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| NEW ARTICLES - August 2019 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| The Universal Law That Aims Time's Arrow |
Quanta Magazine |
| Has A Recent Find Brought Us Closer To Understanding Why Time Goes Only One Way? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Solutions to the black hole information paradox |
BackReaction |
| Statistical Entropy of a Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter Black Hole |
American Journal of Physics |
| Dark Matter May Be Older Than The Big Bang, Study Suggests |
Newswise |
| Dark matter is older than the Big Bang? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Muons, alas, vindicate Einstein’s special relativity |
Uncommon Descent |
| It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…12,000 satellites. Could they be ruining the sky? |
allconnect |
| Speculative 'supergravity' theory wins US$3-million prize |
Nature |
| Physicists need courage to confront the Collider dilemma, says boson pioneer |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physicist advances a radical theory of gravity |
Big Think |
| How we know that Einstein's General Relativity cannot be quite right |
BackReaction |
| The ever-cycling universe cycles back to town |
Uncommon Descent |
| Lab-based dark energy experiment narrows search options for elusive force |
Science Daily |
| Quantum weirdness isn't real – we've just got space and time all wrong |
New Scientist |
| Physicists mash quantum and gravity and find time, but not as we know it |
Science Daily |
| Quantum Gravity Could Reverse Cause and Effect |
Live Science |
| Have researchers found a way to harness time? |
Uncommon Descent |
| How many Earthlike planets are there? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bad news about life on rocky alien planets |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physics: No one said finding truth is easy, but need it be impossible? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Possible Detection of a Black Hole So Big It 'Should Not Exist' |
Quanta Magazine |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Early species developed much faster than previously thought |
Science Daily |
| Ordovician radiation is another strike against Darwin |
Uncommon Descent |
| A voracious Cambrian predator, Cambroraster, is a new species from the Burgess Shale |
Science Daily |
| Are extinctions evidence of a divine purpose in life? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Paleontologists discovered diversity of insect pollinators in 99-million-year old amber |
EurekAlert |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| More evolutionary challenges to "random" variation |
University of Glasgow |
| Straw in the wind? Darwin’s random variation is discredited in a recent paper |
Uncommon Descent |
| Maybe the best defence of Darwinism is now ignorance of the problems |
Uncommon Descent |
| Molecular Motor Threads a Spiral Staircase |
Evolution News |
| PBS Eons Teaches Nonsense about Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Gunter Bechly on the media that teach nonsense about evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| DNA Repair Research Reveals Astounding Complexity |
ICR |
| Design for ATP Extends Beyond the Rotary Engine |
Evolution News |
| How the ATP synapse points to design in nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| De novo emergence of orphan genes 2/3 of the time |
bioRxiv |
| Paul Nelson on Orphan Genes and Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Genetic diversity couldn't save Darwin's finches |
Science Daily |
| Darwin Blinders Cause Blunders |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry |
Evolution News |
| 54 million year old fossil flies yield new insight into the evolution of sight |
The Conversation |
| Composition of fossil insect eyes surprises researchers |
Science Daily |
| Biological 'rosetta stone' brings scientists closer to deciphering how the body is built |
Science Daily |
| A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision |
Quanta Magazine |
| Rapid evolution: New findings on its molecular mechanisms |
Science Daily |
| Photosynthesis: Clearly Designed from the Beginning |
ICR |
| Shedding light on how the human eye perceives brightness |
Science Daily |
| Our Cells Are Filled With 'Junk DNA' - Here's Why We Need It |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| Complex Creature Engineering Requires a Creator |
ICR |
| Biologists reverse engineer the microtubules that make up cell walls and spindles |
Science Daily |
| Engineered Adaptability: Continuous Environmental Tracking Wrap-Up |
ICR |
| Who knew bacteria could trap light without chlorophyll? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwin's Ideas About How Life Arose on Earth May Be Right After All |
Air & Space Magazine |
| Scientists glimpse oddball microbe that could help explain rise of complex life |
Nature |
| First cells may have emerged because building blocks of proteins stabilized membranes |
Science Daily |
| A New Clue to How Life Originated |
The Atlantic |
| Bubbly beginnings for life's first molecules |
Chemistry World |
| Early life on Earth limited by enzyme |
Science Daily |
| Origin of Life Problems for Naturalists |
Answers in Genesis |
| Origin of life clue is seen in chemical droplets that divide |
Uncommon Descent |
| Tardigrades may have survived spacecraft crashing on moon |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genes that first enabled plants to grow leaves identified by scientists |
Science Daily |
| Evolutionary Models Are Unreliable |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Counterintuitive physics property found to be widespread in living organisms |
Phys.org |
| Symphony of genes in animal evolution |
Science Daily |
| Listen to the “symphony of genes” in animal evolution... |
Uncommon Descent |
| There's No Such Thing as a 'Gay Gene, ' Massive Study Concludes |
Live Science |
| So the “gay gene” was imaginary? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rails derail Darwinism - the loss of flight in birds is not evolution! |
Creation.com |
| Membrane-less organelles, found inside human cells, have a variety of important biological functions |
Science Daily |
| Dolphinese: The idea that animals think as we do dies hard |
Mind Matters |
| Study furthers radically new view of gene control: Along the genome, proteins form liquid-like droplets that appear to boost the expression of particular genes |
Science Daily |
| Microbes found in some of Earth’s oldest known uncontaminated water |
Uncommon Descent |
| CRISPR Now Cuts and Splices Whole Chromosomes |
Science Magazine |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins |
Quanta Magazine |
| Human-ape similarity shows humans are exceptional |
Mind Matters |
| The Human Difference and the Design of Sex |
Evolution News |
| Ethiopian fossil reveals face for ancestor of famed 'Lucy' |
AP News |
| We've finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors |
New Scientist |
| Todd Wood's take - A face for Australopithecus anamensis |
Human Genesis |
| Chris Rupe and John Sanford on human evolution |
Creation.com |
| 20-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Anthropoid Primate Brains Evolved More Than Once |
AMNH |
| The five: surprising talents of the Neanderthals |
The Guardian |
| What Neanderthal jewelry means |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Mosquitoes Helped Shape the Course of Human History |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| John Gray thinks that the humanities cannot now be saved |
Uncommon Descent |
| Artifacts Found in North America Suggest Humans Came By Sea |
The Scientist |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| Why do atheists still claim free will can’t exist? |
Mind Matters |
| The Ideological Nature of Darwinian Evolution |
Evolution News |
| What's at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism? |
Evolution News |
| How Materialist Fundamentalists Are Like Christian Fundamentalists |
Uncommon Descent |
| Secular Materialism vs Morality |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Another think tank now openly questions Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| At First Things, they are also getting over Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Crisis in Darwinism? |
Powerline Blog |
| Intelligent Design Theory Is the Result of Reason, Not Dogma |
Stand to Reason |
| Recognizing design in nature as the standard for a reasonable person |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is Faith the Absence of Reason/Evidence? |
Answers in Genesis |
| A review of 'Dictionary of Christianity and Science' |
Creation.com |
| Origin of Life, Public Education, and Religious Neutrality |
Evolution News |
| The College Fix LISTENS TO David Gelernter on Darwin! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists must rise above politics - and restate their value to society |
Nature |
| The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis |
Nautilus |
| A Scientific Method for Design Detection |
Evolution News |
| Astronomer Martin Rees on why science is approaching its limits |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why some scientists think science is an illusion |
Mind Matters |
| Survey says scientists mistrust a large amount of published research |
New Scientist |
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| How Does a Religious Studies Professor Become a Darwinian Skeptic? |
Evolution News |
| Have Religion Scholars Been Deceived by Darwin? |
Evolution News |
| Yale Computer Science Legend David Gelernter Says Goodbye To Darwinism |
HillFaith Blog |
| The Dam Begins to Break: Gelernter's Apostasy Attracts Mainstream Media Coverage |
Evolution News |
| The Dam Begins to Break:But WHY are they abandoning Darwinism? |
Uncommon Descent |
| George Weigel, Biographer of John Paul II, Takes Note of David Gelernter's Darwin Apostasy |
Evolution News |
| Whoever writes the tech column at Breitbart has noticed … |
Uncommon Descent |
| Psych prof concedes, ID is not “absurd” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Biology Textbooks and the "God-Talk" Problem |
Evolution News |
| “The Divided Brain; and the Search for Meaning” by British psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist |
Amazon |
| 10 differences between artificial intelligence and human intelligence |
BackReaction |
| Artificial vs human intelligence: Sabine Hossenfelder offers us 10 differences |
Uncommon Descent |
| We don’t often hear debunking debunked |
Uncommon Descent |
| Descartes and the Discovery of the Mind-Body Problem |
MIT Press |
| Darwinian Racism Exposed |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The Racism of Carl Jung |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| And so now psychoanalyst Carl Jung was a racist too… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Nice to see Gunter Bechly’s name on a paper again |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Top Ten AI Hype Stories of 2018, Updated |
Mind Matters |
| Empiricism and Dogma: Why Left and Right Can't Agree on Climate Change |
Quillette |
| Astrobiologists Whip Up False Hopes |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Why some scientists believe the universe is conscious |
Mind Matters |
| Yale's Gelernter: To Challenge Darwinism Is to "Take Your Life in Your Hands" |
Evolution News |
| David Gelernter warns against Darwin mob |
Uncommon Descent |
| Some Professionally-Safe Darwin Doubters Are Now Speaking Out |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Poll: American Public still not Galluping to embrace Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| If you can reproduce how life got started, $10 million is yours |
Uncommon Descent |
| Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist |
Evolution News |
| A simple triangle can disprove materialism |
Mind Matters |
| Is There Really Anti-Christian Discrimination in America? |
The Gospel Coalition |
| JB: What Is Important In Math . . . ? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Benefits of attending religious services increasingly accepted |
Uncommon Descent |
| How far has AI mindreading come? |
Mind Matters |
| National Geographic Book Is a 'Natural' Disaster |
Skeptical Inquirer |
| “Skeptical Inquirer” calls National Geographic book a “natural disaster” |
Uncommon Descent |
| If we can’t find aliens Out There, we can always declare local life forms to be aliens |
Uncommon Descent |
| Sokal hoaxer punished: Science has left the building |
Uncommon Descent |
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