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20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call
October 3, 2025 New Scientist
Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest -- this shared call hints at the origin of language
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There is an odd streak in the universe -- and we still don’t know why
October 3, 2025 New Scientist
Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation from the big bang persists even after a new analysis from radio telescopes
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Occam's razor is leading cosmology astray
October 3, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
The search for simplicity is a mistake
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News Update/Commentary
Japan’s hot springs hold clues to the origins of life on Earth
October 3, 2025 Science Daily
These findings show how life adapted before photosynthesis reshaped the planet and may also guide the search for life on alien worlds.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists uncover a mysterious Jurassic lizard with snake-like jaws
October 3, 2025 Science Daily
This creature's unusual mix of traits suggests either that snake ancestors were very different than expected, or that snake-like features evolved independently more than once.
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Was the Legendary Jane Goodall (1934–2025) the End of an Era?
October 3, 2025 Mind Matters
Perhaps. A more realistic appraisal of the reality of human uniqueness is needed if we hope to prevent the extinction of chimpanzees in the wild
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Eternity in Their Near-Death Experiences
October 3, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As reports rise, scientists are taking NDE’s more seriously. But is it a scientific question?
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Skulls from China Said to Push Origin of Homo sapiens Back to 1 Million Years
October 3, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Are chemical signatures on Mars evidence of life?
October 2, 2025 Creation Ministries International
The belief that there is life on Mars is a claim that refuses to die. It has a long history, stretching back at least to the 17th century
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These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why
October 2, 2025 Nature
Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries -- from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.
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Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
October 2, 2025 Nature
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
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How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals -- and the world
October 2, 2025 New Scientist
Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but she leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural world
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News Update/Commentary
Before they sucked blood, leeches were ocean hunters
October 2, 2025 Science Daily
A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals leeches began as ocean hunters long before they evolved into bloodsuckers.
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COSM 2025 Panel to Tackle the Hard Problem: Consciousness
October 2, 2025 Mind Matters
Michael Egnor sees the failure to find a “material center of consciousness” in the brain as a science success, not failure. It points to an important truth about us
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Comparing Two Scientists at Rice University
October 2, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
One is a Christian. One is a Darwinian. Who is doing more to help mankind?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution
October 2, 2025 Science, v.390, n.6774
a directed evolution approach to rapidly replicate genes of interest within plant cells from libraries of gene variants
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Nature’s Missing Law of Information
October 1, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming
October, 2025 The New Atlantis
We’re worrying about the wrong arms race with China.
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Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
October 1, 2025 New York Times
Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild were hailed as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”
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Quantum Mechanics: Unveiling the Creator’s Design in the Fabric of Reality
October 1, 2025 Apologetics Press
While classical physics explains the macroscopic world, quantum principles -- superposition, entanglement, and uncertainty -- govern the subatomic realm, challenging naturalistic explanations.
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Jane Goodall, ambassador for wildlife, dies at 91
October 1, 2025 National Geographic
Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and intelligent. | See Also iconic photos
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Ancient viral DNA in the human genome shapes early development
October 1, 2025 Nature
Stem-cell models provide evidence that viral DNA sequences that entered the human genome in the past were repurposed to aid early stages of embryonic development.
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An Evaluation of the Arguments for a Hyperbolic Interpretation of the Noahic Flood
October 1, 2025 Answers Research Journal, v.18, p.465-482
Mitigating Exaggerated Claims
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Richard Dawkins on New Threats to Science -- From Religion to Relativism
October, 2025 reason magazine
Few living thinkers have been as influential -- or controversial -- as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book
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Fantastic Voyage: A Scientific Odyssey
October, 2025 Salvo, n.74
Did mind make matter, or matter mind? Are the things of nature the product of mindless forces alone, or did creative reason play a role?
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Evolution of drug-resistant ovarian-cancer clones tracked in patients
October 1, 2025 Nature
Blood-based tracking, used to monitor clonal evolution in 18 patients, shows that drug-resistant clones are already present at diagnosis, expand during therapy and contain distinctive genomic alterations
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Mix-and-match fossils tell the tale of snake and lizard evolution
October 1, 2025 Nature
Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex evolutionary journey.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate
October 1, 2025 Nature
Conflict between morphology and molecular phylogenies indicates a complex pattern of anatomical transformations during early squamate (lizards and snakes) evolution
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This saved my Christian faith and it can save yours
October 1, 2025 YouTube
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Academic Paper Gets Shredded!
October 1, 2025 Reasonable Faith
Swamidass joins Craig in response to a peer-reviewed paper on the historical Adam and Eve. The paper takes aim at the approaches of Swamidass and Craig, leveling a range of critiques, straw men, and misunderstandings.
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How brain organoids are revealing what truly makes humans unique
October 1, 2025 New Scientist
Madeline Lancaster created the first brain organoids, which have revolutionised our understanding of how the brain works -- but also raised ethical questions
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News Update/Commentary
The billion-year reign of fungi that predated plants and made Earth livable
October 1, 2025 Science Daily
From fossils and rare genetic ‘gene-swap’ clues, researchers reconstruct fungi’s deep timeline and reveal how they helped shape early Earth ecosystems.
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The “War on Science” as a Punch-and-Judy show
October 1, 2025 Mind Matters
A predictable feature of the ills that currently plague science disciplines is the claim that there is a “War on Science,” conducted, of course, by people who don’t “believe in” science.
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Life is computation? A good argument for intelligent design!
October 1, 2025 Mind Matters
In 1994, a strange, pixelated machine came to life on a computer screen. It read a string of instructions, copied them, and built a clone of itself -- just as the Hungarian-American Polymath John von Neumann had predicted half a century earlier.
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The Ever Evolving and Evasive Nature of Knowledge
October, 2025 Journal of Sociology and Christianity, v.15, n.2
Christian Smith provided a captivating example of the pre-eminence of cultural zeitgeist in explaining Why Religion Went Obsolete (2025) in America at the turn of this millennium.
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Scientists resurrect 40,000-year-old organisms from Arctic ice -- now they’re worried
October, 2025 Discover wildlife
Extracted from the walls of a permafrost tunnel, the revived life forms could help researchers understand more about Earth's changing climate.
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How the Red Sea went completely dry
September 30, 2025 phys.org
before being flooded by the Indian Ocean over 6 million years ago
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Cosmic Handedness Might Show Up in Galaxy Spins
September 30, 2025 Physics, v.18
Cosmological simulations show that a left–right asymmetry in the early Universe could leave a mark in the distribution of galaxy rotations.
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I believe in God more than ever
September 30, 2025 Washington Post
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: I study biomedical engineering and neuroscience. ... Post readers on religion and science, and more.
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‘Thrilled’ Indonesian scientists celebrate return of fossil trove from the Netherlands
September 30, 2025 Science
The items to be returned, which include Java Man, were collected during the colonial era
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Human skin cells are turned into eggs in fertility breakthrough
September 30, 2025 The Guardian
Scientists say their early-stage work could help older women or same-sex male couples have children
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Darwin, Design & DNA
September 30, 2025 James Tour
the five massive barriers that prevent chemistry from explaining the origin of life ... and he also opens up about his faith journey, the role of intelligent design, and his perspective on Darwinian evolution.
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When did Eve live? Can we know from science?
September 30, 2025 Biblical Genetics
One woman is the ancestress of all living people. They call her Eve. Is she the Eve of the Bible? How long ago did she live? Science tells us that Eve lived not many thousands of years ago.
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The Concept of the Ruliad
September 30, 2025 Closer To Truth
The Ruliad is a term that Wolfram developed, which he describes as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible, the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways.
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Egg cells made with DNA from human skin fertilised in the lab
September 30, 2025 New Scientist
An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for same-sex couples or women with fertility problems to have children that both partners are genetically related to
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Philosopher of Mind and Language John Searle Has Died
September 30, 2025 Mind Matters
His Chinese Room thought experiment, an argument for why computers can seem clever without having minds, was widely understood among the lay public
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Fine-Tuned Laws Give Shape to the Cosmos
September 30, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists find intriguing hidden geometries that ‘may rewrite the laws of Physics’
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Now, It’s Rights for Planets, Moons, and Space Microbes
September 29, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Are We Looking for Consciousness in the “Wrong Part” of the Brain?
September 29, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
The Connections Among Information, Intelligence, and Decision
September 29, 2025 substack
Linking several key concepts underpinning the theory of intelligent design