consciousness is just an illusion

• Can We Really Study the Minds of Ancient Humans?

  July 4, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The design inference helps sort things out in human paleontology

• Our Brains Float Between Two Phases, Dodging Disorder

  July 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  For July 4th, an Intelligent Design-Themed Tour of Washington, DC

  July 3, 2024 David Klinghoffer Science & Culture Today

• Finding the Roots of Religion in Human Prehistory

  July 3, 2024 Deborah Barsky Real Clear Science

  A glance at recorded history shows us that humans have “always” felt a need to explain phenomena perceived to exist beyond our comprehension.

• Oldest known picture story is a 51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting

  July 3, 2024 Sharlotte Thou The Guardian

  New dating technique finds painting on island of Sulawesi is 6,000 years older than previous record holder

• Extinct humans survived on Tibetan plateau for 160,000 years

  July 3, 2024 University of Reading

  Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans survived here for many millennia, according to a new study published in Nature. | See Also Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave

• Darwin’s Sexual Selection Theory of Humans Falsified

  July 3, 2024 Jerry Bergman Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.421-425

  Darwin reasoned that the standards of human beauty would vary considerably in different parts of the world because these judgments evolved as a result of local sexual selection pressures.

• Fresh calls to ban creationism in Welsh schools

  July 3, 2024 Andrew Sibley Creation Ministries International

  What is really behind these moves?

• How the Brain Selects What Experiences to Keep

  July 3, 2024 Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga The Scientist

  A brain rhythm in the hippocampus tags events for replaying during sleep, revealing a potential mechanism for selecting experiences for long-term storage.