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The Science of Design in an American Context
June 29, 2026 Science & Culture Today
On the Road
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Your Genome Has a Guardian
June 29, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As We Learn More About the Genome, It Becomes Increasingly Clear That It Did Not Evolve, but Was Designed
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Time may pass even in a universe that doesn't change
June 29, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Beyond the block universe
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On the Very Border of Civilization: Evolutionary Theory Meets Genocide
June, 2026 Routledge
the relationship between the direct experience of colonial atrocities that Darwin witnessed in his journey through the Southern Hemisphere, and the making of his “long argument” about natural selection and preservation of favourite races | See Also chapter pdf
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Relative proportion of prebiotic amino acids: part 2
June 29, 2026 Creation Ministries International
models to form highly reduced atmospheres ... Massive meteorite impacts in the distant past have been theorized to solve origin of life problems with the past atmosphere. But the chemistry doesn’t add up.
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That Monkey Cannot Even Find Shakespeare!
June 29, 2026 Mind Matters
When it comes to randomly typing out the complete works of Shakespeare, time is not the monkey’s problem; information is
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Tiny Cells, Precise Engineering
June 29, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
Even the smallest living cells face a big design problem. How do they keep the right shape while many parts inside them are moving?
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Science and the American Founding
June 28, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Science Debunks God. Prove Us Wrong!
June 28, 2026 Skeptic Haven
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Assessing the claim that the U.S. government is abandoning science
June 28, 2026 Mind Matters
There are many issues out there on which science disciplines are not earning our trust and we can't properly evaluate the scene without confronting that
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The ‘Shadow' in Evolution That Explains Why Long Life Comes at a Cost
June 28, 2026 Science Alert
How might old age -- a relatively recent concept, in the history of Homo sapiens -- change our species?
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News Update/Commentary
Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness
June 28, 2026 Science Daily
Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, distinguishing nouns, verbs, and adjectives while listening to stories.
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A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution
June 27, 2026 Sci Tech Daily
Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may reflect a world with few large competitors rather than high oxygen alone.
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The Mystery of the Flipping Forams
June 27, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists find evidence of ‘rapid reversals’ of foraminiferal coils that occur “far too abruptly to be explained by gradual trait evolution”
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News Update/Commentary
This newly discovered ballista spider catapults ants into a deadly trap
June 26, 2026 Science Daily
A newly discovered spider tricks deadly green tree ants into springing a silk catapult that launches them straight into its web.
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Science Can Fully Explain Consciousness? By 326 Theories…
June 26, 2026 Mind Matters
To call consciousness studies a degenerating paradigm might be too charitable. How much of it rises to the level of falsification?
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Carlo Rovelli’s View of Consciousness Swallows Itself
June 26, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What we are seeing here is not the triumph of a new scientific insight, but an inversion of the conditions that make science possible
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On the Search for Habitable Planets
June 26, 2026 ID the Future
Since the first discovery some 30 years ago, thousands of exoplanets have been identified and catalogued, but the vast majority bear little resemblance to Earth and would not be conducive to even simple life
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The Beauty Enigma
June 26, 2026 Science & Culture Today
It “Seems to Be Reaching Out to Us”
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Consciousness is not an object we can observe
June 26, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Materialism misses the self-awareness built into consciousness
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists stunned by signs of ancient life in a place no one expected
June 26, 2026 Science Daily
Strange wrinkles in ancient Moroccan rocks may be the preserved fingerprints of deep-sea microbes that lived without sunlight 180 million years ago.
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Early Homo sapiens may have lived in rainforests -- and it could overturn our understanding of human evolution
June 26, 2026 Live Science
The long-held idea that rainforests held a minor role in our species' evolution is changing -- and our ability to adapt to these tropical areas may give insight about “what it means to be uniquely human."
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Fantasy in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
June 26, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Impact heating and the hidden Hadean
June 25, 2026 Science, v.392, n.6805, p.1408-1412
There are few crustal remnants from Earth’s first 500 million years. The delayed generation and preservation of the crust has been mostly linked to early tectonic modes, as driven by internal heat.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Diversification of angiosperm reproductive strategies predated the end-Cretaceous extinction
June 25, 2026 Science, v.392, n.6805, p.1380-1383
Flowering plants have remarkable diversity in fruit and seed size and shape, reflecting morphology for dispersal by wind, water, and animals. This diversity is thought to have only originated during the Paleogene
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Impacts shaped Earth’s first continents
June 25, 2026 Science, v.392, n.6805, p.1347
Heat from large impacts may have melted most of Earth’s earliest crust
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The enduring pursuit of science in America
June 25, 2026 Science, v.392, n.6805, p.1323
Imagine an American organization that convenes scientific experts not to advance any ideology or interest but to provide the nation with a clear understanding of complex problems.
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Fast-Changing Cactus Flowers Still Point to Design
June 25, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Tiny Birds, Big Evolutionary Claims
June 25, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Discussion moves beyond adaptation itself to broader claims about speciation and evolutionary diversification
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How to Think Clearly in the Age of AI
June 25, 2026 Mind Matters
AI isn’t really artificial intelligence, but simulated intelligence
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News Update/Commentary
Earth may have been seeding Venus with life for billions of years
June 25, 2026 Science Daily
asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the journey and end up suspended in Venus' clouds. If future missions detect life there, there's a surprising chance it didn't originate on Venus at all
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover how a single cell builds a brain with 170 billion cells
June 25, 2026 Science Daily
Researchers suggest that brain cells use their lineage as a kind of positional map. Cells that come from the same ancestor stay near one another, helping the brain organize itself without relying solely on chemical signals.
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Apes and humans have been sharing a laugh for 15 million years
June 25, 2026 EurekAlert!
Your laugh may hold a 15 million year secret
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More Awe, More Wonder
June 25, 2026 John Templeton Foundation
Exploring the Mystery of Consciousness
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Bacteria Share Proteins to Fight Off Antibiotics
June 25, 2026 The Scientist
Bacteria can pass proteins between themselves, which induces a dormant state that helps a small group of them survive antibiotics, revealing a path to better antibiotics.
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Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
June 25, 2026 Science
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
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Newfound Order in “Disordered” Proteins
June 25, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Active Matter
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How consciousness evolved -- and why AI can't have it
June 25, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
the physics and biology of consciousness, and whether this could lead to the creation of a sentient artificial intelligence
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Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled
June 25, 2026 Nature
The rhythmic patterns of laughter found in apes and humans reveal that complex primate vocal control might have started evolving 15 million years ago.
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Radioisotope Dating of Meteorites: VI
June 24, 2026 Answers Research Journal, v.19, p.19-94
The SNC and Other Martian Meteorites
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Humans Are Not Souped-Up Apes
June 24, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The human mind and body are overdesigned with abilities and behaviors above and beyond the needs of mere survival
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists just discovered how queen bees are really made
June 24, 2026 Science Daily
Honeybee queens are crafted by an entire royal support system -- not just fed into existence with royal jelly.
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News Update/Commentary
Why South Africa’s leopards shrank to half their normal size
June 24, 2026 Science Daily
A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story.
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News Update/Commentary
Early humans were bringing fire into caves 1.8 million years ago
June 24, 2026 Science Daily
The discovery pushes back the timeline for fire use and reveals surprisingly sophisticated behavior long before humans could create fire on demand.
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On Free Will and Morality, Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Walk His Talk
June 24, 2026 Mind Matters
This is part of my response to his critique of a talk I gave in March at the 2026 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith
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Why were mysterious ancient humans found in an African cave all female?
June 24, 2026 Science
Analysis of fossil proteins deepens mystery of the enigmatic Homo naledi
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‘Us’ not ‘them’: scientists must use their skills to help stop polarization and division
June 24, 2026 Nature
Researchers who study what divides people also have the tools to explore strategies to unite them.
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Genomic insights into the population dynamics and demise of Neanderthals
June 24, 2026 Nature
A surge of genetic data from the skeletal remains of Neanderthals disproves some assumptions and generates fresh questions about these ancient hominins.
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Why science needs the humanities more than ever
June 24, 2026 Nature
From AI to biotechnology, today’s scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and social challenges that technical expertise alone cannot solve.
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Hidden black hole could explain mystery at the heart of our galaxy
June 24, 2026 New Scientist
The area surrounding our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole contains three strangely different populations of stars -- but one hidden black hole could explain all of them