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JUNE 22
- New 'Molecular Clock' Aids Dating of Human Migration History / June 22, 2009 / University of Leeds / Science Daily
- DNA Template Could Explain Evolutionary Shifts / June 22, 2009 / Baylor College of Medicine / Science Daily
- Can Science and Religion Co-Exist in Harmony? /June 22, 2009 / Francis S. Collins, with respondent: Barbara Bradley Hagerty / Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
- Method for Computing Evolutionary Trees Could Revolutionize Evolutionary Biology / June 20, 2009 / University of Texas, Austin / Science Daily
- Seeking slivers of common ground / June 19, 2009 / Arturo Mora / Kansas City Star — we love to ridicule and demonize those we disagree with
- Why the Eyes Have It / June 19, 2009 / Christopher F. Chabris / Wall Street Journal — We can read words, gauge distance and see color. How did that happen?
- The Healing Power of Prayer? / June 18, 2009 / Brandeis University / Science Daily
- University of Colorado team finds definitive evidence for ancient lake on Mars / 17 June 2009 / contact: Gaetano Di Achille / EurekAlert! — first unambiguous evidence for shorelines on the surface of Mars
- Why the dinosaurs really died out / 17 June 2009 / New Scientist, n.2713
- How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans / 17 May 2009 / Robin McKie / Guardian (UK) — a fossil discovery bears marks of butchering similar to those made when cutting up a deer
- Fossil may solve mystery of dinosaur fingers / June 17, 2009 / Jeanna Bryner / MSNBC (Live Science) — new find reveals transitional step between 5-digit creatures, modern wings
- Dinosaur's digits show how birds got wings / 17 June 2009 / Matt Kaplan / Nature News — a new dinosaur species looks set to solve an old evolutionary puzzle
- Monkey 'IQ test' hints at intelligent human ancestor / 17 June 2009 / Ewen Callaway / New Scientist
- Could the orang-utan be our closest relative? / 17 June 2009 / Graham Lawton / New Scientist, n.2713
- "Early man becomes early ape" / 17 June 2009 / Rex Dalton / Nature, v.459, p.899 — author withdraws claim that ancient jawbone is human ancestor
- Pure Dogma / June 17, 2009 / Cornelius Hunter / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute) — once upon a time scientists were supposed to be skeptical
- The Patient Creator / 17 June 2006 / Shadow to Light
- Creationists Say Birds Didn't Evolve from Dinosaurs / June 17, 2009 / Answers in Genesis / Opposing Views
- 12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jerry Bergman, PhD / June 17, 2009 / Bill Belew / Christian Worldview Examiner
- ‘Biocentrism’: How life creates the universe / June 16, 2009 / Robert Lanza with Bob Berman / MSNBC — cosmology misses the big picture unless it includes biology
- Christian schools suspected of teaching creationism / 16 June 2009 / Copenhagen Post
- Did birds fly in the Late Triassic? / June 16, 2009 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
- The universe in your head / June 16, 2009 / Alan Boyle / cosmic log (MSNBC)
- Creationist Museum Brings Science through Bible’s Genesis / June 15, 2009 / Carol Forsloff / Digital Journal — A book of the Bible forms the core of belief inspiring the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. It has plenty of attractions and lots of space to spread its belief the universe was created in seven days. But who goes there?
- Darwin's (Failed) Predictions: An Interview with Cornelius Hunter, Part I / June 15, 2009 / David Klinghoffer / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
- 'Resurrection bug' revived after 120,000 years / 15 June 2009 / Andy Coghlan / New Scientist
- Reason vs. Faith: the Battle Continues / June 15, 2009 / Richard Wolin / Chronicle of Higher Education
- Science and religion: a history of conflict? / 14 June 2009 / James Hannam / Guardian (UK) — it's popularly imagined that the history of science and religion is one of violent conflict, but the facts don't bear this out
- On the evident ill-grace of the hosts of Darwin's ideas / June 12, 2009 / Stephen Marotta / Examiner
- Supervolcano may be brewing beneath Mount St Helens / 10 June 2009 / David Shiga / New Scientist, n.2712
- Creation Museum's attendance exceeds expectations / June 10, 2009 / Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)
- Seven things that don't make sense about gravity / 10 June 2009 / New Scientist, n.2712
- Moving the Goalpost / June 10, 2009 / Jonathan Wells / Discovery Institute
- Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline / 8 June 2009 / News Guide
- "Eugenie Scott Toils in Defense of Evolution" / 5 June 2009 / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / Science, v.324, n.5932, p.1250-1251
- High-Energy Physics Probes Ancient Fossils / February 18, 2009 / Laura Allen / popsci.com — thanks to particle accelerators, paleontologists can now don the best X-ray specs in the world
- The Lie: Evolution / Ken Ham / Answers in Genesis — Genesis -- The Key to Defending Your Faith
- The Voyage that Shook the World (documentary) / Christian Ministries International
- Evolution / Conservapedia
JUNE 15
- New Glimpses of Life’s Puzzling Origins / June 15, 2009 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times — in one view of the beginnings of life, depicted in an animation, carbon monoxide molecules condense on hot mineral surfaces underground to form fatty acids, which are then expelled from geysers
- Has the mystery of sex been explained at last? / 15 June 2009 / Nick Lane / New Scientist, n.2712
- Evolution Can Occur in Less Than 10 Years, Guppy Study Finds / June 15, 2009 / University of California, Riverside / Science Daily
- Jumping Genes Discovery Challenges Current Assumptions / June 13, 2009 / University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine / Science Daily
- 'Junk' DNA Proves To Be Highly Valuable / June 12, 2009 / USDA Agricultural Research Service / Science Daily
- Tantalizing clues to the chemical origins of life / 12 June 2009 / Katharine Sanderson / Nature News — a synthetic molecule can reshuffle itself to match a DNA template
- In Defense of “Theistic Evolution” / June 12, 2009 / John Schwenkler / Commonweal
- "Evolution: Authors Scramble to Make Textbooks Conform to Texas Science Standards" / 12 June 2009 / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / Science, v.324, n.5933, p.1385
- "How science upholds civilization, human rights and democracy" / 11 June 2009 / Dick Taverne /
Nature, v.459, p.774
- "Media research:
The black box" / 10 June 2009 / Jim Schnabel / Nature, v.459, p.765-768 — assessing the effects of television on young children is far from easy, but that is no reason not to try
- "Geomicrobiology: Low life" / 10 June 2009 / Amanda Leigh Mascarelli / Nature, v.459, p.770-773 — the boundaries of biology reach farther below Earth's surface than scientists had thought possible ... how microbes survive deep underground
- Earliest evidence for pottery making found / 1 June 2009 / Haim Watzman / Nature News — fragments from a Chinese cave push back the dawn of the craft by more than 1,000 years
- Fossil find exciting but lacks significance / June 2009 / Erin Roach / Christian Examiner
- Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design / June 2009 / Stephen C. Meyer / Harper Collins — see also Amazon
- Civility and the New Atheists / May 31, 2009 / Chris Mooney / Discover Magazine
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry must find a leader for the State Board of Education / May 31, 2009 / Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) — one faction pushed for teaching students about adding creationism and intelligent design
- Texas Senate rejects confirmation of conservative education board chief Don McLeroy / May 29, 2009 / Terrence Stutz / Dallas Morning News
- Texas Senate Rejects Re-appointment of Creationist to Board of Education / May 29, 2009 / Audrey Barrick / Christian Post
- Mice given 'human' version of speech gene / May 28, 2009 / Andrea Thompson / MSNBC (Live Science) — rodents don't talk, but study may help show how language evolved
- Christians battle each other over evolution / 28 May 2009 / Amanda Gefter / New Scientist
- The Designs That Human Endeavors Can Only Approximate and Rarely Surpass / May 28, 2009 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network (blog)
- Taking a fossil primate on the road / 27 May 2009 / Lucas Laursen / Nature News — Ida's promoter defends science and showmanship
- The nail in the coffin for group selection? / 27 May 2009 / Brendan Maher / Nature News — benefits to an individual and its family may be enough to account for altruistic behaviour
- Behe's Back: The Letters Science and Trends in Microbiology Won't Print / May 27, 2009 / Anika Smith / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
- Can a machine change your mind? / 25 May 2009 / Jane O'Grady / Open Demoncracy — the mind is not the brain ... confusing the two, as much neuro-social-science does, leads to a dehumanised world and a controlling politics
- "On the Epistemological Crisis in Genomics" / 2008 April / Edward R Dougherty / Current Genomics, v.9, n.2, p.69-79
- The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets / February 2009 / Alan Boss / Basic Books —
see also Amazon
- "Looking for planets like ours" / 11 June 2009 / Michael Brown / Nature, v.459, 777-778 — the hunt for habitable worlds near other stars brings home the realization that our own Solar System might not be as special as we think
- REVIEW: 16 March 2009 / Lewis Dartnell / New Scientist, n.2699
JUNE 12
- Design inferences about mountains / June 12, 2009 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
- Darwin was an advocate of Social Darwinism / June 10, 2009 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
- Is cancer the price for our big brains? / June 10, 2009 / Rachael Rettner / MSNBC (Live Science) — chimps have a surprisingly low cancer rate compared to humans
- Woolly Mammoth Genome Rife with Interspersed Repeats / June 9, 2009 / Andrea Anderson / genomeweb.com
- Discovery Raises New Doubts About Dinosaur-bird Links / June 9, 2009 / Oregon State University / Science Daily
- The slow, painful death of junk DNA / 9 June 2009 / Robert W. Carter / Creation Ministries International
- What 'Ida' give for a missing link / June 8, 2009 / Casey Luskin / Washington Examiner
- Biomimicry: why the world is full of intelligent design / 8 June 2009 / Sanjida O'Connell / Telegraph (UK) — forget human ingenuity -- the best source of ideas for cutting-edge technology might be in nature, according to experts in 'biomimicry'
- State curriculum ensures only science taught in science classes / June 7, 2009 / Don McLeroy / The Eagle (Bryan-College Station, Texas)
- Irving ISD trustee says despite personal beliefs, she won't push intelligent design / June 7, 2009 / Katherine Leal Unmuth / Dallas Morning News
- The science of Noah's Ark / June 6, 2009 / Ron Cassie / News-Post (Frederick, MD) — creation society considers the biblical flood
- "Darwin's golden retriever" portrays ID as an assault on science / June 5, 2009 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
- Tickled apes yield laughter clue / 4 June 2009 / BBC News — new research has given credence to the idea that laughter evolved in a common ancestor of the great apes and humans
- Human Laughter Echoes Chimp Chuckles / June 4, 2009 / Lizzie Buchen / Wired
- Creationism and American schools / June 4, 2009 / Anjana Anjum / Times (UK) — the debate over whether religion or science should be given precedence in schools is ongoing in the Unites States
- “Junk” DNA: Darwinism’s Last Stand? / June 4, 2009 / Jonathan Wells / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
- Where’s the Dialogue? Alas, Colleague of Francis Collins at “Biologos” Doesn’t Offer Any / June 3, 2009 / John West / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
- Does biological life have a purpose? / June 3, 2009 / Rod Dreher / beliefnet.com
- When Evolution Is Not So Slow and Gradual / June 3, 2009 / University of Chicago Press Journals / Science Daily
- "Junk" DNA Proves to be Highly Valuable / June 2, 2009 / Alfredo Flores / U. S. Department of Agriculture
- Creation museum still draws crowds, ruffles feathers after 2 years / 1 June 2009 / Aaron J. Leichman / Christian Today
- When and Why Anti-Darwinism First Arose / June 1, 2009 / David Klinghoffer / beliefnet.com (blog)
- Dinosaur Peptides Intact After 80 Million Years / June 2009 / Ciara Curtin / genomeweb.com
- Darwin's Scientific Skeptics / June 2009 / John G. West / Washington Post
- Saved by Junk DNA: Vital Role in the Evolution of Human Genome / May 30, 2009 / VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) / Science Daily
- How long will Ida be the world's most famous fossil? / May 28, 2009 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
- Seeking a Missing Link, and a Mass Audience / May 18, 2009 / Tim Arango / New York Times
- Discussion between Richard Dawkins and Paul Davies / May 17, 2009 / richarddawkins.net
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MAY 24
- Paradigms in science and the case of Paul Dirac / May 22, 2009 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
- "Computation: The edge of reductionism" / 21 May 2009 /
P.-M. Binder / Nature, v.459, p.332-334 — research at the frontier between computer science and physics illustrates the shortcomings of the reductionist approach to science, which explains macroscopic behaviour using microscopic principles
- "Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment" / 21 May 2009 / Oleg Abramov and Stephen J. Mojzsis / Nature, v.459, p.419-422
- Prebiotic Earth Scenarios Founded on Tarry Barbecue Mess / 21 May 2009 / Robert Deyes / Uncommon Descent
- LETTER: Track down the truth / 21 May 2009 / Richard Leakey / New Scientist, n.2709 — ancient footprints discovered near Ileret in northern Kenya could provide information on important questions about human evolution ... how did these findings pass muster to be published
- Let's hope we find the right kind of black hole / 21 May 2009 / New Scientist, n.2709
- Why Ida fossil is not the missing link / 21 May 2009 / Chris Beard / New Scientist
- Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole / 20 May 2009 / Stephen Battersby / New Scientist, n.2709
- Magma pulses may reveal Earth's 'heartbeat' / 20 May 2009 / Catherine Brahic / New Scientist, n.2709
- Research team finds important role for junk DNA / May 20, 2009 / Kitta MacPherson / Princeton University
- "Origin of life: Nascence man" / 20 May 2009 / John Whitfield / Nature, v.459, p.316-319 — like an alchemist of yore, Mike Russell is taking basic elements and trying to transform them -- not into gold, but into the stirrings of life
- Chernobyl fallout could drive evolution of 'space plants' / 15 May 2009 / Ewen Callaway / New Scientist, n.2709
- Mystery of how life on Earth began solved by British scientists / 14 May 2009 / Alastair Jamieson / Telegraph (UK) — scientists have solved the mystery of how life on Earth evolved from molecules when the planet was devoid of life four billion years ago
- Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution / April 2009 / Nick Lane / Profile Books — see also Amazon
- REVIEW: 16 April 2009 / Michael Le Page / New Scientist, n.2704
- Science: A Four Thousand Year History / March 2009 / Patricia Fara / Oxford University Press —
see also Amazon
- REVIEW: 20 May 2009 / Jo Marchant / New Scientist, n.2709, p.43 — this epic history of science aims to debunk the notion of science as an objective search for truth
- Under the microscope / 25 April 2009 / Georgina Ferry / The Guardian (UK) — a study of the origins of scientific theory intrigues
- Bioethics at the Movies / January 2009 / Sandra Shapshay (editor) / Johns Hopkins University Press — see also Amazon; the contributors explore how popular films have dealt with basic bioethical concerns such as birth, abortion, genetic selection, personhood, quality of life, aging, and death
MAY 20
- Scientists Unveil Missing Link in Evolution / May 20, 2009 / Alex Watts / Sky News Online — fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution
- Media blitz: 'We found missing link' / May 19, 2009 / Drew Zahn / WorldNetDaily — but critics say fossil frenzy is more about pushing ideology than science
- Early Skeleton Sheds Light on Primate Evolution / May 19, 2009 / New York Times (Associated Press) — scientists said that Darwinius masillae would help illuminate the early evolution of monkeys, apes and humans
- Scientists hail stunning fossil / 19 May 2009 / Christine McGourty / BBC News — the beautifully preserved remains of a 47-million-year-old, lemur-like creature have been unveiled in the US
- Common Ancestor of Humans, Modern Primates? / May 19, 2009 / Public Library of Science / Science Daily — 'extraordinary' fossil is 47 million years old
- Insight into Evolution of First Flowers / May 19, 2009 / University of Florida / Science Daily
- Darwin and the Fuegians / 19 May 2009 / Russell Grigg / Creation Ministries International
- Ribonucleotides and the revival of the "warm little pond" scenario / May 19, 2009 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
- Cambrian explosion changed ocean chemistry / 18 May 2009 / Eric Hand / Nature News — mud stirred up by sea-floor animals may have stoked global sulphate levels
- Fond Dreams of BioLogos / May 18, 2009 / David Klinghoffer / beliefnet (blog) — an Evangelical Christian, Francis Collins would like to find a reconciliation between Darwinian evolution including its randomly driven, unplanned, unguided mechanism of natural selection, with Biblical religion, which is premised on God's creative guidance of life's history
- Viroids: Molecular Vestiges of the RNA World / May 17, 2009 / Centro de Astrobiologia CSIC-INTA / Science Daily
- Conventional man, radical idea / May 17, 2009 / Ed Kemmick / Billings Gazette (Montana) — Bozeman science writer's interest in Darwin keeping him busy in bicentennial year
- The Worst Argument Against Intelligent Design / May 8, 2009 / Randal Rauser / Christian Post (blog)
- "The non-epistemology of intelligent design: its implications for public policy" / April 15, 2009 / Barbara Forrest / Synthese (Springer)
- Frank Beckwith finally disowns ID / 13 November 2008 / William Dembski / Uncommon Descent
- Does gene duplication provide the engine for evolution? / April 2006 / Jerry Bergman / Journal of Creation, v.20, n.1, p.99-104
- Evolution and Creationism: A Guide for Museum Docents (pdf) / August 18, 2005 / Warren D. Allmon / Museum of the Earth (Ithaca, NY)
MAY 17
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution / September 2009 / Richard Dawkins / Free Press (Simon & Schsuter) — see also Amazon
- Progress Toward Artificial Tissue? / May 16, 2009 / Wiley-Blackwell / Science Daily
- Fossil Discovery Is Heralded / May 15, 2009 / Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal — the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes, and humans
- "‘Vengeance’ Bites Back at Jared Diamond" / 15 May 2009 / Michael Balter / Science, v.324, n.5929, p.872-874
- "Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions" / 14 May 2009 / Matthew W. Powner, Béatrice Gerland, and John D. Sutherland / Nature, v.459, p.239-242
- "Origins of life: Systems chemistry on early Earth" / 14 May 2009 / Jack W. Szostak /
Nature, v.459, p.171-172 — Understanding how life emerged on Earth is one of the greatest challenges facing modern chemistry. A new way of looking at the synthesis of RNA sidesteps a thorny problem in the field.
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: 14 May 2009 / RNA is for life
- "Is free will an illusion?" / 14 May 2009 / Martin Heisenberg / Nature, v.459, p.164-165
- "Seismology: The sleeping dragon" / 13 May 2009 / Alexandra Witze / Nature, v.459, p.153-157 — the great Sichuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 caught Earth scientists off guard
- "Flat universe may be the new flat Earth" / 13 May 2009 / Eugenie Samuel Reich / New Scientist, n.2708, p.15 — today we dismiss flat-Earthers as ignorant, yet we may be making an almost identical mistake about the entire universe
- Earliest animal traces solve time-gap mystery / 11 May 2009 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2708, p.12 — rock patterns suggest animals were thriving 200 million years earlier than thought, bridging the gap between genetic and fossil evidence
- Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution / May 2009 / David F. Prindle / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
- REVIEW: 13 May 2009 / Ewen Callaway / New Scientist, n.2708, p.48 — for Gould, a gifted science communicator, nearly every scientific issue had political ramifications
- The Universe: Order without Design / May 2009 / Carlos I. Calle / Prometheus Books —
see also Amazon
- REVIEW: 13 May 2009 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist, n.2708, p.49 — can cosmology account for reality as we know it, or does the universe require a grand designer
- Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals / May 2009 / Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
- REVIEW: 12 May 2009 / Deborah Blum / New Scientist, n.2707
MAY 15
- Telescopes poised to spot air-breathing aliens / 16 May 2009 / David Shiga / New Scientist, n.2708
- Oldest Example of Mutualism: Termites and Protozoa Discovered Together in Ancient Amber / May 15, 2009 / Oregon State University / Science Daily
- Old Genes Can Learn New Tricks, Horned Beetles Show / May 13, 2009 / Indiana University / Science Daily
- Nine bizarre animals that are new to science / 13 May 2009 / Caroline Williams and Graham Lawton / New Scientist, n.2708
- Molecule of life emerges from laboratory slime / 13 May 2009 / Kate Ravilious / New Scientist, n.2708
- RNA world easier to make / 13 May 2009 / Richard Van Noorden / Nature News — ingenious chemistry shows how nucleotides may have formed in the primordial soup
- Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life / May 13, 2009 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
- The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body / 13 May 2009 / Helen Pilcher / New Scientist, n.2708
- Homo Floresiensis: The Flower That Is Shaking the Human Evo Tree / May 12, 2009 / Robert Deyes / Access Research Network (blog)
- Color-shifting cuttlefish inspire TV screens / May 12, 2009 / Eric Bland / MSNBC — prototype uses less than one-hundredth the power of traditional displays
- You Can't Believe in Both Creationism and Evolution / May 11, 2009 / Answers in Genesis / Opposing Views
- Evolution is slowing snails down / May 11, 2009 /
Matt Walker / BBC News — garden snails are evolving slower metabolisms
- The Day the Universe Froze: New Model for Dark Energy / May 11, 2009 / Vanderbilt University / Science Daily
- Darwinists' swine flu science / May 11, 2009 / Peter Heck / OneNewsNow.com
- These men would've stopped Darwin / 11 May 2009 / George Monbiot / Guardian (UK) — science research in Britain is now all about turning knowledge into business, rather than the beauty of exploration
- Cave Painting Depicts Extinct Marsupial Lion / May 9, 2009 /
Stephan Reebs / Live Science (Natural History Magazine)
- Augustine's Origin of Species / May 8, 2009 / Alister McGrath / Christianity Today — how the great theologian might weigh in on the Darwin debate
- Teaching Science, with Faith in Mind / May 1, 2009 / Arri Eisen and David Westmoreland / Chronicle of Higher Education
- When Athens Met Jerusalem: An Introduction to Classical and Christian Thought / April 2009 / John Mark Reynolds / InterVarsity Press — see also Amazon
- Point-Counterpoint: Darwin events are balanced and beneficial / February 3, 2009 / Stephen P. Weldon / Oklahoma Daily (University of Oklahoma) — events to cover myriad aspects of evolution, span many academic fields
- Point-Counterpoint: Darwin events are one-sided celebration / February 3, 2009 / David Deming / Oklahoma Daily (University of Oklahoma) — one-sided celebration betrays university ideals of diversity, inclusiveness
- Rage of reason / October 2008 / Robin McKie / Cosmos Magazine, n.23 — Richard Dawkins is a towering figure in evolution who skewers creationists for sport
- The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics / July 2008 / Leonard Susskind / Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Book Group) — see also Amazon
- "Whose god? The theological response to the god-of-the-gaps" / April 2008 / Lael Weinberger / Journal of Creation, v.22, n.1, p.120-127
MAY 10
- Why Darwin? / May 28, 2009 / Richard C. Lewontin / New York Review of Books, v.56, n.9 — review of four books on Darwin
- Evolving Faith / May 10, 2009 / Kathleen Parker / townhall.com — if only William Jennings Bryan had known Francis Collins
- Thousands Graduate, Stein Speaks / May 9, 2009 / Manuel Quinones / ABC13 (Lynchburg, VA) — for a record class at Liberty University, Ben Stein was not afraid to speak his mind from evolution to religion to politics
- A Plea for Intelligently Designed Evolution / May 9, 2009 / Randal Rauser / Christian Post (blog)
- "Coevolution of Plants and Their Pathogens in Natural Habitats" / 8 May 2009 / Jeremy J. Burdon and Peter H. Thrall / Science, v.324, n.5928, p.755-756
- "Neuroscience: The Sources of Human Volition" / 8 May 2009 / Patrick Haggard / Science, v.324, n.5928, p.731-733 — every day we make actions that seem to depend on our "free will" rather than on any obvious external stimulus
- Filling the Gap in the Fossil Record / May 8, 2009 / Geological Society of America / Science Daily
- World’s Oldest Manufactured Beads Are Older Than Previously Thought / May 7, 2009 / University of Oxford / Science Daily
- Top 10 Greatest Mysteries in Science / May 7, 2009 / Live Science
- "Dissecting the Two Cultures" / 7 May 2009 / Martin Kemp / Nature, v.459, p.32-33 — fifty years ago, Charles Percy Snow argued in an influential lecture that the failure of science and the humanities to converse, and the lack of scientists in positions of power, was disastrous for society
- "Science's new battle lines" / 7 May 2009 / Georgina Ferry / Nature, v.459, p.34-35 — today's division lies between optimists and pessimists rather than between scientific and literary intellectuals
- "Palaeoanthropology: Homo floresiensis from head to toe" / 7 May 2009 / Daniel E. Lieberman / Nature, v.459, p.41-42 — Fossils of tiny ancient humans, found on the island of Flores, have provoked much debate and speculation. Evidence that they are a real species comes from analyses of the foot and also -- more surprisingly -- of dwarf hippos
- "The formation of the first stars and galaxies" / 7 May 2009 / Volker Bromm, Naoki Yoshida, Lars Hernquist, and Christopher F. McKee / Nature, v.459, p.49-54
- How Darwinian fundamentalists burn their critics at the stake / May 6, 2009 / Wintery Knight (blog) — It’s the story of Galileo and the Catholic Church again, but reversed. Read Jerry Bergman’s story.
- Science, Spirituality, and Some Mismatched Socks / May 5, 2009 / Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal — researchers turn up evidence of 'spooky' quantum behavior and put it to work in encryption and philosophy
- Huge gene study shines new light on African history / 30 April 2009 / Peter Aldhous / New Scientist, n.2707, p.9 — the largest-ever study of the genomes of people from across Africa provides "spectacular insight into the history of African populations"
- Is the human pharynx poorly designed? / Jerry Bergman / Creation Ministries International — The concept of dysteleology claims that much poor design exists in the natural world, and therefore an intelligent creator does not exist. A look at a supposed common example of dysteleology, the design of the human pharynx, shows that it is in fact evidence for superior design.
MAY 8
- Evolution Education / webmaster: Tristan Zimmerman — HIS COMMENTS: "I'm writing to you with something of an unusual request, but please don't dismiss it out of hand. This is a courtesy call to let you know about the website and the potential advantages it can offer to you. EvoEdu presents the theory of evolution in a way that's actually easy to understand, free, and accessible to the layman. It has educational materials available in text and audio formats and handouts designed for elementary, middle, and high school students. I would be happy to have EvoEdu serve as your go-to site for demonstrating what proponents of evolution think. Since, unlike many evolution sites, the content on EvoEdu is easy for the layman to understand, visitors that have stopped by EvoEdu to read about a pro-evolution argument are more likely to understand it. If they understand the evolutionary argument better, they will understand your counter-argument better. Furthermore, your visitors would be better-informed about what scientists say evolution is and how it works, which will help them better argue against evolution in their day-to-day life. You get more informed visitors. I get more traffic. It's a win/win situation. Let me know what you think!"
MAY 6
- Shark versus whale, 4 million years BC / 5 May 2009 / Ewen Callaway / New Scientist
- 10 Genes, Furiously Evolving / May 4, 2009 / Carl Zimmer / New York Times — for the past week, seven experts have been furiously analyzing the new swine flu to figure out how and when it evolved
- Collagen fibres and degraded blood from a hadrosaur bone / May 4, 2009 / David Tyler / Access Research Network (blog)
- The Myth of Vestigial Organs and Bad Design: Why Darwinism Is False / May 4, 2009 / Jonathan Wells / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
- 'Evolutionary Algorithms' Mimic Natural Evolution in Silico and Lead to Innovative Solutions for Complex Problems / May 4, 2009 / ETH Zurich / Science Daily
- High School Teachers Influence Student Views of Evolution and Creationism / May 4, 2009 / University of Minnesota / Science Daily
- Student Wins Suit After Teacher Says Creationism 'Superstitious Nonsense' / May 4, 2009 / Fox News (Associated Press)
- The secular inquisition / 4 May 2009 / Melanie Phillips / The Spectator (UK) — the response to my post below on Intelligent Design has provided illuminating and revealing evidence of the ignorance, confusion, distortions, irrationality and malice that characterise this debate
- Shocker: Half of British Adults Don't Believe in Evolution / May 3, 2009 / Robert Paul Reyes / News Blaze
- Remembering science legend Alfred Russel Wallace / 3 May 2009 / John Phillips / Barking & Dagenham Recorder (UK)
- Prof making philosophy out of science / May 3, 2009 / Katherine Wolfe / University of Minnesota — philosophizing about science, assistant professor looks to the questions not the answers
- The RNA World Hypothesis Explained and Unexplained / May 2009 / Kathleen Hamrick and Will Brooks / Reason & Revelation, v.29, n.5, p.37-39
- Age-defying dinosaur collagen / 30 April 2009 / Rex Dalton / Nature News — hadrosaur, dead 80 million years, yields oldest protein yet sequenced
- Evolution classes optional under proposed Alberta law / April 30, 2009 / CBC News (Canada)
MAY 3
- Did asbestos help life evolve? / 2 May 2009 / New Scientist, n.2706, p.14 — bacteria swap genes in the presence of an asbestos mineral and a good shake from an earthquake, suggesting that such conditions in early Earth aided evolution
- Ohio scholar reports bias against 'Darwin doubters' / May 2, 2009 / David Yonke / Toledo Blade (Ohio) — 17 cases are detailed in new book
- Helping Christians Reconcile God with Science / May 2, 2009 / Amy Sullivan / Time Magazine — Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist and former director of the Human Genome Project, unveiled a new initiative to guide Christians through scientific questions while holding firm to their faith.
- Intelligent Design or the Dreaded "Creationism"? / May 1, 2009 / David Klinghoffer / beliefnet.com (blog)
- Florida antievolution bill dies / May 1, 2009 / National Center for Science Education
- "Biomolecular Characterization and Protein Sequences of the Campanian Hadrosaur B. canadensis" / 1 May 2009 / Mary H. Schweitzer, et al. / Science, v.324, n.5927, p.626-631 — analysis of well-preserved tissues from an 80-million-year-old hadrosaur supports the dinosaur-bird relationship
- "On the Origin of the Immune System" / 1 May 2009 / John Travis / Science, v.324, n.5927, p.580-582
- "Africans' Deep Genetic Roots Reveal Their Evolutionary Story" / 1 May 2009 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.324, n.5927, p.575
- Sponge larvae: Your unlikely ancestors / 1 May 2009 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist, n.2706, p.38-41 — we know very little about the origins of complex animal life, but there are hints that it all began with sponges that refused to grow up
- Swine Flu, Viruses, and the Edge of Evolution / May 1, 2009 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
- Acts & Facts,
v.38, n.5 (pdf) / May 2009 / Institute for Creation Research
- The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself / May 2009 / Robert Lanza and Bob Berman / Discover Magazine — stem-cell guru Robert Lanza presents a radical new view of the universe and everything in it
- Recipe for a Resurrection / May 2009 / Tom Mueller / National Geographic — Bringing extinct species back to life is no longer considered science fiction. But is it a good idea?
- What Makes Us Human? / May 2009 / Katherine S. Pollard / Scientific American — comparisons of the genomes of humans and chimpanzees are revealing those rare stretches of DNA that are ours alone
- The Contradictions between the Creationist Movements / May 2009 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American — a skeptic engages three types of creationists who claim science supports their beliefs, yet they contradict one another
- Birds May Have Used Big Brains to Outlast the Dinosaurs / May 2009 / Emily Anthes / Discover Magazine — the ancestors of modern birds seemed to have sophisticated hearing -- and perhaps other sharp faculties, as well
- Calculating the Odds That Life Could Begin by Chance / April 30, 2009 / Dave Deamer / scientificblogging.com
- Life: (More Than) Some Assembly Required / April 30, 2009 / Roddy Bullock / Access Research Network (blog)
- "Genes, games and the sexes" / 30 April 2009 / John Odling-Smee /
Nature, v.458, p.1111-1112
- LETTER: How science works / 29 April 2009 / Thomas Shipp / New Scientist, n.2706 — although the atheist majority in science will no doubt agree with Amanda Gefter, I would suggest that she is wrong about what science is and how it works
- LETTER: Religion on the brain / 29 April 2009 / Meg Henderson / New Scientist, n.2706 — Andy Coghlan's report on whether praying to God causes the same brain activity as talking to friends made me wonder which areas become active when a person claims God is communicating with them
- Darwin in a test tube / April 29, 2009 / Scripps Research Institute / physorg.com — scientists make molecules that evolve, compete, mimick behavior of Darwin's finches
- Ancient breeders show intelligent design / 29 April 2009 / Andy Coghlan and Ewen Callaway / New Scientist, n.2706
- Creation-Evolution
Headlines / April 2009 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
- Evolution in a Bottle: Synthetic Life Oozes Closer to Reality / April 2009 / W. Wayt Gibbs / Scientific American — self-replicating RNAs advance science another step toward artificial life
- In Our Expanding Universe, Earth Is Nothing Special / April 2009 / John Rennie / Scientific American — we're an ordinary species on an ordinary planet ... or are we?
- Does Dark Energy Really Exist? / April 2009 / Timothy Clifton and Pedro G. Ferreira / Scientific American — or does Earth occupy a very unusual place in the universe?
- Jack Horner's Plan to Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life / April 2009 / Jack Horner and James Gorman / Discover Magazine — the world's most famous dino-hunter says the key is embryonic development, not genetics
- Could a Dose of Ether Contain the Secret to Consciousness? / April 2009 / Carl Zimmer / Discover Magazine — researchers may soon be able to measure consciousness as well as we can measure a person's temperature
- Where Is God? / March 11, 2009 / Christie Nicholson / Scientific American — research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA provides support to the critics of the idea that a God spot exists in the brain
- A Christian Physicist’s Dispatch from the Evolution Wars / March-April 2009 / Glenn Branch / Skeptical Inquirer
- Alien Census: Can We Estimate How Much Life Is Out There? / February 10, 2009 / John Matson / Scientific American — new study looks to tabulate the extent of intelligent extraterrestrial life
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives / February 2009 / David Eagleman / Pantheon (Random House) — see also Amazon
- Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe / February 2009 / Evalyn Gates / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
- "An eye on the Universe" / 30 April 2009 / Joachim Wambsganss / Nature, v.458, p.1116
- REVIEW: 16 April 2009 / Simon Mitton / Times Higher Education (UK) — the cosmos through a lens made of space-time
- Gravity's Shadow / February 22, 2009 / Marcia Bartusiak / Washington Post, p.B08
- REVIEW: 18 February 2009 / Amanda Gefter / New Scientist, n.2696
- Life's Conservation Law (pdf) / William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II / Evolutionary Informatics Lab — why Darwinian evolution cannot create biological information
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