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Daddy longlegs have two more eyes they’ve been hiding from us
September 8, 2025 ZME Science
The eyes are relics form their evolutionary past.
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Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life
September 8, 2025 Quanta Magazine
Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Applying evolutionary theory to understand host–microbiome evolution
September 8, 2025 Nature Ecology & Evolution
A knowledge gap is partly due to the lack of theoretical frameworks that generate testable predictions on the evolutionary dynamics of host–microbiota systems.
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Evolutionists Backing Away from Human-Chimp Similarity
September 8, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Admitting a greater difference, but no apology for misleading the public on this key Darwinian claim
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News Update/Commentary
AI has no idea what it’s doing, but it’s threatening us all
September 7, 2025 Science Daily
Artificial intelligence is reshaping law, ethics, and society at a speed that threatens fundamental human dignity. The “black box problem” leaves people unable to trace or challenge AI decisions that may harm them.
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Darwin's Ark Project Decodes Pet Genomics
September 7, 2025 The Scientist
Over 10,000 people sampled their pets’ DNA to help scientists understand complex traits in the animals, providing insights into cat, dog, and human health.
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Beyond the 99%: What Ape Genomes Really Tell Us About Being Human
September 7, 2025 Primatology.net
New complete ape genomes reveal that humans and chimpanzees are more different than the textbook 98.8% suggests -- and those differences may matter most in the hidden parts of our DNA.
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Do humans and chimps really share nearly 99% of their DNA?
September 7, 2025 Live Science
The frequently cited 99% similarity between human and chimp DNA overlooks key differences in the genomes.
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How “Simulation Theory" Destroys Materialism (and points to God!)
September 7, 2025 Daily Dose of Wisdom
errors in materialism, panpsychism, and simulation theory
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Life on Earth Probably Got Some Help from Space
September 7, 2025 Universe Today
The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life.
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Causal Order Doesn’t Work, Physicists Find. Now what?
September 6, 2025 YouTube
To us normal people, cause and effect are linked together in a distinct order. The cause occurs first, and the effect follows after. But according to a new paper, that causal order breaks down if you apply quantum mechanics to gravity.
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Flash!: Bigger computers do not just start acting like minds
September 6, 2025 Mind Matters
Gary Marcus says, “Some battles no longer need fighting. The notion on which this Substack was founded in May 2022 -- that LLM scaling would not bring us to AGI -- has gone mainstream."
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Even in mice, decision-making involves complex brain activity
September 6, 2025 Mind Matters
At LiveScience, R. J. Mackenzie reports on a mouse study that shows that the activity that underlies decision-making is much more widespread in the brain than researchers used to think
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Scientists have changed their minds again about the composition of Earth's core
September 6, 2025 Earth.com
The inner core is Earth’s deepest secret, shaping the magnetic field that shields our planet. Yet, scientists still puzzle over how it first formed and what ingredients allowed it to crystallize.
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Intelligent Design in a Thomistic Perspective
September 6, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Logan Gage
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How We Bite with Apatite
September 5, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
The Wonders of a Hard Mineral
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Your Mind Uploaded to AI Would Not Be You
September 5, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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First CRISPR horses spark controversy: what’s next for gene-edited animals?
September 5, 2025 Nature
Horses with genomic edits to make them run faster have been banned from polo, but a zoo of CRISPR-edited animals is gaining acceptance in agriculture.
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The Problem with Bubble-Based “Origin of Life” Experiments
September 5, 2025 YouTube
In this episode, we take a critical look at recent claims from chemist Lee Cronin’s lab, widely circulated by Professor Dave, that his experiments simulate how the first cells divided.
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Why life’s complexity needs no designer
September 5, 2025 YouTube
This episode of The Poetry of Reality revisits a 2012 conversation with South Korea’s Great Minds program. Dawkins challenges the idea of DNA as a blueprint, instead showing how it functions as a recipe or computer program.
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Consciousness Can’t Be Uploaded as AI? -- Of Course It Can’t!
September 5, 2025 Mind Matters
Converting ideas and memories into bits in a computer program does not recreate in the computer the person whose minds and memories they are -- only a simulation
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Wide AI, While Still Just Automation, Is a Genuine Advance
September 5, 2025 Mind Matters
Part 2: Truly general intelligence is still a mystery. In fact, it’s more mysterious now than it was in 2016
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News Update/Commentary
Baby pterosaurs died in ancient storms -- and their fossils reveal the truth
September 5, 2025 Science Daily
University of Leicester scientists have identified two extraordinary new fossils -- tiny prehistoric flying reptiles, pterosaurs, with broken wings.
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News Update/Commentary
Woolly mammoth teeth reveal the world’s oldest microbial DNA
September 5, 2025 Science Daily
Ancient mammoth remains revealed microbial DNA over a million years old, including possible pathogens that may have shaped their survival and decline.
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Most rodents have thumbnails like us
September 5, 2025 Cosmos Magazine
A deep dive into the world of rodent thumbs could help explain why the creatures spread and thrived all over the world.
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Machiavelli Had Another Book, OK?
September 5, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
An essay about the evolution of leadership commits historical and logical blunders
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How Christianity conquered Silicon Valley
September 4, 2025 The Telegraph
As California’s entrepreneurs try to invent an omnipotent AI, they’re also finding God
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Scientific objectivity is a myth
September 4, 2025 The Conversation
cultural values and beliefs always influence science and the people who do it
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Surprise: Artificial intelligence Is Still Just Automation
September 4, 2025 Mind Matters
I wrote this in 2016. And it is still true in 2025. A reflection in three parts
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Physicists challenge centuries-old assumptions
September 4, 2025 phys.org
Why we slip on ice
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Book
Immortal Soul or Meat Machine?
September 4, 2025 Chronicles magazine
REVIEW: The Immortal Mind by Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary (Worthy Book, 2025)
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Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific
September 4, 2025 Live Science
and they're teeming with life ... Scientists have discovered and explored a giant hydrothermal system at the bottom of the Pacific, which could provide a window into the origins of life on Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
A tiny embryo fold changed the course of evolution
September 4, 2025 Science Daily
A small tissue fold present in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses and may have evolved in response to mechanical forces.
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil reveals a 310-million-year-old fish that ate with a hidden second jaw
September 4, 2025 Science Daily
This adaptation, previously thought to have appeared much later, shows how fish rapidly experimented with new feeding strategies after mass extinction.
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Secular Paper Admits “Unreasonable Likelihood'' of Abiogenesis
September 4, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”
September 4, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
The end of human exceptionalism
September 4, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6764, p.983
Anthropocentric worldviews harm us all, argues a primatologist
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ChatGPT and the Return of God: AI as an Unexpected Apologist
September 3, 2025 Crisis magazine
What has been seen by many as the coming secular triumph over God, is now concluding that in fact, God must exist.
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Ant queens produce sons of two distinct species
September 3, 2025 Nature
The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle about a missing population of another ant species.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
September 3, 2025 Nature
Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species.
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Can AI Really Be Unbiased About Creation Arguments?
September 3, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
CEH volunteer observes AI trying to be congenial and reasonable. Caution advised.
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Michael Egnor at The Stream: How the Mind Transcends the Brain
September 3, 2025 Mind Matters
In his interview with John Zmirak, Dr. Egnor points out that epileptic seizures do not involve abstract thought because that type of thought is not simply a product of the brain
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Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species
September 3, 2025 Science
Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say
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The Adam Question: Mythology or Mankind?
September 3, 2025 Creation Today Show
Is humanity the result of millions of years of evolution or the direct creation of a single man formed from the dust by God? The debate over Adam isn’t just academic -- it strikes at the heart of where we came from, who we are, and why the Gospel matters.
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Tin Man Syndrome Paper Retracted, Author Admits to Fake Report
September 3, 2025 The Scientist
A paper about a man with a heart in his abdomen was plagiarized from an April Fool’s joke. Now, it and five other papers by the same authors have been retracted.
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Oxygen came late to ocean depths during Paleozoic
September 3, 2025 University of Utah
O2 levels rose and fell at the ocean floor long after marine animals appeared and diversified a half billion years ago.
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Mutations driving evolution are informed by the genome, not random
September 3, 2025 phys.org
an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more frequently where it is needed to prevent disease, fundamentally challenging the notion that evolution is driven by random mutations
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs
September 3, 2025 Nature
The second half of the first millennium ce in Central and Eastern Europe was accompanied by fundamental cultural and political transformations. This period of change is commonly associated with the appearance of the Slavs
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Ancient DNA clarifies the early history of the Slavs
September 3, 2025 Nature
A study examines the emergence of a group that sparked a fundamental change in lifestyle in Central and Eastern Europe in the sixth century.
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‘A paradigm change’: black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang
September 2, 2025 The Guardian
Sighting by James Webb space telescope of black hole with sparse halo of material could upend theories of the universe