Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (November 2005)

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NOVEMBER 29

• Professing Faith / December-January 2006 / Karen Houppert / Mother Jones Magazine — The battle of Intelligent Design vs. evolution is popularly cast as Christianity vs. science, religion vs. Enlightenment. At the nation’s largest Baptist university, the battle is Christian vs. Christian, and all the bloodier.
• Kansas Prof. Apologizes for E-Mail / November 29, 2005 / Yahoo! News — religion professor apologized for an e-mail that referred to religious conservatives as "fundies" and said a course describing intelligent design as mythology would be a "nice slap in their big fat face"
• Darwin Under the Microscope: The Origin of the Man and His Theory / November 29, 2005 / Michael Powell / Washington Post, p.C01
• Materialism's leap of faith / November 29, 2005 / Paul Campos / Rocky Mountain News
• Dinosaurs, evangelicals and the state / 26 November 2005 / Justin Webb / BBC — Should the views of the religious right, many of whom are Republican party supporters, be adopted by the US government?
• Fire and ice caught on camera / 24 November 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — volcano on Antarctic island flips its lid
• The Origin of Speciousness / November 18, 2005 / George Neumayr / American Spectator — many Darwinists argue that Darwin's theory harmonizes with religion
• Evolution: Rationality vs. Randomness / November 2005 / Gerald Schroeder / aish.com (The Jewish Website) — an M.I.T. trained scientist takes a look at Darwin, the fossil record, and the likelihood of random evolution
• published articles / September 2005 / Tim O'Connor / Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University — free will, emergence, philosophical theology, epistemology

NOVEMBER 28

• Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins / November 2005 / Carl Zimmer / Harper Collins — see also Amazon
• Antievolutionism Addressed by Top Geoscientists and Educators / 14 October 2005 / contact: Ann Cairns / Geological Society of America, Release No. 05-41
• Living in the Multiverse / September 2, 2005 / Steven Weinberg / Trinity College, Cambridge — written version of the opening talk at the symposium "Expectations of a Final Theory"
• The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma / September 2005 / Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
  • New book explains how evolution really works, rebuts intelligent design / 27 October 2005 / contact: Leah Gourley / EurekAlert!
• Who Was Adam? A Creation Model Approach to the Origin of Man / September 2005 / Fazale Rana with Hugh Ross / NavPress — see also Amazon
• Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries / June 2005 / Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder / Anchor (Random House) — see also Amazon
• The Second Coming of Charles Darwin / June 2005 / James Morrow / an Amazon Short
• Creationism versus Evolution (At Issue Series) / April 2005 / Eric Braun (editor) / Greenhaven Press — see also Amazon
• Hummer Nest '05 / February 2005 / WebTV community home pages — pictures of growing baby hummingbirds
• Molecular Models of Life: Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology / January 2005 / Sahotra Sarkar / MIT Press — see also Amazon
• Leaps in the Dark: The Making of Scientific Reputations / December 2004 / John Waller / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Glaciers, 2nd Edition / November 2004 / Michael Hambrey and Jürg Alean / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
  • Glaciers online / swisseduc.ch
• Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse / September 2003 / Brad Leithauser / Knopf — see also Amazon
  • Love's paper wings / April 4, 2002 / Ron Charles / Christian Science Monitor — a butterfly scientist discovers he must fall to soar
  • Amazing Merger of Art and Science / Fall 2002 / Laura Purdom / Vista, v.7, n.2 (Mt Holyoke College)
• The Future of Life / March 2003 / Edward O. Wilson / Vintage — see also Amazon
• Modern Physics and Ancient Faith / March 2003 / Stephen M. Barr / University of Notre Dame Press — see also Amazon
  • Manifesto of a Revolutionary / June 30, 2004 / Mark Ryland / Discovery Institute
• Creationism and Scriptural Geology, 1817–1857 / November 2002 / John M. Lynch (editor) / Bristol Thoemmes Press — see also Amazon
• Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: A Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative / December 2000 / Larry Vardiman, Andrew A. Snelling, and Eugene F. Chaffin (editors) / Institute for Creation Research and Creation Research Society — see also Amazon
  • complete online version (pdf)
• Annals of the Former World / June 2000 / John McPhee / Farrar, Straus and Giroux — see also Amazon
• For the Time Being / February 2000 / Annie Dillard / Vintage — see also Amazon

NOVEMBER 27

• Charles Darwin: Evolution of a Scientist / November 28, 2005 / Jerry Adler / Newsweek — he had planned to enter the ministry, but his discoveries on a fateful voyage 170 years ago shook his faith and changed our conception of the origins of life
• 2nd KU class denies status of science to design theory / November 27, 2005 / Sophia Maines / Lawrence Journal-World (Kansas)
• Evolution site under fire / November 26, 2005 / Becky Bartindale and Lisa Krieger / Mercury News (California) — couple's lawsuit says UC-Berkeley web site for teachers involves religion
• Earliest Animals Had Human-like Genes / November 25, 2005 / European Molecular Biology Laboratory / Science Daily
• Professor of new creationism course criticized for e-mail / November 24, 2005 / Wichita Eagle (Associated Press)
  • E-mail spurs debate over KU course / November 26, 2005 / Laura Bauer / Kansas City Star — creation myths are focus of new class
• CO2 'highest for 650,000 years' / 24 November 2005 / Richard Black / BBC News
• "Is the ID debate proof of an intelligent deceiver?" / 24 November 2005 / A. Richard Palmer / Nature, v.438, n.7067, p.422
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: The third way
• God & Man & Gratitude / November 23, 2005 / Jonah Goldberg / National Review Online — giving thanks -- and not just for evolutionary reasons
• Theory of Anything? / November 23, 2005 / Paul Boutin / Slate — physicist Lawrence Krauss turns on his own
• Turning academia into a cafeteria / November 23, 2005 / Russell Jacoby / Los Angeles Times — offering students a buffet of bogus 'choices' only undermines intellectual integrity and corrodes academic freedom
• KU class angers ‘design’ advocates / November 22, 2005 / Sophia Maines / Lawrence Journal-World (Kansas) — course would be taught as religion, not as science
• ARN-Announce, n.49 / November 18, 2005 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network — describes many of the upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
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• "Origin of flight: Could 'four-winged' dinosaurs fly?" / 17 November 2005 / Kevin Padian and Kenneth P. Dial / Nature, v.438, n.7066, p.E3
• "Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites" / 11 November 2005:/ Wolfgang Haak, et al. / Science, v.310, n.5750, p.1016-1018
  • "Ancient DNA Yields Clues to the Puzzle of European Origins" / 11 November 2005:/ Michael Balter / Science, v.310, n.5750, p.964-965
• "Tyrannosaurus rex Gets Sensitive" / 11 November 2005 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.310, n.5750, p.966-967
• Twin Molecular Scissors Link Creation of MicroRNAs with Gene-silencing / November 7, 2005 / The Wistar Institute / Science Daily
• "Teaching Evolution in Mexico: Preaching to the Choir" / 4 November 2005 / Antonio Lazcano / Science, v.310, n.5749, p.787-789
• "Tracking Myth to Geological Reality" / 4 November 2005 / Kevin Krajick / Science, v.310, n.5749, p.762-764
• "MIT Terminates Researcher Over Data Fabrication" / 4 November 2005 / Jennifer Couzin / Science, v.310, n.5749, p.758
• EVOLUTION: "Groups Wield Copyright Power to Delay Kansas Standards" / 4 November 2005 / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / Science, v.310, n.5749, p.754
• "Radiocarbon dating of interstratified Neanderthal and early modern human occupations at the Chatelperronian type-site" / 3 November 2005 / Brad Gravina, Paul Mellars, and Christopher Bronk Ramsey / Nature, v.438, n.7064, p.51-56
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: The long goodbye
• It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity / November 2005 / N. David Mermin / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity / November 2005 / Jonathan Silvertown / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
• "Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members" / 27 October 2005 / Joan B. Silk, et al. / Nature, v.437, p.1357-1359
• Flores man special / 27 October 2005 / Nature — A species of tiny human has been discovered, which lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores just 18,000 years ago.
• "Evolution of indirect reciprocity" / 27 October 2005 / Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund / Nature, v.437, p.1291-1298 — How can natural selection promote unselfish behaviour?
• "Human dynamics: Darwin and Einstein correspondence patterns" / 27 October 2005 / João Gama Oliveira and Albert-László Barabási / Nature, v.437, p.1251
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Men of letters
• "Cooling of the Earth and core formation after the giant impact" / 27 October 2005 / Bernard J. Wood and Alex N. Halliday / Nature, v.437, p.1345-1348
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Beat the clock
• Joint Statement Regarding the Kansas Science Education Standards (pdf) / October 27, 2005 / National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association
• EVOLUTION: "New Migration Route Could Lead to New Species of Bird" / 21 October 2005 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.310, n.5747, p.419
• "Adaptive evolution of non-coding DNA in Drosophila" / 20 October 2005 / Peter Andolfatto / Nature, v.437, p.1149-1152
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: The sound of silent DNA
• PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: "New 'Hobbits' Bolster Species, But Origins Still a Mystery" / 14 October 2005:/ Elizabeth Culotta / Science, v.310, n.5746, p.208-209
• EVOLUTION: "Better Habits Sometimes Heritable" / 14 October 2005:/ Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.310, n.5746, p.215
• "Extrasolar Planets: Constraints for Planet Formation Models" / 14 October 2005:/ Nuno C. Santos, Willy Benz, and Michel Mayor / Science, v.310, n.5746, p.251-255
• "Shaking the Earliest Branches of Anthropoid Primate Evolution" / 14 October 2005:/ Jean-Jacques Jaeger and Laurent Marivaux / Science, v.310, n.5746, p.244-245
• Peril in Paradise: Theology, Science, and the Age of the Earth / October 2005 / Mark S. Whorton / Authentic Media — see also Amazon
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / October 2005 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / September 2005 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• "Karoo large igneous province: Brevity, origin, and relation to mass extinction questioned by new ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age data" / September 2005 / Fred Jourdan, Gilbert Féraud, Hervé Bertrand, Ali Bashira Kampunzu, Gomotsang Tshoso, Michael K. Watkeys, and Bernard Le Gall / Geology, v.33, n.9, p.745-748
• The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body / June 2005 / Steven Mithen / Orion Publishing Group — see also Amazon
• Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure / January 2005 / Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo / Columbia University Press — see also Amazon
• Molecular Machines: Flagellum Animations and Movies / Access Research Network
• Intelligent Design / Wikipedia
• Darwin Digital Library of Evolution / American Museum of Natural History Library
• World Science — the global science news site
• God of Creation / E. Norbert Smith / New Life Church (Colorado Springs, CO)
• Creation Geometries / Vernon Jenkins — the opening words of the Bible reveal the work of the divine hand
• Fibonacci Numbers in Nature / World Mysteries
  • Fibonacci Numbers and Nature / Ron Knott / Surrey University (UK)
  • Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section / Ron Knott / Surrey University (UK)
• New Work Documents the Evolution of Irreducibly Complex Structures / October 30, 2004 / Dave Thomas / New Mexicans for Science and Reason
• Einstein and God / 2004 / Thomas Torrance / Center of Theological Inquiry
• Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America / December 2001 / William J. Astore / Ashgate Publishing — see also Amazon
• Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief / December 2001 / Huston Smith / HarperCollins — see also Amazon

NOVEMBER 23

• The Trials of Life / December 2005 / Steve Mirsky / Scientific American — because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, we have to talk about intelligent design again
• Getting a Leg Up on Land / December 2005 / Jennifer A. Clack / Scientific American — recent fossil discoveries cast light on the evolution of four-limbed animals from fish
• "Catastrophic soil erosion during the end-Permian biotic crisis" / December 2005 / Mark A. Sephton, Cindy V. Looy, Henk Brinkhuis, Paul B. Wignall, Jan W. de Leeuw, and Henk Visscher / Geology, v.33, n.12, p.941-944
• "How big was the Chesapeake Bay impact? Insight from numerical modeling" / December 2005 / Gareth S. Collins and Kai Wünnemann / Geology, v.33, n.12, p.925-928
• "Age and effects of the Odessa meteorite impact, western Texas, USA" / December 2005 / Vance T. Holliday, David A. Kring, James H. Mayer, and Ronald J. Goble / Geology, v.33, n.12, p.945-948
• "Tendencies in paleontological practice when defining species, and consequences on biodiversity studies" / December 2005 / Elise Nardin, Isabelle Rouget, and Pascal Neige / Geology, v.33, n.12, p.969-972
• The Classroom: Other Schools of Thought / November 28, 2005 / William Lee Adams / Newsweek (MSNBC) — the teaching of evolution continues to polarize communities
• The Crocodilian Past / November 23, 2005 / New York Times — scientists say they have discovered the fossil of a large sea-dwelling crocodile that lived 135 million years ago in the middle of the dinosaur era
• U. of Kansas Offers Creationism Study / November 23, 2005 / Fox News (Associated Press)
• Is Our ‘Inverted’ Retina Really ‘Bad Design’? / 23 November 2005 / Peter W. V. Gurney / True.Origin Archive
• Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder'? New Supernovae Study Offers Tantalyzing Clues About Dark Energy / November 22, 2005 / University of Toronto / Science Daily — The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a "cosmological constant" to his equation for the expansion of the universe but later retracted it, may be vindicated by new research.
• Genealogy of Scaly Reptiles Rewritten by New Research / November 22, 2005 / Penn State / Science Daily
• Evolution and medicine / November 22, 2005 / Robert “Tommy” Mitchell / Answers in Genesis
• Arguing the Ethics of Stem Cell Research / November 22, 2005 / Laurie Zoloth and Robert P. George / National Public Radio
• Making a monkey of religion / November 21, 2005 / Charles Krauthammer / Seattle Times
• Those defensive Darwinists / November 21, 2005 / Jonathan Witt / Seattle Times
• 'Sex' Helps Bacteria Cope with a Changing World / November 21, 2005 / University of Bath / Science Daily
• Researchers Uncover How a Nanoscale 'Compass' Inside Bacteria Orients Them to the Earth's Magnetic Field / November 21, 2005 / Max Planck Society / Science Daily
• Survival of the religious is Darwin's newest fruitfly / November 21, 2005 / Suzanne Fields / townhall.com
• Vienna cardinal draws lines in Intelligent Design row / November 20, 2005 / Tom Heneghan / Reuters
• University Is Accused of Bias Against Christian Schools / November 20, 2005 / Carolyn Marshall / New York Times — an evangelical Christian student who attends a religious high school in southern California fears that his beliefs may hurt his chance to attend the University of California
• The Grandeur of Evolution in a New Exhibition Called 'Darwin' / November 19, 2005 / Verlyn Klinkenborg / New York Times — After Darwin visited the poet Alfred Tennyson, Tennyson was troubled about losing the assurance of immortality.
  • The grandeur of evolution / November 21, 2005 / Verlyn Klinkenborg / International Herald Tribune
• Is Evolutionism Science? / November 20, 2005 / James Maclin Horton / Sunday Night Journal
• Scientific moments of truth / 19 November 2005 / Alan Lightman / New Scientist, n.2526 — Is the process of scientific breakthrough a product of hard work, personality, inspiration or plain old-fashioned luck?
• Darwin wins one fight as another begins / 19 November 2005 / Celeste Biever / New Scientist, n.2526 — as eight of nine members of a pro-intelligent design Pennsylvania school board are voted out, Kansas state votes in anti-evolution school standards
• Survey: Most want evolution taught / November 18, 2005 / Science Daily (UPI)
• Phony Theory, False Conflict / November 18, 2005 / Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post, p.A23 — 'Intelligent Design' foolishly pits evolution against faith
• Darwin Gets His Due / November 18, 2005 / Kate Wong / Scientific American
• Enough to Make an Iguana Turn Green: Darwin's Ideas / November 18, 2005 / Edward Rothstein / New York Times
• Vatican Official Refutes Intelligent Design / November 18, 2005 / Nicole Winfield / Yahoo! News
• Vatican astronomer rips Intelligent Design theory / November 18, 2005 / Catholic World News
• Exhibit on Darwin creates Bush bash at museum gala / November 18, 2005 / Jo Piazza and Chris Rovar / New York Daily News
• How Evolution Evolved / November 18, 2005 / Peter Pettus / New York Sun
• "Hummingbirds Keep Plant Speciation Humming Along" / 18 November 2005 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.310, n.5751, p.1109
• "Antievolutionists Win One in Kansas, Lose Eight Seats in Dover" / 18 November 2005 / Constance Holden and Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / Science, v.310, n.5751, p.1105
• Early Earth Likely Had Continents, Was Habitable, According to New Study / November 18, 2005 / University of Colorado at Boulder / Science Daily
• The food you eat may change your genes for life / 17 November 2005 / Alison Motluk / New Scientist, n.2526, p.12
• Dung Reveals Dinosaurs Ate Grass / 17 November 2005 / Bjorn Carey / Live Science
  • Fossil dung reveals dinosaurs did graze grass / 17 November 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
  • "Dinosaurs Dined on Grass" / 18 November 2005 / Dolores R. Piperno and Hans-Dieter Sues / Science, v.310, n.5751, p.1126-1128
  • "Dinosaur Coprolites and the Early Evolution of Grasses and Grazers" / 18 November 2005 / Vandana Prasad, Caroline A. E. Strömberg, Habib Alimohammadian, and Ashok Sahni / Science, v.310, n.5751, p.1177-1180
• The Flawed Philosophy of Intelligent Design / November 17, 2005 / James Harrington / Tech Central Station
• Deep sea special: The curious afterlife of whales / 12 November 2005 / Graham Lawton / New Scientist, n.2525 — a whale's death is the start of a feast that can last 100 years
• Swelling wormhole could engulf the universe / 12 November 2005 / New Scientist, n.2525, p.23
• Don't nuke deadly asteroids -- tow them / 12 November 2005 / Zeeya Merali / New Scientist, n.2525
• Intelligent Design trial is over / 12 November 2005 / New Scientist, n.2525 — Judge John Jones now aims to decide by 1 January whether teaching ID in US science classes violates the US constitution
• Rock of Ages / November-December 2005 / Christopher R. Brodie / American Scientist — living bacterium from fluid trapped inside 250-million-year-old salt crystals buried half a kilometer deep in New Mexico
• "New look at ammonoid taphonomy, based on field experiments with modern chambered nautilus" / November 2005 / Ryoji Wani, Tomoki Kase, Yasunari Shigeta, and Roberto De Ocampo / Geology, v.33, n.11, p.849-852
• The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor / November 2005 / Alex P. Meshik / Scientific American — Two billion years ago parts of the African uranium Oklo deposit in Gabon spontaneously underwent nuclear fission.
• Two Against the Big Bang / November 2005 / Richard Panek / Discover, v.26, n.11 — Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge were once among the most celebrated astronomers in the world. Now they live in relative obscurity, obstinately railing against one of the most fundamental theories of all time. Why are they laughing?
• God goes to court in all but name / 31 October 2005 / Celeste Biever / New Scientist, n.2523 — the insider's guide to the court battle over Intelligent Design, and what US schoolchildren should be taught about the origin of life
• Capturing a black hole's feeding habit / 29 October 2005 / New Scientist, n.2523, p.19
• Alien life seems yet more likely / 24 October 2005 / New Scientist, n.2522, p.22
• Raptor inflicted death by a thousand bites / 22 October 2005 / New Scientist, n.2522, p.22
• New Noah predicts floods across the US / 22 October 2005 / New Scientist, n.2522, p.6
• US geologists rally against intelligent design / 22 October 2005 / New Scientist, n.2522 — the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America saw its members joining their biologist brethren in attacking the creationist challenge to evolution
• More hobbit bones found / 15 October 2005 / New Scientist, n.2521, p.19
• Feathered flight, so good they did it twice? / 15 October 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2521 — the unexpected discovery of a dromaeosaur in South America could change what we know about the evolution of flight
• Why time keeps going forwards / 13 October 2005 / Amanda Gefter / New Scientist, n.2521 — What keeps the cosmic clock surging onwards? Curious elliptical patterns in the sky might hold the answer.
• Dinosaurs Roar Back from the Past / October 2005 / Jack Hitt / Discover, v.26, n.10 — new discoveries hint there’s a lot more in fossil bones than we thought
• Intelligent Design: The New Creationism Threatens All of Science and Society" / October 2005 / Marshall Berman / APS News (American Physical Society)
• The Heresy of Nosson Slifkin / October 2005 / Jennie Rothenberg / Moment Magazine — It is a story that is making headlines nearly every day. Somewhere in the United States, at a school board meeting or in a state legislature, Christian fundamentalists are challenging Darwin’s theory of evolution.
• Butterfly's Navigation Secret Revealed in Flight Simulator / 4 May 2005 / Live Science
• Monarch Viceroy Puzzle / Denyse O’Leary / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
• Monarch butterflies and navigation (pdf) / 1999 / Jules Poirier / CEN Technical Journal, v.13, n.1, p.105-114
• "Female Monarch Butterfly's Needles Designed for Survival" / September 1995 / Jules H. Poirier / Impact, n.267 (Institute for Creation Research)

NOVEMBER 16

• Lizards' poisonous secret is revealed / 16 November 2005 / Emma Young / New Scientist — rewriting the story of lizard and snake evolution
• Reptile fossil is 'early turtle' / 16 November 2005 / BBC News — a fossil reptile discovered in Brazil may be the oldest known creature that resembles a modern turtle
• Seeing Mountains in Starry Clouds of Creation / November 15, 2005 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times — astronomers operating NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have used the name, "Mountains of Creation," to describe star-forming pillars in the constellation Cassiopeia
• GOP tests intelligent design water / November 15, 2005 / Mary Beth Schneider / Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) — voters are polled on what to teach
• Darwinian Struggle: At Some Colleges, Classes Questioning Evolution Take Hold / November 14, 2005 / Daniel Golden / Wall Street Journal, p.A1 — 'Intelligent Design' doctrine leaves room for creator; in Iowa, science on defense ... a professor turns heckler
• Genes contribute to patriotism and group loyalty / 14 November 2005 / contact: J. Philippe Rushton / EurekAlert!
• Intelligent Design in American Classrooms / November 14, 2005 / Steve Inskeep / National Public Radio
• Our Faith in Science / November 12, 2005 / Tenzin Gyatso / New York Times
• Kuwait's biggest field starts to run out of oil / November 12, 2005 / AME Info — It was an incredible revelation last week that the second largest oil field in the world is exhausted and past its peak output. Yet that is what the Kuwait Oil Company revealed about its Burgan field.
• Genetic Find Stirs Debate on Race-Based Medicine / November 11, 2005 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Intelligent Design and Academic Freedom / November 10, 2005 / Barbara Bradley Hagerty / National Public Radio — Richard Sternberg published a peer-reviewed article by Stephen Meyer, a proponent of intelligent design
  • Attacks on journal editor raise questions about academic freedom and intelligent design / November 11, 2005 / Catholic News Agency — The editor of a small, scientific journal, loosely associated with the Smithsonian Institute, has come under tremendous fire recently, for his publication of an article supporting the theory of Intelligent Design--and he doesn’t even believe the theory himself.
• Televangelist warns of evolution doomsday / November 10, 2005 / MSNBC (Reuters) — Pat Robertson says a vote against intelligent design is a vote against God
  • Robertson: God May Smite Down Town That Voted Out Anti-Evolution School Board / November 11, 2005 / Fox News (Associated Press)
  • Right-Wing Outrage / November 16, 2005 / People for the American Way — Robertson follow-up report
• "A mutation accumulation assay reveals a broad capacity for rapid evolution of gene expression" / 10 November 2005 / Scott A. Rifkin, David Houle, Junhyong Kim, and Kevin P. White / Nature, v.438, p.220-223
• FSU prof gets two years for vehicular manslaughter / November 10, 2005 / Tallahassee Democrat (Associated Press) — Nobel Prize-winning physicist, John Robert Schrieffer, a Florida State University professor was sentenced to two years in prison
• Is Intelligent Design a Bad Scientific Theory or a Non-Scientific Theory? / November 10, 2005 / Uriah Kriegel / Tech Central Station
• "Antigravity craft slips past patent officers" / 10 November 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature, v.438, p.139 — 'impossible' device gets seal of approval
• Pope Echoes Arguments of Intelligent Design Advocates / November 9, 2005 / Stacy Meichtry and Kevin Eckstrom / beliefnet.com
  • Creation Reveals God and His Love, Says Benedict XVI / November 9, 2005 / Zenit: The World Seen From Rome — comments on Psalm 135(136) at General Audience
  • Designer God? Vatican experts debate fine points of evolution / November 11, 2005 / John Thavis / Catholic News Service
  • Pope says universe made by 'intelligent project' / November 12, 2005 / Associated Press
  • Pope Speaks on Evolution / November 13, 2005 / Scientific American — Pope Benedict XVI has waded into the evolution debate in the United States, saying the universe was made by an "intelligent project" and criticizing those who in the name of science say its creation was without direction or order
• For the Dalai Lama, a Meeting of Brain and Mind / November 9, 2005 / Marc Kaufman / Washington Post, p.C01
  • Dalai Lama Links Science, Buddhism / November 12, 2005 / Elizabeth White / Washington Post (Associated Press)
  • Dalai Lama Gives Talk on Science / November 13, 2005 / Marc Kaufman / Washington Post, p.C01 — monk's D.C. lecture links mind and matter
• Gigantic Apes Coexisted With Early Humans, Study Finds / November 9, 2005 / Bjorn Carey / Fox News
• A Is for Ancient, Describing an Alphabet Found Near Jerusalem / November 9, 2005 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times, p.A12
• Pennsylvania Voters Reject 'Intelligent Design' / 9 November 2005 / Martha Raffael / Live Science (Associated Press) — see also Austin American-Statesman
  • Evolution Slate Outpolls Rivals / November 9, 2005 / Laurie Goodstein / New York Times, p.A24 — 2005 school board elections in Pennsylvania
  • Evolution and the Electorate / November 10, 2005 / New York Times
  • Pa. Voters Eject School Board Amidst Evolution Debate / November 14, 2005 / National Public Radio
• Kansas School Board Decision Lambasted by Teachers, Scientist as Attack on Science / November 8, 2005 / contact: Jessica Smith or Clark Stevens / U.S. Newswire — campaign launches new online ad, petition
  • Kansas backs intelligent design in science lessons / 9 November 2005 / Gaia Vince / New Scientist
  • Evolution suffers Kansas setback / 9 November 2005 / BBC News — public schools in Kansas are to be given new science standards that cast doubt on evolution
  • Kansas School Board Votes to Challenge Evolution / 9 November 2005 / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee and Constance Holden / ScienceNOW (AAAS)
  • Kansas Board Approves Challenges to Evolution / November 9, 2005 / Jodi Wilgoren / New York Times, p.A14
  • Kansas Evolution Ruling Chases Jobs Away / November 9, 2005 / Scott Ott / Scrapple Face
  • Doubting Darwin in Kansas classrooms / November 10, 2005 / Pam S. Sheppard / Answers in Genesis — school board approves new science standards
  • Philosophers Notwithstanding, Kansas School Board Redefines Science / November 15, 2005 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Science and Religion Share Fascination in Things Unseen / November 8, 2005 / Lawrence M. Krauss / New York Times, p.F4
• Embryonic change elicits adult fish change / November 8, 2005 / Georgia Institute of Technology / Science Daily (UPI) — apparent linkages between the evolutionary development and embryonic development of species
• Theory of evolution compatible with Bible: Vatican / November 7, 2005 / Martin Penner / The Australian
  • The Daily Dose: Vatican sides with Darwin / November 7, 2005 / Matt Donnelly / Science & Theology News — There is no more confusion swirling around the Vatican over its stance on ID. Darwin has won out, and scientists are breathing a collective sigh of relief.
  • A pope for our times: why Darwin is back on the agenda at the Vatican / November 7, 2005 / William Rees-Mogg / Times Online (UK)
  • The "Vatican" Endorses "Darwin"? / November 8, 2005 / Ignatius Insight (weblog of Ignatius Press authors and staff)
• ‘Does it matter which is right?’ / November 7, 2005 / Jonathan Sarfati / Answers in Genesis
• RATE research reveals remarkable results -- a fatal blow to billions of years / November 7, 2005 / Jason Lisle / Answers in Genesis
• Biohazards: Advances in biological science raise troubling questions about what it means to be human / November 6, 2005 / Wesley J. Smith / San Francisco Chronicle
• Intelligent design makes for big bang / November 5, 2005 / Donna Winchester / St. Petersburg Times (Florida) — the controversial theory about the origins of life finds opponents and proponents at a state science teachers meeting
• Eight-year-old physics genius enters university / November 5, 2005 / Hwang Si-young / Korea Herald
• Poking holes in evolution / November 5, 2005 / Russ Pulliam / IndyStar.com (Indianapolis) — When scientists boldly proclaim the Darwinian theory of evolution, they go way beyond scientific expertise into matters of philosophy and theology.
• Science, with just a twist of God / November 5, 2005 / Shane Green / The Age (Australia) — a devout scientist defends teaching intelligent design in his classroom
• Dover, Pennsylvania -- Intelligent Design trial ends today / November 4, 2005 / Pam S. Sheppard / Answers in Genesis — a “Supreme” fight for intelligence is predicted
  • In Intelligent Design Case, a Cause in Search of a Lawsuit / November 4, 2005 / Laurie Goodstein / New York Times, p.A16
  • Closing arguments: Dover Plaintiffs’ Counsel Speaks Loudly, Carries Small Stick / November 5, 2005 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views
  • Minnich vs Harvey: “The witness is smarter than the lawyer” / November 5, 2005 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views
  • The Case of Behe vs. Darwin / November 5, 2005 / Josh Getlin / Los Angeles Times — an unassuming biochemist who became the lead witness for intelligent design is unfazed by criticism but glad he has tenure
  • "Intelligent Design" Trial Wraps Up / 7 November 2005 / Constance Holden / ScienceNOW (AAAS)
  • New Federal Court Filing and Editorial at Trial's End in Intelligent Design Case / November 7, 2005 / contacts: Stephen Miles Sacks or Stanley M. Shingles / U.S. Newswire — government should not mandate teaching Intelligent Design as an alternative to evolution
  • Darwin on Trial / November 9, 2005 / Eyal Press / The Nation
  • Setting the Record Straight about Discovery Institute's Role in the Dover School District Case / November 10, 2005 / Discovery Institute
• Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head / November 4, 2005 / Alok Jha / The Guardian (UK) — scientist says device disproves quantum theory; opponents claim idea is result of wrong maths
• Daniels has reservations on 'intelligent design' bill / November 4, 2005 / The Times (Northwest Indiana)
• ID-ing intelligent design / November 4, 2005 / Errol Castens / Daily Journal (Northeast Mississippi)
• Speaker intensifies design debate / November 3, 2005 / Carl Walz / Index (Truman State University, Kirksville, MO) — The national debate about intelligent design came to Truman on Oct. 5, riding the coattails of Guillermo Gonzalez, professor of astronomy and physics at Iowa State University, who gave an introductory speech on the topic.
• Vatican: Faithful should listen to science / November 3, 2005 / Nicole Winfield / USA Today (Associated Press) — see also ABC News
  • Vatican Cardinal Says We Should Listen to Science / November 7, 2005 / Fox News
• Intelligent design materials on hand / November 3, 2005 / Steven Ray Haberlin / Gainesville Sun (Florida)
• Darwin's Natural Selection Still at Work in Humans / 2 November 2005 / Ker Than / Live Science
• Adult Stem Cells May Be Just Remnants of Evolution / November 2, 2005 / Max Planck Society / Science Daily
• It's 9:00 a.m.: Do you know what your children are reading in biology class? / November 2, 2005 / Denyse O'Leary / Access Research Network
• Engaging prior learning on creationism and evolution may benefit college biology students / 1 November 2005 / contact: Donna Royston / EurekAlert! — reading books sympathetic to and opposed to evolution supported increased acceptance of rationalist views
• Desperate Measures / November 1, 2005 / Chuck Colson / BreakPoint — the evolutionist establishment turns to blackmail
• Better Living through Evolution / November-December 2005 / Daniel L. Hartl / Harvard Magazine — the science of novelty and complexity in life forms
• Intelligent Evolution: The consequences of Charles Darwin's "one long argument" / November-December 2005 / Edward O. Wilson / Harvard Magazine
• "Science versus scientism" / November 2005 / John Silber / The New Criterion, v.24, p.9
• "Jump-Starting a Cellular World: Investigating the Origin of Life, from Soup to Networks" / November 2005 / Richard Robinson / PLoS Biology, v.3, n.11
• Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win / October 7, 2005 / Douglas Kern / Tech Central Station
• Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design (Annotated) / October 1, 2005 / Discovery Institute
• Witness cites school board's anti-evolution bias / September 27, 2005 / MSNBC (Associated Press) — religion behind intelligent design policy, former board member says
• Intelligent Design / September 19, 2005 / Paul Rudnick / New Yorker
• World-first technology enables study of ancient bacteria / 6 June 2005 / contact: R. John Parkes / EurekAlert! — sustainable energy source could solve Bermuda Triangle riddle
• Is Pierolapithecus the Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Apes? / 18 November 2004 / Kathy Wren and Michaela Jarvis / AAAS News Release
• "Reconciling Science with Natural Philosophy" / January 2004 / Michael Augros / The Thomist, v.68, p.105-141
• "Role of educational factors in college students' creation worldview" / April 2003 / Steve Deckard, Chard Berndt, Mary Filakouridis, Tim Iverson, and David A. DeWitt / TJ [Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal], v.17, n.1, p.70-72
• "Four-winged dinosaurs from China" / 23 January 2003 / Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Xuewen Kuang, Fucheng Zhang, and Xiangke Du / Nature, v.421, p.335-340
• "The Fact of Evolution: Implications for Science Education" (pdf) / 2003 / James R. Hofmann and Bruce H. Weber / Science & Education, v.12, p.729-760
• "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" / February 1960 / Eugene Wigner / Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, v.13

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• Intelligent design: Relevant to science / November 1, 2005 / Chris Macosko / Minnesota Daily — Intelligent design is relevant to evolution and is a catalyst for new directions. It is a different perspective that inspires creativity.
• Did Life Come from Another World? / November 2005 / David Warmflash and Benjamin Weiss / Scientific American — new research indicates that microorganisms could have survived a journey from Mars to Earth
• "FitzRoy, Captain of the Beagle, Fierce Critic of Darwinism" / November 2005 / Andrew Sibley / Impact, n.389 (Institute for Creation Research)
• University of California at Berkeley sued over pro-evolution website / October 31, 2005 / Pam S. Sheppard / Answers in Genesis — use of religion to promote evolution violates First Amendment
• Flipped Genetic Sequences Illuminate Human Evolution and Disease / October 30, 2005 / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Science Daily
• Picky Female Frogs Drive Evolution of New Species in Less than 8,000 Years / October 28, 2005 / University of California, Berkeley / Science Daily
• MIT professor sacked for fabricating data / 28 October 2005 / Eugenie Samuel Reich / New Scientist
• Is US Becoming Hostile to Science? / October 28, 2005 / New York Times (Reuters)
  • Is US becoming hostile to science? / October 28, 2005 / Alan Elsner / Yahoo! News (Reuters)
• 'Epigenetics' Means What We Eat, How We Live and Love, Alters How Our Genes Behave / October 27, 2005 / Duke University Medical Center / Science Daily
• Parent wins court battle over evolution / October 27, 2005 / World Net Daily — schools officials blocked proposal that encouraged debate
• Geneticists hail variety show / 26 October 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — map of DNA differences will help experts tailor drugs
• Provine Talks on Intelligent Design Debate / October 26, 2005 / Brian Kaviar / Cornell Daily Sun — defends theory of evolution
• Group stresses need for scientific evidence / October 25, 2005 / USA Today — the American Association for the Advancement of Science called for better discussion of scientific evidence and principles
• Intelligent design's plea for help / October 25, 2005 / Mike Argento / York Daily Record (Pennsylvania)
• 'Intelligent design' supporters gather / October 24, 2005 / Ondrej Hejma / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Paper Draws Criticism / October 24, 2005 / Elizabeth K. Wilson / Chemical & Engineering News, v.83, n.43, p.60-61 — peer-reviewed paper arguing for the uncertainty of radiometric dating raises anticreationist hackles
• A Call to Action Against Intelligent Design / October 24, 2005 / Inside Higher Ed — Cornell University’s interim president, Hunter R. Rawlings III, used his “state of the university” address to denounce “intelligent design”
• Natural Selection Has Strongly Influenced Recent Human Evolution, Study Finds / October 23, 2005 / Cornell University / Science Daily
• Missing Links / October 23, 2005 / Peter Dizikes / Boston Globe — Proponents of Intelligent design have exploited a vexing question at the heart of Darwin's theory. Now, say two leading biologists, scientists can -- and must -- answer back.
• An intelligent design of the times / October 22, 2005 / Juliette Hughes / The Age (Australia) — examines the boundaries between religion and science
• In forthright speech, Rawlings calls on Cornell to address 'invasion of science by intelligent design' / October 21, 2005 / Susan S. Lang / Cornell University
• Tension Mounts on Intelligent Design / October 21, 2005 / Top Tech News
• 'Intelligent Design' scorned / October 21, 2005 / Darrin Barnett / NEWS.com.au (Australia)
• Afterlife concept devalues earthly existence; celebrates death / October 21, 2005 / John Bice / State News (Michigan State University)
• Junk DNA is critically important / October 19, 2005 / Science Daily (United Press International)
• Behe backs off 'mechanisms' / 19 October 2005 / Lauri Lebo / Free Republic (York Daily Record [Pennsylvania]) — cross exam in Dover evolution trial
• Behe's 15th-century science / October 19, 2005 / Mike Argento / York Daily Record (Pennsylvania)
• Thousands of Scientists Sign Petition Opposing the Teaching of Intelligent Design as Science / October 19, 2005 / Shovelbums.org — no debate among scientists regardless of faith, Intelligent Design is not science
• U. of Colorado Researcher Identifies Tracks of Swimming Dinosaur in Wyoming / October 19, 2005 / University of Colorado, Boulder / Science Daily
• Removal of Dominant Rivals Causes Male Cichlid Fish to Undergo Remarkable Transformation / October 18, 2005 /  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill / Science Daily
• Intelligent Design proponents call their first witness / 18 October 2005 / Celeste Biever / New Scientist
• Geoscientists and Educators Take On Antievolutionists / 14 October 2005 / contact: Ann Cairns / Geological Society of America, Release No. 05-40 — see also EurekAlert!
• Why do we believe in God? / October 13, 2005 / Robert Winston / The Guardian (UK) — Faith in a higher being is as old as humanity itself. But what sparked the Divine Idea? Did our earliest ancestors gain some evolutionary advantage through their shared religious feelings?
• Intelligent Design's Contribution to the Debate over Evolution: A Reply to Henry Morris / 1 February 2005 / William A. Dembski / Design Inference Website
• Onward and upward? / June 1993 / Lori Oliwenstein / Discover — evolution is not always directed toward greater complexity
• On Science and Religion / 1941 / Albert Einstein / Science & Spirit — a speech given at The Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion

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