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• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A heavyweight early whale pushes the boundaries of vertebrate morphology

  August 2, 2023 Giovanni Bianucci, Olivier Lambert, Mario Urbina, et al. Nature

  The fossil record of cetaceans documents how terrestrial animals acquired extreme adaptations and transitioned to a fully aquatic lifestyle. In whales, this is associated with a substantial increase in maximum body size.

• Evolutionary history of world’s oldest domesticated crop

  August 2, 2023 Nature

  High-quality reference genomes of einkorn wheat, the world’s first domesticated crop, have now been sequenced. The contiguous wheat genome assemblies include gap-free centromeres (parts of the chromosome that are crucial for cell division).

• A really big fossil whale

  August 2, 2023 J. G. M. Thewissen and David A. Waugh Nature

  A newly discovered fossil of an extinct whale from Peru indicates that the animal’s skeleton was unexpectedly enormous. This finding challenges our understanding of body-size evolution.

• Oldest known species of jellyfish discovered in the Canadian Rockies

  August 2, 2023 Ashley Strickland CNN

  The oldest examples of swimming jellyfish, which lived in Earth’s oceans 505 million years ago, have been discovered high within the Canadian Rockies. Researchers found 182 fossils encased within the rock of the famed Burgess Shale fossil site.

• How even the greatest scientists can fall for cognitive bias

  August 2, 2023 Dan Levitt New Scientist

  Why did entire communities of scientists reject groundbreaking theories, even those backed by sound evidence? It's a question of bias

• This Ancient Whale May Have Been the Heaviest Animal Ever

  August 2, 2023 Carl Zimmer New York Times

  Perucetus drifted through shallow seas like a gigantic manatee, scientists suspect.

• Did Humans’ Unique Skeletal Architecture Evolve?

  August 2, 2023 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  A new attempt to prove evolution of upright walking actually supports intelligent design

• On the BBC, a New Openness to Teleology in Biology?

  August 2, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

• In Life, Checkpoints and Error Correction Defy Darwinian Explanations

  August 2, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• The James Webb Space Telescope prompts a rethink of how galaxies form

  August 2, 2023 Adam Mann Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

• How ocean-floor cooking stabilized complex life on Earth

  August 2, 2023 Kendra Leon Courthouse News Service

  A chemical process often seen in the kitchen may help scientists combat climate change. They say underwater instances of the Maillard reaction increased oxygen and lowered atmospheric carbon dioxide.

• Does the human hand have too many bones?

  August, 2023 Jerry Bergman Journal of Creation, v.37, n.2, p.9-11

  Another claim by Nathan Lents proven false

• Milankovitch evidence: strong despite weaknesses in the 1976 ‘Pacemaker’ paper?

  August, 2023 Jake Hebert Journal of Creation, v.37, n.2, p.47-51

  Recently a geochronologist critiqued my analysis of the 1976 ‘Pacemaker of the Ice Ages’ paper, which purportedly confirmed the Milankovitch Ice Age Theory.

• Book

  Intentional design documented

  August, 2023 Jerry Bergman Creation Ministries International

  REVIEW: Your Designed Body by Steve Laufmann and Howard Glicksman (2022) | See Also Discovery Institute

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists uncover a surprising connection between number theory and evolutionary genetics

  August 1, 2023 University of Oxford Science Daily

  An interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and medical scientists has uncovered an unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics. It reveals insights into the structure of neutral mutations and evolution of organisms.

• Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution

  August, 2023 Jonathan Bartlett Organon F, v.30, n.3, p.222-254

  Teleological causes have been generally disfavored in biological explanations because they have been thought to lack rigor or act as stand-ins for non-teleological processes which are simply not yet understood sufficiently.

• Science Corrects Itself, Right? A Scandal at Stanford Says It Doesn’t

  August 1, 2023 Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus Scientific American

  What does it take to correct the scientific record? And who -- and what -- stands in the way? The answer to both questions is: everyone

• Can we recreate the spark of life on Earth?

  August 1, 2023 Jasmin Fox-Skelly BBC

  The origins of the very earliest life on Earth have long fascinated scientists. Can we recreate the conditions that gave rise to it?

• What Does 60 Years of Silence Tell Us About the Search for Extraterrestrials?

  August 1, 2023 Brian Koberlein Universe Today

  Aliens are big in the news recently, fueled by congressional hearings about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), formally known as UFOs.

• Evolution Media: Dogma First, Then Puzzles

  August 1, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolution is a fact! Got that? If so, now you are ready for the difficulties

• Can Algorithms Designed by Humans Catch Up with the Genius of Biological Systems?

  August 1, 2023 Eric Cassell Evolution News & Science Today

• Taphonomy Study Shortens Fuse for the Cambrian Explosion

  August 1, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Does the Evidence REALLY Support Human Evolution? (Part I)

  August, 2023 Jeff Miller Apologetics Press

  Many ardent evolutionists are apparently unaware of the fact that, according to experts, human evolution is not only unsubstantiated, but that the evidence stands against it.

• Book

  Fine-tuned fire

  August, 2023 Shaun Doyle Creation Ministries International

  REVIEW: Fire-Maker: How humans were designed to harness fire and transform our planet by Michael Denton (2016) | See Also Discovery Institute

• How Genetic Surprises Complicate the Old Doctrine of DNA

  July 31, 2023 C. Brandon Ogbunu Quanta Magazine

  For over a century, biologists have had to contend with a complicated picture of genetics, which they’ve only recently begun to understand.

• A non-Darwinian view of plant evolution from the BBC

  July 31, 2023 Richard Buggs Springer Nature

  Chris Packham presents a teleological view of plant evolution that leaves room for miracles.

• A Radical New Physics of Time

  July 31, 2023 Avshalom Elitzur iai News

  The Paradox of Time's Passage in Modern Physics

• News Update/Commentary

  When cheating pays -- survival strategy of insect uncovered

  July 31, 2023 University of Otago Science Daily

  Researchers have revealed the unique ‘cheating' strategy a New Zealand insect has developed to avoid being eaten -- mimicking a highly toxic species.

• News Update/Commentary

  Researchers find evolutionary adaption in trout of Wyoming's Wind River Mountains

  July 31, 2023 University of Wyoming Science Daily

  The difference is likely a result of the trout adapting to the food sources of the once-fishless high-mountain lakes -- a change that has taken place in a relatively short period of time

• News Update/Commentary

  Bees evolved from ancient supercontinent, diversified faster than suspected

  July 31, 2023 Washington State University Science Daily

  The origin of bees is tens of millions of years older than most previous estimates, a new study shows. A team led by Washington State University researchers traced the bee genealogy back more than 120 million years to an ancient supercontinent, Gondwana

• Stephen Meyer and James Tour Bring Clarity on the Origin of Life

  July 31, 2023 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  “Suspect Science”

• In Explanations Reported by Mainstream Science, Design Inference Continues to Factor

  July 31, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• We May Have Found the Part of the Brain Where Conscious Experience Lives

  July 31, 2023 David Nield Science Alert

  New research sheds light on a tricky idea of consciousness: There's a difference between what the brain takes in and what we're consciously aware of taking in.

• Blog Post

  Studying Skeletons

  July 31, 2023 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

  I've spent three years now immersed in skeletons, slowly amassing the information I needed to assess the skeletal similarities of fossil hominins.

• Is Dementia Research Missing the Forest for the Trees?

  July 30, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Sudden bouts of lucidity in people with dementia are understudied, researchers admit

• “Emergence”: The College Level Version of “We Don't Know How"

  July 29, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

  July 28, 2023 Paul Heggarty, et al. Science, v.381, n.6656

• Respect alchemy. The crazy, criminal pursuit gave us modern science

  July 28, 2023 James Hannam Big Think

  Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.

• Fossil skulls alone cannot predict if animal was warm blooded

  July 28, 2023 Talia Ogliore phys.org

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists discover secret of virgin birth, and switch on the ability in female flies

  July 28, 2023 University of Cambridge Science Daily

  Scientists have pinpointed a genetic cause for virgin birth for the first time, and once switched on the ability is passed down through generations of females.

• Questions Materialists Fail to Ask

  July 28, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionary biologists and non-theistic scientists ask the wrong questions and avoid some obvious ones

• War on Math Becomes a Fight Over Textbooks

  July 28, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Another Prediction Vindicated

  July 28, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• “Cosmic Mind, Divine Action, and Design-Engaged Theology”

  July 28, 2023 Stephen Dilley Evolution News & Science Today

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• AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics

  July 28, 2023 Saima Sidik Nature

  Scientists identify protein snippets made by extinct hominins.

• ‘Virgin birth’ genetically engineered into female animals for the first time

  July 28, 2023 Anil Oza Nature

  Scientists alter the genomes of female fruit flies, allowing them to reproduce without any contribution from a male.

• Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality

  July 28, 2023 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

  In Critiquing Dembski

• Sifting for the Right Questions in Science

  July 28, 2023 Frank Wilczek Wall Street Journal

  Big, vague queries need to be brought down to earth so that researchers can look for evidence

• News Update/Commentary

  How cellular powerhouses call for help when under stress

  July 28, 2023 Goethe University Frankfurt Science Daily

  Researchers discover central switch point in mitochondrial signaling chain under misfolding stress

• How people decide who is correct when groups of scientists disagree

  July 28, 2023 Branden B. Johnson, Marcus Mayorga, and Nathan F. Dieckmann Risk Analysis

  Uncertainty that arises from disputes among scientists seems to foster public skepticism or noncompliance. Communication of potential cues to the relative performance of contending scientists might affect judgments of which position is likely more valid.