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| ARTICLES - July 2020 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| What is the fine-tuning argument for God's existence, and does the multiverse counter it? |
Wintery Knight |
| How Did The Universe Make Our Existence Possible? |
Forbes |
| Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel offers to explain how the universe made us |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mystery over Universe's expansion deepens with fresh data |
Nature |
| New approach refines the Hubble's constant and age of universe to 12.6 billion years |
Science Daily |
| Released: Largest All Sky Map Ever |
Uncommon Descent |
| Alternatives to the Multiverse |
Medium |
| What dark matter is (probably) not |
Symmetry Magazine |
| An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test |
Quanta Magazine |
| Dark matter map hints at cracks in our understanding of the universe |
New Scientist |
| The time a particle spends in a quantum tunnel has been measured |
Uncommon Descent |
| Yes, Stephen Hawking Lied To Us All About How Black Holes Decay |
Forbes |
| At Forbes: Claim that Stephen Hawking “lied” about black holes |
Uncommon Descent |
| I do not believe in the multiverse, the case for realism |
Medium |
| The universe's clock might have bigger ticks than we imagine |
Live Science |
| Agency in Physics |
arXiv |
| Do we need a Theory of Everything? |
BackReaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder asks: Do we need a theory of everything? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astrophysicist investigates the possibility of life below the surface of Mars |
Science Daily |
| Perseverance Rover, whatever befalls it, is real science |
Uncommon Descent |
| A massive star has suddenly gone missing? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles |
Cornell University arXiv |
| Where did all the baryons go? |
Space |
| Are we starting to find out what happened to the universe’s missing baryons? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astronomers hope to wring their space aliens from Bayesian analysis |
Uncommon Descent |
| Sabine Hossenfelder: Einstein’s greatest legacy was the thought experiment |
Uncommon Descent |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Is There a Scientific Conflict Between the Theory of Darwinian Evolution and the Fossil Record? |
Geoscience Research Institute |
| The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis |
Evolution News |
| In Carbon Isotope Excursions, Darwinists Lose Another Excuse for the Cambrian Explosion |
Evolution News |
| Have Darwinians lost another excuse re the unDarwinian Cambrian Explosion? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Salt Range saga - The "Precambrian rabbit" challenge revisited |
Creation |
| New insight into the origin of water on Earth |
Science Daily |
| Dolphins and whales separately evolved the same speedy swimming bones |
New Scientist |
| 15-foot-long skeleton of extinct dolphin suggests parallel evolution among whales |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Toothed and non-toothed (baleen) whales evolved similar features independently |
Uncommon Descent |
| Namacalathus, Alleged Ediacaran "Animal," Fails to Refute Abrupt Cambrian Explosion |
Evolution News |
| Biosignatures Reveal Intact Soft Tissue Is Ubiquitous in Fossils |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Soft Dinosaur Eggs Deflate Bird-Dinosaur Evolution |
ICR |
| World's smallest dinosaur is probably a lizard |
Nature |
| Evolutionists Mangle Fossils with Preposterous Stories |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Early Australia featured some weird monsters |
Uncommon Descent |
| Earth's magnetic field can change 10 times faster than previously thought |
Science Daily |
| Paper: Earth’s magnetic field can change ten times faster than thought |
Uncommon Descent |
| A tiny ancient relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs discovered |
Science Daily |
| Evolutionists Connect Dinosaur Dots with Puny Fossil |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Namacalathus, an Ediacaran Lophophorate Animal? |
Evolution News |
| Evolution after Chicxulub asteroid impact: Rapid response of life to end-cretaceous mass |
Science Daily |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Expanded ENCODE delivers invaluable genomic encyclopedia |
Nature |
| ENCODE produces a genomic encyclopedia |
Uncommon Descent |
| Hand Signals of Design |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| DNA May Be "Junk" at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another |
Evolution News |
| Mistakes Our Critics Make: Protein Rarity |
Evolution News |
| Mistakes Our Critics Make: Limits of Evolutionary Processes |
Evolution News |
| Evolution's well-kept secret: Mutations are not random! |
Creation |
| Darwin Devolves: Darwinists see evolution as bottom up; Michael Behe sees it as top down |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Fairy Tale World of an Evolution Textbook |
Evolution News |
| Liberal college prof takes aim at the the fairytale world of an “evolution” textbook |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinian Devolution: A review of Michael Behe's Darwin Devolves |
New Oxford Review |
| 'Impossible' Hybrid Suggests Non-Darwinian Change |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The “sturdlefish” is the offspring of sturgeon and paddlefish—separated by 184 million years’ evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| A Study Finds Sex Differences in the Brain. Does It Matter? |
Wired |
| Study of DNA repair shows great specificity of action by enzymes to correct double-strand breaks |
Science Daily |
| Genome guardians stop and reel in DNA to correct replication errors |
Science Daily |
| Study: Enzymes act very specifically to control double-strand breaks |
Uncommon Descent |
| More evidence for the reality of genetic entropy - update |
Creation |
| How can life forms show intelligence with no brain? |
Mind Matters |
| First Human Chromosome Fully Sequenced |
ICR |
| Controversial DNA Modification could play a key role in placenta development |
Science Magazine |
| Has the genetic code for mammals gained another letter? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Biologists shed light on how cells move resources |
Phys.org |
| Biophysicists Find Water Wires Are Biological Information Channels |
Evolution News |
| Researchers: Neurons are programmed for long life, not like other cell |
Uncommon Descent |
| How human sperm really swim: New research challenges centuries-old assumption |
Science Daily |
| Deep sea microbes dormant for 100 million years are hungry and ready to multiply |
Science Daily |
| Scientists Awaken Deep Sea Bacteria After 100 Million Years |
The Scientist |
| Old-Earth Evolutionists Have Blown Their Cred |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Ear Muscle "Wiggle": A Vestigial-Organ Claim That We Should 'Turn a Deaf Ear To' |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Chromosome Dynamics Has Egg-centric Features |
Evolution News |
| Designing DNA from scratch: Engineering the functions of micrometer-sized DNA droplets |
Science Daily |
| Scientists uncover key process in the manufacture of ribosomes and proteins |
Science Daily |
| Biosignatures may reveal a wealth of new data locked inside old fossils |
Science Daily |
| Biosignatures: New data from old fossils (and the Tully Monster) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Beneficial Mutations |
Answers in Genesis |
| RNA key in helping stem cells know what to become |
Science Daily |
| Controversial DNA Modification could play a key role in placenta development |
Science Magazine |
| Blood Cells Act as Multi-Purpose Truckers |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Genetic mutations help MRSA to become highly resistant to antibiotics |
Science Daily |
| Electrical Signaling Among Plants Via Soil Fungal Network |
ICR |
| Searching high and low for the origins of life |
Knowable Magazine |
| Are researchers closer to understanding the origin of life? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Biologists shed light on how cells move resources |
Science Daily |
| Cells communicate by doing the 'wave' |
Science Daily |
| In Cell Death, a Stunning Display of Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| Cell death as intelligent design |
Uncommon Descent |
| When Evolutionists Help Creationists Make Their Case, Part 3 |
Answers in Genesis |
| Reconciling Evolution and Cooperation |
Science 2.0 |
| What is the point in having a nervous system? |
ScienceNordic |
| Billion-year-old Trichoplax has everything needed for a nervous system but no system |
Uncommon Descent |
| From self-replication to replicator systems en route to de novo life |
Nature |
| Self-replicating molecules show signs of metabolism for the first time |
Chemistry World |
| At New Scientist: A shortage of trace metals might have accounted for the development of complex cells |
Uncommon Descent |
| Phylogenetics |
Answers in Genesis |
| Quadruple-stranded DNA seen in healthy human cells for the first time |
New Scientist |
| Complex Metabolic Process in Fish Startles Evolutionists |
ICR |
| The origin of flightless birds |
Creation |
| Neurons are genetically programmed to have long lives |
Science Daily |
| MRI Scans of the Brains of 130 Mammals, Including Humans, Indicate Equal Connectivity |
Tel Aviv University |
| Understanding how brains fold and misfold |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Brains are “programmed”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| New role for white blood cells in the developing brain |
Science Daily |
| Unwary Darwinists Swallowed Whole by Seemingly Unthreatening Whale Video |
Evolution News |
| Whale Genetics and Evolution |
Answers in Genesis |
| Researchers discover deep sea creatures that suck up light like a black hole |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Triumphalism of Strickberger's Evolution |
Evolution News |
| X-rays unearth novel nanofeatures in bone |
Physics World |
| Is Plant 'Intelligence' Just a Human Fantasy? |
Gizmodo |
| Claim: Plants are conscious |
Uncommon Descent |
| The carnivorous plant lifestyle is gene costly |
Uncommon Descent |
| Plant study challenges tropics' reputation as site of modern evolutionary innovation |
Science Daily |
| Toward principles of gene regulation in multicellular systems? |
Science Daily |
| In New Research, RNA Takes Center Stage |
Evolution News |
| Kinds, species, and Joel Duff's criticism of YEC speciation - Part 1 |
Answers in Genesis |
| Kinds, species, and Joel Duff and David MacMillan's criticism of YEC speciation - Part 2 |
Answers in Genesis |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| African Genocide: The Horror of Scientific Racism |
Evolution News |
| Evidence that modern humans and 'super-archaic' humans may have shared DNA |
Creation |
| 120,000-year-old necklace tells of the origin of string |
Ars Technica |
| The "evolutionary origin" of string |
Uncommon Descent |
| Humans and Neanderthals More Similar Than Polar and Brown Bears |
ICR |
| Neanderthal tools - A Spark of Insight Into Neanderthal Behavior |
Sapiens |
| Differences Between Humans and Apes |
Answers in Genesis |
| This 1.4-million-year-old hand ax adds to Homo erectus' known toolkit |
Science News |
| Handax crafted by Homo erectus 1.4 million years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did humans really make the artifacts found at 29 kya in a cave in Mexico? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did we learn sign language before we learned to speak? |
Mind Matters |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY |
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| Why Science and Atheism Don't Mix |
Evolution News |
| We Know Moral Truths Better Than We Know Many Scientific Claims |
Cross Examined |
| Atheist taken to task for mangling history |
Uncommon Descent |
| Atheism detracts from science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Origins 2020 recap |
Todd C. Wood |
| Musings on the history of creationism |
Todd C. Wood |
| Introducing the Creation Theology Society |
Creation Theology Society |
| Gregor Mendel: No Darwinian |
Answers in Genesis |
| Why Augustine on Creation? |
Gavin Ortlund |
| The Bible and Science |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Review of 'Theistic Evolution' |
Creation |
| Eugenics: The hidden history of the progressive movement |
Uncommon Descent |
| It's Time to Fix Evolution's Public Relations Problem |
Evolution Institute |
| Evolution Institute talks about Darwinism’s PR problem |
Uncommon Descent |
| Applying Bayes' Theorem to Biological Design |
Evolution News |
| The Advantages of a Bayesian Approach to ID |
Evolution News |
| A Sneak Preview of Three Views on Christianity and Science |
Worldview Bulletin |
| Michael Egnor on the relationship between Darwinism and totalitarianism |
Uncommon Descent |
| From Darwin to Eden |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rest, Revival and Creation |
Creation |
| Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger's Evolution |
Evolution News |
| James Dwight Dana: Falsely Claimed Darwinist |
Evolution News |
| Asked at American Thinker: Is St. Darwin losing his halo? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human Consciousness Just Became a Bigger Challenge to Darwin |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| How Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Work |
Quanta Magazine |
| What finding life on Mars could tell us about our own origins |
Nautilus |
| “Evolutionary determinism,” universals, and life on Mars |
Uncommon Descent |
| Objectivity and the Construction of Knowledge |
Areo |
| A review of Faith and Fossils: The Bible, creation, and evolution by Lester Grabbe |
Creation |
| Big Science Is Losing Even More Credibility |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
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| New Evidence for Discrimination Against Christians in Academia |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| "Live Not by Lies": Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| Michael Egnor counsels: Live not by lies |
Uncommon Descent |
| Design inference - "clearly the result of the human hand in the process" |
Breitbart |
| Survey Misclassifies Darwin-Doubting Teachers |
Evolution News |
| A College Student Gets Educated on Darwinian "Morality" |
Evolution News |
| Richard Dawkins, as seen apart from proxy Darwin worship |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bari Weiss Knows What ID Scientists Already Knew |
Evolution News |
| ID folk know a fair bit about how Cancel Culture works |
Uncommon Descent |
| Larry Krauss returns as a free speech champion |
Uncommon Descent |
| Memory Purge: Eugenicist Margaret Sanger Gets Canceled by Planned Parenthood |
Evolution News |
| Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger, a big Social Darwinist, gets cancelled |
Uncommon Descent |
| Different from a computer: Why the brain never processes the same input in the same way |
Science Daily |
| Interview with a woman (or women) formerly called Susan Blackmor |
Mind Matters |
| In Dan Brown’s AI Hype Novel, the Hero Stumbles Onto God |
Mind Matters |
| Could super artificial intelligence be, in some sense, alive? |
Mind Matters |
| The Sordid History of Scam Science |
AIER |
| The high costs of scam science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ethics prof slams claims about why pregnant women “nest” |
Mind Matters |
| But, in the end, did the chimpanzee really talk? |
Mind Matters |
| Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong |
Medium |
| Criticism of DK Chu et al. on face masks for COVID-19 by professor Joseph Audie |
OCLA |
| COVID-19 and the need for skeptics in science |
Uncommon Descent |
| At ACSH: Understanding the loss of credibility of expert opinion, post-COVID-19 |
Uncommon Descent |
| Retraction Watch: Lancet hydrochloroquine editorial retracted and replaced |
Uncommon Descent |
| Plagues Can Arise Quickly Without Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| A big Nature study on a tiny dinosaur is being retracted |
Retraction Watch |
| Which is smarter? Babies or AI? Not a trick question |
Mind Matters |
| Larry Krauss returns as a free speech champion |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can animal minds rival humans under the right circumstances? |
Mind Matters |
| Integrated Information Theory: Electrons DO have a “rudimentary mind” |
Mind Matters |
| Is the Turing Test Misguided? George Montañez comments |
Mind Matters |
| Why is Bell’s Theorem Important for Conservation of Information? |
Mind Matters |
| Michael Egnor: Denying free will is totalitarian |
Mind Matters |
| Could advanced technology enable 'extraterrestrials' to travel vast distances? |
Creation |
| SETI at Home closing down—and the double standard |
Uncommon Descent |
| The grammar of consciousness: I vs. me |
Mind Matters |
| How the brain builds a sense of self from the people around us - new research |
The Conversation |
| Breaking Down Human Consciousness |
Real Clear Science |
| Transhumanism's Challenge to Humanity |
Evolution News |
| Neurosurgeon Explains Why You Are Not a Zombie |
Mind Matters |
| Can we develop tests of the brain for consciousness? |
Mind Matters |
| John Lennox answers our questions about AI in 2084 |
Mind Matters |
| Can AI replace the need for belief in God? |
Mind Matters |
| John Lennox: Transhumanism is not a new idea |
Mind Matters |
| Are we on the cusp of artificial general intelligence? |
Mind Matters |
| COVID-19 and fading respect for Big Science |
Uncommon Descent |
| And then they came for 2 + 2 = 4 … |
Uncommon Descent |
| Does Mathematics = Western Imperialism? |
American Thinker |
| Multiverse physicist Max Tegmark seeks AI that checks news bias |
Mind Matters |
| Built to Save Us from Evil AI, OpenAI Now Dupes Us |
Mind Matters |
| The real science behind SETI's hunt for intelligent aliens |
Ars Technica |
| Could COVID-19 help us understand the current buzz in science media about space aliens? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Top tech analyst: Human biology is too complicated for humans |
Mind Matters |
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