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News Archive
MAY 11
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Raising the bar? / May
17, 2008 / Mark Bergin / World Magazine — stories of an
anti-Christian purge at Baylor may not explain the Baptist university’s sudden
spike in tenure denials
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Thanks to Iowans, ISU one of state's great assets / May 10, 2008 / Gary L.
Maydew / Des Moines Register (Iowa) — Iowa State
University failed to grant tenure to Guillermo Gonzalez, apparently because he
stirred controversy by advocating the study of intelligent design
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Is there academic freedom to critically analyse evolutionary theory? / May
9, 2008 / David Tyler / Access Research Network
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Colliding with nature's best-kept secrets / May 9, 2008 / Elizabeth Landau
/ CNN — visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious
experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed
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Turkish Islamic author given 3-year jail sentence / May 9, 2008 / Thomas
Grove / Reuters
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"Harun Yahya" sentenced to prison / May 9, 2008 / National Center for
Science Education — Adnan Oktar, the Islamic creationist who
writes under the pseudonym "Harun Yahya," was sentenced by a Turkish court to
three years in prison
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Animal
Interaction Behind Cambrian Explosion? 'Missing' Ancestors of Today's Animals
May Not Be Missing After All / May 8, 2008 / Harvard University / Science
Daily
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Planets by the Dozen / May 8, 2008 / NASA
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Trouble ahead for science / May 8, 2008 / Kenneth R. Miller / Boston
Globe — popular culture is gradually turning against
science, and Ben Stein's new movie, "Expelled," is helping to push it along
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Academic argues for
multiple worldviews / May 8, 2008 / Rachel Kyler / Northwest Florida
Daily News — Nancy Pearcey tells crowd that Darwinism has
evolved into more than just a theory
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"Genome
analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution" / 8 May
2008 / Nature, v.453, p.175-183
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Reviewed / May 7, 2008 / Aimee C. Wyrick
/ Spectrum
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Comment: Putting evolutionary theory into practice / 6 May 2008 / Michael
Le Page / New Scientist
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Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn’t Better / May 6, 2008 / Carl
Zimmer / New York Times
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Ben Stein Provokes the Liberal Wrath / May 5, 2008 / Phyllis Schlafly /
townhall.com
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Four States
Consider Permitting Academic Freedom on Evolution / May 5, 2008 / Michael
Baggot / Life Site News
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Dubious Design / May
4, 2008 / Michael Parenti / Z Net
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How Darwin Lost His Faith / May 4, 2008 / Dinesh D'Souza / AOL blog
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Does your brain have a mind of its own? / May 4, 2008 / Gary Marcus /
Los Angeles Times — Why can't we stick to our goals? Blame
the sloppy engineering of evolution.
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State Legislators
Seek Bills to Allow Questioning of Evolution Theory in Schools / May 1,
2008 / Julienne Gage / Fox News
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Acts & Facts,
v.37, n.5 (pdf) / May 2008 / Institute for Creation Research
- Watching
Expelled in a Climate of Conflict / May 2008 / Frank Percival /
Westmont College
- The
Expelled Controversy: Overcoming or Raising Walls of Division (pdf) /
May 2008 / Jeffrey P. Schloss / American Scientific Affiliation
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Slimeballs and eyeballs: hagfish and the evolution of the eye / 11 April
2008 / Kate McDonald / Australian Life Scientist — hagfish may
be ferociously ugly little creatures, but they can teach us much about the
evolution of the vertebrate eye
MAY 2
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Did dinosaur-killing asteroid ignite an oily tinderbox? / 2 May 2008 /
Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2654
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Ancient bird is missing link to Archaeopteryx / 2 May 2008 / Jeff
Hecht / New Scientist
- PALEOECOLOGY: "Fossils
Help Figure Out Food Webs Old and New" / 2 May 2008 / Elizabeth Pennisi /
Science, v.320, n.5876, p.598-599 — a daring analysis of
fossils from China and Canada shows that marine plants and animals from the
Cambrian Period formed food webs on par with those existing today
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Darwinians hysterical over 'Expelled' / May 2, 2008 / Phyllis Schlafly /
World Net Daily
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Evolution's Critics Shift Tactics with Schools / May 2, 2008 / Stephanie
Simon / Wall Street Journal, p.A10 — pressure hits
states for education bills; a national push
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Selfishness May Be Altruism's Unexpected Ally / May 2, 2008 / Binghamton
University / Science Daily
- From RNA to Humans: A
Symposium on Evolution / May 1-2, 2008 / Rockefeller University (New York
City)
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In a New Climate Model, Short-Term Cooling in a Warmer World / May 1, 2008
/ Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times
- Next
decade 'may see no warming' / 1 May 2008 / Richard Black / BBC News —
the Earth's temperature may stay roughly the same for a decade,
as natural climate cycles enter a cooling phase, scientists have predicted
- CORRESPONDENCE: "The
status of science in Muslim nations" / 1 May 2008 / K. Razi Naqvi /
Nature, v.453, p.27
- CORRESPONDENCE: "Darwin-Wallace
principle of natural selection" / 1 May 2008 / U. Kutschera / Nature,
v.453, p.27
- "Science
teaching must evolve" / 1 May 2008 / Andrew Moore / Nature, v.453,
p.31-32 — evolutionary theory, study and knowledge moved on
dramatically in the latter half of the twentieth century, but school teaching,
curricula and teacher training are still in the primeval soup era
- "Astrophysics:
Rays from the dark" / 1 May 2008 / Rainer Plaga / Nature, v.453,
p.48-49 — The origin of the cosmic rays that bombard Earth has
troubled physicists for nigh on a century. Supernova remnants are a favoured
source -- but we should keep our minds open to alternatives.
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Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project to Represent Filmmakers in Lawsuit
Brought by Yoko Ono / May 1, 2008 / Business Wire — defense
of Premise Media’s right to use a clip of John Lennon’s song “Imagine” in its
documentary, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” for the purposes of
commentary and criticism
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New Findings Challenge Conventional Ideas on Evolution of Human Diet, Natural
Selection / April 30, 2008 / University of Arkansas / Science Daily
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Four radical routes to a theory of everything / 30 April 2008 / Amanda
Gefter / New Scientist, n.2654 — Want an ultimate theory
of the universe? There's no shortage of weird and wonderful ideas.
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Sabre-toothed 'bear' terrorised early humans / 30 April 2008 / Emma Young
/ New Scientist, n.2654
- Brand-New
Lizard, Toad, Opossum Found in Brazil / April 30, 2008 / Jeanna Bryner /
Fox News (Live Science)
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Expelled: Ben Stein's Fall from Disgrace... to... Something Even Lower
/ April 30, 2008 / Jeff Dorchen / Huffington Post
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Creationists fail in bid to offer 'science' degrees / 30 April 2008 /
Nature News — a religious group has had its application to
offer Master of Science degrees rejected by Texas authorities
- Hurricane
Expert: School Silencing Me Over Global-Warming Views / April 29, 2008 /
Fox News
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Evolution 'critical analysis' bill passes Florida House, 71-43 / April 29,
2008 / Aaron Deslatte / Orlando Sentinel (Florida) — the
provision upsets critics who fear a religious slant in teaching, and the
measure may face a Senate challenge
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T. rex -- spectacular findings -- wrong message / April 29, 2008 / David
Tyler / Access Research Network
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Fire and Brimstone, Cretaceous Style / 29 April 2008 / Phil Berardelli /
ScienceNOW Daily News — the dinosaurs might have been
wiped out at least partly by an oil-fueled conflagration
- The
Origin of Races from Adam and Eve / April 28, 2008 / Babu Ranganathan /
Conservative Voice
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Sediment cores reveal Antarctica's warmer past / 24 April 2008 / Quirin
Schiermeier / Nature News — ANDRILL project discovers
that life at the pole wasn’t so chilly 16 million years ago
- Creation-Evolution
Headlines / April 2008 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
APRIL 29
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Science & Christianity: Retrospect & Prospect (2-3 graduate credit hours)
/ July 14-25, 2008 / Mark Noll and David Livingstone / Regent College
(Vancouver, B.C.)
- Slaughter of the
Dissidents / May 2008 / Jerry Bergman
- Another leggy
snake? / 29 April 2008 / Jonathan Sarfati / Creation Ministries
International
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Roving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God / April 29, 2008 /
Cornelia Dean / New York Times — scientist at work:
Francisco J. Ayala
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Expelled: Intelligent design film fuels debate over how life came to be /
April 28, 2008 / David Yonke / Toledo Blade (Ohio)
- 'Expelled: No
Intelligence Allowed' / April 28, 2008 / Melody Voith / Chemical &
Engineering News, v.86, n.17, p.53 — Ben Stein's
antiscience 'documentary' equates evolution with Nazism
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Religion a figment of human imagination / 28 April 2008 / Andy Coghlan /
New Scientist
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The Scientific Embrace of Atheism / April 28, 2008 / David Berlinski /
Pajamas Media — Why shouldn't the scientific community find
atheism so attractive a doctrine? It is only sensible for scientists to
suggest aggressively that no power exceeds their own.
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Christianity, Darwinism and The Fall / 24 April 2008 / Ross Douthat /
The Atlantic
- Origins, n.62 (pdf) / 2008
APRIL 27
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Megaquake set to strike within a decade / 26 April 2008 / Catherine Brahic
/ New Scientist, n.2653
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Atheist soldier claims harassment / April 26, 2008 / CNN (Associated
Press) — army Spc. Jeremy Hall sues U.S. for religious
discrimination
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Bible need not be literal to be completely true, profound / April 26, 2008
/ Phil Snider / Springfield News-Leader (Missouri)
- Movies: Creating a stir:
Readers take issue with 'Expelled' review / April 26, 2008 / Sean P. Means
/ Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)
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'Expelled': No intelligence allowed / April 25, 2008 / Roger Moore /
Mercury News (San Jose, California)
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'Expelled' insults audience's intelligence / April 25, 2008 / Gary Priest
/ The Coloradoan (Ft. Collins, CO)
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'Expelled' sets off fireworks / April 25, 2008 / William A. Dembski /
townhall.com (Baptist Press) — as Ben Stein's documentary
"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" enters its second week in theaters, I
would like to comment on its first week of fireworks
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What Darwin Saw Out Back / April 25, 2008 / Cornelia Dean / New York
Times — at botanical garden
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Suggestions for improving the teaching of evolutionary biology / April 25,
2008 / David Tyler / Access Research Network
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Physicists respond to dark matter 'discovery' / 25 April 2008 / Anil
Ananthaswamy / New Scientist, n.2653
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Finding God with biocomplexity / 25 April 2008 / contact: Grady Semmens /
EurekAlert! — renowned systems biologist redefines spirituality
through science in new book
- GEOCHEMISTRY: "Two
Geologic Clocks Finally Keeping the Same Time" / 25 April 2008 / Richard
A. Kerr / Science, v.320, n.5875, p.434-435
- PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: "When
Hobbits (Slowly) Walked the Earth" / 25 April 2008 / Elizabeth Culotta /
Science, v.320, n.5875, p.433-435
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T. rex kinship with chickens confirmed / 24 April 2008 / Ewen Callaway /
New Scientist
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The Left's Theft of the Open Society and the Scientific Method / April 24,
2008 / Jonathan David Carson / American Thinker
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Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says / April 24, 2008 /
CNN (Associated Press)
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Human line 'nearly split in two' / April 24, 2008 / Paul Rincon / BBC News
— ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two
separate species before merging back into a single population, a genetic study
suggests
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Creationism is fine, just don’t call it science / April 24, 2008 /
Austin American-Statesman (Texas)
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Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics: “What Is Magnetism?” / April 24,
2008 / Bruno Maddox / Discover Magazine — the standard
model still doesn't describe magnets' spooky action at a distance
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The Impact of Darwinism / April 22, 2008 / Tristan Abbey / Stanford
Review, v.40, n.7
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A Dose of Human Kindness, Now in Chemical Form / April 4, 2008 / Jennifer
Barone / Discover Magazine — Can the hormone oxytocin
drive us to be more generous?
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Has the Einstein Revolution Gone Too Far? / April 1, 2008 / Richard Panek
/ Discover Magazine — Einstein ended science's devotion
to experience; it may now be time to come back
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Almost Human / April 2008 / Mary Roach / National Geographic —
On the savannas of Senegal, chimpanzees are hunting bush babies
with spearlike sticks. This hothouse of chimp "technology" offers clues to our
own evolution.
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Biomimetics / April 2008 / National Geographic — the
young science of adapting designs from nature to solve modern problems
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments / April 2008 / George Johnson /
Knopf — see also
Amazon
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments / April 21, 2008 / Josie Glausiusz /
Discover Magazine — from Newton to Pavlov, William
Harvey outlines history's most remarkable experiments -- while ignoring one
major group
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Albert Einstein, Rock Star / March 26, 2008 / Thomas Levenson /
Discover Magazine — he made science cool, turned bad hair
good -- and there's that tongue photo
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3 Theories That Might Blow Up the Big Bang / March 25, 2008 / Adam Frank /
Discover Magazine — time may not have a beginning -- and
it might not exist at all
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The God Particle / March 2008 / Joel Achenbach / National Geographic
— see how physicists will use a giant atom smasher in hopes
of finding the so-called God particle
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The Thinking Chimp: How to Help / March 2008 / National Geographic
— we may be closer to the apes than we think ... when we think
- Big Brain: The Origins and
Future of Human Intelligence / March 2008 / Gary Lynch and Richard
Granger / Palgrave (Macmillan) — see also
Amazon
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Teleportation? Very Possible. Next Up: Time Travel / February 28, 2008 /
Michio Kaku / Discover Magazine — some of the most
far-out sci-fi is eminently do-able
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Relativity / February 25, 2008 / Susan
Kruglinski / Discover Magazine — Galileo invented it,
Einstein understood it, and Eddington saw it
- The End
of Cosmology? / February 2008 / Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer
/ Scientific American — an accelerating universe wipes
out traces of its own origins
- On Being Certain:
Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not / February 2008 / Robert
A. Burton / St. Martin’s Press (Macmillan) — see also
Amazon
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Culture Speeds Up Human Evolution / December 10, 2007 / David Biello /
Scientific American — analysis of common patterns of
genetic variation reveals that humans have been evolving faster in recent
history
APRIL 24
- "Molecular
Phylogenetics of Mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex" / 25 April 2008 /
Chris L. Organ, Mary H. Schweitzer, Wenxia Zheng, Lisa M. Freimark, Lewis C.
Cantley, and John M. Asara / Science, v.320, n.5875, p.499 —
proteins extracted from fossil bones of Tyrannosaurus rex
and Mammut americanum (mastodon) were analyzed
- Gunk
in T. Rex Fossil Confirms Dino-Bird Lineage / 24 April 2008 / Jeanna
Bryner / LiveScience
- "Biased
brains, messy memories" / 24 April 2008 / Sandra Aamodt / Nature,
v.452, p.938-939 — books reviewed:
- Scientist:
Forget Global Warming, Prepare for New Ice Age / April 23, 2008 / Fox News
- Biology Prof to
Defend Darwin’s Theory at Debate / April 23, 2008 / University of Texas,
Dallas — Dallas Philosopher’s Forum holding panel discussion on
Ben Stein film
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Nurture Over Nature: Certain Genes Are Turned On or Off by Geography and
Lifestyle, Study Suggests / April 23, 2008 / North Carolina State
University / Science Daily
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Yoko Ono sues "Expelled" filmmakers over Imagine / April 23, 2008 / Leslie
Gevirtz / Reuters
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Flunking the tenure test / April 23, 2008 / Doug Schneider / Washington
Times — as pointed out in Ben Stein's new documentary,
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, if professors value their careers, they
will keep their mouths shut
APRIL 22
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Mutation in Human Gene Helps Protect Against Fatal Malaria / April 22,
2008 / University of Toronto / Science Daily
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On the discovery of a lungless frog / April 22, 2008 / David Tyler /
Access Research Network
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The $942,797 Triceratops / April 22, 2008 / New York Times
- MOVIE: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed / release
date: April 18, 2008
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Gods and earthlings / April 18, 2008 / Richard Dawkins / Los Angeles
Times — the 'science of intelligent design' is science
fiction
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Darwin Archive evolves / April 17, 2008 / Daniel Cressey / Nature
blog
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Darwin's private papers get Internet launch / April 16, 2008 / Jeremy
Lovell / Reuters
- Deal
for Holy Land artefacts / 16 April 2008 / Haim Watzman / Nature
News — Israel and Palestine draft an agreement on how to
allocate archaeological sites
-
Looking Back at the End of Science / March 1, 2008 / John Horgan /
Science & Spirit — more than a decade after its original
publication, does the prophecy of a controversial book still ring true
- A
New Theology of Celebration / 2007 / Francis S. Collins / Science &
Spirit — on bringing science and Christianity together to
celebrate God
APRIL 21
- Expelled: No
Intelligence Allowed (2008) / Internet Movie Database —
user ratings
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World’s oldest living tree discovered in Sweden / 16 April 2008 / contact:
Leif Kullman / Umeå University (Sweden) — The world’s oldest
recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden.
The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by
growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic
climate changes over time.
APRIL 20
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Hothouse Earth would halt plate tectonics / 20 April 2008 / New
Scientist, n.2652, p.14
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Californian quake before 2037 almost inevitable / 19 April 2008 / New
Scientist, n.2652, p.5
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Fossil teeth hint at elephants' watery past / 19 April 2008 / New
Scientist, n.2652, p.13
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Machine detects our decisions before we know them / 19 April 2008 / New
Scientist, n.2652, p.14
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Evolution: A guide for the not-yet perplexed / 19 April 2008 / Michael Le
Page / New Scientist, n.2652
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Moon's birth changed the length of days on Earth / 19 April 2008 / New
Scientist
-
Critical Detail of Cellular Defense Against Genetic Mistakes Discovered /
April 19, 2008 / University of Rochester Medical Center / Science Daily
- MOVIE: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed / release
date: April 18, 2008
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Baylor officials among those attacked in 'Expelled' / April 19, 2008 /
Carl Hoover / Waco Tribune-Herald (Texas)
-
Ben Stein's documentary debuts in theaters, explores scientific debate about
origin of life / April 19, 2008 / Tracie Simer / Jackson Sun
(Tennessee)
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Review / April 19, 2008 / Vic Holtreman / Screen Rant
-
'Expelled' could exceed box-office forecasts / April 18, 2008 / Josh
Friedman / Los Angeles Times
-
Resentment Over Darwin Evolves into a Documentary / April 18, 2008 /
Jeannette Catsoulis / New York Times
-
Don’t Doubt It: An important historic sidebar / April 18, 2008 / David
Klinghoffer / National Review Online — suggestion of a link
between Darwinism and Nazi ideology
-
Intelligent Critique / Dave Berg / April 18, 2008 / National Review
Online — Expelled adroitly
addresses the dogmaticism of Darwinian theory in the scientific world
-
The reviews are in on 'Expelled' / April 18, 2008 / Alan Boyle /
cosmiclog (MSNBC)
-
‘Expelled’ may stir waters of creation debate / April 18, 2008 / Mark
Barna / The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)
-
'Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed' (Ben Stein monkeys with evolution) /
April 18, 2008 / Roger Moore / Chicago Tribune (from Orlando
Sentinel)
- A Complete
180°: Atheism Masquerading as Science
/ April 18, 2008 / Dinesh D'Souza / to the source
-
Ben Stein Exposes Richard Dawkins / April 18, 2008 / Dinesh D'Souza /
AOL blog
-
Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists / April 18, 2008 / Brent Bozell III /
townhall.com
-
Michael Shermer’s Fact-Free Attack on Expelled Exposes Intolerance of
Darwinists towards Pro-Intelligent Design Scientists (Part 3) / April
18, 2008 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Yoko Ono, Filmmakers Caught in 'Expelled' Flap / April 16, 2008 / Ethan
Smith / Wall Street Journal
- Darwin
and the Nazis / April 16, 2008 / Richard Weikart / American Spectator
-
EXPELLED at Scientific American / April 14, 2008 / David Tyler /
Access Research Network
- Intelligence Expelled /
April 8, 2008 / Institute for Creation Research
-
Behind the Scenes with Expelled Associate Producer / February 4,
2008 / Anika Smith / Intelligent Design the Future
- review
/ Edward Douglas / Coming Soon
- Darwinism
Under Siege / April 18, 2008 / Ralph Stone / Beyond Chron (San Francisco)
-
Genetic fingerprints reveal functionality in Junk DNA / April 18, 2008 /
David Tyler / Access Research Network
-
Ghost of genetics past shows up in bonobos / 18 April 2008 / Bob Holmes /
New Scientist
-
Creation College to Defend Science Degrees at Upcoming Hearing / April 18,
2008 / Katherine T. Phan / Christian Post — the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board will decide whether the Institute for Creation
Research can grant an online master's degree in Science Education
-
Movie Review: Constantine's Sword / April 18, 2008 / Stephen Holden /
New York Times — when love of religion leads to hatred of
others
- "Observation
of a quarter of an electron charge at the n = 5/2
quantum Hall state" / 17 April 2008 / M. Dolev, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky,
Ady Stern, and D. Mahalu / Nature, v.452, p.829-834
- "Triumph
of the medieval mind" / 17 April 2008 / Philip Ball / Nature,
v.452, p.816-818 — modern science got going in the twelfth
century -- and with it, the long-standing rift between reason and faith
- "Systems
biology: Genome rewired" / 17 April 2008 / Matthew R. Bennett and Jeff
Hasty / Nature, v.452, p.824-825 — one way to assess how
robust and evolvable genomic networks are is to introduce new links between
unrelated genes
- "Sophisticated
particle-feeding in a large Early Cambrian crustacean" / 17 April 2008 /
Thomas H. P. Harvey and Nicholas J. Butterfield / Nature, v.452,
p.868-871
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY:
A fancy eater — back in the Cambrian Period things were
much simpler -- or so it was thought
- Lizards Undergo Rapid
Evolution after Introduction to a New Home / April 17, 2008 / University
of Massachusetts, Amherst / physorg.com
-
Darwin's first draft goes online / April 17, 2008 / BBC News —
the first draft of a book which changed the world's attitude to
evolution is available for the first time online
-
An intelligent discussion about life / April 17, 2008 / Bruce Chapman /
Seattle Times
- James
Watson's genome sequenced at high speed / 16 April 2008 / Meredith Wadman
/ Nature News — new-generation technology takes just
four months and costs a fraction of old method
-
Free choice activates a decision circuit between frontal and parietal cortex
/ 16 April 2008 / Bijan Pesaran, Matthew J. Nelson, and Richard A. Andersen /
Nature (advance online publication)
-
How Much Global Warming Is Natural? / April 16, 2008 / Michael J. Oard /
Answers in Genesis
-
Dawkins says Francis Collins "is not a bright guy" / April 16, 2008 /
Scientific American (blog)
-
Flores 'hobbit' walked more like a clown than Frodo / 16 April 2008 / Ewen
Callaway / New Scientist
-
Creationism doesn't measure up to science / April 16, 2008 / Kingsley Guy
/ Sun-Sentinel (south Florida)
-
Professor to speak in northern Colorado about Intelligent Design / April
16, 2008 / Tribune (northern Colorado) — Michael Behe
-
World's Oldest Living Tree -- 9550 years old -- Discovered in Sweden /
April 16, 2008 / Umeå University / Science Daily
-
Scientists Debate the Accuracy of Al Gore's Documentary 'An Inconvenient
Truth' / April 15, 2008 / Springer / Science Daily
-
Deflating inflation? / 15 April 2008 / Eric Hand / Nature News —
a controversial analysis questions the standard model of the
early universe
-
Elephant 'had aquatic ancestor' / April 15, 2008 / Helen Briggs / BBC News —
an ancient ancestor of the elephant from 37 million years ago
lived in water and had a similar lifestyle to a hippo, a fossil study has
suggested
-
Scientists challenge bill to protect teachers disputing evolution / April
15, 2008 / ABC 7, Florida (Associated Press)
-
God's gift of free will ensures decisions are honest / April 15, 2008 /
Billy Graham / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
-
Atheism Masquerading as Science / April 14, 2008 / Dinesh D'Souza /
townhall.com
-
Total Recall / April 13, 2008 / Gary Marcus / New York Times —
How much would you pay to have a small memory chip implanted in
your brain if that chip would double the capacity of your short-term memory?
-
Jellies ‘were first animal’ / April 11, 2008 / Daniel Cressey / Nature
blog
-
Brain makes decisions before you even know it / 11 April 2008 / Kerri
Smith / Nature News — brain activity predicts decisions
before they are consciously made
-
The volcano that changed the world / 11 April 2008 / Alexandra Witze /
Nature News — eruption in 1600 may have plunged the globe
into cold climate chaos
-
Grand Canyon's 55-million-year-old secret / 11 April 2008 / Rachel
Courtland / Nature News — an ancient river may have laid
the canyon's foundation
-
Grand Canyon Gorge Is 9 Times Older Than Thought / April 9, 2008 / Hope
Hamashige / National Geographic News
-
The Color of Plants on Other Worlds / April 7, 2008 / Nancy Y. Kiang /
Scientific American — on other worlds plants could be red,
blue, even black
- One Year
After Solomon Islands Disaster, Scientists Realize Geological Barrier to
Earthquakes Weaker than Expected / April 2, 2008 / contact: J. B. Bird /
University of Texas, Austin
-
Creation-Evolution Info Center / Guide
-
Pioneer Explorers of Intelligent Design: Scientists Who Made a Difference
/ October 2006 / Donald B. DeYoung /
BMH Books
APRIL 14
- Mocked and belittled
/ April 19, 2008 / Megan Basham / World Magazine — Ben
Stein’s new documentary may give macro-evolutionary theory a deserved hard
time, and he plans to have fun with it along the way
-
Ben Stein's Intelligent Adventure / April 13, 2008 / Kate Wright /
American Thinker — the movie, Expelled: No
Intelligence Allowed, is not just an exploration of the limitations of
The Origin of Species, but a journey to uncover the mindset that
Darwinism engendered among those with an agenda to replace traditional
understandings of God with pure materialism
- Stein Goes to Bat for
Intelligent Design / April 11, 2008 / Bruce Bennett / New York Sun
— review of the movie: Expelled
-
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Documentary) / April 11, 2008 /
Justin Chang / Variety — analysis of the movie
-
Expelled Busted / April 10, 2008 / Greg Laden / scienceblogs
-
Ben Stein Dukes it Out with Darwin / April 10, 2008 / Jeffrey Kluger /
Time Magazine — there is nothing so tiresome as an
argument that no one will ever concede--particularly if the participants
don't seem to know it
- Ben Stein
roused by Suppression in Science / April 9, 2008 / Diana deRegnier /
American Chronicle
- Intelligent
Design foes no match for Stein in 'Expelled' / April 4, 2008 / Michael
Foust / Baptist Press
-
Intelligent Design / March 27, 2008 / Marty White, editor /
Christianity Today — Be careful: those two words can cost
you your job if you're a science professor, says a new film titled Expelled:
No Intelligence Allowed.
-
Insects Evolved Radically Different Strategy to Smell / April 14, 2008 /
Rockefeller University / Science Daily
-
Evolution Indoctrination on the MCAT: Doubting Darwin an “extremely dangerous
idea” / April 13, 2008 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views (Discovery
Institute)
- Congregation
Shaare
Emeth to hold talks on 'God and Science' / April 11-12, 2008 / Cate
Marquis / Jewish Light — Was the world created in a "big bang?"
How good is the evidence for evolution? Are science and religion incompatible?
- Order of the
universe points to intelligent design / April 11, 2008 / Dave Sulz /
Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Canada)
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How the placenta adapts to make mammals a success / 11 April 2008 / Ewen
Callaway / New Scientist
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Grand Canyon May Be As Old As Dinosaurs, 40-50 Million Years Older Than
Previously Thought / April 11, 2008 / University of Colorado, Boulder /
Science Daily
- Bioethics forum to be an
evolutionary affair / April 11, 2008 / Terry Devitt / University of
Wisconsin, Madison
- The Witness of
Creation -- Part 2, Evidence from the living world / April 11, 2008 /
Regis Nicoll / crosswalk (blog)
-
The First Animal on Earth Was Significantly More Complex Than Previously
Believed / April 11, 2008 / National Science Foundation / Science Daily
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Fossilized Snake with Two Legs Found / 10 April 2008 / red orbit
- "Defining
'natural'" / 10 April 2008 / Nature, v.452, p.665-666 —
visceral reactions to an act should not distract from the real
ethical issues
- Homeschoolers
Who Don't Learn Science Shouldn't Receive a Diploma / April 9, 2008 /
Steve Shives / American Chronicle
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First Lungless Frog Found / April 7, 2008 / John Roach / National
Geographic News
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Clay tablet identified as asteroid that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah /
March 31, 2008 / Lewis Smith / Times Online (UK)
- Life as It Is:
Biology for the Public Sphere / March 2008 / William F. Loomis /
University of California Press — see also
Amazon
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Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind / May 2007 / Ronald de
Sousa / Oxford University Press — see also
Amazon
- "Darwin
on My Mind" / March 2008 / Michael Ruse / Literary Review of Canada,
v.16, n.2, p.20-21 — evolutionary theory best explains
how--and why--we reason
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The great antimatter mystery / 12 April 2008 / Helen Quinn Yossi Nir /
New Scientist, n.2651 — When the universe was born
antimatter was just as plentiful as matter. What happened to change that?
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Film review: Expelled: No intelligence allowed / 12 April 2008 /
Amanda Gefter / New Scientist, n.2651
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'Scientism' and 'religionism': Why we are better off without them / 12
April 2008 / Lawrence Krauss / New Scientist, n.2651
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Melting ice caps may trigger more volcanic eruptions / 12 April 2008 /
New Scientist, n.2651, p.15
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Ancient serpent shows its leg / April 10, 2008 / Jonathan Amos / BBC News
— the fossil snake with two legs
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Did pre-big bang universe leave its mark on the sky? / 10 April 2008 /
Stephen Battersby / New Scientist, n.2651, p.10
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Early humans died in Pompeii-like eruption / 9 April 2008 / Jeff Hecht /
New Scientist, n.2650
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Creationist act passes another hurdle / April 9, 2008 / Daniel Cressey /
Nature blog
- "An
insight into amber" / 9 April 2008 / Nature, v.452, p.677
- "Tanzania
takes steps to save ancient human prints" / 9 April 2008 / Nature,
v.452, p.677
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Lawmakers May Dodge Evolution Requirement / April 9, 2008 / Joe Follick /
The Ledger (Lakeland, Florida)
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Scientists Find a Fingerprint of Evolution Across the Human Genome / April
9, 2008 / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory / Science Daily
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First Lungless Frog Discovered / April 8, 2008 / Cell Press / Science
Daily
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At 78, scientist hopes for proof soon that he was right about the Universe
/ April 8, 2008 / Mark Henderson / Times Online (UK) — the
40-year hunt for the elusive “God particle” that is supposed to give matter
its mass is almost over according to Peter Higgs, the leading scientist who
first came up with the theory
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed / April 8, 2008 / Wayne Jackson /
Christian Courier — this documentary movie premiers across the
nation on Friday, April 18th
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Contemporary controversy regarding William Paley / April 8, 2008 / David
Tyler / Access Research Network
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Impossible physics: Never say never / 5 April 2008 / Michio Kaku / New
Scientist, n.2650 — explore the outer limits of what is
possible: time travel, teleportation, telepathy ...
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Nautilus: Chambers of secrets / 5 April 2008 / Peter Ward / New
Scientist, n.2650 — once seen as a living fossil, the
chambered nautilus turns out to be on a voyage of evolutionary discovery
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Commentary: What is this thing called religion? / 5 April 2008 / A. C.
Grayling / New Scientist, n.2650, p.50
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No danger of particle collider triggering doomsday / 5 April 2008 / New
Scientist, n.2650, p.6
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Preserved cellulose could reveal past alien life / 5 April 2008 / New
Scientist
- ARCHAEOLOGY: "DNA
From Fossil Feces Breaks Clovis Barrier" / 4 April 2008 / Michael Balter /
Science, v.320, n.5872, p.37 — 14,000-year-old DNA from
fossilized human excrement (coprolites), found in caves in south-central
Oregon, provides evidence for an earlier peopling of the Americas
-
The Real Problem with Darwinism / April 2, 2008 / Dinesh D'Souza / AOL
blog
- What Is Life?
Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology /
April 2008 / Ed Regis / Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Macmillan) — see also
Amazon
- Apocalypse:
Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God / March 2008 / Amos Nur
with Dawn Burgess / Princeton University Press — see also
Amazon
- Creation-Evolution
Headlines / March 2008 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
- Expelled Exposed / National
Center for Science Education — flunked, not expelled: what Ben
Stein isn't telling you about Intelligent Design
- Haldane's Dilemma /
August 21, 2007 / Walter ReMine / The Biotic Message —
Haldane's Dilemma establishes a limit of 1667 beneficial substitutions over
the past ten million years of the lineage leading to humans. The origin of all
the uniquely human adaptations would have to be explained within that limit.
That is a serious problem.
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Meteorites Delivered the 'Seeds' of Earth's Left-hand Life, Experts Argue
/ April 7, 2008 / American Chemical Society / Science Daily
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Solar System's 'look-alike' found / April 6, 2008 / Paul Rincon / BBC News
— astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a
distant star which looks much like our own
-
Darwin Was Right: Natural Selection Speeds Up Speciation / April 6, 2008 /
University of British Columbia / Science Daily
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The Bombardier Beetle, Power Venom, and Spray Technologies / April 5, 2008
/ Institute of Physics / Science Daily
- Ben Stein makes his case
for doubting Darwin / April 5, 2008 / Troy Anderson / Press-Telegram
(Long Beach, CA)
-
Stein's film probes treatment of those who reject Darwin's theory / April
5, 2008 / Dana Massing / Erie Times-News (Pennsylvania)
-
New Anti-Evolution Film Stirs Controversy / 4 April 2008 / Dave Mosher /
LiveScience
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Dembski:
'Expelled' exposes hypocrisy / April 4, 2008 / Benjamin Hawkins / Baptist
Press
- Students:
Thumbs up to 'Expelled' preview / April 4, 2008 / Jeff Robinson / Baptist
Press
- SBTS
students get sneak preview of “Expelled” documentary / April 3, 2008 /
Jeff Robinson / Towers (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
-
New Species of Fish Discovered That Would Rather Crawl into Crevices Than Swim
/ April 3, 2008 / University of Washington / Science Daily
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Atheists Infiltrate Events for Intelligent Design Film / April 2, 2008 /
Kevin Mooney and Josiah Ryan / CNS News (Cybercast News Service)
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'Persecution' of the religious gets curiouser and curiouser / April 2,
2008 / Stephen Hume / Vancouver Sun
-
The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions / April
2008 / David Berlinski / Random House — see also
Amazon
- Expelled: No
Intelligence Allowed / March 25, 2008 / to the source
-
The
Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma / October 2006 / Marc
W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart / Yale University Press — see also
Amazon
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