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• Researchers Ponder Why Animals Adopt Other Species' Orphans

  May 7, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Beliefs about what animals “should do” are often hampered by a lack of common sense reasoning and an outdated evolution theory

• There Is No Escape from Human Exceptionalism

  May 8, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Author Melanie Challenger thinks we should embrace our true animal nature. But that’s impossible

• How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously

  April 30, 2021 Gideon Lewis-Kraus New Yorker

  For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.

• No, NASA photos are not evidence of fungus growing on Mars, sorry

  May 8, 2021 Jackson Ryan cnet.com

  Despite what you might have read, the claims about life on Mars are shoddy and unscientific.

• News Update/Commentary

  The origin of reproductive organs

  May 6, 2021 University of Pennsylvania Science Daily

  Early in fetal development, a mass of cells known as the bipotential gonad has the possibility of giving rise either to ovaries or testes, reproductive organs that contribute to many of the characteristics that define a person's sex.

• Losing the Forest by Fixating on the Trees -- A Response to Venema’s Critique of Undeniable

  February 6, 2018 Douglas Axe Evolution News & Science Today

• Giraffe Genome Points to Maybe Four Species But It Is “Not Evolutionary”

  May 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: The Last Bacterial Common Ancestor Had a Flagellum

  May 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Forget What You Thought You Knew About Eukaryote Evolution…

  May 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• At Gizmodo, of All Places: A Convergent Evolution Slide Show

  May 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• How Do We Know We Are Not Just Physical Bodies?

  May 6, 2021 Mind Matters

  The mind-body problem is one of the most difficult issues in modern philosophy

• Why Isn’t Anyone Seriously Challenging The Big Bang?

  May 6, 2021 Ethan Siegel Forbes

• Plants Help Each Other. Are They Self-Aware? Can They Suffer?

  May 6, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Recent discoveries that plants can do many things that we used to think only animals could do raise some interesting questions

• Chicxulub Impact Changed Tropical Rain Forest Biodiversity Forever

  May 3, 2021 Humberto Basilio Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid reset most of life on Earth. But without this catastrophic event, the composition of neotropical rain forests wouldn’t be the same.

• Is there a pattern to the universe?

  May 6, 2021 Paul Sutter space.com

  Astronomers are getting some answers to an age-old question.

• Review: Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils

  May 6, 2021 American Museum of Natural History EurekAlert!

  Fossil apes can inform us about essential aspects of ape and human evolution, including the nature of our last common ancestor

• Whole-Genome Data Point to Four Species of Giraffe

  May 6, 2021 Ruth Williams The Scientist

  The genome sequences of 51 giraffes from all over Africa contribute to the latest attempt in an ongoing pursuit to pin down a species number.

• Further evidence supports controversial claim that SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate with human DNA

  May 6, 2021 Jon Cohen Science

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A rooted phylogeny resolves early bacterial evolution

  May 7, 2021 Gareth A. Coleman, et al. Science

• The platypus: What nature’s weirdest mammal says about our origins

  May 5, 2021 Ibrahim Sawal New Scientist

  Platypuses glow in UV light, produce venom and lay eggs. Yet despite their oddities, their newly sequenced genome illuminates the evolution of mammals

• Ancient hominins may have needed midwives to help deliver babies

  May 7, 2021 Michael Marshall New Scientist

• News Update/Commentary

  The cerebellum may have played an important role in the evolution of the human brain

  May 6, 2021 Public Library of Science Science Daily

  Study compares epigenetic modifications to DNA in the cerebellum of humans, chimpanzees and monkeys

• News Update/Commentary

  Research on Lake Victoria cichlids uncovers the processes of rapid species adaptation

  May 7, 2021 Tokyo Institute of Technology Science Daily

  New genetic analyses of cichlids in Lake Victoria highlight several candidate genes that may drive adaptive radiation and provide evidence for decisive selective events that cause particular genetic variants to quickly gain dominance within populations.

• News Update/Commentary

  Engineers and biologists join forces to reveal how seals evolved to swim

  May 6, 2021 Monash University Science Daily

  Seals and sea lions are fast swimming ocean predators that use their flippers to literally fly through the water. But not all seals are the same: some swim with their front flippers while others propel themselves with their back feet.

• News Update/Commentary

  Sharks use Earth's magnetic fields to guide them like a map

  May 6, 2021 Cell Press Science Daily

  Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched. Now, researchers have some of the first solid evidence that sharks also rely on magnetic fields

• Did the Origin of Animals Require New Genes?

  May 6, 2021 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Giraffe Genome Is Not Evolutionary

  May 7, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today

• Return of the God Hypothesis

  May 7, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  BioLogos Hosts Stephen Meyer for a Podcast Discussion

• Bats Are Born Knowing How To Measure Speed in Time, Not Distance

  May 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• According to Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, The Universe Has Never Truly Been Empty

  May 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• National Academy of Sciences Attempts To Grapple with “Misinformation” and “Disinformation”

  May 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Human Neurons Are Different from Animal Ones, Researchers Say

  May 5, 2021 Mind Matters

  A Canadian research team got a rare chance to compare live brain tissue from donors undergoing surgery with that of rodents

• Bonobo Chimpanzees Adopt Orphans, a First for Great Apes

  March 27, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  But this story is not what it seems. Let’s cut through some pop science assumptions. The real story is an argument that humans are not just animals

• Using Stromatolites to Rethink the Precambrian-Cambrian Pre-Flood/Flood Boundary

  May 5, 2021 Ken P. Coulson Answers Research Journal

• Video

  The Paradigm Project: Intelligent Design

  May 4, 2021 Discovery Science YouTube

  Meet some of the world’s most dangerous minds -- scientists who are daring to claim that nature provides compelling evidence of intelligent design.

• Picozoans Are Algae After All: Study

  May 6, 2021 Christie Wilcox The Scientist

  Phylogenomics data place the enigmatic plankton in the middle of the algal family tree, despite their apparent lack of plastids -- an organelle characteristic of all other algae.

• Can Single Cells Learn?

  May 1, 2021 Catherine Offord The Scientist

  A controversial idea from the mid-20th century is attracting renewed attention from researchers developing theories for how cognition arises with or without a brain.

• Information from Nothing? Darwinists Must Believe It

  April 29, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today

• Closer Look at the T3SS Reveals Design

  May 6, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today

• Do Human Embryos Have Gills?

  May 5, 2021 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• AAAS Leader Does Not Rule Out Design

  May 5, 2021 Herman B. Bouma Evolution News & Science Today

  says science must follow the evidence

• Huge Structures Found from 7000 Years Ago in Arabia

  May 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Is the Best Place To Find Life on Mars Under the Surface?

  May 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Study: Only 15% of Psych Papers Rooted in Theory

  May 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Re Design in Nature: New AAAS Head Says… What? Follow the… Evidence?

  May 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Trying to Disprove Free Will Shows That Materialism Doesn't Work

  May 2, 2021 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  If you have a metaphysical theory and it contradicts science, logic, and everyday experience, then your metaphysics should be abandoned

• Researcher: Fear of AI Caused by Four Common Misconceptions

  May 4, 2021 Mind Matters

  AI isn't panning out the way so many popular media articles predicted and there are reasons for that, a computer science prof says

• 60 Million Stars and Not One Alien Detected

  May 3, 2021 George Dvorsky Gizmodo

• More obsolete Dawkinsian evidence for evolution

  May 4, 2021 Richard Buggs Nature -- Ecology & Evolution

  A claim that the bacterial flagellum evolved from the injectisome is no longer sustainable

• Video

  Colin McGinn -- Why is Consciousness so Baffling?

  May 3, 2021 Closer To Truth YouTube

  How does consciousness weave its magical web of inner awareness -- appreciating music, enjoying art, feeling love? Even when all mental functions may be explained, the great mystery -- what it ‘feels like' inside -- will likely remain.