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• Book

  Darwin’s Sandcastle: Evolution’s Failure in the Light of Scripture and the Scientific Evidence

  September, 2023 Gordon Wilson Roman Roads Press

  Why are brilliant and logical scientists not reasonable on the question of the ultimate cause of the unity, diversity, and complexity of life on Earth? | See Also Review

• Webb telescope finds carbon source on Jupiter’s Europa

  September 21, 2023 Chronicle - Cornell University

  Astronomers using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide on the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa -- one of a handful of worlds in our solar system that could potentially harbor conditions suitable for life.

• Blog Post

  ENCODE disproved junk DNA, therefore intelligent design

  September 21, 2023 Richard Sternberg Sandwalk

  This is a video of a debate that took place in Kraków, Poland on June 2, 2023. The topic was “Intelligent design in nature -- illusion or reality?"

• Dinosaur feathers reveal traces of ancient proteins

  September 21, 2023 Tiffany Slater and Maria McNamara University College Cork, Ireland

• News Update/Commentary

  Researchers' analysis of perching birds points to new answers in evolutionary diversification

  September 21, 2023 Ohio University Science Daily

  When Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago as a gentleman naturalist, he used the power of observation to develop his theory that species evolve over time.

• News Update/Commentary

  Unzipping mRNA rallies plant cells to fight infection

  September 21, 2023 Duke University Science Daily

  New tool controls protein production in living cells, with potential applications from agriculture to medicine.

• News Update/Commentary

  This parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh

  September 21, 2023 University of British Columbia Science Daily

  Balanophora is an extreme example of genome shrinkage. Along the way this subtropical plant developed the ability to induce the host plant to grow into the parasite's own flesh -- forming chimeric organs that mix host and parasitic tissues.

• Vaccine specialist Peter Hotez: scientists are ‘under attack for someone else’s political gain’

  September 21, 2023 Julian Nowogrodzki Nature

  The physician-researcher who spoke out against misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic says attacks against science are formidable -- and getting worse.

• Fire Sensory Capabilities of the Venus Flytrap

  September 21, 2023 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Human Population Bottleneck Admitted by Secular Geneticists

  September 21, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Secular scientists now claim that the human population almost died out. Does this match the Biblical record?

• No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

  September 21, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  Fact Check

• Video

  Goodbye to the Big Bang

  September 21, 2023 LPPFusion Chief Scientist YouTube

  In the eighth episode of “JWST and the Big Bang Never Happened Debate", scientist replies to New York Times Opinion piece, “The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel” by Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser.

• Video

  How did consciousness evolve?

  September 21, 2023 The Royal Institution YouTube

  Find out how consciousness is generated in the human brain -- and discover the evidence suggesting some animals are also sentient. Read Nicholas Humphrey's book ‘Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness'

• Lasker Award for Revolutionizing Protein Structure Predictions

  September 21, 2023 Laura Tran The Scientist

  John Jumper and Demis Hassabis received this year’s 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the artificial intelligence system AlphaFold, which changed the landscape of protein biology.

• Ancient Origins of Brain Cells Found in Creatures from 800 Million Years Ago

  September 20, 2023 Tessa Koumoundouros Science Alert

• Leading Consciousness Theory Slammed as “Pseudoscience." Huh?

  September 20, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Integrated Information Theory’s panpsychist leanings are the 124 neuroscientist critics’ real target

• Half-million-year-old ‘Lincoln Logs’ may be first wood structure made by ancient humans

  September 20, 2023 Phie Jacobs Science

  Interlocking timber unearthed in Zambia may have been part of a platform, bridge, or house foundation

• The Engineering Prowess of the Blood Clotting Cascade

  September 20, 2023 Jonathan McLatchie ID the Future

• News Update/Commentary

  Prehistoric fish fills 100 million year gap in evolution of the skull

  September 20, 2023 University of Birmingham Science Daily

  X-rays of an ancient jawless fish shows earliest-known example of internal cartilage skull, unlike that of any other known vertebrate.

• News Update/Commentary

  Archaeologists discover world's oldest wooden structure

  September 20, 2023 University of Liverpool Science Daily

  Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research.

• News Update/Commentary

  Artificial Intelligence tools shed light on millions of proteins

  September 20, 2023 University of Basel Science Daily

  A research team has uncovered a treasure trove of uncharacterized proteins. Embracing the recent deep learning revolution, they discovered hundreds of new protein families and even a novel predicted protein fold.

• News Update/Commentary

  Slow growth in crocodile ancestors pre-dated their semi-aquatic lifestyle

  September 20, 2023 University of the Witwatersrand Science Daily

  This slow-growth strategy was not a mere evolutionary quirk but a survival mechanism, as only the slow-growing crocodylomorphs managed to survive the End-Triassic mass extinction. This stands in stark contrast to the fast-growing dinosaurs

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago

  September 20, 2023 L. Barham, et al. Nature

  Wood artefacts rarely survive from the Early Stone Age since they require exceptional conditions for preservation; consequently, we have limited information about when and how hominins used this basic raw material.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The oldest three-dimensionally preserved vertebrate neurocranium

  September 20, 2023 Richard P. Dearden, et al. Nature

• These ancient whittled logs could be the earliest known wooden structure

  September 20, 2023 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Stacked timbers dated to roughly 476,000 years ago show that ancient hominins worked with wood.

• How worlds are born: JWST reveals exotic chemistry of planetary nurseries

  September 20, 2023 Alexandra Witze Nature

  The telescope is delivering a cascade of insights about the ‘protoplanetary’ disks where planets take shape.

• Consciousness theory slammed as ‘pseudoscience’ -- sparking uproar

  September 20, 2023 Mariana Lenharo Nature

  Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention.

• Hominins built with wood 476,000 years ago

  September 20, 2023 Annemieke Milks Nature

  Understanding the timeline of technological developments sheds light on early societies. A remarkable finding in Africa of a structure made from shaped wood provides clues about our hominin relatives.

• Getting inside the oldest known vertebrate skull

  September 20, 2023 Zhikun Gai and Philip C. J. Donoghue Nature

  Analysis of a 458-million-year-old fossil fish reveals anatomical insights about the vertebrate skull and how skull organization evolved from that of ancestral early vertebrates to that of jawed vertebrates.

• The entire brain may be involved in language, not just a few regions

  September 20, 2023 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  Brain regions identified as “language centres” are actually hubs that coordinate the processing of language throughout the brain, argues a controversial new study

• Dark stars: Have we finally found a weird sun powered by dark matter?

  September 20, 2023 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  Astronomers say they have spotted evidence of stars fuelled by the annihilation of dark matter particles. If true, it could solve the cosmic mystery of how supermassive black holes appeared so early

• Stick insects that are normally asexual may occasionally have sex

  September 20, 2023 Chen Ly New Scientist

  Some animals reproduce asexually by creating embryos from unfertilised eggs, but this can lead to a lack of genetic diversity. To keep their gene pool healthy, two species of asexual stick insect appear to occasionally mate

• Was Adam Historical (and Does It Really Matter)?

  September 20, 2023 Ken Ham Answers in Genesis

• Did Pre-Humans Build Log Cabins?

  September 20, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionary anthropologists are in trouble again with too-early evidence of intelligent design

• Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back

  September 20, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  into the Mid-Pleistocene

• Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

  September 20, 2023 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

• Chameleon Vision -- A Unique Marvel of Design

  September 20, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

• Blog Post

  ChatGPT on Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

  September 19, 2023 Bill Dembski

• Time doesn’t belong to physics

  September 19, 2023 Jimena Canales and Alexis Papazoglou iai News

  When Bergson met Einstein

• News Update/Commentary

  RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct species

  September 19, 2023 Stockholm University Science Daily

  The researchers note that their findings have relevant implications for international efforts to resurrect extinct species, including both the Tasmanian tiger and the woolly mammoth, as well as for studying pandemic RNA viruses.

• News Update/Commentary

  New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets

  September 19, 2023 University of Wisconsin, Madison Science Daily

  There are only so many chemical ingredients in the universe's pantry, and only so many ways to mix them. Scientists have now exploited those limitations to write a cookbook of hundreds of chemical recipes with the potential to give rise to life.

• News Update/Commentary

  16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam

  September 19, 2023 Kyushu University Science Daily

  The study also revealed for the first time the unique parasitic behavior of a captive female from one species, who after parasitizing her host egg, buried the egg in a hole in the soil.

• News Update/Commentary

  Tiny sea creatures reveal the ancient origins of neurons

  September 19, 2023 Center for Genomic Regulation Science Daily

  Our brain cell components were forming in shallow seas around 800 million years ago

• Tasmanian tiger RNA is first to be recovered from an extinct animal

  September 19, 2023 Miryam Naddaf Nature

  Genetic sequences from a museum specimen offer fresh clues about the physiology of thylacines, which went extinct in the 1930s.

• Bringing space rocks back to Earth could answer some of life’s biggest questions

  September 19, 2023 Meenakshi Wadhwa Nature

  Safe delivery of samples from an asteroid on 24 September will be the start of a global scientific journey -- but similar missions need support.

• Theory of consciousness branded ‘pseudoscience' by neuroscientists

  September 19, 2023 Clare Wilson New Scientist

  Integrated information theory is seen by some people as a leading theory of consciousness, but now over 100 neuroscientists have signed an open letter calling it untestable pseudoscience

• Split Mind: The Strangest Theory in Neuroscience?

  September 19, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The idea that we might all have separate, undetected consciousnesses in each half of our brain supports materialism but there’s little evidence for it

• Science Turns Against Humanity

  September 19, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Misanthropic headlines suggest worrisome trends justifying reduction in quality of life

• Book

  New Book: Mind Is More than the Brain

  September 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today

  | See Also Discovery Institute

• Video

  Why Was Galileo on Trial for Heresy?

  September 18, 2023 Ryan Reeves YouTube

  Why was Galileo put on trial for believing the sun was the center of our solar system (heliocentrism)? This video looks at Renaissance science, Copernicus, Galileo, and the Inquisition that put Galileo on trial.