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Evolution of Biological Information
July 17, 2026 Science & Culture Today
The Definition of Information
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Bull’s-Eye on Borrelia: A Commensal and Consequential Pathogen
July 17, 2026 Answers in Genesis
Ticks and Their Role in Lyme Disease and Alpha-gal
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News Update/Commentary
Koalas nearly went extinct before humans arrived, DNA study reveals
July 17, 2026 Science Daily
By calculating the koala's mutation rate and analyzing hundreds of genomes, researchers discovered that every living koala traces back to a small group that survived extreme climate shifts and later repopulated eastern Australia.
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Why Human Cognition Remains Unique
July 17, 2026 ID the Future
The age of AI is upon us and is already changing the way we conduct our lives. What is the optimal division of tasks between humans and machines?
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Emergence, Properly Understood
July 17, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“Emergence” is one of the omnipresent enthymemes of modern scientific discourse
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More humans are living to be 100 years of age
July 16, 2026 Mind Matters
It is a logical outcome of a general improvement in health care
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Today’s Computer Chips -- Measured in Beard-Seconds
July 16, 2026 Mind Matters
Could we use beard-seconds as a measurement? Actually, we could
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News Update/Commentary
AI flags more than 250,000 suspicious cancer research papers
July 16, 2026 Science Daily
A powerful new AI tool has uncovered what could be one of the biggest integrity problems in modern science
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News Update/Commentary
Earth has a natural thermostat and scientists finally know how it works
July 16, 2026 Science Daily
As sea levels rose and fell, they changed how much phosphate reached the open ocean, affecting marine life and the amount of carbon buried beneath the seafloor. That burial removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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Can Soccer Glorify God?
July 16, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As we approach the World Cup Finals, we reflect on the biological processes necessary for playing soccer| and how even these leisurely activities point to God’s handiwork
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Hitler Was More Progressive Than You Think
July 16, 2026 Seth Gruber
the ideological roots of Hitler’s eugenics, the influence of Darwinian evolution, and the disturbing similarities between Nazi racial theories and modern progressive politics
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Advancing science by designing for surprise
July 16, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6808
Consider a thought experiment. Two graduate students have written identical dissertations: the same experiments, the same data, the same robust findings.
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Scientists build first artificial protein motor that walks on DNA
July 16, 2026 earth.com
Researchers have built an artificial protein motor that walks in a set direction along a strand of DNA. It moves one step at a time, under second-by-second control.
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Did Scientists Just Create Life? The Conversations Team Dissects SpudCell
July 16, 2026
they examine the research, separating its remarkable engineering from the headlines and asking whether constant feeding, borrowed biological machinery, and mechanically forced division truly constitute a living cell
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Why Emergence Cannot Explain Consciousness
July 16, 2026 Closer to Truth
If consciousness can't arise simply by rearranging matter, where does it come from? ... radical emergence may not exist at all. If that's true, consciousness may not emerge from the brain but instead be fundamental to reality itself.
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The Cosmic Web Just Broke the Big Bang Model
July 16, 2026 See the Pattern
A new Nature paper claims that the cosmic web remains organised on scales far larger than the standard Big Bang model expects.
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Recovering lost origins
July 16, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6808, p.243-244
Wang et al. combine strontium isotope analysis, ancient DNA, and historical records to trace the origins of Africans buried on St Helena after being liberated from intercepted slave ships
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This Giant Deep-sea Creature Survives Five Years Without Food
July 16, 2026 ZME Science
Thanks to a Borrowed Bacterial Gene ... Living nearly 900 meters underwater, this isopod evolved unusual adaptations to thrive in the world’s most food-scarce environment.
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Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet
July 16, 2026 New York Times
It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.
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Oldest known Mars rock offers glimpse of planet’s watery youth
July 16, 2026 Science
Ancient Teghaza meteorite hints at granitelike crust and shows Mars was already losing its water 4.1 billion years ago
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Accidentally Demonstrating the Limits of Evolution
July 16, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Technological Evolution
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So What Went Wrong with Wikipedia?
July 16, 2026 Mind Matters
The whole business strikes some of us as a wildly Woke example of what can go wrong in an information society
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A Question at the Frontier of Human Inquiry
July 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Who Pushed the Button?
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Book
The Multiverse: A Philosophical Introduction
July, 2026 University of Calgary
an introduction to the idea that our universe is just one of many universes | See Also Amazon
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Relax. You do not have a lizard brain
July 15, 2026 Mind Matters
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Authors be warned: AI scams are much cleverer today
July 15, 2026 Mind Matters
Historian Guy de la Bédoyère points out that sophisticated AI tools can tailor an email so that it sounds personal -- a far cry from the junkmail that ends up in our recycle bins:
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Interoception: Is it really a new sixth sense?
July 15, 2026 Mind Matters
the body’s ability to sense and interpret its own internal signals
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Mozzie nozzle for fine 3D printing
July 15, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Mosquito feeding needles are so thin, straight, and strong that they have been used for the finest 3D printing.
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Humans Do Not Have an Evolved “Lizard Brain”
July 15, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The notion that the base of our brain evolved from a lizard brain is now fully debunked
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Why Dawkins’s Argument for AI Is an Argument for God
July 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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In Defiance of Evolution, Life Is an Idea
July 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution
July 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Once again we are told AI may be conscious
July 15, 2026 The Guardian
I study consciousness, and I have my doubts ... Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane
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Answering the Most Viral Objections to Christianity
July 15, 2026 Daily Dose of Wisdom
a candid and challenging Q&A session where the internet's favorite objections to Christianity are addressed
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A Lost Human Lineage May Have Left a Genetic Legacy in People Today
July 15, 2026 Sci Tech Daily
Molecular evidence suggests that long-separated human lineages may have exchanged genes far more often than once believed, leaving traces that persist in people today.
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How Modern Science Resolves the Dilemma Over Evolution
July 15, 2026 ID the Future
If theistic evolution doesn’t work, and Darwinian evolution is scientifically inadequate, what alternative framework better explains the origin of life and the universe?
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Can consciousness be quantum?
July 15, 2026 New Scientist
We may now have an answer ... A mathematical analysis suggests that the notion of agency, which is a prerequisite for consciousness, cannot be purely quantum in nature
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Meet Earth’s Newest Monkey
July 15, 2026 New York Times
(And Check Out Its Orange Lips.) ... It is only the fifth new African monkey identified as a new species in the past 75 years.
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Why Qualia Seem Real
July 14, 2026 Closer to Truth
Tooley reflects on the arguments that shaped his philosophy of mind, including Thomas Nagel's bat thought experiment, Frank Jackson's Mary argument, and David Chalmers' zombie argument
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The Thomas Nagel Admission Every Skeptic Should Know
July 14, 2026 The Dr. Kevin Klar Show
one of the most eminent and influential contemporary philosophers confessed to the invisible bias -- the “invisible finger on the scale" that complicates our interpretation of the evidence for God.
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Blog Post
Top Scientists Know They Rig the Game Against God
July 14, 2026
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Blog Post
Is SETI Worth It?
July 14, 2026 NeuroLogica
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Early Verdicts on Claude Science: Faster Workflows, But Gaps Remain
July 14, 2026 The Scientist
AI giant Anthropic recently announced its scientific workbench, Claude Science. While scientists praised many of its features, they noted that its reasoning needs work.
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Sophisticated Biological Information Processing
July 14, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Crowdsourcing DNA
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Peering into the Known and the Unknown
July 14, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Do we owe our existence to weird ‘virtual’ particles?
July 14, 2026 New Scientist
When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist explores the not-exactly-real particles that allow the stuff we’re made of to hang together
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Who Coined the Phrase “the Magician’s Twin”?
July 14, 2026 Science & Culture Today
The Pitfalls of Relying on AI for Your Facts
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Can Near-Death Experiences Point Beyond the Brain?
July 13, 2026 Closer to Truth
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Why Da Vinci Called the Foot an Engineering Masterpiece
July 13, 2026 Discovery Science
Are the human wrist and ankle brilliant pieces of natural engineering, or are they poorly designed evolutionary leftovers?
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First ‘true sugar’ molecule found in space -- offering hints to life’s origins
July 13, 2026 Nature
Erythrulose, which has four carbon atoms, is the most complex sugar spotted beyond our Solar System.