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• Why bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics

  May 12, 2025 Carlo Rovelli Nature

  Theoretical physicists are in thrall to a misguided mindset that allows viable ideas to be advanced only by overturning what already exists.

• Video

  Evolution Professor Goes Off, Part IV

  May 12, 2025 Darwin's God YouTube

  In a highly problematic video an evolution professor criticizes Michael Behe. There are too many problems to cover in a single response, so here I continue with the problem of bat evolution, this time looking at echolocation

• How ancient humans survived a global climate disaster 8200 years ago

  May 12, 2025 Christa Lesté-Lasserre New Scientist

  Plummeting temperatures forced some human populations to adapt to the new conditions thousands of years ago, but the changes they made varied widely

• Radical photon idea could rewrite standard model of particle physics

  May 12, 2025 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  Experiments with hydrogen atoms could soon reveal whether particles that were long thought to be forbidden by physics actually do exist

• The bold attempt to solve the toughest mystery at the heart of physics

  May 12, 2025 Jon Cartwright New Scientist

  Finding out whether gravity -- and therefore space-time itself -- is quantum in nature has long been thought impossible. But innovative new ideas might be about to help answer this crucial question

• News Update/Commentary

  Universe decays faster than thought, but still takes a long time

  May 12, 2025 Radboud University Nijmegen Science Daily

  the last stellar remnants take about 10⁷⁸ years (a 1 with 78 zeros) to perish. That is much shorter than the previously postulated 10¹¹⁰⁰ years (a 1 with 1100 zeros).

• Group Founded by Francis Collins Launches PR Campaign for “Science”

  May 12, 2025 John G. West Evolution News & Science Today

• The Immaterial Genome

  May 12, 2025 Ann Gauger Evolution News & Science Today

  Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Artificial intelligence and free will

  May 12, 2025 Frank Martela AI and Ethics

  generative agents utilizing large language models have functional free will

• 1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images from Space

  May 12, 2025 Kenneth Chang New York Times

  Don Pettit brought a photographer’s eye to orbit, capturing the artistry of the cosmos and our planet.

• Proposed Experiment Could Clarify Origin of Martian Methane

  May 12, 2025 Saima May Sidik Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Curiosity’s detection of the gas, if atmospheric, could be an indicator of life on the Red Planet. But skeptics say further work is needed to rule out the rover itself as the source of the methane.

• Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life

  May 12, 2025 Andreas Teske Nature

  An adventurous survey of inhospitable habitats unearths extraordinary organisms that pose challenging research questions.

• Video

  What is Consciousness: Data or Information?

  May 11, 2025 Alex Gómez-Marín Closer To Truth

  To study consciousness comprehensively and rigorously, what kinds of data or information are relevant? Data/information for Materialism theories, which are subject to the scientific method, can be well defined. But what about non-Materialism theories?

• Philosopher: There Is No Mystery of Consciousness

  May 11, 2025 Mind Matters

  Galen Strawson points out at even young children a completely general conception of what consciousness is

• Carl Sagan Aside, Earth Is Significant

  May 11, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Teleology: Rethinking How We Do Physics

  May 10, 2025 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  Teleology is the idea that the present is the way it is because it's shaped by a future purpose. In this video, I have a look at some theories in physics that reflect this idea and see if they make sense.

• A Challenge to Pale Blue Dot-ology: Earth Is Significant

  May 10, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The “pale blue dot lost in space” view of Earth seems to brand science as an intellectual property of materialist atheism. And evidence isn’t what keeps it going

• Where does the search for signs of extraterrestrial life go from here?

  May 9, 2025 Sam Lemonick Chemical & Engineering News

  New tools like the James Webb Space Telescope reboot the search for chemical evidence of life beyond Earth

• Neandertals may have hunted in horse-trapping teams 200,000 years ago

  May 9, 2025 Bruce Bower Science News

  New dating of Germany’s Schöningen site rewrites the timeline of complex group behavior

• Spacetime is not a substance

  May 9, 2025 John D. Norton The Institute of Art and Ideas

  There are no events without spaces and times

• Extraterrestrial tongues

  May 9, 2025 Nikhil Mahant Aeon

  Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages

• All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuffed out upon death

  May 9, 2025 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  Our bodies emit a stream of low-energy photons, and now experiments in mice have revealed that this ghostly glow is cut off when we die

• News Update/Commentary

  Chimpanzee groups drum with distinct rhythms

  May 9, 2025 Cell Press Science Daily

  the building blocks of human musicality arose in a common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans

• News Update/Commentary

  The origins of language

  May 9, 2025 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Science Daily

  Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite generation of meaning

• News Update/Commentary

  Researchers map 7,000-year-old genetic mutation that protects against HIV

  May 9, 2025 University of Copenhagen Science Daily

  Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose -- and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.

• News Update/Commentary

  New ancient fish species earliest known salmon ancestor

  May 9, 2025 University of Alaska, Fairbanks Science Daily

  Alaska's fresh waters 73 million years ago were teeming with the ancient relatives of today's salmon, pike and other northern fish.

• Yes, Large Language Models May Soon be Smarter than Humans…

  May 9, 2025 Gary Smith Mind Matters

  But not for the reason you think

• Blog Post

  Rising Star Burials Revised

  May 8, 2025 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

  Longtime readers will remember my obsession with the discoveries in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa, where thousands of bones of a hominin dubbed Homo naledi have been recovered over the past dozen or so years.

• The Universe is not symmetric

  May 8, 2025 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It’s theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn’t agree.

• Biology, not physics, holds the key to reality

  May 8, 2025 Stuart Kauffman and Andrea Roli The Institute of Art and Ideas

  The universe is not fully governed by any law

• News Update/Commentary

  Mammal's lifespans linked to brain size and immune system function

  May 8, 2025 University of Bath Science Daily

  Why do cats generally live longer than dogs? New research suggests that longer lifespans of mammals like cats could be linked to their bigger brains and more complex immune systems.

• Floral Stink Evolved Through Three Amino Acid Changes

  May 8, 2025 Sahana Sitaraman The Scientist

  Plants repurposed an ancestral detox enzyme to produce compounds that give some flowers their distinct stink bomb aroma.

• Why Darwinism Is Fundamentally Irrational

  May 8, 2025 John Wise Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Hegel’s Dialectic leads Darwinian materialists to embrace contradictions -- not as a bug, but as a feature

• Ichthyosaur Graveyard Explained by the Flood

  May 8, 2025 Tim Clarey Institute for Creation Research

• Has Physics Pounded a New Nail in the Coffin of Materialism?

  May 8, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says that matter is now known not to be fundamental but that fact is taking a while to catch on

• Dean Koontz on Writing and the Mystery of Life

  May 8, 2025 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  Koontz believes every writer must have a metaphysic

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Shishania is a chancelloriid and not a Cambrian mollusk

  May 8, 2025 Jie Yang, et al. Science, v.388, n.6747, p.662-664

  The Cambrian explosion is known as a time when evolution “experimented” with a wide array of new body forms, the modern affinities of which are often incredibly difficult to identify.

• News Update/Commentary

  Comb jellies reveal ancient origins of animal genome regulation

  May 7, 2025 Center for Genomic Regulation Science Daily

  Long-distance control of genes appeared 650-700 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought

• Statistically Speaking, We Should Have Heard from Aliens by Now

  May 7, 2025 Mark Thompson Universe Today

  a contradiction in our understanding of alien life: despite billions of stars with potentially habitable planets and the vast age of our Galaxy providing ample time for civilizations to develop and spread, we've detected no evidence of their existence

• Lungfishes -- Transitional Species, Fish, Amphibian, or Something Else?

  May 7, 2025 Matthew Cserhati Answers Research Journal, v.18, p.189-195

  Macroevolutionists claim that lungfishes represent a transition between sea and land organisms. However, despite their interesting organ, genomically, lungfishes cannot be described as a transitional species.

• Did Modern Human Faces Devolve from Those of Neanderthals?

  May 7, 2025 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Or are the differences evidence of inbuilt natural genetic variation?

• Strange microbes give clues to the ancestor of all complex life

  May 7, 2025 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  The origin of complex eukaryotic cells, of the type found in all plants and animals, is shrouded in mystery. Now, strange microbes from wetlands in China are helping us to understand when they first emerged, and what they were like

• Video

  Consciousness and Ultimate Reality

  May 7, 2025 Michael Baggot Closer To Truth

  What is the relationship between consciousness and the nature of ultimate reality? Some say there is no relationship; consciousness is a late, contingent product of biological evolution. Others say consciousness is irreducible and fundamental

• Video

  Stephen Hawking’s Biggest Blunder: The No Boundary Theory Exposed

  May 7, 2025 Brian Keating YouTube

  Was Stephen Hawking dead wrong about the Big Bang being the beginning of time? In this episode we explore the controversial claim that the universe had no “before” -- and why quantum physics might prove otherwise.

• Video

  Evolution Professor Goes Off, Part II

  May 7, 2025 Darwin's God YouTube

  In a highly problematic video an evolution professor criticizes Michael Behe. There are too many problems to cover in a single response, so here I look at one example: Bat wing evolution.

• Artificial Intelligence Is Nothing Like a Brain -- or a Mind

  May 7, 2025 Mind Matters

  Neurons share basic mechanisms, but almost all other features vary both between types of neurons and individual ones

• Here’s Neurosurgeon Mike Egnor on Sean McDowell’s Show

  May 7, 2025 Mind Matters

  With a couple of revealing excerpts from the transcript

• News Update/Commentary

  Triassic fossil reveals nature's best jaw for hunting fast fish

  May 7, 2025 Virginia Tech Science Daily

  Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of millions of years.

• Before altering the air, microbes oxygenated large swaths of the sea

  May 7, 2025 Nikk Ogasa Science News

  The finding suggests cyanobacteria were prevalent much earlier than previously thought

• What Epilepsy Can Teach About the Mind

  May 7, 2025 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today