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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
• 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
• 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
• Dinosaur evolutionary tree unveiled / 23 July 2008 / Colin Barras and Michael Marshall / New Scientist
• 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
  • "Geological history turned upside down" / 24 July 2008 / Victor R. Baker / Nature, v.454, p.406-407
  • REVIEW: 24 July 2008 / Keith Thomson / Times Higher Education
  • REVIEW: 18 June 2008 / Douglas Palmer / New Scientist, n.2661, p.55
• 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
  • Love affair with his subjects / July 17, 2008 / Barbara Liss / Houston Chronicle — Simon Winchester's latest shows deep appreciation for an eccentric British don
  • 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)
  • 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

• Mystery of the Megaflood / July 22, 2008 / PBS — What unleashed a catastrophic flood that scarred thousands of square miles in the American Northwest?
  • Explore the Scablands
• "Darwin celebrations begin" / 22 July 2008 / Current Biology, v.18, p.R579-R580
• Natural Selection May Not Produce the Best Organisms / July 21, 2008 / Public Library of Science / Science Daily
• Mississippi megaflood may have ended the Ice Age / July 21, 2008 / Ulf Erlingsson / PRAvenue
• 'Flying by the Seat of Our Cladograms'  / July 21, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network (blog) — Ockham's Principle and the blind faith of cladistics
• Caribbean volcanoes implicated in Cretaceous killing spree / 16 July 2008 / Geoff Brumfiel / Nature News — osmium isotopes prove origins of mass-extinction event
• The Driving Forces of Evolution: From Darwin to the modern age (pdf) / 3-4 July 2008 / Linnean Society
• "Could the Laws of Nature Change?" / January 2008 / Marc Lange / Philosophy of Science, v.75, p.69-92
• Darwin 2009 commemorations / Darwin Online (UK) — this page aims to list the worldwide events and publications relating to the 2009 celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth
• The Glass House Mountains, Australia / Tas Walker / Biblical Geology

JULY 20

• How your behaviour can change your children’s DNA / July 20, 2008 / Jonathan Leake / Times Online (UK) — new research into inheritance shows we can alter family traits for better or for worse
• College professor gets $20,000 to settle claim / July 19, 2008 / Staci Hupp / Des Moines Register (Iowa) — a community college professor who was fired after he offended students with remarks about the Bible will get $20,000 to settle his wrongful termination claim
• Let’s Get Rid of Darwinism / July 15, 2008 / Olivia Judson / New York Times
• Flew Speaks Out / 2008 / Antony Flew / bethinking — review of The God Delusion
• How to Constructively Discuss Science with a Creationist / wikiHow
• Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind / May 2007 / Ronald de Sousa / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
  • REVIEW: July 14, 2008 / Angela Bird / Metapsychology Online Reviews

JULY 18

• Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed / October 2008 / Uni Dist Corp — documentary film exploring the theory of Intelligent Design; see Amazon
• 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 Hindbrain–Spinal 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
• Recent study analyzes teachers' views on intelligent design / July 17, 2008 / Erin Rowley / The Daily Collegian (Penn State)
• "Obituary: John Templeton (1912–2008)" / 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
• Concerns about Templeton Foundation funding / July 17, 2008 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
• The Templeton is no Nobel / July 16, 2008 / Dan Gardner / The Ottawa Citizen
• Darwin at the Drugstore? / July 16, 2008 / Alan L. Gillen and Sarah Anderson / Answers in Genesis — testing the biological fitness of antibiotic resistant bacteria
• 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
• Marsupials and Humans Share Same Genetic Imprinting That Evolved 150 Million Years Ago / July 15, 2008 / University of Melbourne / Science Daily
• 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
• 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
• Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture / April 2008 / Alan Sokal / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
  • "Science wars revisited" / 17 July 2008 / N. David Mermin / Nature, v.454, p.276-277
• 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

• Darwinism, Metaphysics and a Godless World / July 15, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network (blog)
• Taking a Cue From Ants on Evolution of Humans / July 15, 2008 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times — scientist at work: Edward O. Wilson
• What’s Next in the Law? The Unalienable Rights of Chimps / July 14, 2008 / Adam Cohen / New York Times
• When Human Rights Extend to Nonhumans / July 13, 2008 / Donald G. McNeil Jr. / New York Times
• Balancing act / July 12, 2008 / Kathy Matheson / Telegraph Herald (Iowa) — Mendel revered for combining science and religion
• Templeton leaves controversial legacy / 11 July 2008 / Geoff Brumfiel / Nature News — philanthropist's influential foundation will continue his mission to explore the space between science and faith
• From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible / June 2007 / Eric H. Cline / National Geographic (and Random House) — see also Amazon, and National Geographic press room and live

JULY 13

• Flatfish caught evolving, thanks to its roving eye / 13 July 2008 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2664
  • Flatfish Fossils Fill in Evolutionary Missing Link / July 10, 2008 / University of Chicago Medical Center / Science Daily
  • Another One Bites the Dust / 10 July 2008 / Eric Zimmermann / The New Republic (blog) — the evolutionary link between the contemporary flatfish and its ancestors
  • National Geographic Finds Opportunity to Conflate Intelligent Design with Creationism while Misreporting Fish Fossil / July 10, 2008 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views (Discover Institute)
  • Odd Fish Find Contradicts Intelligent-Design Argument / July 9, 2008 / Anne Minard / National Geographic News
• How bats made the leap from gliding to flying / 12 July 2008 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist, n.2664
• Great questions of human destiny don't change; science's answers do / July 12, 2008 / Ray Waddle / Tennessean
• 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
• The Louisiana Science Education Act -- Inventive Idea, or Threat? / 9 July 2008 / Lisa Loring / Daily Kenoshan (Wisconsin)
• 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
• 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
• Earth's hum predicts quake danger spots / 9 July 2008 / New Scientist, n.2664, p.19
• Editorial: Creationists launch cynical attack on school science / 9 July 2008 / New Scientist, n.2664
• Eureka! on the printed page / July 8, 2008 / Robert Fulford / National Post — Richard Dawkins' editorship brings a brilliant Oxford anthology to life
• 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
• Darwin's Garden / June 2008 / Michael Boulter / Constable & Robinson — see also Amazon
  • 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
  • REVIEW: 9 July 2008 / Henry Nicholls / New Scientist, n.2664, p.48
• 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
  • "Planetary science: The early Moon was rich in water" / 10 July 2008 / Marc Chaussidon / Nature, v.454, p.170-172 — Analyses of lunar volcanic glasses show that they are rich in volatile elements and water. If parts of the lunar mantle contain as much water as Earth's, does this imply that the water has a common origin?
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Lunar glass: Reflections on a watery Moon
  • Evidence of Water Found Deep Within the Moon: Dampens Moon-formation Theory / July 10, 2008 / Brown University / Science Daily
• "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
  • 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
• Big Brains Arose Twice in Higher Primates / July 9, 2008 / American Museum of Natural History / Science Daily
• 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
• New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US / 9 July 2008 / Amanda Gefter / New Scientist
• An Original Confession / July 8, 2008 / Olivia Judson / New York Times — does Darwin's Origin have anything fresh to say to a modern reader
• 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
• Sir John M. Templeton, Philanthropist, Dies at 95 / July 9, 2008 / Robert D. McFadden / New York Times — the Templeton Foundation awards one of the world’s richest prizes and sponsors conferences and studies reflecting the founder’s passionate interest in “progress in religion” and “research or discoveries” on the nebulous borders of science and religion
  • Sir John Templeton, Pioneer Investor and Philanthropist / John Templeton Foundation
• The enigmatic platypus and its idiosyncratic genome / July 9, 2008 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
• Judge says creationism for the birds / July 8, 2008 / Roddy Bullock / World Net Daily
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• Thomas Jefferson and Intelligent Design / July 4, 2008 / John West / Intelligent Design the Future
• '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
• 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
• Fossil Hunter / May 2008 / John B. Olson / Tyndale House — see also Amazon
  • 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

• Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection / July 6, 2008 / Ethan Bronner / New York Times
• Evolutionists Fear Academic Freedom / July 5, 2008 / Floyd and Mary Beth Brown / townhall.com
• Creation museum is 'time machine' / July 5, 2008 / Carolyn Lafever / Palladium-Item (Richmond, Indiana) — Cincinnati-area attraction brings pages of Bible to life
• Evolution of the best idea that anyone has ever had / July 1, 2008 / John Joe McFadden / Sydney Morning Herald
• Evolutionary Creation / Denis O. Lamoureux (St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta)

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
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Origins of life: The first cell membranes
• Former state science director sues over intelligent design e-mail / July 3, 2008 / Terrence Stutz / Dallas Morning News
• 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
• Shaking up the bird family tree / 2 July 2008 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist, n.2663
• 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
• 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
  • 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
• 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 today’s 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 21^st 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

• Global Warming as Mass Neurosis / July 1, 2008 / Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal, p.A15
• Acts & Facts, v.37, n.7 (pdf) / July 2008 / Institute for Creation Research
  • p.3 — "Reflecting on Grand Canyon" / John D. Morris
  • p.4-5 — "Sowing the Creation Message" / Henry M. Morris III — today's investment for tomorrow's harvest
  • p.6 — "The 'Fatal Flaws' of Darwinian Theory" / Larry Vardiman
  • p.8 — "Man of Science, Man of God: William Kirby" / Christine Dao
  • p.10-12 — "Red Rock Pass: Spillway of the Bonneville Flood" / Steven A. Austin
  • p.13 — "Tiny Bacteria's Big Challenge to Darwin" / Frank Sherwin / Back to Genesis
  • p.14 — "Searching for the Elusive Man from Mars" / Brian Thomas / Back to Genesis
  • p.15 — "Cosmology's Error Bars" / David F. Coppedge
• Intellectual freedom must include conservative professors, scientists / June 30, 2008 / Caroline Crocker / The Examiner (Los Angeles)
• 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
• 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
• "Skeleton of Giant" Is Internet Photo Hoax / December 14, 2007 / James Owen / National Geographic News
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark / February 1997 / Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan / Ballantine (Random House) — see also Amazon
  • Billions and Billions of Demons / January 9, 1997 / Richard Lewontin / New York Times Book Reviews

JUNE 30

• Hawking 'close' to explaining universe's inflation / 28 June 2008 / Zeeya Merali / New Scientist, n.2662
• Creationism has evolved to this? / June 27, 2008 / Jim Slotek / Edmonton Sun (Alberta) — critique of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
• Uh-oh, creation debated / June 27, 2008 / Jay Stone / Windsor Star (Canada) — documentary on Intelligent Design - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
• 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
• Louisiana gov. signs controversial education bill / June 27, 2008 / Reuters
• 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
  • EVOLUTION: "Building the Tree of Life, Genome by Genome" / 27 June 2008 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.320, n.5884, p.1716-1717
  • Huge Genome-scale Phylogenetic Study of Birds Rewrites Evolutionary Tree-of-life / June 27, 2008 / Field Museum / Science Daily
  • Bird evolutionary tree given a shake by DNA study / 26 June 2008 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist
• 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 Lukševičs, Henning Blom, and Ivars Zupi / Nature, v.453, p.1199-1204
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Evolution: The fish-to-tetrapod transition
• "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
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Cosmic cataclysms: An impact origin for the Mars dichotomy
• "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
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Cosmic cataclysms
• "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
• 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
• 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
  • "Making genetic history" / 26 June 2008 / Jerry A. Coyne / Nature, v.453, p.1181-1182
• 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

• The Evolution of a Theory / June 26, 2008 / Kevin Clark / Catholic Men's Quarterly — the Catholic take on a controversial subject
• Designing Ben Stein / June 26, 2008 / Jim Slotek / Edmonton Sun — dry-voiced actor promoting anti-Darwinist documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
• Fossil fills out water-land leap / June 25, 2008 / Matt McGrath / BBC — scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution
• Swamp fossil reveals how we got our legs / 25 June 2008 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
• Galaxy map hints at fractal universe / 25 June 2008 / Amanda Gefter / New Scientist
• Birds that boogie / 25 June 2008 / Philip Ball / Nature News — online videos of 'dancing' cockatoos are not flukes but the first genuine evidence of animal dancing
• Creation and Intelligent Design: God vs. god / June 24, 2008 / Blair Benjamin / Answers in Genesis — Should the church be enthusiastic about the ID movement?
• Scientists Fix Bugs in Our Understanding of Evolution / June 24, 2008 / European Molecular Biology Laboratory / Science Daily
• Evolutionarily Preserved Signature Found in the Primate Brain / June 24, 2008 / Uppsala University / Science Daily

JUNE 24

• Yes, there's ice on Mars / 20 June 2008 / Katharine Sanderson / Nature News — "Ice!" screams NASA's Phoenix lander
• "When water gushed on Mars" / 20 June 2008 / Eric Hand / Nature, v.453, p.1153 — Could crevasses in the ice have been caused by a recent volcanic eruption?
• Teaching Evolution: Legal victories aren't enough / May 20, 2008 / Penn State Live
• Gilgamesh: A New English Version / February 2006 / Stephen Mitchell / Free Press (Simon & Schuster) — see also Amazon
• Fossils and Faith: Finding Our Way Through the Creation Controversy / 2006 / Thea Leunk / Faith Alive Christian Resources — a thought-provoking course for teens on the Christian beliefs about creation

JUNE 23

• 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
• 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
• 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?
• Louisiana’s 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 / Today’s 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
  • SCIENCE AND RELIGION: "For a Redefinition of God" / 20 June 2008 / Denis Noble / Science, v.320, n.5883, p.1590-1591

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
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Scientific misconduct: Tip of the iceberg?
• La. Senate Approves Bill Promoting Critical Analysis of Evolution / June 17, 2008 / Nathan Black / Christian Post
  • Louisiana legislature passes 'creation bill' / 17 June 2008 / Kathlyn Stone / Flesh & Stone — opponents: “The Bible was never intended to be a science textbook”
  • Gov. Bobby Jindal Supports Creationism as Part of ‘The Very Best Science’ / 17 June 2008 / Mister-Info.com — a Hindu convert to Catholicism who takes the Bible literally
• 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

• Embryonic Zeal: How scientific data has been forced to fit the evolutionary picture / June 17, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network
• 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
• Helpful Bacteria May Hide in Appendix / June 17, 2008 / Nicholas Bakalar / New York Times
• 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
• Three-of-a-kind planets found / 16 June 2008 / Eric Hand / Nature News — survey for 'super-Earths' finds worlds like ours may be common
• 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

JUNE 16

• 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
• Creating science / June 16, 2008 / Harun Buljina / Michigan Daily (University of Michigan)
• The Cambrian Explosion: Defining life's 'theater' / June 16, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network
• 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
• Is it hard to be a Christian in college? / June 14, 2008 / Morning Call
• 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
• Life's Raw Materials May Have Come from the Stars, Scientists Confirm / June 13, 2008 / Imperial College London / Science Daily
• Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? / June 12, 2008 / Dinesh D'Souza / AOL blog
• New front opens on evolution wars / June 12, 2008 / Amy Fagan / Washington Times — Louisiana bill would allow scientific dispute of hot topics
• Founders knew about evolution, chose intelligent design / June 11, 2008 / Bryan Fischer / Renew America
• 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”
• The Evolution of an Alternative Theory: The Scientific Underpinnings of Intelligent Design / June 11, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network
• Monkeys understand money / 11 June 2008 / Katharine Sanderson / Nature News — capuchins can appreciate the purchasing power of tokens such as poker chips
• 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
• What Science Cannot Tell Us / June 8, 2008 / Dinesh D'Souza / AOL blog
• Acts & Facts, v.37, n.6 (pdf) / June 2008 / Institute for Creation Research
  • p.3 — "Academic Censorship, Round Two" / John D. Morris
  • p.4-5 — "Never Stop Questioning" / Beth Mull
  • p.6 — "Diamonds May Be a Creationist's Best Friend" / Larry Vardiman
  • p.8 — "Man of Science, Man of God: Charles Bell" / Christine Dao
  • p.9 — "Where Has Academic Freedom Gone in Texas?" / Henry M. Morris III
  • p.10-12 — "Demanding the Evidence in the 21st Century" / Lawrence E. Ford
  • p.13 — "The Dinosaur Next Door" / John D. Morris / Back to Genesis
  • p.14 — "Marketing the Navajo Sandstone" / William A. Hoesch / Back to Genesis
  • p.15 — "Iapetus: Youth in Black and White" / David F. Coppedge
• 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
• Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health / April 2008 / David Michaels / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
  • "Suppressing science" / 12 June 2008 / Dick Taverne / Nature, v.453, p.857-858
• Genetically, sea anemone has human complexity / July 8, 2007 / Helen Altonn / Star Bulletin (Hawaii)

JUNE 10

• Hints of structure beyond the visible universe / 10 June 2008 / David Shiga / New Scientist
• Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab / 9 June 2008 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist
• Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound / June 9, 2008 / Yomin Postelnik / Canada Free Press
• Woolly mammoth family tree grows a new branch / 9 June 2008 / Katharine Sanderson / Nature News — two bands of woolly brothers roamed the Siberian snows
• Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment / June 9, 2008 / Princeton University / physorg.com — Bacteria don't just react to changes in their surroundings, they anticipate and prepare for them. This challenges the prevailing notion that only organisms with complex nervous systems have this ability.
• Faith in science / June 7, 2008 / Houston Chronicle — creationists on the State Board of Education must stop trying to undermine the teaching of evolution
• US genomics leader bows out from institute / 4 June 2008 / Nature, v.453, p.710 — Francis Collins, the geneticist who led the US National Human Genome Research Institute through the completion of the Human Genome Project and the dawn of the personal genomics era, has announced that he will leave his post on 1 August.

JUNE 9

• In Whose Eyes? The subjectivity of the non-design inference / June 9, 2008 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network
• Complex Synapses Drove Brain Evolution / June 9, 2008 / Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute / Science Daily
• The meaning of the butterfly / June 8, 2008 / Peter Dizikes / Boston Globe — why pop culture loves the 'butterfly effect,' and gets it totally wrong
• Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution / June 2008 / Karl Giberson / HarperCollins — see also Amazon
• The Science of Racism / May 30, 2008 / Henry Louis Gates / The Root — last fall, James Watson, the father of DNA, spoke the unspeakable, saying that blacks are intellectually inferior

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
• 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?
• 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
• New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells / June 6, 2008 / National Science Foundation / Science Daily
• Fossil parrots imply early rapid radiation within the parrot family / June 6, 2008 / David Tyler / Access Research Network
• Did black hole 'fireworks' light up early cosmos? / 6 June 2008 / David Shiga / New Scientist, n.2659
• 'Time-travelling' bugs resist antibiotics of the future / 6 June 2008 / Ewen Callaway / New Scientist
• 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)
• Unintelligently Designed / June 5, 2008 / Mike Berlin / Campus Progress — Expelled fails both as a documentary and as an anti-evolution argument
• Was Stonehenge built to revere the dead? / 4 June 2008 / Linda Geddes / New Scientist, n.2659
• 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?
• 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
• Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture / April 2008 / Alan Sokal / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
  • Fight for the Life of the Mind / May 21, 2008 / Michael Shermer / New York Sun
• Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind / April 2008 / Gary Marcus / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon
  • Trial-and-error evolution / May 31, 2008 / Steven Rose / The Guardian (UK) — our brains are an engineering nightmare
  • Patch Job / April 27, 2008 / Annie Murphy Paul / New York Times
• 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.
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Endo-siRNAs in Drosophila: the Argonaute connection
• Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy / June 4, 2008 / Laura Beil / New York Times
• Live birth in a supposedly primitive Devonian fish / June 4, 2008 / David Tyler / Access Research Network
• Evolution of an Imprinted Domain in Mammals / June 3, 2008 / Public Library of Science / Science Daily
• 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
• 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
• In at the Birth of Death / June 2, 2008 / New York Times — until this year, no astronomer had ever seen a supernova explode
• Living Fossils Have Long- and Short-term Memory Despite Lacking Brain Structures of Modern Cephalopods / June 1, 2008 / Journal of Experimental Biology / Science Daily
• 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
• 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
• Giant flying reptile not much of a flyer / May 28, 2008 / Daniel Cressey / Nature blog
• 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
• 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
  • Science Research Foundation Defense File

JUNE 1

• Put a Little Science in Your Life / June 1, 2008 / Brian Greene / New York Times
• Kingdom Builders takes program on biblical creation to students / May 31, 2008 / Chandra Harris-McCray / Knox News (Tennessee)
• Will the Singularity Make Us Happier? / May 30, 2008 / Brandon Keim / Wired — categories: artificial Intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology, World Science Festival
• 'The oldest pregnant mum’—not! / 30 May 2008 / David Catchpoole and Jonathan Sarfati / Creation Ministries International — media headlines and scientific journals are proclaiming the discovery of ‘the world’s oldest mum’, a fossil named after Sir David Attenborough
• Mars' Water Appears to Have Been Too Salty to Support Life / May 30, 2008 / Harvard University / Science Daily
• Common Aquatic Animal's Genome Can Capture Foreign DNA / May 30, 2008 / Harvard University / Science Daily

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