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The Difference Between Altruism and Morality
June 19, 2026 Closer to Truth
While evolutionary theory may help explain the emergence of helping behavior, moral systems involve an additional category that should not automatically be identified with evolutionary altruism.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
From Athens to Jerusalem: Platonism, Richard Owen, and the Road Not Taken in Biology
June 19, 2026 Religions, v.17, n.6
The relationship between formal philosophy and religion has been a contentious battleground. It has historically come into sharpest focus in biology generally, and evolutionary theory specifically.
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Ancient Crocodile-Like Babies Challenge What We Know About Tetrapod Evolution
June 18, 2026 Discover magazine
Learn more about the fossilized baby embolomeres that show no signs of amphibian-like traits, changing our understanding of early tetrapod evolution.
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Is AI ruining our skills?
June 18, 2026 Nature
Early results are in -- and they’re not good ... Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers
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NIH Director Promotes New Scientific Revolution
June 18, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Once attacked by the former NIH Director, Jay Bhattacharya is working to overhaul perverse incentives in the agency.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Parting ways: Pan-Homo divergence revisited
June 18, 2026 Primates (Springer Nature)
The timing of divergence between hominins and the bonobo-chimpanzee clade has been at the core of palaeoanthropological debate for over a century. The earliest molecular studies indicated divergence times ranging from 5 Ma to as recently as 1.3 Ma.
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Three Atheist Scientists Walk into a Book
June 18, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Michael Egnor
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Could Consciousness be an Illusion?
June 18, 2026 Alex O'Connor
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“Paradigm Shift” Against TEs as “Genomic Parasites or Junk DNA”
June 18, 2026 Science & Culture Today
paper in Cell reports about transposable elements (TEs)
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Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI
June 18, 2026 Quanta Magazine
Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.
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Michael Egnor: Three atheist scientists walk into a book
June 18, 2026 Mind Matters
“If there is no free will, everything is an act of nature,” and therefore “morality” can make no claims about anything. It’s an only illusion projected by the meatware of our brains.
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Consciousness in Plants Rebrands an Exploded Materialism
June 18, 2026 Mind Matters
It’s not so much that consciousness in plants is being demonstrated as that what consciousness means is changing so as to include plants
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Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition
June 18, 2026 Science, v.392, n.6804, p.1292-1296
Exceptionally preserved stem tetrapod hatchlings show that a transient larval stage was absent in tetrapods both before and after the fin-to-limb transition; instead we identified soft- and hard-tissue evidence of direct development
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Still Problematic for “Billions of Years''
June 18, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
Jupiter's Moons Io and Ganymede
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The Mind at the End of the Universe
June 18, 2026 John Templeton Foundation
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Conference;
Endowed by Our Creator
June 18, 2026 Discovery Institute
this timely discussion comes as our nation approaches its 250th birthday, offering a compelling opportunity to reflect on the ideas that shaped America’s founding
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Cell transplant across the tree of life hints at how animals emerged
June 18, 2026 Nature
Embryonic ‘organizer cells’ can tell embryos of various phyla what kind of body to build.
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New Ways to Stream and Share The Story of Everything
June 17, 2026 ID the Future
The new documentary film The Story of Everything is no longer available in movie theaters, but there are now new ways to stream and share this intriguing documentary!
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News Update/Commentary
Humans may have hidden regenerative powers
June 17, 2026 Science Daily
Scientists may have uncovered a hidden regenerative switch in mammals, opening the door to healing that goes far beyond scar tissue.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover spider that disguises itself as a parasitic fungus
June 17, 2026 Science Daily
The species, Taczanowskia waska, mimics both the appearance and behavior of the fungus, helping it stay hidden from predators and potentially catch prey more easily.
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Pigeon Liver Delivers Navigation
June 17, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists discover complex connections between environmental conditions and multi-organ systems in pigeons that enable navigation
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The Exciting Christian Life of John C. Lennox
June 17, 2026 The Gospel Coalition
Interview: ‘My Story: A Spiritual and Intellectual Autobiography’
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Why Reductionist Theories of Causation Fail
June 16, 2026 Closer to Truth
Tooley reviews major reductionist theories -- from probabilistic and counterfactual accounts to agency and powers-based approaches -- and argues that none fully captures the structure and directionality of causal relations.
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Darwin Against Human Nature
June 16, 2026 Closer to Truth
Darwinian biology undermines the idea of a fixed human nature and suggests that even our most distinctive traits differ from other species largely by degree rather than kind
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Did the Universe Really Have a Beginning? Unpacking the “Battle for the Big Bang"
June 16, 2026 Cross Examined
On a mission to bypass the need for a Creator, alternative cosmological theories continue to emerge, but are they solving the mysteries of the universe or creating even bigger problems?
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A Note on the “Compensation” Argument
June 16, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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News Update/Commentary
Alien messages may have reached Earth without us realizing it
June 16, 2026 Science Daily
The universe may seem quiet because alien signals are being scrambled by their own stars before they ever reach us.
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Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to science
June 16, 2026 New Scientist
Hemiscyllium dudgeonae is the tenth recorded species of walking shark, which use their pectoral fins to move across reef flats, and its limited range means it may be at high risk of extinction
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A Lost World Revealed by Physics
June 16, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What we have been given is not just a vision of lost civilizations, but a reminder of how much of the past still lies beyond our sight
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Rethinking the Black Hole Singularity
June 16, 2026 Real Clear Science
In 1916, months after Einstein published general relativity, Karl Schwarzschild did something that surprised even Einstein himself.
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Why Do Brilliant Thinkers Reject Clear Evidence of Design?
June 15, 2026 Discovery Science
Poythress examines the concept of the “image of God" as the foundation for unique human dignity and dominion, explaining why human intellect is uniquely calibrated to comprehend the cosmos.
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The Disneyfied Faith of Steven Spielberg
June 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
E.T., Phoned In
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Do We Live in a Fine-Tuned Universe?
June 15, 2026 Reasonable Faith
evaluating the debate between Stephen Meyer and Phil Halper on whether the universe is fine-tuned
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Why New Fossil Finds Don't Solve Cambrian Explosion Mystery
June 15, 2026 Intelligent Design the Future and Discovery Science
New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the origin of complex animal life. Does the new find solve the mystery of the Cambrian explosion?
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Could Viruses be Good?
June 15, 2026 Let's Talk Creation
Framed in the context of God's good design, Joe Francis and our hosts explore the purposes and functions of viruses beyond just agents of disease.
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Bee-ing There: Innovative Behavior by Bees
June 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Good news -- we have extra time before the Sun ends life on Earth
June 15, 2026 ars technica
Will the Sun roast Earth’s plants or starve them?
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We may have finally solved cosmology's chicken-or-the-egg problem
June 15, 2026 New Scientist
Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally have an answer
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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?
June 15, 2026 New Scientist
The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how it got started
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How to Build a Tiny Moss Leaf
June 15, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Creator’s handiwork shines through the details
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Shermer’s Truth: When “Myside Bias” Becomes the Method
June 15, 2026 Mind Matters
First pass finds easy readability, subpar scholarship, and a polemical agenda
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Horizontal Innovation Requires More Than Novel Outputs
June 15, 2026 Mind Matters
Current AI systems excel at producing output novelty, but I do not believe they demonstrate algorithmic novelty
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Ancient fire record rewritten
June 15, 2026 EurekAlert!
Researchers push earliest evidence of human fire use back to over a million years
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Can Ice Build Life?
June 15, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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CS Lewis's Logic Argument Against AI
June 14, 2026 Theos Theory and 2 more
This is how C.S. Lewis's logical argument from Miracles against a materialist view of the mind undermines claims of AI consciousness (and artificial general intelligence) in our present day.
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News Update/Commentary
Millipedes beat vertebrates to land by 80 million years
June 14, 2026 Science Daily
Millipedes were helping shape life on land hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs -- and scientists have finally uncovered their full evolutionary story.
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News Update/Commentary
Honey bees have their own personal flight paths and fly them with stunning precision
June 14, 2026 Science Daily
Landmarks like trees helped keep them on track, while uniform areas such as cornfields led to more variation.
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Red, White, and You: Celebrate Your Lifeblood
June 14, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science catches up with the Bible on the value of blood for life
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Future? There Is No Human Future, Dude… and That’s Good!
June 14, 2026 Mind Matters
A look at the other face of the claims that we are approaching an AI singularity
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New Experimental Evidence: How Life Formed Before Cells
June 13, 2026