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| ARTICLES - December 2020 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| A new book discusses Walter Bradley’s life and legacy |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse |
Quanta Magazine |
| Holy moly! The universe is expanding faster than it “should” |
Uncommon Descent |
| What we don’t know about the universe, according to New Scientist |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did the universe's creator hide a message in the cosmos? |
Live Science |
| New Data Supports the Modified Gravity Explanation for Dark Matter, Much to the Surprise of the Researchers |
Universe Today |
| Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse |
Science Daily |
| Pumping the multiverse from dark matter |
Uncommon Descent |
| Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics |
Evolution News |
| Are Singularities Real? |
BackReaction |
| One of our favorite physicists thinks infinities and singularities aren’t real |
Uncommon Descent |
| Another dimension may explain time and quantum mechanics |
Medium |
| How scientists have learned to work with the quantum world |
Mind Matters |
| A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics |
Quanta Magazine |
| The final ambiguous truth about Schrödinger’s cat |
Mind Matters |
| Physicists Measure the 'Magic' Fine-Structure Constant |
Quanta Magazine |
| AI and physics: Still just curve fitting, not finding a Theory of Everything |
Mind Matters |
| At Forbes: Ethan Siegel offers to tell us how the universe popped into existence from nothing |
Uncommon Descent |
| Water Quickly Evaporates on Mars |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Physics at tiniest scale could explain 'impossible' black holes |
Symmetry Magazine |
| A “hypothetical” particle is a new candidate for generating dark matter |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physicists: Our galaxy is probably a graveyard of failed alien civilizations |
Hot Air |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| If you get cancelled, like paleontologist Gunter Bechly, where do you go? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Fossils Still Say No: The Origin of Vertebrates |
ICR |
| Plate Beneath China Verifies Rapid Subduction |
ICR |
| New Atlas: Study calculates how lucky we are to have a habitable planet |
Uncommon Descent |
| Seemingly Ordinary Fossils May Be Hiding Some Major Clues to the Past |
Gizmodo |
| New flower from 100 million years ago |
Science Daily |
| Cretaceous Bird Beak Pecks Holes in Evolution |
ICR |
| A new mammal that lived among the dinosaurs was, we are told, a “crazy beast” |
Uncommon Descent |
| New hopes raised for recovering skin, eggshell samples from fossils |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bird beak extra sense evolved more than 70 million years ago |
New Scientist |
| Incredible vision in ancient marine creatures drove an evolutionary arms race |
Science Daily |
| Sophisticated eyes from over 500 million years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| Primate visual systems “totally indistinguishable” after 55 million years |
Uncommon Descent |
| Archaeopteryx fossil provides insights into the origins of flight |
Science Daily |
| Paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary history |
Science Daily |
| Primitive fish fossils reveal developmental origins of teeth |
Science Daily |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Flagellar Motor Is Actually Many Motors |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Molecular structure of the intact bacterial flagellar basal body |
bioRxiv |
| Bacterial flagellum: a poster child for the irreducible complexity community |
Uncommon Descent |
| It Sure Looks Like the RNA World Hypothesis Is Wrong |
Popular Mechanics |
| So RNA world, the five-star hotel of OOL theories, isn’t panning out? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could the Chemoton Conquer RNA World? |
Real Clear Science |
| Driving force behind cellular 'protein factories' identified |
Science Daily |
| How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat - water |
Nature |
| Was first life’s biggest threat … water? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Protein Folding Breakthrough: Evolution or Design? |
Evolution News |
| Propulsive nanomachines: the convergent evolution of archaella, flagella and cilia |
Oxford Academic |
| James Tour and Brian Miller on Explaining the Origin of Life |
Evolution News |
| Histones have been strongly conserved in Archae |
PNAS |
| The mechanics of the immune system |
Science daily |
| Trees: God's creative power on display |
Creation |
| Cells activate individual quality control responses |
Uncommon Descent |
| Frozen: Cutting-edge technology reveals structures within cells |
Sciendce Daily |
| Not-yet-specialized cells seem to know where to go |
Uncommon Descent |
| Muscle fibers resemble entire tissues with many nuclei |
Uncommon Descent |
| Excerpt: A Reply to Michael Ruse |
Evolution News |
| Why Evolution's "Emperor" (Natural Selection) Has No Clothes! |
Answers in Genesis |
| Review: 'Human Errors' by Nathan Lents |
Creation |
| Desperately Defending Darwin |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| How Neutral Theory Altered Ideas About Biodiversity |
Quanta Magazine |
| Neutral genetic theory, Darwinism, and folk tales |
Uncommon Descent |
| AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology |
Mind Matters |
| In a Major Scientific Breakthrough, AI Predicts the Exact Shape of Proteins |
Slashdot |
| DeepMind's AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures |
Nature |
| DeepMind AI Speeds Up the Time to Determine Proteins' Structures |
The Scientist |
| Responding to supposed refutations of Genetic Entropy |
Creation |
| New findings shed light on the repair of UV-induced DNA damage |
Science Daily |
| A simple rule drives the evolution of useless complexity |
Science Daily |
| This May Be the Best Definition of "Life". It's Surprisingly Simple |
Real Clear Science |
| A Darwinian tries to coopt the Gaia hypothesis |
Uncommon Descent |
| An investigation of irreproducibility in maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference |
Nature |
| Molecular 'barcode' helps decide which sperm will reach an egg |
Science Daily |
| Origin of Life: Jeremy England's Search for a Natural Explanation |
Evolution News |
| The latest “more complex than thought”: Visual short-term memory |
Uncommon Descent |
| Insects losing the ability to fly allegedly proves Darwin right |
Uncommon Descent |
| New species are more likely to evolve in areas where few already exist |
New Scientist |
| Is our most distant animal relative a sponge or a comb jelly? Our study provides an answer |
Uncommon Descent |
| He may have found the key to the origins of life. So why have so few heard of him? |
National Geographic |
| A new means of neuronal communication discovered in the human brain |
Science Daily |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| The Psychology of Pseudoscience |
Frontiers |
| Ten New Things We Learned About Human Origins in 2020 |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| The Smithsonian Offers Us Ten New Lessons About Human Origins |
Uncommon Descent |
| The sophisticated Neandertal |
Creation |
| So now the Neanderthals are “sophisticated”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Perspectives on Human Origins: Three Challenges for Christian Theology |
Theology and Science |
| Are Hominins Special? Human Origins as the Image and Likeness of God |
Theology and Science |
| Intelligent Chaos? Messy Origins, Categorical Ambiguity, and a Hopeful Multiplicity |
Theology and Science |
| Reflections on the Implications of the Human Lineage |
Theology and Science |
| Why We've Failed to Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness |
Psychology Today |
| New evidence: Neanderthals buried their dead |
Uncommon Descent |
| Jonathan Wells transgenderism series |
Evolution News |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY |
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| Why American Children Stopped Believing in God |
National Review |
| Do tax-supported school systems kill belief in God? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Free Introduction to Philosophy of Religion textbook available for download |
Rebus Foundation |
| The Biggest Science News of 2020 |
The Scientist |
| Information is the currency of life. But what IS it? |
Mind Matters |
| From Theistic Evolution to Intelligent Design: Why I changed my mind |
Patheos |
| Review of Unbelievable: 7 myths about the history and future of science and religion |
Creation |
| The Search for Adam and Eve: Human Origins According to Scripture and Science |
Jonathan McLatchie |
| Old Testament Evidence for a Literal, Historical Adam and Eve |
Master Books |
| Did People Once Live For Hundreds of Years? Evaluating the Long Life-Spans of Genesis 5 & 11 |
Jonathan McLatchie |
| Biology professors are biased against Evangelicals |
Creation |
| From science historian Michael Flannery: A farewell to Darwin doubter Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Uncommon Descent |
| False History of Creationism Is Full of Beans |
Answers in Genesis |
| A Generous Reading of John Locke: Reevaluating His Philosophical Legacy in Light of His Christian Confession |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Has neuroscience “proved” that the mind is just the brain? |
Mind Matters |
| Has Neuroscience "Proved" that the Mind Is Just the Brain? |
Evolution News |
| Psychologist: Consciousness is not a thing but a point of view |
Mind Matters |
| On "Psychologist: Consciousness is not a thing but a point of view" |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Socialist Dogma Replaces Real Science with "Settled Science" |
Mises Institute |
| New Scientist asks if we have free will |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolutionary Clues and Evolutionist Cluelessness |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Did the New Atheists Rationally Lack Belief? |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Did Death Exist Before Man Sinned? Appraising a Creationist Argument |
Jonathan McLatchie |
| A Review of Harold Gans's The Cosmic Puzzle: A Scientific Investigation into the Existence of God |
Lehrhaus |
| Gypsies Massacred as Part of the Darwinian Eugenic Holocaust |
Answers in Genesis |
| The Top Retractions of 2020 |
The Scientist |
| Nature's 10: ten people who helped shape science in 2020 |
Nature |
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| AND MORE |
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| Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing |
Nautilus |
| Grandeur in Extinctions? |
Evolution News |
| Evolution & the Supreme Court |
Answers in Genesis |
| How Claude Shannon's Information Theory Invented the Future |
Quanta Magazine |
| How the Story Got Its Just-So |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Why did the Human Brain Project crash and burn? |
Mind Matters |
| Complexity is not always a bad thing |
Mind Matters |
| Frequent Churchgoers Have Better Mental Health |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Can an 18th century statistician help us think more clearly? |
Mind Matters |
| How Bayes’ math rule can counter unreasonable skepticism |
Mind Matters |
| Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XII: What is the Waterworlds Hypothesis? |
Universe Today |
| Researchers uncover blind spots at the intersection of AI and neuroscience |
Science Daily |
| But do “hidden webs of information” really solve life’s mystery? |
Mind Matters |
| Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne continues to worry about astrology |
Uncommon Descent |
| So now ravens are as smart as chimpanzees… |
Mind Matters |
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