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Embattled ‘arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication
July 24, 2025 Live Science
A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science.
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Faith and Science Before Modern Science
July 24, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
Roger Penrose confronts creationist critic Stephen Meyer
July 24, 2025 YouTube
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir Roger Penrose directly addresses and debunks claims made by Intelligent Design advocate Stephen Meyer, who has misrepresented Penrose’s CCC model
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Book
Sensing early civilizations
July 24, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6758, p.356
Armchair archaeologists summon ancient tastes, sights, and sounds to understand the past | See Also Amazon
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Book
Stone and its stories
July 24, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6758, p.355
A journalist pens a love letter to geologic history | See Also Amazon
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The Riddle of Coexistence
July 24, 2025 Science
Two million years ago, three kinds of hominins walked the same valley in South Africa. Did they meet -- and compete?
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Fifteen years later, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper despite study authors’ protests
July 24, 2025 Science
Belated decision on widely disputed 2010 study pleases some critics but puzzles and dismays others
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News Update/Commentary
A simple twist fooled AI -- and revealed a dangerous flaw in medical ethics
July 24, 2025 Science Daily
The findings raise serious concerns about using AI for high-stakes health decisions and underscore the need for human oversight, especially when ethical nuance or emotional intelligence is involved.
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News Update/Commentary
A 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the spider origin story
July 24, 2025 Science Daily
Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids -- spiders and their close kin -- may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, challenging conventional wisdom.
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News Update/Commentary
A dusty fossil drawer held a 300-million-year-old evolutionary game-changer
July 24, 2025 Science Daily
A century-old fossil long mislabeled as a caterpillar has been reidentified as the first-known nonmarine lobopodian -- rewriting what we know about ancient life
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News Update/Commentary
A tiny dinosaur bone just rewrote the origin of bird flight
July 24, 2025 Science Daily
A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved far earlier than scientists thought.
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Computer scientist responds to claims that chatbots are conscious
July 24, 2025 Mind Matters
Douglas Hofstadter’s response to a reader who was sure of having seen signs of consciousness in a response from a chatbot (LLM or large language model).
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Sophisticated (yes!) world of humans from 300,000 years ago
July 24, 2025 Mind Matters
not only the oldest man-made tools ever found in Asia, but they reveal a side of ancient life that’s been all but invisible: early humans who thrived by harvesting plants
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After 15 years of controversy, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper
July 24, 2025 Retraction Watch
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Evolutionists Love Upsets -- To a Point
July 24, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As long as King Charley survives, upsets keep Darwinians gainfully employed and busy
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A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
July 24, 2025 Associated Press
Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave, where the well-preserved remains of early humans were carefully arranged in pits.
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The Universe requires quantum fields, not just quantum particles
July 24, 2025 Big Think
Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.
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As Luskin Debunks 1 Percent Myth, Evolutionists Fire Wildly in Response
July 24, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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The unreasonable likelihood of being: origin of life, terraforming, and AI
July 24, 2025 arXiv
The origin of life on Earth via the spontaneous emergence of a protocell prior to Darwinian evolution remains a fundamental open question in physics and chemistry.
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Video
The War on Science
July 23, 2025 The Origins Podcast
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Video
Arguing God from Being?
July 23, 2025 Closer To Truth
The newer ‘Modal Ontological Argument’ claims that if a ‘Necessary Being’ could conceivably exist -- in any possible world -- a Necessary Being (being ‘necessary’ by definition) would have to exist.
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Unusual fossil skin appendage is not a feather
July 23, 2025 Nature
Although large, elongated protrusions on a 247-million-year-old reptile fossil have some similarities to feathers, they are not feathers.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Triassic diapsid shows early diversification of skin appendages in reptiles
July 23, 2025 Nature
Complex integumentary appendages such as avian feathers and mammalian hair play a principal role in tetrapod evolution
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A Podcast Host Asks, How Many Neurosurgeons Are Materialists…?
July 23, 2025 Mind Matters
Will Spencer asked neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how he responds to colleagues who believe that we are just meat puppets
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Campus Civil Rights Advocate: Free Speech Makes Us Safer
July 23, 2025 Mind Matters
Greg Lukianoff stresses the importance of listening to people to know what they think
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Grand Canyon Fossils Offer Glimpse Into When Complex Life Appeared
July 23, 2025 New York Times
Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.
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A Single Genetic Tweak Stops Mosquitoes from Spreading Malaria
July 23, 2025 The Scientist
Mosquitoes engineered to swap out an amino acid in a key protein were resistant to malaria infection, preventing them from transmitting the disease.
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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways
July 23, 2025 Quanta Magazine
In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.
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What were ancient humans thinking when they began to bury their dead?
July 23, 2025 New Scientist
Claims that a small-brained hominin called Homo naledi buried its dead raise intriguing questions about ancient minds and why we engage in this peculiar practice
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News Update/Commentary
The sugar that sparked life: Why ribose was RNA’s first choice
July 23, 2025 Science Daily
Origin-of-life scientists from Scripps Research reveal how the sugar ribose may have been selected as one of life’s building blocks.
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A Whale of a Tale: How Evolutionists Turn Global Flood Evidence into Arguments for Evolution
July 23, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists pull a red herring fallacy to distract from flood evidence in the Saharan whale graveyard
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Beneficial Bloodsucking
July 22, 2025 Bioethics
we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible.
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Faith and Science Before Modern Science -- a Fresh Look
July 22, 2025 Mind Matters
a discussion for a general readership of the history of science and faith issues before the advent of modern science (roughly in the seventeenth century)
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Sci Foo Unconference: Horseshoe Crabs, Alchemy and (Of Course) AI
July 22, 2025 Mind Matters
people do not present papers in pre-organized sessions, as at normal conferences. Instead, on the first day, they propose and make pitches for topics they would like to talk about.
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A step toward solving central mystery of life on Earth
July 22, 2025 Harvard Gazette
Experiment with synthetic self-assembling materials suggests how it all might have begun
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These Scholarly Topics Are Hotly Debated
July 22, 2025 Chronicle of Higher Education
So Why Don’t Syllabi Reflect That?
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News Update/Commentary
The secret bone armor that helped lizards survive Australia
July 22, 2025 Science Daily
Beneath the scales of Australia’s iconic monitor lizards (commonly known as goannas), scientists have discovered an unexpected secret: a hidden layer of bony skin structures known as osteoderms.
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4 Steps to Help Your Students Read Like Scientists
July 21, 2025 Chronicle of Higher Education
How to teach undergraduates to tackle a dense academic paper in a manageable way.
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A Butterfly’s “Second Head”: What It Says About Intelligence
July 21, 2025 Mind Matters
Not what it says about intelligence in the butterfly but in nature itself…
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The Surprising Effects of the Scopes Trial -- 100 Years Later
July 21, 2025 Answers in Genesis
A newly discovered omen from the famous “monkey trial”
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists just discovered a secret code hidden in your DNA
July 21, 2025 Science Daily
What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international study reveals that ancient viral DNA buried in our genes plays an active role
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Father Hilbert “Would Have Won the Argument with Darrow”
July 21, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
National Catholic Register
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100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates
July 21, 2025 National Public Radio
one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Immortal stars could live forever by ‘eating' dark matter
July 21, 2025 New Scientist
A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance -- they may be capturing dark matter for extra fuel
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Many Butterflies Have a Second ‘Head' -- This Could Be Why
July 21, 2025 Science Alert
Tropical lizards love to snack on butterflies, but sometimes, they have trouble telling which end is which.
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Did Fundamentalists Lose at the Scopes Trial?
July 21, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Did fundamentalists win the trial but lose in the court of public opinion?
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Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness, Materialism, and Religion
July 20, 2025 Mind Matters
Don't forget the right side of the brain
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Evidence Unseen
July 19, 2025 World News Group
Conceived as a publicity stunt, the Scopes trial raised the most significant question of all
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Another T. Rex Has Preserved Blood Vessels
July 19, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists continue to ignore the dating implications, pushing evolution and deep time.
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Arguing God from Consciousness?
July 18, 2025 Closer To Truth
What is it about consciousness that lead some to infer the existence of God? Both are mysteries but what follows from that? The argument makes three big assumptions