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| IN THE NEWS - December 2015 |
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| Extraterrestrial mineral provided essential spark for life? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A Fresh Look at Human-Chimp DNA Similarity |
Answers in Genesis |
| When Liberals Attack Social Science |
NY Magazine |
| Richard Dawkins storms out of interview with Muslim journalist for 'pathetic' beliefs |
Washington Times |
| Dinosaurs Designed Cold-Blooded |
ICR |
| Do Dogs Know Other Dogs Are Dogs? |
Scientific American |
| Evolutionists Lay an Egg: Vitellogenin Pseudogene Debunked |
ICR |
| Creationist scientist contributions |
Creation.com |
| SETI: ID in action |
The Intercept |
| Sociologist: ID will become part of mainstream science inquiry |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dawkins walks out on flying horse? |
Uncommon Descent |
| John Stonestreet Interview: Worldview Thinking, Curriculum Development, Cultural Engagement |
The Best Schools |
| Science, Metaphysics and Metaphorical Ladders: When Science is Theology |
Patheos |
| Royal Society meet on paradigm shift in evolution? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Kadanoff: Information a primary topic 21st Century science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Questioning Darwinism at The Scientist? |
Uncommon Descent |
| 130–100 MYA - exceptional preservation of tiny angiosperm embryos |
Nature |
| Life exploded on Earth after slow rise of oxygen |
Science Daily |
| Mammal diversity exploded immediately after dinosaur extinction |
Science Daily |
| Feuding physicists turn to philosophy for help |
Nature |
| Why String Theory Is Not Science |
Forbes |
| In Forbes: String theory is NOT science? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Has Nature “got” what is at stake in the string theory controversy? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Are These 32 Symbols Found In Ice Age Caves Across Europe? |
Digventures |
| Why Does Written Language Appear So Late after Human Origins? |
Reasons to Believe |
| Quick! Who said THIS about hating religious people? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Gullies on Mars sculpted by dry ice rather than liquid water |
Science Daily |
| Evolutionary advantage of genetic recombination in the genome measured for first time |
Science Daily |
| Bumblebees sense electric fields in flowers |
Nature |
| Anti-evolution bills to teach creationism have evolved |
Slate |
| The Top 10 Retractions of 2015 |
The Scientist |
| Epigenetics: DNA modifications “more diverse than thought” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwin lobby reviewer: Junk DNA “helps creationists” |
Uncommon Descent |
| But is this fair to Feynman? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Dover case, John West, and intelligent design |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fuller on 10 years after Dover |
ABC |
| Dark Matter Is Lost in Space |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Scientists blueprint tiny cellular 'nanomachine' |
Science Daily |
| Epigenetic discovery suggests DNA modifications more diverse than previously thought |
Science Daily |
| Not 'junk' anymore: Obscure DNA has key role in stroke damage |
Science Daily |
| Scientism is a state religion and a disaster for science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Uncontested Consensus Is Bad for Science |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Is scientific peer review a "sacred cow" ready to be slaughtered? |
Science-Based Medicine |
| Did Nick Matzke Misuse National Science Foundation Money Intended to Fund Science Research? |
Evolution News and Views |
| New Scientist: Rethink what makes humans special |
Uncommon Descent |
| Furry, feathery, and finny animals speak their minds |
Evolution News and Views |
| A Fight for the Soul of Science |
Quanta Magazine |
| Elite scientists hold back progress? |
Uncommon Descent |
| 'Smoke detector' enables fungal partnership that allowed plants to first survive on land |
Science Daily |
| Why Plants Were Terrestrial from the Beginning |
Science Daily |
| Plants moved to land earlier than thought? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Preserved embryos illustrate seed dormancy in early angiosperms |
Science Daily |
| Antique Homo Claims Threatened by New Bones |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Is Mark Hauser back? Betrayals helped humans spread? |
Uncommon Descent |
| For 2016: Renew that hit on the Big Bang |
Uncommon Descent |
| Quantum teleport: Top physics breakthrough 2015 |
Uncommon Descent |
| In Science’s 2015 top stories: Non-reproducibility of psych studies |
Uncommon Descent |
| 2015: Evolution Immobile |
ICR |
| Top 2015 News: The Real Jurassic World |
ICR |
| New species of human may have shared our caves - and beds |
New Scientist |
| 'Virtual fossil' reveals last common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals |
Science Daily |
| Thigh bone resembling that of H. habilis or H. erectus dated to 14 thousand years old |
Science Daily |
| Is “evolution” a person? Can it “learn”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Could Evolution Ever Yield a 'Perfect' Organism? |
Discover Magazine |
| Burgess Shale fossil site gives up oldest evidence of brood care: 508 million-year-old Waptia found to have eggs containing preserved embryos |
Science Daily |
| Dog Origins Disputed |
The Scientist |
| New Clues on How and When Wolves Became Dogs |
National Geographic |
| Modern birds radiated before dinosaur extinction? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Winged Wonders |
Answers in Genesis |
| The Founding Feathers? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A gene for new species is discovered |
Science Daily |
| Gene found in fruit flies explains how one species evolved into two |
Science Daily |
| Not a Big Bang of turtles TOO? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Geologists focus on extraterrestrial mineral for clues to beginning of biological life on Earth |
Science Daily |
| The science myths that will not die |
Nature |
| Many animals can give birth without mating |
BBC |
| Darwin's Origin Is Voted Most "Influential," but Here's the Rest of the Story |
Evolution News and Views |
| We Still Don't Know How Stars Explode |
Real Clear Science |
| Is methodological naturalism a defining feature of science? (Part One) |
Uncommon Descent |
| No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning |
Phys.org |
| DNA Dates Dog Domestication Back 33,000 Years |
Discovery |
| Australian, New Zealand little penguins are distinct species |
Science Daily |
| Robert Marks on the math paradox challenging physics |
Uncommon Descent |
| The strange science of self |
ABC |
| Undecidability of the Spectral Gap |
Nature |
| Are Singularities Real? |
PBS |
| Ten Myths About Dover: #10, "The Intelligent Design Movement Died After the Dover Decision" |
Evolution News and Views |
| Top ten physics breakthroughs of 2015 |
Physics World |
| The Best Science Books of 2015 |
BrainPickings |
| Academic Freedom for Thee...What About Me? |
Evolution News and Views |
| How DOES creativity happen? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Top 2015 News: Science Confronts Big Bang |
ICR |
| Math problems unanswerable due to physics paradox? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Face Up: We Are Less than Neanderthals |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Science faith differs from religious faith? Hmmm. If only… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Methodological naturalism: Darwin’s sucker punch |
Uncommon Descent |
| Replication studies as key science reform? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Outsmarting our “irrational brain” – or ourselves? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers discover a mechanism behind asymmetric cell division |
Science Daily |
| How did consciousness become a problem? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Influence of Earth's history on the dawn of modern birds: New time tree indicates that avian evolution was molded by climate change and plate tectonics |
Science Daily |
| Can a Predator Really Be Friends With Its Prey? |
The Atlantic |
| How do we fix bad science? |
Cosmos Magazine |
| All living birds descended from one feathered founder 95 million years ago |
Discovery |
| How the concept of a gene has changed |
Uncommon Descent |
| Naturalists see evolution as an agent, admit problem, shrug |
Uncommon Descent |
| Review of three educational evolution games |
Nature |
| Circuit in a brain structure called the thalamus acts like a radio |
Stanford News |
| Time to rethink what makes humans special |
New Scientist |
| The most likely spots for life in the Milky Way |
Science Magazine |
| Why do Darwin’s followers grudgingly use the word “design”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| How skates and rays got their wings |
Science Daily |
| Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian |
Science Daily |
| Why Trust A Theory? Physicists And Philosophers Debate The Scientific Method |
Forbes |
| Do Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) Support Common Ancestry? |
Answers in Genesis |
| Is false information still information? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Australia's vegetation 40-50 million years older than thought |
Science Daily |
| Paradox at the heart of mathematics makes physics problem unanswerable |
Nature |
| Complications of Brain Manipulations |
The Scientist |
| Do cooperating bacteria isolate cheaters? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Textbooks on cells should be rewritten |
Science Daily |
| Humans and birds evolved different, “sing” alike? |
Uncommon Descent |
| More complex than thought: Earth’s earliest ecosystems |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers ask, Was early animal evolution co-operative? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Meet the weird amphibian that rules the underworld |
New Scientist |
| Unique Mosasaur fossil discovered in Japan |
Science Daily |
| Dinosaurs Evolved in the Blink of an Eye |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Are mammals 30 million years older than previously thought? |
The Guardian |
| The structural origin of anomalous properties of liquid water |
Nature |
| Epigenetics: Ghosts in the genome? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Science Axis of Evil |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Have scientists found evidence of parallel universe? |
Creation.com |
| Fossils indicate dinosaurs evolved rapidly after first relatives appeared |
ABC |
| Religion in science: More widespread than you might think |
alphr |
| Why one lake contains more than 1000 species of the same fish |
New Scientist |
| Chomsky was right: We do have a 'grammar' in our head |
Science Daily |
| Difference between facial growth of Neanderthals and modern humans |
Science Daily |
| The truth about fetal tissue research |
Nature |
| The Quest for the Historical Adam: Genesis, Hermeneutics, and Human Origins |
Amazon.com |
| 4 Simple Responses to Science-Based Atheism |
The Gospel Coalition |
| What is time? |
John Hartnett |
| Appendix 2: Vestigial Organs Reconsidered |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Ediacarans reveal previously unexplored pathways taken by animal evolution |
Science Daily |
| New part of the immune system discovered |
Science Nordic |
| Vertebrate eye wiring as evidence for effective design |
Uncommon Descent |
| How evolution actually works |
New Republic |
| Saving atheism from Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Dawkins should have listened to the philosophers |
Uncommon Descent |
| How long should we believe the prophet Matheson? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science vs. scientism: a necessary distinction |
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| Claim: The sponge is the oldest animal phylum after all |
Uncommon Descent |
| NASA: Life is a master stenographer |
Uncommon Descent |
| Convergent evolution? Horses, humans see world the same way |
Uncommon Descent |
| Naturalism, it turns out, is no match even for the animal mind |
Uncommon Descent |
| Trusting these people to edit the human genome… |
Uncommon Descent |
| First worldwide survey of religion and science: No, not all scientists are atheists |
Phys.org |
| The Origin of Life and the Origin of Science Point to God |
The Stream |
| Storing knowledge for a million years – in DNA? |
Mercatornet |
| Neuroscientist: Consciousness is not a neural phenomenon |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darn! Just when we thought we had that brain all figured out! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Controversial experiment sees no evidence that the universe is a hologram |
Science Magazine |
| Researchers discover giant pores in the membrane of the cell organelles |
Science Daily |
| Ocean toxicity hampered the rapid evolution of complex life |
Science Daily |
| More Than Half Of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Are False Positives |
Forbes |
| Extinction is key to vertebrate terrestrial diversity? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Smithsonian's Traveling Human Origins Exhibit Overstates the Case for Human Evolution |
Evolution News and Views |
| Choosing between Sediba and Naledi as human ancestor? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mathematician Granville Sewell as early ID theorist |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ex-BioLogos leader Karl Giberson admits futility of his compromise |
Creation.com |
| Sponges before comb jellies - study restores classical view that molecular analyses had challenged |
EurekAlert |
| Appendix is not even redundant, let alone not vestigial? |
Uncommon Descent |
| String theory just plain needs to be true |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ghosts in the Genome: How one generation's experience can affect the next |
The Scientist |
| Astronomer Hugh Ross on degrees of certainty in science |
Uncommon Descent |
| What could dark matter be? |
Symmetry Magazine |
| Evolutionists: Give Us Your Best Shot |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Can we prove that God exists? Richard Dawkins and the limits of faith and atheism |
Salon |
| Steven Weinberg defends “Whiggish” history of science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scans prove there's no such thing as a 'male' or 'female' brain |
New Scientist |
| Bonobos documented for first time using ancient pre-agricultural tools, breaking bones, and using spears as attack weapons |
Science Daily |
| Animal evolution: Sponges really are oldest animal phylum |
Science Daily |
| Looking Back 3.8 Billion Years Into the Root of the 'Tree of Life' |
Science Daily |
| Stasis: peach pits allegedly older than 2.5 million years nearly identical to modern pits |
Science Daily |
| Killer headline here: Stasis found in peach pits, 2.5 mya |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can epigenetics help beat depression? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A biologist explains epigenetics: Picture an orchestra |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Scientific Evidence for God is Growing, Not Shrinking |
The Stream |
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