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| ARTICLES - September 2020 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| Does physics today point to mind rather than matter only? |
Mind Matters |
| Can Evolution Explain Physics? |
The Gospel Coalition |
| If The Big Bang Wasn't The Beginning, What Was It? |
Forbes |
| Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings from the Big Bang |
Quanta Magazine |
| A 5D universe is plausible given the data |
Medium |
| Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter |
Quanta Magazine |
| 'It's mindboggling!': astronomers detect most powerful black-hole collision yet |
Nature |
| Science with Sam: Is our reality just one part of a multiverse? |
New Scientist |
| The Rise of the Modern Geocentric Theory Movement |
Answers in Genesis |
| A New Cosmic Tension: The Universe Might Be Too Thin |
Quanta Magazine |
| Physics and information theory give a glimpse of life's origins |
Aeon |
| Australian telescope finds no signs of alien technology in 10 million star systems |
Science Daily |
| Ten million star systems: No alien tech |
Uncommon Descent |
| Paul Ashby on Thermodynamics, Information, and Life's Molecular Machines |
Evolution News |
| Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network |
Futurism |
| Physicist: The whole universe may be a neural network |
Uncommon Descent |
| A question of reality |
Science Daily |
| New Hubble data suggests there is an ingredient missing from current dark matter theories |
Science Daily |
| Dark Matter Believers Panicking |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| New calculation refines comparison of matter with antimatter |
Science Daily |
| Rob Sheldon on the latest effort to pretend that nothing is wrong in cosmology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Gravity causes homogeneity of the universe |
Medienportal
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Bechly Series: No Ancestors for Cambrian Animals; Darwin's Doubt Remains |
Evolution News |
| Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted |
University of Portsmouth |
| Isn't the Whale Transitional Series a Perfect Example of Evolution? |
Answers in Genesis |
| A Bridge Too Far? In Search of Precambrian Sponges |
Evolution News |
| Kimberella - A Checkered History |
Evolution News |
| Kimberella - Conflicting Evidence from Taphonomy |
Evolution News |
| Kimberella - Four Phases of Interpretation |
Evolution News |
| Kimberella and Controversial Relationships - A Chronological Synopsis, Continued |
Evolution News |
| Reconstructing Kimberella - The Disputed Anatomy in Detail |
Evolution News |
| Three-dimensional reconstructions of the putative metazoan Namapoikia show that it was a microbial construction |
PNAS |
| Earliest fossil evidence of an insect lichen mimic |
Science Daily |
| Insects were mimicking lichens 165 million years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| New fossil ape discovered in India: 13-million-year-old gibbon ancestor fills major gaps in the primate fossil record |
Science Daily |
| Why Birds Survived, and Dinosaurs Went Extinct, After an Asteroid Hit Earth |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| At Smithsonian Magazine: Why birds survived but not dinosaurs |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Evidence Hurts Feathered Dinosaur Theory |
ICR |
| Newly discovered mass extinction event triggered the dawn of the dinosaurs |
The Conversation |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Denton "Takes the Fine-Tuning Argument to a Whole New Level" |
Evolution News |
| New Book by Biologist Michael Denton on Nature's Miraculous "Primal Blueprint" |
Evolution News |
| New Research Finds Molecular Machines Are Even More Amazing than Behe Realized |
Evolution News |
| Complex interplay among cells guides them to where they need to go |
Science Daily |
| Less Is More, Natural Loss-of-Function Mutation Is a Strategy for Adaptation |
Science Direct |
| Computational design of genes encoding completely overlapping protein domains: Influence of genetic code and taxonomic rank |
BioRxiv |
| (Reformed) New Scientist 3: The selfish gene is no longer cool |
Uncommon Descent |
| (Reformed) New Scientist 4: There is more to inheritance than just genes |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why does science embrace the “talking animals” myth? |
Mind Matters |
| Bird genes are multitaskers |
Science Daily |
| Biodiversity hypothesis called into question |
Science Daily |
| Life on Earth may have begun in hostile hot springs |
Science News |
| Another futile attempt at a natural origin of life |
Science News |
| New origin of life theory emphasizes a hostile OOL environment |
Uncommon Descent |
| Famed Biologist Jørn Dyerberg Explains His Turn to Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| At New Scientist: We must rethink the (Darwinian) theory of nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| Design on Time - Paley's Watch Was Inside Him |
Evolution News |
| Uncovering the clock that sets the speed of embryo development |
Science Daily |
| Placenta is initiated first, as cells of a fertilized egg divide and specialize |
Science Daily |
| Structural biology: Ribosomes and Russian dolls |
Science Daily |
| Building bridges: PARP enzymes bring broken DNA together |
Science Daily |
| The human brain has given researchers a big surprise |
Mind Matters |
| The surprising organization of avian brains: A research team clears up 150 years of false assumptions |
Science Daily |
| 'Cellular compass' guides stem cell division in plants |
Science Daily |
| Newly Discovered Brain Structure May Grant Birds Impressive Intelligence |
Real Clear Science |
| Plastic-Eating Microbes - "Rapid Evolution" May Not Be Darwinian at All |
Evolution News |
| Why do cells care if they break when rocks don’t? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists find 'secret molecule' that allows bacteria to exhale electricity |
Live Science |
| Scientists identify gene family key to unlocking vertebrate evolution |
Science Daily |
| Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification |
Zenodo |
| Structure of ATPase, the world's smallest turbine, solved: First complete structure of mammalian F1Fo ATP-synthase |
Science Daily |
| Complete structure of the world’s smallest turbine, ATP, now described |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human white blood cells use molecular paddles to swim |
EurekAlert |
| We have more than 6 trillion metres (18 trillion feet) of DNA |
Uncommon Descent |
| Irreducible complexity in the Krebs cycle convinces a biologist of design in nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| James Tour: "Molecules Don't Care About Life" |
Evolution News |
| At Aeon: As a discipline, origin of life is “World’s most theoretically fertile dead end” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rob Sheldon on origin of life as a “theoretically fertile dead end” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Extraordinary Claim: Life on Venus? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Using statistical methods to model the fine-tuning of molecular machines and systems |
Science Direct |
| In Cells, Proofreading and Repair Testify to Intelligent Design and Foresight |
Evolution News |
| The flagellar motor of Vibrio alginolyticus undergoes major structural remodeling during rotational switching |
eLife |
| How Groups of Cells Cooperate to Build Organs and Organisms |
The Scientist |
| Cells Model Sustainable Lifestyles |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Recapitulation Theory: How Embryology Does Not Prove Evolution |
Answers in Genesis |
| Mike Behe’s Darwin Devolves thesis aired at Quanta? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Paper: Paradigm shift needed in understanding evolution of complex animals |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers: How two bacteria of different species become one |
Uncommon Descent |
| Do bacteria warn others while dying from antibiotics? |
Mind Matters |
| Sometimes it’s hard for researchers to avoid talking about design in nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mammalian Brains Prove Evolutionary Disconnect |
ICR |
| Cell division: Cleaning the nucleus without detergents |
Science Daily |
| Monumental DNA Study Reveals Secrets of North American Mastodons |
Gizmodo |
| Copying enzyme design to make industrial catalysts |
Creation |
| GTEx Consortium releases fresh insights into how DNA differences govern gene expression |
Science Daily |
| New Map Charts Genetic Expression Across Tissue Types, Sexes |
The Scientist |
| Animals' magnetic 'sixth' sense may come from bacteria |
Science Daily |
| Y chromosomes of Neandertals and Denisovans now sequenced |
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
| The male Y chromosome does more than we thought |
Science Daily |
| Primate brain size does not predict their intelligence |
Science Daily |
| The "Synergistic Core" of the Human Brain? |
Discover Magazine |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Genetics Steps In to Help Tell the Story of Human Origins |
The Scientist |
| Darwin’s influence on Chinese Communism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Natural History Museum to review potentially 'offensive' Charles Darwin collection |
The Telegraph |
| Britain’s Natural History Museum is feeling the heat over Darwin’s racism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Study confirms widespread literacy in biblical-period kingdom of Judah |
Science Daily |
| Using Bonobos to Bash Human Exceptionalism |
Evolution News |
| Y Chromosome from Early Modern Humans Replaced Neanderthal Y |
The Scientist |
| Did Neanderthals Really Live in Caves? |
Discover Magazine |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY |
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| Four reasons to think that atheism is inconsistent with scientific progress |
Wintery Knight |
| What the story of Galileo gets wrong about the church and science |
America Magazine |
| Why Are Scientists So Cruel To New Ideas? |
Forbes |
| The Impending Cancellation of Charles Darwin |
Medium |
| Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne contemplates the idea that Darwin might be Cancelled |
Uncommon Descent |
| Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy applied to biology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Book by classical philosopher of design in nature now available after 150 years |
Uncommon Descent |
| Psychologist: Children use reason, not gut, for moral problems |
Mind Matters |
| Why is there no consensus on evolution? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Romantic Revolutionaries: The Myth that Order Arises Out of Chaos |
The American Vision |
| Theistic Darwinism's "Fully Gifted" Creation Theology Contradicts Itself, and Science |
Evolution News |
| On the Swamidass Hypothesis - The Cheese Stands Alone |
Evolution News |
| Reform It Altogether - More on the Naturalistic Parabola |
Evolution News |
| The Professor and the Con Man |
Jewish Review of Books |
| Unconscious learning underlies belief in God, study suggests |
Science Daily |
| At Scientific American: Falsifiability in science is a myth |
Uncommon Descent |
Science Magazine gets pitched headlong into the political mud wrestle, along with Scientific American
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Uncommon Descent |
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| Elon Musk Tweet Shows Why Many Doubt Origin of Life Studies |
Mind Matters |
| Systems Engineering in Nature |
Cross Examined |
| Believers in God detect patterns more quickly |
Mind Matters |
| John D. Barrow (1952–2020) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine |
Evolution News |
| Evolutionary Textbooks Promoted Racism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Darwin Still Escaping Apologies for Scientific Racism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism |
Evolution News |
| At The Scientist: Stuff about Darwinian racism we’ve been saying for years… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinians Displayed Bones of "Inferior Races" in Museums |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Universities Scrub Names of Racist Leaders. The Next Step Should Be Acknowledging the Racism of the ACLU |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Big Science Dodging Its Own Racism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Louis Agassiz and Alexander Winchell: Two Case Histories of Creationists Who Illustrate That Rejecting Genesis Influences the Acceptance of Racism |
Answers in Genesis |
| Richard Dawkins is getting canceled again |
Uncommon Descent |
| Wokeness Comes for Dawkins |
The American Conservative |
| Researchers have been confirming quantum entanglement in brain tissue |
Uncommon Descent |
| How do you know you are not the only human who ever existed? |
Mind Matters |
| Evolution and artificial intelligence face the same basic problem |
Mind Matters |
| Scientific American breaks with 175-year tradition, endorses Joe Biden for US President |
Uncommon Descent |
| Software developer compares Shapiro's self-org theory favorably to Darwin's NS |
Mind Matters |
| The "Hard" Problem of Consciousness |
Evolution News |
| Michael Flannery’s book on Alfred Russel Wallace has been revised and updated |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Babylon Bee stings its way into the evolution debate |
Uncommon Descent |
| Panel Lays Out Guidelines for CRISPR-Edited Human Embryos |
The Scientist |
| The Capture of Nature (i.e.the journal) |
Quackometer |
| Don’t blame AI for the British A-Level test scandal |
Mind Matters |
| Censored: Australian scientists say suppression of environment research is getting worse |
Nature |
| Only one in ten medical treatments are backed by high-quality evidence |
The Conversation |
| Did the human mind originate in telling ourselves stories? |
Mind Matters |
| Statistical significance: Computers excel at finding temporary patterns |
Mind Matters |
| Does split-brain surgery show that we have no real identity? |
Mind Matters |
| Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers |
Technology Review |
| Sleep on It: Design in the Subconscious Brain |
Evolution News |
| Reformed New Scientist 2: Evolution shows intelligence |
Uncommon Descent |
| From Nature: A new, topflight computer science journal |
Mind Matters |
| SwiftKey co-founder: Computers can’t just “evolve” intelligence |
Mind Matters |
| Can computers evolve to program themselves without programmers? |
Mind Matters |
| Will a brain-computer interface be a boon or a nightmare? |
Mind Matters |
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