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| NEW ARTICLES - May 2019 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| Cosmology Has Some Big Problems |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Cosmology's Only Big Problems Are Manufactured Misunderstandings |
Forbes |
| At Forbes: Cosmology’s crisis is merely “manufactured misunderstandings” |
Uncommon Descent |
| At Scientific American: Understanding the cosmology crisis |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rob Sheldon: The real reason there is a crisis in cosmology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cosmology's Biggest Conundrum Is A Clue, Not A Controversy |
Forbes |
| The universe may be a billion years younger than we thought. Scientists are scrambling to figure out why. |
NBC News |
| The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined |
Quanta Magazine |
| At Quanta: Sun “stranger than astrophysicists imagined” |
Uncommon Descent |
| 10 things you should know about black holes |
Back Reaction |
| The “water world” exoplanets are NOT habitable ocean planets |
Uncommon Descent |
| Exoplanets: Those water worlds would have sterile oceans too… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rob Sheldon: That “sterile exoplanet ocean” paper is bunk! |
Uncommon Descent |
| When it comes to planetary habitability, it's what's inside that counts |
Carnegie Science |
| Researchers: What’s INSIDE a planet determines habitability |
Uncommon Descent |
| How did the Solar System form? |
Creation |
| Multiple measurements close in on dark energy |
Cosmos Magazine |
| The Newest Finding on the Expansion of the Universe |
Answers in Genesis |
| Quantum Mechanics is wrong. There, I've said it. |
Back Reaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder: “We know that quantum mechanics is wrong.” |
Uncommon Descent |
| When particle physicists collide, some are transformed into children |
Uncommon Descent |
| Sabine Hossenfelder: Black holes vs. quantum mechanics = something has to give |
Uncommon Descent |
| Big Bang Hubble Contradiction Confirmed |
ICR |
| Axions may or may not exist - but we're not just making things up |
New Scientist |
| Theoretical physicist reassures public, they’re not just making it up |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Future Of Particle Physics Discussed In Granada |
Science 2.0 |
| Does the Higgs-boson exist? |
Back Reaction |
| What does it mean to say, in physics, that something like the Higgs boson “exists”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could Fundamental Constants Be Neither Fundamental nor Constant? |
Inside Science |
| Researchers: Maybe fundamental constants are not constant |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could Parallel Universes Be Physically Real? |
Forbes |
| In this version of the multiverse, you are unique |
Uncommon Descent |
| This Little-Known Quantum Rule Makes Our Existence Possible |
Forbes |
| Should we call the Pauli Exclusion Principle quantum fine-tuning? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is the Universe a Hologram? Future Telescopes Could Tell Us |
Physics Central |
| More Excuses for Missing Dark Matter |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| This Is Why It's Meaningless That Dark Matter Experiments Haven't Found Anything |
Forbes |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Yale's David Gelernter: Darwin's Doubt Is "One of the Most Important Books in a Generation" |
Evolution News |
| Cambrian Explosion Continues to Perplex Evolutionists |
ICR |
| Amber—a moment in time 100 mya |
Uncommon Descent |
| Billion-year-old fossils set back evolution of earliest fungi |
Nature |
| Fossilized Fungus Dates Back 1 Billion Years Ago |
The Scientist |
| How Long Do Fossils Take to Form? |
Geoscience Research Institute |
| The Cambrian Explosion at Qingjiang |
Geoscience Research Institute |
| Paleontologist Günter Bechly: "No Well-Established Tree of Fossil Humans" |
Evolution News |
| First birds: Archaeopteryx gets company |
Science Daily |
| Magma is the key to the moon's makeup |
Science Daily |
| New theory of moon’s formation addresses huge discrepancy |
Uncommon Descent |
| Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming theory rests on data that are bad |
Powerline Blog |
| Tooth Fossils Fill 6-Million-Year-Old Gap in Primate Evolution |
UNLV |
| Unusual Fossils Call for Unusual Explanations |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Mind-Blowing Marine Ammonite in Tree Resin |
ICR |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Why One-Third Of Biologists Now Question Darwinism |
The Federalist |
| Biology evolves: One third of biologists now question Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Suzan Mazur: World Science Festival is purveying an out-of-date Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| What is mutation? A chapter in the series: How microbes “jeopardize” the modern synthesis |
PLOS Genetics |
| Giving Up Darwin |
Claremont Review of Books |
| PLOS paper admits to nonrandom mutation in evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinian Jerry Coyne vents his spleen at Darwin-doubting Yale computer scientist |
Uncommon Descent |
| Designed Selection Is Not Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Game of Thrones: As Darwinism Dissolves, Top Evolutionists Scramble for a Successor |
Evolution News |
| Cells have signalling circuit boards. Only much more advanced than ours |
Uncommon Descent |
| Inserting Darwin Where He Doesn't Belong |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by ancient fungi |
The Conversation |
| Plant expert: Very ancient fungi made life possible for plants on Earth |
Uncommon Descent |
| The trickster microbes that are shaking up the tree of life |
Nature |
| At Nature: Carl Woese’s archaea are “shaking up the tree of life” |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin's Foresight |
Evolution News |
| Marcos Eberlin shouldn’t exist |
Uncommon Descent |
| Jerry Coyne is already mad at Marcos Eberlin |
Uncommon Descent |
| Illustra Media Celebrates Animal Diversity |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Dozens of genes previously thought to have similar roles across species are in fact unique to humans |
Science Daily |
| The new “unique human genes” findings contradict previous research |
Uncommon Descent |
| Newly discovered Medusavirus turns evolutionary theory to stone |
Creation |
| Orderly Disorder: A Molecular Motor Regulated by IDP |
Evolution News |
| Automatic Emergency Brake Found on Molecular Motor |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| More than a protein factory: A role for ribosomes in regulating human gene expression |
Science Daily |
| Spatial DNA organization forms first, then the rest |
Science Daily |
| Ancient DNA Yields Clues to Past Biodiversity |
Quanta Magazine |
| Complex Eyes of 'Simple' Clams Confound Darwin |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Remember junk RNA? Cell division requires a balanced level of it |
Uncommon Descent |
| Self-Assembly of Protein Machines: Evidence for Evolution or Creation? |
Reasons |
| Epigenetics: Worm memories passed down 14 generations |
Uncommon Descent |
| Tardigrades too tough for evolution |
Creation |
| Astonishing duplicity continues around Haeckel’s embryos |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scallops’ 200 eyes “even more complex” than realized |
Uncommon Descent |
| Backing down on Darwinian fundamentalism? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Book review of Doug Axe's Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed. |
Geoscience Research Institute |
| Creating a global map of the protein shape universe |
Science Daily |
| Muller Two-Step Model: A Refutation of Behe on Irreducible Complexity? |
Evolution News |
| The doomsday extinction rhetoric ignores the speciation mess |
Uncommon Descent |
| Polar Bear Seminar: New Evidence that Michael Behe Is Right |
Evolution News |
| God's DNA-detangling motors |
Creation.com |
| Extreme Fine Tuning in Body Cells, Part I |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Extreme Fine Tuning in Body Cells, Part II |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Opinion: How to Define Life |
The Scientist |
| Key step in cell protein production |
Science Daily |
| Researchers unravel mechanisms that control cell size |
Science Daily |
| Cambridge scientists create world’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA |
News Break |
| Clever Designs in Nature Worth Imitating |
Evolution News |
| The immune cells, it turns out, have secret police |
Uncommon Descent |
| New type of highly sensitive vision discovered in deep-sea fish |
Science Daily |
| Scientists’ Definition of Life Excludes AI, but Includes Embryos |
Mind Matters |
| Book Review: Stuart A. Kauffman's A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life |
Nature |
| New Origin of Life book: Life rests on physics but can’t be derived from it |
Uncommon Descent |
| Gold Rush of Discovery Points Beyond Blind Evolutionary Process - to Foresight |
Evolution News |
| Behe's Last Stand The Lion of Intelligent Design Roars Again |
Skeptic |
| Why Water Is Weird |
Nautilus |
| Shedding some light on water’s weird qualities |
Uncommon Descent |
| Something new to learn about water? |
Uncommon Descent |
| What Does It Look Like to "Turn On" a Gene? |
The Scientist |
| So it’s come to this: Turmoil over what genes really do |
Uncommon Descent |
| Seven Big Misconceptions About Heredity |
Skeptical Inquirer |
| Genes are more like a river than a string of beads… |
Uncommon Descent |
| When did the folk at Skeptical Inquirer become creationists? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Engineered Adaptability: Blockchain-Like Process May Produce Adaptive Traits |
ICR |
| Photosynthesis: Darwin's Great Mystery Is Still a Mystery |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| How Bacteria Become Drug-Resistant While Exposed to Antibiotics |
The Scientist |
| How the Injured Brain Heals Itself: Our Amazing Neuroplasticity |
Mind Matters |
| Embryo stem cells created from skin cells |
Science Daily |
| The heart 'talks' to fat cells |
Science Daily |
| Narwhals have endured a million years with low genetic diversity, and they're thriving |
Science Daily |
| New giant virus may help scientists better understand the emergence of complex life |
Science Daily |
| Can the giant Medusa virus help explain the evolution of complex life? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genetic adaptation to climate change |
Science Daily |
| Global Biodiversity Assessment Reports "Unprecedented" Declines |
The Scientist |
| “Jumping genes” threaten the world’s antibiotics |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dolphin ancestor's hearing was more like hoofed mammals than today's sea creatures |
Science Daily |
| Hybridization and evolution |
Creation |
| Try This Tree of Life Instead of Darwin's |
Evolution News |
| Welcome to the Electric Cell |
Evolution News |
| Bedbugs evolved more than 100 million years ago |
Science Daily |
| Talk about stasis! Bedbugs are 100 million years old |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stasis Is Not Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Bombshell study explodes myth that same-sex parenting makes ‘no difference’ |
Dr. Will Jones |
| Fossil Points to a Vanished Human Species in Himalayas |
Wall Street Journal |
| New Analysis Debunks Controversial Claim About the Origin of Humanity |
Gizmodo |
| Statistical study finds it unlikely South African fossil species is ancestral to humans |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Sediba is not a human ancestor after all. Back to Lucy, but… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Australopithecus sediba Not Likely Humans' Ancestor: Study |
The Scientist |
| Australopithecus sediba Dismissed as Human Ancestor |
Ceation-Evolution Headlines |
| Another Human Ancestor "Falsified": Study Puts Australopithecus sediba Back in the Ground |
Evolution News |
| The Denisovan Mandible and Human Diversity |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800,000 years ago |
Science Daily |
| Neanderthals and Modern Humans Diverged Earlier than Thought |
The Scientist |
| Researchers: Tooth studies show that Neanderthals “split” from modern humans 800 kya, not 300-500 kya |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Neanderthal Brain-Clues About Cognition |
Sapiens |
| Researchers: Early human toolkit (400 kya) showed precision toolmaking |
Uncommon Descent |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| The great split between science and philosophy must be repaired |
Aeon |
| Science philosopher attempts to repair split between science and philosophy |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science would be well advised to avoid picking fights with religion |
Irish Times |
| The Utility of Design Analogies |
Placozoan Ponderings |
| An Atheist Argues Against Reason |
Mind Matters |
| Understanding Unbelief Atheists and agnostics around the world |
University of Kent |
| Most atheists believe in the supernatural, despite trusting science |
New Scientist |
| Creation isn't science? |
Creation |
| Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will |
Nautilus |
| Two New Studies Demonstrate How Not to Do Science |
Real Clear Science |
| Forensic Experts Fight Over the Problem of Junk Science |
The Intercept |
| How to live without free will |
Back Reaction |
| Can physics prove there is no free will? |
Mind Matters |
| Younger Thinkers Now Argue That Free Will Is Real |
Mind Matters |
| On Book Tour, Marcos Eberlin Sparks Thought About the ID Movement |
Evolution News |
| A Disproof of God's Existence |
Skeptic |
| Disproofs of God’s existence are falling on hard times these days |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinism as Pantheism or Vitalism |
Evolution News |
| Making a mess of understanding eternity |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is science “broken” or has it just accumulated a lot of baggage? |
Uncommon Descent |
| An attempted serious look at whether we can be good without God |
Uncommon Descent |
| Self-censorship on Campus Is Bad for Science |
The Atlantic |
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| AND MORE |
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| If no one is really a Darwinist any more… |
Uncommon Descent |
| An Unintended Endorsement of Marcos Eberlin's New Book, Foresight |
Evolution News |
| Professor James Tour: A "Liar for Jesus"? |
Evolution News |
| Is chemist James Tour a “liar for Jesus?” |
Uncommon Descent |
| I was forced out of my PhD program because of my open faith in Jesus Christ. Here's my story. |
The College Fix |
| Christian PhD driven out by the raging Woke |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Peculiar Blindness of Experts |
The Atlantic |
| Fun: Why do experts suffer from a “peculiar blindness”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Farewell to John Lukacs: A Great Historian, and an Unequivocal Darwin Doubter |
Evolution News |
| Astronomer Martin Rees reacts to Suzan Mazur’s Darwin Overthrown |
Uncommon Descent |
| Religious Nones: The bigger picture shows increasing polarization |
Uncommon Descent |
| Granville Sewell: Why Evolution Is Different |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolutionist Responds to Eric Metaxas on the "Meaning" Question |
Evolution News |
| New view on the mechanisms of how the brain works |
Mind Matters |
| Huge floating logs transported Jurassic life forms around the world? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Creativity of AI Is Massively Underwhelming |
Mind Matters |
| How we make complex decisions |
Science Daily |
| A Critic of the Evangelical Statement on AI Misunderstands the Issues |
Mind Matters |
| Why AI *fails to* actually create things |
Mind Matters |
| What One Thing Do AI, Evolution, and Entrepreneurship All Need? |
Mind Matters |
| Michael Medved talks with Robert J. Marks about animal vs human vs. AI minds |
Mind Matters |
| Logic & First Principles, 20: What Is Law? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Logic & First Principles, 21: Insightful Intelligence Vs. Computationalism |
Uncommon Descent |
| National Review publishes pro-evolution misinformation piece by Khan |
Creation |
| Darwinian conservative has a troubling history re racist links |
Uncommon Descent |
| “Race realism” (Darwinian racism) pops up again: the John Derbyshire commemorative edition. |
Uncommon Descent |
| David Klinghoffer: Racism is integral to Darwinian thinking, “like an irremediable birth defect” |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism |
Smithsonian |
| Effacing the role of Darwinism in racism - Smithsonian edition |
Uncommon Descent |
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