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In Our Expanding Universe, Earth Is Nothing Special
April 1, 2009 Scientific American
we're an ordinary species on an ordinary planet ... or are we?
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Evolution in a Bottle: Synthetic Life Oozes Closer to Reality
April 1, 2009 Scientific American
self-replicating RNAs advance science another step toward artificial life
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Creation-Evolution Headlines
April 1, 2009 Master Plan Productions
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When Athens Met Jerusalem: An Introduction to Classical and Christian Thought
April 1, 2009 InterVarsity Press
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
April 1, 2009 Profile Books
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Nature's I.Q.: Extraordinary Animal Behaviors That Defy Evolution
April 1, 2009 Torchlight Publications
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SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
April 1, 2009 HarperOne
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Early humans 'did not kill deformed offspring'
April 1, 2009 Telegraph (UK)
the discovery of the oldest known infant born with a skull deformity hints that, contrary to popular belief, early humans might not have immediately abandoned or killed their abnormal offspring
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Miller’s meanderings: only the same bogus contentions
April 1, 2009 Journal of Creation, v.23, n.1, p.19-23
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Ex-Texas Education Agency employee's lawsuit tossed in ouster over creationism
March 31, 2009 Dallas Morning News
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Science setback for Texas schools
March 31, 2009 physorg.com
after three all-day meetings and a blizzard of amendments and counter-amendments, the Texas Board of Education cast its final vote Friday on state science standards
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News Update/Commentary
Groundbreaking Study Reveals Intermediary Steps of Genetic Encoding for the First Time
March 31, 2009 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
New Theory on Largest Known Mass Extinction in Earth's History
March 31, 2009 Science Daily
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The Unlikely Disciple
March 31, 2009 Christian Science Monitor
an Ivy Leaguer spends a semester undercover at a fundamentalist Christian university and is surprised by what he discovers
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Everybody Believes Something Unbelievable
March 31, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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Time variation of a fundamental dimensionless constant (pdf)
March 30, 2009 arxiv (lanl.gov)
humor: a changing value for pi
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Evolutionary Semantics, Texas-Style comments
March 30, 2009 New York Times
the Texas Board of Education gave grudging support last week to teaching the mainstream theory of evolution without the most troubling encumbrances sought by religious and social conservatives
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The Multiverse Problem
March 30, 2009 Seed Magazine
Is theoretical physics becoming the next battleground in the culture wars? Not according to some theologians and scientists.
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Texas School Board News and Commentary
March 29, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
let the whining begin!
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Conservatives lose another battle over evolution
March 28, 2009 Dallas Morning News
the Texas State Board of Education stripped two provisions from proposed science standards that would have raised questions about key principles of the theory of evolution
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Anti-Evolution Bill Still a Fruitless Exercise
March 28, 2009 Tampa Bay Online (Florida)
a bill aimed at undercutting acceptance of evolution in Florida science classes, which kicked up a fuss but didn't pass in the Florida Legislature last year, apparently is going nowhere this year
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Intelligent Design & Artificial Intelligence: The Ghost in the Machine?
March 28, 2009 Pasadena, California
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"Public Education and Intelligent Design" (pdf)
March 28, 2009 Philosophy & Public Affairs, v.36, n.2, p.187-205
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Cretaceous fossil assigned to the Recent family Octopodidae
March 28, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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Magazine Article
The Texas-Size Debate Over Teaching Evolution
March 28, 2009 Newsweek
sure, discuss Darwin's 'strengths and weaknesses' ... just not in biology textbooks
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Rage Against the Art Gene
March 28, 2009 Newsweek
Darwin revolutionized our understanding of mankind's origins. Now scientists think they can apply his theories to the source of our creativity without it sounding like a lot of monkey business.
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"The Darwinian Eye"
March 27, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5922, p.1673-1674
exhibitions: art and evolution
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News Update/Commentary
Proteins by Design: Biochemists Create New Protein from Scratch
March 27, 2009 Science Daily
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We Have No Excuse -- A Scientific Case for Relating Life to Mind (part II)
March 27, 2009 Uncommon Descent
the ultimate relationship -- analyzing patterns that comprise life
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News Update/Commentary
Texas board comes down on 2 sides of creationism debate
March 27, 2009 CNN
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Evolution explained
March 26, 2009 Southern Utah University
convocation speaker Kenneth Miller speaks on the topic of how humans have developed
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Blog Post
“No Major Conceptual Leaps”
March 26, 2009 Uncommon Descent
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"The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3"
March 26, 2009 Nature, v.458, p.485-488
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Needle in a haystack: tracking down the fragments of asteroid 2008 TC3
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"Palaeontology: Beyond the Age of Fishes"
March 26, 2009 Nature, v.458, p.413-414
discovery of an unusually intact and ancient fossil fish provides further evidence that the search for modern vertebrate origins requires breaking out of the Devonian and into the preceding period
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"The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters"
March 26, 2009 Nature, v.458, p.469-474
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: An early glimpse of bony fish
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Critical transitions in fish evolution lack fossil documentation
March 26, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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Evolution Survives Vote in Texas
March 26, 2009 Science Insider
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Christian's bill to overturn Texas School Board's evolution ruling
March 26, 2009 Daily Sentinel (Nacogdoches, TX)
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Texas creation vote hangs in the balance
March 26, 2009 New Scientist, n.2701, p.4
tension is rising prior to this Friday's crucial vote on whether children in the US state should be taught creationism alongside evolution in science lessons
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Science education under assault on multiple fronts in Texas
March 26, 2009 Ars Technica
A few months back, the Texas state school board gave preliminary approval to new science standards that got rid of language that required classroom discussion of "the strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories. Now, that decision may
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Faith, hope and the academy
March 26, 2009 Times Higher Education (UK)
as UK universities with a Christian heritage seek to collaborate more closely, some academics are calling for more explicitly theologically inspired institutions
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Creationism in the classroom
March 26, 2009 Guardian (UK)
evolution is a scientific fact -- except, perhaps, in Texas, where the school board is trying to cast doubt on it
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The Civil Heretic
March 25, 2009 New York Times
How did Freeman Dyson, the world-renowned scientist and public intellectual, wind up opposing those who care most about global warming?
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Déjà vu: Where fact meets fantasy
March 25, 2009 New Scientist, n.2701, p.28-31
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of Fins and Limbs Linked with That of Gills
March 25, 2009 Science Daily
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Chalk and 'Upper Cretaceous' Deposits are Part of the Noachian Flood
March 25, 2009 Answers Research Journal, v.2, p.29-51
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An Analysis of John Matthews' "The Origin of Oil--A Creationist Answer"
March 25, 2009
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Who Designed the Designer?: A Dialogue on Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion
March 25, 2009 Think, v.8, p.71-81 (Royal Institute of Philosophy)
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Coral colony as old as the pyramids
March 25, 2009 New Scientist, n.2701, p.11
some corals still surviving today have been dated back to the Bronze Age -- the finding reveals that the colonies grow far more slowly than was thought
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How to save the world from an asteroid impact
March 25, 2009 New Scientist, n.2701, p.18-19
we could use lasers to zap asteroids that threaten to hit the Earth, or hit them with nuclear bombs -- but we need to be sure that we won't make the situation worse