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• Video

  Discovery Institute Accidentally Refutes Intelligent Design

  July 3, 2024 Creation Myths YouTube

  Discovery Institute keeps going with the junk DNA stuff, and they miss the ball again with their latest. And in doing so, they made an argument that has some unintended implications. It's a great argument against intelligent design creationism.

• News Update/Commentary

  Do genes-in-pieces code for proteins that fold in pieces?

  July 3, 2024 Rice University Science Daily

  A new study offers new insights into the evolution of foldable proteins.

• News Update/Commentary

  Never-before-seen view of gene transcription captured

  July 3, 2024 Rockefeller University Science Daily

  New tech reveals findings that address long-standing theories about how bacteria begin the process of making RNA from DNA.

• News Update/Commentary

  Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs

  July 3, 2024 Field Museum Science Daily

  Meet Gaiasia jennyae, the swamp creature with a toilet seat-shaped head. It lived 40 million years before the first dinosaurs, and it was the top predator in its ecosystem.

• How Denisovans thrived on top of the world: mysterious ancient humans’ survival secrets revealed

  July 3, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  The cave-dwelling group hunted animals such as hyenas and hares to sustain themselves in harsh environments.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Narrative cave art in Indonesia by 51,200 years ago

  July 3, 2024 Adhi Agus Oktaviana, et al. Nature, v.631, p.814-818

  Previous dating research indicated that the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is host to some of the oldest known rock art. That work was based on solution uranium-series analysis of calcite deposits overlying rock art

• Cosmic Tension: Modern Cosmology Has Big Holes

  July 3, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Leading cosmologists admit major problems with orthodox cosmology

• Neuroscientist: The Mind Is Just the Brain

  July 3, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  He cites studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation, which caused subjects to see flashing lights

• With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

  July 3, 2024 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Giant stem tetrapod was apex predator in Gondwanan late Palaeozoic ice age

  July 3, 2024 Claudia A. Marsicano, et al. Nature, v.631, p.577-582

  Current hypotheses of early tetrapod evolution posit close ecological and biogeographic ties to the extensive coal-producing wetlands of the Carboniferous palaeoequator

• Fossils found far from the Equator point to globetrotting tetrapods

  July 3, 2024 Christian A. Sidor Nature

  Ancient specimens of a previously undescribed species of four-limbed vertebrate fill a gap in the fossil record. The evidence offers surprises about where, when and how these ancestral relatives of humans evolved.

• A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one

  July 3, 2024 Alex Lopatka Physics Today

  Electrons in a chiral molecule, if excited by ultrafast light pulses, can give the molecule entirely different properties.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave

  July 3, 2024 Huan Xia, et al. Nature, v.632, p.108-113

  Genetic and fragmented palaeoanthropological data suggest that Denisovans were once widely distributed across eastern Eurasia. This indicates that Denisovans were capable of adapting to a highly diverse range of environments

• Lab-grown human brain tissue used to control robot

  July 2, 2024 Andrew Paul Popular Science

  Scientists take another step towards organoid ‘hybrid intelligence.'

• The scientist’s 10 commandments

  July 2, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.

• Video

  Exploring Intelligent Design through the Memorials of Washington DC

  July 2, 2024 Discovery Science YouTube

  Celebrate July 4th weekend by exploring the importance of intelligent design to some of the greatest figures in American history through this brief tour of four iconic memorials in Washington, DC.

• News Update/Commentary

  Study illuminates cues algae use to ‘listen' to their environment

  July 2, 2024 Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Science Daily

  Understanding this ability, once thought unique to plants, helps illuminate the complex evolutionary history of plants and algae.

• News Update/Commentary

  An ant that selectively amputates the infected limbs of wounded sisters

  July 2, 2024 Cell Press Science Daily

  Scientists now detail how Florida carpenter ants, a common, brown species native to its namesake, selectively treat the wounded limbs of fellow nestmates -- either by wound cleaning or amputation.

• Neuroscientists must not be afraid to study religion

  July 2, 2024 Patrick McNamara, William Newsome, Brie Linkenhoker, and Jordan Grafman Nature

  Scientists interested in the brain have tended to avoid studying religion or spirituality for fear of being seen as unscientific. That needs to change.

• Fly Nervous System Exceeds Expectations

  July 2, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  One look at this nerve diagram should eliminate thoughts of evolution

• Dembski Asks the Chatbot: Is Intelligent Design Testable?

  July 2, 2024 Mind Matters

  ChatGPT4o’s tour through the internet on the topic suggests that there may be some improvement in rational discussion out there

• Our Brains Float Between Two Phases, Dodging Disorder

  July 2, 2024 Mind Matters

  Our minds just never quite get used to that

• The ‘yolk sac’ in human embryos

  July, 2024 Joel Tay Creation Ministries International

  New research further confirms it’s not a useless relic of our evolutionary past

• Five things to do with your tongue

  July, 2024 Lucien Tuinstra Creation Ministries International

  (1) A matter of taste, (2) Speech, (3) Language, (4) Evolution?, (5) Taming the tongue

• Justifying Scientific Progress

  July, 2024 Jacob Stegenga Philosophy of Science, v.91, n.3, p.543-560

• Scientist vs chemical evolution

  July, 2024 Don Batten interviews Royal Truman Creation Ministries International

• Is your cheese on the verge of extinction?

  July, 2024 Robert Carter Creation Ministries International

• The formidable harpy eagle

  July, 2024 Philip Bell Creation Ministries International

  The great harpy eagle, Harpia harpyja, is widely considered to be the world’s most powerful bird of prey.

• Intelligently Designed Flapping Frequencies

  July 1, 2024 Jake Hebert Institute for Creation Research

• Video

  James Tour Accused of Plagiarism by Dr. Andrew R. Barron

  July 1, 2024 James Tour YouTube

  + Correcting BAD science from YouTubers

• Video

  Erosion STILL shows the earth is young! Part 2

  July 1, 2024 Let's Talk Creation YouTube

  Dr. Monte Fleming continues exploring our rapidly eroding continents. How long do we have until there are no continents left? Can the earth really be billions of years old? Or is it a young world after all?

• Video

  Fine-tuning is Simply a Good Argument

  July 1, 2024 Truth Unites YouTube

  Gavin Ortlund introduces the fine-tuning argument for the existence of God and responds to 5 common objections.

• News Update/Commentary

  Organic material from Mars reveals the likely origin of life's building blocks

  July 1, 2024 University of Copenhagen Science Daily

  The study presents solid evidence for a prediction made over a decade ago that could be key to understanding how organic molecules, the foundation of life, were first formed here on Earth.

• News Update/Commentary

  New and improved camera inspired by the human eye

  July 1, 2024 University of Maryland Science Daily

  Inspired by how the human eye works, the innovative camera system mimics the tiny involuntary movements used by the eye to maintain clear and stable vision over time.

• Underwater spiders

  July, 2024 Shaun Doyle Creation Ministries International

  Engineering marvel and evolutionary enigma

• News Update/Commentary

  Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may have paved the way for grapes to spread

  July 1, 2024 Field Museum Science Daily

  Scientists describe nine new species of fossil grapes (60 to 19 million years old), including the oldest ones ever found in the Western Hemisphere

• News Update/Commentary

  AI-powered study explores under-studied female evolution

  July 1, 2024 University of Essex Science Daily

  The butterfly research adds to a debate between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace

• Evolutionary Biologist Defines Goldenrod Plant As “Intelligent"

  July 1, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The media release for the journal paper, sponsored by Cornell University, illustrates the growing comfort of science with panpsychist (everything is conscious) ideas

• What Is Pseudoscience? A Philosopher Tries To Sort It Out

  July 1, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Finding little to go on, Massimo Pigliucci suggests relying on popular skeptic sites and, er, … himself

• Illuminating the Power of Life

  July 1, 2024 Stephen J. Iacoboni Evolution News & Science Today

• Scientist Discovers a Protist’s “Cellular Origami”

  July 1, 2024 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

  The First Known Case

• Introduction to the Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design

  July 1, 2024 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

• Pseudoscience: Do We Know What We Are Talking About?

  July, 2024 Massimo Pigliucci Skeptical Inquirer, v.48, n.4

  If I had to guess, I’d bet that readers of Skeptical Inquirer feel fairly confident that they can identify notions that count as pseudoscientific and distinguish them from notions that don’t fall into that category.

• New theory about Indo-European language origin

  July, 2024 Andrew Sibley Creation Ministries International

  Moving closer to the Bible

• Video

  AI passed the Turing Test -- and No One Noticed

  June 30, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  The idea, going back to Alan Turing, was that a human interrogator would have a chat with a respondent, and the human needs to figure out whether the respondent is either human, or an AI. GPT has now officially passed that test.

• Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

  June 30, 2024 Robin McKie The Guardian

  In 1974, the fossilised bones of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominin, were discovered in Ethiopia. How has this remarkable skeleton disproved a Darwinian theory -- and what links her to the Beatles?

• Video

  Is Consciousness an Illusion?

  June 30, 2024 Henry Stapp YouTube

  Is consciousness something special in the universe, its own category, irreducible to physical laws, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolution, a superstition

• The Mystery of the Missing Apes Who Came Before Humans

  June 29, 2024 Marjorie Hecht Real Clear Science

  The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the Miocene geological epoch.

• ‘Time Cells' in the Brain Could Be More Crucial Than We Ever Realized

  June 29, 2024 Jess Cockerill Science Alert

  When it comes to how we experience, interact with, and navigate our world, timing is everything. And new research in mice suggests a specific set of cells is fundamental to the way we learn complex behaviors that rely on timing.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Predicting the evolution of bacterial populations with an epistatic selection-mutation model

  June 28, 2024 Raul Donangelo and Hugo Fort Academia Biology, v.2, n.2

  A general model, based on evolutionary first-order principles, is proposed and applied to the experimentally observed evolution of E. coli in the long-term evolution experiment.