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| RECENT ARTICLES - August 2018 |
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| PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY |
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| The Greatest Mistake In The History Of Physics |
Forbes |
| The End of Theoretical Physics As We Know It |
Quanta Magazine |
| The Dirtiest Fight in Physics Is About the Universe Itself |
Gizmodo |
| Is Gravity Quantum? |
Scientific American |
| Quantum physicist David Bohm on why there cannot be a Theory of Everything |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers: Either dark energy or string theory is wrong. Or both are. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Detected: Wall of hydrogen around the solar system |
Uncommon Descent |
| Two slits and one hell of a quantum conundrum |
Nature |
| Dark Energy May Be Incompatible With String Theory |
Quanta Magazine |
| Dark Matter Fails Another Test |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Earliest galaxies found 'on our cosmic doorstep' |
BBC |
| Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Study finds flaw in emergent gravity |
Phys.org |
| The symmetrons needed to explain dark energy were not found |
Uncommon Descent |
| When research collides: Modified gravity vs. dark matter |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why does anyone care what Buddhist or Hindu philosophy says about the Big Bang? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The universe's rate of expansion is in dispute - and we may need new physics to solve it |
The Conversation |
| About the universe, the ID guys were right all along? |
Uncommon Descent |
| New study: Yes, our sun IS peculiar |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Fundamental Physics Shapes the Diversity of Life |
Smithsonian Air and Space |
| Emergence explains complexity in the Universe |
Aeon |
| Reader asks Sabine Hossenfelder: Is there a universe in every particle? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Roger Penrose still looks for evidence of universal rebirth |
BackReAction |
| How Roger Penrose proposes that the universe can be eternal |
Uncommon Descent |
| One Universe Is Not Enough |
Forbes |
| How to talk yourself into believing in a multiverse |
Uncommon Descent |
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| EARTH SCIENCES/GEOLOGY/PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Cambrian-Aged Ediacaran Organism Reconfirms Explosiveness of the Cambrian Explosion |
Evolution News |
| Rare intermediate fossils give researchers insight into evolution of bird-like dinosaur |
Science Daily |
| Are These Really Transitional Fossils? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| 230-million-year-old turtle fossil deepens mystery of reptile's origins |
Nature |
| Winged reptiles thrived before dinosaurs |
BBC |
| The feathered revolution: How dinosaurs became birds |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Good-Flying Cosmopolitan Pterosaur Found Earlier Than Thought |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Rare Desert Pterosaur Fossil Discovered in Utah |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| These half-billion-year-old creatures were animals—but unlike any known today |
Science Magazine |
| Enigmatic African fossils rewrite story of when lemurs got to Madagascar |
Science Daily |
| Fossilized Beetle Is Earliest Evidence of Insect Pollinator |
The Scientist |
| Climate Change Skeptic Or Denier? |
Forbes |
| The Nastiest Feud in Science - What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction? |
The Atlantic |
| Researchers: New find forces “complete” rethink of dinosaur history |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Atlantic: “Nastiest feud in science” erupts over dinosaur extinction theory |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Findings Challenge Secular Dating Models |
ICR |
| Building a Biblical Paleo-Biogeography Model |
ICR |
| The Controversy Around the First Museum Dinosaurs |
JSTOR Daily |
| Neanderthal mother, Denisovan father! Hybrid fossil |
Science Daily |
| Mum's a Neanderthal, Dad's a Denisovan: First discovery of an ancient-human hybrid |
Nature |
| The Girl from Denisova Cave |
Human Genesis |
| Earth's Magnetic Field Can Reverse Poles Ridiculously Quickly |
Live Science |
| "Perfect" fossil foal, 30-40 kya, found in Siberian permafrost |
Uncommon Descent |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Transcription regulation: a miracle of engineering |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life |
NY Times |
| Coyne reviews The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen |
Washington Post |
| Jerry Coyne minimizes the significance of horizontal gene transfer |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwin's Tree Is Dead |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| At New York Times: Darwin skeptic Carl Woese “effectively founded a new branch of science” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Smithsonian Misrepresents Evolution to AP Biology Students |
Evolution News |
| How can lots of water worlds be “bad news for life”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| “Junk DNA” regulates regeneration of tissues and organs |
Uncommon Descent |
| Engineered Adaptability: Fast Adaptation Confirms Design-Based Model |
ICR |
| Evolution as a fact? A discourse analysis |
SAGE Journals |
| John Hawks is cool to epigenetics shedding light on evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Membrane Channels Show Astonishing Specificity |
Evolution News |
| Enzymes Are Essential for Life; Did They Evolve? |
Evolution News |
| Speciation is not evolution |
Creation.com |
| Rutgers Scientists Identify Protein that May Have Existed When Life Began |
Rutgers |
| Gerald Joyce no longer uses the NASA “must show Darwinian evolution” definition of life |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists 'fix' bacterial tree of life |
PHYS.org |
| A Suspicious Pattern of Deletions |
Evolution News |
| Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think: A Primer on the Epigenome |
Nautilus |
| The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains |
Ars Technica |
| Humans: Better Designed and Capable than Darwinism Can Explain |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Can animals be usefully described as clockwork machines? |
Aeon |
| Evolutionary biology: Animals as restless clocks, unquiet machines |
Uncommon Descent |
| Exaptation Shows That Evolution Is Not Intelligent |
Real Clear Science |
| Is Solid Land Necessary for Biology? |
Smithsonian Air & Space |
| The scale of differences among strains of common cell lines |
Nature |
| John Hawk's Review of 'Lamarck's Revenge' [by Peter Ward]: "Inheriting the Wrong Ideas" |
Wall Street Journal Book Review |
| Long-Sought Hearing Channel Protein Found |
The Scientist |
| New genetic regulators of regeneration identified |
Science Daily |
| Epigenetic patterns determine if honeybee larvae become queens or workers |
Science Daily |
| A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth |
Science Daily |
| Ancestor of all life on Earth evolved earlier than we thought, according to our new timescale |
The Conversation |
| Study confirms truth behind 'Darwin's moth' |
University of Exeter |
| Wow! The peppered myth: A Darwin zombie rises again |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Peppered Zombie rises at Exeter: Some curious responses |
Uncommon Descent |
| ARJ: A Preliminary Cephalopod Baraminology Study |
Answers in Genesis |
| Porcupine Quills and Other Examples of Nature's Foresight |
Evolution News |
| Getting to the root of plant evolution |
Science Daily |
| Scientists identify a new kind of human brain cell |
Science Daily |
| Secret tunnels discovered between the skull and the brain |
Science Daily |
| Gaia is back, and she has discovered Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinism and the "Ten Disenchantments" |
Evolution News |
| The standard genetic code is “optimized” to reduce costly errors |
Uncommon Descent |
| Decidedly unDarwinian admissions re proteins |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists Find New Properties of H2O |
NYU |
| How to edit a human |
The Economist - 1843 Magazine |
| Do big brains matter to human intelligence? |
Mind Matters |
| Three Previously Unknown Ancient Primates Identified |
University of Texas |
| What might make alien life hard to recognize? |
Scientific American |
| If we made life in a lab, would we understand it differently? |
Aeon |
| Scientists Have Discovered a Brand New 'Micro-Organ' in The Human Immune System |
Science Alert |
| Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design? |
Evolution News |
| How a 'jellyfish'-shaped structure relieves pressure in your cells |
Science Daily |
| On the efficiency of the genetic code after frameshift mutations |
Pos-Darwinista Blog |
| Researchers: Genetic “information” is a key to trees surviving deadly beetle |
Uncommon Descent |
| Early Development of the Fruit Fly as Evidence of Design |
Answers in Genesis |
| Researchers: Primates vary in speech capability. (But none speak.) |
Uncommon Descent |
| How do plants turn off photosynthetic activity at night? |
Science Daily |
| Old species learn new tricks...very slowly |
Science Daily |
| Human and reptile brains aren't so different after all |
Massive Science |
| Human genome could contain up to 20 percent fewer genes |
Science Daily |
| Can reptiles experience love? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A common ancestral gene causes body segmentation in spiders and insects |
Science Daily |
| Placozoa: An Evolutionary Leftover? |
Evolution News |
| The Atlantic: “Nastiest feud in science” erupts over dinosaur extinction theory |
Uncommon Descent |
| Inexplicable Species and the Theory of Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Replication failures of Darwinian sexual selection openly discussed at The Scientist |
Uncommon Descent |
| More on Winston Ewert's "Dependency Graph of Life" - An Important New Paper |
Evolution News |
| Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design |
Evolution News |
| At Forbes: Overthrowing Darwin’s theory by better explanations? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Phenomenally Designed Hemoglobin |
ICR |
| Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic? Hoyle-Wickramasinghe thesis of Cometary Biology redivivus |
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology |
| Crick and Orgel on Why Other OOL Theories Should be Considered |
Uncommon Descent |
| Nature book review: Woese believed in a deity and called Darwin a bastard |
Nature |
| New dinosaur found in the wrong place, at the wrong time |
Science Daily |
| Princeton Researchers Watch "Junk DNA" at Work |
Evolution News |
| "Silenced" B Cells Loudly Proclaim the Case for a Creator |
Reasons.org |
| Evolution - More Certain Than Gravity? |
Spectator |
| Is the evolution debate becoming "much more civil and thoughtful"? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Combining on and off switches, one protein can control flowering in plants |
Science Daily |
| Gene editing crunches an organism's genome into single, giant DNA molecule |
ARS Technica |
| Brains keep temporary molecular records before making a lasting memory |
The Conversation |
| How do we hold and juggle multiple pieces of information in mind? |
Science Daily |
| Evolutionists Can't Fill the Hexapod Gap |
ICR |
| Convergent eye evolution shows that evolution is “easy”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Doug Axe: In Cuttlefish, "Genetic Program for Limb Development Predates Limbs" |
Evolution News |
| Animal taxonomy: Outwardly identical, yet distinct |
Science Daily |
| Is the recently cited hybrid dolphin-whale a “new species”? No. |
Uncommon Descent |
| No, These Findings Do Not Support Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Common evolutionary origins between vertebrates and invertebrates revealed |
Science Daily |
| Whitman Scientists Find Elusive Molecule that Helps Sperm Find Egg |
University of Chicago |
| Doctors cut out a large chunk of a boy's brain-now he's doing just fine |
ARS Technica |
| Evolution by Steve Jones: Book review |
Creation.com |
| Geneticist: On Human-Chimp Genome Similarity, There Are "Predictions" Not "Established Fact" |
Evolution News |
| Of Species and Software: What Is a Dependency Graph? |
Evolution News |
| Sophisticated bacterial communications pose stark question re evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| New genus started because outwardly identical animals are two different “species” |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Could Plants Evolve? Answer: They Evolved |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Jumbled Shark Evolution |
Gizmodo |
| Did CRISPR really fix a genetic mutation in these human embryos? |
Nature |
| Doubts Arise Again About CRISPR'd Human Embryos |
The Scientist |
| The unexpected upside of E. coli |
University of Colorado |
| The battle for the soul of biodiversity |
Nature |
| Swamidass: Cancer "Can Innovate" |
Evolution News |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Sociology Journal: Why Lobbyists So Persistently Call Evolution a "Fact" |
Evolution News |
| The Discovery of Joshua's Ai at Khirbet el-Maqatir |
Epic Archaeology |
| In Psychology And Other Social Sciences, Many Studies Fail The Reproducibility Test |
NPR |
| The sophisticated home life of Neanderthals |
New Scientist |
| Neanderthals had a sophisticated home life? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stone tools reveal modern human-like gripping capabilities 500,000 years ago |
Science Daily |
| Homo sapiens developed a new ecological niche that separated it from other hominins |
Science Daily |
| A Conference on Human Origins |
Evolution News |
| Hyped 'hominin' headlines |
Creation.com |
| Update: Still No Evolutionary Explanation for Human Language |
Evolution News |
| Homo erectus died out due to lack of planning, lazy gathering strategies |
ABC |
| Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus |
Science Daily |
| Ann Gauger: Was Homo erectus really that lazy? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Reports of Homo erectus' laziness are 'moronic' |
Popular Science |
| Academic labels media reports calling Homo erectus lazy as “moronic” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Just in: Evolution favors the survival of the laziest! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cold climates contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals |
Science Daily |
| Neanderthal woman, Denisovan man |
Uncommon Descent |
| How many human species? |
Human Genesis |
| Testing the reproducibility of social science research |
Science Daily |
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| PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY |
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| The Paradox of Karl Popper |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Chaberek's Editor Admits: This Book Changed My Mind on Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| No more excuses for non-reproducible methods |
Nature |
| Integrating Contemporary Approaches to "Worldview" |
CRSQ |
| Review How I Changed My Mind About Evolution |
Creation.com |
| What is “dualism” and why is it controversial? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Review of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures |
Creation.com |
| The Argument From Evil Explained |
Uncommon Descent |
| Introducing the New "Conspiracism" Canard |
Evolution News |
| So, Who Is Doing "Pseudoscience"? |
Evolution News |
| Can science answer the big questions? |
Aeon |
| Renowned chemist on why only science can answer the Big Questions |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mind of the Maker spotlights mathematics as evidence for design in nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| Which side will atheists choose in the war on science? |
Mercatornet |
| The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial Pitted Science Against Religion |
History.com |
| How the controversy over Darwinism mirrors the wider culture |
Uncommon Descent |
| Answering Joshua Swamidass on Theistic Evolution: A Religious Agenda? |
Evolution News |
| Answering Joshua Swamidass: What Do Theistic Evolutionists Believe? |
Evolution News |
| Answering Swamidass on Theistic Evolution: Sketchy Science, and a Swerve into Metaphysics |
Evolution News |
| Robert Yarbrough's review of Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Critique |
Themelios |
| David Snoke's review of Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Critique |
Themelios |
| Daniel Dennett, Orgel’s Second Law and Materialist Fideism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Philosopher wants to free “emergent” universe from the clutches of mystics |
Uncommon Descent |
| Aristotle Returns |
First Things |
| Replication Failures Highlight Biases in Ecology and Evolution Science |
The Scientist |
| The Warfare Thesis Explained |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science's Bullying Problem |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| Progressive war on science takes dead aim at math |
Uncommon Descent |
| 2018 International Conference on Creationism - part 1 |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| 2018 International Conference on Creationism - part 2 |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| 2018 International Conference on Creationism - part 3 |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| 2018 International Conference on Creationism - part 4 |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| 2018 International Conference on Creationism - part 5 |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| 2018 International Conference on Creationism - Panel Discussions |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| 2018 ICC - Specialization and the knowledge barrier - part 6 |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| Creation Biology Society 2018 Conference abstracts |
JCTS |
| Creation Geology Society 2018 Conference abstracts |
JCTS |
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| AND MORE |
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| From Micro to Macro Scales, Intelligent Design Is in the Details |
Evolution News |
| Uncommon Descent’s Weak Arguments (against ID) Correctives page passes 50,000 visits |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fake news on the ID controversy still includes babies with tails |
Uncommon Descent |
| God Delusion for kids: Richard Dawkins working on new atheism books |
Premiere |
| Richard Dawkins, 77, hopes his new atheism book for children will stop the religious indoctrination |
Daily Mail |
| Steep decline in student belief that God created humans, 32-year Australian study |
Science Daily |
| Does DNA testing keep alive ideas that “deserve to die”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| At the heart of the “sciencey” urban elite world, a reversion to witchcraft |
Uncommon Descent |
| Following Alfred Russel Wallace's footsteps to Borneo, where he penned his seminal evolution paper |
The Conversation |
| From the People Who Brought You the Hydrogen Bomb - Moshe Averick |
Times of israel |
| Information Theory - Part 1 |
Bible-Science Institute |
| Information Theory - Part 2 |
Bible-Science Institute |
| Universal method to sort complex information |
Quanta Magazine |
| Hell is a “parasocial” place |
Mind Matters |
| The war on math and science spreads to engineering |
Uncommon Descent |
| A Darwinian Pilgrimage |
Evolution News |
| Darwinian Faith and Fetish |
Evolution News |
| Darwin fan: Yes, it IS “fetishization.” So? |
Uncommon Descent |
| It's not science I don't trust - it's the scientists |
Spectator |
| Science vs. the Big Bang & Evolution: A Concise Look |
Apologetics Press |
| Correspondence: A Father, an Atheist Son, and Darwin Heretic Matti Leisola |
Evolution News |
| I Don't Believe in Aliens Anymore |
The Atlantic |
| Well, why DOES Sam Harris matter? |
Uncommon Descent |
| For This Physicist, "Overthrowing" Darwinism Is on the Table |
Evolution News |
| Todd Wood's new book, The Quest, is available |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| The New York Times mourns the death of bad social science |
Weekly Standard |
| At the New York Times: Defending the failures of social science to be science |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Utter Failure of Fictional Time Travel |
Scientific American |
| Astrobiologist: Why time travel can’t really work |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why can’t machines learn simple tasks?: They can learn to play chess more easily than to walk |
Mind Matters |
| Why machines can't think as we do |
Mind Matters |
| It's time to address artificial intelligence's ethical problems |
Wired |
| Could one single machine invent everything? |
Mind Matters |
| Could AI understand the universe? |
Mind Matters |
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