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| RECENT ARTICLES - June 2018 |
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| PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY |
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| Fine Tuning |
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| A primer on the Fine-Tuning argument |
Dr. J.R. Miller - More Than Cake |
| Fine-tuning of the universe: Why David Hume’s objections fail |
Uncommon Descent |
| Where did the laws of nature come from?: Astrophysicist Hugh Ross vs chemist Peter Atkins |
Uncommon Descent |
| At Forbes: Are we doing theoretical physics all wrong? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astrophysicists try to falsify multiverse, find they can't. |
BackReaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder: The multiverse is “a fringe idea” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Galaxy rotation study rules out modified gravity, or does it? |
Physics World |
| Does an arrested galaxy violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics? |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Jupiter May Have Gifted Early Earth With Water |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| A galactic test will clarify the existence of dark matter |
University of Bonn |
| Physicists devise test to find out if dark matter really exists |
Uncommon Descent |
| THz spectroscopy could help explain water's anomalies |
Science Daily |
| Fifth State of Matter May Defy the Second Law of Thermodynamics |
Physics Central |
| Researchers: Fifth state of matter may defy 2nd Law of Thermodynamics |
Uncommon Descent |
| Particle Physics now Belly Up |
BackReaction |
| Sabina Hossenfelder: Particle physics now belly up. As it happens, her book is a solid string of 1's at Amazon |
Uncommon Descent |
| There Are No Laws of Physics. There's Only the Landscape. |
Quanta Magazine |
| Problem solved: There are no laws of physics, says prominent string theorist |
Uncommon Descent |
| Real-Life Schrödinger's Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World |
Quanta Magazine |
| Data discrepancies may affect understanding of the universe |
Science Daily |
| Astrophysicist: Evolutionary worldview must answer the question, Where is ET? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientific Paper: It's Likely We Are Alone In The Observable Universe |
Daily Wire |
| How Earth slows the solar wind to a gentle breeze |
Science Daily |
| Fine-tuning?: Earth slows the deadly solar wind to a gentle breeze |
Uncommon Descent |
| Milky Way is twice as large as we thought |
Astronomy |
| Our Milky Way galaxy is twice as large as previously thought? |
Uncommon Descent |
| If real, dark fusion could help demystify this physics puzzle |
Science News |
| Dark Matter Hunt Comes Up Empty Again |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Astrophysics and Molecular Genetics with the Parking Brake On |
Evolution News |
| Does the Cosmic Microwave Background Confirm the Big Bang? |
ICR |
| Why some scientists say physics has gone off the rails |
NBC |
| Globular clusters 4 billion years younger than previously thought |
Science Daily |
| Are globular clusters 4 billion years younger than previously thought? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is nature really chaotic and fractal, or did we just imagine |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Planet Origin Theories Contradict Physics |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
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| BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY |
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| More Information Found in DNA: The Shape Code |
Evolution News |
| Encrypted messages in biological processes |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: We have dissolved the Fermi Paradox! |
Uncommon Descent |
| We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests |
Slashdot |
| The momentous transition to multicellular life may not have been so hard after all |
Science Magazine |
| Engineered Adaptability: Adaptive Solutions Are Targeted, Not Trial-and-Error |
ICR |
| Physicist: It’s good news that aliens likely don’t exist. And a space entrepreneur’s surprising reaction… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Looking for life in all the hard places - a guidebook |
Uncommon Descent |
| No, We Haven't Solved The Drake Equation, The Fermi Paradox, Or Whether Humans Are Alone |
Forbes |
| What Your Cells Do For You |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| A New NASA-Led Project Means the Search for Aliens Is Heating Up |
Gizmodo |
| The Perfect Human Body? |
Evolution News |
| Two Views of Evolution, and Why They Don't Mix |
Evolution News |
| Some DNA Dismissed As 'Junk' Is Crucial To Embryo Development |
NPR |
| The Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500,000 Times in Human DNA |
The Atlantic |
| An Intimate Reminder About What "Was Once Thought to Be Unnecessary 'Junk' DNA" |
Evolution News |
| A “junk DNA” jumping gene is critical for embryo cell development |
Uncommon Descent |
| Paul Nelson: Junk DNA is one of those propositions that have “just about the worst track record” in biology. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Water May Not Be the Only Sign of Alien Life |
Inside Science |
| Origin of life: Wanting to move on but sticking with Darwinian mechanisms? |
Uncommon Descent |
| OOL Cells Are DOA |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Codons Are Not Degenerate After All |
ICR |
| Connection between genes, response to environmental chemicals |
Science Daily |
| Evolution from Space? |
Detecting Design |
| Complex organic molecules found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists developing guidebook for finding life beyond Earth |
Science Daily |
| Why life on Earth first got big |
Science Daily |
| How the Nucleus Guards Its Gates |
Evolution News |
| Suzan Mazur on mechanobiology, the next level of understanding the cell |
Uncommon Descent |
| This one, newly discovered cell can remake a whole animal |
Science |
| Scientists have captured the elusive cell that can regenerate an entire flatworm |
Science Daily |
| Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry |
Evolution News |
| Shaking the bird family tree: African-type bird fossil from 52 mya found in North America |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fossil Turaco Is Yet Another Failed Biogeographical Prediction for Neo-Darwinism |
Evolution News |
| Re the fossil African turaco found in North America at 52 mya and just-so stories … |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinian just-so story: Some migratory birds do better with weak immune systems |
Uncommon Descent |
| Most Species the "Same Age" with No "In-Between" Species |
Detecting Design |
| True Nature of Cells Blamed in Alzheimer's, Neurodegenerative Diseases |
University of Virginia Health System |
| Nematode study: New find can help explain “how diversity arises, an open question with relevance to evolution and genetic processes” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Zebrafish made “a supreme evolutionary effort” to develop superior vision |
Uncommon Descent |
| In the gaping mouth of ancient crocodiles |
Science Daily |
| What nipple size means for evolutionary biology |
Science Daily |
| New human gene tally reignites debate |
Nature |
| Nature: Fifteen years later, we still don’t know how many human genes there are |
Uncommon Descent |
| The "Botched" Human Body, Revisited |
Evolution News |
| The same characteristics can be acquired differently when it comes to neurons |
Science Daily |
| Non-coding DNA changes the genitals you're born with |
Science Daily |
| Undersampling Genomes has Biased Time and Rate Estimates Throughout the Tree of Life |
Molecular Biology and Evolution |
| How to think about... Genes |
New Scientist |
| Observing the cell's protein factories during self-assembly |
Science Daily |
| Groundbreaking Paper Shows Thousands of New Genes Needed for the Origin of Animals |
Evolution News |
| Viruses invent their own genes? Then what is left of Darwinism? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why we make blood cells in our bones |
AAAS EurekAlart |
| Homologous recombination and the repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks |
JBC Papers in Press |
| Biophysicist Ken Dill: Protein Machines Are "Real Machines. That's Not a Metaphor" |
Evolution News |
| Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machines |
Evolution News |
| There are now many variants of the "universal" genetic code |
Uncommon Descent |
| Secrets of the Y Chromosome |
NY Times |
| “Beyond neo-Darwinism” revisited Epigenetics vs. the selfish gene |
Uncommon Descent |
| New type of photosynthesis discovered |
Imperial College London |
| Sex redefined |
Nature |
| Junk DNA can actually change genitalia |
Uncommon Descent |
| NASA Titillates Public Again with Fake Mars Life |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Much Ado About Martian Organics |
Evolution News |
| New Paper in Evolution Journal: Humans and Animals Are (Mostly) the Same Age? |
Evolution News |
| Are all animal species really the same age? |
Todd C. Wood |
| Incredible Fish that Defy Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Protein Folds Violate Evolutionary Expectations |
Evolution News |
| Simpler model gets to the point with proteins |
Science Daily |
| Biological landscapes, surfaces, and morphospaces: what are they good for? |
Footnotes to Plato |
| Skeptic: Panspermia (life came from elsewhere than Earth) is “pseudoscience” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Life Exponential: Life Exhibits Intelligent Design at Many Levels |
Evolution News |
| Robin Collins and atheist Peter Millican discuss the fine-tuning of the universe for life |
Wintery Knight |
| Mechanics, as well as genetics, is needed for viable embryo development |
Uncommon Descent |
| Are There Enough Chemicals on Icy Worlds to Support Life? |
Universe Today |
| When evolution's path leads to a dead end |
MassiveSci |
| Sexual trappings (dimorphism) may increase likelihood of extinction, not survival |
Uncommon Descent |
| External testicles as poor design? The few mammals that don’t have them turn out to have lost them, say gene researchers. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cells can trap viruses in protein cage to stop their spread |
Science Daily |
| Some human brains are nearly twice the size of others |
Science Daily |
| People with big brains have a different brain structure too |
New Scientist |
| Human-Specific Genes Implicated in Brain Size |
The Scientist |
| Scientists solve the case of the missing subplate, with wide implications for brain science |
The Rockefeller University |
| Did extreme fluctuations in oxygen, not a gradual rise, spark the Cambrian explosion? |
Science Daily |
| Scientists rethink co-evolution of marine life, oxygenated oceans |
Science Daily |
| Archaea Family Tree Blossoms, Thanks to Genomics |
The Scientist |
| Can Archaea Teach Us About the Evolution of Eukaroyotes? |
The Scientist |
| Researchers: Ediacaran animals increased in size to spread their offspring rather than compete for food |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bent bird feathers repair themselves when soaked in water |
New Scientist |
| Nylon-eating bacteria - Part 4: Interpretation according to Coded Information System theory |
Creation.com |
| Engineered Adaptability: Adaptive Changes Are Purposeful, Not Random |
ICR |
| Is It Becoming Safer to Doubt Darwin? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| These Creatures Would Give Darwin Shivers |
Evolution News |
| Bees understand the concept of zero |
Science Daily |
| And bees understand the concept of zero too! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Not only that but … pigeons understand probabilities! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Animals take turns when communicating? Who would have imagined that? |
Uncommon Descent |
| First tetrapods of Africa |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Early tetrapods transitioned between land, salt, and fresh water |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could Designed Systems Explain Green Lizard Blood? |
ICR |
| Improved ape genome assemblies provide new insights into human evolution |
Science Daily |
| Note to Thomists: The Ear Is a Reverse Piano |
Evolution News |
| Scientists discover how antiviral gene works |
Science Daily |
| Glia and axons: A match made in evolution: Visualization of sea lamprey nervous system reveals origin of myelinating glia |
Science Daily |
| Scientists Look Again, Still Don't Find Cap on Human Lifespan |
Discover Magazine Blog |
| Defining the brain mosaic in fruit flies and humans |
Science Daily |
| This curious animal grew larger over time -- but its brain didn't quite keep up |
Science Daily |
| At Forbes: About extraterrestrial life, “fancy probabilistic analysis” just isn’t science |
Uncommon Descent |
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| GEOLOGY/PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Did extreme fluctuations in oxygen, not a gradual rise, spark the Cambrian explosion? |
Science Daily |
| The Cambrian Explosion Mystery Deepens |
ICR |
| Strange 'nude' fossil creature from half a billion years ago |
EurekAlert |
| Strange sponge-like fossil creature from half a billion years ago |
Science Daily |
| Marine redox fluctuation as a potential trigger for the Cambrian explosion |
GeoScienceWorld |
| Where was Eden? part 2: geological considerations |
Creation.com |
| Two new creatures discovered from dawn of animal life |
Science Daily |
| Bird family tree shaken by discovery of feathered fossil |
BBC |
| Earth could have supported continental crust, life earlier than thought |
Science Daily |
| Century-Old Dinosaur Taxonomy Under Investigation |
ICR |
| "Live action" captured in a spider’s web from 100 million years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| Lizards and snakes backdated to Permian era, lizards lost or changed limbs many times |
Uncommon Descent |
| World's Oldest Footprints Discovered on Ancient Seafloor |
Live Science |
| Fossil find offers first evidence of four-legged aquatic ancestors in Africa |
The Conversation |
| 99-million-year-old featherwing beetle preserved in amber |
Science Daily |
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| ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| The Case for Homo Erectus as Fully Human (part 4 of series) |
Dr. J.R. Miller - More Than Cake |
| Do racial assumptions prevent recognizing Homo erectus as fully human? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human-Chimp DNA Comparison - interview with Jeff Tomkins |
ICR |
| Human Brain Size Varies Twofold |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| In any Darwinian scheme, someone must be the subhuman. Otherwise, there is no beginning to human history. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cranium of a four-million-year-old hominin shows similarities to that of modern humans |
Science Daily |
| Cranium of extinct Australopithecus “shows similarities to” our own |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why did human Y chromosome diversity “collapse” 7000 years ago? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Social Science Needs Evolutionary Theory |
Nautilus |
| At Nautilus: Psychology needs evolutionary psychology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Social Science Does Not Need Evolutionary Theory |
Evolution News |
| The most famous psychology study of all time was a sham |
Medium |
| Stanford Prison Experiment findings a “sham” - but how much of social psychology is legitimate anyway? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Homo naledi - A baby from Dinaledi |
Todd C. Wood |
| Was Neanderthal man fully human? The role racism played in assessing the evidence |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Left Doesn’t Know If We’re Animals Or Not |
The Stream |
| Neuroscientist debunks hype about no free will, etc. |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Descent of Man: Part 3: The Case for Homo Neanderthalensis as Fully Human |
Dr. J.R. Miller - More Than Cake |
| On Hominid Fossils and Universal Common Ancestry, Denis Lamoureux Distorts |
Evolution News |
| Linguists skeptical of Darwinian theory that toolmaking “paved the way” for human language |
Uncommon Descent |
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| PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY |
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| Book Review: Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique |
Apologetics 315 |
| Book Review: The Theology of Everything: Renaissance Man Joins the 21st Century |
Church Times |
| Saving Adam |
Commonweal Magazine |
| Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God? |
Scientific American |
| The Divergent Worldview Paradigm as Hermeneutical Foundation for Hebrew Cosmology |
Dr. Joe R. Miller - More Than Cake |
| Sociology of science prof: Philosophers have given up distinguishing science, in principle, from other types of pursuits |
Uncommon Descent |
| The impossibility-and the necessity-of distinguishing science from nonscience |
Weekly Standard |
| The Gnostic World of John Walton |
Is Genesis History? |
| Lakatos on science vs. pseudo-science |
LSE |
| Free Will and Morality |
NeuroLogica Blog |
| Opinion: Constrain Speculation to Protect the Integrity of Science |
The Scientist |
| Just Not Working - A Review of Dennis Lamoureux's Critique of Theistic Evolution |
Shadow of Oz |
| In Defense of Theistic Evolution, Denis Lamoureux Rewrites History |
Evolution News |
| Astonished and Amused by Lamoureux's (Mis)Take on Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| Correcting Misinformation about ID: Yet Another Irresponsible Critic in the BioLogos Comments Section |
Uncommon Descent |
| A note on eugenics, social darwinism and evolutionary theory |
Uncommon Descent |
| Contact with Reality: Michael Polanyi's Realism and Why It Matters |
Denver Seminary |
| JDK argues against objective morality—by assuming the truth of objective morality. |
Uncommon Descent |
| An unusually clear description of how scientism functions as a religion |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Shortfall of David Hume’s Critique of Natural Philosophy |
Dr. Joe R. Miller - More Than Cake |
| The “is-ought” problem. Is it a true dichotomy or a deceptive bluff? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why the Left Loves and Hates Science |
Sultan Knish |
| The 'Commandments' of Carl Sagan |
Real Clear Science |
| The Eight Commandments of Carl Sagan |
Uncommon Descent |
| We Should Teach All Students, in Every Discipline, to Think Like Scientists |
Scientific American |
| Big Science Has Become a Political Machine |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Opinion | What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can't) |
NY Times |
| Did religion evolve? |
Creation.com |
| Why Do Rich and Famous People Kill Themselves? |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences |
City Journal |
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| A Child's Intuition of Purpose in Nature Is No Accident |
Evolution News |
| Beauty Leads Us Home |
Evolution News |
| Indoctrination in American Colleges into Atheism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Does lack of a good father figure promote atheism? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Opinion | Is Astrology Religion for Those of Us With No Religion? |
NY Times |
| As astrology goes mainstream, will Big Science start to accommodate it? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Maybe atheists really ARE into the paranormal and superstition… |
Uncommon Descent |
| But, Seriously, Where Are the Aliens? |
The Atlantic |
| Silicon Valley atheists falling for new age spiritual flimflam |
Uncommon Descent |
| How nature became unnatural |
BackReaction |
| Unashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: On Public Policy and Public Service by Evangelicals |
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (in press) |
| Artificial Intelligence's Homunculus Problem: Why AI Is Unlikely Ever to Match Human Intelligence |
Bill Dembski |
| Jay Richards: Is artificial intelligence budding consciousness or just statistical processing? |
Uncommon Descent |
| At New Scientist: The neuroscientists’ bet that a signature of human consciousness will be found in the brain has only five years to go… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why is the objectivity of Mathematics an important (& ID-relevant) question? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why argue with intelligent design? Offer drive-by psychotherapy instead! |
Evolution News |
| Weasel words about teaching students to think like scientists |
Uncommon Descent |
| Listen: Turner, Meyer, and Bernard's Dangerous Idea |
Evolution News |
| The new gang of hyper-confident male atheists wants you to laugh at religion |
National Post |
| Evolutionists Think Your Brain is a Mistake |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| New Walter Bradley Center to assess claims for artificial intelligence critically |
Uncommon Descent |
| Organic product methane found in soil samples from Mars |
Uncommon Descent |
| There's an "Inverse Piano" in Your Head |
Scientific American |
| Has Consciousness Lost Its Mind? Is This the World's Most Bizarre Scholarly Meeting? |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| What Is It About Space Aliens that Makes Evolutionists Go Nuts? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Einstein was a genius of physics. But he wasn't a saint |
The Guardian |
| Researcher who hopes machines will think like humans draws flak for critiquing the field |
Uncommon Descent |
| Richard Dawkins Defends Eugenics Abortion: 'It's About Ending Human Suffering' |
Daily Wire |
| Materialist MatSpirit Tucks Tail and Runs When Confronted With Incoherence of His Position |
Uncommon Descent |
| A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science |
PhilSci Archive |
| Why I Won't Debate Science |
Scientific Ameican Blogs |
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