Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (July 2005)

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JULY 29

• "Embryos of an Early Jurassic Prosauropod Dinosaur and Their Evolutionary Significance" / 29 July 2005 / Robert R. Reisz, Diane Scott, Hans-Dieter Sues, David C. Evans, and Michael A. Raath / Science, v.309, n.5735, p.761-764
  • "PALEONTOLOGY: Dinosaur Embryos Hint at Evolution of Giants" / 29 July 2005 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.309, n.5735, p.679
  • Embryos help trace dinosaur growth / July 28, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press) — the discovery of the oldest dinosaur embryos ever found is enabling scientists to piece together the lifetime growth of a type of long-necked giant
• "Discovery of Very High Energy Gamma Rays Associated with an X-ray Binary" / 29 July 2005 / F. Aharonian, et al. / Science, v.309, n.5735, p.746-749
  • "Very Energetic Gamma Rays from Microblazars" / 29 July 2005 / Wei Cui / Science, v.309, n.5735, p.714-715
• "Misconduct: lower ranks take most of the blame" / 28 July 2005 / Shawn G. Clouthier / Nature, v.436, p.460
• "Experimental investigation of geologically produced antineutrinos with KamLAND" / 28 July 2005 / T. Araki, et al. / Nature, v.436, p.499-503
  • "Earth sciences: Ghosts from within" / 28 July 2005 / William F. McDonough / Nature, v.436, p.467-468 — The first detection of geoneutrinos from beneath our feet is a landmark result. It will allow better estimation of the abundances and distributions of radioactive elements in the Earth, and of the Earth's overall heat budget.
  • Ghostly particles unearth core radioactivity / 27 July 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — antineutrinos created inside our planet reveal how it stays warm
  • First measurements of Earth's core radioactivity / 27 July 2005 / Celeste Biever / New Scientist, n.2510, p.9
• Methodological Naturalism? - Part 1 & Part 2 / 1997 / Alvin Plantinga / Origins & Design, v.18
• Michael Behe's Theistic Evolution / 1996 / Gregory Koukl / Stand to Reason (Signal Hill, CA) — designed "by change" -- why the term "theistic evolution" is an oxymoron

JULY 28

• Footprints to Fill / August 2005 / Kate Wong / Scientific American — flat feet and doubts about makers of the Laetoli tracks
• Glacier speed triples since the 80s / 30 July 2005 / New Scientist, n.2510, p.4
• Life was unlikely on frozen Mars / 30 July 2005 / New Scientist, n.2510, p.14
• New animal evolved in an instant / 30 July 2005 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist, n.2510
  • New animal species evolved in an instant / 27 July 2005 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist
• Gamma rays the likely cause of mass extinctions / 30 July 2005 / Mark Buchanan / New Scientist, n.2510
• The shape of universes to come / 30 July 2005 / Davide Castelvecchi / New Scientist, n.2510 — must we abandon the aims of physics, or accept that space is curled up like a Pringle
• Deception special / 30 July 2005 / New Scientist, n.2510
  • Our lying minds — How good a liar are you? How easily are you fooled? Deception plays a crucial role in our daily lives, but don't take our word for it.
  • The power of mediums / Clare Wilson — what gives mediums their seemingly uncanny ability to read our minds
  • Tricks of the magical trade / Karl Ziemelis — the techniques magicians use reveal just how easy it is to bamboozle the brain
• Catholic experts urge caution in evolution debate / July 29, 2005 / John L. Allen, Jr. / National Catholic Reporter — scientists, theologians take issue with Schφnborn's op-ed article
• Multi-Species Genome Comparison Sheds New Light on Evolutionary Processes, Cancer Mutations / July 27, 2005 / National Human Genome Research Institute / Science Daily
• The evolution of George Gilder / July 27, 2005 / Joseph P. Kahn / Boston Globe — the author and tech-sector guru has a new cause to create controversy with: intelligent design
• Darwin defender retracts accusations / July 26, 2005 / World Net Daily — Eugenie Scott responds to lawsuit by parent-activist

JULY 26

• Virtual Trip to the Heart of 400 Million Years Old Microfossils / July 25, 2005 / European Synchrotron Radiation Facility / Science Daily
• Lucy: walking tall -- or wandering in circles? / 22 July 2005 / Carl Wieland / Answers in Genesis
• Creation Mega Conference / July 17-22, 2005 / Ken Ham, Werner Gitt, John Whitcomb, Jonathan Sarfati, et al. / Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
  • MEGA Conference Review / July 24-21, 2005 / Liberty University (Virginia) — an attempt to recap some moments from the 2005 Creation MEGA Conference
  • "God Said It, That Settles It" / July 21, 2005 / Ronald Bailey / Reason Online — deity's evidence muddled, contradictory as Creation Mega-Conference wraps
  • Creationists Explain Dinosaurs, Ice Age, Flood, Big Bang / July 21, 2005 / Rhoda Tse / Christian Post — 2,000 creationists gathered for the nation's premier Creationism conference
• Supernaturalist Minds / Stephen Palmer — home of the greatest minds in the world

JULY 25

• British Have Changed Little Since Ice Age, Gene Study Says / July 19, 2005 / James Owen / National Geographic News
• Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity / April 2005 / John Gribbin / Random House — see also Amazon
• Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gφdel / February 2005 / Rebecca Goldstein / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
• The Volcano Adventure Guide / January 2005 / Rosaly Lopes / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Secret Worlds: The Universe Within / Florida State University — interactive Java tutorial - in successive orders of magnitude move from the Milky Way to the Earth, to a tall oak tree, to the actual size of a leaf, to a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA, and finally electrons and protons
• Science / Wikiquote — quotes on: (1) What is science? (2) Science and religion (3) Scientists (4) Science and culture (5) Mistakes in science
• When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth / December 2004 / Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids / November 2004 / Michael J. S. Belton, Thomas H. Morgan, Nalin H. Samarasinha, and Donald K. Yeomans (editors) / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Free Will: A Very Short Introduction / August 2004 / Thomas Pink / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Genesis: The Movie / October 2003 / Robert Farrar Capon / Eerdmans — see also Amazon
• Human Nature and the Limits of Science / January 2002 / John Dupre / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages / 2002 / Richard E. Rubenstein / Harcourt — see also Barnes & Noble and  Amazon
  • review: July 13, 2004 / Margaret R. Miles / Christian Century
• Seduced by Science: How American Religion Has Lost Its Way / October 2000 / Steven Goldberg / New York University Press — see also Amazon

JULY 24

• "Misusing the Nazi Analogy" / 22 July 2005 / Arthur L. Caplan / Science, v.309, n.5734, p.535
• "Genomic Sequencing of Pleistocene Cave Bears" / 22 July 2005 / James P. Noonan, et al. / Science, v.309, n.5734, p.597-599
• Museum hopes T. rex 'Jane' will attract dino fans / July 22, 2005 / CNN — a stretch of highway across northern Illinois now leads to dino heaven
• The Word From Rome / July 22, 2005 / John L. Allen, Jr. / National Catholic Reporter, v.4, n.41 — Schφnborn and science vs. theology
• 'Four-billion-year chill' on Mars / 21 July 2005 / David Whitehouse / BBC News — a chemical study of Martian meteorites implies that the planet has always been cold and was rarely above freezing
• A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit / January 2005 / Alan Lightman / Pantheon — see also Amazon
• The Reenchantment of Nature: The Denial of Religion and the Ecological Crisis / September 2002 / Alister McGrath / Doubleday — see also Amazon
  • review: John Barrs / Ransom Fellowship
• A Scientific Theology, Volume 1: Nature ... Volume 2: Reality ... Volume 3: Theory / 2001-2003 / Alister E. McGrath / Eerdmans — see also Amazon - Nature ... Reality ... Theory
• Ice Age Floods Institute — cataclysmic floods inundated portions of the Pacific Northwest from Glacial Lake Missoula, a body of water as large as some of the USA's Great Lakes
  • Ice Age Floods: Study of Alternatives and Environmental Assessment / February 2001 / National Park Service — following the pathways of the Glacial Lake Missoula Floods
• A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science / March 2000 / Noretta Koertge (editor) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Scopes Trial / 1925 / Wikipedia — tested a law which forbade the teaching, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible"
  • Gallery: Monkey Trial / PBS

JULY 21

• Mass extinction theory on the rocks / 23 July 2005 / New Scientist, n.2509, p.17
• Prayer fails to help heart surgery patients / 23 July 2005 / New Scientist, n.2509, p.16
• New pope questioned over evolution / 23 July 2005 / New Scientist, n.2509, p.5
• "Radiocarbon dating: Jewish inspiration of Christian catacombs" / 21 July 2005 / Leonard V. Rutgers, Klaas van der Borg, Arie F. M. de Jong, and Imogen Poole / Nature, v.436, p.339 — editor's summary
• Classroom Evolution's Grass-Roots Defender / July 20, 2005 / Peter Slevin / Washington Post, p.B04 — Virginia group sees threat to Darwinist teaching
• Robotics show Lucy walked upright / 20 July 2005 / BBC News — Australopithecus afarensis walked upright according to an "evolutionary robotics" model
• 50 million years of prehistory / July 20, 2005 / CNN — Oregon fossil park paints sweeping picture of mammalian evolution
• The Myth of Millions of Years / July 20, 2005 / Ronald Bailey / Reason Online — creationist cosmology is full of wormholes
• Creation Summer Camp / July 19, 2005 / Ronald Bailey / Reason Online — live from the 2005 Creation Mega-Conference
• Dinos breathed like birds? / 19 July 2005 / Carl Wieland / Answers in Genesis — a preliminary response to a new study that has excited some evolutionists, probably more than the facts allow
• Hunting for Life in Specks of Cosmic Dust / July 19, 2005 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Elephants losing tusks in unnatural selection / July 19, 2005 / The Australian — evolution is helping the elephant fight back against poachers
• The Non-Science of Intelligent Design / July 18, 2005 / Ahmed K. Sultan Salem / islam-online.net
• Do cosmic rays ever exceed the limit? / 18 July 2005 / New Scientist, n.2508, p.19
• Enigmatic fossils shed light on early evolution / 16 July 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2508 — one of the most puzzling phases in the evolution of life -- the Ediacaran period -- is giving up its secrets, thanks to two strange fossil types
• 9000-year-old man released / 16 July 2005 / New Scientist, n.2508, p.4
• Top 5 cosmic threats to life on Earth / 15 July 2005 / Kate Ravilious / New Scientist, n.2508
• Darwin, Design, and the Catholic Faith / July 2005 / Kenneth R. Miller — Cardinal Schφnborn's mistake
• Creation: Towards a Theory of All Things / May 2005 / John Umana / Book Surge — see also Amazon
• Challenges to The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment / April 2005 / Vladislav Cαpek and Daniel P. Sheehan / Springer — see also Amazon
• The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe / February 2005 / Roger Penrose / Knopf — see also Amazon
• Sneaking a Look at God's Cards: Unraveling the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics / January 2005 / Giancarlo Ghirardi / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science / January 2005 / Steve Fuller / Columbia University Press — see also Amazon
• Unpublished Photographs from 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes "Monkey Trial" / Smithsonian Archives
• Statement on Teaching of Evolutionary Theory (pdf) / American Chemical Society
• Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems / October 2004 / Jordan Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands, Takashi Ikegami, and Richard A. Watson (editors) / MIT Press — see also Amazon
• Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution / August 2004 / John F. Haught / Westview Press — see also Amazon
• "New Zealand Maritime Glaciation: Millennial-Scale Southern Climate Change Since 3.9 Ma" / 11 June 2004 / Robert M. Carter and Paul Gammon / Science, v.304, n.5677, p.1659-1662
• Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars / March 2004 / James Robert Brown / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Rebuilding the Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century / April 2003 / Denis Alexander / Zondervan — see also Amazon
• The Future of Life / March 2003 / Edward O. Wilson / Vintage (Random House) — see also Amazon
• Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World / July 2002 / Douglas Mulhall / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• Glimpsing the Face of God: The Search for Meaning in the Universe / March 2002 / Alister E. McGrath / Eerdmans — see also CenturyOne Bookstore,  Amazon
• The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything / December 2001 / K. C. Cole / Harvest Books (Harcourt) — see also Amazon
  • review: January 26, 2001 / Michael Scott Moore / salon
• The Human World in the Physical Universe: Consciousness, Free Will, and Evolution / September 2001 / Nicholas Maxwell / Rowman & Littlefield — see also Amazon

JULY 18

• What You Need to Know About the Evolution Debate / August 5, 2005 / Tony Watkins / Christianity Magazine
• Believe it or not, science evolves too / July 17, 2005 / David Rains Wallace / Los Angeles Times — So why is the National Museum of Natural History stuck with outdated theories in its exhibits?
• An exchange on science, evolution and intelligent design / 16 July 2005 / World Socialist Web Site
• Magnet Theory Meets Earthquakes / 15 July 2005 / Davide Castelvecchi / Physical Review Focus — the time you'll most likely see an earthquake is soon after another earthquake, even if it occurred hundreds of miles away
• Carbon dating works for cells / 14 July 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — radioactive fallout from nuclear tests serves as measuring stick
• Gravity doughnut promises time machine / 13 July 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — movement into the past gets one step less improbable
• Spirit tales reveal ancient landslides / 13 July 2005 / Tom Simonite / Nature (news@nature) — North American folklore points to dangers for Seattle
• The Weight of Light / 12 July 2005 / David Lindley / Physical Review Focus
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / June 2005 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• Foundation for Thought and Ethics / Jon A. Buell, Dean A. Anderson, and William A. Dembski / Richardson, TX— working to restore the freedom to know to young people in the classroom

JULY 15

• "Formation of Martian outflow channels by catastrophic dewatering of evaporite deposits" / August 2005 / David R. Montgomery and Alan Gillespie / Geology, v.33, n.8, p.625-628
• "The First Generations of Stars" / 15 July 2005 / Timothy C. Beers / Science, v.309, n.5733, p.390-391
• ETHICS: "Moral Issues of Human-Non-Human Primate Neural Grafting" / 15 July 2005 / Mark Greene, et al. / Science, v.309, n.5733, p.385-386
• Moral Debate: Procedure Risks Making Monkeys More Humanlike / 14 July 2005 / Robert Roy Britt / Live Science
• Bringing Faith and Science Together!?! / July 14, 2005 / Peggie Bohanon / Internet for Christians
• Evolution and the Roman Catholic Church / 13 July 2005 / Terry Mattingly / Scripps Howard News Service
• The Future of Humankind / July 2005 / Nick Bostrom / Scientific American — scenarios from heaven to hell, with stops along the way
• How Dinosaurs Grew So Large--and So Small / July 2005 / John R. Horner, Kevin Padian, and Armand de Ricqlθs / Scientific American
• Impact Geologist Waits for the Big One to Hit / July 2005 / Kathy A. Svitil / Discover, v.26, n.7 — things got to Earth by colliding with the growing planet, so impacts have shaped everything
• Extreme States / July 2005 / Steven Kotler / Discover, v.26, n.7 — researchers are beginning to understand how out-of-body and near-death experiences occur and how they may alter the brain

JULY 14

• Storied Theory / July-August 2005 / Roald Hoffmann / American Scientist, v.93, n.4, p.308 — science and stories are not only compatible, they're inseparable, as shown by Einstein's classic 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect
• Questions for Pope on Evolution Stance / July 13, 2005 / Cornelia Dean / New York Times
• Signs of Intelligence? / July 13, 2005 / Isaac Constantine / Daily Standard — what the neo-Darwinists don't understand about theories of Intelligent Design
• The triple sunset that should not exist / 13 July 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — astronomer spies improbable world with three suns
• Dinosaurs breathed like birds / 13 July 2005 / Tom Simonite / Nature (news@nature) — fossil bones show air pockets for high-energy lifestyle
• Seventh-day Adventists offer policy against religious extremism / July 5, 2005 / Betsy Taylor / Kansas City Star (Associated Press)

JULY 12

• Standards may change more today / July 12, 2005 / Josh Funk / Wichita Eagle (Kansas) — the State Board of Education could add more criticisms of evolution to science standards
• Ancient life in China limestone / 12 July 2005 / BBC News — researchers have found well-preserved fossils of organisms that lived on the ocean bed about 550 million years ago
• Big Bang Breakdown / July 2005 / Brad Harrub / Apologetics Press
• "Kansas Schools in the News" (pdf) / July 2005 / John D. Morris / Acts & Facts, v.34, n.7, p.1-3 (Institute for Creation Research)
• One Longsome Argument / March 2005 / Dennis R. Trumble / Skeptical Inquirer — By any objective measure, the evolution of species ranks among the most successful scientific theories ever. So why is the message not getting through?
• The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number / September 2003 / Mario Livio / Broadway — see also Amazon

JULY 10

• It's All Happening at the Tulsa Zoo / July 10, 2005 / New York Times — Christian creationists won too much of a victory for their own good in Tulsa, where the local zoo was ordered to exhibit a display extolling Genesis's account of creation
• Scientists are Wimps / July 8, 2005 / posted by Trey Hicks / soapbox.townhall.com
• How epigenetics affects twins / July 7, 2005 / Charles Q. Choi / The Scientist — in genetically identical siblings, DNA methylation and histone acetylation correlate with age and lifestyle
• How Do You Cure a Broken Heart? / May 29, 2005 / April Witt / Washington Post, p.W10 — a connection between the emotions and the heart
• Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion / May 2005 / Alan Burdick / Farrar, Straus and Giroux — see also Amazon
• Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature / April 2005 / Keith Thomson / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
• "Daedalus and Icarus Revisited" / Spring 2005 / Charles T. Rubin / The New Atlantis, n.8, p.73-91 — the progress of science is destined to bring enormous confusion and misery to mankind unless it is accompanied by progress in ethics
• "Neurohumoral Features of Myocardial Stunning Due to Sudden Emotional Stress" / February 10, 2005 / Ilan S. Wittstein, et al. / New England Journal of Medicine, v.352, n.6, p.539-548 — background reversible left ventricular dysfunction precipitated by emotional stress has been reported
• Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World / January 2005 / Margaret J. Osler / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• The Church of Scientology / Apologetics Index — research resources and news
• SCIENTOLOGY: From Science Fiction to Space-Age Religion / John Weldon / Christian Research Institute
• The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science / January 2003 / E. A. Burtt / Dover — see also Amazon
• Rethinking the Scientific Revolution / May 2000 / Margaret J. Osler (editor) / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy / July 1996 / Roger French and Andrew Cunningham / Scolar Press — see also Amazon

JULY 9

• Creationism special: A battle for science's soul / 9 July 2005 / Debora MacKenzie / New Scientist, n.2507 — eighty years after the Scopes trial drew battle lines over evolution and creationism, Darwin's theory is under renewed attack, this time from "intelligent design"
• Leading Cardinal Redefines Church's View on Evolution / July 9, 2005 / Cornelia Dean and Laurie Goodstein / New York Times
• "EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS: Are Humans Still Evolving?" / 8 July 2005 / Michael Balter / Science, v.309, n.5732, p.234-237
• "PLANETARY SCIENCE: Deep Impact Makes a Lasting Impression on Comet Tempel 1" / 8 July 2005 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.309, n.5732, p.226-227
• "Redefining Science" / 8 July 2005 / Alan I. Leshner / Science, v.309, n.5732, p.221
• Genesis display rejected at the Tulsa Zoo / July 8, 2005 /  Pam Sheppard / Answers in Genesis
• Conservatives and Evolution: Evolutionary War / July 7, 2005 / Ben Adler / New Republic
• Finding Design in Nature / July 7, 2005 / Christoph Schφnborn / New York Times
• Nearly Two-thirds of U.S. Adults Believe Human Beings Were Created by God / July 6, 2005 / Yahoo! News — opinions are divided about evolution theories
• Pondering the spiritual contradictions of intelligent design / July 1, 2005 / Ron Grossman / Grand Forks Herald (Chicago Tribune)

JULY 6

• Creationism special: A sceptic's guide to intelligent design / 9 July 2005 / Bob Holmes and James Randerson / New Scientist, n.2507 — Advocates of intelligent design argue it is a rigorous scientific alternative to natural selection. But just what is it, and is it science at all?
• Creationism special: Survival of the slickest / 9 July 2005 / Lawrence Krauss / New Scientist, n.2507 — scientists must use different tactics to argue against intelligent design, as their opponents willingly distort the truth
• Deep Impact strikes home / 9 July 2005 / David L. Chandler / New Scientist, n.2507 — it was a celestial fireworks display that left even NASA speechless as its Deep Impact probe successfully smashed into Comet Tempel 1
• America colonised 40,000 years ago / 9 July 2005 / Robert Adler / New Scientist, n.2507 — human footprints discovered beside an ancient Mexican lake have been dated to 40,000 years ago -- 30,000 years earlier than we thought humans arrived
• Evolution: Blink and you'll miss it / 9 July 2005 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist, n.2507 — If you thought evolution was slow and gradual, think again. Humans may even be helping it along, as our activities force species to adapt or die.
• Design Film Sparks Angst / July 6, 2005 / Denyse O'Leary / Christianity Today — under fire, Smithsonian disavows presentation on Intelligent Design
• Privileged Planet Shown at University of Toronto, Without Controversy / July 6, 2005 / Denyse O'Leary / Christianity.ca — Canadians have never been as likely as Americans to get all steamed up about Darwinian evolution theory
• Collision With a Comet / July 6, 2005 / New York Times — NASA scored a remarkable triumph this week when it smashed a small spacecraft into an onrushing comet with almost bull's-eye precision
• Spacecraft Hits Passing Comet, Just as Planned / July 5, 2005 / Warren E. Leary / New York Times
• Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Mission / July 5, 2005 / Yahoo! News (Associated Press)
• How Quantum Physics Can Teach Biologists About Evolution / July 5, 2005 / Cornelia Dean / New York Times
• Dinosaur Track Found in Alaska Park / July 5, 2005 / Dan Joling / ABC News (Associated Press) — student finds dinosaur track in Alaska's Denali National Park
• Genesis display okayed for the Tulsa Zoo … and now the opposition begins / July 5, 2005 / Pam Sheppard / Answers in Genesis
• Religion, science and the Relational Blockworld / July 5, 2005 / Matt Donnelly / Science & Theology News — Michael Silberstein argues that the Relational Blockworld idea might help to formulate a Theory of Everything
• Trees, Vines and Nets -- Microbial Evolution Changes Its Face / July 5, 2005 / European Molecular Biology Laboratory / Science Daily
• Mexico offers up ancient footprints / July 5, 2005 / Maev Kennedy / The Guardian (UK)
• Walking with ancestors: discovery rewrites American prehistory / 5 July 2005 / David Keys / The Independent (UK)
• British scientists unearth 40,000 year-old human footprints in central Mexico / July 4, 2005 / Catherine McAloon / Yahoo! News
• "Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support tree-thinking?" / 24 May 2005 / E. Bapteste, E. Susko, J. Leigh, D. MacLeod, R. L. Charlebois, and W. F. Doolittle / BMC Evolutionary Biology, v.5

JULY 4

• Smashing success for Deep Impact probe / 4 July 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — direct hit releases copious material from comet Tempel 1
• Ancient 'footprints' found in Mexico / 4 July 2005 / Rex Dalton / Nature (news@nature) — find may push back dates of when people arrived in the Americas
• Twins grow apart as they age / 4 July 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — genetic tests reveal how the environment changes our DNA
• LSU Scientists Develop New Theory About Human Genome Evolution by Tracking 'Stealth' DNA Elements / July 4, 2005 / Louisiana State University / Science Daily
• Did the big bang really happen? / 2 July 2005 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist, n.2506 — Is it time to admit that the idea of a big bang just does not stack up?
• Bacteria lend a helping hand / 30 June 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — mobile bugs donate a protein to disabled ones
• Does God Have Back Problems Too? / June 27, 2005 / David P. Barash / Los Angeles Times — the illogic behind 'intelligent design'
• Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries) / June 2005 / Madison Smartt Bell / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
• Complete Works Online / Charles Darwin / Cambridge University — see also the British Library

JULY 3

• Uncommon Dissent Forum: Scientists Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing (Eunoia Conferences) / August 4-6, 2005 / Michael Behe, John A. Campbell, Jonathan Wells, and Thomas Woodward / Greenville, South Carolina — hear leading scientists present the latest evidence regarding Darwin's "speculations"
• The Big Bang / July 3, 2005 / David Grinspoon / New York Times — NASA will fire an 820-pound copper barrel directly into the path of a nine-mile-long, potato-shaped comet to learn about impact cratering
• Critics attack plan for Christian academies / July 2, 2005 / Jonathan Guthrie / Financial Times (UK) — a multi-millionaire car dealer plans to set up two "Christian ethos" academies where creationism would be taught alongside evolution in science lessons
• "What Don't We Know?" / 1 July 2005 / Donald Kennedy and Colin Norman / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.75 — free special feature
  • "125" / 1 July 2005 / Donald Kennedy / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.19 — 25 "Big Questions" along with 100 smaller ones
  • "What Is the Biological Basis of Consciousness?" / 1 July 2005 / Greg Miller / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.79
  • "How Much Can Human Life Span Be Extended?" / 1 July 2005 / Jennifer Couzin / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.83
  • "How Does Earth's Interior Work?" / 1 July 2005 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.87
  • "Are We Alone in the Universe?" / 1 July 2005 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.88
  • "How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise?" / 1 July 2005 / Carl Zimmer / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.89
  • "What Genetic Changes Made Us Uniquely Human?" / 1 July 2005 / Elizabeth Culotta / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.91
  • "Do Deeper Principles Underlie Quantum Uncertainty and Nonlocality?" / 1 July 2005 / Charles Seife / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.98
  • "So Much More to Know …" / 1 July 2005 / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.78-102 — from the nature of the cosmos to the nature of societies, 100 questions that span the sciences
• "GRIP Deuterium Excess Reveals Rapid and Orbital-Scale Changes in Greenland Moisture Origin" / 1 July 2005 / V. Masson-Delmotte, J. Jouzel, A. Landais, M. Stievenard, S. J. Johnsen, J. W. C. White, M. Werner, A. Sveinbjornsdottir, and K. Fuhrer / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.118-121
• "Genomics at ICR" / July 2005 / Daniel Criswell / Impact, n.385 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Genetic On-off Switches Pinpointed in Human Genome / June 30, 2005 / National Science Foundation / Science Daily
• Mountain difficulty / 30 June 2005 / Nature — editor's summary:
  • "Geophysics: Hot fluids and cold crusts" / 30 June 2005 / Simon Kelley / Nature, v.435, p.1171 — conventional wisdom says that changes to crustal rocks pushed down deep when continents collide develop over millions of years, but it seems that some metamorphism may be caused by tectonic events lasting only a decade
  • "Short-lived orogenic cycles and the eclogitization of cold crust by spasmodic hot fluids" / 30 June 2005 / Alfredo Camacho, James K. W. Lee, Bastiaan J. Hensen, and Jean Braun / Nature, v.435, p.1191-1196 — supplementary information
• "Clonal reproduction by males and females in the little fire ant" / 30 June 2005 / Denis Fournier, Arnaud Estoup, Jιrτme Orivel, Julien Foucaud, Hervι Jourdan, Julien Le Breton, and Laurent Keller / Nature, v.435, p.1230-1234
• War of the fire ants / 29 June 2005 / Jessica Ebert / Nature (news@nature) — males pit their genes against females by chucking DNA out of eggs
• Ancient DNA helps clarify the origins of two extinct New World horse species / 27 June 2005 / contact: Paul Ocampo / EurekAlert!
• "Twilight for the Enlightenment?" / 8 April 2005 / Donald Kennedy / Science, v.308, n.5719, p.165 — "intelligent design" essentially asserts that a sufficient quantity of complexity and beauty is by itself evidence of divine origin--a retrogression to the pre-Darwinian zoologist William Paley, who saw in the elegant construction of a beetle's antenna the work of a Creator
• Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992 / April 2005 / Maurice A. Finocchiaro / University of California Press — see also Amazon

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