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• Volcano Live

  May 22, 2000 1.5 million hits per month

• Spider gene spins goats' milk into super fibre

  May 20, 2000 Martin Kettle Guardian Unlimited

• Goat-Spider Experiment: Biotech Company to Produce ‘BioSteel’ Milk

  May 20, 2000 ABC News 150 goats bred with a spider gene in Plattsburgh, NY

• Intelligent Design: You and Me Baby Ain't Nothin' but Mammals

  May 19, 2000 Bob Park What's New - American Physical Society

• "Evolutionary Exploitation of Design Options by the First Animals with Hard Skeletons" requires free registration

  May 19, 2000 R. D. K. Thomas, Rebecca M. Shearman, Graham W. Stewart Science, v.288, p.1239-1242

  within 15 million years of the appearance of crown groups of phyla with substantial hard parts, at least 80 percent of skeletal design elements recognized among living and extinct marine metazoans were exploited in the skeletons of Burgess Shale animals

• Sinless Originals

  May 19, 2000 Olivia P. Judson and Benjamin B. Normark Science, v.288, p.1185-1186

  rotifers evolved without sexual reproduction

• "Mount St. Helens, Master Teacher" requires free registration

  May 19, 2000 Christopher G. Newhall Science, v.288, p.1181-1183

  explosive volcanism; ecological recovery

• Fly's Eye Spies Highs in Cosmic Rays' Demise

  May 19, 2000 Charles Seife Science, v.288, p.1147

  more ultrasuperhigh-energy cosmic rays that deepen the mystery about the origin of these strange particles

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  A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation

  May 19, 2000 Peter Singer Yale University Press

  see review in Scientific American

• Creationism

  May 19, 2000 Helen Fryman True.Origin Archive

• New £10 Banknote Design

  May 17, 2000 Bank of England

  to allow for the easy identification of the new £10, the reverse includes a portrait of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin, replacing the current design featuring Charles Dickens

• "When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth"

  May 15, 2000 Newsweek findings by scientists challenge fossilized assumptions

• How evolution became a religion

  May 13, 2000 Michael Ruse National Post

  creationists correct? Darwinians wrongly mix science with morality, politics

• How evolution became a religion

  May 13, 2000 Michael Ruse National Post

  An ardent evolutionist and ex-Christian concedes that evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion -- a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and moralit

• Skulls point to early human migration out of Africa

  May 12, 2000 CNN.com

• A Glimpse of Humans' First Journey Out of Africa

  May 12, 2000 Michael Balter and Ann Gibbons Science, v.288, p.948-950

  new skulls, dates, and simple stone tools from Georgia

• News Update/Commentary

  Fossils may be 'first Europeans'

  May 11, 2000 BBC News

  remains of what may be the earliest human ancestors to migrate from Africa into Europe have been found in the Republic of Georgia

• Sue fossil provides insights into T. rex's behavior and diet

  May 11, 2000 CNN.com

• Evolution Opponents Hold Congressional Briefing

  May 11, 2000 David Applegate Government Affairs Program, American Geological Institute

• Astronomers find evidence of eight objects orbiting distant stars

  May 9, 2000 CNN.com

• Discovery Institute to Hold Congressional Policy Briefing May 10 in Washington

  May 8, 2000 U.S. Newswire

  The Discovery Institute will bring top scientists and scholars to brief Congressional representatives on the scientific evidence for intelligent design and its implications for public policy and education.

• "How It All Started"

  May 8, 2000 Newsweek, v.135, p.48

  the best-ever observations of the origins of the universe hint at the way it will end

• "Ordinary miracles"

  May 6, 2000 Michael Brooks New Scientist, v.166, p.26

  How do the complexities of the living world arise from dumb matter? A speck of angelic assistance may be all that's needed.

• It pays to be nice

  May 5, 2000 BBC News Can evolution explain why we would give to a beggar?

• "Not (Just) in Kansas Anymore"

  May 5, 2000 Eugenie C. Scott Science, v.288, p.813-815

• "Stretching the Reign of Early Animals" requires free registration

  May 5, 2000 Richard A. Kerr Science, v.288, p.789

  age for Ediacaran fauna determined through highly precise uranium-lead radiometric dating has produced a surprisingly early date that doubles the length of the late Ediacaran reign

• "Not (Just) in Kansas Anymore"

  May 5, 2000 Eugenie C. Scott Science, v.288, p.813

  an essay on teaching evolution/creation in public schools, including 50 responses

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  Predators: The ultimate killing machines

  May 4, 2000 BBC News

  life-and-death contests between hunter and hunted have been filmed by miniaturised cameras mounted on the hunters themselves

• Early humans may have "coasted" out of Africa

  May 3, 2000 Discovery Channel

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  Just Six Numbers

  May 1, 2000 Martin J. Rees Phoenix

  The universe is 'fine-tuned' by just six numbers, without which we would not exist. Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, explains his radical new theory.

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  Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud

  May 1, 2000 Robert L. Park Oxford University Press

  see also Amazon, and interview with Robert Park in U.S. News & World Repo

• A dinosaur with heart

  May 1, 2000 U.S. News & World Report, v.128, p.59 preserved organ tells tales from land of the lost

• Stirring Up a Magnetic Field

  May 1, 2000 Physical Review Focus

  a Latvian-German collaboration reports that they have created a magnetic field the same way the Earth does; see full article: "Detecti

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  The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam

  May 1, 2000 Kenneth L. Woodward Simon & Schuster

  see also Amazon

• "Newsweek Poll: Most Americans Believe in Miracles"

  May 1, 2000 Newsweek

• "Why I Don't Believe in Miracles"

  May 1, 2000 Philip Hefner Newsweek, v.135

  a prominent theologian with a love for science explores the contradictions of faith in divine intervention

• "What Miracles Mean"

  May 1, 2000 Kenneth L. Woodward Newsweek, v.135, p.54

• "DINOSAURS: A Real Heart of Stone"

  May 1, 2000 Newsweek, p.53 new evidence for warm-blooded dinos

• Aping Culture

  May 1, 2000 Meredith F. Small Discover, v.21, p.52-57

  Chimpanzees speak in dialects, invent odd grooming styles, and drum better than most kids in marching bands. So what's left to separate them from us?

• "Mount St. Helens 20 Years Later"

  May 1, 2000 Robert I. Tilling Geotimes, v.45, p.14-18

  The volcanologist who directed the Volcano Hazards Program of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1980 offers his perspective on what has been learned from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, the worst volcanic disaster in U.S. recorded history.

• Fossil signatures: forged or real?

  May 1, 2000 Christina Reed Geotimes, v.45, p.8

  heralded as one of the oldest animal imprints, the worm fossil Vermiforma antique Cloud is being cast as a fossil mistake

• "God and Evolution: An Exchange"

  May 1, 2000 Howard J. Van Till & Phillip E. Johnson First Things v.34, p.32-41

• Dawn of Humans

  May 1, 2000 André W. Keyser National Geographic, v.197, p.76

  Drimolen, one of  the richest hominid sites in Africa, not far from Johannesburg

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  The Triumph of Evolution ... And the Failure of Creationism

  May 1, 2000 Niles Eldredge W. H. Freeman and Co.

  see also Amazon, and review by S

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  The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology

  May 1, 2000 J. C. Polkinghorne and Michael Welker Trinity Press International

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  Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought over T-Rex Ever Found

  May 1, 2000 Steve Fiffer W.H. Freeman

  see also Amazon

• A New Rex

  May 1, 2000 Eric Niiler Scientific American

  the biggest meat eater of them all bolsters the theory of pack hunting

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  The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics

  May 1, 2000 Robin Marantz Henig Houghton Mifflin

  see also Amazon

• "Evolvability of an RNA virus is determined by its mutational neighbourhood"

  May 1, 2000 10 August 2000 Christina L. Burch and Lin Chao

  Nature, v.406, p.625-628

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  Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology

  May 1, 2000 Clark Spencer Larsen Princeton University Press

  see also Amazon