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Book
Darwin's Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong
December 1, 2010 Wm. B. Eerdmans
see also Amazon
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C. S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design (pdf)
December 1, 2010 Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.62, n.4, p.253-266
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The Mishkan Model — the portable Hebrew temple, the periodic table of chemistry, the unified model of particle physics, and the grand unified theory of everything
December 1, 2010
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How the Victorians Learned about Darwin’s Theories: Popularizing Evolution (mp3)
December 1, 2010 Yale University
Bernard Lightman’s research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science
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Manganese stromatolites in caves: El Soplao (Cantabria, Spain)
December 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.12, p.1119-1122
interesting example of biogenic stromatolites preserving numerous microbes in their fabric
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Rainforest collapse triggered Carboniferous tetrapod diversification in Euramerica
December 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.12, p.1079-1082
a collapse of the Carboniferous rain forest biome is associated with coeval variation in fossil tetrapods
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Conception to birth
December 1, 2010 TED talks (YouTube)
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Book
Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards: Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory
December 1, 2010 Prometheus Books
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Anthropology Without Science
November 30, 2010 Inside Higher Ed
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Celebrating Ten Years of Icons of Evolution
November 30, 2010 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Rainforest collapse kickstarted reptile evolution
November 30, 2010 BBC News
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News Update/Commentary
Genomic Fault Zones Come and Go
November 30, 2010 Science Daily
fragile regions in mammalian genomes go through 'birth and death' process
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"Chemists help archaeologists to probe biblical history"
November 30, 2010 Nature, v.468, p.614-615
collaboration establishes a new approach for teasing out clues hidden in the soil
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Vatican scientists urge support for engineered crops
November 30, 2010 New Scientist, n.2789, p.16
papal advisers say scientists have a moral duty to be "stewards of God" and genetically modify crops to help the world's poor
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News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery
November 29, 2010 NASA
science journal has embargoed details until 2 p.m. EST on December 2
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DNA trick throws ageing into reverse
November 29, 2010 New Scientist, n.2789, p.19
the natural process of tissue degeneration could be reversed by switching on an enzyme
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Earth Oceans Were Homegrown
November 29, 2010 Science
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Behe gets published
November 29, 2010 Why Evolution Is True
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Newspaper Article
When We First Undertook a Search for Life on Earth
November 27, 2010 Wall Street Journal
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Christopher Hitchens vs. Tony Blair: the full transcript
November 27, 2010 New Statesman
debate hosted 26 November in Toronto
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News Update/Commentary
Sewage Water Bacteria: 'Missing Link' in Early Evolution of Life on Earth?
November 27, 2010 Science Daily
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Some scientists don't want to hear about Creationism
November 27, 2010 Amarillo Globe-News (Texas)
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News Update/Commentary
Cosmos may show echoes of events before Big Bang
November 27, 2010 BBC News
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Snake fangs evolved from groovy teeth
November 27, 2010 New Scientist, n.2788, p.18
a set of 200-million-year-old teeth from a beast related to dinosaurs and crocodiles has shed light on how snake fangs evolved
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"The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals"
November 26, 2010 Science, v.330, n.6008, p.1216-1219
maximum mammal size increased at the beginning of the Cenozoic, then leveled off after about 25 million years
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"Evolution: Intermediate Steps"
November 26, 2010 Science, v.330, n.6008, p.1187-1188
bacteria that also have features typical of eukaryotes and archaea may reflect a possible pathway in ancient cellular evolution
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Neuroscience: New Clues About What Makes the Human Brain Special
November 26, 2010 Science, v.330, n.6008, p.1167
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"Excavation Yields Tantalizing Hints of Earliest Marine Reptiles"
November 26, 2010 Science, v.330, n.6008, p.1164-1165
In September, paleontologists launched the first systematic excavation at Majiashan quarry, north of Chaohu City in central China's Anhui Province. The dig's first fruits--including an ancestor of the plesios
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Before he wrote Candide, Voltaire helped pioneer science fiction
November 26, 2010 xfinity
Voltaire never surrendered belief in God, declaring shortly before his passing "I die adoring God, ..."
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News Update/Commentary
Massive Galaxies Formed When Universe Was Young
November 25, 2010 Science Daily
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"Palaeoanthropology: Early Homo sapiens in China"
November 25, 2010 Nature, v.468, p.512-513
The timing of the dispersal of our species from Africa is a continuing and lively topic of debate. Evidence that modern humans existed in China more than 100,000 years ago is both equivocal and thought-provoking.
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Magazine Article
Why mammals grew big -- and then stopped
November 25, 2010 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Marsupial carnivores 'as diverse as other mammals once'
November 24, 2010 BBC News
they are an extraordinary and now rare group of animals, but Earth has had some formidable marsupial carnivores
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Thoughts of religion prompt acts of punishment
November 24, 2010 New Scientist, n.2788
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Ancient astronomy: Mechanical inspiration
November 24, 2010 Nature, v.468, p.496-498
The ancient Greeks' vision of a geometrical Universe seemed to come out of nowhere. Could their ideas have come from the internal gearing of an ancient mechanism?
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News Update/Commentary
Dark energy and flat Universe exposed by simple method
November 24, 2010 BBC News
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Noah’s Ark, or … what?
November 23, 2010 Creation Ministries International
important update
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In the Footsteps of Giants
November 23, 2010 Discover Magazine
the dinosaurs are long gone, but their tracks remain, telling strange tales of where the creatures went and how they lived
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News Update/Commentary
Early Universe Was a Liquid, Nuclei Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider Show
November 23, 2010 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Pterosaurs' wings 'key to their size'
November 23, 2010 BBC News
ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs were adapted to fly in a slow, controlled manner in gentle tropical breezes
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7 Amazing Exoplanets [Interactive]
November 23, 2010 Scientific American
hundreds of planets around other stars have been discovered recently, but many centuries may pass before human eyes actually see them up close
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Mutation Study Contradicts Evolution
November 22, 2010 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers Kick-Start Ancient DNA
November 22, 2010 Science Daily
researchers recently revived ancient bacteria trapped for thousands of years in water droplets embedded in salt crystals
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Dead Sea drilling to unearth scientific treasures
November 22, 2010 Yahoo! News (Associated Press)
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News Update/Commentary
Making Stars: How Cosmic Dust and Gas Shape Galaxy Evolution
November 22, 2010 Science Daily
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Science Obituaries: Allan Sandage
November 21, 2010 The Telegraph (UK)
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CellCraft: Learning Cell Biology the Fun Way
November 20, 2010 Access Research Network
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EVOLUTION: "A Law by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet"
November 19, 2010 Science, v.330, n.6007, p.1048-1049
biological complexity is the expected outcome of being alive--in the absence of any other forces, both diversity and complexity will increase as the inevitable consequence of cumulative changes
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News Update/Commentary
Surprise Link Between Weird Quantum Phenomena
November 19, 2010 Science Daily
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle sets limits on Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance'
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News Update/Commentary
Enigma of Missing Stars in Local Group of Galaxies May Be Solved
November 19, 2010 Science Daily