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Did Humans Walk with Their Alleged Ancestors?
August 12, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Recent digs in the ‘cradle of mankind’ cast serious doubt on the evolutionary ‘March of Progress’ we’ve all been taught
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Scopes: Same Debate, Different World
August 12, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why a mysterious group of ancient humans doesn’t have a species name
August 12, 2025 New Scientist
An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name -- part of the reason is archaeological, and part is a legal question
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The DNA of Great White Sharks Defies Explanation
August 12, 2025 Science Alert
Here's Why
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Tiny fireball that crashed into Georgia home is 4.56bn-year-old meteorite
August 11, 2025 The Guardian
Cherry tomato-sized space rock that pierced roof and hit floor of metro Atlanta home is 20m years older than Earth
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How Indigenous values permeate my chemistry teaching and research
August 11, 2025 Nature
Joslynn Lee describes why she seeks to bridge the Native American worldview with Western science.
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Taking the Side of Science -- But How Do We Know Which One It Is?
August 11, 2025 Mind Matters
In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism
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Fake Papers, Political Agendas
August 11, 2025 American Council on Science and Health
The Eroding Credibility of Research
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Reviving a Dead Theory of Evolution
August 11, 2025 The Scientist
Was Lamarck Right? ... Scientists once dismissed the theory that traits acquired during life could be inherited, but with new evidence and hypotheses, it’s seeing a resurgence.
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A Big Texas Fossil Possum Is a Primate Ancestor?
August 11, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Geometric Design in the Solar System
August 11, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can Evolutionary Biology Explain Ethics?
August 10, 2025 Closer To Truth
Can biology -- especially evolutionary biology -- help explain ethics, and if so, can science influence ethics and help set new norms? If science can, should science do?
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Wild New Theory Suggests Gravitational Waves Shaped the Universe
August 10, 2025 Science Alert
Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today.
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Fossil Shows a Sharp-Toothed Mammal That Thrived Among Dinosaurs
August 10, 2025 New York Times
Named for its razor-like teeth, Novaculadon mirabilis came from a rodent-like order that outlived the dinosaur extinction before vanishing about 30 million years ago.
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The Real Reason 99% of PhDs Reject Creation
August 9, 2025 Answers in Genesis
The manufactured consensus on evolution
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Have the Superbirds Arrived? Are They Taking Over?
August 9, 2025 Mind Matters
Dr. Avian now claims that his work with trained birds show that intelligence does not require inner models or internal representations, as formerly thought
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News Update/Commentary
A 16-million-year-old amber fossil just revealed the smallest predator ant ever found
August 9, 2025 Science Daily
Photomicrograph of Basiceros enana, a newly discovered extinct dirt ant species preserved in Dominican amber, formed from tree resin that fossilized millions of years ago.
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Today’s humanoid robots look remarkable
August 8, 2025 The Conversation
but there’s a design flaw holding them back
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Aspects of Consciousness?
August 8, 2025 Closer To Truth
We offer distinctive approaches to consciousness including cognitive science, phenomenology, and even the implications of aesthetics like fiction and films. We observe the richness of consciousness studies.
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I Convinced Grok Humans Lived with Dinosaurs (Using Science)
August 8, 2025 YouTube
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4.8 Origin of Life research, intelligent designer and the Shroud
August 8, 2025 YouTube
thousands of scientific objections to unguided naturalistic explanations for life’s emergence, including tension with thermodynamics, DNA information-transmission, and protein synthesis
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What I Got Right (and Wrong) in My Debate with Sean Carroll
August 8, 2025 YouTube
In 2014 Craig and Sean Carroll, an atheist theoretical physicist, faced off in a debate entitled, "God and Cosmology: The Existence of God in Light of Contemporary Cosmology."
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Is the Human Brain the Pinnacle of Creation
August 8, 2025 Scoop
Between the days commemorating 80 years since the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I’m asking the question: Does the evolution of the human brain have a cosmic meaning
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Conundrum: Split Human Brain But Unified Perception
August 8, 2025 Mind Matters
1500 papers later, current research suggests that a non-materialist approach to the neuroscience of the human mind is quite viable
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‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party
August 8, 2025 Quanta Magazine
Hundreds of physicists (and a few journalists) journeyed to Helgoland, the birthplace of quantum mechanics, and grappled with what they have and haven’t learned about reality.
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News Update/Commentary
New “evolution engine” creates super-proteins 100,000x faster
August 8, 2025 Science Daily
A new platform developed at Scripps Research enables fast, scalable protein evolution -- opening the door to new therapies and diagnostics, and to predicting resistance mutations across many disease areas.
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C. S. Lewis and the Rational Soul
August 8, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Statistical Significance: An Abused Standard
August 8, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The pursuit of statistical significance incentivizes gaming the system for fame
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Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble
August 8, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Evolution Shaped Consciousness, Emotion, and the Mind
August 7, 2025 Closer To Truth
What can evolution reveal about the developmental history of thinking and feeling? How did cognition and emotion (affect) co-develop over evolutionary time? What can we learn from evolution about consciousness?
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Earth-Sized Lava World “Circling the Drain''
August 7, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Pre-70 ce Dating of the Gospel of John
August 7, 2025 New Testament Studies, v.71, n.1, p.29-55
‘There is (ἔστιν) in Jerusalem … a pool … which has five porticoes’ (5.2)
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An orthogonal T7 replisome for continuous hypermutation and accelerated evolution in E. coli
August 7, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6760, p.618-622
Continuous evolution of proteins in the lab is often slow because normal mutation rates in bacteria are very low. Diercks et al. investigated whether a highly mutagenic DNA replication system could speed up evolution
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Darwin declared dead again
August 7, 2025 Why Evolution Is True
a paper in a supposedly reputable journal concludes that life could not have originated by evolutionary processes
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Alien planet glimpsed in star's ‘habitable zone'
August 7, 2025 Nature
A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly.
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Scientists create mysterious molecule that could spark life in space
August 7, 2025 Science Daily
Described as a “prebiotic concentrate" or even a “prebiotic bomb," this molecule could represent a crucial step in the cosmic recipe for life.
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Tabloid Science Tarnishes Science’s Reputation
August 7, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Unlike historic scientists who stressed observation, many today give place to wild speculation
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres
August 7, 2025 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Earth began as an abiotic geochemical system, and biogeochemistry has developed and complexified through geological time, driven in large part by the origin and assembly of novel microbial metabolisms.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
On the emergence of metabolism
August 7, 2025 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
the evolution of proteins that powered life
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation revisited
August 7, 2025 Trends in Genetics
The origin of species has long fascinated biologists, but determining the genes underlying intrinsic hybrid incompatibilities has only recently become possible in non-model organisms.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene
August 6, 2025 Nature
The dispersal of archaic hominins beyond mainland Southeast Asia (Sunda) represents the earliest evidence for humans crossing ocean barriers to reach isolated landmasses
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Stone tools suggest that hominins arrived on Indonesian island much earlier than thought
August 6, 2025 Nature
The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1 million years ago at a Early Pleistocene site n the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea crossing to reach the island much earlier than previously established.
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Ancient stone tools suggest early humans inhabited Sulawesi more than a million years ago
August 6, 2025 ABC News (Australia)
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11 Reasons Most Biologists Accept Evolutionary Theory in Spite of the Evidence
August 6, 2025 Wintery Knight
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Your pet dog’s ancestor was a fierce, wild animal
August 6, 2025 New Scientist
How was it tamed? ... Unexpected archaeological discoveries are rewriting the story of how the big, bad wolf became our first and most beloved pet
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News Update/Commentary
The gene that makes Aussie skinks immune to deadly snake venom
August 6, 2025 Science Daily
This evolutionary arms race not only shows how adaptable life can be but also offers exciting possibilities for creating new antivenoms and therapies in human medicine.
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False Science: A Claim to Simulate Protein Evolution
August 6, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Toast to Evolutionary Storytelling
August 6, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwine and Chips
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1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia
August 6, 2025 Live Science
they reached the region before our species even existed ... A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in the region.
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Fraudulent Science Networks Outpace Legitimate Science
August 6, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today