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The Science Points to Purpose: A Defense of Intelligent Design
August 22, 2025 John Anderson Media
Meyer who articulates the scientific foundation that supports intelligent design, arguing that the universe’s fine-tuning and the digital code in DNA point to a purposeful intelligence. He challenges materialistic assumptions
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News Update/Commentary
What came before the Big Bang?
August 22, 2025 Science Daily
Supercomputers may hold the answer --- A computational method may provide answers to cosmic mysteries about the origin of the universe.
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Cohesins and Condensins
August 22, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Next-Generation Bobby Pins
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DNA from ancient bones reveals how Indigenous Americans got their mucus
August 21, 2025 Science
Neanderthals and Denisovans passed along gene that provides a sticky shield against germs
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection
August 21, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6762
Introgression from Neanderthals and Denisovans into modern humans has been widely documented. However, how selection has affected introgressed genomic regions has been inconsistently studied
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Discovering Denisova
August 21, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6762, p.788
A pair of authors invite readers to get to know the elusive archaic human
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The Real Truth About the Coconino Sandstone!
August 21, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
Long debated in the scientific community, this formation raises important questions. Was it formed over millions of years by desert winds, or could it be explained better through catastrophic processes during the Genesis Flood?
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins
August 21, 2025 Science Daily
The fossils found in northeastern Ethiopia date between 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago and shed new light on human evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
140,000-year-old skeleton shows earliest interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals
August 21, 2025 Science Daily
This discovery pushes back the timeline of human interbreeding, proving that Neanderthals and modern humans were already mixing long before Europe's later encounters.
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Protein Evolution in Mammalian Cells May Improve Therapeutics
August 21, 2025 The Scientist
Thought too hard to do, a new platform evolved proteins in mammalian cells, which could help researchers design drugs that work better in humans.
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In a Materialistic Universe, Literature Doesn’t Make Sense
August 21, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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There might be a ‘Planet Y' hiding in the outer solar system
August 21, 2025 New Scientist
Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet X, that might be warping the orbits of objects beyond Neptune
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How a dime-sized bone rewrote the story of human evolution
August 21, 2025 Big Think
In “The Secret History of Denisovans,” Silvana Condemi and François Savatier trace the story of our mysterious hominin ancestor.
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Scream from Afar: Humans, Apes Coexisted in Ethiopia, Too
August 21, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Human evolution is in trouble again. Homo co-existed with alleged ape ancestors in Ethiopia as well as in South Africa
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A Biologist Struggles to Understand “Unscientific Wokeness”
August 21, 2025 Mind Matters
Truth, for many people now, is based on social, emotional, or political needs. And major science publications are buying in
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Blog Post
How AI is Transforming Peer Review
August 21, 2025 science open
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Interview with Edward Peltzer on the Origin of Life
August 20, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Smithsonian Denigrates by Race, Including the Human Race
August 20, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Graveyard Spiral of Walton’s ‘New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis’
August 20, 2025 Christian Research Institute
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Programmed aging, digital genetics, and the evolution of acquisition traits in mammals
August 20, 2025 Academia Biology, v.3, n.3
Acquisition traits are those that depend, for their evolutionary (fitness) value, on the acquisition of something that gradually accumulates during an organism’s life but is not transmitted genetically to descendants.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Multi-isotope biographies and identities of victims of martial victory celebrations in Neolithic Europe
August 20, 2025 Science Advances, v.11, n.34
Skeletons showing multiple instances of unhealed trauma and isolated skeletal segments of severed left upper limbs have been documented in the Neolithic sites of Achenheim and Bergheim (northeastern France)
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Oxford Professor: AI Is Humanity’s Attempt to Make God
August 20, 2025 David Perell
mathematician who's spent decades bridging science and faith ... why John 1:1 reveals we live in a word-based universe, how to recognize God-breathed scripture, why scientific explanations don't exclude God
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Stone Tools from 1 to 1.5 Million Years Ago
August 20, 2025 Mind Matters
The tools were found on Sulawesi, an island near Flores, where fossils of diminutive humans were found in 2003 -- but they were not as old as these tools
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More Evidence that Homo naledi Is Not a Missing Link
August 20, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Despite remaining questions, evidence is compelling that these bones were fully human
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The philosophers who predicted “ultimate” forms of consciousness
August 20, 2025 Big Think
Philosophers once prophesied that evolution would lead to minds far greater -- and stranger -- than our own.
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Daniel Dennett: Consciousness is no miracle. It’s a magic trick.
August 20, 2025 Big Think
“For many people, the idea that consciousness is a set of tricks is offensive,” the late philosopher told Big Think in 2012. “I think that’s a prime mistake.”
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists unlock the gene that lets bearded dragons switch sex
August 20, 2025 Science Daily
Two independent research teams have unveiled near-complete reference genomes of the central bearded dragon, a reptile with the rare ability to change sex depending on both chromosomes and nest temperature.
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Can AI Become Conscious?
August 20, 2025 Closer To Truth
AI consciousness, its possibility or probability, has burst into public debate, eliciting all kinds of issues from AI ethics and rights to AI going rogue and harming humanity. We explore diverse views;
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Why the 21st century could bring a new “consciousness winter”
August 20, 2025 Big Think
A conversation with neuroscientist Erik Hoel about the future of consciousness research.
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Classical Arguments for God?
August 20, 2025 Closer To Truth
All are refuted and in turn defended in what seems to be a philosophical arms race. In the end, no one believes in God because of arguments, but they do help to develop our thinking about God.
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AI Is Impacting Our Culture -- But Not As We Were Told To Expect
August 20, 2025 Mind Matters
Okay, your boss is not a robot. Your doctor is not a chatbot. But here are some things that are actually happening that we might not have expected
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Blog Post
Scientific American reverts to unscientific wokeness
August 20, 2025 Why Evolution Is True
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A New Model for Early Black Hole Formation Could Revolutionize Cosmologicy
August 20, 2025 Universe Today
the James Webb Space Telescope observed the “seeds" of Supermassive Black Holes
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Sizes of Galaxies in JWST Data and Cosmology
August 20, 2025 Answers Research Journal, v.18, p.441-447
Reply to Barnes
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Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness
August 20, 2025 Big Think
A universal signature could make surgeries safer -- and help reveal what holds consciousness together.
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Physicist Frank Wilczek’s unique insights on the nature of reality
August 20, 2025 New Scientist
Frank Wilczek has one of the most brilliant and original minds in theoretical physics, having come up with the idea of time crystals among much else. Where is his curiosity taking him now?
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Exploring humanity's ancient origins in fantastic new BBC documentary
August 20, 2025 New Scientist
Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and the interactions of its own nomadic groups. Bethan Ackerley is enthralled
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A Device to Read Minds?
August 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Not What Researchers Intended, But…
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‘Devil Comet' contains ‘strongest evidence yet' that comets delivered water to Earth
August 19, 2025 space.com
Water found on Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is “virtually indistinguishable" from water found on Earth.
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Teacher defies ban on evolution education in the 1920s
August 19, 2025 Nature
John Scopes convicted for teaching human evolution, and a discussion of international collaboration in X-ray astronomy, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
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Successfully Deciphering the Thoughts of Speechless People
August 19, 2025 Mind Matters
The new technology may be a great advance for persons with disabilities but it raises serious issues about privacy once it gets into the wrong hands
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Sweet Potato Genome Decoded, Surprising Evolutionists
August 19, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
For those who expect evolution to lay out a tidy breadcrumb trail from primitive ancestor to modern plant, this genome is a rude awakening
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Rapid radiations underlie most of the known diversity of life
August 19, 2025 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, v.13
Rapid radiations, including adaptive radiations, are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, in large part because they are thought to underlie much of the species diversity of life.
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Before Whales Took to the Sea, These Ten Species Walked on Land
August 19, 2025 Smithsonian Magazine
The creatures, which ranged in size from that of a fox to more than 50 feet long, divided their time between the coast and the water
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Fish tracks show earliest adaptations for moving on land
August 19, 2025 phys.org
the earliest record of fish testing the land mobility skills of vertebrates, predating by about 10 million years the first evidence of fully terrestrial tetrapod locomotion
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Life happened fast
August 19, 2025 Aeon
It’s time to rethink how we study life’s origins. It emerged far earlier, and far quicker, than we once thought possible
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Detecting Intelligent Design: A Conversation
August 19, 2025 Reasons to Believe
a compelling conversation as mathematician and philosopher William A. Dembski and biochemist Fazale Rana explore the possibility of detecting intelligent design in the natural world
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Is Geomimetics an Intelligent Design Science?
August 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Well, Yes and No
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Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life
August 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Physicist Eric Hedin
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Blog Post
Origin-of-Life Interview with Edward Peltzer
August 19, 2025
A student of Stanley Miller and Jeffrey Bada explains the failure of materialistic origin-of-life scenarios