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| NEW ARTICLES - June 2019 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| The Fine-Tuning of Nature's Laws |
The New Atlantis |
| Why must fine-tuning be classed as a problem, not just a fact? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fine-tuning of the universe: Pro and con |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers decipher the history of supermassive black holes in the early universe |
Science Daily |
| Logic vs. the multiverse: Gunter Bechly offers some insights |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rob Sheldon: Taken seriously, the multiverse proves the existence of God |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astrophysicist: “Nothingness” is the answer to our cosmic questions; Rob Sheldon responds |
Uncommon Descent |
| The multiverse hypothesis: Are there other universes besides our own? |
Back Reaction |
| The multiverse hypothesis: Are there other universes besides our own? |
Uncommon Descent |
| We've seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physicists Debate Hawking's Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning |
Quanta Magazine |
| Hawking’s idea that the universe had no beginning is still alive, on life support |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did Time Have a Beginning? |
Forbes |
| Continuing efforts to erase the beginning of time |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could the Big Bang be Wrong? |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| Yes, the Big Bang could be wrong, but what would that really mean? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Copernicus: National Geographic tries to get the history right |
Uncommon Descent |
| The mystery of cosmic cold spots just got even weirder |
Astronomy |
| The mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter |
Science Daily |
| Theoretical physicist: Recent claim about big quantum mechanics find is “silly” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rob Sheldon: What that hot new quantum experiment really showed |
Uncommon Descent |
| A new candidate for dark matter and a way to detect it |
Science Daily |
| Sabine Hossenfelder: Don’t expect too much from new proposals to detect dark matter |
Uncommon Descent |
| Constraints on habitable zone planets |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Cosmic Now |
Aeon |
| Model suggests how early dark energy could resolve the Hubble tension |
Phys.org |
| Einstein, Symmetry and the Future of Physics |
Quanta Magazine |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Paleontologist: Humans walked on two legs from the beginning |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rare fossils provide more detailed picture of biodiversity during Middle Ordovician |
Science Daily |
| New Ordovician) fossils (470 to 459 million years ago) show survival of “extinct” life forms |
Uncommon Descent |
| Plate tectonics may have driven 'Cambrian Explosion' |
Science Daily |
| Computer model suggests: Plate tectonics drove Cambrian Explosion |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwin’s fossils freak out over ID in Brazil |
Uncommon Descent |
| Study explains universal pattern in fossil record |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Evolution is random, just like the stock market … |
Uncommon Descent |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Phyla and Other Flawed Taxonomic Categories Vex Biologists |
Quanta Magazine |
| Paley’s Ghost Speaks Out: The Problem Of [Neo-]Darwinist Evolutionary Incrementalism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is the cell really a machine? |
Journal of Theoretical Biology |
| Researcher asks, Is the cell REALLY a machine? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could chemical evolution produce DNA? |
Creation |
| Blurring Life's Boundaries |
Anthropocene Magazine |
| Why some biologists are beginning to question the “biological species concept” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwin Double-Crossed: The Design of the Human Nervous System |
Evolution News |
| Homeostasis: How Active Maintenance Showcases Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| Anemone Complexity Confounds Evolutionary Classification |
Answers in Genesis |
| Evidence for irreducible complexity in proteins |
Uncommon Descent |
| Following Behe Review, Another Disturbing Peek Behind the Scenes at Science |
Evolution News |
| Sulfur bacteria stasis - "The greatest absence of evolution ever reported" |
Creation |
| Game of Thrones: As Darwinism Dissolves, Top Evolutionists Scramble for a Successor |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science journalist confronts evolutionary theorist with hard questions |
Uncommon Descent |
| To build a goldfish, start with a blueprint |
Genome |
| Explaining Animals: A Random Walk |
Evolution News |
| Purposeful Genetic Changes Challenge Evolutionary Theory |
ICR |
| Cornelius Hunter: More "Junk" DNA Is Crucial |
Evolution News |
| Seeking a Way Around RNA World, New Study Only Increases Perplexity of Abiogenesis |
Evolution News |
| The Problem of “God-talk” in Biology Textbooks |
Uncommon Descent |
| "Genes Out of Nothing"? Two Studies Demonstrate the Power of Mind |
Evolution News |
| Total Darwin Rewrite in progress: “Survival of the fittest” now means “sympathy” |
Uncommon Descent |
| The remarkable world of virus communication |
Uncommon Descent |
| The human body is a mosaic of different genomes |
Nature |
| Clusters of human body cells have different genomes |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Is There Magnetite in the Human Brain? |
Real Clear Science |
| New Neuroscience Discovery May Disrupt Biology |
Psychology Today |
| Epigenetic learning appears confirmed in nematodes; Weismann barrier broken |
Uncommon Descent |
| Sex evolved as a strategy against cancer? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Hacked Genome Damages Cell, Declares Creator's Genius |
ICR |
| What if there is no genetics apart from epigenetics? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A licence to kill during inflammation |
Uncommon Descent |
| Origin of life: A prebiotic route to DNA |
Science Daily |
| Birds and Bats: How Bright Is Evolutionary Light? |
Evolution News |
| Crossing Guard Found in Mitochondrial Membranes |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Feathers came first, then birds |
University of Bristol |
| Feathers arose 100 million years before birds |
Uncommon Descent |
| Convergent genomic signatures of flight loss in birds suggest a switch of main fuel |
Nature |
| How undifferentiated cells commit to their biological fate |
Science Daily |
| Translation of genes more complex than expected |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Gene translation “much more complex than previously thought” |
Uncommon Descent |
| How multi-celled animals developed: Evolutionary discovery to rewrite textbooks |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Multicellular animals started out complex |
Uncommon Descent |
| A microscopic topographic map of cellular function |
Science Daily |
| Protein scissors for cellular transport |
Science Daily |
| Scientists Gaze Inside 1 Billion-Year-Old Cells |
Real Clear Science |
| Cells from a billion years ago remarkably preserved |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues To The Origin of Life |
NASA |
| Mathematics of plant leaves |
Science Daily |
| Powerful CRISPR upgrade uses 'jumping genes' to directly insert DNA |
New Scientist |
| Nuclear architecture: What organizes the genome in a cell's nucleus? |
Science Daily |
| How cells regulate division |
Science Daily |
| How a cell protects itself |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Mitochondria Protect Themselves from Mutations |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Simple mechanics of protein machines |
Journal of the Royal Society Interface |
| Supposed junk DNA serves as microlens for condensing light |
Uncommon Descent |
| How the cell protects itself: Researchers discover the mechanism that prevents damage caused by shortened proteins |
Science Daily |
| Genetic Surprises Support Intelligent Design Claims |
Evolution News |
| New Book Exposes How Evolutionary 'Science' Devolves |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Jump around: How 'jumping genes' could transform gene editing |
Yahoo News |
| Philip Cunningham: Darwinian Materialism vs. Quantum Biology – Part II |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Coelacanth: A Case of Scientific Obscurantism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Why Do Skulls Have So Many Bones? (It's Loads More Than You Think) |
Live Science |
| Is today’s biology missing a Big Idea? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Where is the Origin of Life on Earth? |
SETI.org |
| SETI: Four origin of life scientists imagine the beginning |
Uncommon Descent |
| There is a glitch in the description of DNA as “software” |
Mind Matters |
| The same genes code for legs as for tentacles |
Uncommon Descent |
| But how can evolution be “wrong”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can one apply the “Goldilocks Principle” of fine-tuning to DNA structure? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Applying the Goldilocks principle to DNA structure: Scientists consider the form that may be 'just right' for scripting gene expression |
Science Daily |
| A Genetic Ghost Hunt: What Ancient Humans Live On In Our DNA? |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| Move over, DNA: ancient proteins are starting to reveal humanity's history |
Nature |
| Nobody went downhill faster than DNA |
Uncommon Descent |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| The birthplace of humanity's tool kit found |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Researchers: Tools from 2.6 million years ago have been found |
Uncommon Descent |
| Tool-use became widespread 10,000 years earlier than we thought |
New Scientist |
| Researchers: Declining Neanderthal fertility caused extinction, not violence |
Uncommon Descent |
| A review of 'The Neanderthals Rediscovered' |
Creation |
| Why Psychiatry Is Still in the Nineteenth Century |
Psychology Today |
| Bystander effect: Famous psychology result could be completely wrong |
New Scientist |
| Neanderthal groups more closely related than we thought |
Cosmos Magazine |
| An overview of the Denisovan puzzle |
Creation |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| First Episode of Science Uprising Is Out: Fake Science and Toxic Materialism |
Evolution News |
| New video series takes aim at toxic materialism in science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science Uprising - Michael Egnor Responds to a (Thoughtful) Critic |
Evolution News |
| Seven minutes to goosebumps: Confronting materialism head on |
Mind Matters |
| Science Points To An Immaterial Mind |
Mind Matters |
| Materialism’s secret of success, Hint: It’s not evidence |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Research on OCD Challenges Materialism |
Evolution News |
| Why do secularism and scientism coincide with a huge rise in superstition? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Feynman, says Massimo Pigliucci, is wrong about beauty and truth in science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Secular researchers agree: worldviews control science! |
Creation |
| Is Secular Science Re-Opening the Door to Eugenics? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Navigating Sam Harris' The Moral Landscape |
Reasonable Faith |
| What universities can learn from one of science's biggest frauds |
Nature |
| Failure to follow the evidence |
Slate |
| Journal Science wouldn’t publish failed replication of liberals vs conservative brain study |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolution: as a religious professor of science education, we need to rethink how we teach it |
The Conversation |
| Educator proposes a more humane way to teach evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Problem of God-talk in Biology Textbooks |
Blyth Institute |
| Is it possible to teach evolutionary biology "sensitively"? |
Bioliteracy |
| PLOS editor reflects on teaching evolutionary biology “sensitively”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| 5 Myths about Science |
Crossway |
| The astonishing rise of junk science |
Uncommon Descent |
| J. P. Moreland on when it is right to reject “science” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Utilitarianism and the Moral Life by J. P. Moreland |
Wintery Knight |
| What the Abortion Debate Tells Us About Integrity in Science |
Evolution News |
| Ten thinkers tell us what post-modernism means |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science Uprising: Stop Ignoring Evidence for the Existence of the Human Mind! |
Mind Matters |
| Are most “unbelievers” just superstitious and otherwise uncommitted? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Andy Bannister and Michael Ruse discuss how atheists find meaning in life |
Wintery Knight |
| Darwinian philosopher on finding meaning in life without God |
Uncommon Descent |
| Trust science? No. Rather, trust but verify. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Atheists Do Not Exist |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Spiritual Science: Anything But God |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Vatican hosts major atheism conference with University of Kent |
EurekAlert |
| A science writer considers the cost of science functioning as an inquisition |
Uncommon Descent |
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| AND MORE |
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| Believing in a purposeful world is good mental health! |
Mind Matters |
| New Engineering Textbook, Hacking the Cosmos, Argues for Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| A Really Long Time Is Not Forever |
Mind Matters |
| Michael Egnor: The cowardice of science organizations on when life begins |
Uncommon Descent |
| Yes, there ARE ghosts in the machine |
Mind Matters |
| Theologian, battling depression, reaffirms the existence of the soul |
Mind Matters |
| Creationists Let Facts Speak for Themselves in Mainstream Science Publication |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Could AI think like a human, given infinite resources? |
Mind Matters |
| Futurism doesn't learn from past experience |
Mind Matters |
| Being a Christian in Academia Can Be Costly |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| What did Wilberforce really say to 'Darwin's bulldog'? |
Creation |
| Philosopher: Gloom and doom over AI is “silly” |
Mind Matters |
| Prominent psychologist offers non-reductive approach to consciousness in journal article |
Mind Matters |
| The mind can’t be just a computer |
Mind Matters |
| Brain mysteries: A user's guide to the biggest questions of the mind |
New Scientist |
| Can Buzzwords About "Neural Networks" Save Materialist Neuroscience? |
Mind Matters |
| Astrobiology: Searching for the Origin of Life, In All the Wrong Places |
Evolution News |
| Darwin, Hitler, and the Modern Devaluation of Human Life |
FOCL |
| Historian Richard Weikart on how Darwinism eroded the value of human life |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dilbert’s creator, Scott Adams, gives lessons in being a troll for science |
Uncommon Descent |
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