In a new Northwestern Medicine study, scientists sought to better understand how humans evolved to become so skilled at thinking about what’s happening in other peoples’ minds. Amygdala is the organ in the limbic system (inner mind) —though a tiny little one is significantly responsible for our emotions which falls in the bracket of implicit memories. Overthinking what you said? It’s your ‘lizard brain’ talking to newer, advanced parts of your brain: For Journalists - Northwestern University Few things upset creationists more than evidence that they are not only apes and share a common an ..read more

Indigenous Australians using fire to hunt kangaroos. Painting by Joseph Lycett, ca. 1817. Source: National Library of Australia. Emerald Swamp, Tasmania. Credit: Simon Haberle Study uncovers earliest evidence of humans using fire to shape the landscape of Tasmania | University of Cambridge One of creationism's many problems is that being a counter-factual superstition it is easy to refute with facts. For example, trying to cling to the childish belief that the Universe and Earh are both between 6 and 10,000 years old, must be difficult in view of all the evidence of things happening on ..read more

Photomicrograph of a blood smear contains a macro- and microgametocyte of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite Photo Credit: CDC/Dr. Mae Melvin - This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL) #2704, Public Domain, Link Study uncovers first evidence of resistance to standard malaria treatment in African children with severe malaria In another twist of the arms race with human medical science Plasmodium falciparum, the malevolently designed parasite that causes malaria and kills hundreds of thousands of children a year, mostly in Af ..read more

A cell of the ichthyosporean C. perkinsii showing distinct signs of polarity, with clear cortical localization of the nucleus before the first cleavage. Microtubules are shown in magenta, DNA in blue, and the nuclear envelope in yellow. © DudinLab Chromosphaera perkinsii resembles the early stages of animal embryo development during its multicellular life stage DudinLab The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg! - Medias - UNIGE Scientists believe they may have cracked the chicken and egg 'problem' that creationists have been fooled into thinking is a killer problem for t ..read more

Salmonella infects the small intestine and alters the colon environment Intestinal lumen New study shows how salmonella tricks gut defenses to cause infection There is a simple paradox at the heart of creationism that I have never even seen an attempt to resolve. It all comes from two beliefs: there is only one designer god capable of designing living organisms and that designer god designed us complete with our immune system with which we can attempt to resist attack by pathogens, and that pathogens are not the work of this design, but are the result of 'genetic entropy' and 'devolution ..read more

3D laser scans enable the researchers to study the fossils’ shape and curvature. Droser Lab/UCR Researchers Scott Evans (left) and Ian Hughes examine a fossil bed at Nilpena Ediacara National Park. Droser Lab/UCR. Tiny worm makes for big evolutionary discovery | UCR News | UC Riverside The refutation of creationism continues today with news of another one of those 'non-existent' transitional species that turn up with monotonous regularity only to be dismissed by creationists as 'not transitional but fully formed' with now two gaps in the record where there was originally one, or by sim ..read more

Electron micrograph of the choanoflagellate, Salpingoeca. By Sergey Karpov - http://www.choano.org/wiki/Choanoflagellate_Gallery#Salpingoeca_sp._Gallery, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Choanoflagellates, singly and as a colony. Scientists recreate mouse from gene older than animal life - Queen Mary University of London If there is one thing designed to get creationists chanting 'Common Designer!' it's evidence of the same gene doing the same thing in lots of different organisms, no matter how distantly related they are. But when that gene is needed because of a basic design blunder long ago in the ..read more

Life restoration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto. AI-generated image. New fossil discovery reveals key step in the evolution of flying reptiles - Queen Mary University of London Although creationists insist dinosaurs coexisted with humans before their god launched his genocidal flood, and even twist words like 'behemoth' in the Bible to try to show how the authors of genesis were familiar with dinosaurs (as though there was only one species) what they never explain is why the same authors said nothing at all about the pterodactyls that were contemporaneous ..read more

Artistic representation of the Gibraltar sill rupture at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. In the final moments of this crisis, the level of the Mediterranean Sea was around 1 km lower than that of the Atlantic Ocean. © Pibernat & Garcia-Castellanos How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years ago | CNRS The two accumulation phases of the Mediterranean salt layer during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. In the first phase, salt accumulated in a Mediterranean Basin filled with brine; in the second phase, salt accumulated in a Mediterranean completely isolated from t ..read more

The Failure of the Wedge Strategy AI generated image (ChatGPT4o) While writing my previous book, Refuting Creationism: Why Creationism Fails In Both Its Science and Its Theology I realised what a monumental failure the creationist movement, in particular the Discovery Institute's 'Wedge Strategy', had been. Just about every paper published in the fields of biology, palaeontology, cosmology and archaeology refuted just about every claim on which creationism rests, whether the claims of a young earth with the YEC obsession with a global flood, the supposed absence of 'transitional fossils ..read more