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Professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés. Photo illustration by Fred Zwicky. U of I researchers trace genetic code’s or...

The sugar ribose is more quickly phosphorylated compared to other sugars with the same chemical formula but a different shape. ...

Common Creationist Fallacies I asked ChatGPT to list some of the most common fallacies used by creationists in onli...

Diagram of an early cell membrane. AI Generated image (ChatGPT4o) How membranes may have brought about the chemistry of life ...

Landmark experiment sheds new light on the origins of consciousness - Allen Institute Consciousness, like the Big Bang and ...

Creationism in Crisis The Fallacy of the Fine-Tuned Universe Great Mysteries of Physics 2: is the universe fine-tuned for life? It won...

Creationism in Crisis How the Bible Narrative Misled 19th Century Palaeontologists Reconstruction of the ceremonial burial Credit: Natalia ...

Are Christian souls gendered? In a fascinating analysis of how the Christian notion of the 'soul' evolved to suit lo...

One more clue to the Moon’s origin | ETH Zurich There are several theories about the origin of the moon. The discovery of noble gases i...

The fossilised remains of Keuppia, an extinct genus of octopus alongside an artist's impression of what the animal may have looked like ...

Olivine basalt Source Scientists announce a breakthrough in determining life's origin on Earth—and maybe Mars The basic problem wit...

Rove Beetle, Staphylinidae sp. A beetle chemical defense gland offers clues about how complex organs evolve -- ScienceDaily Rove beetles ...

The grotesque random slaughter of innocent people, including young children, in the name of Islam, in Britain, France and Afghanistan by Mus...

A couple of interesting articles in the science literature this week showing how science works and why it ultimately corrects it errors, whe...

Prof. Ian Stewart, Dr. Terry Pratchett and Prof. Jack Cohen I've previously blogged about the 'Ontological Argument' for god...

The argument from incredulity is one of the commonest 'arguments' against science and history, and for gods. It's not based on r...

Let's have another look at William Lane Craig's filched (from mediaeval Islam) argument for a god (in his case, of course, not the ...

You see, if, in all seriousness, I claimed I have an undetectable hippo in my loft, challenged you to prove it didn't exist, and then cl...

You know, you'll never believe this but the other day in Oxford I met someone who said he had heard about a man who could do amaz...

One of the major problems faced by creationists and religious apologists is the mountain of science and scientific theories they need to som...