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• ‘Weird' fossil from 890 million years ago could be evidence of earliest animal life

  July 29, 2021 Jackson Ryan cnet

  If confirmed, the finding would push back our earliest evidence of animal life by about 350 million years.

• Living Fossils Disprove Evolution

  July 29, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  A theory that uses the same process to explain both stasis and change is not a theory worth defending

• First known wild chimpanzee with albinism was killed by other chimps

  July 29, 2021 Michael Marshall New Scientist

• News Update/Commentary

  Diversity of life and the ‘paradox of sex'

  July 29, 2021 University of Arizona Science Daily

  New research finds that sexual reproduction and multicellularity drive diversity among different species.

• News Update/Commentary

  Planetary scientist puts Mars lake theory on ice with new study that offers alternate explanation

  July 29, 2021 York University Science Daily

  Interdisciplinary investigation of the planet’s south pole points to clays being the likely culprit

• Reviewing Sapiens: Getting the Origin of Religion Backwards

  July 29, 2021 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Have We Found the Earliest Evidence of Animal Life at 890 Million Years Ago?

  July 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• From Matt Ridley, Smart Remarks on Scientocracy -- and a Howling Irony

  July 28, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs

  July 28, 2021 Elizabeth C. Turner Nature

  Molecular phylogeny indicates that metazoans (animals) emerged early in the Neoproterozoic era, but physical evidence is lacking. The search for animal fossils from the Proterozoic eon is hampered by uncertainty about what characteristics to expect

• Origins 2021 abstracts now available

  July 28, 2021 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

  Origins 2021 starts July 29, and the conference abstracts are now available. Check it out! ... Biology Abstracts & Geology Abstracts

• Why invertebrates should be included in animal welfare protections

  July 28, 2021 Nicola Clayton and Alexandra Schnell New Scientist

• News Update/Commentary

  Neanderthal and Denisovan blood groups deciphered

  July 28, 2021 CNRS Science Daily

  The research provides new data for understanding the origins, history, and health of these extinct hominin lineages.

• An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

  July 28, 2021 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

• Science Journalist: Science IS Political!

  July 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Another Reason Not To Teach Darwinism in the Public School System

  July 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Geology Is Not a Safe Field for Persons of Color Due to Rock Hammers

  July 28, 2021 Nature Communications Uncommon Descent

• How We Can Know Mental States Are Real?

  July 28, 2021 Mind Matters

  Mental states are always “about” something; physical states are not “about” anything

• 890-million-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found

  July 28, 2021 Maya Wei-Haas National Geographic

  The mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.

• Fossil of ancient sponge soaks up Darwinian doubts

  July 28, 2021 Rhys Blakely and Sabrina Khan The Times (UK)

• These Could Be the Oldest Animal Fossils Ever Found, or Just Squiggles

  July 28, 2021 Marion Renault New York Times

  Critics challenged a study’s claim that a netlike structure found in rocks in a Canadian mountain range could be an 890-million-year-old sponge fossil.

• First sign of animal life on Earth may be a sponge fossil

  July 28, 2021 Christina Larson Associated Press

  A Canadian geologist may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

• Sponge-like Canadian fossils may be earliest sign of animal life

  July 28, 2021 Will Dunham Reuters

  Fossils found in rugged mountainous terrain in Canada's Northwest Territories may give a glimpse at the humble dawn of animal life on Earth -- sea sponges that inhabited primordial reefs built by bacteria roughly 890 million years ago.

• This Sponge Fossil May Be the Earliest Record of Animal Life

  July 28, 2021 Shi En Kim Smithsonian Magazine

  The 890-million-year-old relic predates periods of extreme cold and the planet’s second oxygenation spike

• Why animals recognise numbers but only humans can do maths

  July 28, 2021 Silke Goebel The Conversation

• Are Textbooks Holding Back Cures for Cancer?

  July 28, 2021 PR Newswire Business Insider

  Misunderstandings and omissions from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution have spawned massive failures in cancer, antibiotics and nutrition -- and it's time to rediscover the real Darwin.

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  Origins 2021 Conference Schedule

  July, 2021 Creation Biology Society

• Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical computer

  July 28, 2021 Michael Le Page New Scientist

• More research needed to predict eruption of supervolcanoes

  July 27, 2021 Cardiff University phys.org

  Scientists say it is extremely challenging to try and predict when a supervolcano might erupt again due to the sheer diversity of events that have gone before.

• Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg’s Pointless Universe

  July 27, 2021 Dan Falk Scientific American

  The late physicist’s most infamous statement still beguiles scientists and vexes believers

• Quantum Theory of Consciousness Gains Support from Recent Study

  July 27, 2021 Mind Matters

  The researchers were testing principles that underpin the Penrose-Hameroff theory

• Harvard professor begins new search for alien spaceships in our skies

  July 27, 2021 Eric Mack cnet

  The famous (or infamous, depending who you ask) scientist and E.T. believer Avi Loeb is out to capture some UAP sightings of his own.

• One of the Greatest Debates About Consciousness Involves Zombies

  July 27, 2021 Ross Pomeroy Real Clear Science

  An influential subset of philosophers has been debating ‘zombies' for decades, and not the sort you see in horror movies and television shows.

• How Science Points to Meaning in Life

  July 27, 2021 Mind Matters

  The earliest philosopher of science, Aristotle, pioneered a way of understanding it

• The Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud in 1988 and its Aftermath

  July 27, 2021 Joe Marino academia.edu

  an English language Bibliography

• Alien Treaty

  July 27, 2021 Lucien Tuinstra Creation Ministries International

• Examining Sources of Genetic Change

  July 27, 2021 Emily Reeves Evolution News & Science Today

• Trusting Science Is Not the Same as Critical Thinking

  July 27, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Experiments with participants given fake science shows that those who “trust science” can be gullible.

• ID Theorists Were Right About Junk DNA

  July 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  Now here is an ID prediction about CRISPR gene editing

• Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race

  July 27, 2021 Michael Flannery Evolution News & Science Today

  a study in contrasts

• Darwinian Biologist Jerry Coyne Defies the Transgender Lobby

  July 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Sabine Hossenfelder’s Op-Ed Not Published at APS?

  July 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Will the Tokyo Olympics Be a “Super-Evolutionary” COVID-19 Event?

  July 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• What We Have Learned from Ancient Brains

  July 27, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  Is that evolution did not happen to them

• Can we trust the climate scientists?

  July 26, 2021 Tom Chivers UnHerd

  The reaction to Steven Koonin's book highlights just how toxic this debate has become

• 3.42-billion-year-old fossil threads may be the oldest known archaea microbes

  July 26, 2021 Carolyn Wilke Science News

  The structure and chemistry of the filaments hints that they may be ancient cells

• Ancient brains: a look inside the extraordinary preservation of a 310-million-year-old nervous system

  July 26, 2021 John Paterson, Greg Edgecombe, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Robert Gaines, and Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell The Conversation

  Charles Darwin famously discussed the “imperfections” of the geological record in his book On The Origin of Species. He correctly pointed out that unless conditions are just right, it’s unlikely for organisms to be preserved as fossils

• News Update/Commentary

  Function of sex chromosomes in turtles

  July 26, 2021 Iowa State University Science Daily

  A new study sheds light on how organisms have evolved to address imbalances in sex chromosomes. The study looks at a species of softshell turtle, but the results could help to illuminate an important evolutionary process in many species.

• Scientific American Prints Big Lies

  July 26, 2021 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Does white supremacy motivate rejection of evolution? Time to set the record straight!

• Steven Weinberg 1933-2021

  July 26, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• The Forecast for Exoplanets is Cloudy but Bright

  July 26, 2021 Kate Evans Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Clouds make climate modeling on Earth difficult. Identifying -- and even defining -- atmospheric phenomena on other planets is the next big exoplanet challenge.