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| NEW ARTICLES - MAY 2018 |
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| PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY |
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| How Anti-Religious Bias Prevented Scientists from Accepting the Big Bang |
Real Clear Science |
| At RealClearScience: Anti-religious feelings hindered acceptance of the Big Bang |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did the dying Stephen Hawking really mean to strengthen the case for God? |
The Guardian |
| Did the dying Stephen Hawking strengthen the case for God by reintroducing fine-tuning? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Does the beginning of the universe require a cause? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can fuzzballs explain away the Big Bang? And the origin of time? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stephen Hawking's (almost) last paper: putting an end to the beginning of the universe |
Science Magazine |
| At Science: Hawking’s last work attempted to stick a pin in eternal inflation of the cosmos |
Uncommon Descent |
| Are recent dark energy findings a blow for multiverse theory? |
Uncommon Descent |
| This Is Why Physicists Think String Theory Might Be Our 'Theory Of Everything' |
Forbes |
| Galaxy simulations are at last matching reality-and producing surprising insights into cosmic evolution |
Science Magazine |
| Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes |
Quanta Magazine |
| Stars born only 250 million years after the Big Bang? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Humanity's 3 Hopes For Finding Alien Life |
Forbes |
| Does Extraterrestrial Life Exist? |
Creation Research Society |
| Panspermia (maybe life came from outer space) is back, in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Alternatives to Einstein’s gravity face challenges from evidence |
Uncommon Descent |
| Exoplanets break apparent rules for planet formation |
Uncommon Descent |
| What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? |
NY Times |
| Could a multiverse be hospitable to life? |
Science Daily |
| Science at sunset: Dark energy, if it exists, might make a multiverse hospitable to life, if it exists |
Uncommon Descent |
| The case against dark matter |
Astronomy |
| Multiverse theory cops a blow after dark energy findings |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Star Formation Theories Fail to Shine |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Proposed dark matter solution: “Gravity is not a fundamental governance of our universe, but instead a reaction to the makeup of a given environment.” |
Uncommon Descent |
| NASA Resurrects SETI |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Making sense of many universes |
Knowable Magazine |
| Prof Stephen Hawking's multiverse finale |
BBC |
| Taming the multiverse: Stephen Hawking's final theory about the big bang |
Science Daily |
| Suzan Mazur talks with Fermilab associate Craig Hogan at Oscillations about the current state of the hologram universe |
Uncommon Descent |
| Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein's Theory of Gravity |
Quanta Magazine |
| Research casts doubt on theories of star formation |
EurekAlert |
| “Complete surprise”: Stars are not necessarily born in the way we thought. Also, galaxies can form much faster than thought |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astrophysicist Niayesh Afshordi explains the holograph universe to Suzan Mazur at Oscillations |
Uncommon Descent |
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| BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY |
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| What's Wrong with the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis? A Critical Reply to Welch (2017) |
PhilSci Archive |
| Evolutionists Shove Uncooperative Data into Darwinian Stories |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| At Quanta: Cells need almost all of their genes, even the "junk DNA" |
Uncommon Descent |
| Sweeping gene survey reveals new facets of evolution |
Phys.org |
| Startling Result–90% of Animals Less than 200 kya |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Should Mitochondria Define Species? |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| Why Should Mitochondria Define Species? |
Human Evolution |
| First Lizard Was 100% Lizard |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Ancient reptile fossil Megachirella pushes origin of lizards back 75 million years |
ABC |
| Dispositional Properties in Evo-Devo |
Springer |
| Genes found only in humans influence brain size |
UC Santa Cruz |
| How eye loss occurs in blind cavefish |
Science Daily |
| New Book Unmasks Darwinist Censors |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Heredity beyond the gene |
Nature |
| At Nature: We need to “overhaul our views” on heredity |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rethinking phylogenetic comparative methods |
Systematic Biology - Oxford Academic |
| A first look at the earliest decisions that shape a human embryo |
Science Daily |
| A first look at the earliest decisions that shape a human embryo |
The Rockefeller University |
| How a Cell Knows When To Divide |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Cell Membranes: Dynamic, Communicating, Designed |
Evolution News |
| Zombie Science: Darwin's Theory Feeds on Raw Materialism |
Evolution News |
| For Selling Evolution, a Little Knowledge Is a Glorious Thing |
Evolution News |
| Epigenetics: “[n]ew ideas closely related to Lamarck’s eighteenth-century views have become central to our understanding of genetics” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Theory of predictive brain as important as evolution |
Horizon Magazine |
| Physicists See Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis |
Discover Magazine |
| Photosynthesis involves a protein 'piston' |
Science Daily |
| Convergent evolution: Green blood evolved four times in lizards |
Uncommon Descent |
| We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong |
New Scientist |
| What Made Human Brains So Big? |
The Scientist |
| Scientists crack how primordial life on Earth might have replicated itself |
Science Daily |
| How to code a functional molecular machine |
Science Daily |
| Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig’s Long-Necked Giraffe book now free online |
Uncommon Descent |
| With Darwinism, "The Theory Is Always Driving the Ideas In Spite of the Evidence" |
Evolution News |
| There You Go Again, Nathan Lents - On the Design of the Human Eye |
Evolution News |
| Nathan Lents: Science with the Parking Brake On |
Evolution News |
| Nathan Lents and the Wisdom of Testicles |
Evolution News |
| Nathan Lents Doesn't Understand Refrigeration |
Evolution News |
| Surprise: Lents Clarifies that Book Not Intended as Refutation of Intelligent Design! |
Evolution News |
| Straw Man: Nathan Lents Versus the Theory of Perfect Design |
Evolution News |
| Nathan Lents "Plays Ball" on Biological Design |
Evolution News |
| Out of One Cell, Many Tissues - But How? |
Evolution News |
| Intact Starch Granules in "Ancient" Plant Fossil |
ICR |
| When the dinosaurs died, so did forests-and tree-dwelling birds |
The Field Museum |
| MSU scientists' discovery in Yellowstone 'extremely relevant' to origin of life |
Montana State University |
| Genetic diversity helps protect against disease |
Science Daily |
| "Alien" Octopuses "arrived on Earth from space as cryopreserved eggs" |
Express |
| Striking differences in patterns of germline mutation between mice and humans |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| Pigeons much smarter than monkeys in some tests |
Uncommon Descent |
| Biophysics is starting to matter in evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| New nuclear RNA retention activity discovered |
Science Daily |
| More on Alien Octopi: New Paper Admits Failure of Evolution to Explain Life |
Evolution News |
| Scientists find missing factor in gene activation |
Science Daily |
| Using and navigating the plant tree of life |
Wiley Online Library |
| We are more than our brains: on neuroscience and being human |
Aeon |
| Cognitive scientist: We are more than our brains but DON’T get any high ideas on that account! |
Uncommon Descent |
| David Attenborough: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life |
Creation.com |
| Isolated complex functional islands in the ocean of sequences: a model from English language, again. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Your Body Acquires Trillions of New Mutations Every Day |
The Atlantic |
| We acquire trillions of new mutations every day, so why are we still alive? |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Evolved |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| Mission Impossible: From the BioLogos Files |
Evolution News |
| Monkey Hybrids Challenge Assumptions of What a Species Is |
The Scientist |
| Monkey hybrids are monkeying with the biological species concept |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researcher: Mathematics sheds light on “unfathomably complex” cellular thinking, |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science historian on Darwinist Ken Miller’s new book, The Human Instinct: Asserting consensus in the midst of growing conflict |
Uncommon Descent |
| Kirk Durston: What progress have we made over six decades in understanding the origin of life? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genetics Leaves Central Dogma and Junk DNA in the Rear-View Mirror |
Evolution News |
| Dramatic recent finding: There is a new DNA structure in our cells, beyond the double helix |
Uncommon Descent |
| Undeniable Intuitions and Unbelievable Coincidences - Douglas Axe |
Evolution News |
| We reconstructed the genome of the 'first animal' |
The Conversation |
| Math sheds light on how living cells 'think' |
Science Daily |
| Tangled Branches Confound Darwinian Trees |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| More Tangled Branches that Confound Darwinian Trees |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The epigenome and facial development |
Science Daily |
| A Rulebook for Living Cells |
Nature |
| Molecular Machines Show Same Design Principles as Big Machines |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Eyes in a Twinkling? |
Evolution News |
| Plants Are Communicating With Each Other Using Underground Signals |
Atlas Obscura |
| Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses |
Quanta Magazine |
| We're not prepared for the genetic revolution that's coming |
The Conversation |
| Dolphins Have a Mysterious Network of Veins That Could Be Key to Preventing the Bends |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| Elephant Genome re-written elephant theory |
Creation.com |
| New Whale Fossil Harpoons Evolution |
ICR |
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| GEOLOGY/PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic? |
ScienceDirect |
| Researchers: Cambrian explosion was not an explosion after all |
Uncommon Descent |
| Alleged Refutation of the Cambrian Explosion Confirms Abruptness, Vindicates Meyer |
Evolution News |
| With New Theory of the Cambrian Explosion, Scientists Reach (Literally) for the Stars |
Evolution News |
| Major fossil study sheds new light on emergence of early animal life 540 million years ago |
Science Daily |
| What's New in Cambrian Dodgeball? |
Evolution News |
| Ancient mammal discovery reveals supercontinent split far later than previously thought |
Independent |
| Bechly: Why the Phenomenon of Living Fossils Is Under "Massive Attack" |
Evolution News |
| Using Models to Correct Data: Paleodiversity and the Fossil Record |
PhilSci Archive |
| Cracking open the formation of fossil concretions |
Science Daily |
| A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land |
New Scientist |
| Scientists find the first bird beak |
Science Daily |
| Secular Scientists Admit Dinosaurs Appeared Abruptly |
ICR |
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| ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Tom Wolfe 1931-2018 with Kingdom of Speech links |
Uncommon Descent |
| Farewell: On Evolution "Myth" and Intelligent Design, Tom Wolfe Boldly Told the Truth |
Evolution News |
| High Intra-Specific Variations in Apes and Just-So Stories of Human Evolution |
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
| How humans and apes are different, and why it matters |
Science Daily |
| Arguing that humans are not unique, researcher trips over his own data |
Uncommon Descent |
| Part 2 in blog series on fossil evidence and the descent of mankind |
More Than Cake |
| The human-like features of Homo naledi's brain surprise research team |
Science Daily |
| Brain of Homo Naledi Estimated |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Homo naledi’s small but sophisticated brain challenges belief in “an inevitable march towards bigger, more complex brains.” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cranial capacity isn't the whole story |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| Homo naledi Bones Not Ritually Buried |
ICR |
| Did Homo naledi really bury their own dead? |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| The Enigma of Death - Were humans mortal before the Fall? |
Henry Center |
| Can chimpanzee vocalizations reveal the origins of human language? |
Science Daily |
| High Intra-Specific Variations in Apes and Just-So Stories of Human Evolution |
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
| Understanding the psychology of pure hate |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researcher: Neanderthal engravings made “with symbolic or communicative intent” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Adam and Eve: lessons learned |
Nature - Ecology and Evolution Community |
| Review of Ken Miller's "The Human Instinct" |
Evolution News |
| Science historian on Darwinist Ken Miller’s new book, The Human Instinct: Asserting consensus in the midst of growing conflict |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human evolution: Did large brains cause Neanderthals to go extinct? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did Neanderthals sail the Mediterranean? Some interesting evidence. |
Uncommon Descent |
| 700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Human Relative |
National Geographic |
| Engraved Crimean stone artifact may demonstrate Neanderthal symbolism |
Science Daily |
| More seafaring hominins |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| How did stone tools get to the Philippines 700 kya? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years ago |
Eurekalert |
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| PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY |
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| Can acknowledgment of design in nature be a part of science? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Panspermia Pseudoscience |
Neurologica Blog |
| Ideas are cheap, theories are hard |
PLOS Blogs |
| Why ideas are cheap and theories are hard. With special reference to panspermia |
Uncommon Descent |
| Sceptic asks, why do people who abandon religion embrace superstition? |
Mercatornet |
| Quote of the Month: Robin Collins on Why ID isn’t Science |
Design Disquisitions |
| Design Disquisitions: Quote of the Month-Robin Collins on Why ID isn’t Science |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Scientific Compatibility and Uniqueness of Hebrew Cosmology Distinct from Ancient Near Eastern Literature |
More Than Cake |
| Wikipedia blunders yet again — “Unlike hypotheses, theories and laws may be simply referred to as scientific fact” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Review of Daniel Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back |
Commonweal Magazine |
| Dawkins and the God Question |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Darwinism Animalizes Human Values |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The Five Arguments Stand: Response to a Critic on Aquinas and Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Inspiring Philosophy on quantum mechanics and the death of materialism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is the search for meaning in quantum physics a form of religion? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Recognizing "Spin" in the Scientific Literature |
PLOS |
| Why science needs free speech |
Uncommon Descent |
| What makes people distrust science? Surprisingly, not politics |
Aeon |
| Study of causes of science skepticism sails right by the most obvious cause |
Uncommon Descent |
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| AND MORE |
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| Who are the creationists? |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| Arizona Education Department strikes 'evolution' from science standards draft |
The Hill |
| Are religion and science always at odds? Here are three scientists that don't think so |
ABC Science |
| Sociologist Steve Fuller, who has written competently about ID, has new book out on post-truth in science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Arizona Educators Consider Altering Evolution References |
NY Times |
| Arizona Moves to Alter Wording About Evolution in Education |
The Scientist |
| Arizona education change: Parts of evolution theory termed “not proven.” Meltdown among Darwin’s faithful. |
Uncommon Descent |
| PZ Myers admits the sad state of the atheist community |
Freethought Blogs |
| And now for something completely different… Darwinian PZ Myers laments the sad state of atheism today |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Are Millennials Turning to Astrology? |
CSI |
| At CSICOP: Why millennials and liberals turn to astrology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Epigenetics: The Evolution Revolution |
The New York Review of Books |
| Biased School Textbooks Aren't Limited to Biology |
Evolution News |
| Michael Medved discusses intelligent design theory with Darwin’s Doubt author Steve Meyer |
Uncommon Descent |
| Journal of Creation - April 2018 |
Creation.com |
| Why do science journalists promote “fake physics” to the public? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why we need to figure out a theory of consciousness |
The Conversation |
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