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‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence
September 8, 2026 The Guardian
Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world -- and our own place within it
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Natural Selection Falling from Grace
September 8, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Natural selection is a filtering process that resists evolution, and not a process that creates new genetic information, as evolutionists claim
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Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design
September 8, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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The Big Bang Under Review
September 8, 2026 Reasons to Believe
What Cosmology Can -- and Can't -- Tell Us About Origins ... The big bang changed our understanding of the universe. But has modern cosmology actually explained ultimate origins?
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Gifford Lectures: Beyond the Series -- Why is Life the way it is?
September 8, 2026 University of Edinburgh
explore the origins and constraints of life in a fascinating talk
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Thoughts on Oppenheimer’s Demon
September 8, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Why the Satisfying Thrill of the Thriller?
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When scientists become commercial influencers
September 8, 2026 American Council on Science and Health
Peer review in reputable journals gives scientific claims an authority that commercial speech rarely enjoys. But what happens when scientists carry that halo of authority out of the laboratory and into the marketplace
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Can Geneticists Fight Disease by Targeting ‘Nurture’ Instead of ‘Nature’?
September 8, 2026 New York Times
Traditional gene editing rewrites DNA. But a new approach, called epigenome editing, aims to treat the molecular scars we collect throughout our lives.
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Duke University to Remove Access to C. W. Howell’s Dissertation with Fabrication
September 8, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Who Owns Your Mind’s Creative Work? Who Owned Dolly Parton’s?
September 7, 2026 Mind Matters
The unsettling logic driving the movement to abolish copyright -- and the counterargument rooted in the mind itself
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The universe is fine-tuned for technology, not just life
September 7, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Cosmological evolution selects for black-hole-creating universes
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Bad Methods Get Evolution Super Wrong
September 7, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Historical biology has no eyewitness testimony to support its story, and no reliable way to calibrate its methods to empirical observation
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We’re on the verge of seeing the quantum foundations of the universe
September 7, 2026 New Scientist
Quantum theory says a vacuum isn’t truly empty, but proving it directly has remained out of reach. A new experiment using immensely powerful lasers could finally expose its hidden structure -- and perhaps offer clues to dark matter
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Isaac Newton’s remarkable year -- and the plagiarism accusations that followed
September 7, 2026 Nature
A deep dive into Newton’s major work, Principia Mathematica, reveals his hate of hypotheses and a habit of courting controversy.
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A Theory of Intelligence Metrics: Measuring the Degree of Intelligence in Search
September, 2026 Discovery Institute
The study of intelligence raises two key questions: (1) How can intelligence be detected or inferred from its effects, and (2) how can the degree of intelligence in effects be measured?
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Former Atheist: Materialism Cannot Explain Consciousness
September 6, 2026 Mind Matters
“Emergence," the claim that consciousness somehow emerged from matter, faces serious obstacles, he says
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No, our ancestors weren't carnivores
September 6, 2026 BBC
Here's what they really ate and why it matters ... Our hunter-gatherer forebears weren’t the carnivorous cavemen we once thought
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Neurosurgeon with 7,000 surgeries: “Science forced me to believe in the soul"
September 6, 2026 Somos Alma
An essential conversation about neuroscience, consciousness, near-death experiences, and the existence of the human soul, between Dr. Luján Comas and Dr. Michael Egnor.
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The End of the Central Dogma
September 6, 2026 Voices from Oxford
Is DNA really the blueprint of life? This discussion challenges genetic determinism and explores how living cells use uncertainty, organisation and adaptation to survive.
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Origin of Life: The Fundamental Challenge
September 6, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Life uses 4 DNA letters. Scientists just made 8 work
September 5, 2026 Science Daily
RNA polymerase handles synthetic DNA letters in surprisingly similar ways to natural ones. The finding brings scientists closer to building expanded genetic systems that could perform entirely new biological functions.
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The Lizard Brain Is Back? Wait. It’s Not Back…
September 5, 2026 Mind Matters
Not This Again?! ... A useful item from Georgia Tech examines the claim that an ancient lizard brain controls our emotions
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From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years
September 5, 2026 Science & Culture Today
That Was Fast
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The Organ That “Proved” That Everything Is Connected
September 4, 2026 McGill University
He says he discovered a new organ. He also thinks that dementia reveals the true face of the universe. What is going on?
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Scientists overturn a theory about this shark’s strange head
September 4, 2026 Science Daily
Bonnethead sharks change head shape as they grow, overturning a long-held theory and leaving scientists with a new evolutionary mystery.
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Plant “Muscles” Show Proprioception
September 4, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The sense of position in space was thought to be unique to animals. Trees exhibit proprioception, too.
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Evolutionary Origin of Information
September 4, 2026 Science & Culture Today
The Problem of Robustness
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How a Christian Magazine and a Christian Scholar Boosted a Book with a Fabricated Quote
September 4, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Overhyping the Mind-Body Interaction Problem
September 4, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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What Did Jurassic Forests Sound Like? Like This.
September 3, 2026 New York Times
Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate Jurassic soundscape.
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Darwin’s hunch confirmed at last
September 3, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6815, p.989-990
Carnivorous plants attract, capture, and digest insects to survive in nutrient-poor soils. In 1875, Charles Darwin suspected that two Saxifraga species might share this ability,
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Campfires Drove Evolutionary Storytelling
September 3, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s time to turn the tables on the Darwin Yodas and let them refute themselves
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Chimpanzees have accents too
September 3, 2026 Queen Mary University of London
A study finds that young chimpanzees develop dialect, providing a new way of understanding ontogenetic evolution.
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Ancient “living fossils” may reveal how complex life began
September 3, 2026 Science Daily
A newly discovered microbe living inside ancient stromatolite communities may offer a rare look at how complex life first emerged.
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Mars could hold the secrets to the origins of life
September 3, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Potential biosignatures strengthen case for new Mars mission
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Leading Theory for How Life on Earth Began Is ‘Highly Unlikely'
September 3, 2026 Science Alert
If you ask a scientist how life appeared on Earth, they will usually begin the story in one of two places ... Both tales are highly engaging, but only one holds any water,
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Plants may be evolving the wrong traits for a warming world
September 3, 2026 Science Daily
Morning glories experienced a striking 96% drop in their rate of adaptation over just nine years.
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The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research
September 3, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Protocell Pretensions
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Evolution of New Genes: The Big “If”
September 3, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Changing Climates, Stable Primates
September 3, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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A Hub of Intelligent Design in Africa
September 3, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Register Scientists with the Government?
September 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Top Journal Says Yes!
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Quantum Cyclic Cosmology
September 2, 2026 Phil Halper
One of the deepest mysteries in cosmology is why the early universe began in such an extraordinarily low-entropy state. Attempts to explain this through random fluctuations can lead to the notorious Boltzmann-brain problem
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Scientific Evidence Exposes the Massive Gaps in Human Evolutionary History
September 2, 2026 Discovery Science
By pointing out crushed fossil specimens, flawed reconstructions, and severe dating discrepancies, Luskin demonstrates that claims of upright-walking intermediate links are often overblown by popular media
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Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake
September 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Cave paintings are much better seen by torchlight
September 2, 2026 Mind Matters
In the Smithsonian Magazine, Ben Crair recounts his journey to a Paleolithic “art gallery” cave
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Ancient bacteria have communications structures like human ones
September 2, 2026 Mind Matters
At phys.org, we learn another astonishing thing from prehistory: “Even ancient bacteria possessed intercellular communication structures like humans today, study finds.”
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Material Life: Mechanical Meat or Magical Matter?
September 2, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Neither dare challenge the sacred cow that unites them in common descent with modification: Methodological Naturalism
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What the remains of the last Neanderthals tell us about their demise
September 2, 2026 New Scientist
An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species’ final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak takes us inside the cave where they lived and died
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New Scientist hype about the origin of life
September 2, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Once there were blobs. But are claims over coacervates convincing science or science fiction?