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| RECENT ARTICLES - November 2018 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| Are the Laws of the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? |
Discover Magazine |
| Expanding Universe Mystery Deepens |
Gizmodo |
| Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Mechanosensing, God, and physicist Michio Kaku |
Uncommon Descent |
| The 11 Biggest Unanswered Questions About Dark Matter |
Live Science |
| Researchers: Proton mass mainly comes from sources other than quarks |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cosmology Is in Crisis Over How to Measure the Universe |
Wired |
| Is cosmology in crisis over how to measure the universe? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary |
Nautilus |
| Mathematician: Our universe is really chaotic; we just don’t see it that way |
Uncommon Descent |
| Will we ever see a black hole? |
ScienceNordic |
| What would a really black hole look like? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astonishing! A pop science article on fine-tuning that isn’t just plain stupid |
Uncommon Descent |
| Garrett Lisi on Geometric Naturalness |
BackReaction |
| Physicist: The ultimate theory will be “geometrically natural” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physicists explain how large spherical viruses form |
UCR |
| The truth about the Galileo affair |
Creation.com |
| New finding of particle physics may help to explain the absence of antimatter |
Science Daily |
| New cosmologies converge on the ASC model |
Bible-Science Forum |
| The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal |
Back Reaction |
| Theoretical physicist: Present phase of physics “not normal” - stagnation, not crisis |
Uncommon Descent |
| Theoretical physics has not gone to the dogs |
Quantum Frontiers |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Cracking the Cambrian |
Science Magazine |
| Fossilized Bird Lung Inflates Confidence in Creation |
ICR |
| Why Earth's water could be older than Earth itself |
New Scientist |
| Oxygen could have been available to life as early as 3.5 billion years ago |
Science Daily |
| What Two Planetary Siblings Can Teach Us About Life |
JPL |
| Why is Mars so different from Earth? NASA's InSight mission will dig deep to find answers |
LA Times |
| Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions |
Science Daily |
| Extinct Cretaceous Birds Flew |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Evidence emerges from the deep of Earth's first amino acids |
Chemistry World |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Radical Findings Show Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Dads |
Science Alert |
| Some rare fathers pass on an extra kind of DNA to their children |
New Scientist |
| Mitochondria can come from both parents |
Nature |
| Researcher shocked: Human mitochondrial DNA can be inherited from dads |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why do phylogenomic analyses of early animal evolution continue to disagree? |
bioRxiv |
| About Orphan Genes - What's the Big Problem for Evolution? |
Evolution News |
| Evolution Is Still True, but... anti-evolution fanatics continue to fight it |
Scientific American Blogs |
| The irreducibly complex ribosome |
Creation.com |
| Encore Performances in the Design of Life |
Evolution News |
| Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution's Speed |
Quanta Magazine |
| Widely used reference for the human genome is missing 300 million bits of DNA |
Science Daily |
| Bechly: Darwinian Evolution and the Problem of the Collector's Curve |
Evolution News |
| Michael Behe's Darwin Devolves Topples Foundational Claim of Evolutionary Theory |
Evolution News |
| Bacteriophages, Budding Yeast, and Behe's Vindication |
Evolution News |
| Jeanson's response to Frello's latest criticism of Replacing Darwin |
Answers Research Journal |
| Defective DNA damage repair leads to chaos in the genome |
Science Daily |
| Neutral Theory of Evolution Challenged by Evidence for DNA Selection |
Quanta Magazine |
| Jumping genes shed light on how advanced life may have emerged |
Science Daily |
| Help Michael Behe Demonstrate that Darwin Devolves |
Evolution News |
| More Cellular Roles Found for RNA |
Evolution News |
| Theorists Debate How ‘Neutral’ Evolution Really Is |
Quanta Magazine |
| Scientists Resurrect Ancient Versions of Life's Molecular Machinery |
Inside Science |
| Why Living Organisms Aren't Machines |
Real Clear Science |
| The mechanics of embryonic eyes |
Cosmos Magazine |
| If life might be “programmed into” the laws of nature, why not humans? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Memory - New Research Reveals Cells Have It, Too |
Evolution News |
| Darwin Given Credit for Non-Darwinian Observations |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Why Evolution and Reproduction Are Unnatural |
Evolution News |
| Nine Year Later, Meyer's Signature in the Cell Still Stirs Readers' Praise, Wrath |
Evolution News |
| The Biological Roots of Intelligence |
The Scientist |
| DNA Project to Decode All Complex Life on Earth |
Real Clear Science |
| Synapsids Went Extinct, but Did They Evolve? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Machine-learning algorithm predicts how cells repair broken DNA |
Science Daily |
| Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction: how cells touch their world |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Dino Soft Tissue Explanation Is Toast |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Broad genome analysis shows yeasts evolving by subtraction |
Science Daily |
| How biologists are creating life-like cells from scratch |
Nature |
| In the Nucleus, Genes' Activity Might Depend on Their Location |
Quanta Magazine |
| Convergent evolution: Move over, mammals. Spiders provide milk for their young too |
Uncommon Descent |
| Where Did the Organic Matter on Mars Come From? |
Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine |
| Opinion: The New Frontiers of Epigenetics |
The Scientist |
| Opinion: The New Frontiers of Epigenetics - A response |
Uncommon Descent |
| Unique Human Neuron Discovered |
ICR |
| The rocky road to biomolecules |
Nature |
| Wouldn’t you know, jumping “junk DNA” can be lethal too |
Uncommon Descent |
| New study reveals common table salt may have been crucial for the origins of life |
Science Daily |
| Geneticist solves long-standing finch beak mystery |
Science Daily |
| Darwin's 'abominable mystery' more apparent than real |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Experiment corroborates translational system's place at earliest foundations of life on Earth |
Science Daily |
| Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life |
CBC News |
| How do flying bees make perfect turns? |
Science Daily |
| New life form more different from others “than animals are from fungi” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Deep-time evolution of animal life on islands |
Science Daily |
| Darwin's finches choose parent lookalikes as mates |
Nature |
| Do Plants Behave Like Animals? |
Real Clear Science |
| Can Plants Be as Smart as Animals? |
Mind Matters |
| Humans and Neanderthals were frequent lovers, genetics reveals |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Great apes and ravens plan without thinking |
Science Daily |
| Whales lost their teeth before evolving hair-like baleen in their mouths |
Science Daily |
| Found: Missing Link in Whale Evolutionary History |
The Scientist |
| Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia |
Science Daily |
| A Phenomenological and Dynamic View of Homology |
Biological Theory |
| New tools illuminate mechanisms behind overlooked cellular components' critical roles |
Science Daily |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Can Life Have Meaning in a Random Universe? |
Psychology Today |
| No, life cannot have meaning in a random universe. Next question? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Where Americans Find Meaning in Life |
Pew Forum |
| Ann Gauger talks about Adam and Eve with World editor Marvin Olask |
World Magazine |
| All humans are descended from just TWO people and a catastrophic event almost wiped out ALL species 100,000 years ago, scientists claim |
Daily Mail |
| Adam and Eve reappear in a recent study |
Uncommon Descent |
| The myth of ape-to-human evolution |
Creation.com |
| Anthropologists and Psychologists Under Fire for Flawed Methods |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| 2.4-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools Turn Up in an Unexpected Place |
The Atlantic |
| Algeria fossils cast doubt on East Africa as sole origin of stone tools |
Nature |
| Evolution: South Africa's hominin record is a fair-weather friend |
Science Daily |
| Prehistoric cave art suggests ancient use of complex astronomy |
Science Daily |
| The 'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' found in Asia, suggests homegrown technology |
Science Daily |
| Rewriting of Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia |
Evolution News |
| On Human Origins, Smithsonian Teaching Resources Oversell Evolution |
Evolution News |
| The Ongoing Debate Over Neanderthal Language |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| The not-so-dangerous lives of Neanderthals |
Nature |
| Skulls reveal Neanderthals, humans had similarly harsh lives |
AP News |
| Anthropologist does not see chimpanzees as fuzzy humans |
Uncommon Descent |
| More Upsets in Human Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Oldest Animal Cave Painting Baffles Evolutionary Anthropologists |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| 3-D model of Neanderthal rib cage busts myth of ‘hunched-over cavemen’ |
The Times of Israel |
| Complex stone tools in China may re-write our species' ancient history |
New Scientist |
| Three New DNA Studies Are Shaking Up the History of Humans in the Americas |
Gizmodo |
| Celebrity endorsements help people accept evolution |
Evolutionary Psychology |
| Psychology's Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses |
The Atlantic |
| Half of social science replication studies failed under near-ideal conditions |
Uncommon Descent |
| Do social psychologists have an ideological aversion to evolutionary psychology? |
The Bristish Psychological Society |
| Evolutionary psychology: The cat among the pigeons! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers: Ancient peoples knew their astronomy, some of the oldest cave paintings show |
Uncommon Descent |
| Has Neuroscience Disproved Thinking? |
Mind Matters |
| The Transition from Animal to Linguistic Communication |
Biological Theory |
| Human origins upended once again |
Uncommon Descent |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| Behe Uncensored: A University-Level Course on Intelligent Design, Here Now! |
Evolution News |
| God of the Gaps: Is There No End to the Foolishness? - Moshe Averick |
The Times of Israel Blogs |
| Moshe Averick: When does a “gap” point beyond conventional science? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume's Skepticism |
Evolution News |
| Cleland's case for historical science: part 1 |
Creation.com |
| War between science and religion is far from inevitable |
The Conversation |
| Is religion vs. science warfare far from inevitable? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Naturalism and ethics: an inevitable contradiction? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Erkenntnis: What makes evolution a defeater for moral beliefs? |
Academia |
| Logic and First Principles: How could Induction ever work? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Are Angels "Naturalistic"? |
Uncommon Descent |
| In Arguments for Intelligent Design, Definitions and Assumptions Are Important |
Evolution News |
| Reviewer: Human Zoos film prompts some hard questions |
Uncommon Descent |
| “You Guys Lost!” Is Design a Closed Issue? – Part 1 by Nancy Pearcey |
More Than Cake |
| Skepticism, Experience, and Science |
American Mind |
| Dump the Metaphysics - How About Methodological Regularism? |
Evolution News |
| Why Science Can't Tell Us How to Live |
Christianity Today |
| Junk Science Has Become a Profitable Industry. Who Will Stop It? |
Real Clear Science |
| John Gray: New Atheists don’t acknowledge their myths and beliefs |
Uncommon Descent |
| One Key Difference Separating Good Science From Junk Science |
Forbes |
| Genetic Engineering: Are We Playing God? |
Answers in Genesis |
| Logic & first principles: Analogy, Induction and the power of the principle of identity (with application to the genetic code) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Big Science Failing Integrity Test |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
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| AND MORE |
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| Michael Ruse: I’m an atheist. But thank God I’m not a New Atheist |
Premiere Christianity |
| Michael Ruse update: “Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction… |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Left’s cruelty — an ideology without room for repentance |
Bookworm |
| Two views on the new “Journal of Controversial Ideas” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did AI show that we are "a peaceful species" triggered by religion? |
Mind Matters |
| The Scopes Trial Settled the Question of Evolution |
Answers in Genesis |
| Evolution as an Uncommonly Silly Idea |
Doug Wilson |
| SETI: A Fact-Free Occult Cult with Money |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| 'Junk Science' Is Everywhere, And The Media Eat It Up |
Daily Wire |
| Millennials are dumping religion for witchcraft, not science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Who knew that Bret Weinstein would be a bigger Darwinist than Richard Dawkins? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mimus Pulls Himself Up By His Bootstraps |
Uncommon Descent |
| Software pioneer says general superhuman artificial intelligence is very unlikely |
Mind Matters |
| Navigating our thoughts: Fundamental principles of thinking |
Science Daily |
| Do We Actually Experience the Flow of Time? |
Scientific American |
| Brains are not billions of little computers |
Mind Matters |
| Human consciousness may not be computable |
Mind Matters |
| Seeking the Truth When the Consensus Is against You |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Yes, the placebo effect is real, not a trick |
Mind Matters |
| A Secular Shakespeare Scholar on Adam and Eve |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Gender Ideology In Science: The New Dogma And The New Witch Hunt |
Science 2.0 |
| Gender Ideology In Science: The New Dogma And The New Witch Hunt |
Uncommon Descent |
| At Berkeley, rational discussion descends into darkness |
Washington Examiner |
| The Journal of Controversial Ideas: it's academic freedom without responsibility, and that's recklessness |
The Conversation |
| CRISPR-baby scientist fails to satisfy critics |
Nature |
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