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A Fake Headline, and a Real One, About DNA

November 3, 2025 Casey Luskin Science & Culture Today
Enantiomeric amplification of amino acids: part 9

November 4, 2025 Royal Truman, Chris Basel, and Stephen Grocott Creation Ministries International

enantiomeric separation via crystallization
Plant-like complexity evolved multiple times in different algae lineages, phylogenomics study reveals

November 3, 2025 University of Göttingen phys.org

Land plants -- such as mosses, ferns and trees -- are some of the most structurally complex photosynthesizing organisms on Earth, but their evolutionary story is deeply tied to their ancestors
Ancient lichen were “pioneers in the transformation of Earth’s surface”

November 3, 2025 Evrim Yazgin connectsci.au

New fossil analysis shows lichens were widespread more than 400 million years ago (mya) and were crucial in the development of life on the planet including the earliest plants and animals.
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I’ve Realised Christianity Is More Plausible Than I Thought

November 3, 2025 Alex O’Connor YouTube

Taken from: From Survival to Scripture: Bear Grylls on Faith and Doubt
Valuable misunderstandings

November 3, 2025 Collin Rice Aeon

Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?
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Ancient fish with human-like hearing stuns scientists

November 3, 2025 University of California, Berkeley Science Daily

researchers have redefined how freshwater fish evolved their advanced hearing systems.
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Ancient viruses hidden inside bacteria could help defeat modern infections

November 3, 2025 Penn State Science Daily

Ancient viral fossils in bacteria may hold the secret to next-generation antiviral defenses.
Hadrosaurs: Two Mummies, Two Surprises

November 4, 2025 John Wise Creation-Evolution Headlines

Field discovery keeps contradicting theoretical certainty -- and revealing wonder. Creation demands to be read, not rewritten.
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Why Materialism is Complete Nonsense

November 2, 2025 Bernardo Kastrup Alex O'Connor

Kastrup is a Dutch philosopher and computer scientist recognised for his contributions to consciousness studies, notably through his formulation of analytic idealism -- a variant of metaphysical idealism rooted in the analytic tradition.
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Why The Big Bang Was Not the Beginning

November 3, 2025 Roger Penrose Curt Jaimungal

Penrose dismantles standard cosmology, arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong
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What Intelligent Design Actually Is (and Isn’t)

November 3, 2025 Stephen Meyer

Many people think Intelligent Design is just another word for creationism, but that’s not what scientists like Meyer are arguing. In this clip, Meyer defines Intelligent Design clearly
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Living in a 3-D World

November 3, 2025 Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann Discovery Science

Human beings possess uncanny abilities to perceive and navigate within a three dimensional world. This episode of Secrets of the Human Body investigates the hidden systems that make our astounding spatial awareness possible.
Should Christians Harness AI Chatbots as a Force for Good? Part 1

November 2, 2025 Doug Smith Mind Matters

In response to claims from a Christian ministry, as a Christian software developer, I offer some serious cautions
Junk DNA Can Fight Cancer

November 3, 2025 Sarah Buckland-Reynolds Creation-Evolution Headlines

Scientists now declare that parts of human DNA formerly thought of as “junk” have anti-cancer properties
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Scientists stunned as island spider loses half its genome

November 2, 2025 University of Barcelona Science Daily

An island spider rewrites evolution’s rules by shrinking its genome while growing its genetic complexity.
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Decoding the Cosmos: God, Physics, and the Search for Deeper Explanation

November, 2025 Emily Qureshi-Hurst Wipf and Stock

Qureshi-Hurst (University of Cambridge) takes five of Christianity's most important ideas -- creation, design, providence, incarnation, and salvation -- and examines them in light of cutting-edge physics.
Richard Dawkins on New Threats to Science -- From Religion to Relativism

October, 2025 Nick Gillespie reason magazine

Few living thinkers have been as influential -- or controversial -- as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book
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Can Science Deal with God?

November 1, 2025 Ian Barbour Closer to Truth

Science can deal with God in at least three ways: showing how God is not necessary; showing how God is likely; not relating to God at all. Is only one way best? Atheists claim that scientific explanation eliminates for a ‘God of the gaps’.
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Nobel Laureate: “Quantum Mechanics Is Totally Wrong"

November 1, 2025 Gerard 't Hooft Curt Jaimungal
Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation

November 1, 2025 Michelle Starr Science Alert

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution -- but perhaps not the one everyone was hoping for.
News Update/Commentary
Scientists find “living fossil” fish hidden in museums for 150 years

October 31, 2025 Taylor & Francis Science Daily

The modern coelacanth fish is a famous ‘living fossil’, long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938.
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2 million-year-old teeth reveal secrets from the dawn of humanity

November 1, 2025 The Conversation Science Daily

Ancient proteins from Paranthropus robustus teeth revealed unexpected genetic diversity, reshaping how scientists view this early human relative.
Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans

October 31, 2025 Michael Marshall New Scientist

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of this species than we thought
The Forces that Shape our Universe: Gravity

October 31, 2025 Eric Hedin Science & Culture Today
We need a new Turing test to assess AI’s real-world knowledge

October 29, 2025 Vinay K. Chaudhri Nature

A fresh set of benchmarks could help specialists to better understand artificial intelligence.
How Napoleon’s army met its doom

October 24, 2025 Jenna Ahart Nature

DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role ... Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count.
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world

October 29, 2025 Michael Marshall Nature

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier -- the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
How do you know what I know you know?

October 27, 2025 David Adam Nature

Steven Pinker on common knowledge ... From using words to overthrowing regimes, shared awareness is necessary for people to coordinate. The cognitive scientist explains how it works.
To make water, exoplanets might just need some pressure

October 29, 2025 Quentin Williams Nature

A reaction between hydrogen and magma at high pressure can produce water, which might explain evidence for ‘wet planets’ in places where water can’t condense.
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Building wet planets through high-pressure magma–hydrogen reactions

October 29, 2025 H. W. Horn, et al. Nature, v.646, p.1069-1074

Planetary interior models based on their observed radius–mass relationship suggest that sub-Neptunes contain a discernible amount of either hydrogen (dry planets) or water (wet planets) blanketing a core composed of rocks and metal.
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A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia

September 17, 2025 Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, et al. Nature, v.646, p.1138-1145

The dome-headed pachycephalosaurians are among the most enigmatic dinosaurs.
The Corruption of the Sciences Is Devastating Our Disciplines

October 30, 2025 David Strom Hot Air
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Land plant evolution

October 29, 2025 Jinling Huang and Qia Wang Trends in Plant Science

from microbial interaction to horizontal gene transfer
An Asteroid Impact May Have Led to Flooding near the Grand Canyon

October 22, 2025 Katherine Kornei Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

There’s remarkable synchronicity between the timing of a paleolake in what is today Grand Canyon National Park and the formation of nearby Barringer Meteorite Crater.
Tiny Uranian Moon Likely Had a Massive Subsurface Ocean

October 24, 2025 Kimberly M. S. Cartier Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

Ariel’s tempestuous subsurface ocean may have once composed more than half its total volume.
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What is Cosmology?

October 29, 2025 Hannah Klein New Creation

Astronomy is the study of the stars, sun, moon, galaxies -- in short, the study of things inside the universe. Cosmology is the study of the universe itself.
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Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs

October 30, 2025 Hanna Schleihauf, et al. Science, v.390, n.6772, p.521-526

The ability of humans to think rationally and weigh the evidence when making a choice is well known. Such decision making requires a metacognitive process
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Extraterrestrials illustrated

October 30, 2025 Matt von Hippel Science, v.390, n.6772, p.450

A physicist and a cartoonist join forces with an accessible guide to thinking about life in the cosmos
Chimpanzees are natural scientists

October 30, 2025 Brian Hare Science, v.390, n.6772, p.444-445

Humans and chimpanzees share the potential to rationally revise their beliefs
Rebuilding trust in science requires confronting the harms of ghostwriting

October 30, 2025 Naomi Oreskes Science, v.390, n.6772

Cleaning the scientific house
Alien worlds may be able to make their own water

October 29, 2025 Robin George Andrews Science

Ocean planets could arise from rocks reacting with thick hydrogen atmospheres, lab experiments show
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The Desperation of Recent Creationism

October 29, 2025 Gutsick Gibbon
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World-Renowned Hebrew Scholar Destroys Old Earth Theory

October 27, 2025 Bill Barrick Biblical Studies and Reviews

Does the Bible itself teach a young earth? Is the day-age theory compatible with the Hebrew grammar? What about the Gap Theory, mytho-history, and functional creation views?
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Molecular Machines: Evolved or Designed?

October 28, 2025 David Michael Harvey
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A Mathematical Problem Evolution Can’t Escape

October 28, 2025 Casey Luskin Daily Dose of Wisdom

This video explains a very strange aspect of the fossil record on Darwinism and what some other explanations for it may be.
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Life as a Guide to Its Own Origins

October 28, 2025 Nick Lane Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum

Nick Lane is a biochemist at University College London. He studies energy flows in biology, the origin of life, and the evolution of complex cells.
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The Mutation Myth: What Evolution Doesn’t Want You to Know

October 28, 2025 Michael Behe and other leading voices Discovery Science

For decades we’ve been told that random mutations drive evolution: the engine behind every new trait and species on Earth. But what if the science tells a different story?
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How Darwinism Became the New Faith of the Modern World

October 27, 2025 Neil Thomas Intelligent Design the Future and Discovery Science

Was Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution a scientific breakthrough or a cultural revolution that replaced God with a new belief system? This clip discusses how Darwinism became more than just a scientific theory: it turned into a modern faith.
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The Fatal Flaw in Origin-of-Life Experiments

October 27, 2025 Stephen Meyer

Discover why origin of life experiments have consistently failed to create the building blocks of life under prebiotic conditions. We break down the challenges of chiral molecules, homochirality, and limits of modern chemistry in simulating early Earth