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| ARTICLES - October 2020 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| No, Roger Penrose, We See No Evidence Of A 'Universe Before The Big Bang' |
Forbes |
| Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Challenges the Evidence for Cosmological Fine-Tuning |
Evolution News |
| The Standard Model Is Not Enough, New LHC Study Shows |
Forbes |
| Particle Physicists Continue To Make Empty Promises |
BackReaction |
| Physicists may have caught the Higgs boson doing a new trick |
Live Science |
| What Can The Simple Fact That 'We Exist' Teach Us About The Universe? |
Forbes |
| Particle Physicists Continue To Make Empty Promises |
BackReacition |
| What Black Holes Bring to the Galaxy |
The Atlantic |
| The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End |
Quanta Magazine |
| Awesome Zoomable Milkyway |
European Southern Observatory |
| There Could Be at Least 300 Million Potentially Habitable Worlds in The Milky Way |
Science Alert |
| What 50 gravitational-wave events reveal about the Universe |
Nature |
| We need a new Theory of Everything |
Medium |
| Researcher: We need a new theory of everything, one with no “things” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Last chance for WIMPs: physicists launch all-out hunt for dark-matter candidate |
Nature |
| Can Dark Matter Really Explain The Universe's Structure? |
Forbes |
| Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XI: The Transcension Hypothesis |
Universe Today |
| We'll find E.T. with a molecule, not a message |
Astronomy |
| In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World |
Astrobiology |
| At Gizmodo: 24 planets might be better places to live than Earth |
Uncommon Descent |
| Venus Is Dead! New Analysis Shows Phosphine, A Possible Biosignature, Is Absent |
Forbes |
| There. It’s over! There is no life on Venus |
Uncommon Descent |
| Where were Jupiter and Saturn born? |
Science Daily |
| Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Discoveries about black holes |
Science Daily |
| Elements of surprise in new star study |
Cosmos Magazine |
| This mysterious 'exotic stellar peacock' may open the door to a realm of physics only ever glimpsed |
The Conversation |
| Cosmology Shrieks in the Dark |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Bechly: The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis |
Evolution News |
| The Rare Earth hypothesis offers science-based reasons that life in the universe is rare |
Mind Matters |
| These bizarre ancient species are rewriting animal evolution |
Nature |
| Scientists argue origins of a famous feather |
Cosmos Magazine |
| New study rebuts 75-year-old belief in reptile evolution |
Science Daily |
| Superhabitable Planets |
Answers in Genesis |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| First cell with a mitochondrion was already complex |
Uncommon Descent |
| The sweet spot of flagellar assembly |
Science Daily |
| What? An honest admission about the bacterial flagellum from Darwin-driven biology? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientific Paper Reaffirms New Genes Required for Cambrian Explosion |
Evolution News |
| New Michael Behe book: A Mousetrap for Darwin |
Uncommon Descent |
| How to Do Biology Without Darwin |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Why Physics Can't Tell Us What Life Is |
Nautilus |
| World first study shows that some microorganisms can bend the rules of evolution |
Science Daily |
| Watching microorganisms bend “the rules” of evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Natural Selection Undoes What It Does |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Karsten Pultz offers some thoughts on the flap over the now-famous Thorvalden and Hössjer paper |
Uncommon Descent |
| New book by Michael Denton: Our bodies’ cells are a “third infinity” of information |
Mind Matters |
| Morphogenesis: Coding for Shape |
Evolution News |
| The wonderfully designed cell cycle |
Creation |
| Why do many scientists see cells as intelligent? |
Mind Matters |
| Magnetic Navigation May Be a Gift from Bacteria |
Evolution News |
| Another argument as to how a complex metabolism “may have” self-assembled |
Uncommon Descent |
| The curious DNA circles that make treating cancer so hard |
Chemical and Engineering News |
| A book about human errors that don’t exist |
Journal of Creation |
| The Wonder of Your Body's Genetic Instructions |
Evolution News |
| Primates aren't quite frogs |
Science Daily |
| Breakout Paper in Journal of Theoretical Biology Explicitly Supports Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| Why a science fiction writer thinks life is more than just matter |
Mind Matters |
| The Economist: How hybrids have upturned evolutionary theory |
The Economist |
| (Reformed) New Scientist 5: Species don’t really EXIST? |
Uncommon Descent |
| (Reformed) New Scientist 6: Lamarck is out of the doghouse! |
Uncommon Descent |
| (Reformed) New Scientist 7: Niche construction can shape evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| (Reformed) New Scientist 8: Evolution can happen very quickly |
Uncommon Descent |
| (Reformed) New Scientist takes horizontal gene transfer seriously |
Uncommon Descent |
| (Reformed) New Scientist on life forms evolving without changing genes |
Uncommon Descent |
| (Reformed) New Scientist 12: Evolution favors some outcomes, not others |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolution of communication signals and information during species radiation |
Science Daily |
| Cambrian Explosion may have involved new genes |
New Scientist |
| Newly discovered water bear (tardigrade) even beats radiation |
Uncommon Descent |
| Zoologists uncover new example of rapid evolution |
Science Daily |
| Neuroscientists discover a molecular mechanism that allows memories to form |
MIT News |
| Human, mouse, and fly brains all use the same basic mechanisms |
Mind Matters |
| Searching for the chemistry of life: Study shows possible new way to create DNA base pairs |
Science Daily |
| Origin of life dustup: Once again, we discover why we love Inference Review |
Uncommon Descent |
| Prebiotic chemistry: In the beginning, there was sugar |
Science Daily |
| Sappy Origin of Life Hypothesis Turns Sour |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The mammalian placenta features “universal assembly instructions” |
Uncommon Descent |
| The blueprint for life, neatly folded |
Knowable Magazine |
| The search for the origin of life: From panspermia to primordial soup |
New Scientist |
| Getting Carbon into the First Cell |
ICR |
| New Clues to Chemical Origins of Metabolism at Dawn of Life |
Quanta Magazine |
| Algorithm discovers how six simple molecules could evolve into life's building blocks |
Chemistry World |
| The road to uncovering a novel mechanism for disposing of misfolded proteins |
Science Daily |
| Technology? Hey, bugs invented it all before us! |
Mind Matters |
| Despite Darwinists' Cancel Culture, Intelligent Design Has a Breakthrough in Biology Journal |
Evolution News |
| Did microbes once thrive in arsenic world — a world without oxygen? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Two molecular handshakes for hearing: Findings shed light on how hearing happens at the molecular level |
Science Daily |
| Darwin's Flawed Atoll Theory Still Taught |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Darwin's Point |
Creation |
| Many paths lead to high-altitude adaptation |
Creation |
| Life on Venus? Scientists hunt for the truth |
Nature |
| Neanderthal Y Chromosome Looks Modern |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| How plants can count and remember with no brain |
Mind Matters |
| Crabs and Convergent Evolution: Carcinization Explained |
Popular Mechanics |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Rapid Human Evolution? |
Answers in Genesis |
| Turbulent environment set the stage for leaps in human evolution and technology 320,000 years ago |
The Conversation |
| There, that’s it! Environment changes made humans more adaptable |
Uncommon Descent |
| Humans Evolving? Armed with the Evidence, the Story Breaks Down |
Evolution News |
| Humans are born with brains 'prewired' to see words |
Ohio State News |
| Researchers: Humans are prewired to recognize words |
Mind Matters |
| Lemurs, with brains 1/200 the size of chimps’, pass same IQ test |
Mind Matters |
| Early Humans Were Using Fire 300,000 Years Ago to Forge Superior Stone Tools |
Gizmodo |
| Why does “evolution theory” trivialize everything it touches? |
Mind Matters |
| Mankind undone: the evolutionary identity crisis |
Journal of Creation |
| Claims that Humans Are Evolving Fall Apart When Examined |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Review of Life 3.0: Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark |
Creation |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY |
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| Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science |
Evolution News |
| Dave Rubin: Why I’m no longer an atheist |
Patheos Unbelievable |
| Your mind vs. your brain: Ten things to know |
Mind Matters |
| Neuroscience can help us understand why our minds and free will are real |
Mind Matters |
| Do we really have free will? Four things to know |
Mind Matters |
| Why, as a Neurosurgeon, I Believe in Free Will |
Mind Matters |
| Determinism: Smart People and an Absurd Claim |
Evolution News |
| Why is AI a key battleground in philosophy and religion? |
Mind Matters |
| Matti Leisola— Bioengineer dumps Darwin, declares design |
Journal of Creation |
| Does Darwinism Conflict with Religion? |
Aero Magazine |
| A Darwinist Recognizes (Some of) the Stakes in the Intelligent Design Debate |
Evolution News |
| Intelligent Design's Yellow Star: Journal's Disclaimer Refutes a Common Criticism of ID |
Evolution News |
| Why wisdom is not and cannot be a “science” |
Mind Matters |
| Deference and decision-making in science and society: How deference to scientific authority goes beyond confidence in science and scientists to become authoritarianism |
SAGE Journals |
| Robert J. Marks: Politicians who insist that their beliefs represent science might be surprised by the checkered history of that view |
Mind Matters |
| Examining the usage and scope of historical science-a response to Dr Carol Cleland and a defence of terminology |
Creation |
| Historical Science, Chaos Theory, and the sliding scale of trust |
Creation |
| Learning Wonder from Denton's Latest |
Evolution News |
| When "Science" Becomes a Cult |
Evolution News |
| Big Science Abandons Political Neutrality |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Science has been in a "replication crisis" for a decade. Have we learned anything? |
Vox |
| Meyer's Return of the God Hypothesis Gets a Suitably Impressive New Website |
Evolution News |
| Report “staggering rise in climate-related disasters” was refuted by its own data |
Global Warming Policy Forum |
| How Does Science Really Work? |
New Yorker |
| Rob Sheldon responds to Nature’s decision to go political: Are they really scientists or just political hacks? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Beyond Kuhn and Feyerabend: What makes science special? |
iai News |
| A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection |
VICE |
| Ethan Siegel at Forbes on “finally” making the United States a “scientific nation” |
Uncommon Descent |
| They Say This Is An Information Economy. So What Is Information? |
Mind Matters |
| Mechanically robust lattices inspired by deep-sea glass sponges |
Nature |
| How Biologist Jacques Monod Exposed the Soviet Union |
The Atlantic |
| I Walk the Line: Comment on Mikael Leidenhag on Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design |
Zygon |
| The Problem of Natural Divine Causation and the Benefits of Partial Causation: A Response to Skogholt |
Zygon |
| Cancel Culture lets an ID-friendly paper slip through the cracks |
Uncommon Descent |
| Really? Editors Claim They Were "Unaware" of Article's Intelligent Design Connections |
Evolution News |
| Corruption Watch: Biology Journal Blames the Innocent, Turns ID Scientists into Fall Guys |
Evolution News |
| Here’s the Twitter discussion of that ID-friendly paper at the Journal of Theoretical Biology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Repentant Biology Journal Offers a Weak Rebuttal to Its Own Pro-ID Fine-Tuning Paper |
Evolution News |
| Now the Journal of Theoretical Biology is publishing a rebuttal letter to the design-friendly paper |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Slow Suicide of American Science |
American Council on Science and Health |
| Science writer mourns the slow suicide of science |
Uncommon Descent |
| You don't have free will, but don't worry. |
Back Reaction |
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| AND MORE |
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| The new John Lennox film: Against the Tide |
Uncommon Descent |
| New film: Dismantled: A scientific deconstruction of the theory of evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Pernicious Amorality Infiltrates Modern Social Darwinism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50-50 |
Scientific American |
| At SciAm: There is a 50-50 chance that we are living in a computer sim |
Uncommon Descent |
| ID by Another Name? Astronomer Says 50 Percent Chance We're Living in Computer Simulation |
Evolution News |
| Science journal editors shouldn't contribute to politicizing science |
STAT News |
| Pushback at StatNews against politicizing science. Rob Sheldon weighs in |
Uncommon Descent |
| My Failed Computer Simulation - Granville Sewell |
Evolution News |
| Why AI geniuses think they can create true thinking machines |
Mind Matters |
| MC Hammer Tweet - In Conversation with David Berlinski (2019) — Materialism, Darwinism, Artificial Intelligence & More |
Twitter |
| Darwin’s Views of Women Had a Considerable Effect on Society |
Answers in Genesis |
| The Human Error Darwin Inspired - How the demotion of Homo sapiens led to environmental destruction |
Nautilus |
| Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and the Christian |
Answers in Genesis |
| At RealClearScience: Replace juries with scientists! |
Uncommon Descent |
| 'Prince of panspermia' has a paper retracted, and sues Springer Nature |
Retraction Watch |
| Conservative unease with science is global, but extreme in the US |
ars technica |
| Mathematical Association of America gone Woke: Math is created by humans |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers: The aliens exist but they are sleeping… |
Mind Matters |
| Pigeons can solve the Monty Hall problem. But can you? |
Mind Matters |
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