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| NEW ARTICLES - DECEMBER 2017 |
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| Freud Was a Fraud: A Triumph of Pseudoscience |
Science-Based Medicine |
| Darwin, Marx, and Freud: Now Freud is the “triumph of pseudoscience”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Origin of life - James Tour, Animadversions of a Synthetic Chemist |
Inference: International Review of Science |
| Synthetic chemist James Tour wonders why “everyone is lying” about the origin of life |
Uncommon Descent |
| Life didn't evolve from RNA |
Quanta Magazine |
| Celebrating Michael Behe's Intelligent Design Revolution, Documentary Is Now Free Online! |
Evolution News |
| The fundamental theorem of natural selection with mutations |
Journal of Mathematical Biology |
| Mathematician and Geneticist Team Up to Correct Fisher's Theorem |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| “Fisher’s Proof of Darwinism Has Been Flipped” paper is making waves |
Uncommon Descent |
| God as a necessary, maximally great, endless being vs. the challenge to an actual infinity |
Uncommon Descent |
| The origin of water's unusual properties found |
Science Daily |
| A new piece found in the puzzle of water’s strange, life-enabling behavior |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stake in heart of school Darwinism lesson: Bilaterian nerve cords probably evolved many times |
Uncommon Descent |
| A. N. Wilson's Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker |
Discovery |
| Cosmos Magazine’s Top Ten includes: Universe’s underlying symmetry still baffling and human evolution timeline drastically stretched |
Uncommon Descent |
| ScienceNews picks of the year: Frogs that fluoresce and brainless animals that sleep |
Uncommon Descent |
| Natural Selection is still at work |
Genome Web |
| The Origin of Life: The Information Challenge |
Evolution News |
| Why are secularist sins, like Margaret Sanger’s an Alfred Kinsey’s, off-limits? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Is M-Theory the Leading Candidate for Theory of Everything? |
Quanta Magazine |
| Oldest fossils show life on Earth began 3.5 billion years ago |
phys.org |
| Origin of life in the lab prophesied in 1960 |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can the rot of naturalism be stopped? Relating information to matter and energy might help |
Evolution News |
| The spliceosome: a molecular machine that defies any non-design explanation |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Universe Shouldn’t Exist, CERN Scientists Announce |
Big Think |
| Researchers at CERN: The universe should not exist |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Materialist Narrative and the Power of Bias |
Evolution News |
| Religious people live healthier, longer lives |
Newsweek |
| Best of 2017: Fleshy Fossils |
ICR |
| Live-bearing lizards switched back to egg-laying in recent eons, violating Dollo’s Law |
Uncommon Descent |
| The (Ultimate) Top Ten Science Stories of 2017 |
Real Clear Science |
| Evolution is a Fact; So is Climate Change |
Uncommon Descent |
| A top anthropology finding of year show humans cognitively closer to dogs than chimps |
Uncommon Descent |
| After 40 years of studying the strong nuclear force, a revelation |
The Guardian |
| Grand evolution theory for complex animals in ruins; fossil is in fact a jellyfish |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can Bose-Einstein condensates simulate cosmic inflation? |
Physics World |
| Earth was smashed by a rock the size of Mars to make the moon |
New Scientist |
| Can morals be grounded as objective knowledge (and are some moral principles self-evident)? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stellar Nucleosynthesis: Where Did Heavy Elements Come From? |
ICR |
| Fossils of earliest organisms that had sex are a billion years old |
CBC |
| Engineered Adaptability: Epigenetics-Engineered Phenotypic 'Flexing' |
ICR |
| Fossil micro-organisms that could not arise via Darwinism prove that life in the universe is common? Why? How? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The World's Largest Bacterium Is Visible To The Naked Eye |
Curiosity |
| Discrepancy Between Cerebral Structure and Cognitive Functioning |
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease |
| Do we even need dark energy to explain cosmic expansion? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A 508-million-year-old sea predator with sophisticated head |
Science Daily |
| New Scientist: Why atheists think harder than other folk. Huh? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Shenanigans |
ICR |
| String theory is alive, there just isn’t any evidence for it |
Uncommon Descent |
| How to Slam Dunk Creationists |
The Conversation |
| Origin of life challenge: The information challenge is the only one that counts |
Uncommon Descent |
| What We Mean When We Say Evidence-Based Medicine |
NY Times |
| Can Bayes Save Modern Science? |
Real Clear Science |
| Treasure trove of new Cambrian fossils raises big question |
Uncommon Descent |
| H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their debate whether science is humanity's best hope continues today |
The Conversation |
| Film night with Philip Cunningham: Atheists’ reasons for not believing in God are not scientific, and more… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Anthropology top findings 2017 |
Sapiens |
| The Biggest Science Scandals of 2017 |
The Scientist |
| The Scientist on the biggest science scandals of 2017 |
Uncommon Descent |
| Should Scientists Publish Their Personal Biases? |
Nautilus |
| Asked at Nautilus: Should scientists publish their personal biases? |
Uncommon Descent |
| 10 Biggest Junk Science Stories of 2017 |
American Council on Science and Health |
| A planet that doesn't play by the rules |
Nature |
| Scientists describe how solar system could have formed in bubble around giant star |
Science Daily |
| Origins of photosynthesis in plants dated to 1.25 billion years ago |
Science Daily |
| William Lane Craig and the Origin of the Universe |
Answers in Genesis |
| Plants reveal decision-making abilities under competition |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Plants can choose how to respond to competitors |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evaluating Claims of Oldest Fossil Microbes |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Bacteria acquire resistance from competitors |
Science Daily |
| The New Origin of Species |
Answers in Genesis |
| The Cosmological Argument and an eternal big bang universe |
Bible-Science Forum |
| Chemical Analysis Can Help Scientists Decode the Tree of Life |
PBS |
| Viruses can transfer genes across the superkingdoms of life |
Science Daily |
| Darwinism is toast. But what will replace it? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinism fails again: Human bodies did not change make walking easier, as claimed |
Uncommon Descent |
| Electric eel inspires new power source |
Physics World |
| The Evolution of Religion, or the Religion of Evolution? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Plant studies: Intelligence does not require a brain or nervous system |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mysterious new seafloor species sheds light on early animal evolution |
Science Daily |
| Rapid Finch Speciation Counters Evolution |
ICR |
| The Calculation-Free Design Intuition and the Calculations That Validate It |
Evolution News |
| At BigThink: Top ten greatest scientists alive today |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers: Chances of life on exoplanets less than supposed, due to stellar winds |
Uncommon Descent |
| Story of human dispersal across the globe drastically revised |
Uncommon Descent |
| “Anti-science”? That happens whenever anyone questions what is marketed as “science.” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Big Science Has Prostituted Its Core Mission |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Treasure trove of highly detailed fossils uncovered |
Science Daily |
| More complex biological systems evolve more freely |
Science Daily |
| (Real non-Darwinian) evolution in action: Bacteria murder rivals and steal their genes |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Origin of Life: Correcting Common Mistakes on Thermodynamics |
Evolution News |
| The Origin of Life: Dangers of Taking Research Claims at Face Value |
Evolution News |
| Ancient fossil microorganisms indicate that life in the universe is common |
Science Daily |
| Doing without dark energy: Mathematicians propose alternative explanation for cosmic acceleration |
Science Daily |
| Habitable Planets Just Got Much More Rare |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The Zealous Faith of Secularism |
First Things |
| The Materialist Narrative and the Power of Bias |
Evolution News |
| Wikipedia Co-Founder Blasts "Appallingly Biased" Wikipedia Entry on Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| Models of star and galaxy cluster formation incorrect |
Cosmos Magazine |
| But maybe there was a universe before the Big Bang… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Change Your Mind on Darwinism, Get Expelled |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| DNA: Supercoiling pushes molecular handcuffs along chromatin fibres |
Science Daily |
| Atheists' Design Admissions |
Apologetics Press |
| Design (But Not Design) Is the New Unifying Principle of Biology |
Evolution News |
| Science of Smell Points to Design |
Christian Headlines |
| The BioLogos Project: A program of unwarranted assumptions and irrational claims |
Uncommon Descent |
| Origin of life paper with Nobelist author is retracted. But now the good news… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Template-Assisted Ligation: A New OOL Model |
Uncommon Descent |
| A look at earliest human ancestors so far known (350 kya), found in modern-day Morocco |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human Body Wonders |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| What would Enrico (“if aliens exist, where are they?”) Fermi think of string theory? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Psychology of Religion |
Psychology Today |
| Psychologist asks, Why are some people more religious than others? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Philip Cunningham: Darwinism vs biological form |
Uncommon Descent |
| Neutrinos Suggest Solution to Mystery of Universe's Existence |
Quanta Magazine |
| Beyond the animal brain: plants have cognitive capacities too |
Aeon |
| Tiny sea creatures upend notion of how animals' nervous systems evolved |
Nature |
| Homo sapiens, Earlier Still |
Archaeology |
| Convergent evolution of bilaterian nerve cords |
Nature |
| Astonishing examples of high intelligence in "lower" animals point to an all-knowing Creator |
Answers in Genesis |
| How can God be infinite if actual infinites cannot exist? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Does Scandinavia show that we do not need God to be good? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Where science and faith meet - David Tyler |
Evangelical Times |
| Researchers ask: Do viruses share genes across the kingdoms of life? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Will artificial intelligence become conscious? |
The Conversation |
| Scientific peer review: an ineffective and unworthy institution |
Times Higher Education |
| At Times Higher: Peer review an “ineffective and unworthy” institution, some reforms proposed |
Uncommon Descent |
| Top 5 Human Evolution Discoveries of 2017 |
PLOS Blogs |
| Ancient genetic mutation helps explain origin of some human organs |
Science Daily |
| Synthetic protein packages its own genetic material and evolves |
Science Daily |
| Fossil Trees in Antarctica Preserve Ancient Proteins |
ICR |
| From the Edge: Another reason not to like evolutionary psychology - support for Chinese eugenics |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human brain cells live long but acquire thousands of mutations along the way |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is This Duck a Dinosaur? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| What is “information”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| From an expert walled up behind the 30-metre Oblivion Wall, we learn the causes of “science denial” … |
Uncommon Descent |
| Austin Ruse: Post-modern science hits the streets |
Uncommon Descent |
| Our First Duty |
Uncommon Descent |
| World's scientists turn to Asia and Australia to rewrite human history |
The Conversation |
| Science Magazine attacks the Bible |
Creation.com |
| Viruses share genes with organisms across the tree of life, study finds |
Science Daily |
| 530m-year-old fossil eye could be world's oldest |
University of Edinburgh |
| 530-million-year-old Fossil Has Look of World’s Oldest Eye |
Uncommon Descent |
| Investigation finds Swedish scientists committed scientific misconduct |
Nature |
| Revising the story of the dispersal of modern humans across Eurasia |
Science Daily |
| First DNA sequence from a single mitochondria |
Science Daily |
| If Actual Infinites Cannot Exist, How Can We Say God Is Infinite? |
Cerebral Faith |
| A tale from the decline of science journalism: Facts don’t matter |
Uncommon Descent |
| Study: We would be cool with finding aliens |
Uncommon Descent |
| Do we have sufficient in hand to decide what knowledge is not? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Acrobatic duo in the cells |
Science Daily |
| Left-wing mag slams Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Argentinian geoscientist faces criminal charges over glacier survey |
Nature |
| Tidalgate: Climate Alarmists Caught Faking Sea Level Rise |
Breitbart |
| The image-forming mirror in the eye of the scallop |
Science |
| Telescope-Like Eyes in a "Simple" Mollusk |
Evolution News |
| Science Mag: Scallop’s eye “Fine-tuned for image formation” |
Uncommon Descent |
| How the oldest compound eyes were constructed |
Science Daily |
| Pearlside eyes unexpectedly at odds with other deep-sea fishes': Chance, fate, or design? Are we allowed to wonder? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The remarkable eyes of deep-sea pearlsides: mere chance, fortuitous necessity or intelligent design? |
Science Advances |
| Mock at Your Peril! Naturalism Is a Jealous Fraud |
Evolution News |
| Early avian evolution: The Archaeopteryx that wasn't |
Science Daily |
| MACHOs are dead, WIMPs are a no-show -- SIMPs new candidate for universe's elusive dark matter |
Science Daily |
| Three Discoveries Mystify Astronomers |
ICR |
| Dark energy is mutating, with grave consequences for the cosmos |
New Scientist |
| Barry Arrington: Will Your Conscience be a Casualty in the Progressives’ War on Science? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Experiment demonstrates quantum mechanical effects from biological system |
Science Daily |
| How cells rebuild after mitosis |
Science Daily |
| Protein-folding simulations sped up |
Science Daily |
| Zombie Watch: Debunked Finches Re-Emerge to Validate Darwin |
Evolution News |
| Viruses hijack a long non-coding RNA |
Nature |
| How ribosomes shape the proteome |
Science Daily |
| Genes identified that distinguish mammals from other animals |
Science Daily |
| Recently discovered fossil shows transition of a reptile from life on land to life in the sea |
Science Daily |
| Ancient human ancestor 'Little Foot' makes public debut |
CNN |
| Todd Wood's take on forthcoming publication of research on Little Foot |
Todd C. Wood |
| Surprise in the kangaroo family tree: An outsider is a close relative, after all |
Science Daily |
| Dutch universities involved in co-ordinated origin of life studies |
Uncommon Descent |
| Paper on origin of life is retracted |
Retraction Watch |
| Pathway Complexity and design inferences |
Royal Society Publishing |
| Eye Origins: How Evolution Could Produce a Sophisticated Eye |
Evolution Institute |
| The Causes of Science Denial |
NeurologicaBlog |
| And now for something completely different: Do angels exist? |
Uncommon Descent |
| It’s not just science. Stanford lied for years to MBAs. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Big Science Driven by Political Correctness |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Gunter Bechly: Decline of science? Imaged in a single paragraph |
Uncommon Descent |
| More news from the decline: Revealing responses to creationist’s wrongful dismissal over soft dinosaur tissue discovery |
Uncommon Descent |
| Abusing Darwinism to Explain Everything |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Teleological reasoning, not acceptance of evolution, impacts students’ ability to learn natural selection |
Evolution: Education and Outreach |
| Teleonomy and Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Just What Is Homo naledi? |
ICR |
| Can we regard scientific theories as factual knowledge? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Created Placenta |
ICR |
| Genetic Literacy Project objects to the term “living fossils” as applied to humans |
Uncommon Descent |
| Yeti Debunking |
Science |
| Science is simply “what scientists do”? That’s all? |
Uncommon Descent |
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