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| RECENT ARTICLES - October 2018 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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Review of Michael Denton's new book, Children of the Light:
Astonishing Properties of Sunlight that Make Us Possible |
Evolution News |
| Book Review: A Fortunate Universe by Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes |
Apologetics 315 |
| Denton Turns Sagan's "Humdrum Star" on Its Head |
Evolution News |
| What's keeping us from discovering dark matter? |
Astronomy |
| First stars spell trouble for dark matter |
Back Reaction |
| Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Has Many Problems |
Quanta Magazine |
| Why We Need Cosmic Inflation |
Space.com |
| Electron’s nearly perfect roundness stymies the search for “new physics” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Big Bang Cosmology Needs Miracles |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Discover: Even the best dark matter theories “are crumbling” |
Uncommon Descent |
| String theory: Is dark energy even allowed? |
Science Daily |
| String Theorists' Heads Bobble Over Potential Dark Energy Wobble |
Gizmodo |
| You say theoretical physicists are doing their job all wrong. Don't you doubt yourself? |
Back Reaction |
| Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder shares her self-doubts about exposing nonsense in cosmology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Danish physicists claim to cast doubt on detection of gravitational waves |
ARS Technica |
| Already beyond the Standard Model of particle physics |
Symmetry Magazine |
| Stephen Hawking's final scientific paper released |
The Guardian |
| Stephen Hawking’s final paper, just released, tackled the “information paradox” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could new galactic measurements “upend current theories” of physics? |
Uncommon Descent |
| This Is The Real Reason We Haven't Directly Detected Dark Matter |
Forbes |
| At Forbes: The real reason we haven’t found dark matter |
Uncommon Descent |
| Nebular Hypothesis Doesn't Hold Together |
ICR |
| Early sun’s rotation rate was just right for us, it turns out |
Uncommon Descent |
| Observations challenge cosmological theories |
Science Daily |
| Famous Experiment Dooms Pilot-Wave Alternative to Quantum Weirdness |
Quanta Magazine |
| The 8-dimensional space that must be searched for alien life |
Technology Review |
| The cosmological lithium problem: One of the unknowns in the current description of the Big Bang |
Science Daily |
| Where is it, the foundation of quantum reality? |
IFJ PAN Press |
| Researchers: Bizarre Antartic particles might shatter modern physics |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Trouble-Makers of Particle Physics |
Cosmic Shambles Network |
| Comets and Asteroids Bearing Life? |
SFGate |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Fossil Discontinuities: A Refutation of Darwinism and Confirmation of Intelligent Design |
Uncommon Descent |
| First Vertebrates Evolved in Shallow Water |
The Scientist |
| Vertebrate evolution kicked off in lagoons |
Cosmos Magazine |
| How geology tells the story of evolutionary bottlenecks and life on Earth |
AstroBiology Magazine |
| Soft Lung Tissue Found in Modern-Looking Bird from Dinosaur Era |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Oldest fossil of a flying squirrel sheds new light on its evolutionary tree |
Science Daily |
| Oldest evidence for animals found |
Phys.org |
| Living Evidence of a Global Catastrophe: How Microbial Biogeography Supports Noah's Flood |
Answers in Genesis |
| Biological Reasons Young-Earth Creationists' Worldwide Flood Never Happened |
CSI - Skeptical Inquirer |
| Archaeopteryx: The day the fossil feathers flew |
BBC |
| New species of Archaeopteryx |
New Scientist |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Behe's Irreducible Complexity Validated by Chemistry Nobel |
Evolution News |
| What’s Left of Darwinism? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Isn't it obvious? Natural selection can eliminate, but never create! |
Creation.com |
| Denton, Berlinski: Primary Objections to Neo-Darwinism |
Evolution News |
| Studies raise questions over how epigenetic information is inherited |
Science Daily |
| Evolution Under Attack |
NeuroLogica Blog |
| Nobel Awarded for Intelligently Designed "Directed Evolution" |
ICR |
| On the Evolutionary Origin of New Genes, Stephen Meyer Is Vindicated Again |
Evolution News |
| Examining Randy Isaac's Critique of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics |
Evolution News |
| Engineered Adaptability: Logic Mechanisms Direct Creatures' Innate Adaptability |
ICR |
| 95% of Human Genome Can't Evolve |
ICR |
| New findings challenge the “neutral” theory of evolution for 95% of human genome |
Uncommon Descent |
| “Incredibly surprising”: New structure in human cells discovered |
Uncommon Descent |
| Experimental test and refutation of a classic case of molecular adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster |
NCBI |
| Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together |
New Scientist |
| Yes, "Your Brain Is a Machine" - Wait, What? |
Evolution News |
| A comprehensive 'parts list' of the brain built from its components, the cells |
Science Daily |
| Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain's unique computing power |
Science Daily |
| Flight: The Genius of Seeds |
Evolution News |
| Rising Oxygen Levels and What They Meant for Early Animal Life |
Air & Space - Smithsonian |
| The Blink of an Eye - And More Wonders of Human Body Design |
Evolution News |
| Critics Need to Grapple with Ewert's Challenge to Darwin's Tree |
Evolution News |
| Acknowledged: Well-established patterns in evolution can be wrong |
Uncommon Descent |
| God's amazing design of the hummingbird |
Creation.com |
| Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again |
Evolution News |
| Three More Designs that Defy Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| "Schrödinger's Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone |
Scientific American |
| Bird-like lungs may have helped dinosaurs rule the world |
New Scientist |
| New insight into the evolution of the nervous system |
Science Daily |
| Cases of "purposeful inefficiency" in cellular behavior |
Science Daily |
| Cell behaviour can show “purposeful inefficiency”? What next? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Taxonomically Restricted Genes Are Fundamental to Biology and Evolution |
Frontiers in Genetics |
| Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation - An Obsession that Smothers Wonder |
Evolution News |
| Dandelion seeds fly using ‘impossible’ method never before seen in nature |
Nature |
| A pheromone-sensing gene that predates land-dwelling vertebrates |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Life forms display an “optimal tradeoff between stability and instability” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers further unravel mystery of how black widow spiders create steel-strength silk web |
Northwestern University |
| Tortoise study does not support textbook “island rule” for evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists discover new kill code embedded in each cell to extinguish cancer |
Science Daily |
| Liquid crystals of RNA could explain how life started on Earth |
Astronomy |
| An RNA key that unlocks innate immunity |
Science Daily |
| Signs of Ancient Microbial Life Questioned |
The Scientist |
| The Origin of Life Circus Adds Old and New Acts |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Extinction: When evolution is suddenly found to have a purpose |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ancient Andeans Had Novel Genetic Advantages to Adapt to Altitude |
The Scientist |
| Chemists find a recipe that may have jump-started life on Earth |
Science Magazine |
| Protein dynamics: Molecular machines at work |
Science Daily |
| A long-overlooked brain region may be key to complex thought |
Knowable Magazine |
| There's a better way to decipher DNA's epigenetic code to identify disease |
Science Daily |
| Origin of Mitochondrial DNA Differences |
Answers in Genesis |
| Genes responsible for difference in flower color of snapdragons identified |
Science Daily |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| The Devolution of Social Science |
Quillette |
| What Good Is Evolutionary Psychology? |
Quillette |
| Do these skulls prove common ancestry between apes and humans? |
Creation.com |
| Horrors of Mao's Darwinist Utopia Described |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Many undergrad psych textbooks do a poor job of describing science and exploring psychology's place in it |
British Psychological Society |
| Introducing Grandpa Thag: Neandertals in your family tree! |
Todd C. Wood |
| Rare genetic sequences illuminate early humans' history in Africa |
Nature |
| New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience |
Psychology Today |
| Neanderthal ribcage reconstructed, offering new clues to ancient human anatomy |
Science Daily |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| Why Science Can't Replace Religion |
Vox |
| Examining Critiques of Theistic Evolution, a Year After the Volume's Publication |
Evolution News |
| Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the "Maker Thesis" |
Evolution News |
| Book Review: Scientism and Secularism by J.P. Moreland |
Apologetics 315 |
| Stephen Hawking’s Final Salvo Against God--and Why He Was Wrong |
CNS News |
| Richard Dawkins as Reluctant Darwinian |
Evolution News |
| Michael Egnor: Is free will a dangerous myth? |
Mind Matters |
| Secular Root Origins Appear Groundless |
ICR |
| Darwin, Design & Thomas Aquinas |
Touchstone Magazine |
| Getting Worldview Wrong: Philosophical Mistakes in Understanding Worldview |
Creation Research |
| A homicide detective looks at ID and God’s crime scene |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is a Miracle a Violation of the Laws of Nature? |
Gospel Coalition |
| J. P. Moreland on claims we know better than we know science truths |
Uncommon Descent |
| Are you a Boltzmann Brain? Why nothing in the universe may be real |
Big Think |
| New method to address deep-seated biases in science |
Science Daily |
| Evolutionists Sense Life's Design and Deify Nature |
ICR |
| U.K. Museum Director Calls for Venerating Evolution as "Irrefutable" |
Evolution News |
| A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind |
Mind Matters |
| To Refute Materialism, Consider a Chocolate Sundae |
Evolution News |
| When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions |
Aeon |
| Science's Got Troubles |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
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| AND MORE |
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| What the New Sokal Hoax Reveals About Academia |
The Atlantic |
| A computer programmer looks at DNA |
Mind Matters |
| The Nobel Prize and Intelligent Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Evolution is at work in computers as well as life sciences |
The Conversation |
| Confidence in academia falls nine points in three years |
American Council on Science and Health |
| Confidence in Academia falls nine points in three years |
Gallup |
| Science writer: Academia is in meltdown |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists condemn professor's 'morally reprehensible' talk |
BBC |
| How Darwin Storytelling Permeates Society |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| "One year of Replacing Darwin: What have we learned?" |
Answers in Genesis |
| Turkey’s unnatural selection: Darwin is the latest victim of an attack on scientific values in Turkey’s education system |
Sage Journals |
| Racism of Darwin and His Followers Exposed |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Many worlds, many problems… one of them serious |
Uncommon Descent |
| From Barren Planet to Civilization in Four Easy Steps |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolution and nature of science instruction |
BMC - Springer Nature |
| Bioethicists obsessed with killing babies-why? |
Creation.com |
| Disagreement flares over "Hippocratic Oath" proposal for scientists |
Cosmos |
| Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology |
MarketWatch |
| Role of "natural factors" on recent climate change underestimated |
Exeter |
| The frantic search for ET life |
Creation.com |
| UK government targets creation in independent schools |
Creation.com |
| But why do people believe in Discover Magazine? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A World Without Referees - Carnegie Mellon statistician on peer review |
Carnegie Mellon |
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