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    — News Archive (December 2005)

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DECEMBER 30

• Winning Intelligent Design Case Puts Plaintiffs Attorneys in Public Eye / December 29, 2005 / Gina Passarella / law.com
• Physicists keep faith in constants / December 29, 2005 / Robert C. Cowen / Christian Science Monitor
• Pandas give thumbs-up to theory of evolution / 29 December 2005 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
• Huge new oil discovery in Brazil / 28 December 2005 / BBC News — Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, says it has discovered a huge new offshore oil field off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state
• Darwin's Pyrrhic Victory / December 28, 2005 / Pat Buchanan / Real Clear Politics — "Intelligent Design Derailed," exulted the headline
• For the science room, no free speech / December 28, 2005 / Bill Murchison / townhall.com
• Helping Out Darwin's Cause With a Little Pointed Humor / December 27, 2005 / Cornelia Dean / New York Times
• SLU professor's research sways Pa. judge / December 27, 2005 / Debra Lemoine / The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
• The Other Panda's Thumb / December 26, 2005 / Carl Zimmer / Corante
• Science, the Scientific Method, and Intelligent Design / December 24, 2005 / Republicans & Conservatives: Archives
• "Disasters: Searching for Lessons From a Bad Year" / 23 December 2005 / John Bohannon / Science, v.310, n.5756, p.1883
• Career Development / 23 December 2005 / Science
  • "Evolution: Getting in on the Action"  / James Austin
  • "The Evolution of Butterfly Vision" / Robin Arnette
  • "Evolutionary Ecology, Locally and Globally" / Anne Forde
  • "Natural Evolution in a Career" / Andrew Fazekas
  • "Career Diversity in Evolutionary Genetics" / Elisabeth Pain
• Evolution of insect flight muscle structure as revealed by the high-flux X-ray of SPring-8 / December 14, 2005 / lightsources.org
• Discovery Calls Dover Evolution Policy Misguided, Calls For its Withdrawal / December 14, 2004 / Discovery Institute
• The Kitzmiller Decision / December 2005 / by Scientists, Philosophers, Rationalists / Butterflies and Wheels
• Ice Core Extends Climate Record Back 650,000 Years / November 28, 2005 / David Biello / Scientific American
• Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial / May 2005 / Marvin Olasky and John Perry / Broadman & Holman — see also Amazon
• The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History / 1980 / Stephen Jay Gould

DECEMBER 27

• Life after Dover / January 2, 2006 / William A. Dembski / Science & Theology News — the Dover verdict is not ID's Waterloo, but merely one battle in a long culture war
• The State of State Science Standards 2005 / December 27, 2005 / Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
• Orthodoxy of a liberal sort / December 27, 2005 / Paul Campos / Rocky Mountain News — we have just been treated to the remarkable spectacle of liberals shouting hosannas to the heavens in praise of a federal court ruling that makes it illegal to even mention the existence of a dissenting point of view in a public school classroom
• Blind to the End / December 26, 2005 / Richard Fortey / New York Times — One year ago we stared aghast at images of the Southeast Asian tsunami. Human beings are never prepared for natural disasters.
• "Darwinism Completely Refutes Intelligent Design" / December 26, 2005 / Daniel Dennett / Spiegel — interview with an evolution philosopher
• Banned in biology / December 26, 2005 / Tom Bethell / Washington Times — Evolutionists are ecstatic about U.S. District Judge John E. Jones's ruling in the Dover, Pa., school board case, claiming it is a major setback for the intelligent design movement.
• THE MEANING OF LIFE: Faith in Theory / December 26, 2005 / James Q. Wilson / Wall Street Journal — why "intelligent design" simply isn't science
• Korean Cloning Scientist Quits Over Report He Faked Research / December 24, 2005 / Choe Sang-Hun and Nicholas Wade / New York Times
  • Clone Scientist Relied on Peers and Korean Pride / December 25, 2005 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Irreplaceable Perplexity 101 / December 24, 2005 / Bruce Bower / Science News, v.168, n.26-27, p.414 — Ms. Cleary has designs on teaching evolution
• Judging Darwin and God / December 23, 2005 / David Klinghoffer / Seattle Times
• The Egalitarian Left & Intelligent Design / December 23, 2005 / Rush Limbaugh / Limbaugh Institute
• Ottawa Univ. to Offer Class on Intelligent Design / December 23, 2005 / Kansas City Channel
• New Study Expands Understanding of the Role of RNA Editing in Gene Control / December 23, 2005 / Wistar Institute
• The Dover Intelligent Design Decision, Part II: Of Science and Religion / December 23, 2005 / Albert Alschuler / University of Chicago Law School (faculty blog)
• EDITORIAL: "Breakthrough of the Year" / 23 December 2005 / Donald Kennedy / Science, v.310, n.5756, p.1869
  • BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: "Evolution in Action" / 23 December 2005:/ Elizabeth Culotta and Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.310, n.5756, p.1878-1879
  • Journal Cites Evolution Studies in 2005 / December 22, 2005 / Randolph E. Schmid / Yahoo! News
• STEM CELLS: "Cloning Researcher Says Work Is Flawed but Claims Results Stand" / 23 December 2005:/ Dennis Normile, Gretchen Vogel, and Constance Holden / Science, v.310, n.5756, p.1886-1887
• ANCIENT DNA: "New Methods Yield Mammoth Samples" / 23 December 2005:/ Ann Gibbons / Science, v.310, n.5756, p.1889
• EVOLUTION: "Is the 'Big Bang' in Animal Evolution Real?" / 23 December 2005:/ Lars S. Jermiin, Leon Poladian, and Michael A. Charleston / Science, v.310, n.5756, p.1910-1911
• GEOCHEMISTRY: "A Tale of Early Earth Told in Zircons" / 23 December 2005:/ Yuri Amelin / Science, v.310, n.5756, p.1914-1915
• New Study Shows Animal Family Tree Looking Bushy in Places / December 22, 2005 / Terry Devitt / University of Wisconsin, Madison
• How is ID doing in the scientific community? / December 21, 2005 / Creation Bits (blog)
• Intelligent Design, the Cab Driver, and Christmas / December 21, 2005 / La Shawn Barber's Corner
• Defending Science by Defining It / December 21, 2005 / David Brown and Rick Weiss / Washington Post, p.A20
• “Doonesbury” needs some resistance / December 20, 2005 / Answers in Genesis — see gif cartoon
• Creation Scientists Applaud PA Judge's Ruling Against 'Intelligent Design' / December 20, 2005 / Reasons to Believe — dressing up ID is no substitute for real science
• Rebuttal to Reports by Opposing Expert Witnesses (pdf) / May 14, 2005 / William A. Dembski / Design Inference
• Intelligent Design Debate / Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
• Aquinas and the Big Bang / November 1999 / William E. Carroll / First Things, n.97, p.18-20

DECEMBER 22

• Intelligent Design Derailed / December 22, 2005 / New York Times
• 'Intelligent Design' Is Inherently Religious / December 21, 2005 / Keith Lockitch / American Chronicle
• Case Seen as Setback to Intelligent Design / December 21, 2005 / Rachel Zoll / Guardian (UK)
• The Dover Intelligent Design Decision, Part I: Of Motive, Effect, and History / December 21, 2005 / Albert Alschuler / University of Chicago Law School (faculty blog)
• Feelings mixed about ruling that nixes intelligent design / December 21, 2005 / Josh Brodesky / Times-Tribune
• Intelligent vs. Non-intelligent Design / December 21, 2005 / J. James Estrada / American Daily
• Salty Martian rocks may have formed without seas / 21 December 2005 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist
• Analysis and critique of the concept of Natural Selection / update: June 2005 / S. N. Salthe — and of the Darwinian theory of evolution in respect to its suitability as part of Modernism's origination myth, as well as of its ability to explain organic evolution

DECEMBER 21

• The Geology of Iceland and Mid-Ocean Ridges / February 2006 / Agust Gudmundsson / Springer — see also Amazon
• The Designs of Science / January 2006 / Christoph Cardinal Schφnborn / First Things, n.159, p.34-38
• "An Asian perspective on early human dispersal from Africa" / 22 December 2005 / Robin Dennell and Wil Roebroeks / Nature, v.438, p.1099-1104
• "World Year of Physics: A direct test of E=mc²" / 22 December 2005 / Simon Rainville, et al. / Nature, v.438, p.1096-1097
• MEMORANDUM OPINION: Tammy Kitzmiller, et al., Plaintiffs v. Dover Area School District, et al., Defendants (pdf) / December 20, 2005 / Judge Jones / US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Case No. 04cv2688
  • Intelligent Design Unconstitutional? / Fox News
  • Judge rules against 'intelligent design' in class / 20 December 2005 / Kurt Kleiner / New Scientist
  • Federal Judge Rules, in Strongly Worded Opinion, That Teaching Intelligent Design Is Unconstitutional / December 20, 2005 / Thomas Bartlett / Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Intelligent-design ruling set to be handed down / December 20, 2005 / MSNBC — Darwin’s defenders and detractors set for decision in federal trial
  • Kitzmiller Decision: Plaintiffs Prevail / December 20, 2005 / National Center for Science Education
  • Federal Judge Strikes Down Intelligent Design in Pennsylvania Schools / December 21, 2005 / Jane Roh / Fox News
  • Banned in biology class: intelligent design / December 21, 2005 / Peter Grier and Josh Burek / Christian Science Monitor — teaching the theory in public schools violates Constitution, judge rules
  • It’s God or Darwin / December 21, 2005 / David Klinghoffer / National Review Online — competing design
  • Judge Rejects Teaching Intelligent Design / December 21, 2005 / Laurie Goodstein / New York Times
• Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors / 20 December 2005 / Chris Stephen and Allan Hall / The Scotsman
• Evolution: The story of man / December 20, 2005 / The Economist — modern Darwinism paints a more flattering portrait of humanity than traditionalists might suppose
• GOP essay defends intelligent design on party Web site / December 20, 2005 / Walt Williams / Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana)
• Ground Frozen Since Ice Age Thaws and Collapses / 20 December 2005 / Robert Roy Britt / Live Science
• Creating first synthetic life form / December 19, 2005 / Carolyn Abraham / Globe and Mail
• Civilisation has left its mark on our genes / 19 December 2005 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist
• Genetic analysis of cavefish reveals more about evolution / 19 December 2005 / contact: James Devitt, New York University  / EurekAlert!
• Scientists narrow the time limits for the human and chimpanzee split / 19 December 2005 / contact: Barbara K. Kennedy, Penn State / EurekAlert!— a sharper focus than that given by the previous collection of molecular and fossil studies
• Scientists sequence DNA of woolly mammoth / 19 December 2005 / contact: Barbara K. Kennedy, Penn State / EurekAlert!
  • Extinct mammoth DNA decoded / 21 December 2005 / Helen Briggs / BBC — scientists have pieced together part of the genetic recipe of the extinct woolly mammoth
• EVOLUTION: Lean Gene Machine / December 19, 2005 / Scientific American — ocean bacterium has the most streamlined genome
• What's so scary about intelligent design? / December 19, 2005 / Dennis Byrne / Chicago Tribune
• Stem-cell pioneer accused of faking data / 15 December 2005 / David Cyranoski / Nature (news@nature) — South Korean television airs unconfirmed allegations over landmark research
• Stem-cell scientist asks for retraction / 14 December 2005 / Erika Check / Nature (news@nature) — US partner urges Korean cloner to retract landmark paper
• First northern Europeans arrived early / 14 December 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — stone tools in England push back date of arrival by 200,000 years
• Fake pottery buries theory of early start for Christianity / 14 December 2005 / Siλlle Gramser / Nature (news@nature) — Dutch artefacts are not what they seem
• The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-century Science, Including the Original Papers / November 2005 / Alan Lightman / Pantheon (Random House) — see also Amazon
  • How lightbulbs went on over their heads: Scientific discovery of the 20th century, as researchers wrote it / December 11, 2005 / Aparna Sreenivasan / San Francisco Chronicle
• Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos / August 2005 / Robin S. Chapman and Julien Clinton Sprott / World Scientific — see also Amazon
• A Journey with Fred Hoyle: The Search for Cosmic Life / January 2005 / Chandra Wickramasinghe and Kamala Wickramasinghe / World Scientific — see also Amazon
• Clergy Letter Project / Christian Alliance for Progress — the letter has been signed by more than 10,000 members of the Christian clergy who are confident that religion and science are compatible
  • An Open Letter Concerning Religion and Science
• Is Science Neurotic? / December 2004 / Nicholas Maxwell / Imperial College Press — see also Amazon
• Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos / May 2004 / Don Lincoln / World Scientific — see also Amazon
• Is Future Given? / November 2003 / Ilya Prigogine / World Scientific — see also Amazon
• Newton's Darkness: Two Dramatic Views / October 2003 / Carl Djerassi and David Pinner / World Scientific — see also Amazon

DECEMBER 18

• Tom Bethell Puts Darwinism on Defense / December 18, 2005 / Patrick J. Buchanan / Human Events Online
• 'Intelligent Design' Deja Vu / December 17, 2005 / Douglas Baynton / Washington Post, p.A23
• The Collapsing Claims on Cloning / December 17, 2005 / New York Times
• South Korean Scientist Says He'll Prove Cloning Method / December 17, 2005 / James Brooke / New York Times
• Korean Scientist Said to Admit Fabrication in a Cloning Study / December 16, 2005 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Oddball object circles sun beyond Neptune / December 16, 2005 / CNN (Reuters) — a distant object named Buffy has been spotted circling the sun far beyond Neptune in a strange tilted orbit that is making some astronomers question how the outer reaches of the solar system formed
• "How Fast Does Your Dinosaur Grow?" / 16 December 2005 / Carolyn Gramling / Science, v.310, n.5755, p.1751
  • "Developmental Plasticity in the Life History of a Prosauropod Dinosaur" / 16 December 2005 / P. Martin Sander and Nicole Klein / Science, v.310, n.5755, p.1800-1802
• Dino discovery 'overturns wisdom' / 16 December 2005 / Helen Briggs / BBC News — the family tree of dinosaurs may have to be revised, with the discovery that some could adjust their growth rates
• One Size Didn't Fit All for Early Dinosaur, Study Says / December 15, 2005 / James Owen / National Geographic News
• Humans in England May Go Back 700,000 Years / 14 December 2005 / Thomas Wagner / Red Orbit (Associated Press)
• Controversial Footprints: Earliest Man or Modern Machine? / December 1, 2005 / Ker Than / Fox News
• Guided Slow Light / November 9, 2005 / Phil Schewe and Ben Stein / Physics News Update, n.753, #1 (American Institute of Physics) — slowed to speeds as low as 1500 m/sec
• "Where Was the Star?" / December 28, 2004 / Peggie Bohanon / Internet for Christians — on the Bethlehem star

DECEMBER 15

• Interview: Leonard Susskind / 17 December 2005 / Amanda Gefter / New Scientist — Why are physicists taking the idea of multiple universes seriously now?
• MODVOLC / "today" / University of Hawaii — near-real-time thermal monitoring of global hot-spots
• Tools Found in Britain Show Much Earlier Human Existence / December 15, 2005 / Guy Gugliotta / Washington Post, p.A24
  • "The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe" / 15 December 2005 / Simon A. Parfitt, et al. / Nature, v.438, p.1008-1012 — Editor's Summary: Written in stone
  • Did humans colonise north Europe earlier than thought? / 17 December 2005 / Rowan Hooper / New Scientist, n.2530 — stone tools found in eastern England suggest that humans were there at least 700,000 years ago, 200,000 years earlier than anthropologists expected
• NEWS FEATURE: "Natural disasters: The chaos to come" / 15 December 2005 / Quirin Schiermeier / Nature, v.438, p.903 — Editor's Summary: A year of living dangerously
• "An origin in the local Universe for some short g-ray bursts" / 15 December 2005 / N. R. Tanvir, R. Chapman, A. J. Levan, and R. S. Priddey / Nature, v.438, p.991-993
• Human Split from Apes Marked by Subtle Shifts in Gene Function / 14 December 2005 / Live Science
• Mapping the Invisible / December 14, 2005 / Maggie Wittlin / SEED: Science Is Culture — researchers create images of dark matter distribution
• The Mirecki Files / December 14, 2005 / Michelle Malkin — the two alleged attackers of University of Kansas professor Paul Mirecki are still on the loose
• Civilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials / December 2005 / George Basalla / Oxford University Press
• The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes: Jim Berkland, Maverick Geologist -- How His Quake Warnings Can Save Lives / December 2005 / Cal Orey / Sentient Publications — see also Amazon
• The Problem with God: Interview with Richard Dawkins / November 11, 2005 / Laura Sheahen / beliefnet.com — the renowned biologist talks about intelligent design, dishonest Christians, and why God is no better than an imaginary friend
• The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality / September 2005 / Dalai Lama / Morgan Road Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless / August 2005 / John D. Barrow / Pantheon — see also Amazon
• Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America / August 2005 / Philip Dray / Random House — see also Amazon
• Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions / August 2005 / Lisa Randall / Harper Collins — see also Amazon
• The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith / July 2005 / David L. Ulin / Penguin — see also Amazon
• The Violent Universe: Joyrides through the X-ray Cosmos / May 2005 / Kimberly Weaver / Johns Hopkins University Press — see also Amazon
• Astronomical Enigmas: Life on Mars, the Star of Bethlehem, and Other Milky Way Mysteries / May 2005 / Mark Kidger / Johns Hopkins University Press — see also Amazon
• Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human / May 2005 / Joel Garreau / Doubleday — see also Amazon
• Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth / April 2005 / Marcia Bjornerud / Basic Books (Perseus) — see also Amazon
• The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist / April 2005 / Richard P. Feynman / Perseus Books — see also Amazon
• Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes / April 2005 / Arthur I. Miller / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon
  • review: November 21, 2005 / Mark Mortimer / Universe Today
  • review: August 5, 2005 / David Loftus / California Literary Review
• Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time / February 2005 / Robin Le Poidevin / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations / Spring 2004 / Mark L. Taper and Subhash R. Lele (editors) / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon

DECEMBER 13

• Intelligent Design opponents willing to debate / December 12, 2005 / Marcos Rivera, Virginia Arrigucci, and Emily Schaefer / Iowa State Daily
• Key brain gene shows evolution in humans / December 12, 2005 / physorg.com (United Press International) — Duke University researchers say they've discovered the first brain regulatory gene that shows clear evidence of evolution from lower primates to humans.
• Professor blasts KU, sheriff’s investigation / December 10, 2005 / Sophia Maines (contact) / Lawrence Journal-World — Mirecki says he may sue university
• Are you confident about that? / 7 December 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — the impulse to use statistics to forecast doomsday is an old one, but can we believe the numbers
• Intelligent Design theory is flawed, anti-scientific / December 6, 2005 / Jonathan Neal / The Exponent (Purdue University)
• What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Science in the Age of Certainty / November 2005 / John Brockman (editor) / Free Press (Simon & Schuster) — see also Amazon
  • The meaning of life / December 11, 2005 / Tim Adams / Guardian (UK) — 100 of the world's great thinkers answered the same big question, and yes, aliens are involved
• Doubting Rationalist / May 15, 2005 / Michael Powell / Washington Post, p.D01 — 'Intelligent Design' proponent Phillip Johnson, and how he came to be
• The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs / April 2005 / David E. Fastovsky and David B. Weishampel / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Einstein and Culture / March 2005 / Gerhard Sonnert / Humanity Books (Prometheus) — see also Amazon
• The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture / December 2004 / Mordechai Feingold / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon

DECEMBER 12

• The Two Tasks: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind / June 22-25, 2006 / Alexandria, VA / National Faculty Leadership Conference
  • "Pascal: The Christian Apologist Today's Students Hear Best" / Peter Kreeft / Boston College
  • "On Being a Christian Professor in the Secular Academy" / Walter Bradley / Baylor University
  • "Pursuing the 'Mind of Christ' in the Academy" / Katherine Bassard / Virginia Commonwealth University
  • "Genomics and the Future of Medicine" / Francis Collins / Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
• Kissing Cousins / December 12, 2005 / Clive D. L. Wynne / New York Times — chimp-human hybrids
• Future of Conservatism: Darwin or Design? / December 12, 2005 / Casey Luskin / Human Events Online
• Students join debate on intelligent design / December 11, 2005 / Lisa Anderson / Kansas City Star
• Anti-creationism professor: Resignation was forced / December 11, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press) — Mirecki recently quit as department head, remains professor
• New Ocean Forming in Africa / December 10, 2005 / CBS News (Associated Press) — This is unprecedented in scientific history because we usually see the split after it has happened. But here we are watching the phenomenon.
• 'Design' critics often employ straw men / December 10, 2005 / Douglas Groothuis / Rocky Mountain News
• Religious intolerance in Kansas / December 8, 2005 / Mike S. Adams / townhall.com — Dear Professor Mirecki ...
• "A Wakeup Call for Science Faculty" (pdf) / December 2, 2005 / Bruce Alberts / Cell, v.123, p.739-741 — By changing the way we teach the introductory science courses in our colleges and universities, we can attract many more talented students to science careers. At the same time, we will be fostering positive public attitudes about science that are critical for a successful modern society.
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife / October 2005 / Mary Roach / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
• The Big Chill: Are Campuses Turning a Cold Shoulder to Religious Students? / Fall 2005 / Scott Andrew Schulz / Religion & Education, v.32, n.2
• Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology / November 2004 / Helge Kragh / Imperial College Press — see also Amazon

DECEMBER 8

• Mountain clue to Earth's biggest extinction / 10 December 2005 / New Scientist, n.2529, p.23
• Nobel laureate admits string theory is in trouble / 10 December 2005 / New Scientist, n.2529, p.6
• Full splendour of 'lost' archaeopteryx revealed / 10 December 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2529 — a recently rediscovered specimen of the prehistoric flying creature reveals that it was even more dinosaur-like than we thought
• Audiomartini / 8 December 2005 / interviewees: William Dembski and Michael Shermer / Bad Psychics — LISTEN
• Report Says States Aim Low in Science Classes / December 8, 2005 / Michael Janofsky / New York Times
• "A lithospheric instability origin for Columbia River flood basalts and Wallowa Mountains uplift in northeast Oregon" / 8 December 2005 / T. C. Hales, D. L. Abt, E. D. Humphreys, and J. J. Roering / Nature, v.438, p.842-845
• "Astrophysics: Is a doomsday catastrophe likely?" / 8 December 2005 / Max Tegmark and Nick Bostrom / Nature, v.438, p.754
• "The importance of sequence diversity in the aggregation and evolution of proteins" / 8 December 2005 / Caroline F. Wright, Sarah A. Teichmann, Jane Clarke, and Christopher M. Dobson / Nature, v.438, p.878-881
  • Editor's Summary: Keeping proteins apart
• Similar stem cells in insect and human gut / 7 December 2005 / contact: Allan Spradling / EurekAlert!
• Detailed New Images of the San Andreas Fault / 7 December 2005 / Robert Roy Britt / Live Science
• Scientists Decipher DNA of Dogs / 7 December 2005 / Malcolm Ritter / Live Science (Associated Press)
  • "Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog" / 8 December 2005 / Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, et al. / Nature, v.438, p.803-819
    • Editor's Summary: The Dog Genome
  • Man's best friend shares most genes with humans / December 8, 2005 / Carl T. Hall / San Francisco Chronicle — full genome sequence to be published today
  • Boxer becomes first dog to have DNA precisely sequenced / 10 December 2005 / New Scientist, n.2529, p.6
• Images suggest Saturn moon geologically active / December 7, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press)
• The Simple Life Ain't So Simple / 6 December 2005 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science NOW Daily News — the Nematostella vectensis anemone has a more complex genome than previously thought
• 'Intelligent design' about faith, not science / December 6, 2005 / USA Today
• Monkey Business / December 6, 2005 / Victoria Bosch / MSNBC (Newsweek) — For students who doubt the validity of evolution, college science class can be daunting. What happens when beliefs and schoolwork collide?
• Darwin vs. God / December 6, 2005 / Carlos Alberto Montaner / Miami Herald — 'natural rights'
• Intelligent design’s long march to nowhere / December 5, 2005 / Karl Giberson / Science & Theology News — ID remains theoretically little more than a roster of evolutionary theory’s weakest links
• Mirecki hospitalized after beating / December 5, 2005 / Ron Knox, Eric Weslander (contact) / Lawrence Journal-World
  • Professor Paul Mirecki's Web Site / University of Kansas
  • Mirecki treated after roadside beating / December 6, 2005 / Eric Weslander (contact) / Lawrence Journal-World
  • Criminal Twist in Evolution Debate / December 6, 2005 / CBS News (Associated Press) — a Kansas professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he sent e-mails deriding Christian conservatives was taken to the hospital Monday following what he said was a beating
  • Professor beaten; attackers cite KU creationism class / December 6, 2005 / Wichita Eagle (Associated Press)
  • Kansas bigot invents crazy attack story / 7 December 2005 / Sean Gleeson / blog
  • What Happened to Paul Mirecki? / December 7, 2005 / Michelle Malkin / blog
  • KU professor steps down as head of Religious Studies / December 7, 2005 / David Klepper / Wichita Eagle, Kansas
• Fossil strengthens dinosaur ancestry case / December 4, 2005 / Steve Connor / IOL (South Africa news)
• Citizen MD / December 2, 2005 / Paul Costello / American Medical Association — Physicians have an obligation to defend science in the debates over intelligent design and the larger questions about political abuses of scientific knowledge, scientific research, and ...
• Amazing discovery in heart of biblical Jerusalem / December 1, 2005 / David Hazony / Cleveland Jewish News — Recent archaeological find, thought by some to be the biblical palace built by King David, stirs controversy over the right of the Jewish people to claim Jerusalem.
• The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design / December 2005 / Leonard Susskind / Little, Brown — see also Amazon
• "Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science" / December 2005 / Don A. Howard / Physics Today, v.58, n.12, p.34 — Einstein's philosophical habit of mind, cultivated by undergraduate training and lifelong dialogue, had a profound effect on the way he did physics.
• Politically Incorrect Science / November 2005 / Tom Bethell / American Spectator
• The JEDP Theory in a Nutshell / James Patrick Holding / Tekton Apologetics Ministries — composing the Old Testament
• The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty / October 2003 / Kenneth Libbrecht, photography by Patricia Rasmussen / Voyageur Press — see also Amazon
  • Snowflake and Snow Crystal Photos

DECEMBER 4

• South Korea's Cloning Crisis / December 4, 2005 / New York Times
• Intelligent Design Might Be Meeting Its Maker / December 4, 2005 / Laurie Goodstein / New York Times
• Under God or Under Darwin? / December 2, 2005 / Mustafa Akyol / National Review Online — Intelligent Design could be a bridge between civilizations
• String Theory Versus Intelligent Design / December 1, 2005 / Kenneth Silber / Tech Central Station
• SETI and Intelligent Design / 1 December 2005 / Seth Shostak / space.com — SETI is search for extraterrestrial intelligence
• Catastrophe: Risk and Response / December 2005 / Richard A. Posner / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions / September 2005 / Tony Hallam / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet / July 2005 / Bill McGuire / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Taxonomy, Transitional Forms, and the Fossil Record / Keith B. Miller / American Scientific Affiliation
• SPOOF: Project Pterosaur / Richard Paley / Fellowship University Theobiology Department Staff

DECEMBER 2

• Dark energy: Was Einstein right all along? / 3 December 2005 / Stephen Battersby / New Scientist, n.2528
• Puzzle of the failed clones takes a fresh twist / 3 December 2005 / New Scientist, n.2528 — It's back to the drawing board for cloning pioneers trying to explain why only 1% to 5% of pregnancies result in healthy, cloned animals.
• "Radiocarbon Variability in the Western North Atlantic During the Last Deglaciation" / 2 December 2005 / Laura F. Robinson, Jess F. Adkins, Lloyd D. Keigwin, John Southon, Diego P. Fernandez, S-L Wang, and Daniel S. Scheirer / Science, v.310, n.5753, p.1469-1473
• "STEM CELL RESEARCH: "Korean Cloner Admits Lying About Oocyte Donations" / 2 December 2005 / Constance Holden / Science, v.310, n.5753, p.1402-1403
• Academics Consider "Intelligent Design" Museum Talk / December 2, 2005 / New York Times (Reuters)
• KU cancels intelligent design class / December 1, 2005 / Wichita Eagle (Associated Press)
  • E-Mails Kill a Course / December 2, 2005 / Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed
• ARN-Announce, n.50 / December 1, 2005 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network — describes many of the upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
• "Palaeoecology: A gigantic fossil arthropod trackway" / 1 December 2005 / Martin A. Whyte / Nature, v.438, p.576
• 'Fossil fuel' theory takes hit with NASA finding / December 1, 2005 / World Net Daily — new study shows methane on Saturn's moon Titan not biological
• Not by chance / December 1, 2005 / Stephen C. Meyer / National Post — from bacterial propulsion systems to human DNA, evidence of intelligent design is everywhere
• Don’t Fear the Designer / December 1, 2005 / Tom Bethell / National Review Online — competing philosophies and beliefs
• Birdlike animal had dinosaur feet / December 1, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press) — A new analysis of Archaeopteryx, the earliest known birdlike animal, shows it had feet like dinosaurs -- a finding that supports the belief that the birds frequenting backyard feeders today are descendants of mighty ancient carnivores.
  • Oldest bird had dinosaur feet / 1 December 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
  • Earliest Bird Had Feet Like Dinosaur, Fossil Shows / December 1, 2005 / Nicholas Bakalar / National Geographic News
  • "Best Archaeopteryx Fossil So Far Ruffles a Few Feathers" / 2 December 2005 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.310, n.5753, p.1418-1419
  • "A Well-Preserved Archaeopteryx Specimen with Theropod Features" / 2 December 2005 / Gerald Mayr, Burkhard Pohl, and D. Stefan Peters / Science, v.310, n.5753, p.1483-1486
• "Are Hurricanes Getting More Destructive?" / December 2005 / Larry Vardiman / Impact, n.390 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "The Tri-Universe" / December 2005 / Henry Morris / Back to Genesis, n.204 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "A First 'RATE' Conference!" (pdf) / December 2005 / Mark Rasche / Acts & Facts, v.34, n.12, p.1-2
• Science Points to God / November 30, 2005 / tothesource.org — At age 48, Dr. John Polkinghorne resigned his Cambridge professorship of mathematical physics to enter Westcott House, an Anglican seminary in Cambridge.
• Why Intelligent Design Will Win / November 30, 2005 / Nancy Pearcey / Human Events Online — five reasons to keep an open, educated mind
• God and Man in the Environmental Debate / November 30, 2005 / Jay W. Richards / Acton Institute
• The Descent of the Straw Man / November 30, 2005 / Denis Boyles / National Review Online — in the Kansas evolution debate, the latest targets are “fundies” and Catholic wife beaters
• 'Intelligent design': What do scientists fear? / November 30, 2005 / USA Today
• Footprint claims get stamped on / 30 November 2005 / Rex Dalton / Nature (news@nature) — age data knock first impressions of marks in Mexican rock
  • Alleged 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico much, much older than thought / 30 November 2005 / contact: Robert Sanders / EurekAlert!
  • "Geochronology: Age of Mexican ash with alleged 'footprints'" / 1 December 2005 / Paul R. Renne, Joshua M. Feinberg, Michael R. Waters, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Patricia Ochoa-Castillo, Mario Perez-Campa, and Kim B. Knight / Nature, v.438, p.E7-E8
  • 'America's first footprints' too old to be human / 3 December 2005 / Rowan Hooper / New Scientist, n.2528 — The mystery over when humans first populated the Americas continues to deepen -- the history books may not have to be rewritten after all.
• Intelligent Design Finds Few Sympathizers at HDS / November 29, 2005 / Sarah E. F. Milov / Harvard Crimson
• Young Earth not as hellish as we thought / 26 November 2005 / New Scientist, n.2527 — It is known as the Hadean eon, from the Greek word for hell, but the early Earth probably looked much as it does today, researchers suggest.
• Published Chinese research may be skewed / 26 November 2005 / New Scientist, n.2527 — Genetics studies from China are more likely to describe spurious links between particular DNA sequences and susceptibility to disease, a new survey claims.
• Exploring the moral maze / 26 November 2005 / Dan Jones / New Scientist, n.2527 — Where does your sense of right and wrong come from? Cool, hard reason may have less to do with it than you'd like to think.
• Dino droppings reveal prehistoric taste for grass / 26 November 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2527 — One of the oldest mistakes in the prehistoric book has turned out not to be a mistake after all -- complex grasses had evolved before dinosaurs died out.
• Where to find the beginning of time / 25 November 2005 / Amarendra Swarup / New Scientist, n.2527 — Ripples in space-time from moments after the big bang should have left an imprint on the cosmic microwave background -- a new technique may reveal it.
• New evolution claim is shot down / November 24, 2005 / Gareth Morgan / Western Mail (Wales) — new evidence unearthed by a Welsh scientist has raised questions about the theory that birds evolved from a type of feathered dinosaur
• Young-Earth Creationist Helium Diffusion "Dates" / November 24, 2005 / Kevin R. Henke / Talk.Origins — fallacies based on bad assumptions and questionable data
• Genealogy of scaly reptiles rewritten by new research / 22 November 2005 / contact: Barbara K. Kennedy / EurekAlert!
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / November 2005 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• Evidence for a Young Earth from the Ocean and Atmosphere / October 8, 2005 / Larry Vardiman / Institute for Creation Research
• First Catechetical Lecture: Creation and Evolution: To the Debate as It Stands / Octomber 2, 2005 / Christoph Cardinal Schφnborn / St. Stephan's Cathedral, Vienna
  • Second Catechesis: "In the Beginning God Created..." / November 13, 2005 / Christoph Cardinal Schφnborn / St. Stephan's Cathedral, Vienna
• Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are / October 2005 / Frans de Waal / Riverhead (Penguin) — see also Amazon and author's page
• Public Divided on Origins of Life / August 30, 2005 / Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life — religion a strength and weakness for both parties
• Creation-Evolution Quotes / 2005 / Stephen E. Jones

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