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| NEW ARTICLES - January 2019 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| What happened to astronomer Martin Haskell, dumped for thinking that the universe is designed? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cosmologist Luke Barnes answers 11 objections to the fine-tuning argument |
Wintery Knight |
| Our solar system's formation was a lot messier than you think |
Astronomy |
| Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity |
Evolution News |
| True Facts About Cosmology (or, Misconceptions Skewered) |
Preposterous Universe |
| Black-hole jets begin to reveal their antimatter secrets |
Nature |
| Physics Is Not In Crisis |
Forbes |
| Why We Need A New Collider |
Science 2.0 |
| Experimental physicist: Particle theory is “in a crisis” and a bigger collider IS the answer! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Einstein's physics says there is no biblical creationist starlight travel-time problem |
Bible-Science Forum |
| Time to Ditch the Drake Equation |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Theoretical physicist takes on panpsychism. Bam! Pow! |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code |
Quanta Magazine |
| We don’t often hear space and time described as a quantum error-correcting code |
Uncommon Descent |
| Do Strange Numbers Explain Reality? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astrophysicist: Climate change killed the ET civilizations |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Problem of the Missing Satellite Galaxies Gives Way - Now There's Too Many |
Quanta Magazine |
| The multiverse has become a talking point on Capitol Hill |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physicists: A mirror universe might explain dark matter |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astronomers Lie About Dark Matter |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Good Problems in the Foundations of Physics |
Back Reaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder: Physics problems that lead to breakthroughs arise from inconsistencies in data, not beautiful math |
Uncommon Descent |
| Helium, not dark matter, might explain DAMA's strong signal |
Physics World |
| Intermediate Gas Giants Challenge Planet Formation Theory |
ICR |
| Missing-link in planet evolution found |
Science Daily |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Earth's magnetic field is acting up and geologists don't know why |
Nature |
| Earth’s core hardened just in time to prevent magnetic field collapse |
Uncommon Descent |
| In the beginning: The full story of life on Earth can finally be told |
New Scientist |
| Coralline red algae have existed for 300 million years longer than presumed |
Science Daily |
| Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree |
Science Daily |
| Body plan pushed back hundreds of millions of years |
Uncommon Descent |
| 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found |
New Scientist |
| Oldest animal turns out to be 40 million years older than 558 mya |
Uncommon Descent |
| Planetary collision that formed the moon made life possible on Earth |
Rice University |
| Researchers: The Moon made life on Earth possible |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers Describe New Reptile Platypus From the Early Triassic |
UC Davis |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Behe's New Book, Darwin Devolves - Stunning and Absolutely Convincing |
Evolution News |
| Mike Behe’s new book, Darwin Devolves: “Absolutely convincing” or “omits contrary examples” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Michael Behe's Darwin Devolves - When You're Ready to Think for Yourself |
Evolution News |
| Darwinism - Like Every Other Known Natural Process - Devolves |
Evolution News |
| Neo-Darwinism: The Current Paradigm |
Panspermia |
| Paul Davies: Life’s defining characteristics “better understood as information” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolutionary Teleonomy: Support from Mainstream Evolutionary Biologists |
Uncommon Descent |
| As Predicted by Intelligent Design, "Junk" Introns Are Actually Functional |
Evolution News |
| Maxwell's demon and the hunt for alien life |
Nature |
| Seversky, an ID-Skeptical Reader, Makes The Case For Design |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Ultimate Question of Life’s Origins |
National Review |
| Analysis of unstable modes distinguishes mathematical models of flagellar motion |
Royal Society Publishing |
| Feathers: Better than Velcro? |
Science Daily |
| The molecular evolution of feathers with direct evidence from fossils |
Science Daily |
| How One Sense Smells a Trillion Scents |
ICR |
| Another Living Fossil Challenges Darwinian Explanations |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Hagfish Haunts Darwin |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Sea pens - 'Extreme' living fossils shout 'after their kind' |
Creation.com |
| Introns are mediators of cell response to starvation |
Nature |
| Is Biology Approaching the Threshold of Design Acceptance? |
Evolution News |
| BIO-Complexity Article Offers an Objective Method for Weighing Darwinian Explanations |
Evolution News |
| Mitochondrial DNA can be inherited from fathers, not just mothers |
Nature |
| Seeing the Dawn - Latest thinking on the Origin of Life |
Science |
| 'I predict a great revolution': inside the struggle to define life |
The Guardian |
| Ancient cataclysms and modern conflicts in origin of life studies |
Uncommon Descent |
| A solid scaffolding for our cells |
Science Daily |
| Kick-starting the genome in early development: Unravelling how instructions for new life are read |
Science Daily |
| In surprising reversal, scientists find a cellular process that stops cancer before it starts |
Science Daily |
| Epigenetics in the News |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Bird beaks did not adapt to food types as previously thought |
Science Daily |
| Darwinism challenged as explanation for finch beaks |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is an amoeba is smarter than your computer? |
Mind Matters |
| Genetics and Epigenetics - New Problems for Darwinism |
Evolution News |
| Complexity of cell movement |
Science Daily |
| Researchers claim: Complex molecules emerge without evolution or design |
Uncommon Descent |
| How do cells in a body know where they are supposed to be? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human-like lifespan 100,000–200,000 years ago? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mechanism helps explain the ear's exquisite sensitivity |
Science Daily |
| Cryptic DNA sequences may help cells survive starvation |
Nature |
| How stem cells self-organize in the developing embryo |
Science Daily |
| Some hatching mechanisms unchanged from 130 mya |
Uncommon Descent |
| Top Biology News of 2018: Year in Review |
Answers in Genesis |
| Gull wing stability prompts talk of “design" in nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Evolution Is More Certain Than Gravity |
Uncommon Descent |
| Latest Acts in the Origin-of-Life Circus |
Evolution News |
| Will Humpty Darwin Fall in 2019? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Tripod Fish: Denizens of the Deep Sea |
Answers in Genesis |
| Genes reveal clues about people's potential life expectancy |
Science Daily |
| Pseudo-pseudogenes: revealing further complexity in the genome |
Creation.com |
| Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah |
Evolution News |
| Steve Meyer on the information enigma in evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Frog choruses inspire wireless sensor networks |
Science Daily |
| It's the End of the Gene As We Know It |
Nautilus |
| Is the age of the gene finally over? |
Uncommon Descent |
| What makes two species different? The role of selfish genes in distinguishing a species |
Science Daily |
| Natural Selection Is Useless in Science |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Natural Selection Is Useless, II: More Evidence |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| A small fish provides insight into the genetic basis of evolution |
Science Daily |
| Engineered Adaptability: Trait Selection Is Internal, Not External |
ICR |
| Male-Female Differences Matter |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Evolution used same genetic formula to turn animals monogamous |
Science Daily |
| Synthetic organisms are about to challenge what 'alive' really means |
Wired |
| Green darner dragonflies migrate over several generations, like Monarch butterflies |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Beauty is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution |
NY Times Magazine |
| NYT: Beauty in nature acknowledged — but only as “Darwin’s neglected brainchild” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Weird worms challenge complexity argument |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Worms challenge idea that complexity just arises from simplicity |
Uncommon Descent |
| We've only just found out exactly how sperm wiggle their tails to swim |
New Scientist |
| Jorge Henao-Mejia Explores the Immune System's Controls |
The Scientist |
| Interactions of messenger RNAs and micro-RNAs during brain development |
Science Daily |
| Concept inventories as a resource for teaching evolution |
Evolution: Education and Outreach |
| Simple rules predict and explain biological mutualism |
Science Daily |
| How Should Christians View Biological Classification? |
Answers in Genesis |
| Human mutation rate has slowed recently |
Science Daily |
| Plants can smell, now researchers know how |
Science Daily |
| Plants can both “smell” and “hear” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Yeast Introns Not Junk After All |
ICR |
| New estimate of primate mutation rates helps genetics match fossils |
ARS Technica |
| Star material could be building block of life |
Science Daily |
| How a lipid-binding protein can access, select, and move a lipid ''cargo'' during the biosynthesis of the important coenzyme Q |
Science Daily |
| The helix, of DNA fame, may have arisen with startling ease |
Science Daily |
| Why Did Darker and Lighter Human Skin Colors Evolve? |
Discover Magazine |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| A First Human Couple? New Evidence and Arguments |
Evolution News |
| First human couple still in the news |
Uncommon Descent |
| Hoaxer is being persecuted for revealing bias |
Uncommon Descent |
| Psychologists Issue Controversial Report on Masculinity |
Psychology Today |
| The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought |
New Scientist |
| Why we still underestimate the Neanderthals |
BBC |
| Neanderthal hunting spears could kill at a distance |
Science Daily |
| Darwinian evolution and underestimating the Neanderthals |
Uncommon Descent |
| Neanderthals: javelin athletes helped us show how effective they were at hunting with weapons |
The Conversation |
| Neanderthals were way smarter hunters than we used to think |
Uncommon Descent |
| Neanderthals may have been sprinters not endurance runners |
New Scientist |
| Cave That Housed Neandertals and Denisovans Challenges View of Cultural Evolution |
Scientific American |
| Ancient Mongolian skull is the earliest modern human yet found in the region |
University of Oxford |
| A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism ... On the Internet? Yes! |
Evolution News |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| Science Is No Enemy of Christianity |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Book Review: Nature's Case for God by John Frame |
Apologetics 315 |
| Here’s How to Tell if Scientists are Exaggerating - Mike Behe |
The Stream |
| Here's How to Tell if Scientists Are Exaggerating |
Evolution News |
| When It Comes to Origins Science, Is PNAS Really "Ready When You Are"? |
Evolution News |
| PZ Myers declares New Atheism is dead |
Freethought Blogs |
| New atheism is over, says Darwinian PZ Myers |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can evangelicals agree on ten theses about creation and evolution? |
Creation.com |
| Advanced Extraterrestrials as an Approximation to God |
Scientific American Blogs |
| How can a naturalist atheist believe in the existence of evidence? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Intelligent Design: More Than a Technical Debate |
National Review |
| On Intelligent Design, Do Your Own Homework. Make Up Your Own Mind |
Evolution News |
| Self-Induced Blindness: Round 3 with Kevin Williamson |
Evolution News |
| The Nature of Design Inference and the Epistemic Status of Intelligent Design |
Research Gate |
| Stephen Meyer: The More Science Advances, The More Science Points To Design |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stifling the Intelligent Design Debate Is Bad Science |
Evolution News |
| But Belief In Design Is A Science Stopper! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Just because it's falsifiable doesn't mean it's good science. |
Back Reaction |
| Keeping the Debate Over Undeniable on Track |
Evolution News |
| Atheism's Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable |
Evolution News |
| 'The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity' Review |
National Review |
| Feeling anxious? It’s not just you, it’s our philosophical era of neuroexistentialism |
Quartz |
| Jerry Coyne and the Consequences of Denying Free Will |
Evolution News |
| Science and Faith - A Report from Colombia |
Evolution News |
| Ten Theses on Creation and Evolution That (Most) Evangelicals Can Support |
Christianity Today |
| Evangelicals waving goodbye to Adam and Eve? |
Uncommon Descent |
| In Unbelievable, Mike Keas Highlights Myths and Realities of Anti-Science Persecution |
Evolution News |
| Atheists, agnostics more skeptical of evolution now - Eric Holloway |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fallacious Assumptions Corrupt Science |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Junk Science or the Real Thing? 'Inference' Publishes Both. |
Undark |
| The Deity of Jesus - Mark vs. Bart Ehrman |
Is Jesus Alive? |
| Can You Be a Scientist and Believe in God? - John Lennox |
RZIM |
| The Value of Christian Doctrine and Apologetics |
Probe |
| Theistic evolution and the Christian faith |
Creation.com |
| Was 2018 kind of a quiet year for science? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science |
Evolution News |
| Which 2018 news trends will affect ID? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Calling it a 'war on science' has consequences |
The Conversation |
| More science-dissing: WaPo's misguided criticism of "scientism" |
Why Evolution Is True |
| Heard at The Conversation: Enough with the “war on science” rhetoric! |
Uncommon Descent |
| What interests does “poor design of the human body” rhetoric serve? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Electrons Don't Think |
BackReaction |
| “But it can’t be design, M’sieur. Design is an illusion.” |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Case for Scientific Humanism |
Scientific American |
| Michael Shermer’s Case for Scientific Naturalism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Michael Shermer's "Case for Scientific Humanism" Fails |
Evolution News |
| The problem with science is that so much of it simply isn't |
Creation.com |
| In one sense, consciousness IS an illusion… |
Mind Matters |
| The 500-Year-Long Science Experiment |
The Atlantic |
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| Why did an evolutionary biology prof imply world-famous chemist James Tour was “stupid”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Unifying Specified Complexity: Rediscovering Ancient Technology |
Evolution News |
| Science fiction writer Vox Day on the “darkstream descent” of Darwin’s theory of evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinists kept the “flat earth” myth going, to attack opponents of their views - Jeffrey Burton Russell |
Uncommon Descent |
| The junk science of the abortion lobby |
Mind Matters |
| Why We Don't Evolve Software: A Computer Scientist Considers Darwinian Theory |
Evolution News |
| Convert to Creation |
Creation.com |
| How can consciousness be a material thing? |
Mind Matters |
| The Holocaust: New Research Shows It Was Worse than Formerly Believed |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Review of The Death of Humanity - Richard Weikart |
Apologetics 315 |
| Is the slippery slope argument always fallacious? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Logic And First Principles, 7: The Problem Of Fallacies Vs Credible Warrant |
Uncommon Descent |
| How can information theory help the economy grow? |
Mind Matters |
| Darwinists are not usually software engineers |
Uncommon Descent |
| Unprovability comes to machine learning |
Nature |
| Denmark: Perhaps not so rotten after all |
Uncommon Descent |
| Denmark: Slowly developing a conversation about design in nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| UK Pushing Darwinism on Elementary Students |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Maybe the Darwinists can’t afford to be quite as unhinged any more? |
Uncommon Descent |
| India scientists dismiss Einstein theories |
Uncommon Descent |
| Will artificial intelligence design artificial super-intelligence? |
Mind Matters |
| Has science shown that consciousness is only an illusion? |
Mind Matters |
| Engineers translate brain signals directly into speech |
Science Daily |
| The Real Problems with Artificial Intelligence |
Back Reaction |
| When Did Consciousness Begin? |
Psychology Today |
| The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness |
Evolution News |
| NYT: Beauty in nature acknowledged — but only as “Darwin’s neglected brainchild” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty |
Evolution News |
| Mathematicians Discovered a Computer Problem that No One Can Ever Solve |
Real Clear Science |
| Jerry Coyne: Just sign Chicago “Statement on Principles of Free Expression” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinian Jerry Coyne muses on hashtag hate and the media |
Uncommon Descent |
| Crowdfunding research flips science's traditional reward model |
Nature |
| The Creative Spark |
Mind Matters |
| It takes a smart robot to mimic a reptile |
Mind Matters |
| It's time for a robust philosophical defense of truth in science |
Aeon |
| Is a philosophical defence of truth in science possible any more? |
Uncommon Descent |
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