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NEW ARTICLES - February 2017 |
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| Origin of life: We are all descended from a “complex” ancestor? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Origin of life: Horizontal gene transfer “negligible” and endosymbiosis “wrong” as factors in earliest known life? |
Uncommon Descent |
| 'Best ever' view of what a dinosaur really looked like |
BBC |
| RNA self-editing: “It sounds simple, but in real life it was really complicated” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dr. Wile Reviews Naturalism and Its Alternatives |
Uncommon Descent |
| Do true believers hold back society? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Spontaneous 'dust traps:' Astronomers discover a missing link in planet formation |
Science Daily |
| Major Evolutionary Blunders: Convergent Evolution Is a Seductive Intellectual Swindle |
ICR |
| Why Was Civilization So Late in Coming? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Evolution for the Birds |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Big Science Supports Death |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Electrical wire-like behavior of DNA is involved in the molecule's replication |
Science Daily |
| Science Is a Religious Endeavor |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Where do flowers come from? Shedding light on Darwin's 'abominable mystery' |
Science Daily |
| It’s amazing how much good science started out as mistakes… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rob Sheldon: Are the seven new planets, three “habitable,” just hype? Read the fine print. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Tom Bethell on authoritarian science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwin fans: We censor in order to oppose censorship |
Uncommon Descent |
| A Review of the Documentary Film “Is Genesis History?” |
Geoscience Research Institute |
| New Film - "Is Genesis History?" - Presents a False Dichotomy: I (Paul Nelson) Dissent from My Role in It |
Evolution News and Views |
| "Is Genesis History?" - Preview Night |
Todd C. Wood Blog - Feb 13, 2017 |
| Todd Wood answers anticipated questions about "Is Genesis History?" |
Todd C. Wood Blog - Feb 20, 2017 |
| The Incoherence of Materialism, as Demonstrated by Ayn Rand |
Uncommon Descent |
| Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism Biology Online Conference - Abstracts |
AM-Nat Biology Conference |
| Seven Earth size planets - three in habitable zone |
Space.com |
| Giving weight to Darwin's theory of 'living fossils' |
Science Daily |
| From de novo protein design to molecular machine systems |
Foresight |
| Atheist cosmologist warns “deeply religious” people not to put their faith in “apparent” fine-tuning |
Uncommon Descent |
| Multiverse explains why progress in fundamental physics is slow? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Thomas Nagel: Daniel Dennett “maintaining a thesis at all costs” in Bacteria to Bach and Back |
Uncommon Descent |
| The RNA code comes into focus |
Nature |
| Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes |
New Scientist |
| An epigenetics gold rush: new controls for gene expression |
Nature |
| Carlo Rovelli: Theories of everything ill-conceived but we can learn to understand quantum mechanics |
Uncommon Descent |
| Good ribbance: Dinosaur rib bones reveal remnants of 195-million-year-old protein |
Science Daily |
| Start codons in DNA may be more numerous than previously thought |
Science Daily |
| Resolving Human Evolutionary Dating Dilemmas |
Answers in Genesis |
| Cosmos Controversy: The Universe Is Expanding, but How Fast? |
NY Times |
| New Evidence for the Strange Idea that the Universe Is a Hologram |
Nautilus |
| New evidence for the universe as a hologram? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Deep problem created by Darwinian Ron Fisher’s p-values highlighted again |
Uncommon Descent |
| But it can’t really be Fake Physics because humans did not evolve to perceive reality |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Intricacies of Flight in the Natural World |
Answers in Genesis |
| Biologists propose to sequence the DNA of all life on Earth |
Science Magazine |
| Watch nature documentaries with caution. They are often sermons, of sorts. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Tom Bethell muses on Evolution Weekend |
Uncommon Descent |
| Washington Post reporter mongers fear over South Dakota academic freedom bill |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cosmologist Sean Carroll: If we are Boltzmann brains, our perceptions are befuddled |
Uncommon Descent |
| The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics |
BBC |
| BBC: Human mind’s link to quantum physics is real? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal |
The Guardian |
| Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism Conference - List of talks |
am-nat.org |
| Fine tuning: Van Allen belts more “bizarre” than expected |
Uncommon Descent |
| Heredity is foundationally cellular not genetic |
Creation.com |
| Is the term “biological information” meaningful? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Live birth in lizards at 250 mya |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fossils Destroy Human Evolution Story Again |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Philosopher: We cannot ignore the fact that science is not value-free |
Uncommon Descent |
| Slower-spinning galaxy bars new evidence for dark matter? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Earth Remains the Only Goldilocks Planet |
ICR |
| Where the New Science of Morality Goes Wrong |
The Hedgehog Review |
| ARJ - ongoing debate on status of Homo naledi |
Answers in Genesis |
| Dormouse might be first tree-climbing mammal shown to echolocate |
New Scientist |
| Prebiotic evolution: Hairpins help each other out |
Science Daily |
| In the Beginning: Episodes in the Origin & Development of Science |
Salvo Magazine |
| Science Teaching Standards up for Revision in Texas |
The Scientist |
| How to Spot a Fake Science News Story |
American Council on Science and Health |
| Science, lies and video-taped experiments |
Nature |
| Science, lies, and videotape? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Transparency in science? Getting rid of the “closely held embargo” was a good start |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could Suicidal Behaviors Be the Result of Evolution? |
Nautilus |
| 2016 the worst year ever for fake physics? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The response of 'professional atheists' to book on Christopher Hitchens |
First Things |
| NIH’s Eugene Koonin identifies key ways our approach to evolution has changed |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Tangled History of Big Bang Science |
Nautilus |
| Something From "Nothing"? |
Detecting Design |
| Precambrian complexity of adrenergic signaling |
BMC Biology |
| Major Evolutionary Blunders: Evolutionary Psychology for Serious Tabloid Readers |
ICR |
| Crazy Convergences Distort Darwinism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Solving Appendix Mysteries |
ICR |
| Klinghoffer: “Evolutionary science is in a depressed condition,” despite hype |
Uncommon Descent |
| New study reveals hidden dynamics of bird and mammal DNA evolution |
Science Daily |
| “Junk RNA” helps embryos sort themselves out |
Uncommon Descent |
| Will We Ever Know What Dark Matter Is? |
Nautilus Cosmos |
| New evidence in favor of dark matter: The bars in galaxies are spinning more slowly than we thought |
Science Daily |
| Weevil genus beats records of explosive evolutive radiation |
Science Daily |
| Evolution: Unexpectedly elastic genomes balanced gains and losses over 100 million years, researchers say |
Uncommon Descent |
| More Collapsed Darwinian Expectations |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| “Unfossilizable” fossils found, from late Cambrian |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science Is Not Constantly Being Proved Right |
Nautilus |
| What happened to the Intelligent Design movement? |
Free Thought Blog |
| “Evolution of genetic code” article illustrates fundamental problem |
Uncommon Descent |
| Plants' Epigenetic Secrets |
The Scientist |
| Mechanism for photosynthesis found in primeval, non-photosynthetic microbe |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Are We Conscious? |
Neurologica Blog |
| The tale of how the panda’s thumb evolved—twice |
Uncommon Descent |
| How plants evolved into carnivores |
Nature |
| The Scientist: Plants’ epigenetic silencing hides variations |
Uncommon Descent |
| No coherent “narrative” for transposable elements (jumping genes)? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Functional roles of Aves class-specific cis-regulatory elements on macroevolution of bird-specific features |
Nature |
| You mean, there WAS a universe before the Big Bang? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Spiny, armored slug reveals ancestry of molluscs |
Science Daily |
| Laszlo Bencze on Tom Bethell’s Darwin’s House of Cards |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why look for a new theory of gravity if the big bang cosmology is correct? |
Bible-Science Forum |
| Astrophysicist: “White holes” seem to be mathematical fiction, so wormholes won’t work |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human mind: “Dead Horse” Dennett kicks Darwin’s nag again |
Uncommon Descent |
| Study finds mutual reinforcement of phenotypic diversity and cooperation |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Last common PreCambrian ancestor had complex adrenergic signaling |
Uncommon Descent |
| More secular apocalypses… six cosmic catastrophes for Earth |
Uncommon Descent |
| The tragic story of Soviet genetics shows the folly of political meddling in science |
The Conversation |
| Granville Sewell: On “Compensating” Entropy Decreases |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolutionary Materialism Promotes Deadly Sins |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Too Big You Say? Can You Back That Up? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genetic 'switch' in animals offers clues to evolutionary origins of fine motor skills |
Science Daily |
| Ethan Siegel tackles fine-tuning at Forbes |
Uncommon Descent |
| How the horse can help us answer one of evolution's biggest questions |
The Conversation |
| Oceanographer on the crisis of trust in science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science Has A Plagiarism Problem |
Discover Magazine Blog |
| Can science survive if naturalism rules? |
Uncommon Descent |
| We might be overestimating the age of ancient rocks |
New Atlas |
| Low level of oxygen in Earth's middle ages delayed evolution for two billion years |
Science Daily |
| “Substantial evidence” claimed for universe as a hologram |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dinosaur Eggs Not Bird-Like After All |
ICR |
| Universe neither confirms nor denies its holographic nature |
ARS Technica |
| Universe refuses to discuss whether it is a hologram |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mars rover steps up hunt for molecular signs of life |
Science Magazine |
| Neurologist muses on why we are conscious |
Uncommon Descent |
| Monkey Business in the Chimp Genome |
ICR |
| Cognitive science: Dennett rides again |
Nature |
| Dinosaur rib bones reveal remnants of 195-million-year-old protein |
Science Daily |
| Proteins in a 195-million-year-old dinosaur fossil |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Review of Denis Lamoureux's Evolution: Scripture and Nature Say Yes! |
Answers in Genesis |