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• The New Atheists ‘Attack a God I Don’t Believe in, Either’

  June 8, 2025 Peter Wehner New York Times

  A Q&A With Rowan Williams

• How Can We Conceive of Perfection When We Never Experience It?

  June 8, 2025 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  In The Immortal Mind, coauthored with Denyse O’Leary, we detail both neuroscientific and logical reasons why human abstract thought -- the intellect -- is an immaterial, spiritual power of the human soul.

• Human Mind: Logic Shows Abstract Thought Is an Immaterial Power

  June 8, 2025 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  Neuroscience evidence helps us see the spiritual nature of our minds but we can use the power of our reason to demonstrate that too

• Video

  On the Future of Large Language Models

  June 7, 2025 Robin Hanson Closer To Truth Chats

  the implications of a future world in which researchers have not created artificial general intelligence but have learned to copy humans onto computers, creating “ems," or emulated people, who quickly come to outnumber the real ones.

• Why Behaviorism Failed as a Leading Theory in Psychology

  June 7, 2025 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself is not reducible to merely physical processes

• Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism

  June 6, 2025 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• Why philosophy of physics?

  June 6, 2025 James Read Aeon

  Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful

• The Limits of What We Can Learn from Studying Creativity

  June 6, 2025 Erik J. Larson Mind Matters

  In this third and final part of my essay, I look at what sets us apart from machines: Our capacity to leap from commonsense inferences to entirely new ways of understanding reality

• Michael Egnor on Faith, Reason, and the Architecture of Reality

  June 6, 2025 Mind Matters

  In this week’s podcast, discussion with Robert J. Marks, he talks about the relationship between arguments from philosophical reasoning and faith

• Big Tech’s Recent Big Admission: Chatbots Are Not Very Reliable

  June 6, 2025 Doug Smith Mind Matters

  Here in Part 2, I discuss Stanford prof Jeremy Utley’s hype video in the context of that and other sobering facts

• Egnor: The Architecture of Reality

  June 6, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today

• We may have discovered the first-ever stars powered by dark matter

  June 6, 2025 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have actually found some of these unusual cosmic objects

• New study revolutionizes Dead Sea Scrolls dating, might rewrite Israel’s history

  June 6, 2025 Rossella Tercatin The Times of Israel

  Trailblazing interdisciplinary system, combining AI and radiocarbon dating, indicates the precious artifacts may have been written decades -- or even centuries -- earlier than previously believed

• Should We Use Generative AI Chatbots to Spark Our Creativity?

  June 5, 2025 Doug Smith Mind Matters

  What if we become so disconnected from human ways of knowing that real life relationships, desires, and reality itself begins to shrivel away?

• Introducing the New Social Darwinism

  June 5, 2025 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

  Nature in the Image of Man

• Surprises in Science: How Do Possibilities Become Realities?

  June 5, 2025 John Wise Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Does it make sense to imagine realities out of possibilities? Sure; a philosopher says, by committing self-deception!

• 100% Cicada Fossil

  June 5, 2025 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

  Like all insect groups, evolutionists do not know where these exceptional creatures came from. They appear suddenly in the fossil record as fully-formed cicadas.

• Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

  June 5, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• How Much Energy Does It Take To Think?

  June 4, 2025 Conor Feehly Quanta Magazine

  Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ.

• Video

  Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins

  June 4, 2025 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics YouTube

  The story of the universe’s origins is one of the greatest mysteries in science. From the explosive birth of the cosmos to the enigmatic nature of time and space, we are continually challenged by paradoxes that defy current understanding.

• Video

  Should Science Offer an Alternative to Evolution?

  June 4, 2025 Brian Keating YouTube

  In a world increasingly shaped by science and technology, how do we determine what constitutes truth? What role does society play in shaping scientific knowledge consensus? And what are the implications for the future of research and innovation?

• Dead Sea Scrolls analysis may force rethink of ancient Jewish history

  June 4, 2025 Christa Lesté-Lasserre New Scientist

  Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written -- which could revise the story of Judea

• TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on

  June 4, 2025 Carl Zimmer New Scientist

  Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Ancient DNA reveals a two-clanned matrilineal community in Neolithic China

  June 4, 2025 Jincheng Wang, et al. Nature

  Studies of ancient DNA from cemeteries provide valuable insights into early human societies, and have strongly indicated patrilocality. Here, we analysed ancient DNA alongside archaeological contexts

• Giant planet discovered orbiting tiny star

  June 4, 2025 University College London

  Astronomers have discovered the smallest known star to host a transiting giant planet, which should not exist under leading planet formation theories.

• Video

  Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology

  June 4, 2025 Elliott Sober Closer To Truth

  How are the terms “function,” “fitness,” and “adaptation” used in the context of evolution? How does function relate to fitness and thus to reproductive success? How do adaptations occur and which ones survive and prosper?

• Lagerstätten: Where Creationist and Secular Studies Coincide

  June 4, 2025 Warren H. Johns Answers Research Journal, v.18, p.231-276

  Lagerstätten deposits can be simply defined as deposits of fossils with superb preservation at a single locality or concentrations of usually just a few fossil species in what appear to be mass-kill sites.

• Famous Harvard ethics researcher fired for data fraud

  June 4, 2025 Mind Matters

  It’s a story you couldn’t really write as fiction -- because these things only happen in real life. A famous researcher into honesty and ethical behavior became the first tenured prof to be fired in a dispute over fraud

• Jobs that are safe from AI -- and why they are

  June 4, 2025 Mind Matters

  When it comes to health questions, a chatbot may have the right answer -- or, as we are finding out more and more, it may be hallucinating a completely wrong answer. In either case, most people would prefer to work with a sympathetic fellow human being.

• Evolution Evolved to Mirror the Zeitgeist

  June 4, 2025 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

  June 4, 2025 Brian Miller Discovery Science

  For decades, we’ve thought the control center of life lies in DNA. But a new scientific framework is emerging that challenges that idea, and suggests that vast portions of the genome are immaterial and lie outside the physical world.

• New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today

  June 3, 2025 Michael Egnor and Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

  The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

• Muon Experiment Was ‘Hugely Successful’ but Clarified Little

  June 3, 2025 Katrina Miller New York Times

  The deviant behavior of a subatomic particle might point to undiscovered forms of matter and energy in the universe. Or it might not.

• Do the Clouds of Venus Really Host Life?

  June 3, 2025 Paul Sutter Universe Today

  On the surface, Venus isn't even close to being hospitable to life. But that's not the end of the story.

• What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning?

  June 3, 2025 Enrique Gaztanaga The Conversation

  Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole

• Did AI Claude Really Try Blackmail When Threatened with Shutdown?

  June 3, 2025 Robert J. Marks Mind Matters

  No. Here’s what really happened…

• Unrequited Love: Millions of Years Cheat Evolutionists

  June 3, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Secular scientists love Ma, but Ma doesn’t love them back

• Stranger Things: Why Mad Scientists Are Mad

  June 3, 2025 Erik J. Larson Mind Matters

  At the highest levels, creativity seems to bypass the deliberate, structured thought process altogether

• Two Neurosurgeons on Life, Death, Eternity and What Truly Matters

  June 3, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on the just-released book, The Immortal Mind

• There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

  June 2, 2025 Colin Barras New Scientist

  Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land -- and may force us to reframe the current biodiversity crisis

• The Slow Decline of a Key Aspect of Creativity

  June 2, 2025 Erik J. Larson Mind Matters

  The mechanization of mind is changing how we think about creativity -- and not in a good way

• Book

  Event-Driven Cell Systems, as Coordinated Object-Oriented Designs

  June, 2025 Teodor Dumitru

  The main goal of this book is to indicate that the logical relations from a biological system are evidence & predictions of design. | See Also Amazon

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Agency in the Evolutionary Transition to Multicellularity

  June, 2025 Stuart A. Newman, et al. The Quarterly Review of Biology, v.100, n.2

  This review explores agency, behavior intrinsic to an organism and initiated by it, as it relates to the development of multicellular organisms and its evolution.

• We’re close to translating animal languages -- what happens then?

  June 1, 2025 David Farrier The Guardian

  AI may soon be able to decode whalespeak, among other forms of communication -- but what nature has to say may not be a surprise

• Pew: Rate of Decline in Christian Belief in U.S. Is Slowing

  June 1, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The decline may be in the process of reversing itself. News items tell the story

• The Boy Who Proved Most Theories of Consciousness Wrong

  June 1, 2025 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  He was unequivocally conscious — without a cerebral cortex and even without brain hemispheres

• Walcott Quarry, British Columbia, Canada: Spatial Thinking

  June, 2025 Thomas F. Shipley and Basil Tikoff GSA Today

  Interpretation of the Burgess Shale biota required three-dimensional reconstruction of unusual organisms that developed in the Cambrian period; many of these organisms have no modern descendants.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Agency in the Evolutionary Transition to Multicellularity

  June, 2025 Stuart A. Newman, et al. The Quarterly Review of Biology, v.100, n.2

  This review explores agency, behavior intrinsic to an organism and initiated by it, as it relates to the development of multicellular organisms and its evolution.

• Blog Post

  How I Explain Quantum Weirdness to a Friend

  May 31, 2025 John Horgan

• Video

  Theories of Consciousness

  May 31, 2025 Anil Seth Closer To Truth

  Anil Kumar Seth is a British neuroscientist and professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. A proponent of materialist explanations of consciousness, he is currently amongst the most cited scholars