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Scientists Have Just Created the Most Synthetic Life Form Ever
August 19, 2025 Science Alert
This bacteria, a synthetic Escherichia coli called Syn57, has been engineered to build its body using just 57 of the 64 'codons' that have served all known organisms for billions of years.
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What is Job's Behemoth?
August 19, 2025 Creation Unfolding
Young age creationists have almost universally declared Behemoth to be a dinosaur. But is this the only option? Taking a hard look at Job 40 and offering intriguing evidence that favors another interpretation.
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Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome
August 18, 2025 Nature
Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.
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Is the Materialist Juggernaut Running Out of Fuel?
August 18, 2025 Mind Matters
A recent thinkmag essay prompts a thought: can intellectuals still take materialism seriously?
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New Observations Fit Neatly with String Theory
August 17, 2025 YouTube
According to a growing body of data, dark energy is not constant. Instead, physicists claim, it’s slowly getting weaker. This has understandably shaken our understanding of the universe
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Is AI Truly Creative? Here Is the Ultimate Test
August 16, 2025 Mind Matters
People use the term “creative” in different ways. We need to define it rigorously and use a test based on that agreed definition
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The Time Machine (1960): Two Meetings and One Big Flashback
August 16, 2025 Mind Matters
In Part 1 of my four-part review of this time travel classic, I look at the 19th century novel that started the genre and the movie that followed
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A Wren Arrives -- and Ruffles Many a Feather
August 16, 2025 Mind Matters
Dr. Wren, a cognitive scientist, identifies a problem with assuming that adding another ten thousand pigeons to the project will produce novel designs...
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40 Years of Research About Religious Involvement
August 16, 2025 Psychology Today
Religion and spirituality may be valuable resources for mental health practice.
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Scientists Film the Exact Moment a Human Embryo Implants
August 16, 2025 Science Alert
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Darwinist Clickbait Writers Have Gone Insane
August 16, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
They know ID is on the rise. They know public trust in science has plummeted. But they do it anyway.
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Why Scientists Lie
August 15, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science Site: Is the AI Gold Rush Over? Has AI Just Plateaued?
August 15, 2025 Mind Matters
The GPT-5 chatbot rollout has been so messy that serious questions are beginning to float above the seemingly automated hype
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DNA Denial: Exposing the 99% Genetic Similarity Myth
August 15, 2025 Sean McDowell Show
For decades, we’ve been told that humans and chimpanzees are 99% genetically identical a claim repeated in museums, textbooks and by science celebrities like Bill Nye. But new genomic research tells a very different story.
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Evolution and Religion?
August 15, 2025 Closer To Truth
Two kinds of questions describe the relationship between evolution and religion. The first explores discrepancies, even contradictions, between the science of evolution and the beliefs of religion. The second examines how religion itself evolved.
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What Should Humanity Do on the Day After an Interstellar Object is Recognized as Technological?
August 15, 2025 Medium
Currently, there is no international organization tasked with coordinating a response across the globe.
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It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens
August 15, 2025 Live Science
How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our species ... As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa.
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Weird microbial partnership shows how complex life may have evolved
August 15, 2025 New Scientist
Connecting tubes between bacteria and a kind of microbe called archaea may reflect a symbiotic relationship that led to complex cells more than 2 billion years ago
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Blog Post
The journal Nature calls for “decolonization” of modern science
August 15, 2025 Why Evolution Is True
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists may have found the tiny DNA switch that made us human
August 15, 2025 Science Daily
Instead of being a gene, HAR123 acts like a “volume control” for brain development, guiding how brain cells form and in what proportions. The human version of HAR123 behaves differently from the chimpanzee version
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Did life begin when the Universe was room temperature?
August 15, 2025 Big Think
The Universe was born incredibly hot, and has expanded and cooled ever since. Could life have begun back when space was “room temperature?”
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How Are De Novo Genes Regulated?
August 14, 2025 The Scientist
Computational research in fruit flies revealed how spontaneously arising genes are tightly controlled, offering insights into evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
Bizarre ancient creatures unearthed in the Grand Canyon
August 14, 2025 Science Daily
A groundbreaking fossil discovery has unveiled exquisitely preserved soft-bodied animals from the Cambrian period, offering an unprecedented glimpse into early life more than 500 million years ago.
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The Sisyphean quest for scientific certainty
August 14, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6761, p.691
An epidemiologist calls for humility and triangulation to converge on truth | See Also Amazon
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Cross-species implementation of an innate courtship behavior by manipulation of the sex-determinant gene
August 14, 2025 Science v.389, n.6761, p.747-752
These results unveil the genetic and neuronal basis of an evolutionary important species-specific behavior.
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America's Two-Front War on Science
August 14, 2025 reason
Universities’ internal culture wars threaten free speech and inquiry, but political attacks on research funding and infrastructure are crippling U.S. scientific leadership.
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When Scientists Use Theological Premises to Argue for Evolution
August 14, 2025 Stand to Reason
This might be surprising given how often scientists argue that science and religion are entirely separate.
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News Update/Commentary
Mysterious Denisovan interbreeding shaped the humans we are today
August 14, 2025 Science Daily
Their influence spanned from Siberia to South America, and scientists are now uncovering how these genetic gifts transformed human evolution, even with such limited physical remains.
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Why no one can agree on what quantum physics really means
August 14, 2025 New Scientist
For a century, quantum theory has passed every experimental test, but physicists can’t agree on how to use it to paint a picture of our reality -- or even whether that is possible
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“Rewriting Code of Life” Sounds a Lot Like Intelligent Design
August 14, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Evolutionary Take on Bipedalism Can’t Get Its Feet on the Ground
August 14, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Bipedalism in the Trees? New Chimp Study Upends Long-Held Evolutionary Story
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Is Intelligent Design Gaining the Upper Hand?
August 14, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Bird Brain -- Full Documentary
August 13, 2025 NOVA PBS
Call somebody a “bird brain,” and you’re not delivering them a compliment. But as NOVA shows, birds turn out to have advanced problem-solving skills that we usually assume are unique to humans.
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“If You Lay Back and Bare Your Throat, They’ll Cut It for You”
August 13, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Dembski to College Students
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Viral Enzyme Accelerates Evolution of Therapeutic Proteins
August 13, 2025 The Scientist
A synthetic system helped bacteria produce protein variants within days, laying the foundation to engineer therapeutic proteins with desired functions.
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Dogmatic Materialism Is a Damaging Attitude for Science
August 13, 2025 Mind Matters
Richard Lewontin, a dogmatic materialist geneticist, seemed certain that epigenetics should be definitively rejected
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Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science
August 13, 2025 Real Clear Investigations
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News Update/Commentary
What if dark matter came from a mirror universe?
August 13, 2025 Science Daily
Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter.
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Initial Amphibian Molecular Baraminology
August 13, 2025 Answers Research Journal, v.18, p.431-439
Based on Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome and Genome Size
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Peer-reviewed Paper
New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia
August 13, 2025 Nature
The time interval between about three and two million years ago is a critical period in human evolution
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How a mysterious particle could explain the universe’s missing antimatter
August 13, 2025 knowable magazine
The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter, which would have annihilated each other in a spectacular burst of pure energy. But it didn’t. New experiments focused on understanding the enigmatic neutrino may offer insights.
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6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system
August 13, 2025 New Scientist
Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient origins and glimpsing the destiny that awaits it in the distant future
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Bioturbation Evidence Stuffed into Deep Time Narrative
August 13, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Deep Time is an assumption, not a deduction. Evolutionists force data into their pre-existing story
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MOND versus dark matter: the clash for cosmology’s soul
August 12, 2025 physics world
Will modified gravity be the solution to our cosmological conundrums as dark matter wimps out, or will new experiments and telescopes finally spot the elusive particle once and for all?
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Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness
August 12, 2025 Mind Matters
Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music
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Students Beware: AI Copilot Admits Errors But Won’t Correct Them
August 12, 2025 Mind Matters
Parents and teachers must beware when students treat AI research as accurate; I myself was misled while writing this article!
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At The Federalist: Science Is “Catching Up” to Philosophy
August 12, 2025 Mind Matters
David Weinberg points out that traditional descriptions of the powers of our souls are remarkably like what modern neuroscience is revealing to us in the twenty-first century
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Jim Acosta Interviews AI Avatar of Dead Man
August 12, 2025 Mind Matters
The AI was a stand-in for Joaquin Oliver, a young man who was tragically killed in the Parkland High School shooting in 2018
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Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: The brain is not a machine
August 12, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
Feedback loops in the brain destroy deterministic neuroscience
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Protein Folding Factories Unveiled
August 12, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
With conveyor belts and quality control, these dynamic protein folding centers ensure cell health