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JULY 23
- "Hillcrest
v. Velikovsky" / 24 July 2008 / Peter Watts / Nature, v.454,
p.550 Hillcrest lived with cancer for 5 years due to a cross,
but then died one month after visiting Velikovsky's museum about pseudoscience
- "Life,
logic and information" / 24 July 2008 / Paul Nurse / Nature, v.454,
p.424-426 focusing on information flow will help us to
understand better how cells and organisms work
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The eyes have it / July 23, 2008 / Christopher Hitchens / The Gazette
(Canada) one look at the eyes of a subterranean salamander
puts the lie to intelligent-design arguments
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The creation of Creationism / July 23, 2008 / John Habgood / Times Online
(UK) today's brand of Protestant extremism should worry
theologians as well as scientists
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Dinosaur evolutionary tree unveiled / 23 July 2008 / Colin Barras and
Michael Marshall / New Scientist
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Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
/ July 2008 / Martin J. S. Rudwick / University of Chicago Press see also
Amazon
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who
Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / May 2008 / Simon
Winchester / HarperCollins see also
Amazon
- "The
man who unveiled China" / 24 July 2008 / Simon Winchester / Nature,
v.454, p.409-411 an English biochemist, Joseph Needham,
single-handedly changed the West's perception of China, revealing its past
scientific glories and predicting more to come
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Love affair with his subjects / July 17, 2008 / Barbara Liss /
Houston Chronicle Simon Winchester's latest shows deep
appreciation for an eccentric British don
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REVIEW: 16 July 2008 / Jon Turney / New Scientist, n.2665,
p.47
- Simon
Winchester and The Man Who Loved China / June 11, 2008 / Mark Medley /
National Post (Canada)
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REVIEW: May 26, 2008 / Seth Faison / Los Angeles Times
Joseph Needham, the Cambridge-educated biochemist and
linguist, spent his life exploring Chinese culture and science
JULY 22
JULY 20
JULY 18
- Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed / October 2008 / Uni Dist Corp
documentary film exploring the theory of Intelligent Design; see
Amazon
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Asteroid switched Mars's magnetic field on and off / 19 July 2008 / New
Scientist, n.2665, p.17
- "Evolutionary
Origins for Social Vocalization in a Vertebrate HindbrainSpinal Compartment"
/ 18 July 2008 / Andrew H. Bass, Edwin H. Gilland, and Robert Baker /
Science, v.321, n.5887, p.417-421 the conserved neural
circuitry for vocal communication in fish and other tetrapods suggests that
this function may have originated prior to the evolution of bony vertebrates
- NEUROSCIENCE: "Vertebrate
Vocalizations" / 18 July 2008 / Daniel Margoliash and Melina E. Hale /
Science, v.321, n.5887, p.347-348 Did the mechanisms
underlying vertebrate vocal abilities evolve from a single common ancestor?
- "The
Evolution and Distribution of Species Body Size" / 18 July 2008 / Aaron
Clauset and Douglas H. Erwin / Science, v.321, n.5887, p.399-401
a model of evolutionary body-size changes that accounts for
physical constraints and extinction risk reproduces the size distribution of
land mammals from the Quaternary
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Recent study analyzes teachers' views on intelligent design / July 17,
2008 / Erin Rowley / The Daily Collegian (Penn State)
- "Obituary:
John Templeton (19122008)" / 17 July 2008 / Andrew Brown / Nature,
v.454, p.290 philanthropist at the interface of religion and
science
- "Templeton's
legacy" / 17 July 2008 / Nature, v.454, p.253-254
the Templeton Foundation's exploration of science and faith merits tolerance,
not outright rejection
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Concerns about Templeton Foundation funding / July 17, 2008 / David Tyler
/ Access Research Network (blog)
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The Templeton is no Nobel / July 16, 2008 / Dan Gardner / The Ottawa
Citizen
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Darwin at the Drugstore? / July 16, 2008 / Alan L. Gillen and Sarah
Anderson / Answers in Genesis testing the biological fitness
of antibiotic resistant bacteria
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Awaiting a messenger from the multiverse / 16 July 2008 / Stephen
Battersby / New Scientist, n.2665 if we switch
everything off and wait quietly, a very important particle might come out to
play
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Marsupials and Humans Share Same Genetic Imprinting That Evolved 150 Million
Years Ago / July 15, 2008 / University of Melbourne / Science Daily
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Anti-Darwinists turned away by Israeli academia / July 15, 2008 / Avital
Lahav / Israel Jewish Scene Turkish scientists receive last
minute cancellation from Hebrew University who fears Jewish-Muslim
reconciliation conference may give stage to anti-Darwinist propaganda
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ID works in mysterious ways / July 9, 2008 / Michael Shermer / The
Ottawa Citizen it is possible to believe in both God and
science, but you can't mix the two, as proponents of 'intelligent design'
attempt to do
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Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture / April 2008 / Alan
Sokal / Oxford University Press see also
Amazon
- Re-Engineering
Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality /
June 2007 / William C. Wimsatt / Harvard University Press see also
Amazon
- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: "Addressing
Complexity" / 18 July 2008 / Kim Sterelny / Science, v.321,
n.5887, p.344
JULY 15
JULY 13
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Flatfish caught evolving, thanks to its roving eye / 13 July 2008 / Jeff
Hecht / New Scientist, n.2664
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How bats made the leap from gliding to flying / 12 July 2008 / Bob Holmes
/ New Scientist, n.2664
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Great questions of human destiny don't change; science's answers do / July
12, 2008 / Ray Waddle / Tennessean
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Turbulent Times: The Desperate Maneuverings of Human Evolutionary Theory /
July 12, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network (blog)
- EVOLUTION: "Modernizing
the Modern Synthesis" / 11 July 2008 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science,
v.321, n.5886, p.196-197
- PALEONTOLOGY: "New
Tricks with Old Bones" / 11 July 2008 / Rachel Mackelprang and Edward M.
Rubin / Science, v.321, n.5886, p.211-212 ways to
solve the problems of sample rarity and contamination
- Jindal's
creationist folly / 9 July 2008 / Michael Stebbins / The Scientist
Louisiana's governor -- and potential VP candidate -- signed
a bill that opens the door to intelligent design creationism in its schools
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The Louisiana Science Education Act -- Inventive Idea, or Threat? / 9 July
2008 / Lisa Loring / Daily Kenoshan (Wisconsin)
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New Scientist Needs a Reality Check / July 11, 2008 / Anika Smith /
Evolution News & Views (Discover Institute) up in arms over
the successful passage of the Louisiana Science Education Act
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Rewriting Darwin: The new non-genetic inheritance / 9 July 2008 / Emma
Young / New Scientist, n.2664 the idea that children
can inherit characteristics that their parents acquired during their lifetime
is coming in from the cold
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Earth's hum predicts quake danger spots / 9 July 2008 / New Scientist,
n.2664, p.19
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Editorial: Creationists launch cynical attack on school science / 9 July
2008 / New Scientist, n.2664
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Eureka! on the printed page / July 8, 2008 / Robert Fulford / National
Post Richard Dawkins' editorship brings a brilliant Oxford
anthology to life
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On
the Origin of a Theory / June 2008 / Richard Conniff / Smithsonian
magazine Charles Darwin's bid for enduring fame was sparked
150 years ago by word of a rival's research
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Darwin's Garden / June 2008 / Michael Boulter / Constable & Robinson see also
Amazon
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Origin of the thesis: At the bottom of Darwin's garden / 9 July 2008 /
Simon Usborne / Independent (UK) his Galapagos voyages are
legendary, but Charles Darwin made many of his greatest breakthroughs at the
bottom of his own garden
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REVIEW: 9 July 2008 / Henry Nicholls / New Scientist,
n.2664, p.48
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Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism /
June 2008 / Steve Fuller / Icon Books see also
Amazon
JULY 10
- Celebrating Darwin? Creation,
Evolution and Theological Challenges / 1 November 2008 / Christians in
Science / CiS London Conference
- "Evolution:
Photosynthetic ancestors" / 10 July 2008 / Nature, v.454, p.141
- "Volatile
content of lunar volcanic glasses and the presence of water in the Moon's
interior" / 10 July 2008 / Alberto E. Saal, Erik H. Hauri, Mauro L. Cascio,
James A. Van Orman, Malcolm C. Rutherford, and Reid F. Cooper / Nature,
v.454, p.192-195
- "The
evolutionary origin of flatfish asymmetry" / 10 July 2008 / Matt Friedman
/ Nature, v.454, p.209-212
- "Palaeontology:
Squint of the fossil flatfish" / 10 July 2008 / Philippe Janvier /
Nature, v.454, p.169-170 Evolutionary biologists have
floundered when trying to explain how the asymmetrical head of flatfishes
came about. 'Gradually' is the answer arising from exquisite studies of
45-million-year-old fossil specimens.
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY:
Evolution: How flatfish see eye-to-eye
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A wandering eye / July 9, 2008 / Ashley Yeager / Science News
fossils show middle stage of the evolution of flatfish eyes
to one side of their head
- "Texas
educator sues over job loss and creationism" / 9 July 2008 / Nature,
v.454, p.150
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Big Brains Arose Twice in Higher Primates / July 9, 2008 / American Museum
of Natural History / Science Daily
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ID works in mysterious ways / July 9, 2008 / Michael Shermer / Ottawa
Citizen (Canada) it is possible to believe in both God and
science, but you can't mix the two, as proponents of 'intelligent design'
attempt to do
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New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US / 9 July 2008 / Amanda
Gefter / New Scientist
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An Original Confession / July 8, 2008 / Olivia Judson / New York Times
does Darwin's Origin have anything fresh to say to a
modern reader
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Cosmology: From Alpha to Omega: The Creative Mutual Interaction of Theology
and Science / January 2008 / Robert John Russell / Fortress Press see also
Amazon
and the
Episcopal Bookstore
JULY 9
- First
International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe
/ 8-9 October 2008 / Paris, France
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Sir John M. Templeton, Philanthropist, Dies at 95 / July 9, 2008 / Robert
D. McFadden / New York Times the Templeton Foundation
awards one of the worlds richest prizes and sponsors conferences and studies
reflecting the founders passionate interest in progress in religion and
research or discoveries on the nebulous borders of science and religion
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The enigmatic platypus and its idiosyncratic genome / July 9, 2008 / David
Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
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Judge says creationism for the birds / July 8, 2008 / Roddy Bullock /
World Net Daily
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Louisiana Confounds the Science Thought Police / July 8, 2008 / John G.
West / National Review Online neo-Darwinism is no longer a
protected orthodoxy in the Bayou State's pedagogy
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First DNA Molecule Made Almost Entirely of Artificial Parts / July 7, 2008
/ American Chemical Society / Science Daily
- When
science doesn't douse faith / July 7, 2008 / Jonathan Rosen / USA Today
(blog)
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Latest salvo in evolution-versus-creation debate insults the intelligence
/ July 7, 2008 / Scott McKeen / Edmonton Journal (Canada)
new documentary fails to argue justly for place in science for
the divine
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Thomas Jefferson and Intelligent Design / July 4, 2008 / John West /
Intelligent Design the Future
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'Year of Evolution' had genesis in culture war / June 28, 2008 / Jon
Hurdle / Star-Tribune (Minneapolis - St. Paul) the aim
of Philadelphia's citywide event is to increase understanding of evolution and
science, at a time when polls show most Americans believe God created man as
he is
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Mail-boat record proves Darwin stole his original ideas from a Welsh
scientist / May 24, 2008 / Steffan Rhys / Wales Online (UK)
- The Darwin
Conspiracy: Origins of a Scientific Crime / May 2008 / Roy Davies /
Golden Square Books see also
Amazon
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Fossil Hunter / May 2008 / John B. Olson / Tyndale House see also
Amazon
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REVIEW:
July 7, 2008 / Jennifer Bogart / blog critics magazine
- Philosophy of
Biology / November 2007 / Brian Garvey / McGill-Queen's University
Press see also
Amazon
JULY 6
JULY 4
- PALEONTOLOGY: "Life's
Innovations Let It Diversify, at Least Up to a Point" / 4 July 2008 /
Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.321, n.5885, p.24-25 a
reanalysis of the total diversity of marine invertebrates over the past 400
million years
- "Reduced
Responses to Selection After Species Range Expansion" / 4 July 2008 /
Benoit Pujol and John R. Pannell / Science, v.321, n.5885, p.96
- "Phanerozoic
Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates" / 4 July 2008 /
John Alroy, et al. / Science, v.321, n.5885, p.97-100
- "Phylogenetic
Signal in the Eukaryotic Tree of Life" / 4 July 2008 / Michael J.
Sanderson / Science, v.321, n.5885, p.121-123
- "Reduce
confusion by using 'design' more intelligently" / 3 July 2008 / Richard
Sever / Nature, v.454, p.27
- "Origins
of life: How leaky were primitive cells?" / 3 July 2008 / David W. Deamer
/ Nature, v.454, p.37-38
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Former state science director sues over intelligent design e-mail / July
3, 2008 / Terrence Stutz / Dallas Morning News
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Lack of cracks may explain Peru meteorite mystery / 3 July 2008 / Devin
Powell / New Scientist
-
Lithium: The hole in the big bang theory / 2 July 2008 / Matthew Chalmers
/ New Scientist, n.2663
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Shaking up the bird family tree / 2 July 2008 / Bob Holmes / New
Scientist, n.2663
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What Is Intelligent Design? / July 2, 2008 / Jonathan Wells / Evolution
News & Views (Discovery Institute)
- "Reincarnation
can save Schrφdinger's cat" / 2 July 2008 / Zeeya Merali / Nature,
v.454, p.8-9 physicists reverse quantum-classical transition
- "Linnean
Society celebrates seminal evolution papers" / 2 July 2008 / Nature,
v.454, p.14-15 this week 150 years ago, papers by British
naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were read at the Linnean
Society of London
- "Spain
awards apes legal rights" / 2 July 2008 / Nature, v.454, p.15
- "Human
evolution: Details of being human" / 2 July 2008 / Bruce Lieberman /
Nature, v.454, p.21-23 a difference in one molecule led
physician Ajit Varki to question what sets humans apart from other apes
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Using Causality to Solve the Puzzle of Quantum Spacetime / June 2008 /
Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Renate Loll, and Jan Ambjorn / Scientific American
a new approach to the decades-old problem of quantum gravity
goes back to basics and shows how the building blocks of space and time pull
themselves together
-
Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes? / May 2008 / Sean M. Carroll /
Scientific American One of the most basic facts of
life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand
cosmological scale, they may look the same.
- Rebels,
Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology / May 2008 / Oren Harman and
Michael R. Dietrich (editors) / Yale University Press see also
Amazon
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REVIEW: 2 July 2008 / Gail Vines / New Scientist, n.2663,
p.49
- Primeval
Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society / April 2008 /
Bernard Chapais / Harvard University Press see also
Amazon
- "Bonding
as key to hominid origins" / 3 July 2008 / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder /
Nature, v.454, p.29-30 primatology meets
socio-cultural analysis in a controversial account of human evolution
- Vivendi
Entertainment acquires home video rights of Expelled / February 7, 2008 /
Business of Cinema Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
is an independent documentary film that explores the theory of Intelligent
Design
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Ghostwalk / May 2007 / Rebecca Stott / Spiegel and Grau (Random House)
see also
Amazon
- HISTORICAL FICTION: "Newton's
Ghosts" / 4 July 2008 / Jan Golinski / Science, v.321, n.5885,
p.40-41 alchemy, Isaac Newton, and suspicious deaths in
17th- and 20th-century Cambridge are among the ingredients of this
historical novel
-
Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment / March 2007 /
Robert G. B. Reid / MIT Press questions about how selection
theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go
unanswered by todays neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of
the evolutionary paradigm will encourage creationists and proponents of
intelligent design; see also
Amazon
and Google Book Search
- How molecular
biology opens up a 21st Century view of evolution / February 20, 2003 /
James Shapiro / International
Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
- A 21st
Century View of evolution / 2002 / James A. Shapiro / Journal of
Biological Physics
-
A Third Way (pdf) / February-March 1997 / James A. Shapiro / Boston
Review there are far more unresolved questions than answers
about evolutionary processes ... four categories of molecular discoveries
are especially important in opening up exciting new ways of thinking about
the biological processes that underlie evolutionary change
JULY 2
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Global
Warming as Mass Neurosis / July 1, 2008 / Bret Stephens / Wall Street
Journal, p.A15
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Acts & Facts,
v.37, n.7 (pdf) / July 2008 / Institute for Creation Research
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Intellectual freedom must include conservative professors, scientists /
June 30, 2008 / Caroline Crocker / The Examiner (Los Angeles)
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Charles Darwin -- Icon of Evolution / June 30, 2008 / David Tyler / Access
Research Network
- Darwinism: Not a Chance, So
Don't Bet Your Life / June 30, 2008 / Roddy Bullock / Access Research
Network
- Creation-Evolution
Headlines / June 2008 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
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The Silenced Hearings / 2008 / Deanna Schoenberger / M&D Enterprises
the controversy over the Kansas Science Standards for the
State's public schools made the news in 2004 through 2006
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"Skeleton of Giant" Is Internet Photo Hoax / December 14, 2007 / James
Owen / National Geographic News
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark / February
1997 / Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan / Ballantine (Random House) see also
Amazon
JUNE 30
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Hawking 'close' to explaining universe's inflation / 28 June 2008 / Zeeya
Merali / New Scientist, n.2662
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Creationism has evolved to this? / June 27, 2008 / Jim Slotek /
Edmonton Sun (Alberta) critique of Expelled: No
Intelligence Allowed
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Uh-oh, creation debated / June 27, 2008 / Jay Stone / Windsor Star
(Canada) documentary on Intelligent Design - Expelled: No
Intelligence Allowed
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Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole / 27 June 2008 / Steve Connor /
Independent (UK) polar scientists reveal dramatic new
evidence of climate change
- Bobby
Jindal Signs Law Allowing Intelligent Design in Louisiana Schools / June
27, 2008 / Peter J. Smith / Life Site News teachers can be
permitted to supplement textbook discussion on evolution, global warming,
human cloning
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Louisiana gov. signs controversial education bill / June 27, 2008 /
Reuters
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Louisiana governor signs creationist bill / June 27, 2008 / National
Center for Science Education
- "A
Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History" / 27 June
2008 / Shannon J. Hackett, et al. / Science, v.320, n.5884,
p.1763-1768
-
Greenland Ice Core Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End of Last Ice
Age / June 26, 2008 / Terra Daily
- "Ventastega
curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology" / 26 June 2008 / Per
E. Ahlberg, Jennifer A. Clack, Ervīns Lukevičs,
Henning Blom, and Ivars Zupi / Nature, v.453, p.1199-1204
- "Mega-impact
formation of the Mars hemispheric dichotomy" / 26 June 2008 / Margarita M.
Marinova, Oded Aharonson, and Erik Asphaug / Nature, v.453, p.1216-1219
- "The
unlikely matters" / 26 June 2008 / Nature, v.453, p.1143
the study of cosmic impacts and the effects they have offers
two lessons for students of science
- "Planetary
science: Tunguska at 100" / 25 June 2008 / Duncan Steel / Nature,
v.453, p.1157-1159 the most dramatic cosmic impact in recent
history has gathered up almost as many weird explanations as it knocked down
trees
- "Planetary
science: The hole at the bottom of the Moon" / 25 June 2008 / Eric Hand /
Nature, v.453, p.1160-1163 a giant crater on the lunar
farside holds the key to a catastrophic bombardment that reshaped the Moon,
Earth and other planets
-
Tunguska: The day the sky exploded / 25 June 2008 / David Cohen / New
Scientist, n.2662
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Almighty smash left record crater on Mars / 25 June 2008 / David Shiga /
New Scientist
- Nucleic acid bases
in Murchison meteorite? / 25 June 2008 / Jonathan Sarfati / Creation
Ministries International Have they proved that life came from
outer space?
-
Fossil of most primitive 4-legged creature found / June 25, 2008 / Seth
Borenstein / Associated Press
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Scientists get online news aggregator / 25 June 2008 / Declan Butler /
Nature, v.453, p.1149 Canadian researcher launches
science version of Google News
- In Pursuit of
the Gene: From Darwin to DNA / April 2008 / James Schwartz / Harvard
University Press see also
Amazon
-
Lucifer's Hammer / May 1985 / Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle / DelRey
[Random House] see also
Amazon
and Wikipedia
- "In
Retrospect: Lucifer's Hammer" / 26 June 2008 / Oliver Morton / Nature,
v.453, p.1184 how the first major science fiction novel to
depict an impact event conjured the thrill and the horror of natural
cataclysm -- and even inspired some researchers
JUNE 27
JUNE 24
JUNE 23
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Philadelphia Set to Honor Darwin and Evolution / June 23, 2008 / Jon
Hurdle / New York Times
-
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete /
June 23, 2008 / Chris Anderson / Wired Magazine
-
Is critical thinking subversive to science? / June 23, 2008 / David Tyler
/ Access Research Network
- More Than a Minor
Dispute: How Punctuated Equilibrium Has Challenged Contemporary Evolutionary
Biology / June 23, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network
- DNA: Toppling the
Evolutionary 'Tree of Life' / June 22, 2008 / Rich Stacel / Natural News
-
Creature Creator spawns plenty of God-playing fun / June 22, 2008 / David
Sheets / St. Louis Post-Dispatch Spore lets gamers
shepherd Creature Creator-made organisms through evolution from single-cell
status all the way up to sentient, space-traveling life form
-
How Darwin won the evolution race / June 22, 2008 / Robin McKie /
Guardian (UK) the extraordinary story behind
The Origin of Species
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New Discovery Proves 'Selfish Gene' Exists / June 22, 2008 / University of
Western Ontario / Science Daily
-
Zebra's Stripes, Butterfly's Wings: How Do Biological Patterns Emerge? /
June 20, 2008 / Johns Hopkins Medicine / Science Daily
-
Lucy Hawking searches for the secrets of great science writing / June 14,
2008 / Times Online (UK) as the Big Science Read is launched
at Jodrell Bank, Lucy Hawking finds that good books on the subject are
storytelling gold
- George's Secret Key to
the Universe / October 2007 / Lucy & Stephen Hawking / Simon &
Schuster see also
Amazon
JUNE 22
-
Tyrannosaur Trap / July 2008 / Peter Gwin / National Geographic
a fossil bonanza in northwestern China shows that the ancestors
of T. rex and other reptile giants started small
-
The Migration History of Humans: DNA Study Traces Human Origins Across the
Continents / July
June 2008 / Gary Stix / Scientific
American DNA furnishes an ever clearer picture of the
multimillennial trek from Africa all the way to the tip of South America
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Chemical Fossils Preserved in Lava Reveal Remains of Ancient Sea Life /
July
June 2008 / Christina Reed / Scientific American
searching for microfossils inside igneous rocks
- Sacred
Science: Using Faith to Explain Anomalies in Physics / July
June
2008 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American Can
emergence break the spell of reductionism and put spirituality back into
nature?
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Louisianas Latest Assault on Darwin / June 21, 2008 / New York Times
- "Louisiana
Opens School Door for Opponents of Evolution" / 20 June 2008 / Fayana
Richards / Science, v.320, n.5883, p.1572
-
What neo-creationists get right / 20 June 2008 / Gordy Slack / The
Scientist an evolutionist shares lessons he's learned
from the Intelligent Design camp
-
Bright Chunks at Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice / June 20,
2008 / NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Science Daily
-
Newly Discovered Example of Convergence Challenges Biological Evolution /
June 19, 2008 / Fazale Fuz Rana / Todays New Reason To Believe
-
Great Apes Think Ahead: Conclusive Evidence of Advanced Planning Capacities
/ June 19, 2008 / Springer / Science Daily
-
New Scientist: the first time evolution has been caught in the act / 19
June 2008 / Dave Scot / Uncommon Descent
-
Body-shapes are 'down to limbless, headless fish-like creature' / 18 June
2008 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
-
Male Homosexuality Can Be Explained Through a Specific Model of Darwinian
Evolution / June 18, 2008 / Public Library of Science / Science Daily
- How the Snake Got
Its Vertebrae / June 18, 2008 / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
-
Did volcanoes trigger Mars megaflood? / 18 June 2008 / New Scientist,
n.2661, p.21
-
Life's building blocks found on meteorite / 18 June 2008 / New
Scientist, n.2661
-
Commentary: Stop creationists undermining school science / 18 June 2008 /
Lawrence Krauss / New Scientist, n.2661
-
When crocodiles roamed the Arctic / 18 June 2008 / Anil Ananthaswamy /
New Scientist, n.2661 the poles were once covered by
freshwater lakes and lush forests instead of ice
-
Is the Universe Actually Made of Math? / June 16, 2008 / Adam Frank /
Discover unconventional cosmologist Max Tegmark says
mathematical formulas create reality
-
Ancient Mammal Relative Dug Burrows in Antarctica? / June 9, 2008 / Sara
Goudarzi / National Geographic News
-
Harnessing the Weather / June 6, 2008 / Donovan Webster / Discover
Could new technology help humans eliminate "acts of God"?
-
Did Humans Colonize the World by Boat? / May 20, 2008 / Heather Pringle /
Discover research suggests our ancestors traveled the
oceans 70,000 years ago
-
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion /
May 2008 / Stuart A. Kauffman / Basic Books see also
Amazon
JUNE 18
- "Evolutionary
biology: The amphioxus unleashed" / 19 June 2008 / Henry Gee / Nature,
v.453, p.999-1000 the genome sequence of a species of
amphioxus, an iconic organism in the history of evolutionary biology, opens up
a fresh vista on the comparative investigation of chordates and vertebrates
- "Solutions,
not scapegoats" / 19 June 2008 / Nature, v.453, p.957
Scientific misconduct may be more prevalent than most
researchers would like to admit. The solution needs to be wide-ranging yet
nuanced.
- "Repairing
research integrity" / 19 June 2008 / Sandra L. Titus, James A. Wells, and
Lawrence J. Rhoades / Nature, v.453, p.980-982 a
survey suggests that many research misconduct incidents in the United States
go unreported to the Office of Research Integrity
-
La. Senate Approves Bill Promoting Critical Analysis of Evolution / June
17, 2008 / Nathan Black / Christian Post
-
Darwin Passes His Testings / 17 June 2008 / Michael Ruse / Red Orbit
-
Evolutionary origin of a complex signaling system / June 17, 2008 / John
Timmer / ars technica evolutionary studies confront a lot of
chicken-and-egg problems
-
Darwinmania! / June 17, 2008 / Olivia Judson / New York Times
in a week or so, the trumpets will sound, heralding the start
of 18 months of non-stop festivities in honor of Charles Darwin
-
Scientist Takes on the Creationists / 16 June 2008 / George Pyle / Red
Orbit
-
Surrealism, Art, and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics,
Epistemology / May 2008 / Gavin Parkinson / Yale University Press see also
Amazon
- "Quantum
weirdness and surrealism" / 19 June 2008 / Philip Ball / Nature,
v.453, p.983-984 a joint exploration of early modern
physics and the surreal art movement shows these twentieth-century
revolutions had more in common than we thought
JUNE 17
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Embryonic Zeal: How scientific data has been forced to fit the evolutionary
picture / June 17, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network
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Defenders of science shouldn't let the sophists carry the day / June 17,
2008 / Leah Ceccarelli / Seattle Times public
questions in America about science have become the playthings of the
manufactured controversy in which political activists invent a scientific
disagreement that isn't real
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Helpful Bacteria May Hide in Appendix / June 17, 2008 / Nicholas Bakalar /
New York Times
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Gov. Jindal on intelligent design / June 16, 2008 / R. Reese Fuller / The
Independent (Louisiana) he doesn't think it's an issue that
should be decided on the federal or even state level, but on the local level
- A
creationist speaks about extraterrestrials / June 16, 2008 / Stephanie
Innes / Arizona Daily Star
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Three-of-a-kind planets found / 16 June 2008 / Eric Hand / Nature
News survey for 'super-Earths' finds worlds like ours may be
common
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2000-year-old seed makes good / June 13, 2008 / Heidi Ledford / Nature
blog
- "Biofilms in the
large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix"
/ 21 December 2007 / R. Randal Bollinger, Andrew S. Barbas, Errol L. Bush, Shu
S. Lin, and William Parker / Journal of Theoretical Biology, v.249,
n.4, p.826-831
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Rare dinosaur mummy's arm and
tail unveiled / June 16, 2008 / Blake Nicholson / MSNBC (Associated Press)
duckbilled dino covered by fossilized skin lay 67 million
years beneath soil
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Creating science / June 16, 2008 / Harun Buljina / Michigan Daily
(University of Michigan)
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The Cambrian Explosion: Defining life's 'theater' / June 16, 2008 / Robert
Deyes / Access Research Network
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Aussie rocks may hold keys to life on Earth / June 15, 2008 / Sydney
Morning Herald scientists have found DNA molecules in a
meteorite that landed Down Under
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Is it hard to be a Christian in college? / June 14, 2008 / Morning Call
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Roadside crater should have made more of an impact / 14 June 2008 / New
Scientist, n.2660, p.16 telltale signs of a huge impact
site were sitting alongside a busy road 8 kilometres north-east of Santa Fe,
New Mexico
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Life's
Raw Materials May Have Come from the Stars, Scientists Confirm / June 13,
2008 / Imperial College London / Science Daily
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Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? / June 12, 2008 / Dinesh D'Souza / AOL
blog
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New front opens on evolution wars / June 12, 2008 / Amy Fagan /
Washington Times Louisiana bill would allow scientific
dispute of hot topics
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Founders knew
about evolution, chose intelligent design / June 11, 2008 / Bryan Fischer
/ Renew America
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Evolution and Gravity / 11 June 2008 / Dave Scot / Uncommon Descent
we often hear from Darwinists that the theory of evolution is
as well tested as the theory of gravity
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The Evolution of an Alternative Theory: The Scientific Underpinnings of
Intelligent Design / June 11, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research
Network
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Monkeys understand money / 11 June 2008 / Katharine Sanderson / Nature
News capuchins can appreciate the purchasing power of tokens
such as poker chips
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The Ordovician: Life's second big bang / 11 June 2008 / James O'Donoghue /
New Scientist, n.2660 forget the Cambrian explosion
... what came next was the truly momentous event in animal evolution
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What Science Cannot Tell Us / June 8, 2008 / Dinesh D'Souza / AOL blog
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Acts & Facts,
v.37, n.6 (pdf) / June 2008 / Institute for Creation Research
- Darwin's
Joyful Journey of Discovery / May 31, 2008 / Steve Jones / Wall Street
Journal, p.W12 'The Voyage of the Beagle' shows us a
young man intoxicated with the tropics and careless of the risks
- Bending
Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research / May
2008 / Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner / Harvard University Press see also
Amazon
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Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your
Health / April 2008 / David Michaels / Oxford University Press see also
Amazon
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Genetically, sea anemone has human complexity / July 8, 2007 / Helen
Altonn / Star Bulletin (Hawaii)
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JUNE 8
- Knowledge and its
discontents: Darwin passes his testings / June 7, 2008 / Michael Ruse /
Salt Lake Tribune
- "Departing
U.S. Genome Institute Director Takes Stock of Personalized Medicine" / 6
June 2008 / Jocelyn Kaiser / Science, v.320, n.5881, p.1272
Francis Collins interview
- "The
Andes Popped Up by Losing Their Deep-Seated Rocky Load" / 6 June 2008 /
Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.320, n.5881, p.1275
new geochemical paleo-elevation data for the Andes that, combined with
existing isotopic data, point to rapid uplift
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Inflation deflated? The big bang's toughest test / 6 June 2008 / Michael
Brooks / New Scientist, n.2659 Our best theory of the
early universe is starting to look a tad insecure. Could this mean we've got
it all wrong?
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Hints of 'time before Big Bang' / June 6, 2008 / Chris Lintott / BBC News
a team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early
Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang
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New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells / June 6, 2008 / National
Science Foundation / Science Daily
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Fossil parrots imply early rapid radiation within the parrot family / June
6, 2008 / David Tyler / Access Research Network
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Did black hole 'fireworks' light up early cosmos? / 6 June 2008 / David
Shiga / New Scientist, n.2659
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'Time-travelling' bugs resist antibiotics of the future / 6 June 2008 /
Ewen Callaway / New Scientist
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Could microbes on Phoenix survive on Mars? / 6 June 2008 / Ewen Callaway /
New Scientist
- Why
Darwin is remarkable / June 6, 2008 / Michael Ruse / News-Tribune
(Rome, Georgia)
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Unintelligently Designed / June 5, 2008 / Mike Berlin / Campus Progress
Expelled fails both as a documentary and as an
anti-evolution argument
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Was Stonehenge built to revere the dead? / 4 June 2008 / Linda Geddes /
New Scientist, n.2659
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Genetically modified humans: Here and more coming soon / 4 June 2008 /
Nick Lane / New Scientist, n.2659 Creating kids with
two mothers could save them from dreadful diseases. But will the next step be
designer babies?
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EDITORIAL: Why the best theories aren't always right
/ 4 June 2008 / New Scientist, n.2659, p.5
- How
Our Brains are Wired for Belief / June 1, 2008 / Michael Cromartie /
Ethics and Public Policy Center
- Creation-Evolution
Headlines / May 2008 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
- Flunk This Movie!
/ April 16, 2008 / Ronald Bailey / Reason Magazine Ben
Stein's new anti-science movie Expelled is all worldview and no
evidence
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Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture / April 2008 / Alan
Sokal / Oxford University Press see also
Amazon
- Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of
the Human Mind / April 2008 / Gary Marcus / Houghton Mifflin see also
Amazon
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Trial-and-error evolution / May 31, 2008 / Steven Rose / The Guardian
(UK) our brains are an engineering nightmare
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Patch Job / April 27, 2008 / Annie Murphy Paul / New York Times
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God, Chance and Purpose: Can God Have It Both Ways? / February 2008 /
David J. Bartholomew / Cambridge University Press see also
Amazon
- Life
on Mars Could Have Come from Earth / Babu G. Ranganathan / Seoul Times
JUNE 4
- "Genomics:
Protein fossils live on as RNA" / 5 June 2008 / Rajkumar Sasidharan and
Mark Gerstein / Nature, v.453, p.729-731 Pseudogenes
constitute many of the non-coding DNA sequences that make up large parts of
genomes. Once considered merely protein fossils, it now emerges that some of
them have active regulatory roles.
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Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy / June 4, 2008 / Laura Beil
/ New York Times
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Live birth in a supposedly primitive Devonian fish / June 4, 2008 / David
Tyler / Access Research Network
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Evolution of an Imprinted Domain in Mammals / June 3, 2008 / Public
Library of Science / Science Daily
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Mutations may make humans walk on all fours / 2 June 2008 / Heidi Ledford
/ Nature News genetic analysis revives dispute about
why some humans are quadrupeds
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Creationist school fights ruling / June 2, 2008 / Jeannie Kever /
Houston Chronicle Institute for Creation Research appeals
state's decision to prevent offering of science education degree
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In at the Birth of Death / June 2, 2008 / New York Times
until this year, no astronomer had ever seen a supernova
explode
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Living Fossils Have Long- and Short-term Memory Despite Lacking Brain
Structures of Modern Cephalopods / June 1, 2008 / Journal of Experimental
Biology / Science Daily
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Scientists rally against creationist 'superstition' / 1 June 2008 / Ian
Johnston / The Independent (UK) to mark a double
anniversary celebrating Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, his
supporters are taking the fight to their opponents
- My faith has room
enough for science / June 1, 2008 / Dow Marmur / Toronto Star
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But For the Bible, We Might All Be Creationists / May 31, 2008 / Roddy M.
Bullock / Access Research Network
- Speaking
of Faith: Quarks + Creation / May 29, 2008 / John Polkinghorne, with
Krista Tippett / American Public Media
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Giant flying reptile not much of a flyer / May 28, 2008 / Daniel Cressey /
Nature blog
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Longest Piece of Synthetic DNA Yet / January 24, 2008 / Coco Ballantyne /
Scientific American scientists have created an entire
bacterial genome with off-the-shelf chemicals
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Excerpt from Adnan Oktar's press conference after he was sentenced of 3 years
prison / 2008 / Harun Yahya the Atlas of Creation
has had a huge impact, like an atom bomb
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