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Peer-reviewed Paper
Building wet planets through high-pressure magma–hydrogen reactions
October 29, 2025 Nature, v.646, p.1069-1074
Planetary interior models based on their observed radius–mass relationship suggest that sub-Neptunes contain a discernible amount of either hydrogen (dry planets) or water (wet planets) blanketing a core composed of rocks and metal.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Land plant evolution
October 29, 2025 Trends in Plant Science
from microbial interaction to horizontal gene transfer
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Blog Post
What is Cosmology?
October 29, 2025 New Creation
Astronomy is the study of the stars, sun, moon, galaxies -- in short, the study of things inside the universe. Cosmology is the study of the universe itself.
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Alien worlds may be able to make their own water
October 29, 2025 Science
Ocean planets could arise from rocks reacting with thick hydrogen atmospheres, lab experiments show
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The Desperation of Recent Creationism
October 29, 2025
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Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art
October 29, 2025 New Scientist
Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used pigments in symbolic ways
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Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness
October 29, 2025 New Scientist
Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form of the objective? Nikolay Kukushkin's One Hand Clapping is a bold voyage around the mysteries of the human mind
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If humans went extinct, could we re-evolve?
October 29, 2025 Big Think
Maybe -- just don’t expect a carbon copy.
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Surprisingly Polite Response to Non-Materialist Book on the Mind
October 29, 2025 Mind Matters
The discussion with well-known skeptic Michael Shermer and leading neuroscientist Christof Koch was notably polite and productive
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Researchers: There can be memory outside the brain
October 29, 2025 Mind Matters
Evidence has been found that kidney cells have their own memories. Science journalist Tibi Puiu reports at ZME Science
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Emergence and Irreducible Complexity
October 29, 2025 Science & Culture Today
A Unified Theory
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Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design
October 29, 2025 Science & Culture Today
Information, Intelligence, and Decision
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Molecular Machines: Evolved or Designed?
October 28, 2025
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A Mathematical Problem Evolution Can’t Escape
October 28, 2025 Daily Dose of Wisdom
This video explains a very strange aspect of the fossil record on Darwinism and what some other explanations for it may be.
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Life as a Guide to Its Own Origins
October 28, 2025 Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum
Nick Lane is a biochemist at University College London. He studies energy flows in biology, the origin of life, and the evolution of complex cells.
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The Mutation Myth: What Evolution Doesn’t Want You to Know
October 28, 2025 Discovery Science
For decades we’ve been told that random mutations drive evolution: the engine behind every new trait and species on Earth. But what if the science tells a different story?
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Were Neanderthals capable of making art?
October 28, 2025 The Conversation
Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Palaeolithic (between 45,000 and 12,000 years ago) were capable of artistic flair.
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How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shaped humanity
October 28, 2025 New Scientist
Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing where they come from and how they changed history
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If we look too hard for reality, we’ll fall into a black hole
October 28, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
Quantum Gravity begins where measurement ends
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Wikipedia Qualifies Its “Pseudoscience” Label re Design in Nature
October 28, 2025 Mind Matters
Not only that but newly launched Grokipedia’s entry seems to be written to actually inform the reader rather than to enlist the reader against the topic
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Can Evolution Predict the Past?
October 28, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What evolved fastest here wasn’t the human skull -- it was the evolutionary story
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A Scientist Betrayed by His Own Followers
October 28, 2025 Science & Culture Today
Darwin’s Doubts
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Miocene and Pliocene ice and air from the Allan Hills blue ice area, East Antarctica
October 28, 2025 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Antarctic ice cores provide the most direct archive of Earth’s atmosphere and its largest ice sheets.
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Earth's ‘boring billion years' created the conditions for complex life
October 28, 2025 phys.org
how the breakup of an ancient supercontinent 1.5 billion years ago transformed Earth's surface environments, paving the way for the emergence of complex life
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Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth
October 28, 2025 phys.org
A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica.
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How do you know what I know you know?
October 27, 2025 Nature
Steven Pinker on common knowledge ... From using words to overthrowing regimes, shared awareness is necessary for people to coordinate. The cognitive scientist explains how it works.
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World-Renowned Hebrew Scholar Destroys Old Earth Theory
October 27, 2025 Biblical Studies and Reviews
Does the Bible itself teach a young earth? Is the day-age theory compatible with the Hebrew grammar? What about the Gap Theory, mytho-history, and functional creation views?
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How Darwinism Became the New Faith of the Modern World
October 27, 2025 Intelligent Design the Future and Discovery Science
Was Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution a scientific breakthrough or a cultural revolution that replaced God with a new belief system? This clip discusses how Darwinism became more than just a scientific theory: it turned into a modern faith.
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The Fatal Flaw in Origin-of-Life Experiments
October 27, 2025
Discover why origin of life experiments have consistently failed to create the building blocks of life under prebiotic conditions. We break down the challenges of chiral molecules, homochirality, and limits of modern chemistry in simulating early Earth
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Fossil hand from human relative puzzles scientists with mix of human- and gorilla-like features
October 27, 2025 The Conversation
Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.
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Scientists just found a surprising twist in Earth’s extinction story
October 27, 2025 Science Daily
New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.
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No space, no time, no particles: A radical vision of quantum reality
October 27, 2025 New Scientist
If we admit that quantum numbers are the true essence of reality -- not particles, space or time -- then a surprising and beautiful new vision of reality opens up to us
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Why zero is the most important number in all of mathematics
October 27, 2025 New Scientist
It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones -- but now it’s clear that every number is made up of zeroes
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Differences in red blood cells may have ‘hastened the extinction' of our Neanderthal cousins
October 27, 2025 Live Science
Gene variants in red blood cell function may have doomed the hybrid babies of Neanderthals and modern humans.
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Lizard Fossil Rewrites the Textbooks Again
October 27, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It did not look like the expected evolutionary link. It resembles modern lizards in many respects
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Did Ankylosaurs evolve a weaponized tail?
October 27, 2025 Creation Unfolding
According to Darwinian evolutionary theory, Ankylosaurids with fused tails and clubs evolved in the Late Cretaceous, but a recent find challenges this assessment by tentatively confirming the presence of fused tail vertebrae in a Middle Jurassic
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Philosophy of Molecular Biology and Genes
October 27, 2025 Closer to Truth
What is a gene? Molecular biology, genome, genetic engineering, as well as genes, define our century of biology. But what do these terms actually signify? How to understand each term precisely?
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Pure Unlimited Love: Faith, Freedom, and the Path to Peace
October 27, 2025 Mind Matters
To illustrate the nature of the qualities needed, Dr. Post shared with Dr. Egnor a moving story from his time working in a geriatric psychiatric hospital in Mount Vernon, Ohio
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News Update/Commentary
The math says life shouldn’t exist, but somehow it does
October 26, 2025 Science Daily
Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving matter may be far more difficult than scientists once thought.
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Wall Street Journal Takes on Science and the Existence of God
October 26, 2025 Mind Matters
In an interview, first author of the new book out of France, Michel-Yves Bolloré, tells a WSJ editor, “We are now in a century where science is the best ally of God.” That’s news
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Materialism’s Band-Aid
October 25, 2025 Science & Culture Today
“Emergence” Is Bad Science
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Blog Post
The Singularity Cult
October 25, 2025
I used to think the Singularity cult was funny, but now it scares me.
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How Life Really Appeared on Earth
October 25, 2025 Discovery Science
Is evolution really the full story? In this video, we break down the fossil record, sudden appearances in history, and the Cambrian explosion to see if Darwin’s theory holds up.
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Evolution Fail! How Cells Show the Truth About Evolution
October 25, 2025 Examining Origins
How many false predictions has evolution made? Let's start counting them! Biophysicist shares #2 on the list of failed predictions of evolution.
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The Pluses and the Perils of Time Travel in Science Fiction
October 25, 2025 Mind Matters
Time travel can be treated as a form of hard or soft “magic” but it is important not to confuse the two
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Will Reliance on AI Mean a Vast Drop in New Knowledge Production?
October 25, 2025 Mind Matters
Dependence on AI assistants, for example, was found to greatly reduce discussion among peers, where new ideas are offered and evaluated
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How Napoleon’s army met its doom
October 24, 2025 Nature
DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role ... Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count.
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Tiny Uranian Moon Likely Had a Massive Subsurface Ocean
October 24, 2025 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Ariel’s tempestuous subsurface ocean may have once composed more than half its total volume.
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Researchers remain divided over ‘feathered dinosaurs’
October 24, 2025 Creation Ministries International
Feathered dinosaur candidate fossils have drawn huge interest from secularists who have fitted them into a dinosaur-to-bird evolutionary narrative. The same fossils draw interest from biblical creationists
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Everything the Smithsonian Gets Wrong About Humans vs Chimps!
October 24, 2025 Intelligent Design the Future
recent New York Post article calling for the Smithsonian Museum to update its misleading human origins exhibit. Luskin explains where the old “1% difference” myth came from