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Neurosurgeon with 7,000 surgeries: “Science forced me to believe in the soul"
September 6, 2026 Somos Alma
An essential conversation about neuroscience, consciousness, near-death experiences, and the existence of the human soul, between Dr. Luján Comas and Dr. Michael Egnor.
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The End of the Central Dogma
September 6, 2026 Voices from Oxford
Is DNA really the blueprint of life? This discussion challenges genetic determinism and explores how living cells use uncertainty, organisation and adaptation to survive.
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Origin of Life: The Fundamental Challenge
September 6, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years
September 5, 2026 Science & Culture Today
That Was Fast
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Darwin’s hunch confirmed at last
September 3, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6815, p.989-990
Carnivorous plants attract, capture, and digest insects to survive in nutrient-poor soils. In 1875, Charles Darwin suspected that two Saxifraga species might share this ability,
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A Theory of Intelligence Metrics: Measuring the Degree of Intelligence in Search
September, 2026 Discovery Institute
The study of intelligence raises two key questions: (1) How can intelligence be detected or inferred from its effects, and (2) how can the degree of intelligence in effects be measured?
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The Organ That “Proved” That Everything Is Connected
September 4, 2026 McGill University
He says he discovered a new organ. He also thinks that dementia reveals the true face of the universe. What is going on?
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Life uses 4 DNA letters. Scientists just made 8 work
September 5, 2026 Science Daily
RNA polymerase handles synthetic DNA letters in surprisingly similar ways to natural ones. The finding brings scientists closer to building expanded genetic systems that could perform entirely new biological functions.
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Scientists overturn a theory about this shark’s strange head
September 4, 2026 Science Daily
Bonnethead sharks change head shape as they grow, overturning a long-held theory and leaving scientists with a new evolutionary mystery.
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The Lizard Brain Is Back? Wait. It’s Not Back…
September 5, 2026 Mind Matters
Not This Again?! ... A useful item from Georgia Tech examines the claim that an ancient lizard brain controls our emotions
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Plant “Muscles” Show Proprioception
September 4, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The sense of position in space was thought to be unique to animals. Trees exhibit proprioception, too.
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Former Atheist: Materialism Cannot Explain Consciousness
September 6, 2026 Mind Matters
“Emergence," the claim that consciousness somehow emerged from matter, faces serious obstacles, he says
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Evolutionary Origin of Information
September 4, 2026 Science & Culture Today
The Problem of Robustness
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How a Christian Magazine and a Christian Scholar Boosted a Book with a Fabricated Quote
September 4, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Chimpanzees have accents too
September 3, 2026 Queen Mary University of London
A study finds that young chimpanzees develop dialect, providing a new way of understanding ontogenetic evolution.
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Mars could hold the secrets to the origins of life
September 3, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Potential biosignatures strengthen case for new Mars mission
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Leading Theory for How Life on Earth Began Is ‘Highly Unlikely'
September 3, 2026 Science Alert
If you ask a scientist how life appeared on Earth, they will usually begin the story in one of two places ... Both tales are highly engaging, but only one holds any water,
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Plants may be evolving the wrong traits for a warming world
September 3, 2026 Science Daily
Morning glories experienced a striking 96% drop in their rate of adaptation over just nine years.
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The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research
September 3, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Protocell Pretensions
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Evolution of New Genes: The Big “If”
September 3, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Privileged Species: Human Uniqueness
February 24, 2020 Discovery Science
Are humans the accidental products of a blind and uncaring universe? Or are they the beneficiaries of a cosmic order that was planned beforehand to help them flourish? Excerpted from the documentary “Privileged Species."
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Varieties of Consciousness Theories
August 30, 2026 Closer to Truth
Robert discusses his lifelong quest to understand why anything exists at all and the nature of consciousness, culminating in his ambitious Landscape of Consciousness framework that organizes and classifies over 400 competing theories.
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Quantum Cyclic Cosmology
September 2, 2026 Phil Halper
One of the deepest mysteries in cosmology is why the early universe began in such an extraordinarily low-entropy state. Attempts to explain this through random fluctuations can lead to the notorious Boltzmann-brain problem
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Scientific Evidence Exposes the Massive Gaps in Human Evolutionary History
September 2, 2026 Discovery Science
By pointing out crushed fossil specimens, flawed reconstructions, and severe dating discrepancies, Luskin demonstrates that claims of upright-walking intermediate links are often overblown by popular media
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Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition
August 25, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake
September 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Retraction Watch Reports on Designer Science Fiasco
August 31, 2026 Science & Culture Today
but Mischaracterizes It
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A Biologist’s Attempt to Escape Reality
September 1, 2026 Science & Culture Today
The Non-Binary Delusion
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Our Lush World: Considering the Problem of Beauty
August 28, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Grappling with Our Promethean Past … and Future
August 31, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress
September 1, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Nonsense with “Nanozymes”
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Cave paintings are much better seen by torchlight
September 2, 2026 Mind Matters
In the Smithsonian Magazine, Ben Crair recounts his journey to a Paleolithic “art gallery” cave
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Social media is not an apocalypse; it’s a printing press cubed
September 1, 2026 Mind Matters
At The Eternally Radical Idea, academic freedom fighter Greg Lukianoff reminds us of how the printing press changed history, inviting comparison with the internet:
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Top Science Journal: All Scientists Should Register with the State
September 1, 2026 Mind Matters
The editors think that government control would prevent “misinformation” from filtering down to us
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Data Centers: Is a Chinese Bot Farm Feeding You Your Opinions?
September 1, 2026 Mind Matters
Maybe bots are not influencing you -- but you can be sure they are trying
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Ancient bacteria have communications structures like human ones
September 2, 2026 Mind Matters
At phys.org, we learn another astonishing thing from prehistory: “Even ancient bacteria possessed intercellular communication structures like humans today, study finds.”
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Of All the Nerves, the Great Vagus Connects Everything
September 1, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Intelligent design accurately describes every organ of the human body. But it also describes something much smaller: a single nerve, the vagus nerve
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Campfires Drove Evolutionary Storytelling
September 3, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s time to turn the tables on the Darwin Yodas and let them refute themselves
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Material Life: Mechanical Meat or Magical Matter?
September 2, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Neither dare challenge the sacred cow that unites them in common descent with modification: Methodological Naturalism
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What the remains of the last Neanderthals tell us about their demise
September 2, 2026 New Scientist
An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species’ final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak takes us inside the cave where they lived and died
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The first signs of dark matter particles may finally have been spotted
September 1, 2026 New Scientist
Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it -- that may have just changed
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New Scientist hype about the origin of life
September 2, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Once there were blobs. But are claims over coacervates convincing science or science fiction?
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Moths, mankind, and modernity
September 1, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Does evolution explain our societal problems?
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Is this the first glimpse of dark matter?
September 1, 2026 Nature
Data point excites physicists ... An experiment spots an energy flash similar to that of the long-sought weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP.
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Order from disorder: do we need a new law of physics?
August 31, 2026 Nature
A radical proposal that evolutionary pressures apply to atoms as much as animals should provoke scientific debate.
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Ancient “living fossils” may reveal how complex life began
September 3, 2026 Science Daily
A newly discovered microbe living inside ancient stromatolite communities may offer a rare look at how complex life first emerged.
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Our cosmic origins remain plausible, not proven
September 1, 2026 Chemistry World
The evidence is there that the molecular ingredients for life can form in space, but that doesn’t mean that they did
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Physicist on Wonder, Discovery, and The Story of Everything
August 31, 2026 ID the Future
By now, you’ve likely heard of the new documentary film The Story of Everything. It’s a cinematic exploration of the evidence for intelligent design in the cosmos, from the fine-tuning of the universe to the stunning engineering in every living cell.
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Did the Evolution of Language Take a Huge Leap Around the Fireplace?
September 2, 2026 ZME Science
A new theory links storytelling, firelight and the rise of spoken language.
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Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble
September 2, 2026 Quanta Magazine
By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly -- or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event.