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| NEW ARTICLES - July 2019 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| A naturalist's nightmare: A review of A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos |
Creation |
| What elements of fine-tuning of our universe (vs. the multiverse) would pass this test of science truth? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ask Ethan: Can We Really Get A Universe From Nothing? |
Forbes |
| Ethan Siegel: How we can get a universe from nothing? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why the multiverse is religion, not science |
Back Reaction |
| The multiverse is just religion, theoretical physicist charges |
Uncommon Descent |
| Will the debate over the expansion of the universe “unravel” physics? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Multiverse no help for evolution |
Creation |
| Mirror universe: Now they market science fiction as news |
Uncommon Descent |
| You Must Not Trust Experiments That Claim The Existence Of Parallel Universes |
Forbes |
| How do we know our universe is not a sim world? |
Mind Matters |
| Supercomputer shows 'Chameleon Theory' could change how we think about gravity |
Science Daily |
| The weirdest stars we've ever seen have astronomers utterly baffled |
New Scientist |
| "Is There A Simpler Perspective On Some Fundamental Laws Of Physics?" |
Science 20 |
| We are invited to consider a simpler perspective on the laws of physics |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Sands of Spacetime: Researchers investigate two of physics' greatest problems |
Physics Buzz |
| Is spacetime granular on the smallest of scales? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Characterizing the 'arrow of time' in open quantum systems |
Science Daily |
| Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn't exist |
Science Daily |
| A black hole that just shouldn’t exist |
Uncommon Descent |
| These Odd 'Quasiparticles' Could Finally Unmask Dark Matter |
Space |
| Could “quasiparticles” reveal dark matter? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Something is seriously wrong with our understanding of the cosmos |
New Scientist |
| New Scientist: Our understanding of the cosmos is “seriously wrong” |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Crisis In Theoretical Particle Physics Is Not A Moral Imperative |
Forbes |
| Particle physics is a mess but Hossenfelder should chill, fellow physicist says |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Hubble constant measurement adds to mystery of universe's expansion rate |
Science Daily |
| New Hubble measurement keeps the discrepancy around the Hubble constant alive |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Scientist welcomes us to the fifth dimension |
Uncommon Descent |
| Einstein's general relativity theory is questioned but still stands 'for now,' team reports |
UCLA Newsroom |
| Belief in Dark Matter Propelled by Theory, Not Evidence |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The C-theory of time asks if time really has a direction |
Aeon |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Should There Be a Time Limit for Cambrian Explosion Excuses? |
Evolution News |
| New model suggests lost continents for early Earth |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: A big change in ocean life occurred in the mid-Jurassic |
Uncommon Descent |
| Jurassic shift: Changing the rules of evolution |
Science Daily |
| Jurassic fossil shows how early mammals could swallow like their modern descendants |
Science Daily |
| Scientists develop new method for studying early life in ancient rocks |
Science Daily |
| Fossils Do Not Say "We Evolved" - People Do |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Ambopteryx - bird or bat-winged reptile? |
Creation |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| "Time Out" by James Tour |
Inference |
| Chemist James Tour calls time out on implausible origin of life theories |
Uncommon Descent |
| Origin of Life: Can Peptides Form Naturally in Water? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Not Oparin's Coacervates Again! |
Evolution News |
| Origin of life: The importance of interfaces |
Science Daily |
| Electricity-driven undersea reactions may have been important for the emergence of life |
Science Daily |
| Mathematicians challenge Darwinian evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Direct experimental falsification of Darwinism? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Famed Yale computer science professor quits believing Darwin’s theories |
The College Fix |
| Evolutionists Manhandle Contrary Evidence to Support Darwinism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| First complete wiring diagram of an animal's nervous system |
Science Daily |
| It's the Severity or the Nature of the Mystery of Life's Origin that Is Unacknowledged |
Evolution News |
| Scientists Debate the Origin of Cell Types in the First Animals |
Quanta Magazine |
| New findings show that ancestral single-celled organisms were “amazingly complex” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Body plan evolution not as simple as once believed |
PHYS.org |
| Researchers: Body plan evolution not so simple as once thought |
Uncommon Descent |
| Major class of viruses reveals complex origins |
Science Daily |
| Even viruses have complex origins now |
Uncommon Descent |
| Steven Jacob’s five-year fight and when mammalian life begins |
Uncommon Descent |
| Horizontal gene transfer: Parasite plants steal genes from hosts |
Uncommon Descent |
| New discovery suggests cellular 'cargo' transporters play a profound role in creating brain cells and circuits |
Science Daily |
| Origins of Multicellular Organisms |
Answers in Genesis |
| Hidden genetic variations power evolutionary leaps |
Phys.org |
| The Lovable Venus Flytrap: A Design Analysis |
Evolution News |
| Carnivorous plants: Darwinian evolution would have to be a miracle worker to explain them |
Uncommon Descent |
| Michael Behe, Biochemist and Superhero, Was Live at Seattle Center; See It Now! |
Evolution News |
| Behe Vindicated Again: Goldfish Are Broken Carp |
Evolution News |
| Behe vindicated by goldfish? But of course! |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Science Uprising Episode: Evolution, Mutations, and “Fooling the Laymen” |
Evolution News |
| The biologist using insect eggs to overturn evolutionary doctrine |
Nature |
| At Nature: Researcher smashes conventional evolution doctrine about insect egg shapes |
Uncommon Descent |
| The incorrect insect egg model relied too much on model organisms |
Uncommon Descent |
| A new type of intercellular communication |
Science Daily |
| A Lawyer’s Take on Michael Behe’s Latest Book, Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA that Challenges Evolution |
Citizens for Objective Public Education |
| DNA replication machinery captured at atom-level detail |
Science Daily |
| DNA origami joins forces with molecular motors to build nanoscale machines |
Science Daily |
| Study gives insight into sun-induced DNA damage and cell repair |
Science Daily |
| Unnatural selection - Self-destructing mosquitoes and sterilized rodents: the promise of gene drives |
Nature |
| Common Design Trounces Common Descent for Diversity of Life |
Detecting Design |
| Complex Organisms are Degenerating - Rapidly |
Detecting Design |
| Darwinism is taking a beating in the Anthropocene |
Uncommon Descent |
| Controlling the waves of dynamic, far from equilibrium states: the NF-kB system of transcription regulation |
Uncommon Descent |
| New cell discovered that can heal hearts |
Science Daily |
| Why plants don't die from cancer |
PBS |
| Parallel evolution of HIV-1 in a long-term experiment (how parallel evolution misleads phylogenetic reconstruction) |
Oxford Academic |
| Have 99% Of All Species Gone Extinct? |
Uncommon Descent |
| On the Origin of Life, Science Uprising Helps Break a Poisonous Spell |
Evolution News |
| Key early steps for origin of life occur under a variety of conditions |
Science Daily |
| Origin-of-Life Folly Misleads the Public |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Origin of life insight: Peptides can form without amino acids |
Science Daily |
| A "False Narrative" on Origin of Life Research? |
Evolution News |
| AI protein-folding algorithms solve structures faster than ever |
Nature |
| His Artificial Intelligence Sees Inside Living Cells |
Quanta Magazine |
| Researcher: Smartest engineers would be “totally stumped” by a cell |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago |
Science Daily |
| Did the ear bones of mammals really evolve from the jawbones of reptiles? |
Creation |
| The appendix - Functional, but still evidence for evolution? |
Creation |
| HIV eliminated from the genomes of living animals |
Science Daily |
| Parental 'memory' is inherited across generations |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: parents’ memory of avoiding danger can be inherited |
Uncommon Descent |
| Are our political views coded in DNA? Jerry Coyne is not really convinced |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists challenge prior theories of the origins of three vegetables |
Science Daily |
| ORFan genes on Peaceful Science |
Peaceful Science |
| Paleontology: New light on cichlid evolution in Africa |
Science Daily |
| Strange bacteria hint at ancient origin of photosynthesis |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Photosynthesis may be a billion years older than thought … But WAIT! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Virus-Infecting Bacteria Reveal Creation Sophistication |
ICR |
| Environment, not evolution, might underlie some human-ape differences |
Science Daily |
| Algae living inside fungi: How land plants first evolved |
Science Daily |
| Do viruses play a hidden role in evolution? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Gene Mutation Could Explain Humans' High Risk of Heart Attack |
The Scientist |
| New cause of cell aging discovered |
Science Daily |
| Biologists and mathematicians team up to explore tissue folding |
Science Daily |
| 18-million-year-old creature helps fill a gap in the record of monkey evolution |
Duke University |
| Pufferfish Spines Shaped by Same Genes as Feathers and Fish Scales |
The Scientist |
| A single set of genes drives pufferfish spines, mouse hair, and chicken feathers |
Uncommon Descent |
| Time to Put a Lid on Cichlid Evolution Propaganda |
Evolution News |
| A prof on looking into ID literature for the first time… |
Uncommon Descent |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Milton and the Psychology of Materialism |
Evolution News |
| Tom Gilson: Psychology almost never gets religion right |
Uncommon Descent |
| Study: Psychiatric diagnoses are “scientifically meaningless” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Does psychology have a conflict-of-interest problem? |
Nature |
| Psychiatric diagnosis 'scientifically meaningless' |
Science Daily |
| Psychology Co-Ops 'Science' to Fight Biblical Morality |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The Dark Side of Social Media Activism in Science |
Psychology Today |
| J. P. Moreland’s Model of the Human Self Survived the Ultimate Field Test |
Mind Matters |
| Moreland, Witt: Not "All Body," but Not "All Spirit" Either |
Evolution News |
| Darwinian Jerry Coyne makes a good point about the social science hoaxes |
Uncommon Descent |
| What Does It Mean to Be Human? Genetics - The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |
Smithsonian Human Origins Program |
| Apes and humans: How did science get so detached from reality? |
Uncommon Descent |
| More Laetoli Footprints Found |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Neanderthals' history is as complicated as ours |
ARS Technica |
| Ancient molar points to interbreeding between archaic humans and Homo sapiens in Asia |
Science Daily |
| Ancient Skull Fragment Pushes Back Date of Earliest Humans in Europe |
Gizmodo |
| An early dispersal of modern humans from Africa to Greece |
Nature |
| Research into Neanderthal toolmaking suggests that most were right-handed |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did Neanderthals Speak? The Neanderthal Throat |
Sapiens |
| More Big Problems with Human Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Stone Age Myths We've Made Up |
Sapiens |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| Atheism’s Problem Of Warrant |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science Uprising: New video series unmasks materialism |
Christian Post |
| How millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals |
L.A. Times |
| Religious Nones drawn to the occult (what did you expect?) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Who started the war on reason anyway? |
Mind Matters |
| Atheist psychiatrist misunderstands evidence for immaterial mind |
Mind Matters |
| Tales of the mind: A neurologist encounters the house of mirrors |
Mind Matters |
| Ideologies that devalue human life - with historian Richard Weikart |
Uncommon Descent |
| The horrifying calculations of utilitarian ethics |
Creation |
| Philosopher: Morality is merely community norms |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ask Ethan: What Does 'Truth' Mean To A Scientist? |
Forbes |
| Religious Affiliation and Religiosity and Their Impact on Scientific Beliefs in the United States |
BioScience |
| The Forgotten Solution: Superdeterminism |
Back Reaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder dusts off “superdeterminism” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Michael Ruse, The Problem of War: Darwinism, Christianity, and Their Battle to Understand Human Confict - Book Review by Richard Weikart |
Springer Metascience |
| Richard Weikart on yet another Darwinian rewrite of Darwin and the facts |
Uncommon Descent |
| Michael A. Flannery, Nature’s prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and his evolution from natural selection to natural theology - Book Review |
Springer Metascience |
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| AND MORE |
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| Morphogenesis for the Design of Design |
Edge |
| Evolution Teacher Promotes Gentler Way to Propagandize Students |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| National Science Teaching Association Censors Open Inquiry, Stonewalls When Questioned |
Evolution News |
| National Science Teachers group calls security over questioning Darwin |
Uncommon Descent |
| Over eugenics. Who knew that this was how the culture would begin to turn on Darwinism? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Opinion | Is God the Answer to the Suicide Epidemic? |
Wall Street Journal |
| They Tried to Start a Church Without God. For a While, It Worked. |
The Atlantic |
| Philosopher J. P. Moreland continues his account of working his way through a devastating anxiety disorder |
Mind Matters |
| On Independence Day, Remember Thomas Jefferson's Embrace of Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| Hoover Institution interview with mathematician and novelist David Berlinski |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fun! Political correctness forces creationism on Australian university |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can computer algorithms be free of bias? |
Mind Matters |
| Is finding extraterrestrial life inevitable and does it prove the existence of God? |
Uncommon Descent |
| University of Maryland: Oumuamua was not an alien spacecraft |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Pitfalls of Searching for Alien Life |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Smartest Phone Is Silent in Class |
Mind Matters |
| Students, Don’t Let Smart Machines Disrupt Your Future |
Mind Matters |
| Why you can’t just ask social media to forget you |
Mind Matters |
| Scientists are searching for a mirror universe. It could be sitting right in front of you. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Engineered Adaptability: Engineered Features Determine Design Success or Failure, Pt 2 |
ICR |
| Brains by Mistake: The Darwin Poof Spoof |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| 1984 is 70 years old yet still feels current |
Mind Matters |
| Tales of the Mind: A Neurologist Encounters the House of Mirrors |
Mind Matters |
| Are we living in a simulated universe? Here's what scientists say. |
NBC News |
| Revealing things scientists told media about our “simulated” universe |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is an immaterial mind a barrier to human cloning? |
Mind Matters |
| Claim: ET, if discovered, would change our morality |
Uncommon Descent |
| What is abstract thought? A Reply to Dr. Ali |
Mind Matters |
| Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma |
Evolution News |
| Is the human mind a computer? |
Mind Matters |
| No Materialist Theory of Consciousness Is Plausible |
Mind Matters |
| Google engineer reveals search engine bias |
Mind Matters |
| Herman Bouma: "It Was Like the Darwinian Gestapo" |
Evolution News |
| University of Louisville attacks professor of psychiatry for disagreeing with transgenderism |
Wintery Knight |
| Speaker bounced from science teachers’ conference recounts his experiences |
Uncommon Descen |
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