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| NEW ARTICLES - February 2019 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| Have We Mismeasured the Universe? |
Scientific American |
| Addressing Challenges to the Ancient Universe |
Michael G. Strauss |
| A Different Kind of Theory of Everything |
New Yorker |
| Philosophy: What exactly is a black hole? |
Science Daily |
| Dark matter may not actually exist - and our alternative theory can be put to the test |
The Conversation |
| Dark matter vs. dark energy in a world where neither has been discovered |
Uncommon Descent |
| The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and the Origin of the Universe |
Answers in Genesis |
| Theoretical Physicist weary of people telling her 2+2 = 5 |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astronomers Detect Organic Molecules Around a Newborn Star 1,300 Light-Years Away |
Science Alert |
| What would a multiverse really be like, and why should we care about it? |
Arc Digital |
| What would a multiverse really be like? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evidence of new physics could have been under our noses all along |
New Scientist |
| Never again confuse Dark Matter with Dark Energy |
Back Reaction |
| The 'WIMP Miracle' Hope For Dark Matter Is Dead |
Forbes |
| How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram |
Quanta Magazine |
| How is the hologram universe coming? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Exoplanets and the Fermi Paradox |
Evolution News |
| A Different Kind of Theory of Everything |
Uncommon Descent |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| The Surprisingly Swift End to Evolution's Big Bang |
The Conversation |
| Researchers: Cambrian explosion ended surprisingly quickly |
Uncommon Descent |
| Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion |
PNAS |
| New Fossil Feathers Affirm Created Kinds |
ICR |
| If Rocks Could Talk |
World Magazine |
| First discovered fossil feather did not belong to iconic bird Archaeopteryx |
Science Daily |
| Earth's Magnetic Field Nearly Disappeared 565 Million Years Ago |
Live Science |
| Soft tissue preservation in two new enantiornithine specimens (Aves) from the Lower Cretaceous Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province, China |
Science Direct |
| What Drives the Flat-Earthers? |
Neurologica Blog |
| Flat Earth Myth: A Favorite with ID Critics |
Evolution News |
| Recent Amber Fossil Finds |
Answers in Genesis |
| Scientists discover oldest evidence of mobility on Earth |
EurekAlert |
| Controversial fossils suggest life began to move 2.1 billion years ago |
New Scientist |
| “Super-Ancient mobile organisms” push mobile life back to 2.1 billion years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fossilized Tubes Point to Super-Ancient Mobile Organisms |
The Scientist |
| Do volcanoes or an asteroid deserve blame for dinosaur extinction? |
Science Daily |
| Half-a-billion-year-old weird wonder worm finally gets its place in the tree of life |
Science Daily |
| 500-million-year old worm 'superhighway' discovered in Canada |
Science Daily |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| A Dentist in the Sahara: Doug Axe on the Rarity of Proteins Is Decisively Confirmed |
Evolution News |
| At Last, the Details of How Proteins Evolve? |
Evolution News |
| NASA creates the origin of life |
Uncommon Descent |
| Signals on the scales: How the brain processes images |
Science Daily |
| Mechanism behind DNA damage control uncovered |
Science Daily |
| Radiation-resistant E. coli evolved in the lab give view into DNA repair |
Science Daily |
| Cell mechanism delays and repairs DNA damage that can lead to cancer |
Science Daily |
| How the bacterial replicative helicase opens to start DNA replication process |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: “profound yet intuitive: Every species has evolved backup plans” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Amazing Preservation Fails to Shock Evolutionists |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Skepticism About Darwinian Evolution Grows as 1,000+ Scientists Share Their Doubts |
Evolution News |
| Scientific Dissent from Darwinism |
Dissent from Darwinism |
| "Dissent from Darwinism" List: The Tip of an Iceberg |
Evolution News |
| More Than 1,000 Ph.D. Scientists Are 'Skeptical' of Darwinian Evolution |
PJ Media |
| Could the 2.1 billion-year-old organism have been like a slime mold? |
Uncommon Descent |
| More Wonders to Be Thankful For |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Behe on Darwin Dissent List: "Overselling Darwinism Means Downplaying Its Difficulties" |
Evolution News |
| Michael Behe: Darwinists Are "Famously Slow to Recognize Problems for Their Theory" |
Evolution News |
| Darwin Debate Heats Up |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Even the axons in our nerve cells are "smart PCs" |
Mind Matters |
| The End of Evolution? - A review of Behe's Darwin Devolves |
Science |
| "Woo Hoo" - Behe's first response to the Lents/Swamidass/Lenski review of Darwin Devolves |
Evolution News |
| I Agree with Behe - S. Joshua Swamidass |
Peaceful Science |
| A Review of Darwin Devolves by Robert Newman |
Books at a Glance |
| A review of Behe’s Darwin Devolves that looks at what Behe actually says |
Uncommon Descent |
| A Fair Hearing for Behe - S. Joshua Swamidass |
Peaceful Science |
| Science Mag’s hit on Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves avoids his main point |
Uncommon Descent |
| Early Science Review of Darwin Devolves - A Panic Attack? |
Evolution News |
| First Review of Darwin Devolves Relies Heavily on Circular Reasoning |
Evolution News |
| Darwinists Devolve: Review by Swamidass, Lenski, and Lents Borders on Fraud |
Evolution News |
| From Swamidass on Chloroquine Resistance, a Response that Doesn't Respond |
Evolution News |
| Train Wreck of a Review: A Response to Lenski et al. in Science |
Evolution News |
| Lenski comments again on Behe’s book |
Telliamed Revisted |
| My response to Swamidass et al - Denyse O'Leary |
Uncommon Descent |
| Perplexing: Michael Behe's Critics Falsely Claim He Ignores Exaptation |
Evolution News |
| More criticisms of Behe’s new ID book |
Why Evolution Is True |
| Mung’s Quixotic Correction - on Darwin Devolves |
Peaceful Science Discourse |
| On Chloroquine Resistance, Nathan Lents Severely Misrepresents Behe's Arguments |
Evolution News |
| Näsvall et al. Demonstrates the Effectiveness of Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| In the Controversy over Intelligent Design, Seeking Genuine Dialogue |
Evolution News |
| Histone Code: A Challenge to Evolution, an Inference to Design |
Evolution News |
| Natural Selection Theory Makes Scientists Lazy |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| A Theory in Crisis: Darwinian Anomalies Accumulate |
Evolution News |
| Suzan Mazur’s new book details how mechanobiology dooms Darwin |
Uncommon Descent |
| Molecular Machine Paper Ignores Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Graduate Level Baloney Detecting About Natural Selection |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Establishing the molecular blueprint of early embryo development |
Science Daily |
| Plants: How cell walls are assembled |
Science Daily |
| Bacteria walk (a bit) like we do |
Science Daily |
| The Wonders of Genomic Acrobatics: Ciliated Protozoa as a Case Study |
Evolution News |
| Species evolve ways to back up life's machinery |
Phys.org |
| Claim of New Antifreeze Gene by Natural Selection Melts Under Analysis |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Researchers identify a new form of brain communication |
Mind Matters |
| Could DNA be hacked, like software? |
Mind Matters |
| Science Review Offers False Accusations about Chloroquine Resistance |
Evolution News |
| Researchers: Cells have a repair crew that fixes local leaks |
Uncommon Descent |
| Becoming: Design in action |
Uncommon Descent |
| Massive database traces mammal organ development, cell by single cell |
Science Daily |
| Biology’s language is poorly adapted to Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Life thrived on Earth 3.5 billion years ago |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Life didn’t just hang on but throve 3.5 billion years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
New technique pinpoints milestones in the evolution of
bacteria |
Science Daily |
| Physicists pinpoint a simple mechanism that makes bacteria resistant to antibiotics |
Science Daily |
| New Squid Genome Shines Light on Symbiotic Evolution |
Quanta Magazine |
| Co-evolution: How does the need to sync development affect a system’s complexity? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Symbiotic organs shaped by distinct modes of genome evolution in cephalopods |
PNAS |
| Fruit fly wing research reshapes understanding of how organs form |
Science Daily |
| Grasses found to cheat evolution by stealing genes from their neighbors |
New Atlas |
| Evolution crime: Grasses are “stealing” genes from neighbors, researchers tell us |
Uncommon Descent |
| Convergent gene losses illuminate metabolic and physiological changes in herbivores and carnivores |
PNAS |
| Yeasts reach across tree of life to domesticate suite of bacterial genes |
Science Daily |
| New 'interspecies communication' strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts uncovered |
Science Daily |
| “Interspecies communication” strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts’ genes described |
Uncommon Descent |
| Diversity on land is not higher today than in the past |
University of Birmingham |
| In defense for living fossils |
PhilSci Archive |
| Unusual microbes hold clues to early life |
Science Daily |
| Evolution: Larger datasets unravel deep roots |
Science Daily |
| Forthcoming book - Glass House: Shattering the Myth of Evolution |
Answers in Genesis |
| Sponges really are older than comb jellies, researchers say |
Uncommon Descent |
| Does the war on cancer reveal limits to random mutation? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bats and Dolphins Evolved Echolocation in Same Way |
Science Magazine |
| Detailed bat and dolphin convergence in echolocation |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Emergent is the Brain? |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| The Brain Exceeds the Most Powerful Computers in Efficiency |
Mind Matters |
| Silent Neurons: The Dark Matter of the Brain? |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| Male Y chromosomes not 'genetic wastelands' |
University of Rochester |
| Researchers: Male Y chromosome not a genetic wasteland after all |
Uncommon Descent |
| How the immune system 'thinks' |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: How the immune system “thinks” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Animal Polyploidy: A Mechanism for Evolution? |
Answers in Genesis |
| Hearing, The Cochlea, The Frequency Domain And Fourier’s Series |
Uncommon Descent |
| Clutter Created You |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Kangaroo Fossil Leaps Over Darwinian Storytellers |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Mixing it up in the web of life |
Knowable Magazine |
| Many plankton behave like both plants and animals, challenging biological concepts |
Uncommon Descent |
| Re-conceptualizing the origins of life |
Royal Society Publishing |
| Membraneless protocells could provide clues to formation of early life |
Science Daily |
| Evolution in vertebrates |
Science Daily |
| Research explains how snakes lost their limbs |
Science Daily |
| Snake Bites Darwin |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Over 800 new genome regions possibly relevant to human evolution identified |
Science Daily |
| How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution |
New Scientist |
| The Wild Experiment That Showed Evolution in Real Time |
The Atlantic |
| Inhibition of 'jumping genes' promotes healthy ageing |
Nature |
| Is Plant Polyploidy a Viable Mechanism for Evolution? |
Answers in Genesis |
| How proteins become embedded in a cell membrane |
Science Daily |
| Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition |
The Atlantic |
| Spinal cord is 'smarter' than previously thought |
Science Daily |
| Our spinal cords are smarter than previously thought |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Samurai Crab - Myth-information about natural selection |
Creation.com |
| Study challenges old theories about animal mimicry |
Science Daily |
| How bird feather patterns form |
Science Daily |
| Scientists Have Created Synthetic DNA with 4 Extra Letters |
Live Science |
| Four new DNA letters double life's alphabet |
Nature |
| DNA's Coding Power Doubled |
The Scientist |
| Molecular Classification and Comparative Taxonomics of Foveal and Peripheral Cells in Primate Retina |
Science Daily |
| NASA is investing more in pre-biotic chemistry |
Uncommon Descent |
| Computing the origin of life |
Phys.org |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Cultural evolution theories “challenged” by multiple dwelling cave |
Uncommon Descent |
| Trail of feathers to the Neanderthal mind |
Nature |
| The “dumb Neanderthal” myth dies hard |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Neanderthals got the role of The Subhumans |
Uncommon Descent |
| Neanderthals Are Evolving |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Neanderthals Were Inbreeding. Did it Help Cause Their Extinction? |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| Neanderthals Walked Upright just like the Humans of Today |
University of Zurich |
| Approximate Bayesian computation with deep learning supports a third archaic introgression in Asia and Oceania |
Nature |
| African fossils show ancient advances in walking on two legs |
Science News |
| Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science |
Quillette |
| Why speech is a human innovation |
Knowable Magazine |
| Why speech is unique to humans |
Uncommon Descent |
| Extinct humans known as Denisovans is helping to rewrite our understanding of human evolution |
Nature |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| Is there a God? - a response to Hawking |
Creation.com |
| Is the gospel of Mark early? Is it based on eyewitness testimony? |
Wintery Knight |
| What difference does the resurrection of Jesus make? |
Wintery Knight |
| Daniel Ang: A Scientist Looks at the Resurrection |
Peaceful Science |
| PBS Unmasks Darwinian Eugenics |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| At Last, Common Ground for Atheists and Intelligent Design Advocates |
Stream |
| But is determinism true? |
Mind Matters |
| Reality Over Theater - Peaceful Science and ID Advocates Together |
Peaceful Science |
| How can mere products of nature have free will? |
Mind Matters |
| Why Philosophical Proofs for God Are Better Than "Scientific" Proofs |
J. Brian Huffling, PhD |
| Are philosophical proofs for God better than science ones? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Some personal beliefs and morals may stem from genetics |
Science Daily |
| The Crisis of Modern Science |
The American Interest |
| Rare trial of open peer review allays common concerns |
Nature |
| Of Statues and Sponges - Progress in My Conversation with a Theistic Evolutionist |
Evolution News |
| Darwin, the Idol of Richard Dawkins and His Followers |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Richard Dawkins’s Darwin Day lecture, 2019 |
Uncommon Descent |
| The three living New Atheist figureheads deny that New Atheism is dead |
Uncommon Descent |
| A philosopher's take on "naturalness" in particle physics |
BackReaction |
| What Science Can Learn From Religion |
NY Times |
| Is evolution a message of hope for humanity? |
Creation.com |
| Why neither weak nor strong scientism can ground ethics |
Uncommon Descent |
| Testing Scientific Hypotheses Using Specified Complexity |
Evolution News |
| Critical Analysis of Hugh Ross' Progressive Day-Age Creationism Through the Framework of Young-Earth Creationism |
Answers in Genesis |
| Eugenics: The Disturbing Skeleton in the Secular Closet |
The Gospel Coalition |
| The replication crisis may also be a theory crisis |
ars technica |
| Researchers: Double down on a theory like “natural selection” to solve replication crisis |
Uncommon Descent |
| 10 Theses We Cannot Support |
Answers in Genesis |
| The Greatest Scandal In the History of Science |
Powerline Blog |
| Lying with Science: A Guide to Myth Debunking |
Spectator |
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| Book review of Paul Gosselin’s Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West |
Touchstone Magazine |
| Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) |
Nature |
| Logic And First Principles, 11: The Logic Of Ultimate Mind As Source Of Reality |
Uncommon Descent |
| The concept of probability is not as simple as you think |
Aeon |
| A new approach to probability? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The "All Outcomes Are Equiprobable" Argument |
Evolution News |
| Design in Chemistry Explained by a PhD Chemist |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Necessary trips? Endangering careers to oppose Darwin |
World Magazine |
| New Pew Survey creates a huge middle on evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Sciences and Christian Formation: Helping Today’s Students Find Deeper Faith in a Science-Dominated World |
T&F Online |
| Design Advocates Are Decades Ahead of Darwinists |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The Evidence Is In: We're Alone in the Universe |
Answers in Genesis |
| Water is more homogeneous than expected |
Science Daily |
| Why Do We Celebrate Darwin Day? |
Psychology Today |
| How Many Creationists Are There in America? |
Scientific American |
| Appreciate Your (Un-Evolved) Body |
Evolution News |
| Could your computer be transgender? |
Mind Matters |
| Morality Is Not Scientific |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Scientific quest for morality ends in moral nihilism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Tales of an invented god |
Mind Matters |
| Jerry Coyne has another reason to be mad at Templeton |
Uncommon Descent |
| Jerry Coyne on how mathematician John Lennox embarrasses himself |
Uncommon Descent |
| Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor has become Darwinian Jerry Coyne’s “archenemy” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Answering the Premier Christianity article by Michael Roberts - 10 questions to ask a young earth creationist - Part 2 |
Creation.com |
| AI will never conquer humanity. It's too rational |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Why I Doubt That AI Can Match the Human Mind |
Mind Matters |
| FIRE’s Ten Worst Colleges for Free Speech |
Uncommon Descent |
YAF Wins Landmark Free Speech Lawsuit - UC Berkeley to Pay $70, 000 and Rescind Unconstitutional Policies |
YAF |
| Peace Through ETs? John Zmirak's Puckish Proposal |
Evolution News |
| Machines cannot take over |
Mind Matters |
| AAAS: Machine learning 'causing science crisis' |
BBC |
| Blame Academia for Junk Science and Media Hype? |
American Council on Science and Health |
| Is academia to blame for pop science hype? |
Uncommon Descent |
US Schools Are Leaving Students Ill-Equipped to Compete with Artificial Intelligence |
Foundation for Economic Education |
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