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Can we fix the worst prediction in all of science?
July 11, 2025 Big Think
The measured value of the cosmological constant is 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what’s predicted. How can this paradox be resolved?
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Do Fungi Demonstrate a Form of Intelligence?
July 11, 2025 Mind Matters
What Does That Mean? ... Yes, the natural world is full of intelligence and we are only scratching the surface of it. But…
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Unnatural Selection: Chicxulub Impact Highly Selective on Victims
July 11, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Does it make any sense to believe that delicate creatures survived what killed all the dinosaurs?
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Arguing God's Existence
July 11, 2025 Closer To Truth
When searching for God, majority opinion counts for little. But good arguments, on each side, enrich appreciation of issues and understanding of alternatives. No one should avoid arguing God.
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Casey Caves
July 11, 2025 Creation Myths
An update to the ongoing “Dr. Casey Luskin lies about human-chimp genome similarity" saga. Dr. Luskin has now fixed the figure he edited in one of his early articles on this topic, and his excuses for the original version don't hold up.
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Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted
July 11, 2025 Associated Press
Tired of put-downs
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Fossil ribcages of Homo sapiens provide new insights into modern human evolution
July 10, 2025 Nature -- Communications Biology, v.8
Recent research on the Nariokotome Boy’s ribcage suggests the slender thorax of modern H. sapiens is a derived condition
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Peculiar plant could help us reconstruct ancient Earth’s climate
July 10, 2025 New Scientist
Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants -- and this unique process provides valuable clues for understanding past and present ecosystems
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Rhino Proteins Challenge Deep Time: Dinos Next?
July 10, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Multi-million-year claims tremble under the weight of new soft tissue reports
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Scopes and History: A Personal Reminiscence
July 10, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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One Hundred Years After Scopes
July 10, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
It’s “Scopes-in-Reverse”
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A Century after the Scopes Trial, Censorship Still Thrives in Evolution Debate
July 10, 2025 Daily Wire
In our modern era of “Scopes-in-reverse,” the power dynamic has shifted 180 degrees.
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This ‘Trial of the Century’ Is 100
July 10, 2025 New York Times
Its Lessons Could Save the Democrats. ... In July 1925, John Scopes faced a jury in a stifling courtroom in Dayton, Tenn.
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Burying Stories Is No Way to Advance Science
July 10, 2025 Mind Matters
A story about a man with a severe brain defect who led an apparently normal life has been almost buried in efforts to explain it away
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Are Scientists Allowed to Consider Unscientific Explanations?
July 10, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Design Demands a Designer...Even in the Cell
July 10, 2025 Cold-Case Christianity
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A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot
July 10, 2025 Associated Press
Like ‘a hole in one from the moon.’
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A Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Actually Happening
July 10, 2025 Gizmodo
The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the planet's clouds.
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Ancient DNA reveals farming led to more human diseases
July 9, 2025 Nature
The transition to agriculture introduced many new diseases to humans from animals -- plus, how whale poo is helping researchers study harmful algal blooms.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years
July 9, 2025 Nature
Advances in deep learning and AlphaFold2 have enabled the large-scale prediction of protein structures across species, opening avenues for studying protein function and evolution
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Ancient proteins rewrite the rhino family tree -- are dinosaurs next?
July 9, 2025 Nature
Molecules from 20-million-year-old teeth are among the oldest ever sequenced.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid
July 9, 2025 Nature
ancient protein sequences have emerged as a valuable source of data for deep-time phylogenetic inference. Still, the recovery does not exceed 3.7 million years ago. Here, we push this boundary back to 21–24 million years ago by retrieving enamel protein
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The Hardest Problem Evolution Ever Solved
July 9, 2025 YouTube
It's really hard for me not to title this video “You are just a weird hairy fish" and, who knows...maybe that's the right choice. We shall see...
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Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift
July 9, 2025 Nature
Research into the palaeobiology of extinct taxa through ancient DNA and proteomics has been mostly limited to Plio-Pleistocene fossils, due to molecular breakdown over time, which is exacerbated in tropical settings
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Reorganization of the theropod wrist preceded the origin of avian flight
July 9, 2025 Nature
The carpus (wrist) of birds has a complex evolutionary history, long known to involve carpal reduction and recently shown to include topological replacement of one carpal by another
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Every Creationist got this Wrong Because Casey Luskin Lied
July 9, 2025 YouTube
Human/Chimp Similarity
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Hidden DNA-sized crystals in cosmic ice could rewrite water
July 9, 2025 Science Daily
This has major implications not just for astrophysics, but also for theories about the origin of life and advanced materials technology.
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The first great joke told by AI might be the last one humans hear
July 9, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Roman’s Razor: The funniest outcome is the most likely
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The curious case of how bird wrists evolved
July 9, 2025 Nature
Wrist evolution helped birds to conquer the air. Fossil data and analysis of a modern bird’s development reveal that this evolution preceded bird origins
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Why Do We Mourn the Deaths of Other People’s Children?
July 9, 2025 Mind Matters
I share P. Z. Myers’s horror but the problem of innocent suffering is much deeper for the atheist than for the Christian
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Left-handedness is not a golden key to creativity
July 9, 2025 Mind Matters
being left-handed does not make a person more creative. In fact, when measured in lab tests or by professional representation across creative fields, right-handers often have the slight edge.
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Colossal's plans to “de-extinct" the giant moa are still impossible
July 9, 2025 New Scientist
After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to bring back nine species of the extinct moa bird
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Evolution has made humans both Machiavellian and born socialists
July 9, 2025 New Scientist
Humanity’s innate treachery is behind social ills ranging from inequality to abuse of power. Lessons from our ancestors can help defeat the enemy within
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Consciousness Does Not Emerge; It Transcends
July 9, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
By what authority does science dismiss the existential status of consciousness, defining it away as an “emergent quality”?
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Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?
July 9, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Postcard from Warsaw
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The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic
July 9, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Multiscale design paradigm
July 9, 2025 Logos Research Associates
Current apologetic strategies for presenting creation science has failed to some extent over the past few years ... Studying God’s creation from a Creationeering perspective
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Four ways to interpret quantum mechanics
July 9, 2025 CERN Courier
Orthodox quantum mechanics is empirically flawless, but founded on an awkward interface between quantum systems and classical probes.
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What Only People Can Do: The Limits of Large Language Models
July 8, 2025 Answers in Genesis
How to navigate a dangerous new technology
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I will remember Dr. Walter Bradley
July 8, 2025 YouTube
I remember Dr. Walter Bradley, a hero to my heroes and a personal mentor of mine. I reflect on the proper role of honor towards heroes of the Christian faith like Dr. Bradley.
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Chimps develop fashion trend by shoving grass in their ears
July 8, 2025 Live Science
Chimpanzees are running around with grass in their ears and butts at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia. This is the second time a bizarre fad-like behavior has gripped the sanctuary's chimps
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The high priests of science are holding it hostage
July 8, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
The myth of truth is not helping
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Fat factory helped Neanderthals survive 125,000 years ago
July 8, 2025 Mind Matters
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Neanderthals rendered fat from bones 125,000 years ago. Modern humans have been using the process for at least 28,000 years, but the latest finding reveals that Neanderthals were doing it much earlier
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Michael Shermer Disagrees with Me on the Ethics of IVF
July 8, 2025 Mind Matters
He sees a contradiction between my respect for and embrace of children conceived via IVF and my ethical qualms about the process of IVF: “Another example of how religion clouds rationality”
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70,000 years ago humans underwent a major shift -- that’s why we exist
July 8, 2025 New Scientist
Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world
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Globalists Do Not Speak for the Globe
July 8, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The arrogance of leftists must be detected and opposed. Here is a prime example.
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Fungi could be conscious. Here's what that means
July 7, 2025 BBC
New research on fungi suggests they could be demonstrating some form of intelligence, but not all experts are convinced.
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Theories of Consciousness
July 7, 2025 Closer To Truth
Explore diverse theories of consciousness including materialism, dualism, panpsychism, idealism and diverse ways of thinking about consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, philosophy, wisdom traditions.
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Intelligent Design as Fuel for Scientific Discovery
July 7, 2025 Discovery Science
2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith
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A Uniquely Designed Air-Filled Sac Within Birds’ Lungs
July 7, 2025 Institute for Creation Research