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| NEW ARTICLES - December 2019 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| How did the universe begin? |
Back Reaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder: Physicists’ theories of how the universe began “aren’t any better than traditional tales of creation” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did God Create The Universe? |
Forbes |
| Ethan Siegel asks at Forbes, Did God create the universe? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rethinking Superdeterminism |
arXiv |
| Sabine Hossenfelder proposes “superdeterminism” to replace quantum mechanics |
Uncommon Descent |
| Black Hole Singularities Are as Inescapable as Expected |
Quanta Magazine |
| Black Holes Were Already Feasting Just 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang |
Universe Today |
| Big bang retold: The weird twists in the story of the universe's birth |
New Scientist |
| Dark Matter 'Strikes Back' in Galactic Mystery |
Gizmodo |
| No Dark Energy? No Chance, Cosmologists Contend |
Quanta Magazine |
| Researchers: No, you can’t escape a black hole |
Uncommon Descent |
| At PhysicsWorld: Image of black hole and its shadow is the breakthrough of the year |
Uncommon Descent |
| Exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars' flares |
Science Daily |
| Chipping way at the millions of habitable exoplanets… |
Uncommon Descent |
| The universe tends towards disorder. But how come nobody knows why? |
New Scientist |
| Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable |
Quanta Magazine |
| Why the laws of nature are not inevitable, never have been, and never will be. |
Back Reaction |
| Are the Laws of the Universe "Inevitable"? |
Evolution News |
| Has another hole been found in the Standard Model of the universe? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ethan Siegel’s claim at Forbes: Why we’ll never exactly solve general relativity. Rob Sheldon responds |
Uncommon Descent |
| What we get wrong about time |
BBC |
| The Universe Remembers Gravitational Waves - And We Can Find Them |
Space |
| Is the Anthropic Principle scientific? |
Back Reaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder on why the anthropic principle is controversial |
Uncommon Descent |
| We finally know how whole planets grow from tiny clumps of dust |
New Scientist |
| Long Live the Multiverse! |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Planck evidence for a closed Universe and a possible crisis for cosmology |
Nature |
| In the quantum world, uncertainty reigns - or is it all in the mind? |
New Scientist |
| Is the Law of Conservation of Energy Cancelled? |
Nautilus |
| A glimpse at one facet of post-science physics |
Uncommon Descent |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| "Fossil dinosaur feathers found near the South Pole" - Separating fact from fiction in a farcical story! |
Creation |
| Eighty-Five Reports of Biological Remnants in Fossils |
ICR |
| Was Earth's oxygenation a gradual process? |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Cambrian Brains Found |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Four great waves of animals have spread out from the tropics |
New Scientist |
| Did a million years of rain jump-start dinosaur evolution? |
Nature |
| Did a million years of rain pave the way for the dinosaurs? |
Uncommon Descent |
| When penguins ruled after dinosaurs died |
Flinders University |
| Why is Earth so rich in oxygen? The answer is simpler than we thought |
New Scientist |
| Cretaceous fossils are missing link in mammal ear evolution |
New Scientist |
| Dinosaur Soft Tissue Really Just "Biofilm Contamination" After All? |
Detecting Design |
| More T. rex Soft Tissues |
ICR |
| New Mammal Fossil May Show How Ear Bones Evolved from Jaw Bones |
The Scientist |
| Untangling the branches in the mammal tree of life |
Science Daily |
| Paleontology: Experiments in evolution |
Science Daily |
| A new early whale, Aegicetus gehennae, represents an intermediate stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming |
Science Daily |
| Fossilized Cambrian arthropod brains found |
Uncommon Descent |
| The world's oldest known fossil forest has been discovered in a quarry in upper New York state |
CNN |
| Is this lizard fossil evidence of animal parental care over 300 mya? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Oldest Fossil Evidence of Animal Parenting Found in Canada |
Inside Science |
| Fossil Record Evolution: Any Transitional Forms? |
Answers in Genesis |
| What About Living Fossils? |
Answers in Genesis |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| End-stage Darwinism? Is Darwinism wrong? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why we need clarity when we debate evolution |
Creation |
| Teaching Evolution to the Next Generation |
Answers in Genesis |
| Molybdenum Is Stored in Cells by a Powered Piercing Machine |
Evolution News |
| New insights into the earliest events of seed germination |
Science Daily |
| Article on science fraud discusses Haeckel’s faked-up embryos as if fakery matters |
Uncommon Descent |
| Multi-omics analysis of the process establishing the mammalian body plan |
Science Daily |
| Whales, Bees, and Viruses: Intelligent Design from Biggest to Smallest |
Evolution News |
| Researchers: Our conscious visual perception lies outside our visual cortex |
Mind Matters |
| Blood feeding evolved independently abut 100 times despite being a very complex trait |
Uncommon Descent |
| No Harm, No Foul - What If Darwinism Were Excised from Biology? |
Evolution News |
| We are invited to ask what would happen if Darwin were excised from biology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Jonathan Wells Was Right: Non-coding DNA Continues to Show Function |
Evolution News |
| Y-Chromosome Study Confirms Genesis Flood Timeline |
ICR |
| DNA barcodes show gaps between species and support recent common bottleneck |
Creation |
| Compound eyes: The visual apparatus of today's horseshoe crabs goes back 400 million years |
Science Daily |
| Claim: The tree of life may have only two major branches |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mitochondria are the 'canary in the coal mine' for cellular stress |
Science Daily |
| Brainwashed - For Your Own Good |
Evolution News |
| How cells learn to 'count' |
Science Daily |
| How Butterflies "Evolve" by Design |
Evolution News |
| Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversification by Non-Darwinian Mechanisms |
Evolution News |
| At Nautilus: Do butterflies challenge the meaning of “species”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| DNA repair and implications for HGT and Natural Genetic Engineering |
Oxford Academic |
| New study hints at complex decision making in a single-cell organism |
Science Daily |
| Conscious visual perception occurs outside the visual system |
Science Daily |
| Genetic brain disorder fixed in mice using precision epigenome editing |
Science Daily |
| What if epigenetics turns out to be useful in treating disability? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A new study shows an animal's lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it's 38 years |
The Conversation |
| Here's why many CRISPR/Cas9 experiments could be wrong - and how to fix them |
Massive Science |
| How flowers adapt to their pollinators: Modularity facilitates rapid adaptation of single floral organs to different pollinators |
Science Daily |
| Savannah monitor lizards have a unique airflow pattern that is a hybrid of bird and mammal flow patterns |
Science Daily |
| Directed evolution for CO2/formate metabolism changed 11 genes |
Nature |
| Female fish mate OUTSIDE their species? |
Uncommon Descent |
| How cells relieve DNA replication stress |
Science Daily |
| Irresistible! An epigenetic couch potato mouse |
Uncommon Descent |
| At the Scientist: The epigenetic couch potato mouse debuts |
Uncommon Descent |
| When 98.9 Percent of Nutrition Scientist Got it Wrong |
What's Up with That? |
| Archeon life form eats fragments of meteorites |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists detail how chromosomes reorganize after cell division |
Science Daily |
| The Startling Secret of an Invincible Virus |
The Atlantic |
| We're beginning to question the idea of species - including our own |
New Scientist |
| Why Aren't Whales Bigger? |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| Dinosaur Evolution: Darwinian Tricks to Force Data into Theory |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Spectacularly-Preserved Fossil Shrimp Look Modern |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Designed Adaptations Challenge Evolution |
ICR |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| The Uses and Abuses of the Human Sciences |
Areo Magazine |
| What does it mean to be human? |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Psychology accused of ‘collective self-deception’ over results |
Times Higher Education |
| Neanderthal Extinction Dilemma |
ICR |
| Homo naledi: Another Failed Evolutionary Ape-Man |
ICR |
| Human Ancestors May Have Evolved the Physical Ability to Speak More Than 25 Million Years Ago |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| Why it's time to call time on the 'nature vs nurture' debate |
New Scientist |
| Homo erectus lived recently enough that it may have met Denisovans |
New Scientist |
| Reanalyzed Fossils Could Be Last Known Homo erectus Specimens |
The Scientist |
| Researchers: Homo erectus survived longer than thought |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is this cave painting humanity's oldest story? |
Nature |
| New study suggests 'enigmatic hominoid' did not walk upright and was not a tree climber |
Phys.org |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| The Plan to Replace God |
ICR |
| Can Science Rule Out God? |
Scientific American Blogs |
| At Scientific American: Can Science rule out God? |
Uncommon Descent |
| It's not science vs religion but each one via the other |
Aeon |
| Historian: Christianity has been the world’s greatest engine for moral reform |
Uncommon Descent |
| At Aeon: Religion, science, and post-modernism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why materialism fails as a science-based philosophy |
Mind Matters |
| Discovery Institute announces new ID initiative inspired in part by paleontologist Gunter Bechly |
Uncommon Descent |
| Come to think of it, there is no necessary relationship between atheism and Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Atheism – The Godlessness that Failed |
Slate Star Codex |
| Book Review: Can Science Explain Everything? by John Lennox |
Apologetics 315 |
| The Salem Hypothesis Is True, And That’s Great For ID |
Uncommon Descent |
| Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief |
Aeon |
| Yes, consciousness is real but that’s not the half of it |
Mind Matters |
| How Scientists Can Avoid Cognitive Bias |
Back Reaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder on avoiding cognitive biases |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ignoring the Opposition: How Big Science Descends into Groupthink |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The Many Faces of Scientific Fraud |
Quillette |
| Head of ancient-DNA lab sacked for 'serious misconduct' |
Nature |
| Oxford mathematician John Lennox on whether a scientist can believe in God |
Uncommon Descent |
| Charles Darwin's philosophical Trojan Horse |
God Evidence |
| Exchanging One Myth for Another |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Adam and Sin as the Bane of Evolution? A Review of Finding Ourselves After Darwin |
Themelios |
| Bogus accommodationism: The return of Adam and Eve as real people, as proposed by a wonky quasi-scientific theory |
Why Evolution Is True |
| New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools |
Evolution News |
| Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor explains why new atheism was doomed to die young |
Uncommon Descent |
| One of the biggest science stories of the last decade: The Descent of Man gets crowdsourced |
Uncommon Descent |
| Richard Dawkins's Latest Case for Outgrowing God |
The Gospel Coalition |
| David Bentley Hart offers an honest assessment of Richard Dawkins’s new book |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dawkins raises an issue without intending to: Can one “outgrow” God without “outgrowing” morality? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science for Seminaries or Materialism for the Masses? |
Evolution News |
| A Failure of Nerve in the Dialogue on Science and Religion |
Luther College - Ideas and Creations Blog |
| Imagine someone asking just how much wisdom there is in the scientific crowd? |
Uncommon Descent |
| 200 Researchers, 5 Hypotheses, No Consistent Answers |
Wired |
| Discussion of chance and randomness |
Sapienta |
| Chance vs. Randomness: Another theological dance in Darwin’s defense? |
Uncommon Descent |
| What difference did Protestantism make to modern science? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt' Book Review |
National Review |
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| AND MORE |
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| You didn’t learn in Biology 101 why animals are NOT nearly perfect spheres? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why animals are not round, Part II |
Uncommon Descent |
| Top Ten AI Hype Countdown |
Mind Matters |
| Mars Bugs and Intelligent Design - On a Collision Course? |
Evolution News |
| A visual meditation on infinite patterns in nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Uncomfortable Limits of Human Knowledge |
The Scientist |
| The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2019 |
Real Clear Science |
| The Top Retractions of 2019 |
The Scientist |
| Survival of the Fittest and Evolution's Death Culture |
ICR |
| Would Hooker, Boyle, Pascal, and Newton would all be out of work today? |
Uncommon Descent |
| How can mind interact with matter? |
Mind Matters |
| Finally, machine learning interprets gene regulation clearly |
Science Daily |
| Once again, New Scientist needs us to know that our sense of self is an illusion |
Uncommon Descent |
| Breakthrough? Nature Calls for Openness in Science Education |
Evolution News |
| At Nature: A call for a more questioning attitude in science education? |
Uncommon Descent |
| "Evolutionary" - A Useless Adjective |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Alles Klar? Jerry Coyne on an "Argument from Incredulity" |
Evolution News |
| People want time travel and they don’t care what they have to believe to get it |
Uncommon Descent |
| The larger lesson from the story of the Man With Two Fingerprints |
Uncommon Descent |
| Review of The Lost World of the Flood |
Creation |
| Review of Turner's Purpose & Desire |
Creation |
| What if a near-death experience is a vision of hell? |
Mind Matters |
| Decline in giving is linked to decline in religious belief |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why I dislike what "quantum supremacy" is doing to computing research |
ars technica |
| Massimo Pigliucci: Feynman was wrong about truth and beauty in science |
Uncommon Descent |
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