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| ARTICLES - August 2020 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| Everything Wrong With Modern Theoretical Physics In One Paper's Practical Summary |
Science 2.0 |
| A one-paper-size look at what’s wrong with theoretical physics today |
Uncommon Descent |
| This Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory |
Scientific American |
| Quantum paradox points to shaky foundations of reality |
Science Magazine |
| Quantum reality is either weirdly different or it collapses |
ars technica |
| Rob Sheldon on the latest claim that quantum mechanics imperils objectivity |
Uncommon Descent |
| Does new physics lurk inside living matter? by Paul Davies |
Physics Today |
| How Physics Erases The Beginning Of The Universe |
Forbes |
| How Probability Misleads Us About The Universe |
Forbes |
| Does new physics lurk inside living matter? |
Physics Today |
| Why engineering can’t be reduced to the laws of physics |
Mind Matters |
| Is information really the fifth state of matter? Rob Sheldon responds |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physicists have a massive problem as Higgs boson refuses to misbehave |
New Scientist |
| Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang |
Quanta Magazine |
| Rob Sheldon on recent claims of dramatic new Higgs boson findings |
Uncommon Descent |
| The 5 Possibilities For Life On Mars |
Forbes |
| Beyond the Fermi Paradox V: What is the Aestivation Hypothesis? |
Universe Today |
| Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" VI: The Berserker Hypothesis |
Universe Today |
| Yet another reason the space aliens are not here |
Uncommon Descent |
| At Scientific American: Could we force the universe to crash? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Book Review: The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook by Luke Barnes and Geraint Lewis |
Apologetics 315 |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Trilobite Eyes Were Already Modern |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Trilobites at 429 mya had eyes like bees |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fabulous fossil preserves eyes of 429-million-year-old trilobite |
ars technica |
| “Bizarre” fossil is thought to solve half-billion year old mystery |
Uncommon Descent |
| Traces of ancient life tell story of early diversity in marine ecosystems |
Science Daily |
| Scientists Retract Dino-Bird Paper |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| That “smallest dino” paper has been retracted |
Uncommon Descent |
| Huge lizard found in ichthyosaur’s stomach establishes that the latter was a big time predator |
Uncommon Descent |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| The design of life in molecular machines |
Uncommon Descent |
| How cells can find their way through the human body |
Phys.org |
| How cells can travel long distances accurately through the human body |
Uncommon Descent |
| Biologists can’t stop using purpose-driven language because life really is designed |
Uncommon Descent |
| Designer DNA - replicating like rabbits |
Creation |
| The mystery of orphan genes |
Uncommon Descent |
| What? Cosmologist Sean Carroll doesn’t freak out when Darwin is doubted? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could bacteria have survived a trip from Earth to Mars? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The function of the thymus and its impact on modern medicine |
Science Magazine |
| The Thymus: Vestigial Not! |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Recent paper: The problem of biological form remains unsolved |
Uncommon Descent |
| On folding morphogenesis, a mechanical problem |
Royal Society Publishing |
| Allostery: How Cells Do Remote Control |
Evolution News |
| And now: Remote control mechanisms in cells |
Uncommon Descent |
| A University of Arizona prof works hard to make Darwinism coincide with the history of life |
Uncommon Descent |
| Origin-of-Life Research Abandons Chemistry, Turns to Miracles |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Origins of life: Chemical evolution in a tiny Gulf Stream |
Science Daily |
| At New Scientist: Origin of life happened all at once in a chemical Big Bang |
Uncommon Descent |
| Viruses called phages, researchers say, are in a grey zone between life and non-life |
Uncommon Descent |
| In Defiance of Evolution, Hierarchical Design Is Ubiquitous in Biology |
Evolution News |
| Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger's Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Is topoisomerase another irreducibly complex cell component for ID folk to point to? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genome guardians stop and reel in DNA to correct replication errors |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Proofreading proteins prevent DNA errors |
Uncommon Descent |
| DNA May Be "Junk" at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another |
Evolution News |
| “Junk DNA” can really matter says Rick Sternberg |
Uncommon Descent |
| Embarrassment Continues over Evolutionary Blunder about "Junk DNA" |
ICR |
| Next Phase of ENCODE Finds MORE Functional Information in Genome "Junk" |
Evolution News |
| ENCODE hints at more functional DNA |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human Engineers Can't Top These Biological Intelligent Designs |
Evolution News |
| Understanding the inner workings of the human heart |
Science Daily |
| Unexpected complexity found in human heart - a use for the myocardial trabeculae |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts on the recent challenge to Darwin’s sexual selection |
Uncommon Descent |
| 2017 paper hoped to heal the rifts/paper over the cracks in evolutionary biology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Paper: Modeling biology on physics doesn’t really work |
Uncommon Descent |
| Living 'Dinosaur Kin' Has Genes that Defy Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| A Radical New Model of the Brain Illuminates Its Wiring |
Wired |
| Brain scientists haven't been able to find major differences between women's and men's brains |
The Conversation |
| Human Brain Research Finds New Folds |
ICR |
| New study reveals lower energy limit for life on Earth |
EurekAlert |
| Bacteria die screaming |
Uncommon Descent |
| Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die |
The Atlantic |
| It turns out that we all need those zombie microbes that live indefinitely and don’t really evolve |
Uncommon Descent |
| In What Ways Are Bacteria Intelligent? |
Mind Matters |
| Denyse O’Leary: There is no human counterpart to some types of dog intelligence |
Mind Matters |
| In what ways are spiders intelligent? |
Mind Matters |
| Whales - Time to Put Evolution's Exhausted "Poster Child" to Rest |
Evolution News |
| Tuatara genome sequenced; some surprising findings |
Uncommon Descent |
| A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began |
New Scientist |
| Created kinds are not new - Wood responds to David MacMillan |
Todd C. Wood |
| Destructive parasites: expressions of God's creation? |
Creation |
| A Study Finds Sex Differences in the Brain. Does It Matter? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A Darwinian biologist who has debated ID folk describes getting Cancelled |
Uncommon Descent |
| Biologist Forced Out of Academia for Saying Male and Female are not Social Constructs |
Legal Insurrection |
| A Darwinian biologist who has debated ID folk describes getting Cancelled |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolution Can’t Explain Sexual Modesty; Why Not? |
Evolution News |
| Privacy in Human Intimacy Isn't About Evolution |
Evolution News |
| New research reveals previously hidden features of plant genomes |
Science Daily |
| Brain connectivity is equal in 130 mammals, including humans |
Uncommon Descent |
| Inside the mind of an animal |
Nature |
| Think About the Brain |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Claim: Self-replicating molecules show signs of “metabolism” |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Amazing Circulation System of Trees |
Evolution News |
| Oldest enzyme in cellular respiration isolated |
Science Daily |
| Claim: A surprising number of exoplanets could host life |
Uncommon Descent |
| “Astounding” hybridization between species of angelfish |
Uncommon Descent |
| Everything Is Wrong: Bernie Krause's Concept of 'Biophony' |
MIT Press |
| New insight into the evolution of complex life on Earth |
Science Daily |
| The many roads to and from multicellularity |
Journal of Experimental Biology |
| New paper: Multicellularity did not follow a simple straight path |
Uncommon Descent |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| William Lane Craig on creation and anthropology |
Creation |
| The Genealogical Adam and Eve:
Introducing the Symposium |
Carl F.H. Henry Center |
| We are in the midst of rewriting our understanding of Neanderthals |
New Scientist |
| Early hominins (480,000 years ago) were—wait for it!—more sophisticated than thought |
Uncommon Descent |
| 200,000 Years Ago, Humans Created Beds of Grass and Ash to Sleep |
Inside Science |
| Humans 200,000 years ago made beds of ash and grass |
Uncommon Descent |
| Revisiting the Neanderthals without a sense of superiority |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cooking skills in Australia at 65,000 years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| Key brain region was 'recycled' as humans developed the ability to read |
Science Daily |
| Mystery ancestor mated with ancient humans. And its 'nested' DNA was just found |
Live Science |
| DNA from an ancient, unidentified ancestor was passed down to humans living today |
Science Daily |
| When did humans discover how to use fire? |
Live Science |
| Prestigious Psychiatry Journal Retracts Findings, Admits Sex-Reassignment Surgery Didn't Fix Mental Health |
CBN |
| URI anthropology professor challenges evolutionary narratives of big, competitive men and broad, birthing women |
URI Today |
| A new challenge from an anthropologist to cozy Darwin tales about men vs. women |
Uncommon Descent |
| More on male vs. female body form and Darwinian sexual selection |
Uncommon Descent |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY |
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| Adam and Eve and "Mainstream Science" |
Evolution News |
| Bruce Gordon on the Argument for God from the Incompleteness of Nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| God and Mathematics - Why does mathematics work? |
Uncommon Descent |
| John West: Science and scientism in the Age of COVID |
Uncommon Descent |
| A "Lush" World Defies Materialist Explanations, as Behe and Denton Confirm |
Evolution News |
| Examining the usage and scope of historical science |
Creation |
| In the past twenty years, how has the landscape changed for ID? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The 5 Greatest Blunders in the History of Science |
Medium |
| Fallen, Fallen Is Big Science the Great - Pt 1 |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Fallen, Fallen Is Big Science the Great - Pt. 2 |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| I Beg Your Pardon? More on "Mainstream Science" |
Evolution News |
| Darwinism Is in Tension with Human Rights |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The authors of the gospels of Mark and Luke knew eyewitnesses to the life of Jesus |
Wintery Knight |
| Psychologist sounds alarm: We are turning science into science fiction! |
Uncommon Descent |
| John Tyndall's Vision of Science Turned it to Atheism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Bernardo Kastrup argues for a Universal Mind as a reasonable idea |
Mind Matters |
| Leftist Takeover of Big Science Continues |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Review of Taken Without Consent: How atheists have hijacked science by David Williams |
Creation |
| Popular Darwinism as a Gnostic religion |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Answers Christianity Has That Science Doesn't |
The Gospel Coalition |
| No, Science Can't Provide Morals: Why the New View (Still) Falls Short |
The Gospel Coalition |
| A Rift Over Carl Linnaeus Shows We Shouldn't Idolize Scientists |
Undark |
| The ultimate confidence trick in science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genesis Meaning in Hebrew |
Answers in Genesis |
| ARJ: Effects of the Fall on the Physical Creation: A Biblical Analysis |
Answers in Genesis |
| Book review of Theistic Evolution |
Biblical Creation Trust |
| Denis Alexander's hermeneutics: heretical, horrible, and harmful |
Creation |
| New guidance on brain death could ease debate over when life ends |
Science News |
| Brain scans can read your mind—in a dozen conflicting ways |
Mind Matters |
| Why scientific papers are growing increasingly inscrutable |
Popular Science |
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| AND MORE |
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| Why the brain can’t be understood simply in terms of particles |
Mind Matters |
| Common reasons for dismissing miracles are mistaken, study shows |
Mind Matters |
| Scopes at 100 |
Creation |
| Here is a way we can be sure if we are living in a multiverse |
Mind Matters |
'Morality pills' may be the US's best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist |
The Conversation |
| “Morality Pills”: Ethicist Calls for Drugs to Solve COVID Non-Compliance |
Evolution News |
| Doctor's Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind |
Evolution News |
| Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins on free will |
Uncommon Descent |
Critical Thinking for Confused Times
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The Stream |
| Ryan T. Anderson lectures on marriage and why it matters |
Wintery Knight |
| Why the mind can’t just be the brain |
Mind Matters |
| At Inspiring Philosophy: There is no evidence that the brain creates consciousness |
Uncommon Descent |
| Pos-Darwinista asks us to be aware of censorship in Brazil |
Uncommon Descent |
| To Avoid Debate, Darwinists at the AAAS Would Even Censor.Darwin |
Evolution News |
| Is Planned Parenthood showing signs of weakness? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Biased Reporters Cloud Scientific Credibility |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Why reasonable people think near-death experiences are real |
Mind Matters |
| Why linguist Noam Chomsky is a great scientist of our era (human exceptionalism) |
Mind Matters |
| Mike Egnor on what to do when the Woke come for you |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bronx Zoo apologizes for putting a man in a monkey house |
Creation |
| What signifies a real expert is uncertainty |
Uncommon Descent |
| When science fiction came to life… |
Mind Matters |
| Rearranging the Deck Chairs on Darwin's Titanic |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| One secret of Darwinian just-so stories is boundless imagination |
Uncommon Descent |
| The 5 Possibilities For Life On Mars |
Forbes |
| Ethan Siegel enumerates what we might find, re life on Mars |
Uncommon Descent |
| How to teach and hold meeting in “mixed mode” in the COVID era |
Mind Matters |
| What neuroscientists now know about how memories are born and die |
Mind Matters |
| Why consciousness couldn’t just evolve from the mud |
Mind Matters |
| Arithmetic as racism: A teacher’s reflections on the progressive war on math |
Uncommon Descent |
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