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NYT Journalist: The “Download” Model of Knowledge is Flawed
May 31, 2025 Mind Matters
We learn by wrestling with ideas, by paying attention and making connections.
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Michael Egnor: Science Offers Evidence of an Immaterial Mind
May 31, 2025 Mind Matters
At the Knight and Rose show, he and co-author Denyse O’Leary talk about how split-brain surgeries, veridical near-death experiences, and terminal lucidity challenge materialist views of the mind.
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Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity
May 31, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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‘Cosmic miracle!' James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest galaxy ever seen
May 30, 2025 space.com
“This is the most distant object known to humanity."
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Ancient Footprints Tell a Human Story
May 30, 2025 Wall Street Journal
When Kevin Hatala asks his students on the first day of class, “What are the characteristics that make us human?” the first response they tend to give is opposable thumbs. But ...
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Darwin’s Timeline Is All Messed Up
May 30, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here are more examples of complex phenomena appearing earlier than thought
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The Skeptic, the Neuroscientist and the Neurosurgeon Walk Into a…
May 30, 2025 Mind Matters
… most interesting discussion by all accounts. Skeptical science writer Michael Shermer hosted sometimes-controversial neuroscientist Christof Koch and Christian neurosurgeon Michael Egnor
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What Are My Recommendations for Reining in/Reforming Google?
May 30, 2025 Mind Matters
Part 10: Here’s one thing: If Google claims Section 230 and DMCA protections but actively moderates or curates content, it is a publisher, not a neutral platform
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The Paradox of Biological Reproduction
May 30, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science and the sorry state of Christian Apologetics
May 30, 2025 medium.com
After decades of growing, professional Christian apologetics, science is still its biggest problem.
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Astronomers Discover Mysterious Object Bursting with X-Rays
May 29, 2025 Scientific American
A celestial object some 15,000 light-years away is emitting bright flashes of radio and X-rays that scientists are struggling to explain
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Hawk learns to monitor traffic signals to catch urban prey
May 29, 2025 Mind Matters
A University of Tennessee researcher documented an immature Cooper’s hawk using vehicle traffic and pedestrian signal patterns as concealment during hunting behavior at a suburban intersection
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Dawkins: Intelligent Design Is a Scientific Hypothesis
May 29, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigger than females
May 29, 2025 Science News
Proteins from a collection of fossils hint at sex and genetic differences in P. robustus
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Rare ‘ambidextrous’ protein breaks rules of handedness
May 29, 2025 Nature
Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus
May 29, 2025 Science, v.388, n.6750, p.969-973
It is now well known that the early hominin fauna was species rich, with many overlapping lineages existing in the African Pleistocene. However, our knowledge of diversity within many of these lineages has been limited
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes
May 29, 2025 Science, v.388, n.6750
Adzuki beans are an important East Asian legume given the frequent use of red bean paste in many confections. However, the history and domestication of this plant has been fraught with contradicting evidence.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous
May 29, 2025 Science, v.388, n.6750, p.974-978
Although the Cretaceous world was considerably warmer than ours, the polar regions still experienced months of near total darkness, suggesting that this was a challenging environment to colonize even when it didn’t experience extreme cold.
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Brazilian Scientists Evaluate Reproducibility in Biomedical Research
May 29, 2025 The Scientist
The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative team could replicate less than half of regional research findings. How can scientists use these data to improve research replicability?
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News Update/Commentary
Birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs
May 29, 2025 Science Daily
Paper documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting in the polar regions
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of a single gene allowed the plague to adapt, survive and kill much of humanity
May 29, 2025 Science Daily
Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague allowed it to survive by adjusting its virulence and the length of time it took to kill its victims
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News Update/Commentary
Rock record illuminates oxygen history
May 29, 2025 Science Daily
These findings not only refine the timeline of Earth's oxygenation but also highlight a critical evolutionary shift, where life began adapting to oxygen-rich conditions
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News Update/Commentary
Long shot science leads to revised age for land-animal ancestor
May 29, 2025 Science Daily
The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods -- some of the first animals to make the transition from water to land.
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Chimp Genome Markedly Different from Human
May 29, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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A Post-Truth Reformer Needs to Post Better Truth
May 29, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What they mean by truth, critical thinking and evidence is not what we mean
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How the “Scientific Community” Undermines Its Own Trustworthiness
May 29, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin Gödel Machine
May 29, 2025 arXiv
Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents | See Also AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
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An Unexpectedly Strong Argument for a Young Earth
May 28, 2025 Answers in Genesis
The story of how this creation scientist made discoveries showing that DNA confirms the Bible
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Blog Post
What Happened When I Asked ChatGPT To Pretend To Be Conscious
May 28, 2025 Singal-Minded
I’m trying not to sound hysterical, but… everything is about to drastically change forever.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolution is coupled with branching across many granularities of life
May 28, 2025 Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Across many scales of life, the rate of evolutionary change is often accelerated at the time when one lineage splits into two.
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Video
Did Josephus know people who were present at Jesus's trial?
May 28, 2025 Tyndale House, Cambridge
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Video
Why Is There Anything At All?
May 28, 2025 Closer To Truth
Why is there a world, a cosmos, something, anything instead of absolutely nothing at all? If nothing existed, there would be, well, ‘nothing’ to explain. To have anything existing demands some kind of explanation.
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LLMs Are Bad at Good Things, Good at Bad Things
May 28, 2025 Mind Matters
LLMs may well become smarter than humans in the near future but not because these chatbots are becoming more intelligent
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A “Quantum Miracle” that Leads to Life
May 28, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Before Darwin -- How Evolution Evolved
May 28, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Where Did Dinosaurs Come From?
May 28, 2025 New Creation
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News Update/Commentary
Chemists recreate how RNA might have reproduced for first time
May 28, 2025 Science Daily
Chemists have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth -- a key process in the origin of life.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Uncertainty in the timing of diversification of flowering plants rests with equivocal interpretation of their fossil record
May 28, 2025 Royal Society Open Medicine
The timing of the origin of crown-angiosperms exemplifies the impact of competing approaches to establishing evolutionary timescales. Fossils of unequivocal crown-angiosperms are not known from before the Cretaceous
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Darwinists Revise Selectionism Again
May 28, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A key belief of evolution refuted: recessive gene mutations are not hidden from selection
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We’re getting close to recreating the first step in evolution of life
May 28, 2025 New Scientist
Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab
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Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak
May 28, 2025 New Scientist
Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to shifting temperatures over the past 50,000 years
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1960s Chatbot Pioneer Was Right to Worry About What He’d Created
May 28, 2025 Mind Matters
AI “companions” may be dumbing us down intellectually and emotionally
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Book
The Heavens, the Waters, and the Partridge
May, 2025 Inkwell Press
The Historical Interaction of Faith and Science Before Modern Science
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Self-reproduction as an autonomous process of growth and reorganization in fully abiotic, artificial and synthetic cells
May 27, 2025 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v.122, n.22
This study introduces a biochemistry-free method for creating self-reproducing polymeric vesicles. This process mimics key aspects of living systems, offering a path for developing a broad class of abiotic, life-like systems.
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When the universe answers with silence
May 27, 2025 Symmetry magazine
With big outstanding questions and little hints of new physics, physicists are now rethinking some of their most fundamental assumptions.
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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
May 27, 2025 The Guardian
When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced -- and the bitter argument that followed has consumed the lives of scholars ever since
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How do Reductionism and Emergence Dance?
May 27, 2025 Closer To Truth
Two big ideas in biology: the evolution of species via mutation, fitness and natural selection; and the embryological development of individuals, from fertilized egg to whole organisms. How do these two big ideas -- “Evo-Dev,” as it’s called -- relate?
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Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill
May 27, 2025 Quanta Magazine
Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.
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Correct Your Signage on Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity!
May 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Letter to the Smithsonian
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Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life
May 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today