Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (August 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.

AUGUST 31

• Darwinian Conservatism / September 2005 / Larry Arnhart / Imprint Academic — see also Amazon
• Séances & Science: The Lessons of the Spiritualist Challenge to Darwinism / September 2005 / John Mark Reynolds / Touchstone, v.17, n.7
  • John Mark Reynolds in Touchstone -- Out of Touch? / August 30, 2005 / William A. Dembski
• Teaching of Creationism Is Endorsed in New Survey / August 31, 2005 / Laurie Goodstein / New York Times
• Religious Right evolves tactics to fight Darwin / August 30, 2005 / Tom Baldwin / Times Online (UK)
• Evolution and Religion Can Coexist, Scientists Say / October 18, 2004 / Stefan Lovgren / National Geographic News

AUGUST 30

• Intelligent Design Has No Place in the Science Curriculum / September 2, 2005 / Harold Morowitz, Robert Hazen, and James Trefil / Chronicle of Higher Education, v.52, n.2, p.B6
• Why Do We Invoke Darwin? / August 29, 2005 / Philip S. Skell / Discovery Institute
• Intelligent Design to be Taught in Australian Schools -- Opponents Furious / August 29, 2005 / Life Site
• Show Me the Science / August 29, 2005 / Daniel C. Dennett / Edge
• Suit claims University of California biased against creationism / August 27, 2005 / Mercury News (Associated Press)
• New school year, new battle over evolution / August 25, 2005 / Jill Lawrence / USA Today — in Dover, PA
• Evolution vs. Religion: Quit pretending they're compatible / August 10, 2005 / Jacob Weisberg / Slate
• The Five Worst Extinctions in Earth's History / 7 September 2000 / Lee Siegel / space.com

AUGUST 29

• Origins / August 23 & 30, September 6 & 13 / PBS - Nova
• Unintelligent Designs on Science / September 1, 2005 / Chronicle of Higher Education — the discussion has not started yet
• Just Check the ID / August 29, 2005 / Sally Jenkins / Washington Post, p.E01 — Could it be athletes' random, mutant talent, or could it be evidence of, gulp, intelligent design?
• George Bush and the meaning of life / August 28, 2005 / Bryan Appleyard / Times Online (UK) — the theory of 'intelligent design’ supported by the president shouldn’t infuriate the Darwinists -- it makes sense
• Show Me the Science / August 28, 2005 / Daniel C. Dennett / New York Times — Is "intelligent design" a legitimate school of scientific thought?
• Adam, Eve and T. Rex / August 27, 2005 / Ashley Powers / Los Angeles Times — giant roadside dinosaur attractions are used by a new breed of creationists as pulpits to spread their version of Earth's origins
• Knock, knock -- is there anyone there who believes this twaddle? / August 27, 2005 / Oliver Kamm / Times Online (UK) — the longer we indulge irrationalism in public life, the sooner will our own Flat Earthers, in modern dress, arrive to recognise our kinship
• State Senator Wants Students to Hear 'Full Range' of Evolutionary Theories / August 26, 2005 / Jim Brown / Agape Press
• Kuhn and Intelligent Design / August 26, 2005 / Matthew Yglesias / TPM Cafe — why I think one can -- and should -- be both a good Kuhnian and a good Darwinist
• 'Intelligent design' faces ISU opposition / August 26, 2005 / Lisa Livermore / Des Moines Register — author of book on life's origins calls Iowa State University faculty petition an 'attack'
• New exhibit at London Zoo -- humans / August 25, 2005 / Yahoo! News
• Natural Hazards / March 2005 / Edward Bryant / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon

AUGUST 26

• ARN-Announce, n.48 / August 26, 2005 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network — describes many of the upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
• Talk to the Animals / August 26, 2005 / Bernd Heinrich / New York Times — on the documentary "March of the Penguins"
• 120 Professors at Iowa State U. Sign Statement Criticizing Intelligent-Design Theory / August 26, 2005 / Jamie Schuman / Chronicle of Higher Education
• "Inner Core Differential Motion Confirmed by Earthquake Waveform Doublets" / 26 August 2005 / Jian Zhang, Xiaodong Song, Yingchun Li, Paul G. Richards, Xinlei Sun, and Felix Waldhauser / Science, v.309, n.5739, p.1357-1360
  • Earth's Core Rotates Faster than Surface, Study Confirms / 25 August 2005 / Ker Than / Live Science
• Why intelligent design theory ought to be taught / August 25, 2005 / Jonah Avriel Cohen / The American Thinker
• Brutally Criticized / August 25, 2005 / Bill O'Reilly / The O'Reilly Factor — harassment of Richard Sternberg for publishing an article sympathetic to Intelligent Design
• Super / Mark Fiore / August 25, 2005 / SF Gate (San Francisco) — cartoons on origins
• Evolving opinion of one man / August 24, 2005 / Danny Westneat / Seattle Times — Bob Davidson is a scientist and a devout Christian who believes we're here because of God
• The Evolving Clash of Darwinists and Doubters / 23 August 2005 / Red Nova
• Intelligent design and other weirdo beliefs / August 23, 2005 / Margaret Wente / Globe & Mail
• Ancient Shellfish Body Revealed / August 23, 2005 / Rossella Lorenzi / Discovery Channel
• The Other Brain Also Deals With Many Woes / August 23, 2005 / Harriet Brown / New York Times — the human body has two brains, one at the top of the spinal cord and the hidden but powerful brain in the gut known as the enteric nervous system
• Varvel's View / August 19, 2005 / Gary Varvel / Indianapolis Star — cartoon - hear/see/speak no intelligent design

AUGUST 24

• Bones reveal first shoe-wearers / 24 August 2005 / Olivia Johnson / BBC News
• Intelligent Design without the Bible / August 24, 2005 / Deepak Chopra / intentBlog
• Space radiation may select amino acids for life / 24 August 2005 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist
• Larry King Live / August 23, 2005 / CNN — last half of transcript - Intelligent Design in American Classrooms?
• The struggle over science / 23 August 2005 / Harold Evans / BBC News — rising concern in the US over the Bush administration's hostility to science
• Scientists Find 1.8-million-year-old Homo Erectus Skull / 22 August 2005 / Live Science (Associated Press)
• Illuminated Life / August 2005 / George M. Whitesides / Discover, v.26, n.8 — meet the true masters of optics: animals that know a lot more about slicing, dicing, and twisting beams of light than we do
• MUSEUMS: The Revolution Begins / August 2005 / Corey S. Powell / Discover, v.26, n.8 — a radical ring of scientists ditch all those dusty ideas about dinosaur evolution
• Rare 3-D fossil preservation / July 25, 2005 / Laura Stafford / Geotimes
• Deep Impact strikes back / July 5, 2005 / Lisa Pinsker / Geotimes
• Collision Course: Deep Impact / July 2005 / Lucy McFadden and Peter Schultz / Geotimes
• Monitoring the most dangerous U.S. volcanoes / July 2005 / Naomi Lubick / Geotimes
• Mexican volcano fires up / June 9, 2005 / Kathryn Hansen / Geotimes
• Egg-laying dinosaurs / June 2005 / Naomi Lubick / Geotimes
• Revising the asteroid threat scale / June 2005 / Sara Pratt / Geotimes
• Truth, fiction and everything in between at Yellowstone / June 2005 / Jake Lowenstern / Geotimes
• Cosmic bursts to blame for mass extinction / June 2005 / Sara Pratt / Geotimes
• Style over function for stegosaur spikes / May 27, 2005 / Laura Stafford / Geotimes
• American Museum of Natural History - Fossil Halls

AUGUST 23

• Speaking Out for Evolution (8 abstracts) / October 16, 2005 / Judy Scotchmoor and Carol M. Tang (presiding) / Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT — rationale and resources for supporting the teaching of evolution
• Rumsfeld's Wisdom / September 2005 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American — where the known meets the unknown is where science begins
• Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science / August 23, 2005 / Cornelia Dean / New York Times
• Grasping the Depth of Time as a First Step in Understanding Evolution / August 23, 2005 / Verlyn Klinkenborg / New York Times
• The Smithsonian/Sternberg controversy / August 22, 2005 / Pam Sheppard / Answers in Genesis — cast doubt on Darwin, get cast out
• Neo-Creo / August 21, 2005 / William Safire / New York Times — the new creationism
• The Big Picture / August 21, 2005 / Carl Zimmer / Corante — What has the political and financial investment in the Discovery Institute, the main anti-evolution think tank, yielded, scientifically speaking?
• India's Smoking Gun: Dino-Killing Eruptions / 9 August 2005 / contact: Ann Cairns / Geological Society of America Release, n.05-27
• Meteor Impacts: Life’s Jump Starter? / 8 August 2005 / contact: Ann Cairns / Geological Society of America Release, n.05-25
• What Caused the Martian Floods? / 22 July 2005 / Mason Inman / Science Now

AUGUST 22

• The Evolution Debate / New York Times
  • In Explaining Life's Complexity, Darwinists and Doubters Clash / August 22, 2005 / Kenneth Chang
  • Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive / August 21, 2005 / Jodi Wilgoren
  • Frist Urges 2 Teachings on Life Origin / August 20, 2005 / David Stout
• Chimps show sign of culture / 21 August 2005 / Andreas von Bubnoff / Nature (news@nature) — chimpanzees stick to the majority behaviour of their peers
• Not the Biggest Man on Campus, but Surely the Biggest Foot / August 20, 2005 / Michael Brick / New York Times — real tracks, once thought to be replicas, of an Acrocanthosaurus and a Pleurocoelus at Brooklyn College
• Intelligent Design and the Smithsonian / August 20, 2005 / New York Times
• Office of Special Counsel Concludes Smithsonian Created a “Hostile Work Environment” in Effort to Oust Biologist Skeptical of Darwinism / August 19, 2005 / Discovery Institute
• Intelligent design revisited / August 19, 2005 / David Limbaugh / townhall.com
• Kansas controversy continues / August 19, 2005 / Pam Sheppard / Answers in Genesis — schools one step closer to critical analysis of evolution
• Ocean bug has 'smallest genome' / 19 August 2005 / Roland Pease / BBC — small but perfectly formed, Pelagibacter ubique is a lean machine stripped down to the bare essentials for life
• Insects may have complex immunity / August 19, 2005 / Charles Q. Choi / The Scientist — thanks to alternate splicing of Dscam, they could possess up to 18,000 immune receptors
• Frist voices support for ‘intelligent design’ / August 19, 2005 / MSNBC (Associated Press) — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Friday he thinks faith-influenced concepts like "intelligent design" should be taught in schools alongside evolution, exposing students to different ideas
• Editor Explains Reasons for 'Intelligent Design' Article / August 19, 2005 / Michael Powell / Washington Post, p.A19
• OPINIONS: Politics, not science, at center of debate ... / August 18, 2005 / Arnar Palsson, et al / USA Today
• Creationists' anti-evolution assertions are just plain wrong / August 13, 2005 / Stephen Nelson / Salt Lake Tribune
• Plane Crash Survival: Miracle, or Skill and Science? / 9 August 2005 / Benjamin Radford / Live Science (Skeptical Inquirer)
• University of Chicago study overturns conventional theory in evolution / 7 June 2005 / contact: Catherine Gianaro / EurekAlert!
• The Dream World of William Dembski's Creationism / Mark Perakh / Talk Reason
• Responses to Jonathan Wells's Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher / November 28, 2001 / contact: Alan Gishlick / National Center for Science Education
  • Inherit The Spin / January 15, 2002 / Jonathan Wells / Discovery Institute — Darwinists answer “Ten Questions” with evasions and falsehoods

AUGUST 19

• Level playing field? / August 27, 2005 / Joel Belz / World Magazine, v.20, n.33 — the Great Deceiver has never been a fan of fairness
• What if…? Exploring alternative scientific pasts / 20 August 2005 / Gregory Radick / New Scientist, n.2513, p.34 — What if…the Nazis had won; Newton had abandoned science; electric motors had pre-dated steam engines; Darwin had not sailed on the Beagle; Charles II had no interest in science and a young Einstein had been ignored?
• Rapid-fire eruptions doomed the dinosaurs / 20 August 2005 / Kate Ravilious / New Scientist, n.2513 — massive volcanic eruptions occurring in quick succession in India 65 million years ago could have caused the dinosaurs' mass extinction
• "EVOLUTION: Is Invariance Across Animal Species Just an Illusion?" / 19 August 2005 / Gerdien de Jong / Science, v.309, n.5738, p.1193-1195
• "EVOLUTION: Kansas Prepares New Standards" / 19 August 2005 / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / Science, v.309, n.5738, p.1163
• Decades after the 'monkey' trial, creationists turn to science / August 19, 2005 / Alexandra Alter / The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, CA)
• Molecular Mechanism of Feather Formation Found / August 18, 2005 / University of Wisconsin, Madison / Science Daily
• "Silurian brachiopods with soft-tissue preservation" / 18 August 2005 / Mark D. Sutton, Derek E. G. Briggs, David J. Siveter, and Derek J. Siveter / Nature, v.436, p.1013-1015
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Soft tissues, hard evidence
• Cord blood yields 'ethical' embryonic stem cells / 18 August 2005 / Andy Coghlan / New Scientist
• Pro-Family Spokesman Accuses 'Christianity Today' of Promoting Junk Science / August 17, 2005 / Jim Brown and Jenni Parker / GOPUSA (Agape Press)
• Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory / 17 August 2005 / The Onion, v.41, n.33 — a spoof
• Strange fossil defies grouping / 17 August 2005 / Julianna Kettlewell / BBC News — a strange 525 million-year-old fossil creature is baffling scientists because it does not fit neatly into any existing animal groups
• Who picked this fight? Darwin did! / August 16, 2005 / Benjamin Wiker / To the Source
• New Museum Upholds Biblical Creation Account / August 16, 2005 / Darla Sitton / CBN News
• Colorado evolution curriculum could be evolving / August 15, 2005 / Adam Schrager / 9NEWS
• Rift evolves between top ranking Catholics / 13 August 2005 / New Scientist, n.2512 — a rift has opened up within the Catholic church over the compatibility of the theory of evolution with Christian faith
• Decoding the genetic language of early life / 13 August 2005 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist, n.2512 — the genetic code used by all life today may have evolved from two simpler codes in the distant past -- traces of ancient genes may persist today
• Independently, Two Frogs Blaze the Same Venomous Path / August 9, 2005 / Natalie Angier / New York Times, p.F2
• Why God's in a class by himself / August 7, 2005 / Michael Shermer / Los Angeles Times
• Scientists, religious scholars to present Shroud of Turin findings / August 2005 / Jeremy Reynalds / Christian Examiner — Is image a hoax or visible projection of Christ’s resurrection?
• An Exotic Evolution / May 19, 2005 / David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post, p.B01 — black squirrels imported in early 1900s gain foothold
  • The Washington Post thinks it has discovered natural selection / May 25, 2005 / Denyse O'Leary / The ID Report

AUGUST 16

• Building a Virtual Microbe, Gene by Gene by Gene / August 16, 2005 / Carl Zimmer / New York Times — to reconstruct a living thing inside a computer, down to every last molecule
• The Long Arm of Einstein Guides My Steering Wheel / August 16, 2005 / Lawrence M. Krauss / New York Times
• Unintelligent Design / August 16, 2005 / David Klinghoffer / National Review Online — hostility toward religious believers at the nation’s museum
• Scientists Crack 40-year-old DNA Puzzle and Point to 'Hot Soup' at the Origin of Life / August 16, 2005 / University of Bath / Science Daily
• Harvard to Investigate Origins of Life / August 15, 2005 / Yahoo! News (Associated Press)
• A question of creation / 15 August 2005 / Harold Evans / BBC News — the current fight in the US over evolution, which spreads from classrooms to courtrooms
• Scientific societies support teaching evolution / 15 August 2005 / contact: Sara Uttech / EurekAlert! — ASA-CSSA-SSSA executive committees opposes President's support of intelligent design in position statement
• Mired / August 15, 2005 / Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker — for most of recorded history the consensus view was that people were made out of mud
• Sun Was at Work Long Before First Sunrise / 11 August 2005 / Robert Roy Britt / space.com
• Einstein's Legacy -- Where are the "Einsteinians?" / summer 2005 / Lee Smolin / Discover
• Exobiology and Astrobiology: the New Science / Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency (Michigan)

AUGUST 15

• Creation and Science Friction / August 14, 2005 / Dana Parsons / Los Angeles Times
• Project on the origins of life launched / August 14, 2005 / Gareth Cook / Boston Globe
• Harvard Jumps Into Evolution Debate / August 14, 2005 / Washington Post (Associated Press)
• Evolution: Debate it / August 14, 2005 / John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer / USA Today
• Evolution: Just teach it / August 14, 2005 / Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch / USA Today
• Creations / August 12, 2005 / Leon Wieseltier / New Republic — the cunning souls who propound intelligent design are playing with fire
• Intelligent design theory not what supporters imagine / August 12, 2005 / Eric A. Anderson / Greenville News (South Carolina) — believers accept that the universe is very old and the creator isn’t necessarily a loving God
• An Evolving Debate / August 12, 2005 / Terry Mattingly / Catholic Exchange — Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna said he was trying to stop what he believes are media attempts to plant Rome firmly in the Darwinist camp
• Scientists' Belief in God Varies Starkly by Discipline / 11 August 2005 / Robert Roy Britt / Live Science
• Inside an Earthquake: Geologists Penetrate Fault Zone 2 Miles Down / 4 August 2005 / Robert Roy Britt / Live Science
• 'Strange Things Happening' to Pacific Coast Marine Life / 1 August 2005 / Terence Chea / Live Science (Associated Press)
• Antarctic Glaciers Melting Rapidly / 21 April 2005 / Robert Roy Britt / Live Science

AUGUST 12

• Not Just Science: Questions Where Christian Faith and Natural Science Intersect / September 2005 / Dorothy F. Chappell and E. David Cook (editors) / Zondervan — see also Amazon
• "COSMOLOGY: Anthropic Reasoning" / 12 August 2005 / Mario Livio and Martin J. Rees / Science, v.309, n.5737, p.1022-1023
• "Vatican Astronomer Rebuts Cardinal's Attack on Darwinism" / 12 August 2005 / Constance Holden / Science, v.309, n.5737, p.996-997
• New Discovery Blurs Distinction Between Human Cells and Those of Bacteria / August 12, 2005 / University of California, Los Angeles / Science Daily
• Exploring both sides of creation / August 12, 2005 / Mark Son / Daily Texan
• Why can't we have a rational debate / August 12, 2005 / Tony Snow / townhall.com — only an optimist could apply the term, "debate," to the raging controversy over the relative merits of evolutionary theory and the concept of intelligent design
• Creationism vs. evolution: Can faith and science co-exist? / August 11, 2005 / Lisa Anderson / Seattle Times
• New museum mixes Genesis, dinosaurs / August 11, 2005 / Lisa Anderson / The State (South Carolina)
• Intelligent design must be used in an intelligent way / August 11, 2005 / Byron Williams / Oakland Tribune
• Kansas moves to stem role of evolution in teaching / August 11, 2005 / CNN (Reuters)
• Legislator wants intelligent design / August 11, 2005 / Science Daily (UPI)
• The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name / August 11, 2005 / Jerry Coyne / New Republic — the case against Intelligent Design
• How can we accept this absurd evolution theory? / August 11, 2005 / Stephen Jones (Perth, Australia)
• The intelligent-design debate / August 11, 2005 / letters to the editor / Washington Times
• Belief adversely effecting U.S. stature in scientific world / August 11, 2005 / Peter Schrag / Whittier Daily News
• Turning 'Unknown' Into 'Unknowable' / August 10, 2005 / Bob McHenry / Tech Central Station
• Despite Criticism, 'Intelligent Design' Finds Powerful Backers / August 10, 2005 / ABC News — Seattle group works to create national debate where scientists say none exists
• Vatican Astronomer Contradicts Cardinal’s Support of Catholic Teaching on Evolution / August 9, 2005 / Life Site News — Darwinian foundation to today’s scientific and medical ethics, de-populationists, eugenicists
• Problems of Evolution / 7 August 2005 / Stephen E. Jones (Australia) — why the evolution controversy is not going away
• Evolution dispute now set to split Catholic hierarchy / 5 August 2005 / Michael McCarthy / Independent (UK)
• God and the Big Bang -- and Other Arguments about Science and Faith / Michael Poole / Visiting Research Fellow, King's College, University of London

AUGUST 10

• The Measure of God: Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science & Religion / September 2005 / Larry Witham / Harper Collins — see also Amazon
• Intelligent design does not exclude evolution / August 10, 2005 / Stephen E. Jones / The Western Australian
• Thumbs Up / August 9, 2005 / Peter Wood / National Review Online — President Bush is right about evolution and design
• Intelligent design stirrings / August 9, 2005 / David Limbaugh / Washington Times
• Designing an intelligent debate / August 8, 2005 / Suzanne Fields / townhall.com
• Baby dinosaur crawled like humans / 6 August 2005 / New Scientist, n.2511, p.17
• First canine clone is a chip off the old block / 6 August 2005 / Rowan Hooper / New Scientist, n.2511 — South Korea's king of cloning has done it again, this time producing the world's first cloned dog, an Afghan hound, called Snuppy
• Our solar system just got bigger / 6 August 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2511 — it is a bit bigger than Pluto and the most distant object ever seen in the solar system -- and it is causing a very wide range of reactions on Earth
• Life underground, down under / 6 August 2005 / Stephanie Pain / New Scientist, n.2511 — beneath the baked Australian outback, in dark damp crevices, live creatures that have seen no light for millions of years
• Vatican Observatory head clashes with cardinal on evolution / August 5, 2005 / Catholic World News
• Vatican astronomer says evolution important for insights into God / August 5, 2005 / Catholic News Service
• Cosmic CAT Scan / August 2005 / W. Wayt Gibbs / Scientific American — observing the early universe--with 10,000 TV antennas
• COSMOLOGY: Is the Universe Out of Tune? / August 2005 / Glenn D. Starkman and Dominik J. Schwarz / Scientific American — like the discord of key instruments in a skillful orchestra quietly playing the wrong piece, mysterious discrepancies have arisen between theory and observations of the "music" of the cosmic microwave background
• The Early Evolution of Animals / August 2005 / David J. Bottjer / Scientific American — tiny fossils reveal that complex animal life is older than we thought
• "Evolution Wars Show No Sign of Abating" / August 2005 / Jim Dawson / Physics Today, v.58, n.8, p.24-25
• Rebuilding a Volcano / July 25, 2005 / Krista West / Scientific American — Mount St. Helens may be patching in its 1980 crater
• Geological pioneer was a biblical creationist / July 5, 2005 / Tas Walker / Biblical Geology — Nicolas Steno (1631-1686) was the pioneer of modern geology

AUGUST 9

• Biblical Pool Uncovered in Jerusalem / August 9, 2005 / Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times — the reservoir served as a gathering place for Jews making pilgrimages and is said in the Gospel of John to be the site where Jesus cured a blind man
  • Biblical Pool of Siloam uncovered in Jerusalem / August 9, 2005 / Thomas H. Maugh II / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Early life may flourish from meteor impacts, geologists say / 8 August 2005 / CBC News (Canada)
• Forest Service: Fossil poaching running rampant / August 8, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press)
• Intelligent design vs. evolution in the public schools / August 8, 2005 / religionlink.org — linking journalists to ideas and sources
• Pesticide-proof flies have unexpected edge / 8 August 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — gene for DDT tolerance offers extra survival advantages
• New discovery blurs distinction between human cells and those of bacteria / August 8, 2005 / University of California, Los Angeles / lightsources.org
• Bush Evolution Remarks Generate Wide Media Coverage / August 8, 2005 / Cindy Workosky / National Science Teachers Association
• Position Statements: AIBS Criticizes President's Statement on Intelligent Design / August 5, 2005 / contact: Erin Heath / American Institute of Biological Sciences
• Schönborn and evolution / August 5, 2005 / John L. Allen, Jr / National Catholic Reporter
• Dobson Compares Stem-Cell Research to Nazi Experiments / August 5, 2005 / Bob Allen / Ethics Daily.com
• Scientists poke holes in theories on life / August 5, 2005 / Ron Barnett / Greenville News (South Carolina) — intelligent design conference opens; speakers share alternative to Darwinism
• on President Bush’s Comments that "Intelligent Design" Should Be Taught in the Nation’s Science Classrooms / August 4, 2005 / Antonia Cortese / American Federation of Teachers
• Physics Society President Says Intelligent Design Should Not be Taught as Science / August 4, 2005 / contacts: James Riordon and Marvin Cohen / American Physical Society
• President Confuses Science and Belief, Puts Schoolchildren at Risk / 2 August 2005 / contact: Harvey Leifert / American Geophysical Union
• Bush Endorsement of 'Intelligent Design' in Public Schools Is Irresponsible, Says Americans United / August 2, 2005 / Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, v.4, n.1 / July 2005
  • Human Origins and Intelligent Design / Casey Luskin
  • Reflections on Human Origins / William Dembski
  • Questioning Cosmological Superstition: Separating science from myth in our theory of the universe / Rich Halvorson
  • What Kind of Revolution is the Design Revolution? / Jakob Wolf
  • The Case for Instant Evolution / John Davison
  • The Theory of Evolution in the Perspective of Thermodynamics and Everyday Experience / Wim M. de Jong

AUGUST 8

• The Evolution Wars / August 7, 2005 / Claudia Wallis / Time Magazine — when Bush joined the fray last week, the question grew hotter: Is "intelligent design" a real science? And should it be taught in schools?
• Museum exhibits a creationist viewpoint / August 7, 2005 / Lisa Anderson / Chicago Tribune — new front opens in debate over origins
• Survival of the Fittest Characters / August 7, 2005 / Denis Dutton / Washington Post, p.BW15
  • review of: 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
• What Are the Darwinists Afraid Of? / August 5, 2005 / Patrick J. Buchanan / Human Events Online
• Creationism rift opens within The Vatican / 5 August 2005 / Shaoni Bhattacharya / New Scientist
• Creation Scientist says Intelligent Design Has No Place in Public School Science Curriculum / August 5, 2005 / contact: Kathleen Campbell / Christian Wire Service — "As currently formulated, Intelligent Design is not science," says Dr. Fazale Rana, internationally respected biochemist and one of the world's leading experts in origin of life research
• Separation of Church and State Has No Legitimate Bearing on Science Education says Creation Scientist / August 4, 2005 / contact: Kathleen Campbell / Christian Wire Service
• Moon soils store Earth's early breath / 3 August 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — traces of ancient nitrogen could date our magnetic field
• President Bush's Support for Free Speech on Evolution and Intelligent Design Draws Praise from Discovery Institute / August 2, 2005 / Discovery Institute
• Hubble images capture exploding star / August 1, 2005 / space.com staff / CNN — a star explodes every second or so, somewhere in the universe
• Astronomers to decide what makes a planet / 1 August 2005 / Jim Giles / Nature (news@nature) — status of newly discovered world hangs in the balance
• Many Skies: Alternative Histories of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars / January 2005 / Arthur Upgren / Rutgers University Press — see also Amazon
• 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution / 2004 / Douglas Theobald / Talk.Origins
• "Developmental Constraints and Evolution" (pdf) / September 1985 / J. Maynard Smith, R. Burian, S. Kauffman, P. Alberch, J. Campbell, B. Goodwin, R. Lande, D. Raup, and L. Wolpert / Quarterly Review of Biology, v.60, n.3, p.265-287
• Creation Oratorio / 1804 (first performance) / Franz Joseph Haydn
  • audio CD / 1998 / conductor: Herbert von Karajan / Deutsche Grammophon — see Amazon
  • audio CD / 1992 / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Telarc — see Amazon
  • Haydn: The Creation (Cambridge Music Handbooks) / 1991 / Nicholas Temperley / Cambridge University Press — see Amazon

AUGUST 5

• The Duplicate Dog / August 5, 2005 / New York Times — the cloning of a dog by South Korean scientists is notable mostly for its display of virtuosity and persistence by the research team
• Design for Confusion / August 5, 2005 / Paul Krugman / New York Times — all the intelligent design movement has to do is create confusion, to make it seem as if there really is a controversy about the validity of evolutionary theory
• The Little Engine That Could...Undo Darwinism / August 5, 2005 / Dan Peterson / American Spectator
• Darwin's Compost / August 4, 2005 / George Neumayr / American Thinker — an honest headline on the story would read: “Press Baits Bush on Intelligent Design, Then Fuels Debate over his Response”
• The Intelligent Design Bogeyman / August 4, 2005 / David Limbaugh
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / July 2005 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions

AUGUST 4

• Leading Republican differs with Bush on evolution / August 4, 2005 / Jon Hurdle / Reuters
• Environmental damage seen from shuttle / August 4, 2005 / CNN (Reuters)
• Apophis and Us / August 4, 2005 / New York Times — should the asteroid Apophis be added to our regular list of doomsday worries
• Beating Hurdles, Scientists Clone a Dog for a First / August 4, 2005 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
• "Dogs cloned from adult somatic cells" / 4 August 2005 / Byeong Chun Lee, et al. / Nature, v.436, p.641
  • It's a Dog's life — editor's summary
• Darwinism and Catholicism should be compatible / August 1, 2005 / Gary Belovsky / University of Notre Dame
• School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy? / May 17, 2005 / Lawrence M. Krauss / New York Times
• Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life / Spring 2005 / Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
• Assembling the Tree of Life / July 2004 / Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue (editors) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Evolution's Many Branches / July-August 2005 / Douglas Erwin / American Scientist

AUGUST 3

• Bush Remarks Roil Debate on Teaching of Evolution / August 3, 2005 / Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times
• Designs on Us / August 3, 2005 / David Klinghoffer / National Review Online — conservatives on Darwin vs. ID
• New cosmic look may cast doubts on big bang theory / August 2, 2005 / University of Alabama / Space Flight Now
• Non Sequitur / July 31, 2005 / comics — fighting about whose faith in a merciful and loving God is the one, true religion
• Evolution and Christianity / July 18, 2005 / Dennis Brown / University of Notre Dame — renowned philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, supports recent comments by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn that belief in evolution may be incompatible with Christian beliefs
• The Authority of the Bible in a Scientific Age / F. Earle Fox / 2004 / The Road to Emmaus

AUGUST 2

• Too Many Planets Numb the Mind / August 2, 2005 / New York Times
• Bush: Teach 'Intelligent Design' / August 2, 2005 / CBS News
• Bush: Schools should teach intelligent design / August 1, 2005 / MSNBC (Associated Press) — students should learn about it along with evolution, he says
• Let's Have No More Monkey Trials / August 1, 2005 / Charles Krauthammer / Time Magazine — to teach faith as science is to undermine both
• "Polonium Radiohalos: The Model for Their Formation Tested and Verified" / August 2005 / Andrew A. Snelling / Impact, n.386 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Evolution -- Impossible to Embarass Its Believers" / August 2005 / Henry Morris / Back to Genesis, n.200 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Galapagos: Where Darwin Went Wrong" (pdf) / August 2005 / Acts & Facts, v.34, n.8, p.1-2
• The Human Nervous System: Evidence of Intelligent Design [Part I] / August 2005 / Brad Harrub / Reason & Revelation (Apologetics Press), v.25, n.8, p.57-63
• Santa and little helper seen beyond Pluto / 29 July 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — competing teams spy objects on fringe of Solar System

AUGUST 1

• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science / November 2005 / Tom Bethell / Regnery Publishing
• Astronomers claim discovery of solar system's 10th planet / July 31, 2005 / Sara Weisfeldt and Kate Tobin / CNN
• Blind Eye Toward Intelligent Design / July 30, 2005 / Bruce Chapman (president, Discovery Institute) / Washington Post, p.A17
• The problem with Darwinian solutions / July 29, 2005 / William A. Dembski / Science & Theology News — differences with Sean Carroll's and Michael Ruse's argument that “evo devo” undermines intelligent design
• The Monkey Wrench / July 29, 2005 / George Neumayr / American Spectator — Darwinists this month are celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Scopes trial
• Maxwell, Molecules, and Evolution / February 2005 / Charles Petzold — James Maxwell's attitude toward evolution was more nuanced than people assume
• Critter Chemistry: Ugly Ducklings / January 7, 2004 / Rachel Sheremeta Pepling / Chemistry & Engineering News — naked mole-rats lack a chemical in their skin known as Substance P that plays a role in transmitting pain signals to the central nervous system
• Naked Mole-rats Bare Pain Relief Clues / November 17, 2003 / University of Illinois, Chicago / Science Daily

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