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A Review of Hugh Ross’ Book Noah’s Flood Revisited
February 13, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
Dismissals and Fiction
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Evolution didn’t wait long after the dinosaurs died
February 13, 2026 Science News
Marine ecosystems began recovering within just a few thousand years after the asteroid strike
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Artificial Specific Stupidity is Easy to Find -- Just Ask
February 13, 2026 Mind Matters
AI can make mistakes, so double-check it.
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Book
The elusive nature of consciousness
February 12, 2026 Science, v.391, n.6786, p.665
A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem | See Also Amazon
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RNA comes close to copying itself
February 12, 2026 Science v.391, n.6786, p.645-646
Some RNA molecules can create their own mirror images, suggesting similar molecules could have sparked life
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Humans really don’t need chins
February 12, 2026 Popular Science
Homo sapiens are the only primates that have them, but they don't make us special.
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Will Life on Mars Require a Genetic Rewrite?
February 12, 2026 MIT Press Reader
Microgravity, radiation, and extreme climates pose ethical and biological challenges that researchers are racing to overcome.
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Men lose their Y chromosome as they age
February 12, 2026 The Conversation
Scientists thought it didn’t matter -- but now we’re learning more
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News Update/Commentary
Europe’s “untouched” wilderness was shaped by Neanderthals and hunter-gatherers
February 12, 2026 Science Daily
Europe’s “untouched” wilderness was already being engineered by humans tens of thousands of years before agriculture.
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News Update/Commentary
Asteroid Bennu reveals a new pathway to life’s chemistry
February 12, 2026 Science Daily
New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as scientists long believed. Isotopic clues show Bennu’s chemistry differs sharply from well-studied meteorites
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If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?
February 12, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Clarity, Please
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What a Creationist Astrophysicist Thinks of UFOs
February 12, 2026 Real Clear Science
A recent paper published in December to the journal Religions posed a simple yet profound question with its headline: “Are Humans Alone in the Cosmos?"
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DNA Coiling Prevents Knots
February 12, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
DNA forms coils when passing through nanopores, rather than forming messy knots: a finding that could influence future advances in genomics and biosensing.
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College Biology Textbook Misleads Students on the Origin of Life
February 12, 2026 Examining Origins
Tour joins me to do a deep dive into the chemical reality of abiogenesis and expose the significant gaps between what is taught in classrooms and what is actually known in the lab.
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A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand
February 12, 2026 Science, v.391, n.6789, p.1022-1028
For life to emerge, a primordial system must have been able to propagate genetic information without the complex machinery of modern biology. RNA has long been proposed to fulfill this role
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Is it reasonable to believe in something you cannot see?
February 12, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Unseen realities like God and the soul are evident through their impact and effects which refutes materialists’ denial.
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Ultimate Engineering: An Engineer Investigates the Biomechanics of the Human Body
February, 2026 Discovery Institute Press
Who first invented fiber optic cables? Or camera shutters? Or truss structures? Or double wishbone suspensions? Or block-style Roman arches? What about laser beams? The original inventor of these and countless other ingenious devices was no human inventor | See Also Amazon
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Significance of New Book on Human Anatomy Cannot Be Overstated
February 12, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Happy Darwin Day!
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Why Evolution Persists Despite the Evidence
February 11, 2026 Intelligent Design the Future and Discovery Science
Is evolution supported by scientific evidence, or by a prior commitment to naturalism? This interview argues that the evolutionary paradigm is sustained more by philosophical devotion than by empirical data.
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News Update/Commentary
Life may have started as sticky goo clinging to rocks
February 11, 2026 Science Daily
What if life didn’t begin in a tiny cell, but in a sticky gel clinging to ancient rocks?
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Wheelbarrows, Watches, and Designers
February 11, 2026 Science & Culture Today
More on Sean Carroll
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Darwinism and Its “Pernicious Cultural Implications”
February 11, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Jonathan Witt
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Mammal Origins -- Full Documentary
February 11, 2026 NOVA (PBS)
Through remarkable adaptations like burrowing and the emergence of warm-bloodedness, they forged a lineage that persevered against all odds.
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Our Ancient Predecessors
February 11, 2026 Wall Street Journal
It's not exactly a chicken and dinosaur-egg question, but which came first, the mammal or the giant lizard?
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Darwin Stubs His T.O.E.
February 11, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Either reality is given, spoken, and capable of correcting us, or it is an emergent consensus generated by process itself. There is no third alternative.
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News Update/Commentary
This ancient animal was one of the first to eat plants on land
February 11, 2026 Science Daily
A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a plant-based diet.
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Human Consciousness: AI Can’t Compute or Compete
February 10, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As science continues to wrestle with the mystery of consciousness, the intricacy of human life points unmistakably to design
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Humans: Designed or Descended?
February 10, 2026 Reasons to Believe
a rare, live dialogue between a Christian biochemist and an agnostic evolutionary researcher
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Life on Earth is lucky: A rare chemical fluke may have made our planet habitable
February 10, 2026 space.com
Without the right oxygen balance, phosphorus and nitrogen vanish -- and life can't take hold.
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Scientists Find Genes That Are Actually Older Than the Ancestor of All Living Things
February 10, 2026 ZME Science
Universal paralogs are helping scientists rewrite the history of early life on Earth
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Carl Sagan’s 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney
February 10, 2026 Big Think
Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans. In 2026, that matters more than ever.
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How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a ‘mind' really is
February 10, 2026 New Scientist
Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the origins of life and mind in one fell swoop
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists find a clue to human brain evolution in finger length
February 10, 2026 Science Daily
Your finger length may reveal how prenatal estrogen helped build the human brain -- and why bigger brains came with hidden costs.
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News Update/Commentary
A bonobo’s pretend tea party is rewriting what we know about imagination
February 10, 2026 Science Daily
Imagination may be far older -- and more widespread in the animal kingdom -- than scientists once believed.
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Why a Multiverse Doesn’t Refute Fine-Tuning
February 10, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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News Update/Commentary
This tiny organism refused to die under Mars-like conditions
February 9, 2026 Science Daily
Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen -- it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can survive intense shock waves and toxic chemicals similar to those on Mars.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists were wrong for decades about DNA knots
February 9, 2026 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held assumption in genetics research.
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Confirmed New Record for Most Distant Galaxy
February 9, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China
February 9, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Get to Know the Name
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More Scholars Admitting Darwinism Is Harmful
February 9, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Academics and others are increasingly admitting that Darwinism has had an adverse influence on society
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Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity
February 9, 2026 New Scientist
Ripples in space-time from a pair of merging black holes have been recorded in unprecedented detail, enabling physicists to test predictions of general relativity
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God or Science Explains the Poetry of Reality?
February 9, 2026 Justin Brierley (Think Faith)
In a wide-ranging conversation on atheism, faith, poetry, music, meaning, love, complexity, suffering, evolution and survival they discuss whether God or science makes best sense of ‘the poetry of reality'.
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Spiky dinosaur from China rewrites the script
February 9, 2026 CSIRO Publishing
A new species in the Iguanadontia group of herbivorous dinosaurs has been found in China. The exceptionally well-preserved fossil contains features never seen in dinosaurs.
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All claims of extraterrestrial life must pass these 7 hurdles
February 9, 2026 Big Think
No claim has even made it halfway up the Confidence of Life Detection (CoLD) scale, but 21st century science is just beginning to unfold.
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Bad Design, or Ultimate Engineering?
February 9, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Two Views of Biology
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“Bet you weren’t taught this about Evolution!”
February 9, 2026 Anil Kanda
Soft tissue has been discovered in dinosaur fossils -- something many scientists never expected to find. Does it challenge long-held evolutionary timelines? And could events like a global Flood help explain what happened to the dinosaurs?
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Building blocks of life discovered in Bennu asteroid rewrite origin story
February 9, 2026 EurekAlert!
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
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Why a Heroic Teacher Matters to Intelligent Design
February 9, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Jaime Escalante
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Asking Hard Questions: Philosophy, Faith, and Returning to Christianity
February 8, 2026 Discovery Science
Wikipedia Co‑Founder shares his intellectual journey away from Christianity and the long road back, shaped by philosophy, hard questions, and the search for truth.
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OpenScholar, an AI Tool for Scientific Literature Search, Outperforms ChatGPT and Other LLMs
February 8, 2026 The Scientist
Trained on millions of scientific papers, a new large language model could help researchers keep up with the growing body of scientific literature.