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• Photosynthetic sea slugs: an evolutionary enigma

  December 1, 2010 Shaun Doyle Journal of Creation, v.24, n.3, p.10-12

• "The Spirit in the Network: Models for Spirituality in a Technological Culture"

  December 1, 2010 Mark Coeckelbergh Zygon, v.45, n.4, p.957-978

• An Evolving Vision of God: The Theology of John F. Haught

  December 1, 2010 Gloria L. Schaab Zygon, v.45, n.4, p.897-904

• Buddhism and Science: How Far Can the Dialogue Proceed?

  December 1, 2010 Thupten Jinpa Zygon, v.45, n.4, p.871-882

• A Scientific Buddhism?

  December 1, 2010 Peter Harrison Zygon, v.45, n.4, p.861-869

• "Religious Literalism and Science-Related Issues in Contemporary Islam"

  December 1, 2010 Nidhal Guessoum Zygon, v.45, n.4, p.817-840

• "Creationism in the Netherlands"

  December 1, 2010 Stefaan Blancke Zygon, v.45, n.4, p.791-816

• News Update/Commentary

  Northern Kentucky lands Noah's Ark park

  December 1, 2010 MSNBC

  tax breaks, donations to help fund creationism-themed amusement park

• The 2010 Intelligent Design Christmas List

  December 1, 2010 Anika Smith Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Starry starry starry night: Star count may triple

  December 1, 2010 MSNBC (Associated Press)

  new study suggests universe has 300 sextillion of red dwarfs

• The fossil our ancient ancestors loved

  December 1, 2010 Jonathon Keats New Scientist, n.2789, p.44

  an attempt to trace the evolution of the human mind from our abiding obsession with fossilised sea urchins

• How to create temperatures below absolute zero

  December 1, 2010 New Scientist, n.2789, p.15

  absolute zero sounds like an unbreachable limit, but there is a weird realm of negative temperatures that could reveal new states of matter

• The pope's genetically modified crop dilemma

  December 1, 2010 New Scientist, n.2789, p.5

  Could it be that the Vatican is about to enter the age of enlightenment?

• Early universe recreated in LHC was superhot liquid

  December 1, 2010 New Scientist, n.2789, p.19

  the universe may have been an extremely dense, hot liquid just microseconds after the big bang, suggest surprise results from the Large Hadron Collider

• Are you really smarter than a Neanderthal?

  December 1, 2010 New Scientist, n.2789, p.32-36

  they were technologically savvy, creative and cultured, so maybe it's time we accepted that Neanderthals were people just like us

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  Acts & Facts, v.39, n.12 (pdf)

  December 1, 2010 Institute for Creation Research

• The Laws of Thermodynamics Don’t Apply to the Universe!

  December 1, 2010 Jeff Miller Apologetics Press

• Evolving the Scientific Method

  December 1, 2010 The Scientist, v.24, n.12, p.30

  technology is changing the way we conduct science

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  The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages

  December 1, 2010 Basic Books

  see also Amazon

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  How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

  December 1, 2010 Spiegel & Grau

  see also Amazon

• Are we sure birds are dinos?

  December 1, 2010 p.36-38

  only now can we say beyond reasonable doubt that birds aren't just built like dinosaurs -- they actually are dinosaurs

• Was archaeopteryx really a bird?

  December 1, 2010 p.38-39

  It had the wings and feathers of a bird, but the teeth, legs and claws of a dinosaur -- so just what kind of beast was archaeopteryx?

• How did feathers and flight evolve?

  December 1, 2010 p.39-40

  ancestors of the dinosaurs may have sported feathers long before the first dino took a leap of faith

• When did modern birds evolve?

  December 1, 2010 p.40

  the late Cretaceous skies contained oddities to bamboozle any modern birdwatcher, but a few familiar sights too

• Why did modern birds survive?

  December 1, 2010 p.40

  An asteroid strike killed off the dinosaurs and most of their relatives. Perhaps being birdbrained isn't so bad after all.

• Evidence: A Seductive but Slippery Concept

  December 1, 2010 The Scientist, v.24, n.12, p.32

  medical guidelines based on so-called scientific evidence are not a panacea

• Creation-Evolution Headlines

  December 1, 2010 David F. Coppedge Master Plan Productions

• It came from Mono Lake

  December 1, 2010 Colorado Arts & Science Magazine

  is NASA’s finding truly a previously undiscovered form of ‘weird life’ on Earth ... many scientists, including some noted experts at CU, have doubts

• "Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design: A Look into the Conceptual Toolbox of a Pseudoscience"

  December 1, 2010 Maarten Boudry, Stefaan Blancke, and Johan Braeckman Quarterly Review of Biology, v.85, n.4, p.473-482

• "Experimental Evolution, Loss-of-function Mutations, and 'The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution'"

  December 1, 2010 Quarterly Review of Biology, v.85, n.4, p.419-445

  see full article (pdf)

• "Constructing a Theology of Evolution: Building on John Haught"

  December 1, 2010 Ted Peters Zygon, v.45, n.4, p.921-937

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  Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms

  December, 2010 Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer Cambridge University Press

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• 5 Questions for the Dinosaur Hunter Who Found--and Named--Mojoceratops

  December 1, 2010 Discover Magazine

  Nick Longrich finds ancient treasure not only in the ground but in long-overlooked collections in museums

• EXCERPT: The Design Argument: Answers to Atheists' Objections

  December 1, 2010 aish.com

  turns out Richard Dawkins' watchmaker has 20/20 vision after all

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  Creation or Evolution? Consider the Evidence Before Deciding

  December 1, 2010 Create Space

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  Darwin's Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong

  December 1, 2010 Wm. B. Eerdmans

  see also Amazon

• C. S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design (pdf)

  December 1, 2010 Michael L. Peterson Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.62, n.4, p.253-266

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Conception to birth

  December 1, 2010 Alexander Tsiaras TED talks (YouTube)

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  Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards: Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory

  December 1, 2010 Prometheus Books

  see also

  Anthropology Without Science

  November 30, 2010 Dan Berrett Inside Higher Ed

• Celebrating Ten Years of Icons of Evolution

  November 30, 2010 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• News Update/Commentary

  Rainforest collapse kickstarted reptile evolution

  November 30, 2010 Paul Rincon BBC News

• 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

• "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

• Vatican scientists urge support for engineered crops

  November 30, 2010 Andy Coghlan 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

• News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

  November 29, 2010 Dwayne Brown and Cathy Weselby NASA

  science journal has embargoed details until 2 p.m. EST on December 2