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| IN THE NEWS - November 2015 |
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| Brain Neurons Are Well Organized, Not Spaghetti Cables |
Evolution News and Views |
| The Scientific Evidence for God is Growing, Not Shrinking |
The Stream |
| We Can Save Atheism From the New Atheists Like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris |
Alternet |
| Immune cells make appendix 'silent hero' of digestive health |
Science Daily |
| Our Dystopia: The Worst of Both Worlds |
Salvo Magazine |
| Scientific Faith Is Different From Religious Faith |
The Atlantic |
| Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming |
Watts Up With That? |
| Consensus science and the rejection of continental drift |
Uncommon Descent |
| Plate Tectonics circa 1859 - "The Creation and Its Mysteries Unveiled" |
Answers in Genesis |
| Earth's first ecosystems were more complex than previously thought |
University of Bristol |
| Talks by A. E. Wilder-Smith |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Will Dawkins’ selfish gene concept die as its proponents retire? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Complexity of neural connections |
Science Daily |
| Extinction is key to terrestrial vertebrate diversity |
Science Daily |
| Backwards eye wiring? Lee Spetner comments |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers: Cyanobacteria responsible for Earth’s early oxygen |
Uncommon Descent |
| Tarantulas evolved blue colour 'at least eight times' |
BBC |
| Convergent evolution: Tarantulas evolved blue hue eight times |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could original life forms have been completely different from today? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is evil a disease?, asks New Scientist |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mystery of how snakes lost their legs solved by reptile fossil |
Science Daily |
| Cosmologist Sean Carroll asks, "Is anything constant?" |
Uncommon Descent |
| A common mechanism for human and bird sound production |
EurekAlaert |
| Why are we trying to “demonstrate” microevolution? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Design inference: Is it a Neanderthal flute? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Betrayals of trust: Human nature's dark side may have helped us spread across the world |
Science Daily |
| How Lucy the Australopithecus Changed the Way We Understand Human Evolution |
Time |
| Pond hydra can modify its own genetic program |
Uncommon Descent |
| Weirdly tilted planet knocks formation theory out of line |
New Scientist |
| Ancient viral molecules essential for human development |
Science Daily |
| Why Scientific Faith Is Different From Religious Faith |
The Atlantic |
| Scientific Consensus Is Almost Never Wrong - Almost |
inside Science |
| General relativity: How Einstein's theory explains the universe, and more |
ABC |
| Response to BioLogos editor Jim Stump's attack on biblical creation |
Creation.com |
| A Look at Lucy's Legacy |
Answers in Genesis |
| What is information anyway? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Biochemist Todd Wood on homo Naledi burials |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physicists Are Desperate to Be Wrong About the Higgs Boson |
Wired.com |
| How horizontal gene transfer has shaped the web of life |
Uncommon Descent |
| The World's Toughest Animals Borrowed a Sixth of Their DNA From Microbes |
The Atlantic |
| Life as “self-perpetuating information strings”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Creation Project |
Carl Henry Center |
| Journal of Creation - Dec 2015 - Table of Contents |
Creation.com |
| Ancient fossil forest unearthed in Arctic Norway |
Science Daily |
| Whiffs from cyanobacteria likely responsible for Earth's oxygen |
Science Daily |
| Hydra can modify its genetic program: Certain cells of the animal change to overcome the loss of its nervous system |
Science Daily |
| How does our brain form creative and original ideas? |
Science Daily |
| What else is possible if space and time can change? |
PBS |
| Holes in a Bone: Flute or Fluke? |
Discover Magazine |
| Complexity of body's defense systems |
Answers in Genesis |
| Ground-breaking research could challenge underlying principles of physics |
University of Southampton |
Does Karl Giberson represent the new face of American evangelicals,
“accepting” Darwin? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Information Theory of Life |
Quanta Magazine |
| Steve Meyer responds to Books & Culture review of "Darwin’s Doubt" |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dark proteome “unlike any known structure” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Marine animals use new form of secret light communication |
Science Daily |
| Microevolutionary evidence: The eyes have it |
Phys.org |
| Why Darwinism is failing - Part 1 |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Darwinism is failing - Part 2 |
Uncommon Descent |
| Quantum mechanics puts human identity on trial? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Nature: The Exoplanet Files 20 years on |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolution Is Finally Winning Out Over Creationism |
Slate |
| Puzzling Homo naledi: case of variation or pathology in Homo erectus? |
Creation.com |
| Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial |
Nautilus |
| Devolution: Getting back to the simple life |
Evolution News and Views |
| Farewell to hope of life on Kepler-438b |
MSN |
| String theory still “closer than ever” to an answer? |
Uncommon Descent |
| About 70% of our genes trace their ancestry back to the acorn worm |
Science Daily |
| About 70% of our genes traced back to acorn worm? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The exoplanet files: What we know about alien worlds - and what's coming next |
Nature |
| Stasis stars: Platypus and opossum |
Uncommon Descent |
| Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Theology |
Academia |
| Most Earth-like planet uninhabitable due to radiation, new research suggests |
Warwick News |
| Richard Dawkins, anti-Christian language and the rise of science |
Creation.com |
| Complex grammar of the genome's language |
Uncommon Descent |
| Early Massive Galaxies Will Require Theory Overhaul (Again) |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Mammals diversified much later than thought? |
Uncommon Descent |
| DNA as “source code” (Humor) |
xkcd.com |
| Single jaw find shows three “species” to be one |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could a new kingdom of life be living in our guts? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rethinking the Rise of Mammals |
The Scientist |
| Science journalist discovers she is part Neanderthal |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mammalian ancestors diversified in the Triassic, millions of years before crown mammals evolved in the Jurassic |
Science Daily |
| You Are Not Just Your Brain |
NPR |
| Researchers decode gene patterns that make our brains human |
Science Daily |
| A magnetic protein biocompass |
Nature |
| Animal magnetic sense comes from protein that acts as a compass |
New Scientist |
| Long-sought biological compass discovered |
Nature |
| Darwin’s Origin of Species voted "most influential academic book" |
Uncommon Descent |
| Origin of Species voted most influential academic book |
Yahoo News |
| Orphan gene with a function |
Phys.org |
| "Evolution: A Theory In Crisis (Revisited)" |
Inference: International Review of Science |
| ‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method |
The Onion |
| Evolution to 1872 |
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| Atheist explains why she became a Catholic |
Uncommon Descent |
| The 3230 genes you can't do without |
Science Magazine |
| Which Animals Have Barely Evolved? |
National Geographic |
| What did the Neanderthals do for us? |
BBC |
| The dinosaur ankle re-evolved amphibian-like development in birds |
Science Daily |
| Is evil a disease? ISIS and the neuroscience of brutality |
New Scientist |
| Are Religious Children Really Less Altruistic? |
Premiere Christianity |
| Animal magnetic sense comes from protein that acts as a compass |
New Scientist |
| Biological Compass |
The Scientist |
| Earth's Water May Be as Old as the Earth Itself |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| How many cells in a person? |
ABC |
| Isle of Skye fossil makes three species one |
Science Daily |
| Origin of Earth's water traced back to the birth of our planet |
New Scientist |
| Did Larry Moran Just Give Away the Store? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwin’s Brilliant Strategy for Preempting Criticism and the True Mark of Genius |
Brain Pickings |
| New Denton book: Evolution still a theory in crisis |
Uncommon Descent |
| Made to Order: Can Parents Be Trusted with Gene Editing Technology? |
Aeon |
| 2015 Nobel Prize Highlights Cell Repair Mystery |
ICR |
| Inside a new effort to discover life's origin |
The Atlantic |
| New Winged Dinosaur May Have Used Its Feathers to Pin Down Prey |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| Is Science Getting Less Risky? |
Real Clear Science |
| Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor on the difference between human and animal minds |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why the idea of 'in the beginning there was no mind' is mindless |
Creation |
| Complex skeletons from 550 mya (“earlier than realized”) |
Uncommon Descent |
| PseudoScience vs Religion -- Why Religious Kids aren't Less Altruistic |
American Thinker |
| Stasis: Fossil sea urchin found, 10 million years older |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains |
Quanta Magazine |
| Science Doesn't Work the Way You Might Think |
The Atlantic |
| Thermodynamic Interrogation of the Assembly of a Viral Genome Packaging Motor Complex |
Biophysical Journal |
| Looking for life in all the wrong places |
Uncommon Descent |
| Multiple gene copies mean elephants don’t get cancer? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers question Darwin’s theory of “fecundity selection” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Complex grammar of the genomic language |
Science Daily |
| 2015's Top 10 Websites for Science |
Real Clear Science |
| 'Twice-baked' model for Moon's origin |
BBC |
| The Unreality of Time |
John Hartnett |
| Squid ink: Tyson’s rhetorical trick |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Computers Broke Science |
Real Clear Science |
| The Sad Decline of Karl Giberson |
Evolution News and Views |
| What is specified complexity? |
One Minute Apologist |
| Butterfly mimicry through the eyes of bird predators |
Science Daily |
| The mechanism of kinesin walk |
Science Daily |
| Complex skeletons evolved 550m years ago |
University of Edinburgh |
| Ancient brains turn paleontology on its head |
AAAS EurekAlert |
| The Cost of a New Gene - Larry Moran |
Sandwalk Blogspot |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson on why he thinks ID must be wrong |
Uncommon Descent |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson has a really hilarious reason for not believing in intelligent design |
Business Insider |
| The surprising downsides of being clever:
Can a high IQ be a burden rather than a boon? |
BBC |
| Pushing the Limits of Life |
PBS |
| The hidden power laws of life |
Uncommon Descent |
| SETI as sci-fi’s ID? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Answering the "Pandas and People Creationism" charge |
Uncommon Descent |
| Are mass extinctions driven by mineral deficiency? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stem-cell scientists redefine how blood is made, toppling conventional 'textbook' view from 1960s |
Science Daily |
| Sure, we bumped into another universe… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Intelligent Design Creationism as a Label |
Uncommon Descent |
| Nobel winners relied on inference of design for DNA repair discovery |
World Magazine |
| Scientists Discuss "What If?" Scenario in Dover Intelligent-design Case |
Reading Eagle |
| Do mass extinctions happen every 26 million years or so? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Errors of the Militant Atheist |
National Review |
| DNA strands often 'wiggle' as part of genetic repair |
Science Daily |
| New findings support rethink of mass extinction? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Shermer review of Ridley's The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge |
Wall Street Journal |
| Leading theory of consciousness under fire |
Uncommon Descent |
| General Relativity still beautiful, ahead of its time? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is Evolution Random? Answering a Common Challenge |
Evolution News and Views |
| Ten Years After the Dover Case, Judge Jones Misunderstands His Critics |
Evolution News and Views |
| Proteins by Accident? Replying to a Critic of The Information Enigma |
Evolution News and Views |
| Did Earth's Earliest Life Leave Carbon Footprints? |
Answers in Genesis |
| Butterflies Weaponize Milkweed Toxins |
The Scientist |
| How plant cell compartments 'chat' with each other: Central relay station discovered |
Science Daily |
| Newly discovered fossil sea urchin is the oldest of its kind (by 10 million years) |
Science Daily |
| Sexual selection makes female songbirds drab |
Nature |
| Alternate parallel universe found. Maybe. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Most of Earth's mass extinctions caused by mineral deficiencies |
New Scientist |
| The effects of life history and sexual selection on male and female plumage coloration |
Science Daily |
| New findings rock long-held assumptions about ancient mass extinction |
Science Daily |
| How the complex eye system of an invertebrate coordinates the development of its components |
Science Daily |
| Using Taxonomically Restricted Essential Genes to Determine Whether Two Organisms Can Belong to the Same Family Tree |
Answers in Genesis |
| The Hidden Power Laws of Ecosystems |
Nautilus |
| We can’t understand evolution without understanding stasis and extinction |
Uncommon Descent |
| More light shed on why Darwinism hard to dislodge |
Uncommon Descent |
| Statistics Shows Psychology Is Not Science |
Real Clear Science |
| Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Favor Evolution? |
Answers in Genesis |
| The Chilling Regularity of Mass Extinctions |
The Atlantic |
| Jonathan Marks on why “evolutionary” “psychology” is neither |
Uncommon Descent |
| New research demands rethink on Darwin's theory of 'fecundity selection' |
Science Daily |
| General Relativity - still ahead of its time |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Do new major life domains await discovery? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Leading theory of consciousness rocked by oddball study |
New Scientist |
| Science writer scorches Jerry Coyne, doesn’t worship him |
Uncommon Descent |
Pew Research: Highly religious Americans less likely to see faith-science
conflict |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists Meet in the Information Universe |
APS Physics |
| Stalling a Molecular Motor |
APS Physics |
| Defining and Utilizing Intelligent Design in Science |
Kirk Durston Blog |
| Ornithomimus dinosaur with preserved tail feathers and soft tissue |
Science Daily |
| Earth’s “boring billion” now hot again |
Uncommon Descent |
| New First Life Estimate Creates More Problems |
ICR |
| Research claiming chimpanzees can learn each others' language is not supported |
Science Daily |
| Lottery luck exceeds number of electrons in universe? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Need To Believe: Where Does It Come From? |
NPR |
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