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    — News Archive (January 2005)

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JANUARY 28

• The Branding of a Heretic / January 28, 2005 / David Klinghoffer / Wall Street Journal — Are religious scientists unwelcome at the Smithsonian?
• Bat evolution linked to warming / 28 January 2005 / BBC News — a sharp rise in global temperatures  may have been responsible for the evolution of bats
  • "A Molecular Phylogeny for Bats Illuminates Biogeography and the Fossil Record" requires registration / 28 January 2005 / Emma C. Teeling, Mark S. Springer, Ole Madsen, Paul Bates, Stephen J. O'Brien, and William J. Murphy / Science, v.307, n.5709, p.580-584
  • "EVOLUTION: An Eocene Big Bang for Bats" requires registration / 28 January 2005 / Nancy B. Simmons / Science, v.307, n.5709, p.527-528
• "EVOLUTION: Dover Teachers Want No Part of Intelligent-Design Statement" requires registration / 28 January 2005 / Jeffrey Mervis / Science, v.307, n.5709, p.505
• "An Origin for the Fiercest Cosmic Rays?" requires registration / 28 January 2005 / Robert Irion / Science, v.307, n.5709, p.509
• New origin center teaches evolutionary theories to future science / January 27, 2005 / Jessica Holland / Kansas State Collegian — interested students now have more opportunities to study evolution and creation sciences than ever before
• Turin shroud 'older than thought' / 27 January 2005 / BBC News — the Shroud of Turin is much older than suggested by radiocarbon dating carried out in the 1980s; see also Shroud of Turin website and story
• Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy / January 25, 2005 / Maryann Mott / National Geographic News
• Aliens Cause Global Warming / January 17, 2003 / Michael Crichton / Caltech Michelin Lecture
• Raising Ebenezer, the Allosaur / May 20, 2002 / Creation Expeditions — perhaps the most complete Allosaur skull has been uncovered
  • Raising the Allosaur (VHS) / 2002 / Institute for Creation Research

JANUARY 26

• Scientists Create Petrified Wood in Days / January 25, 2005 / ABC News (Associated Press) — duplicate of January 25 news note below
  • See also:  "How Rapidly Can Wood Petrify?" / 1978 / R. H. Brown / Origins, v.5, n.2, p.113-115
• Pilfering crab has insect's nose / 25 January 2005 / BBC News — a land crab re-invented key features of the insect nose over millions of years -- a striking example of convergent evolution
• Hominid inbreeding left humans vulnerable to disease / 25 January 2005 / Will Knight / New Scientist
• Cosmic birth theory gets support / 25 January 2005 / BBC News — new meteorite data lends support to a controversial theory that the violent explosion of a star was involved in the creation of the Sun and its planets
• review: Lamya Hamad / January 25, 2005 / Islam Online
  • By Design or by Chance: The Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe / April 2004 / Denyse O’Leary / Castle Quay Books (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Canada) — see also Amazon

JANUARY 25

• The Evolution-Creation Struggle / May 2005 / Michael Ruse / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Flew's Flawed Science / February-March 2005 / Victor J. Stenger / Free Inquiry, v.25, n.2 — the late-in-life “conversion” of philosopher Antony Flew from atheism to belief in God has been widely reported in the media
• Stealth Attack On Evolution / January 31, 2005 / Michael D. Lemonick, Noah Isackson, and Jeffrey Ressner / Time — Who is behind the movement to give equal time to Darwin's critics, and what do they really want?
• Topping Mother Nature, lab makes petrified wood in days / January 25, 2005 / USA Today (Associated Press)
• God and Darwin / January 24, 2005 / Washington Post, p.A14
• Whale and hippo 'close cousins' / 24 January 2005 / BBC News — a water-loving mammal  was probably the "missing link" between whales and hippos
• Titan reveals methane rain and rocks of water / 21 January 2005 / Achim Schneider / Nature (news@nature) — a week's analysis confirms Earth-like features on saturnian moon
• Year of Physics Supplement / 19 January 2005 / Nature
  • "A theory of everything?" / 20 January 2005 / Gerard 't Hooft, Leonard Susskind, Edward Witten, Masataka Fukugita, Lisa Randall, Lee Smolin, John Stachel, Carlo Rovelli, George Ellis, Steven Weinberg, and Roger Penrose / Nature, v.433, p.257-259
• Between evolution and religion / January 19, 2005 / Froma Harrop / Providence Journal (Rhode Island)
• "Why repetitive DNA is essential to genome function" / 17 January 2005 / James A. Shapiro and Richard von Sternberg / Biological Reviews, p.1-24
• Catastrophic Flooding From Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period / January 3, 2005 / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution / ScienceDaily
• Historic Himalayan Ice Dams Created Huge Lakes, Mammoth Floods / December 27, 2004 / University of Washington / ScienceDaily
• Review of creationist book shelved / December 2004 / Megan Sever / Geotimes — the Department of the Interior has yet to reach a decision on the sale in Grand Canyon National Park of a book that tells a biblical story of the creation of the Grand Canyon
• "Stove's Anti-Darwinism" / 1997 / James Franklin / Philosophy, v.72, n.279, p.133-136

JANUARY 23

• Third International Pascal Centre Conference / July 18-23, 2005 / Redeemer University College (Ancaster, Ontario, Canada) — interpreting nature and scripture: history of a dialogue
• A Grander View of Life / June 15-17, 2005 / Baraminology Study Group, Bryan College / New St. Andrews College (Moscow, Idaho)
• Religion is forced to play by science's rules / January 23, 2005 / Jeffrey Rudski / Morning Call Online
• A balanced approach to teaching evolution / January 23, 2005 / Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania's junior U.S. Senator) / Morning Call Online
• The Crafty Attacks on Evolution / January 23, 2005 / New York Times
• Science and Religion: Physical Sciences / January 21, 2005 / John Haught, Holmes Rolston III, Varadaraja V. Raman, and Steven Weinberg / National Public Radio — finding answers on where the universe came from and where it's going
• "Studies on the radiocarbon sample from the Shroud of Turin" / 20 January 2005 / Raymond N. Rogers / Thermochimica Acta, v.425, n.1-2, p.189-194
  • Late Breaking Website News! / January 21, 2005 / The Shroud of Turin
  • New Chemical Testing Points to Ancient Origin for Burial Shroud of Jesus / January 19, 2005 / PRNewswire (Yahoo!) — Los Alamos scientist proves 1988 carbon-14 dating of the Shroud of Turin used invalid rewoven sample
  • Latest Shroud News
• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason / August 2004 / Sam Harris / W. W. Norton — an impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith; see also Amazon
  • review: Among the Non-Believers / January 2005 / Chris Lehmann / reason.com — the tedium of dogmatic atheism
• Report of the Creation Study Committee / 2000 / Presbyterian Church in America

JANUARY 21

• "The Boon and Bane of Radiocarbon Dating" requires registration / 21 January 2005 / Tom P. Guilderson, Paula J. Reimer, and Tom A. Brown / Science, v.307, n.5708, p.362-364
• "Fossil Count Suggests Biggest Die-Off Wasn't Due to a Smashup" requires registration / 21 January 2005 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.307, n.5708, p.335
• "TEACHING EVOLUTION: Judge Orders Stickers Removed From Georgia Textbooks" requires registration / 21 January 2005 / Constance Holden / Science, v.307, n.5708, p.334
• Ducks may have shared swamp with T. rex / 20 January 2005 / CBC News (Canada)
• The “sad and sorry god” of theistic evolution / October 25, 2004 / Troy Lacey / Answers in Genesis — report on the “Evolution and God Symposium” held at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio (October 15-17, 2004)
• "Hydrogeochemical changes before and after a major earthquake" / August 2004 / Lillemor Claesson, Alasdair Skelton, Colin Graham, Carlo Dietl, Magnus Mörth, Peter Torssander, and Ingrid Kockum / Geology, v.32, n.8, p.641-644
  • Icelandic water making waves in seismology / December 21, 2004 / Boston Globe (Reuters) — earthquake prediction?
• The Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation / November 2000 / David G. Hagopian (editor), with J. Ligon Duncan III, David W. Hall, Hugh Ross, Gleason L. Archer, Lee Irons, and Meredith G. Kline / Crux Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Scott Yoshikawa / 2000 / Upper Register

JANUARY 20

• "Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Hires Intelligent-Design Theorist" / January 21, 2005 / Daniel Engber / Chronicle of Higher Education, v.51, n.20, p.A7
• Cretaceous duck ruffles feathers / 20 January 2005 / BBC News — ducks may have been paddling about in primeval swamps when T. rex was king of the dinosaurs
• H. Bentley Glass, Provocative Science Theorist, Dies at 98 / January 20, 2005 / Douglas Martin / New York Times
• "A theoretical look at the direct detection of giant planets outside the Solar System" requires registration / 20 January 2005 / Adam Burrows / Nature, v.433, p.261-268
• "Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous" requires registration / 20 January 2005 / Julia A. Clarke, Claudia P. Tambussi, Jorge I. Noriega, Gregory M. Erickson, and Richard A. Ketcham / Nature, v.433, p.305-308
• "Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopia" requires registration / 20 January 2005 / Sileshi Semaw, et al. / Nature, v.433, p.301-305
  • Ancient Hominid Found in Ethiopia Is Yielding Teeth Like the Apes' / January 20, 2005 / New York Times
  • Anthropologists find 4.5 million-year-old hominid fossils in Ethiopia / January 19, 2005 / Indiana University
• 'Intelligent design' taught in Pennsylvania / January 19, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press) — high school students heard about "intelligent design" for the first time Tuesday in the Pennsylvania school district that attracted national attention by requiring students to be made aware of it as an alternative to the theory of evolution
• Evolution ruling gets cheers from scientists / January 14, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press) — Kenneth Miller has been upset that biology textbooks he has written are slapped with a warning sticker [evolution is "a theory, not a fact"] by the time they appear in suburban Atlanta schools
• Wedging Creationism into the Academy / January-February 2005 / Barbara Forrest and Glenn Branch / Academe, v.91, n.1 — proponents of a controversial theory struggle to gain purchase within academia; a case study of the quest for academic legitimacy
• "GEOCHEMISTRY: In Mass Extinction, Timing Is All" requires registration / 17 September 2004 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.305, n.5691, p.1705
  • "Age and Timing of the Permian Mass Extinctions: U/Pb Dating of Closed-System Zircons" requires registration / 17 September 2004 / Roland Mundil, Kenneth R. Ludwig, Ian Metcalfe, and Paul R. Renne / Science, v.305, n.5691, p.1760-1763
• Darwinian Fairytales / 1995 / David Stove / Avebury Books (Ashgate Publishing) — see also Amazon
  • review: David Fontana / Scientific and Medical Network

JANUARY 19

• Early Responses to Hume (10 vols.) / March 2005 / James Fieser (editor) / Thoemmes Continuum — see also Amazon
• Testing Darwin / February 2005 / Carl Zimmer / Discover, v.26, n.2 — digital organisms that breed thousands of times faster than common bacteria are beginning to shed light on some of the biggest unanswered questions of evolution
• Caught Between Church and State / January 19, 2005 / Susan Jacoby / New York Times — the new challenges to teaching evolution are the product of 80 years of back-door pressure that has been mounting since the Scopes trial
• In Defense of Mary the Virgin / January 18, 2005 / Mustafa Akyol / IslamOnline — also: Are Miracles “Unscientific”? ... The Demise of Naturalism
• Some Gene Research Just Isn't Worth the Money / January 18, 2005 / Keith Humphreys and Sally Satel / New York Times
• Pennsylvania School District First in US to Offer Alternative to Debunked Darwinian Evolution / January 18, 2005 / LifeSite — biology students in town said to have received most balanced science program in the nation
• Gene 'inversion' makes Icelanders more fertile / January 17, 2005 / ABC News (Reuters)
  • Natural selection in humans / January 17, 2005 / Charles Q. Choi / The Scientist — a chromosomal inversion conveys a reproductive advantage in Iceland
  • "An Icelandic example of the impact of population structure on association studies" / 19 December 2004 / Agnar Helgason, Bryndís Yngvadóttir, Birgir Hrafnkelsson, Jeffrey Gulcher, and Kári Stefánsson / Nature Genetics, v.37, p.90-95
• Gene control hits new level / 17 January 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — tiny RNA molecules prove more influential than imagined
• "Tsunami: Reconstructing a most deadly wave" / 15 January 2005 / Rachel Nowak / New Scientist, n.2482, p.16
• "Gamma-ray probe glimpses its first burst" / 15 January 2005 / New Scientist, n.2482, p.19
• "Accelerated evolution associated with genome reduction in a free-living prokaryote" / 14 January 2005 / Alexis Dufresne, Laurence Garczarek, and Frédéric Partensky / Genome Biology, v.6, R14
• Does God Believe in an Intelligent Designer? / January 13, 2005 / discussion / Evangelical Outpost — the use of religion in the ID/Darwin debate
• Humanists, Atheists Look to Higher Global Profile / January 9, 2005 / Robert Evans / Reuters
• On the origin of creationism / 25 December 2004 / Mary Midgley / New Scientist, n.2479 — calling creationists irrational will get you nowhere; far better to understand how their beliefs arose and how they're being exploited
• "Geochemistry of the end-Permian extinction event in Austria and Italy: No evidence for an extraterrestrial component" / December 2004 / Christian Koeberl, Kenneth A. Farley, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, and Mark A. Sephton / Geology, v.32, n.12, p.1053-1056
• Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton / October 2004 / Martin Brookes / Bloomsbury — see also Amazon
  • review: Measure for Measure / January 17, 2005 / Jim Holt / New Yorker — eugenics: the strange science of Francis Galton
• Are Humans Still Evolving? / October 20, 2003 / Shane Greenup / Physics Post
• Creationist Misuse of the Green River Formation / 2003 / Glenn R. Morton
  • "Green River Blues" / June 1997 / Paul Garner / Creation, v.19, n.3, p.18-19 (Answers in Genesis)
• Creation Science and Earth History / John Stear
  • Evaluating the "Noah's Flood Hypothesis" / September 21, 2002

JANUARY 17

• Huygens finds solid ground on Titan / 17 January 2005 / Mark Peplow and Achim Schneider / Nature (news@nature) — probe's first data show rocks, possible rivers and seas
• Triumph as Huygens lands / 17 January 2005 / Achim Schneider / Nature (news@nature) — scientists ecstatic about data from Titan probe
• Craft on Titan Finds Tantalizing Signs of Liquid / January 15, 2005 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• ET Visitors: Scientists See High Likelihood / 14 January 2005 / Leonard David / space.com
• Huygens at Titan's doorstep / 13 January 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — alarms set to rouse probe as it dives for Saturn's giant moon
• Origin of energetic space particles pinpointed / 13 January 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — crashing galaxy clusters send out protons with the energy of golf balls
• Exoplanet may have been pictured at last / 13 January 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — astronomers are close to confirming alien identity of speck in Hubble photo
• Comet smasher nears launch / 7 January 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — deep impact mission set to make a big impression on Tempel 1
• "Questioning the evidence for Earth's earliest life--Akilia revisited" / January 2005 / Aivo Lepland, Mark A. van Zuilen, Gustaf Arrhenius, Martin J. Whitehouse, and Christopher M. Fedo / Geology, v.33, n.1, p.77-79
• "God's Rays" / January 2005 / Bryce DeWitt / Physics Today, v.58, n.1, p.32-34 — the physicist's quest for understanding is not the only way to raise the level of our existence and give our lives meaning
• The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything / June 2004 / Paul Halpern / Wiley — see also Amazon
• Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe / July 2003 / Charles Seife / Viking Books (Penguin) — see also Amazon
• The Message of Creation: Encountering the Lord of the Universe / September 2002 / David Wilkinson / InterVarsity Press — see also Amazon
• Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century / November 2001 / Jürgen Helm and Annette Winkelmann (editors) / Brill Academic (Leiden) — see also Amazon
  • review (pdf): 20 December 2004 / James T. Robinson / Aestimatio, v.1, p.91-106
• Cosmological Fads and Fallacies / January 2000 / Edward L. Wright / University of California, Los Angeles — errors in some popular attacks on the Big Bang
• What It Means to Be an Antidarwinian at the University of Vermont / 2000 / John A. Davison / Department of Biology, University of Vermont
• Is There a Purpose in Nature? (workshop papers) / September 1998 / Ivan M. Havel (editor) / Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague — how to navigate between the Scylla of mechanism and Charybdis of teleology
• The Message of Genesis 1-11: The Dawn of Creation / July 1990 / David J. Atkinson / InterVarsity Press — see also Amazon

JANUARY 14

• Our Dinosaur-Eating Predecessors / January 14, 2005 / New York Times — don't get too excited by the report that our mammalian precursors from the age of the dinosaurs may have been a lot tougher than once thought
• "New Fossils Show Dinosaurs Weren't the Only Raptors" requires registration / 14 January 2005 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.307, n.5707, p.192
• Dog-Sized Mammal Dined on Dinosaurs / January 13, 2005 / Morning Edition, National Public Radio
• The Origin of Life: A Battle between Faith and Science / January 13, 2005 / Gerry Holmes & The Nightline Staff / ABC News — creationism versus evolution goes to the heart of a passionate debate growing in this country: how we all became humans, how the world came into being and what we should teach our children about it
  • Nightline’s Frightline / January 13, 2005 / Bruce Chapman / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute) — beware evolution treatment from ABC News
• Judge: Evolution stickers unconstitutional / January 13, 2005 / CNN — a federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia, has ruled that a suburban county school district's textbook stickers referring to evolution as "a theory not a fact" are unconstitutional
  • Evolution Stickers Struck Down, but Critical Analysis Stands Up / January 13, 2005 / Robert Crowther / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
  • Civil Action No 1 02-CV-2325-CC (pdf) / January 13, 2005 / Cobb County / U.S. District Court, Atlanta
  • Judge to Rule on Georgia Evolution Disclaimers / November 12, 2004 / Paul Simao / ABC News (Reuters)
• Schools test the law with designs on Darwin theories / January 12, 2005 / Victoria Griffith / Financial Times (London)
• Five biblical principles when facing a devastating crisis / January 5, 2005 / Rick Warren / Ministry Toolbox, n.188
• Going All the Way / December 24, 2004 / Andrew Klavan / Wall Street Journal — An atheist "converts" to intelligent design. Why so timid, Mr. Flew?

JANUARY 13

• "Large Mesozoic mammals fed on young dinosaurs" requires registration / 13 January 2005 / Yaoming Hu, Jin Meng, Yuanqing Wang, and Chuankui Li / Nature, v.433, p.149-152
  • When Dinosaurs Ruled, a Mammal Ate (a Little) One / January 13, 2005 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
  • Prehistoric badger had dinosaurs for breakfast / 12 January 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — fossil of a surprisingly large, carnivorous mammal is discovered in China
  • Fossil Is Proof of Mammal Eating Dinosaur / January 12, 2005 / Joseph B. Verrengia / My Way News
• Under the Moon / January 13, 2005 / David Grinspoon / New York Times — Saturn's giant moon, Titan, is a prime target for the study of life beyond Earth
  • Craft Closes In on a Saturn Moon, and on Clues to Life's Beginnings / January 11, 2005 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Quake's Echo Raised Surface Around Globe / January 13, 2005 / William J. Broad / New York Times
• Quasar with enormous redshift found embedded in nearby spiral galaxy with far lower redshift / 12 January 2005 / John G. Hartnett / Answers in Genesis — unsolvable riddle for big bang astronomy ... this changes the whole view of the universe -- big bang astronomy will never be the same
• Big bang sound waves explain galaxy clustering / 12 January 2005 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist
• Echoes of Big Bang found in galaxies / 12 January 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — spread of stars in the sky traced to primordial ripples
• Light shed on black-hole masses / 11 January 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — orbiting matter suggests monster is 300,000 times heavier than the Sun
• Red meat is strongly linked to cancer / 11 January 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — diet experts urge move to poultry, fish and beans after results of long-term study
• Do they know something we don't? / January 11, 2005 / Christine Kenneally / Boston Globe — animals' senses may have helped them survive
• Top 10 science stories: Mars water evidence leads list / December 28, 2004 / Paul Recer / Boston Globe (Associated Press)
• Catastrophic Flooding from Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period / December 15, 2004 / Shelley Dawicki / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Search for other Earths / December 2004 / Tim Appenzeller / National Geographic — scientists are discovering planet after planet circling distant stars as the search narrows for a world like our own

JANUARY 10

• The new Monkey Trial / January 10, 2005 / Michelle Goldberg / Salon.com — by persuading the Dover (Pennsylvania) school board to teach creationism, Christian zealots have provoked a showdown over the status of not just evolutionary theory, but science itself
• Where Was God? / January 10, 2005 / William Safire / New York Times
• Darwin-Only Lobby Still Relying on Religion to Push Theory / January 9, 2005 / Seth Cooper / Evolution News & Views (Center for Science and Culture)
• 'Why did you do this to us, God?' / January 7, 2005 / Greg Laurie / WorldNetDaily
• ACLU backs off challenge to intelligent design / January 7, 2005 / WorldNetDaily — school district will inform students of alternative theories
• New paradigm needed: More intelligent 'intelligent design' / January 7, 2005 / Richard D. Colling / York Dispatch (Pennsylvania)
• 'Jumping Gene' Helps Explain Immune System's Abilities / January 7, 2005 / Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions / ScienceDaily — the process behind the human immune system's remarkable ability to recognize and respond to a million different proteins might have originated from a family of genes whose only apparent function is to jump around in genetic material
• "INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI: In Wake of Disaster, Scientists Seek Out Clues to Prevention" requires registration / 7 January 2005 / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / Science, v.307, n.5706, p.22-23
• "Oldest Civilization in the Americas Revealed" requires registration / 7 January 2005 / Charles C. Mann / Science, v.307, n.5706, p.34-35
• "Evolution driven by differential dispersal within a wild bird population" requires registration / 6 January 2005 / Dany Garanti, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, Teddy A. Wilkin, Robin H. McCleery, and Ben C. Sheldon / Nature, v.433, p.60-65
• Non-human cloning / January 6, 2005 / Robert Novak / townhall.com
• Microbes brave briny basins / 6 January 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) —
  life proves it can thrive in the severest conditions
• UN surveys ecological ravages of tsunami / 6 January 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — environmental destruction threatens both wildlife and livelihoods
• Tsunami and Repentance / January 5, 2005 / John Piper / Desiring God
• National Geographic Cheerleads for Darwin, but Drops the Baton / January 5, 2005 / Denyse O'Leary / Christianity.ca — National Geographic has provided beautiful photos and slick public relations copy that makes little effort to address the issues
• Science's scourge of believers declares his faith in Darwin / 5 January 2005 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
• Huge eagles 'dominated NZ skies' / 4 January 2005 / Alex Kirby / BBC News — one of the largest birds of prey ever recorded, an extinct giant eagle, was once New Zealand's chief predator, DNA evidence from fossil bones indicates
• Aerial shots reveal extent of devastation / 4 January 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — the sheer force of the Indian Ocean tsunami is shown in these satellite photos
• Tsunami alert plans accelerate / 4 January 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — UN urges action and education while disaster is fresh in people's minds
• Countless Souls Cry Out to God / January 3, 2005 / Kenneth L. Woodward / MSNBC — after a cataclysm of biblical proportions, people of all faiths ask, Why us? Why here? Why now?
• Meanings of Christmas: In the new world there will be no more sea / 1 January 2005 / Tom Wright / Independent (UK) — Does God have a responsibility to stop earthquakes and tidal waves? The story of Jesus raises much subtler questions.
• "Rapid Petrification of Wood: An Unexpected Confirmation of Creationist Research" / January 2005 / Andrew A. Snelling / Impact, n.379 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Big Bang -- The Bucks Stop There" / January 2005 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.193 (Institute for Creation Research)
• A Holiday Truce: A Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out / January 2005 / Casey Luskin / Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Center — as the debate over intelligent design and Darwinian evolution has become increasingly publicized, some have unfortunately resorted to rhetoric which stirs hateful passions rather than seeking to cooperatively solve problems by focusing on evidence
• What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? / 2005 / 120 contributors & 60,000 words, e.g., Daniel C. Dennett, Lawrence Krauss, Philip W. Anderson, Paul Davies, Freeman Dyson, Lynn Margulis, Stuart A. Kauffman, John Barrow, Richard Dawkins, John Horgan, Lee Smolin, Michael Shermer, Leon Lederman, J. Craig Venter, Martin Rees, Benoit Mandelbrot, etc. / Edge, The World Question Center — great minds can sometimes guess the truth before they have either the evidence or arguments for it
  • I Believe, But Can’t Prove… / January 4, 2005 / Evangelical Outpost — "third culture scientists" answer the Edge annual question
  • God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap / January 4, 2005 / New York Times
• Slamming Intelligent Design / December 31, 2004 / David Limbaugh
• Devastating quake redraws map / 29 December 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — seismic 'megathrust' leaves islands displaced
• Astronomers prove string theory? / December 16, 2004 / Luboš Motl's reference frame
  • The first evidence for string theory? / 18 December 2004 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist, n.2478 — a double view of galaxies and a quirky quasar leads astronomers to think they have spotted a thread of pure energy streaking through our galaxy
  • Physics Blog / October 30, 2003 / Boston Globe — Nima Arkani-Hamed from Harvard Physics talks about tiny dimensions and quantum gravity
  • The Last Word on Nature's Greatest Puzzles / August 2-13, 2004 / Nima Arkani-Hamed / XXXII SLAC Summer Institute
• The Flat Earth and its Advocates: A List of References / June 22, 2004 / Library of Congress
• "Limits to natural selection" / 10 November 2000 / Nick Barton and Linda Partridge / BioEssays, v.22, n.12, p.1075-1084 (John Wiley & Sons)
• "Behold the Behemoth": The Quest that Solved the Mystery of the Dinosaurs of Job / January 1999 / Jerry Paul MacDonald / PaleoGenesis Press — see also Amazon
• Second Law of Thermodynamics -- Does this basic law of nature prevent Evolution? / 1999 / Paul S. Taylor / ChristianAnswers.Net
• The Natural Limits of Evolution / 1997 / Babu G. Ranganathan

JANUARY 5

• Don't blame God for Asian casualties / January 3, 2005 / Rabbi Daniel Lapin / WorldNetDaily
• The Future of Calamity / January 2, 2005 / Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times
• 'Catastrophe': Apocalypse When? / January 2, 2005 / Peter Singer / New York Times
• Even Einstein Had His Off Days / January 2, 2005 / Simon Singh / New York Times
• Archbishop of Canterbury admits: This makes me doubt the existence of God / 2 January 2005 / Chris Hastings, Patrick Hennessy, and Sean Rayment / Telegraph (UK)
• The Great Flood and Asia's tsunami / January 1, 2005 / Kelly Hollowell / WorldNetDaily
• GAUGING DISASTER: How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly / December 31, 2004 / Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times
• Tremors of Doubt / December 31, 2004 / David B. Hart / Wall Street Journal — What kind of God would allow a deadly tsunami?
• Did animals have quake warning? / 31 December 2004 / Sue Nelson / BBC — wildlife officials in Sri Lanka have reported that, despite the loss of human life in the Asian disaster, there have been no recorded animal deaths
• Waves of sadness / December 30, 2004 / Carl Wieland / Answers in Genesis — the temblor-triggered tsunami terror raises the same age-old questions
• The Science behind the Aceh Earthquake / December 30, 2004 / media contact: Mark Wheeler / California Institute of Technology
• Sumatran quake sped up Earth's rotation / 30 December 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — natural disaster shaved millionths of a second off planet's day
• Flew the Coop of Fools (poem) / December 30, 2004 / Tom Graffagnino / Without Excuse Creations — eminent, world-renown atheist, Dr. Antony Flew recently announced that he had joined the camp of Deist believers
• After Combing the Scientific Literature, Researchers Conclude Head Hair and Fur Aren't the Same / December 30, 2004 / Washington University, School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO) / ScienceDaily
• Sounding the Alarm on a Tsunami Is Complex and Expensive / December 29, 2004 / John Schwartz / New York Times
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / December 2004 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• John Angus Campbell / 13 April 2004 / P. Z. Myers / Pharyngula
• Darwin headed for extinction / January 29, 2004 / Wesley Jackson / Sidelines Online (Middle Tennessee State University)
• Sorry, but your soul just died / Tom Wolfe / Athenaeum Reading Room
• Darwinism Refuted / Harun Yahya

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