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  Inside the Human Genome: A Case for Non-Intelligent Design

  January 1, 2010 Oxford University Press

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  From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

  January 1, 2010 Dutton (Penguin)

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  How Science Works: Evolution: A Student Primer

  January 1, 2010 Springer

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  One Smart Fish

  January 1, 2010 Jonathan Cape (Random House)

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  The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

  January 1, 2010 Harper Collins

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  The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

  January 1, 2010 Oxford University Press

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• Self-organized criticality in river basins: Challenging sedimentary records of environmental change

  January 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.1, p.87-90

  river basins are not predictable systems and their discharge cannot be related to external factors like rainfall

• Paleozoic vegetation and the Siluro-Devonian rise of fluvial lateral accretion sets

  January 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.1, p.51-54

  a database of fluvial deposits in the Lower Paleozoic contrary to the idea of some that all Lower Paleozoic is marine

• The missing link in the evolutionary origin of the foraminiferal genus Hantkenina and the problem of the lower-middle Eocene boundary

  January 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.1, p.23-26

  a possible example of microevolution with gradual morphological transition in the stratigraphic record and also an example of how biostratigraphic schemes are often revised and refined

• How wet was the Arctic Eocene rain forest? Estimates of precipitation from Paleogene Arctic macrofloras

  January 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.1, p.15-18

  warm climate scenarios in the Eocene with forests in the Arctic

• ASU researchers recalculate age of Solar System

  December 31, 2009 Arizona State University

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolution Experiments with Flowers

  December 30, 2009 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Science Daily

• The Cause of Anomalous Potassium-Argon “Ages” for Recent Andesite Flows at Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, and the Implications for Potassium-Argon “Dating”

  December 30, 2009 Andrew Snelling Answers in Genesis

• News Update/Commentary

  Transcription Factors Guide Differences in Human and Chimp Brain Function

  December 30, 2009 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Science Daily

• What Darwin Never Knew

  December 29, 2009 NOVA (PBS)

  one hundred and fifty years later, scientists decode nature's greatest mysteries

• California Science Center is sued for canceling a film promoting intelligent design

  December 29, 2009 Los Angeles Times

  The American Freedom Alliance says the center bowed to pressure from the Smithsonian. The science center says a news release hadn't been submitted to the museum, violating the contract.

• The shock and awe of creation

  December 29, 2009 MercatorNet

  Are God and evolution really incompatible? Not if you examine the question carefully.

• Whale Evolution? Darwinist 'Trawlers' Have Every Reason To Be Concerned

  December 29, 2009 Robert Deyes Access Research Network (blog)

• What Darwin Never Knew

  December 29, 2009 NOVA (PBS)

  150 years later, scientists decode nature's greatest mysteries

• The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists

  December 29, 2009 Super Scholar

• News Update/Commentary

  Seeing How Evolutionary Mechanisms Yield Biological Diversity

  December 28, 2009 University of Maryland Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Certain Genes Boost Chances for Distributing Variety of Traits, Drive Evolution

  December 26, 2009 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Science Daily

• Pain or prayer? Two ways to grow a religion

  December 24, 2009 New Scientist, n.2739, p.62-64

  some religious rituals are traumatic one-offs, others are soothing and repetitive -- but it's best to stick to one or the other

• Computer-aided design for life itself

  December 24, 2009 New Scientist, n.2739, p.11

  a software package for designing synthetic life forms means you can create virtual organisms and see how they would function

• Evolution Engineered (blog) — looking at the evolution-ID debate from an engineer's perspective

  December 24, 2009

• God and Relativity

  December 24, 2009 ScienceBlog

• "Divine diseases"

  December 24, 2009 Ian Watson Nature, v.462, p.1088

  an act of faith

• "Johannes Kepler on Christmas"

  December 24, 2009 Nature, v.462, p.987

  Kepler's interpretation of the supernova of 1604, De Stella Nova, interwove the science of astronomy with astrology and theology in an attempt to determine the correct birthdate of Jesus

• 100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists

  December 24, 2009 Best Colleges Online

• Researchers claim most distant galaxies yet

  December 24, 2009 Nature News

  deep-field image from Hubble triggers competing reports

• Bad Archaeology

  December 24, 2009 Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews and James Doeser

• 2010 preview: Waiting for ET to phone

  December 23, 2009 New Scientist, n.2739, p.24

  fifty years ago, Frank Drake kick-started the modern search for extraterrestrial life at a radio telescope in West Virginia

• Darwin's Boulders and the human face of induction

  December 23, 2009 David Tyler Access Research Network (blog)

• While Darwin observed evolution, synthetic biologists are learning to control it

  December 23, 2009 Sharon Schmickle MinnPost (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

• Hollywood's latest adventure in pantheism

  December 23, 2009 Ross Douthat Dallas Morning News

  James Cameron's Avatar

• News Update/Commentary

  Fossil Shelved for a Century Reworks Carnivore Family Tree: Limbs Changes Understanding of Early Carnivore Locomotion

  December 23, 2009 American Museum of Natural History Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Australian Fossil Unlocks Secrets to the Origin of Whales

  December 23, 2009 Wiley-Blackwell Science Daily

• Fossil evidence of early reptiles' last meal

  December 23, 2009 Nature News

  insect remains found in the mouths of early vertebrate fossils

• Microbial encyclopaedia guided by evolution

  December 23, 2009 Nature News

  sequencing project reveals microbial cache of protein families

• Fraud and Forgery in Paleoanthropology

  December 23, 2009 Jerry Bergman Answers Research Journal, n.2, p.201-210

• Ancient Tree (Almost) Older Than Dirt

  December 23, 2009 Discovery News

  an unassuming tree in southern California has overcome the test of time by surviving for more than 13,000 years

• News Update/Commentary

  Modern Behavior of Early Humans Found Half-Million Years Earlier Than Thought

  December 22, 2009 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Science Daily

• The Party's Over

  December 22, 2009 Jonathan Wells American Spectator

  Darwin Year is drawing to a close

• Microbes survive 30,000 years inside a salt crystal

  December 22, 2009 Bob Holmes New Scientist, n.2739, p.5

  microbes survived by feeding off the remains of algae that were trapped along with them

• "Fraud rocks protein community"

  December 22, 2009 Nature, v.462, p.970

  university finds that researcher falsified data supporting 11 protein structures

• Blog Post

  Bird-like dinosaur poisoned its prey

  December 22, 2009 Brendan Borrell Nature

• Paleontologists Discover Fanged, Venomous Dinosaur

  December 21, 2009 Fox News (LiveScience)

  using snake-like fangs, saber-toothed dinosaur relatives of velociraptors likely subdued their prey with venom

• 2010 preview: Is this the year that we create life

  December 21, 2009 Peter Aldhous New Scientist, n.2739

• News Update/Commentary

  Bird-like dinosaur was 'venomous'

  December 21, 2009 BBC News

  a bird-like dinosaur that prowled an ancient forest 125 million years ago used venom to subdue its prey

• Groovy teeth, but was Sinornithosaurus a venomous dinosaur?

  December 21, 2009 Ed Yong scienceblogs.com