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How To Avoid AIM -- the AI Moron Effect
July 7, 2025 Mind Matters
The popularity of getting chatbots to produce assignments may be a signal that college doesn't matter as much as it used to
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‘Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens
July 7, 2025 New Scientist
The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, suggesting her parents might have belonged to different species
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Cities Are Not Causing Evolution
July 7, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Variation of existing species around human habitats is not Darwinism
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World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor
July 7, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scopes Revisited
July 7, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
An Interview with Historian Jefrey Breshears
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The most scientifically accurate faces of ancient human species
July 7, 2025 MSN
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Populism, platforms, and the challenges of science communication
July 7, 2025 Elephant in the Lab
the role of science communication in fragmented publics, the impact of social media on democratic discourse, and why scientists shouldn't retreat from social media
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Richard Dawkins’ disciple finds faith
July 6, 2025 Pelham Today
After years spent promoting atheism alongside figures like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, Josh Timonen has taken an unexpected turn
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Can Evolution Help Explain Depression?
July 6, 2025 Psychology Today
Exploring the origins of an emotion that defies survival.
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News Update/Commentary
Pregnancy’s 100-million-year secret: Inside the placenta’s evolutionary power play
July 6, 2025 Science Daily
New study identifies the evolutionary origins of the cells and molecular signals bridging mother to fetus
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Piers Morgan Show: Michael Egnor and Michael Shermer Debate!
July 6, 2025 Mind Matters
Near-death experiences headlined the discussion. But Dr. Egnor made clear that there is much other evidence for the reality of the human mind
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Remembering Walter Bradley
July 6, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
A Trailblazer in Intelligent Design with a Legacy to Inspire
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Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse
July 5, 2025 bne IntelliNews
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“Nothing in biology makes sense without teleology"
July 5, 2025 YouTube
a deliberately provocative talk I gave on teleology (a pretty taboo subject in a lot of the life sciences) delivered at Caltech. I try to show the philosophical background of how I think about goal-directedness in physically embodied agents
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Are There Multiple Universes?
July 5, 2025 Closer To Truth
What is the extent of God’s creation? If there are multiple universes, did God create each of them? If an infinite number of universes, did God create all of them? Theists may be conflicted
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Neuroscientist Christof Koch proposes a bold brain experiment…
July 5, 2025 Mind Matters
… worthy of science fiction -- that he and his debate opponent, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, could share a brain via Neuralink. And what would happen then?
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Remembering Walter Bradley
July 5, 2025 Mind Matters
Here are some fond remembrances of his ideas and work from our pages
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The Soul and Human Dignity: A Conversation with J. P. Moreland
July 4, 2025 Mind Matters
In his view, only a view that affirms an intrinsic, shared human nature can sustain a belief in universal human dignity
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Dr. Walter L. Bradley (1943–2025)
July 4, 2025 Mind Matters
Distinguished engineer, professor, original thinker, selfless friend, true and faithful servant
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Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed
July 4, 2025 New Scientist
Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the asteroid belt, but now a meteorite from the outer solar system is rewriting that view
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Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design
July 4, 2025 Science & Culture Today
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Neanderthals boiled bones in ‘fat factories’ to enrich their lean diet
July 3, 2025 Nature
Germany digs reveal a large-scale operation 100,000 years earlier than oldest known fat rendering by modern humans.
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Reflections on Astronomy in Iconic National Parks
July 3, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Humans and chimpanzees are NOT 99% identical
July 3, 2025 Creation Ministries International
The final nail in the coffin of human evolution
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Tardigrades May Still Be Living on the Moon After Lunar Lander Crash
July 3, 2025 Discover magazine
Learn more about the tardigrades aboard the Beresheet spacecraft that crashed on the moon in 2019, and how they could have survived this long.
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300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China
July 3, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6755, p.78-83
Wooden tools from the early Paleolithic Period are extremely rare, with only two previously known discoveries, one in Europe and one in Africa.
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Hydrothermal systems may have supplied essential phosphorus for early life
July 3, 2025 phys.org
Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the origin and evolution of life. Phosphorus is one such element
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“There is only one interpretation of quantum mechanics"
July 3, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
the ‘father of quantum computing' explains how accepting the reality of quantum mechanics means accepting the multiverse.
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Ape Evolution Did Not Cause Back Pain in Humans
July 3, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
More evidence shows that back pain is not due to poor design resulting from human evolution from apes
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Methodological Naturalism as Religion in Disguise
July 3, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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A genome from ancient Egypt
July 2, 2025 Nature
The genome of a man buried at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt about 4,500–4,800 years ago has been sequenced. Compared with published genomes of ancient individuals, most of the man’s ancestry best matches those of older individuals from North Africa
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples
July 2, 2025 Nature
The North Eurasian forest and forest-steppe zones have sustained millennia of sociocultural connections among northern peoples, but much of their history is poorly understood.
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Center of Gravity Distinction Between Birds and Theropod Dinosaurs
July 2, 2025 Answers Research Journal
Many evolutionists claim that dinosaurs evolved into birds. Since this transition necessitates that a land-based creature developed the ability to fly, aeronautical considerations such as center of gravity should be considered.
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Human Eyes: Designed or Evolved?
July 2, 2025 Reasons to Believe
For decades, the human eye has been at the center of the creation/evolution debate. Even Charles Darwin recognized its apparent design despite arguing that evolution produced this vital sensory organ.
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Shocking Examples of Racism Caused by Darwinism
July 2, 2025 Creation Ministries International
Most people assume slavery lies at the root of racism. But what if a different culprit was far more influential -- one still respected today in classrooms and museums?
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Dr. Casey Luskin Caught Red-Handed
July 2, 2025 YouTube
he is misrepresenting the April 2025 paper on human-chimp genome similarity. Thanks to a comment on an earlier video, we caught him editing a figure from that paper in such a way that significantly misrepresents the findings.
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125,000-year-old ‘fat factory' run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany
July 2, 2025 Live Science
An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up 125,000 years ago.
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454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
July 2, 2025 New York Times
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.
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The Tao of meow: Cats mew mostly for humans
July 2, 2025 Mind Matters
From Hartz, the pet supplies company, we learn, Do Cats Only Meow to Humans? Yes! Cats have reserved the meow just for us. Cats typically do not meow to other cats. But why do cats meow at humans?
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Can transparent peer review help resolve the replication crisis?
July 2, 2025 Mind Matters
By 2020, Vox was reporting that “[r]esearchers have discovered, over and over, that lots of findings in fields like psychology, sociology, medicine, and economics don’t hold up when other researchers try to replicate them”
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Ancient DNA reveals make-up of Roman Empire’s favourite sauce
July 2, 2025 New Scientist
Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a fish sauce, often known as garum, eaten throughout the Roman Empire
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Homeostasis Is More than Treading Water
July 2, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why AI won't replicate humans functionally
July 1, 2025 YouTube
why generative AI systems cannot replicate (or replace) us functionally. Syntax does not equal semantics, correlation does not equal understanding, yet AI systems are trapped as syntactic token manipulating correlation machines.
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Protocells self-assembling on micrometeorites hint at origins of life
July 1, 2025 New Scientist
Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells form could tell us something about the chances of life elsewhere
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A Neanderthal-shaped skull may explain why some people get headaches
July 1, 2025 New Scientist
People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by DNA inherited from archaic humans
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Where does time actually come from?
July 1, 2025 New Scientist
The arrow of time can teach us more about how the universe began -- and how it will end
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New study shows how bacteria evolved powered-up propellers
July 1, 2025 Imperial College London
Dr Morgan Beeby’s lab has discovered how some flagella -- tiny ‘tail’ propellers used by bacteria for swimming -- evolved to be more powerful.
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Evolution! Why Is It Never a Question of “If”?
July 1, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
When discussing life, man, or consciousness, evolutionists ask “how” these evolved but not “if” they evolved
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Time for Christians to Move Beyond the Evolution Wars?
July 1, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Building Decision Points Into Research’s Slipperiest Slopes
July, 2025 Issues in Science and Technology
We knew that less-novel research within the broader field of synthetic biology has been the subject of extensive social and ethical debates, so we wanted to be proactive about a technology we consider even more novel.