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A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat
September 24, 2025 New Scientist
Forget the tropes about how violence or maybe volcanic eruptions killed off our ancient cousins, The Last Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak offers a very different take on how they died out
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Convergent evolution of diverse jaw joints in mammaliamorphs
September 24, 2025 Nature
The evolution of a single-dentary-boned lower jaw and its secondary craniomandibular articulation between the dentary condyle and the squamosal glenoid has been regarded as a pivotal vertebrate innovation and defining mammalian trait
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Jazzy jaw joints: evolutionary fine-tuning reveals unexpected bone connections in ancient predecessors of mammals
September 24, 2025 Nature
The evolution of the jaw helped mammals to thrive. Fossil discoveries shed light on the diverse evolutionary journeys taken by joints between the skull and lower jaw.
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Scientists Weigh the Risks of ‘Mirror Life,’ Synthetic Molecules with a Reverse Version of Life’s Building Blocks
September 24, 2025 Smithsonian Magazine
Though mirror biology might lead to improved drugs and other innovations, scientists have warned against potentially devastating consequences of this research
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Why I am not bothered by human-chimp similarity
September 24, 2025 Creation Ministries International
“Humans and chimpanzees are 99% identical … no wait, it’s 98% … oops, it’s 95% … oh no, now it’s 85% …”
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The Early Church's Surprising Take on Genesis 1
September 24, 2025 YouTube
how the Church Fathers interpreted the days of creation in Genesis 1, revealing both diversity and depth in early Christian thought.
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Why do only humans weep?
September 23, 2025 Big Think
The evolutionary puzzle of crying. ... This excerpt from “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…” examines how crying may have evolved as part of a suite of emotional expressions aimed at strengthening social bonds.
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The Big Bang doesn’t mean what it used to
September 23, 2025 Big Think
As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.
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Sabine Hossenfelder Gets Canceled. A Physicist Responds
September 23, 2025 Mind Matters
Experimental physicist Rob Sheldon offers some further thoughts on the theoretical physicist’s ejection from the Munich Center
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In What Sense Is Origin of Life From Space a Scientific Question?
September 23, 2025 Mind Matters
We can never know for sure what happened in the remote past. But future discoveries could, in principle, either strengthen or confirm the life from space claim.
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Ethicists flirt with AI to review human research
September 23, 2025 Science
Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines
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Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI
September 23, 2025 Nature
Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.
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There is no Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
September 22, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
Why we should stop playing the straw man game
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Dinosaur Bones Preserve Original Hemoglobin
September 22, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Hemoglobin molecules found in two different dinosaurs: more evidence that evolutionist’s deep-time belief is problematic
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Oldest Evidence of Butterflies
September 22, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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College Classrooms Are Destroying Christian Beliefs: Abiogenesis
September 22, 2025 YouTube
abiogenesis (the origin of life) remains scientifically unsolved, highlighting multiple chemical and polymerization problems that current research has not overcome
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Is Life a Form of Computation?
September 22, 2025 MIT Press Reader
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
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Can we trust Darwin to fix the mess science publishing is in?
September 22, 2025 Mind Matters
evolutionary anthropologist Thomas Morgan argues that the current mess in which science publishing finds itself, with so many fame papers and so much fraud, is best understood in terms of Darwinian evolution
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Major theories of consciousness may have been focusing on the wrong part of the brain
September 22, 2025 The Conversation
What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others?
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Scientist Fired for Defrauding Scholars in Huge Publishing Scam
September 22, 2025 The Scientist
From forged acceptance letters to fake DOIs, a publishing scam put Iraqi students and their degrees at risk. The fraudster? A university professor.
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Unexpected: ChatGPT and the Return of God
September 21, 2025 Mind Matters
Scott Ventureyra talks about ChatGPT and other large language models (chatbots) AI in the unlikely role of unexpected apologists for Christianity
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Could Dark Energy Be Evolving Over Time?
September 21, 2025 Universe Today
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News Roundup: This Certainly Looks Like a Religious Revival…
September 21, 2025 Mind Matters
The Barna Report says that, for the first time in decades, younger adults -- Gen Z and Millennials -- are now the most regular churchgoers. There have been a number of unexpected conversions to Christianity in recent years
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Monkey Wrenched: Science & the Specter of Private Truth
September 20, 2025 Mind Matters
The landscape in which science flourishes has greatly changed. A rising power threatens even popular science staples like Darwinism. I call that new power “private truth.”
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A New Test to Measure Understanding in AI Models
September 20, 2025 Mind Matters
Podcast --- The Turing Test 2.0 is based on the view that intelligence is the ability to extract new knowledge from existing information and apply it consistently across time and context
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Science Requires the Christian God
September 20, 2025 The Gospel Coalition
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News Update/Commentary
Strange new hybrid bird spotted in Texas backyard
September 20, 2025 Science Daily
Once separated by millions of years of evolution and distinct ranges, the two species were brought together as climate change expanded their territories.
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In What Sense Is Origin of Life a Scientific Question?
September 19, 2025 Mind Matters
Recently, a friend recommended a paper on theories of the origin of life. (Yet another one?) But this one proved most interesting…
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News Update/Commentary
Shocking study exposes widespread math research fraud
September 19, 2025 Science Daily
Experts warn that this corruption of research undermines trust in science and call for urgent reforms to restore credibility and rigor.
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News Update/Commentary
Alien water worlds were just a mirage
September 19, 2025 Science Daily
A new study challenges the dream of water-rich planets, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors. Instead of vast oceans, these worlds likely retain only a few percent of water at the surface.
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To Whom Are You Talking When You Talk to Yourself?
September 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Doctor’s Diary
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The Anatomy of a Bad Argument
September 19, 2025 McGill University
Arguments on science often derail into misinformation. The FLICC framework helps expose denialist tactics and keep conversations grounded in evidence.
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Breaking the chain
September 19, 2025 Aeon
The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution
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World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life
September 19, 2025 Nature
Scientists used artificial intelligence to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.
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Apocalypse then: how cataclysms shaped human societies
September 19, 2025 Nature
Science journalist Lizzie Wade joins us to talk about her new book investigating the seismic events that humans have faced through history.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Do Climate Models Support Claims of Volcanic Global Catastrophes?
September 18, 2025 Geophysical Research Letters
simulations of the last millennium's largest eruptions broadly disagree on resulting climates and typically produce more extreme outcomes than the moderate cooling and ordinary precipitation conditions recorded in tree rings
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Will This “Naked” Black Hole Finally Change Cosmology?
September 18, 2025 YouTube
The James Webb telescope has detected a series of black holes with features that are only compatible with black holes that formed much faster than should be possible. This discovery is supposedly a “paradigm change”
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When did Eve live?
September 18, 2025 Creation Ministries International
Biblically, about 6,000 years ago. Scientifically, the answer depends on the mutation rate.
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Did Changes to 3 Genes Cause Ape Hips to Evolve into Human Ones?
September 18, 2025 Answers in Genesis
The human pelvis is rounded, like a basket, to enable us to walk and stand upright with ease. The ape pelvis is tall and narrow, with the upper hip bones appearing like blades
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Early humans reached Europe via an Ice Age land bridge from Turkey
September 18, 2025 Popular Mechanics
The never-before-studied region ‘holds vital traces of early human activity.'
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Another Big Mistake in Evolution
September 18, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
The strange and wonderful coelacanth has long been a challenge to evolutionists.
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Stunning amber deposits hold insects from the time of the dinosaurs
September 18, 2025 New Scientist
A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago
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The flaws in the blueprint of life
September 18, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
Is genetic determinism misguided?
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More Body Videos Coming
September 18, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Not bawdy, but wholesome: new series reveals secrets inside of us
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Great Science Cancellation Continues
September 18, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Here’s the Latest Victim
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Intelligent design ruined my career, but also saved it
September 18, 2025 Theos Theory
Professor shares how his work in intelligent design derailed his early career, and what he learned from that experience.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
September 18, 2025 Science, v.390, n.6774
Transposable elements can excise and reinsert themselves into genomes, potentially disrupting gene function.
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Using AI to uncover new clues that early humans were prey, not predators
September 18, 2025 Rice University
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia
September 17, 2025 Nature, v.646, p.1138-1145
The dome-headed pachycephalosaurians are among the most enigmatic dinosaurs.
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Earth’s atmosphere took two billion years to become fully oxygenated
September 17, 2025 Nature
High-resolution isotope data show that a modern-like, oxygen-rich atmosphere was not established until 410 million years ago, supporting a 2-billion-year transitional oxygenation of Earth’s surface.