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"Reconciling Science with Natural Philosophy"
January 1, 2004 The Thomist, v.68, p.105-141
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Is Pierolapithecus the Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Apes?
January 1, 2004 AAAS News Release
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Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory
January 1, 2004 Oxford University Press
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The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design
January 1, 2004 InterVarsity Press
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News Update/Commentary
Earth loses its magnetism
December 31, 2003 BBC News
the Earth's magnetic field strength has steadily and mysteriously waned, leaving parts of the planet vulnerable to increased radiation from space
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The National Creed
December 30, 2003 New York Times
political parties grow more orthodox, while religions grow more fluid
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"The Origin of Malaria: Mixed Messages from Genetic Diversity"
December 30, 2003 Nature Reviews Microbiology, v.2, p.15-22
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Exploring the Future of Accelerating Change (conference)
December 30, 2003 Stanford University
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Experimental Lit
December 28, 2003 New York Times
evolutionary psychology, like all alluringly comprehensive Theories of Everything, can foster both valuable insights and the daffiest poppycock
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Strong Earthquake Hits Central California
December 23, 2003 New York Times
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Fingers crossed for Beagle 2
December 23, 2003 Nature science update
search for life on Mars set to enter a new phase
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News Update/Commentary
Lomborg celebrates ministry ruling
December 22, 2003 BBC News
the scientist who wrote a best-selling book that set out to show the world was not heading for environmental meltdown is celebrating a victory
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review: 'Pompeii': Under the Volcano
December 21, 2003 New York Times
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Reason and Faith, Eternally Bound
December 20, 2003 New York Times
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News Update/Commentary
Dark energy tops science class
December 20, 2003 BBC News
a series of breakthroughs in the quest to identify the mysterious fabric of the Universe has topped a list of the 10 key scientific advances of 2003
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"Retroactive prayer: a preposterous hypothesis?"
December 20, 2003 British Medical Journal, v.327, p.1465-1468
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"Retroactive prayer: lots of history, not much mystery, and no science"
December 20, 2003 British Medical Journal, v.329, n.7480, p.1444-1446
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Darwin's Nightmare (documentary)
December 20, 2003 Hubert Sauper
the Nile Perch, a voracious predator introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment in the 1960s, has extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species
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"BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: The Runners-Up" requires free registration
December 19, 2003 Science, v.302, n.5653, p.2039-2045
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Science breakthrough of the year: proof of our exploding universe
December 19, 2003 The Guardian (UK)
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"BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: Illuminating the Dark Universe" requires free registration
December 19, 2003 Science, v.302, n.5653, p.2038-2039
dark energy, dark matter, the age of the universe, a precise speed of expansion
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"EVOLUTION: Climb Every Mountain?" requires free registration
December 19, 2003 Science, v.302, n.5653, p.2074-2075
as a bacterial population becomes a niche specialist, it is less able to adapt to other niches
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The Field that Ate the Milky Way
December 19, 2003 Physical Review Focus
a magnetic field has already swallowed our entire galaxy, and no one knows where it came from or when it arrived
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"Palaeolithic ivory sculptures from southwestern Germany and the origins of figurative art" requires free registration
December 18, 2003 Nature, v.426, p.830-832
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"Recent ice ages on Mars" requires free registration
December 18, 2003 Nature, v.426, p.797-802
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A larval Devonian lungfish
December 18, 2003 Nature, v.426, p.833-834
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Religion: For Dummies
December 18, 2003 beliefnet.com
scientist Richard Dawkins on Darwin, the Sistine Chapel, and why the world would be better off without religion
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Magazine names age of universe 'discovery of the year'
December 18, 2003 CBC News (Canada)
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Oldest evidence of photosynthesis
December 17, 2003 BBC News Online
scientists claim to have found the oldest evidence of photosynthesis - the most important chemical reaction on Earth - in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks
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New doubts on dark energy
December 17, 2003 PhysicsWeb (Institute of Physics)
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Carvings reveal early European's artistic skill
December 17, 2003 New Scientist
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Coral reveals ancient origins of human genes
December 16, 2003 Nature science update
invertebrate DNA raises questions about evolution models
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Waiting for the Supermutants
December 14, 2003 Los Angeles Times
how we know Darwin got it wrong
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Courtly Combatant
December 13, 2003 World on the Web, v.18, n.48
Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson has been in the lion's den since 1991, when he horrified the "mandarins of science" by publicly challenging Darwinism. Now in his 60s and despite suffering the effects of a stroke, WORLD's Daniel of the Year continue
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An Early Cretaceous Tribosphenic Mammal and Metatherian Evolution
December 12, 2003 Science, v.302, n.5652, p.1934-1940
This fossil from China dates to 125 million years ago and extends the record of marsupial relatives with skeletal remains by 50 million years.
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Marsupial Origins
December 12, 2003 Science, v.302, n.5652, p.1899-1900
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Comparing Genomes Shows Split Between Chimps and People
December 12, 2003 New York Times
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Genome Comparisons Hold Clues to Human Evolution
December 12, 2003 Science, v.302, n.5652, p.1876-1877
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Magnetic Field Is Fading, but No Dire Effects Are Foreseen
December 12, 2003 New York Times
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World takes on evolution
December 12, 2003 Answers in Genesis
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Radioactive potassium may be major heat source in Earth's core
December 12, 2003 BrightSurf.com
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Genome scan shows human-chimp differences
December 12, 2003 Nature science update
variations hint at how our lifestyle is reflected in our genes
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Cave colours reveal mental leap
December 11, 2003 BBC News Online
red-stained bones dug up in a cave in Israel are prompting researchers to speculate that symbolic thought emerged much earlier than they had believed
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"Geochronology: Dating of the Herto hominin fossils" requires free registration
December 11, 2003 Nature, v.426, p.621-622
"These important discoveries may therefore be distinctly younger than reported."
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Planet-formation model indicates Earthlike planets might be common
December 11, 2003 BrightSurf.com
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The world's expanding waistline: The shape of things to come
December 11, 2003 The Economist
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Chimp genome draft completed
December 10, 2003 Nature science update
closest relative's code will highlight human qualities
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Scientist Links Man to Climate Over the Ages
December 10, 2003 New York Times
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Nobel protester wins alternative prize
December 10, 2003 Nature science update
Stockholm ceremony proceeds despite dispute
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No fiery extinction for dinosaurs
December 9, 2003 BBC News Online
it is unlikely the dinosaurs perished in a global firestorm triggered by the asteroid strike on Earth 65 million years ago