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Did the Evolution of Language Take a Huge Leap Around the Fireplace?
September 2, 2026 ZME Science
A new theory links storytelling, firelight and the rise of spoken language.
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Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble
September 2, 2026 Quanta Magazine
By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly -- or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event.
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Beyond Chance: A Cryptographic Analysis of the Origins of DNA
September 2, 2026 Answers Research Journal, v.19, p.151-161
This paper investigates an analogous relationship between cryptographic systems and biological genomes to evaluate the plausibility of life’s spontaneous origin.
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Is the Case of Designer Science an Isolated One?
September 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Academic Fabrication
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The Precedent for Creating a ‘Conservative' Science Journal
September 2, 2026 science2.0
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Giant impact could have formed an intact moon within five hours
September 1, 2026 phys.org
The new results used state-of-the-art computational techniques that factor in the material strength of the two colliding planets.
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Did Scientists Just Create Life from Nonliving Chemicals?
September 1, 2026 Apologetics Press
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A Biologist’s Attempt to Escape Reality
September 1, 2026 Science & Culture Today
The Non-Binary Delusion
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New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress
September 1, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Nonsense with “Nanozymes”
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Social media is not an apocalypse; it’s a printing press cubed
September 1, 2026 Mind Matters
At The Eternally Radical Idea, academic freedom fighter Greg Lukianoff reminds us of how the printing press changed history, inviting comparison with the internet:
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Top Science Journal: All Scientists Should Register with the State
September 1, 2026 Mind Matters
The editors think that government control would prevent “misinformation” from filtering down to us
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Data Centers: Is a Chinese Bot Farm Feeding You Your Opinions?
September 1, 2026 Mind Matters
Maybe bots are not influencing you -- but you can be sure they are trying
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Of All the Nerves, the Great Vagus Connects Everything
September 1, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Intelligent design accurately describes every organ of the human body. But it also describes something much smaller: a single nerve, the vagus nerve
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The first signs of dark matter particles may finally have been spotted
September 1, 2026 New Scientist
Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it -- that may have just changed
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Moths, mankind, and modernity
September 1, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Does evolution explain our societal problems?
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Darwin or Christ: Choose Carefully
September, 2026 Chronicles magazine
How ludicrous would it be if Christian pastors insisted on clinging to medical fads from the Victorian era into the third decade of the 21st century?
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Is this the first glimpse of dark matter?
September 1, 2026 Nature
Data point excites physicists ... An experiment spots an energy flash similar to that of the long-sought weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP.
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Our cosmic origins remain plausible, not proven
September 1, 2026 Chemistry World
The evidence is there that the molecular ingredients for life can form in space, but that doesn’t mean that they did
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Quantum Physicist Takes Aim at the Universe's Mysterious Arrow of Time
September 1, 2026 Universe Today
Does time flow unceasingly in one direction? Is our perception of time merely an illusion? Does each instant exist eternally, and are we just running through a sequence of instants like film in a movie projector?
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Penrose’s theory of consciousness supported by new quantum evidence
September 1, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
New neuroscientific study showcases warm quantum states
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Logos as the Ontological Principle of Systems
September, 2026
A Platonic Interpretation of Modern Systems Theory
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil feet may be misleading scientists about human evolution
August 31, 2026 Science Daily
Surprisingly agile monkeys are forcing scientists to rethink how the ancient ancestor of humans and chimpanzees may have climbed through the trees.
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Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth
August 31, 2026 Science Daily
A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles
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Rocky planets may have formed just 100 million years after the Big Bang
August 31, 2026 Science Daily
The ingredients for rocky, potentially habitable planets may have appeared just 100 million years after the Big Bang, billions of years earlier than scientists once expected.
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Life’s Origins: The Bootstrap Problem
August 31, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Modern Idolatry
August 31, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
Crediting Natural Selection as the Creator
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The Search for Consciousness Undermines Materialism
August 31, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists admit that the physical brain itself does not produce consciousness, leading to a renewed search for a non-material cause
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Retraction Watch Reports on Designer Science Fiasco
August 31, 2026 Science & Culture Today
but Mischaracterizes It
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Grappling with Our Promethean Past … and Future
August 31, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Order from disorder: do we need a new law of physics?
August 31, 2026 Nature
A radical proposal that evolutionary pressures apply to atoms as much as animals should provoke scientific debate.
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Physicist on Wonder, Discovery, and The Story of Everything
August 31, 2026 ID the Future
By now, you’ve likely heard of the new documentary film The Story of Everything. It’s a cinematic exploration of the evidence for intelligent design in the cosmos, from the fine-tuning of the universe to the stunning engineering in every living cell.
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On Time, Quantum, Biology, and Cosmology
August 31, 2026 Sean Carroll
we continue to struggle to fully understand time. We remain unsure whether time is fundamental or emergent, why it has an arrow pointing from past to future, and how that arrow connects to our experience of time's passage
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Scientists find a human-only gene that may help explain our brainpower
August 31, 2026 Science Daily
Human brain immune cells take years to mature, and scientists suspect their unusually slow development may be one secret behind our extraordinary brainpower.
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The Real Story of Intelligent Design
August 31, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Steady and Consistent Growth
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The Mind–Body “Interaction Problem” Is Desperately Overhyped
August 30, 2026 Mind Matters
Why would our mental states NOT be “causally relevant" to the way we behave?
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1.4-million-year-old footprints reveal a surprisingly large human relative
August 30, 2026 Science Daily
footprint trail reveals a surprisingly large group of ancient human relatives traveling together along a Kenyan lakeshore
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Varieties of Consciousness Theories
August 30, 2026 Closer to Truth
Robert discusses his lifelong quest to understand why anything exists at all and the nature of consciousness, culminating in his ambitious Landscape of Consciousness framework that organizes and classifies over 400 competing theories.
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Positive and Near-Positive Aspects of Designer Science
August 30, 2026 Science & Culture Today
I promised to cover the positive aspects of the book as well, and now I will.
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NASA launches Roman Space Telescope to tackle dark-energy mysteries
August 30, 2026 Nature
The space observatory will have an expansive view of the Universe as well as sharp resolution.
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Physicist Explains: The Scary Truth About Tidal Locking
August 29, 2026 Discovery Science
Moving beyond simple blackbody radiation models, Dr. Nemati examines atmospheric dynamics, runaway greenhouse loops, and snowball planetary states.
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Physicist Explains: The Scary Truth About Tidal Locking
August 29, 2026 Discovery Science
the unique requirements for planetary habitability using data from over 5,500 discovered exoplanets. Moving beyond simple blackbody radiation models, Dr. Nemati examines atmospheric dynamics, runaway greenhouse loops, and snowball planetary states.
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Spud Cell: Synthetic Cell and the Intelligence Problem
August 29, 2026
An author says the team has replicated in chemistry the complete set of cell behaviors, but the discussion argues that the intelligence and technology required to build it undercut the idea that life could arise through purely natural processes.
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The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why
August 29, 2026 Science Daily
The findings preserve the leading role of dark energy, while leaving scientists with the enduring mystery of what this strange cosmic force actually is.
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C. W. Howell in Context
August 29, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Brief History of Histories
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Deaf moths are acoustic experts
August 29, 2026 Creation Ministries International
How would you produce a useful sound if you could not hear it? A marvellous moth has been designed to do just that!
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Recent discoveries rewrite human history as we know
August 28, 2026 BBC Timestamp
Uncover the hidden history of humanity, as she reveals the staggering truth about our ancient origins and how there might be more to evolution than you previously thought...
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University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent
August 28, 2026 Retraction Watch
New York University Press is pulling all copies of a book about intelligent design after the author falsely quoted another scholar in the work.
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Chinese Cambrian fossils brilliantly preserved
August 28, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Guts, gills, and ganglia perfectly preserved!
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Healed fang wound found on 520-million-year-old apex predator
August 28, 2026 New Scientist
Something took a bite out of one of the biggest predators in Cambrian seas, an extraordinary fossil shows -- and it could well be cannibalism
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Is Intelligent Design the Root of All Science Skepticism?
August 28, 2026 Science & Culture Today