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  History and Theory in Anthropology

  June 1, 2000 Alan Barnard Cambridge University Press

  see also Amazon

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  Annals of the Former World

  June 1, 2000 John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  see also Amazon

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  Many Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, and the Theological Implications

  June 1, 2000 Steven J. Dick (editor) Templeton Foundation Press

  see also Amazon

• Canadian meteorite composed of rare, organic material

  May 31, 2000 Discovery Channel

• Teaching Children the Truth About Science

  May 30, 2000 James Dobson welcomes Phillip Johnson

  Focus on the Family (radio broadcast)

• Answers in 'Genesis Park' Raise Strategy Questions

  May 26, 2000 Kim Robbins and Peter Edman BreakPoint with Chuck Colson

• Natural Theology: Problems and Prospects

  May 26, 2000 sponsored by the Gifford Lectureship Committees of the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St. Andrews  Aberdeen, Scotland

• "Chromosomal evolution in Saccharomyces" requires free registration

  May 25, 2000 G. Fischer, et al. Nature, v.405, p.451-454

• Rare Mars meteorite discovered in Middle East

  May 25, 2000 CNN.com

• Underwater volcano simmering near Samoa

  May 23, 2000 Discovery Channel

• "You Talk About an Evolution"

  May 22, 2000 David Neff Christianity Today, v.44, p.7

  editorial

• "Your Darwin Is Too Large"

  May 22, 2000 John Wilson Christianity Today, v.44, p.52

  theologian John Haught greatly exaggerates Darwinism's significance for theology

• Inherit the Monkey Trial

  May 22, 2000 Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa Christianity Today, v.44, p.50

  Scopes-trial historian discusses what the intelligent-design movement still needs to accomplish and why Christians should study evolution

• "We're Not in Kansas Anymore"

  May 22, 2000 Nancy Pearcey Christianity Today, v.44, p.42

  If you think the debate about creation and evolution is limited to the heartland or the Bible Belt, think again. The intelligent-design movement is pushing back the borders. Plus:

  "Channelized fluid flow in oceanic crust reconciles heat-flow and permeability data"

  May 22, 2000 A. T. Fisher and K. Becker Nature, v.403, p.71-74

• "We're Not in Kansas Anymore"

  May 22, 2000 Nancy Pearcey Christianity Today

  why secular scientists and media can't admit that Darwinism might be wrong

• Rivers of fire

  May 22, 2000 Philip Ball Nature science update

  the first observation of burning sulphur flows from a volcano reveals that such features may be common on Earth and beyond

• Volcano World

  May 22, 2000 the web's premier source of volcano info

• 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

• News Update/Commentary

  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

• Book

  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