Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (May 2005)

DISCLAIMER:  The following links do not necessarily represent endorsement by the Geoscience Research Institute, but are meant to provide information from a wide range of viewpoints and expertise on scientific issues, religious issues, and the interface between the two, particularly in the area of creation and evolution.

MAY 31

• A Higher Education / June 2005 / Michael S. Hamilton / Christianity Today — a slew of new books on faith and learning may signal a renaissance for the Christian college
  • ID and the Charge of Fundamentalism / May 29, 2005 / William A. Dembski / Uncommon Descent
• Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain / May 31, 2005 / Benedict Carey / New York Times — scientific study of romantic love
• New observations triple Andromeda's size / 31 May 2005 / David L Chandler / New Scientist
• Finding Support in the Search for E.T. / May 30, 2005 / Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post, p.A01 — with stronger telescope and renewed vigor, scientists scan the sky
• Did climate shift kill giant Australian animals? / 30 May 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — bones suggest that early humans did not ruthlessly wipe out huge beasts
• Master Planned / May 30, 2005 / H. Allen Orr / New Yorker — why intelligent design isn’t
  • Orr Misrepresents Science / May 2005 / Krauze / Telic Thoughts
• Smithsonian to Screen a Movie That Makes a Case Against Evolution / May 28, 2005 / John Schwartz / New York Times
  • The Smithsonian Part of the Wedge? / May 2005 / Krauze / Telic Thoughts
• Planetary billiards answer Solar System riddle / 25 May 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — scattering rocks moved planets and battered the Moon
• Meteor theory gets rocky ride from dinosaur expert / 24 May 2005 / Rex Dalton / Nature (news@nature) — US palaeontologist amasses data against Mexican crater hypothesis
• Americas had seventy 'founding fathers' / 24 May 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — gene study counts the first humans to reach the New World
• ID 101 / May 2005 / Mike Gene / Telic Thoughts
• Cornell Evolution Project / Greg Graffin and William Provine / Cornell University
• Global Warming? What a load of poppycock! / July 9, 2004 / David Bellamy / Daily Mail (UK)

MAY 27

• Kabinet staat achter debat over intelligent design [Cabinet supports debate over intelligent design] / 27 May 2005 / Reformatorisch Dagblad — the Dutch cabinet and Prime Minister today backed up the Education minister in her call for a discussion of ID
• "The Link Between Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts" / 27 May 2005 / Brian Schmidt / Science, v.308, n.5726, p.1265-1266
• "Direct Radiometric Dating of Hydrocarbon Deposits Using Rhenium-Osmium Isotopes" / 27 May 2005 / David Selby and Robert A. Creaser / Science, v.308, n.5726, p.1293-1295
• "A universal trend of amino acid gain and loss in protein evolution" / 26 May 2005 / I. King Jordan, Fyodor A. Kondrashov, Ivan A. Adzhubei, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin, Alexey S. Kondrashov, and Shamil Sunyaev / Nature, v.435, p.528
• LETTERS: Theory of evolution / May 26, 2005 / David Herring, Alan M. Stanier / Times (UK)
• Design, not evolution / May 25, 2005 / Chris Durr / Falcon, v.76, n.26 (Seattle Pacific University) — William Dembski lecture: irreducible complexity problematizes Darwin
• War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race / September 2004 / Edwin Black / Four Walls Eight Windows — see also Amazon
• Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement / March 2004 / Christine Rosen / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Maintaining Creationist Integrity / 16 December 2002 / Carl Wieland, Ken Ham, and Jonathan Sarfati / Answers in Genesis — a response to Kent Hovind

MAY 25

• "Evidence for a Young World" / June 2005 / D. Russell Humphreys / Impact, n.384 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Did Jesus Teach Recent Creation?" / June 2005 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.198 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Darwin and the Church in England: Are We Next?" (pdf) / June 2005 / Acts & Facts, v.34, n.6, p.1
  • "The Devastating Issue of Dinosaur Tissue" / Frank Sherwin / p.5
• Inconstant Constants / June 2005 / John D. Barrow and John K. Webb / Scientific American — Do the inner workings of nature change with time?
• European, Not Christian / May 30, 2005 / Jay Tolson / U. S. News & World Report — an aggressive secularism sweeps the Continent
• LETTERS: Evolving theory of intelligent design / May 25, 2005 / Milton Wainwright, Andy McIntosh / Times (UK)
• Ga. County Removing Evolution Stickers / May 24, 2005 / Washington Post (Associated Press)
• Female spiders try eating mate even before sex / 21 May 2005 / New Scientist, n.2500, p.20
• Earliest lichen fossils found in China / 21 May 2005 / New Scientist, n.2500, p.20
• The golden age of dinosaurs / 21 May 2005 / New Scientist, n.2500, p.34
  • Welcome to Dinotopia / Jeff Hecht
  • Extreme paleontology / Bob Holmes
  • The Reanimators / Anna Gosline
• New evidence for the earliest hominid / April 15, 2005 / Laura Stafford / Geotimes
• Shakespeare or the Monkey? / April 2005 / Fred Schwab / Geotimes — scientists need to join in the battle to defend the teaching of evolution in the classroom
• G. Brent Dalrymple: Deep time in a tarpaper shack / April 2005 / Naomi Lubick / Geotimes
• Vesuvius’ next eruption / April 2005 / Megan Sever / Geotimes
• New dates defy fixed hotspots / April 2005 / Sara Pratt / Geotimes
• Mass extinction, massive problem / April 2005 / David B. Williams / Geotimes

MAY 23

• First Ever Fossil of Sleeping Dinosaur Found in China / May 23, 2005 / American Museum of Natural History / Science Daily
• Creation Museum Sparks Evolution Debate / May 22, 2005 / Associated Press
• Darwin's theory evolves into culture war / May 22, 2005 / Lisa Anderson / Chicago Tribune — Kansas curriculum is focal point of wider struggle across nation
• A Surprising Leap on Cloning / May 22, 2005 / editorial / New York Times — South Korean scientists stunned their rivals around the world last week by announcing that they had produced the first human embryos that were genetic matches for diseased or injured patients, and had done so by a highly efficient method that could bring further rapid advances in cloning
• Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant / May 21, 2005 / Richard Dawkins / Times (UK)
• Korean team lauded for stem-cell advance / 19 May 2005 / Erika Check / Nature (news@nature) — patient-specific cell lines hold hope for future therapies
• And the earthquake forecast today is... / 18 May 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — Californians treated to maps showing the likelihood of a tremor in their neighbourhood
• Curtain Call / 2002 / John S. Rigden / Science & Spirit — Last century, physics was the superstar of the sciences: We swooned over the theories of relativity and cheered the discovery of quantum mechanics. But a field of study is only as good as its last production. Has physics taken its final bow or has it merely completed its first act.
• "We Believe in Creation" / 1971 / Richard H. Bube / Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, v.23, p.121-122

MAY 20

• "Learning from Natural Disasters" / 20 May 2005 / Brooks Hanson / Science, v.308, n.5725, p.1125
• Koreans Report Ease in Cloning for Stem Cells / May 20, 2005 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
• Koreans Say They Cloned Embryos for Stem Cells / May 20, 2005 / Rick Weiss / Washington Post, p.A01
• Same Fold in Viral Shells Point to Common Ancestry / May 19, 2005 / Purdue University / Science Daily
• CORRESPONDENCE: "When science meets religion in the classroom" / 19 May 2005 / Jerry Coyne / Nature, v.435, p.275
• CORRESPONDENCE: "Teaching about ID helps students see its flaws" / 19 May 2005 / David Leaf / Nature, v.435, p.275
• CORRESPONDENCE: "Evolution is a short-order cook, not a watchmaker" / 19 May 2005 / Chris Miller / Nature, v.435, p.275
• CORRESPONDENCE: "Seeking evidence of God's work undermines faith" / 19 May 2005 / Douglas W. Yu / Nature, v.435, p.275-276
• CORRESPONDENCE: "Leave well alone and stick to teaching what you know" / 19 May 2005 / Rustum Roy / Nature, v.435, p.276
• CORRESPONDENCE: "Intelligent design or intellectual laziness?" / 19 May 2005 / Michael Lynch / Nature, v.435, p.276
• CORRESPONDENCE: "Solidarity with the oppressed flat-Earthers" / 19 May 2005 / Dan Graur / Nature, v.435, p.276
• "Real-time forecasts of tomorrow's earthquakes in California" / 19 May 2005 / Matthew C. Gerstenberger, Stefan Wiemer, Lucile M. Jones, and Paul A. Reasenberg / Nature, v.435, p.328-331
  • Real-time Forecast of Earthquake Hazard in the Next 24 Hours / today / U.S. Geological Survey
• To Stop Evolution: New Way of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated by Scripps Scientists / May 18, 2005 / Scripps Research Institute / Science Daily
• "Ossuaries and the Burials of Jesus and James" (pdf) / 2005 / Jodi Magness / Journal of Biblical Literature, v.124, n.1, p.121-154

MAY 18

• An evolving debate / May 21, 2005 / Timothy Lamer / World Magazine — The controversy over evolution includes a growing number of scientists who challenge Darwinism. Should schoolchildren learn that fact? Darwinists say no, but Kansas officials may say otherwise.
• Arachnid's clue to dino wipeout / 18 May 2005 / BBC News — a spider relative called a harvestman trapped in amber could shed light on how arachnids were affected by the extinction that wiped out dinosaurs
• Stegosaur Plates and Spikes for Looks Only, Researchers Say / May 17, 2005 / University of California, Berkeley / Science Daily
• Looking forward to the Creation Mega Conference! / May 17, 2005 / David A. DeWitt / Answers in Genesis
• Now There Are Many: Robots That Reproduce / May 17, 2005 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy? / May 17, 2005 / Lawrence M. Krauss / New York Times
• The Evolution of Creationism / May 17, 2005 / New York Times
• Kansas debate focuses on defining science / May 16, 2005 / John Hanna / MSNBC (Associated Press) — Would supernatural causes be added to the equation?
• Creating a Controversy / May 16, 2005 / Chris Mooney / American Prospect — today's anti-evolutionists don't want to abolish science -- they just want to render it irrelevant; see also CBS News
• Darwin's evolution theory loses out in mock trial / May 16, 2005 / Hindustan Times
• Evolutionary Biologist Mark Pagel: Behaviorist Seeks What Divides Us / May 2005 / Kathy A. Svitil / Discover, v.26, n.5 — human cultural groups have behaved as if they were different species
• A Twisted Anniversary / May 2005 / Bob Berman / Discover, v.26, n.5 — scientists celebrate a strange universe in which space can bend and time can stop
• "Cooling of the lower oceanic crust" / May 2005 / John Maclennan, Tom Hulme, and Satish C. Singh / Geology, v.33, n.5, p.357-366
• Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature / April 2005 / David P. Barash and Nanelle R. Barash / Delacorte Press (Random House) — see also Amazon
  • review: "Madame Bovary's Ovaries": Book links biology, literature / May 2, 2005 / Bill Dietrich / Seattle Times
• "A 40,000 year unchanging seismic regime in the Dead Sea rift" / April 2005 / Z. B. Begin, D. M. Steinberg, G. A. Ichinose, and S. Marco / Geology, v.33, n.4, p.257-260
• Science Standards 2004-2005 Draft: Reviews from the Scientific Community / Kansas State Department of Education

MAY 16

• Post-Darwinist / May 16, 2005 / Denyse O'Leary / blog — media watchdog utterly shocked that journalist wonders about Darwinism
• Global warming generates hot air / 16 May 2005 / Telegraph (UK)
• The Name of the Rat / May 16, 2005 / New York Times — it is a touchy use of the word "discovered" when a rodent that Laotians routinely eat is purchased at a market and then declared to be a new species
• The Terms of Debate in Kansas / May 15, 2005 / Jodi Wilgoren / New York Times — hearings on how Kansas schoolchildren should be taught about the origins of life quickly morphed from science lesson to vocabulary quiz
• Doubting Rationalist / May 15, 2005 / Michael Powell / Washington Post, p.D01 — 'Intelligent Design' proponent Phillip Johnson, and how he came to be
• Kansas Outlaws Dinosaur-Themed Toys, Cartoons / May 13, 2005 / David Albrecht — satire
• CNN's Lou Dobbs offered his own "facts" on evolution / May 13, 2005 / MediaMatters
• Novel Perspectives on Bioethics / May 13, 2005 / Martha Montello / The Chronicle Review, v.51, n.36, p.B6
• The Devil's Chaplain: Richard Dawkins on Christianity / May. 10, 2005 / R. Albert Mohler, Jr. / The Christian Post
• View from the lab: mutations / 4 May 2005 / Steve Jones / Telegraph (UK) — without mutations, we would still be in the primeval slime ... along with the chemists

MAY 13

• Michael Behe Promotes Intelligent Design / May 13, 2005 / Tristan Abbey / Stanford Review, v.34, n.8
• New Chapters in the Dinosaur Chronicles / May 13, 2005 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times — the American Museum of Natural History has a provocative exhibition of current research about these wondrous creatures
• "Past and Future Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault" / 13 May 2005 / Ray J. Weldon, Thomas E. Fumal, Glenn P. Biasi, and Katherine M. Scharer / Science, v.308, n.5724, p.966-967
• "On the Origin of Leprosy" / 13 May 2005 / Marc Monot, et al. / Science, v.308, n.5724, p.1040-1042
• "Rethinking Earth's Early Atmosphere" / 13 May 2005 / Christopher F. Chyba / Science, v.308, n.5724, p.962-963
• "Lichen-Like Symbiosis 600 Million Years Ago" / 13 May 2005 / Xunlai Yuan, Shuhai Xiao, and T. N. Taylor / Science, v.308, n.5724, p.1017-1020
• "25 Years of Ecological Change at Mount St. Helens" / 13 May 2005 / V. H. Dale, C. M. Crisafulli, and F. J. Swanson / Science, v.308, n.5724, p.961-962
• Evolution hearings end bitterly / May 13, 2005 / David Klepper / Kansas City Star — Kansas science standards go to vote this summer
• Evolution hearings end with harsh words / May 12, 2005 / David Klepper / Kansas City Star
• Creationists' new design / May 12, 2005 / Ellen Goodman / Boston Globe — something is happening when the opponents of evolution recast themselves as defenders of academic freedom and guardians of open debate
• What Intelligent Design Is -- and Isn’t / May 12, 2005 / Jay W. Richards / beliefnet.com — the more scientifically sophisticated we get, the stronger the argument for intelligent design
• Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom / April 2005 / Sean B. Carroll / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
• Emerging Scholars Network / launched: March 2004 — to identify, encourage, and support the next generation of Christian scholars

MAY 12

• US creationists stand up to be counted / 14 May 2005 / New Scientist, n.2499, p.4
• Hadean times -- were they really hell on Earth? / 14 May 2005 / Eugenie Samuel Reich / New Scientist, n.2499 — early Earth was supposed to be a seething inferno of molten magma, so how come a bunch of crystals are telling a different story
• An Open Letter to the Kansas State Board of Education / May 12, 2005 / Philip S. Skell / Discovery Institute News — Professor Skell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry (Emeritus), Penn State University.
• "Advanced optics in a jellyfish eye" / 12 May 2005 / Dan-E. Nilsson, Lars Gislιn, Melissa M. Coates, Charlotta Skogh, and Anders Garm / Nature, v.435, p.201-205
  • Missing link? / Editor's Summary
  • Box jellyfish show a keen eye / 11 May 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — marine predator's optical system delivers stunningly blurred visuals
  • Multi-eyed jellyfish helps with Darwin's puzzle / 14 May 2005 / New Scientist, n.2499, p.18
• Researchers find up to 70 percent chance of a big quake in southern California in next 30 years / 12 May 2005 / contact: Melanie Robbins (University of Nevada, Reno) / EurekAlert!
• 'Oddball Rodent' Is Called New to Science / May 12, 2005 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times — the Wildlife Conservation Society announced that scientists had discovered an entire new family of rodent in Laos
• Scientists Discover New Rodent Family in Asian Market / May 12, 2005 / Sarah Graham / Scientific American News
• New species of rodent found in Laos / May 12, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press) — a squirrel? a rat? a guinea pig? a chinchilla?
• Strange new rodent discovered as Asian snack / 12 May 2005 / John Pickrell / New Scientist
• It's Science, Not a Freak Show / May 11, 2005 / New York Times — The latest focus of apprehension over the headlong rush of biotechnology involves the creation of animal-human hybrids, known as chimeras.
• Fair Play: The Intelligent Design Controversy Returns to Kansas / May 10, 2005 / Charles Colson / BreakPoint
• Jurassic tree thought extinct for 2m years to be planted at Kew / May 10, 2005 / Tim Radford / The Guardian (UK)
• Recent study forces scientists to rethink basic law of physics / May 9, 2005 / Keay Davidson / San Francisco Chronicle — 'fine structure constant' is indeed a constant -- right?
• "Catastrophic emplacement of the Heart Mountain block slide, Wyoming and Montana, USA" / May 2005 / Edward C. Beutner and Gregory P. Gerbi / Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.117, n.5, p.724-735
• Doubts on Dinosaurs / May 2005 / Barry E. DiGregorio / Scientific American — Yucatαn impact crater may have occurred before the dinosaurs went extinct
• Quantum Black Holes / May 2005 / Bernard J. Carr and Steven B. Giddings / Scientific American — physicists could soon be creating black holes in the laboratory
• The theory of everything: Are we nearly there yet? / 30 April 2005 / Stephen Battersby / New Scientist, n.2497
• Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design / July 2003 / Thomas Woodward / Baker Books — see also Access Research Network and Amazon
  • review: "The rhetoric of design" / December 2004 / Eric Blievernicht / TJ [Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal], v.18, n.3, p.46-47
• Natural Theology / 1803 [first publication] / William Paley / Coachwhip Publications (Landisville, PA) — see also Amazon

MAY 10

• Dembski-Ruse Debate on Nightline (25MB) / May 9, 2005 / Telic Thoughts
  • Uncommon Descent / Bill Dembski / ABC Nightline
• Newborn baby found in dog's litter / 9 May 2005 / CBC News (Canada)
• Search for planets could soon seek one like Earth / May 8, 2005 / Deborah Zabarenko / Reuters
• Evolution Vs. God in the Classroom / May 9, 2005 / John Gibson, with Stephen Meyer and Eugenie Scott / Fox News
• Five Years Old, Yet Still Packing a Punch / May 6, 2005 / Tristan Abbey / Stanford Book Review — review of
  • Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? / October 2000 / Jonathan Wells / Regnery Publishing — see also Amazon
• Fossil Legends of the First Americans / May 2005 / Adrienne Mayor / Princeton — see also personal website and Amazon
• AAPT Statement on the Teaching of Evolution and Cosmology / April 24, 2005 / American Association of Physics Teachers

MAY 9

• Kansas, evolution and Judaism / May 9, 2005 / Matt Donnelly / Science & Theology News
• Scientist puts faith in evolution debate / May 8, 2005 / Nina J. Easton / Boston Globe — professor in Kansas resists 'design' idea
• Reframed arguments rekindle Darwin debate / May 8, 2005 / Clarence Page / Chicago Tribune
• Study strengths, weaknesses of evolution / May 8, 2005 / Jonathan Witt / Kansas City Star
• Scientists snub Kansas evolution hearings / May 8, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press) — education hearings rigged, say science organizations; scientists have refused to participate in state Board of Education hearings this past week on how the theory of evolution should be treated in public schools, but they haven't exactly been silent
• Florida's science textbook purchases could have a national impact / May 8, 2005 / Chris Kahn / Kansas City Star — science teachers and education officials say they don't expect creationism to find a haven in Florida's public classrooms
• Fundamental questions: America debates the place of Darwin and God in schools / 7 May 2005 / Andrew Gumbel / Independent (UK) — knowledge goes on trial this week at a series of special hearings by a Mid-West education board to determine how science is taught in its schools
• Dinosaur Bones Yield 'Missing Link' / May 5, 2005 / Robert Lee Hotz / Los Angeles Times
• The dinosaur that gave up meat / May 5, 2005 / Tim Radford / The Guardian (UK)
• Dinosaur embraced vegetarianism / 4 May 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — Utah discovery reveals how a predator switched to eat greens
• We’ve invaded their “temple”! / May 2005 / Ken Ham / Answers in Genesis — humanists are on notice: we’re taking dinosaurs back!
• The Death of Darwinism / George Sim Johnston / Lay Witness (published by Catholics United for the Faith) — in the debate on origins the Church takes a reasonable middle ground between the poles of scientific and protestant fundamentalism

MAY 6

• "Pleistocene Park: Return of the Mammoth's Ecosystem" / 6 May 2005 / Sergey A. Zimov / Science, v.308, n.5723, p.796-798
• Time Travelers to Meet in Not Too Distant Future / May 6, 2005 / Pam Belluck / New York Times
• In Kansas, Darwinism Goes on Trial Once More / May 6, 2005 / Jodi Wilgoren / New York Times
• Teachers, Scientists Vow to Fight Challenge to Evolution / May 5, 2005 / Peter Slevin / Washington Post, p.A03 — creationists seek curriculum change; Kansas education hearings open today
• Darwin on trial: Evolution hearings open in Kansas / May 5, 2005 / Carey Gillam / Yahoo! News (Reuters)
• The evolution of a fight to the end / May 5, 2005 / Alex Johnson / MSNBC — in Kansas, God and science are going toe to toe again
• Debating Darwinism / May 5, 2005 / Washington Times — starting today, the Kansas Board of Education will begin a six-day debate on the state's science standards
• Parent Sues Evolutionist, Claiming She Defames Him in Anti-Creationist Article / May 4, 2005 / Jim Brown / Agape Press
• Pygmy found near home of hobbits / 30 April 2005 / Herald Sun (Australia) — Indonesian scientists have found a community of pygmy people in the eastern island of Flores
• Hybridism / 1911 / Encyclopedia Britannica, v.V14, p.29 — crosses have been made between the common rabbit (Lepus cuniculus) and the guinea-pig (Cavia cobaya)

MAY 5

• A Textbook Case of Junk Science / May 9, 2005 / Pamela R. Winnick / Weekly Standard, v.10, n.32
• It’s getting “hobbit”-forming -- the ongoing attempts to deny humanity’s special creation / May 5, 2005 / Jay Seegert, with Carl Wieland / Answers in Genesis
• First matter came from 'perfect' soup / May 5, 2005 / Robert C. Cowen / Christian Science Monitor
• "An extant cichlid fish radiation emerged in an extinct Pleistocene lake" / 5 May 2005 / Domino A. Joyce, et al. / Nature, v.435, p.90-95
• "A primitive therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah" / 5 May 2005 / James I. Kirkland, et al. / Nature, v.435, p.84-87
• Meat-eating dinosaur caught turning veggie / 4 May 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• Major Advance Made on DNA Structure / May 4, 2005 / Oregon State University / Science Daily
• Fossils illuminate fish evolution / 3 May 2005 / BBC News — fossils of an ancient fish, when the creatures had neither bones nor teeth, have been found in South Africa
• Intelligent Design at Baylor University: Chronicle of a Controversy / May 2005 / William A. Dembski
• The Anthropic Principle and the Duration of the Cosmological Past / 30 April 2005 / Milan M. Cirkovic / arXiv
• Engaged and Engaging Science: A Component of a Good Liberal Education / Winter 2005 / Judith A. Ramaley / Peer Review (Assc. Amer. Col. & Univ.)
• History of Life, 4th ed / September 2004 / Richard Cowen / Blackwell — see also Amazon
• The Bible's Evolving Interpretations Concerning Cosmology and Creation / Edward T. Babinski

MAY 3

• Now evolving in biology classes: a testier climate / May 3, 2005 / G. Jeffrey MacDonald / Christian Science Monitor — some science teachers say they're encountering fresh resistance to the topic of evolution -- and it's coming from their students
• Natural Selection Shrinks Herd of Kansas Darwinists / May 3, 2005 / Scott Ott / Scrapple Face
• Evolution on trial as Kansas debates Adam vs Darwin / May 2, 2005 / Carey Gillam / Reuters
• Ethics Rules for Stem Cells / May 2, 2005 / New York Times
• The 21st century atheist / May 2, 2005 / Dylan Evans / The Guardian (UK) — not believing in God is no excuse for being virulently anti-religious or naively pro-science
• Leading scientific journals 'are censoring debate on global warming' / 1 May 2005 / Robert Matthews / Telegraph (UK)
• Molecular Evidence of Human Origins, Part II / May 2005 / Bert Thompson and Brad Harrub / Apologetics Press: Reason & Revelation, v.25, n.5, p.33-39
• The Other 1905 Revolution / April 28, 2005 / Joshua Foer / The Nation — Einstein 1905: the standard of greatness
• Climate change alters genes on the fly / 28 April 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — fruit flies are among those responding to an ever-warmer world
• Little tremors are key to earthquake forecasts / 27 April 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — seismologists unravel California's 'late quake'
• The Emperor Has No Clothes: Naturalism and The Theory of Evolution / April 2005 / Sean D. Pitman
• Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life / University of California, Los Angeles
• The Panda's Thumb — discuss evolutionary theory, critique the claims of the antievolution movement, defend the integrity of both science and science education, and share good conversation
• Impeaching Mere Creationism / April 2000 / Philip Frymire / Writers Club Press — see also Amazon

MAY 1

• Evolutionary war / May 1, 2005 / Peter Dizikes / Boston Globe — in the ongoing struggle between evolution and creationism, says philosopher of science Michael Ruse, Darwinians may be their own worst enemy
• Kansas reopens debate on the teaching of origins / May 1, 2005 / John Hanna / Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY)
• Not by chance: Intelligent design theory argues for a designer of life / April 30, 2005 / Bill Tammeus and Alan Bavley / Kansas City Star
• Creating 'human-animals' for research / April 30, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press) — ethics report endorses mingling human cells with lesser beings
• "Extinct" Woodpecker Flies Back from the Beyond / April 29, 2005 / Kate Wong / Scientific American News — Long believed extinct, the spectacular ivory-billed woodpecker has been spotted in eastern Arkansas' Big Woods region. The last confirmed sighting of the bird occurred in 1944.
  • In the Swamp, an 'Extinct' Woodpecker Lives / April 29, 2005 / James Gorman / New York Times
  • Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Rediscovered in Arkansas / April 28, 2005 / National Public Radio
• ARN-Announce, n.47 / April 28, 2005 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Researchers drill historic hole in Atlantic Ocean floor / 28 April 2005 / contact: Keith Randall (Texas A&M University) / EurekAlert!
• The atheist / April 28, 2005 / Gordy Slack / salon.com — evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages
• Science is not just a matter of opinion / April 28, 2005 / Richard N. Zare / San Francisco Chronicle
• Helium Evidence for a Young World Remains Crystal Clear / April 27, 2005 / D. Russell Humphreys / True Origin Archive
• Hobbit-like Human / April 2005 / Mike Morwood, Thomas Sutikna, and Richard Roberts / National Geographic — humans aren't exempt from natural selection
• Couple for creation / March 2004 / Jonathan Sarfati / Creation, v.26, n.2, p.36-38 — a chat with biochemistry researchers John and Sally McEwan

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