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Albert Einstein: His mind was exceptional; his brain wasn’t
August 28, 2025 Mind Matters
science communicator Joe Schwarcz looks at the curious history of Albert Einstein’s brain, removed shortly after his death in 1955. The thinking, of course, was that so brilliant a scientist must have a special type of brain.
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Biology as a Pointer to the Divine
August 28, 2025 Worldview Bulletin Newsletter
“Why?” we ask. “Why is there life, what is it, and how did it start?”
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Science Struggles with Reality as Crises Rock Disciplines
August 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Here’s how the first proteins might have assembled, sparking life
August 27, 2025 Science
RNA could have helped amino acids join up without preexisting protein machinery, lab study suggests
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Origins of life: the molecules that could have unlocked peptide synthesis
August 27, 2025 Nature
For life to emerge on Earth, peptides must first have formed without the aid of enzymes -- but how? Reactions of sulfur-containing molecules might have been key.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps
August 27, 2025 Nature
Bipedalism is a human-defining trait. It is made possible by the iliac blades that stabilize walking. The ilium changes compared with living primates are an evolutionary novelty. However, how this evolution came about remains unknown.
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How the pelvis evolved to enable human bipedalism
August 27, 2025 Nature
Analyses of pelvis development in humans and other primates reveal how changes in bone-patterning processes helped humans to gain the ability to walk upright.
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A spiky armoured dinosaur from Africa causes a rethink of ankylosaur evolution
August 27, 2025 Nature
The body of an armoured dinosaur was covered in extravagant spines. This elaborate armour might have been used for display, challenging the current theory of why ankylosaurs evolved their extensive body armour.
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How did life get multicellular?
August 27, 2025 Nature
Five simple organisms could have the answer ... Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.
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How humans became upright: key changes to our pelvis found
August 27, 2025 Nature
Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Thioester-mediated RNA aminoacylation and peptidyl-RNA synthesis in water
August 27, 2025 Nature, v.644, p.933-944
the selective aminoacylation of RNA in water is a key challenge that must be resolved to explain the origin of protein biosynthesis
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Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective
August 27, 2025 The Long Now
Artificial intelligence is simply the next chapter in the long-running symbiotic story of life on Earth.
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Video
YouTuber Couldn’t Understand This
August 27, 2025 YouTube
Origin of Life Hypotheses Are Imploding ... Krishnamurthy's new paper has just confirmed what Tour has been saying for years publicly and in his debate with Dave Farina. In this video we discuss the challenges in origin-of-life research
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Fake Scientific Research Now at Epidemic Levels
August 27, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Bogus research is especially prominent in attempts to push Darwinian evolution
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News Update/Commentary
New fossils reveal a hidden branch in human evolution
August 27, 2025 Science Daily
Fossils in Ethiopia reveal a new ancestor species and confirm human evolution branched out, not in a straight line.
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Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity
August 27, 2025 New Scientist
Why did Christianity grow from a niche sect to a religion followed by billions? exploring Alice Roberts’s latest book Domination
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Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?
August 27, 2025 New Scientist
Hooper explores the advances that meant an optical telescope with an effective mirror size of 3000 km could be built on the moon
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Thylacine's genome provides clues about why it went extinct
August 27, 2025 New Scientist
A comparison of the thylacine’s genome to other marsupials has revealed that the creatures lost genetic diversity long before humans and dingoes arrived in Australia
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Science Writers Struggle with Reality as Crises Rock Disciplines
August 27, 2025 Mind Matters
A series of recent articles and posts by prominent science and science writing figures leaves me wondering if they know what time it is
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Declining Literacy Rates and What Happens Next
August 27, 2025 Mind Matters
Are we being alarmist or is literacy really on a lifeline?
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Two Changes in Bone Development Allowed Humans to Stand on Two Legs
August 27, 2025 The Scientist
An unusually short and wide pelvis helps humans stand and walk on two legs, but how did it get this way?
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RNA and Sulfur Compounds Possibly Created the First Peptides on Earth
August 27, 2025 The Scientist
Scientists discovered chemical reactions that place amino acids on tRNAs and extend peptide chains without enzymes, a key step in the origin of life.
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Book
God, Struggle, and Suffering in the Evolution of Life
August, 2025 T&T Clark
How is the confession of the Christian God compatible with all the struggle, violence and suffering to which the Darwinian world testifies? | See Also Online eBook
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The Race Against Decay
August 26, 2025 Answers in Genesis
Forensic Decomposition vs. Fossilization
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Bees Strategize How to Build the Best Honeycomb
August 26, 2025 The Scientist
Honeybees aren’t rigid architects. They modify their construction techniques when conditions are less than ideal, lending insight into complex bee behavior.
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How stupid has science been?
August 26, 2025 EMBO reports
Watching mainstream science in America under attack by the US federal and many state governments, most scientists and health care providers are wondering how this could be happening.
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The self exists and it is an illusion
August 26, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
Is there a self within consciousness?
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The Limits of Today’s Top Robots Are a Hard Ceiling
August 26, 2025 Mind Matters
Don’t quit your job folding laundry. Those impressive-looking robots aren’t really there yet
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Video
Debunking William Lane Craig's new retcon of the Carroll/Craig Debate
August 25, 2025
response to Craig’s recent review of his 2014 debate with cosmologist Sean Carroll. Craig presents his review as if it strengthens his case -- but in reality, it contains misleading statements that need to be addressed.
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New Study Rocks Jupiter's Giant Impact Theory
August 25, 2025 Universe Today
Jupiter holds secrets at its heart that continue to puzzle scientists. The largest planet in our Solar System has what researchers call a “dilute core,” a central region that doesn't have sharp boundaries like once expected.
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What is Job's Behemoth? Part 2
August 25, 2025 Creation Unfolding
Young age creationists have almost universally declared Behemoth to be a dinosaur. But is this the only option? Ross takes a hard look at Job 40 and offers intriguing evidence that favors another interpretation.
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The Common Woodpecker: Chance or Design?
August 25, 2025 Discovery Science
Biologist Ray Bohlin explores the incredible intelligent design of the common woodpecker.
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An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution
August 25, 2025 New Scientist
An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives, redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X
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We will soon be able to talk with other species
August 25, 2025 New Scientist
Which will be first? ... Scientists have long and studiously avoided claiming that other animals have language. Now, using the power of AI, they are on the verge of deciphering one
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We are unlocking how frozen microbes stay alive for 100,000 years
August 25, 2025 New Scientist
Microbes found buried deep in Siberian permafrost may be able to survive over extremely long timescales using protein repair genes
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How to Read Deep Time Puff Pieces
August 25, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Learn how to dissolve away the puff before considering claims made
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AI, Robots, and Moravec’s Paradox
August 25, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Talking with Allan CP on The Science Dilemma, Jay Richards punctures some illusions of AI hype.
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How a self-taught biologist transformed nature writing -- and inspired Darwin
August 25, 2025 Nature
Gilbert White’s journals reveal his intimate relationship with his surroundings -- and call attention to changes wreaked by climate change today.
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Video
New Discovery Shakes Life's Origins: Proof of Intelligent Design?
August 25, 2025 Come Reason Ministries
discussing DNA-protein interdependence, polymerization challenges in water, and why self-organization doesn't explain life's emergence. With probabilistic hurdles in focus, they emphasize the need for a paradigm shift
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Churning up Deep Time: The Mystery of the Missing Burrows
August 25, 2025 Let's Talk Creation
Sometimes the fossil record preserves some really astonishing traces of past life, including footprints and even burrows! But how can there be burrows if the fossil record were formed by a singular, catastrophic flood?
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Sedimentary Rock Does Form Fast!
August 25, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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What Kind of a “PhD-level Expert” Is ChatGPT 5.0? I Tested It.
August 25, 2025 Mind Matters
The responses to my three prompts made clear that GPT 5.0, far from being the expert that CEO Sam Altman claims, can’t address the meanings of words or concepts
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Why Don’t Near-Death Experiences Support One Belief System?
August 24, 2025 Mind Matters
On the Truthful Hope podcast, Jacob Vazquez and Denyse O'Leary discuss the way people of different faiths see what they themselves recognize
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Religious Involvement Generally Predicts Better Mental Health
August 24, 2025 Mind Matters
The signal that rises above the research noise is mostly positive. The question, in most cases, is what it points to
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When Physicists Clash Over an Allegedly Pointless Universe…
August 23, 2025 Mind Matters
… we end up finding out how much current research appears to be an elaborate waste of public funds
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Video
Biochemist Evidence for Intelligent Design
August 23, 2025 TJump Gaming
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News Update/Commentary
Most of Earth’s species came from explosive bursts of evolution
August 23, 2025 Science Daily
Majority of living species concentrated among few disproportionately rich groups with high rates of diversification, shows first-of-its-kind study.
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Missing the Irony, an Evolutionist Decries Private Truth
August 22, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Isn’t It a Bit Late To Try Retreading Eliminative Materialism?
August 22, 2025 Mind Matters
Daniel Dennett was an eliminative materialist at a time when the idea that consciousness is an illusion sounded cool and daring. And the Big Explanation was just around the corner…
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ChatGPT-5 Tries Out “Rotated” Tic-Tac-Toe. You Be the Judge…
August 22, 2025 Mind Matters
They say that dogs tend to resemble their owners. Chat GPT very much resembles Sam Altman -- always confident, often wrong