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• 'Overwhelming' evidence for monopoles

  September 3, 2009 Nature News

  multiple experiments reveal materials with single points of north and south

• "Radiohalos in the Cooma Metamorphic Complex, New South Wales, Australia"

  September 2, 2009 originally published in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creationism, p.371-387

  the mode and rate of regional metamorphism

• 13 more things that don't make sense

  September 2, 2009 Michael Brooks

• Hybrid life

  the fusion of two distinct evolutionary lines is not supposed to work -- but the seas are teeming with chimeras that prove

• Martian meteorite may have held life

  September 2, 2009 New Scientist, n.2724, p.17

  the debate over whether a rock from Mars found in Antarctica contains fossils is reopened by an analysis of the minerals in the meteorite

• Trick of the light made life's molecules left-handed

  September 2, 2009 New Scientist, n.2724, p.12

  the solution to the mystery of why life prefers left-handed proteins and amino acids could lie in a layer of bizarre matter in the upper atmosphere

• Earth-sized planets are just right for life

  September 2, 2009 New Scientist, n.2724, p.12

  a study of plate tectonics and magnetic fields on rocky planets shows why Earth is the right size for these processes to occur, making it amenable to life

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  Discovery of Novel Genes Could Unlock Mystery of What Makes Us Uniquely Human

  September 2, 2009 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Science Daily

• Irish Researchers Sleuth Out Unique Human Genes Originating from Non-Coding DNA

  September 2, 2009 GenomeWeb Daily News

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  We're all mutants, say scientists

  September 2, 2009 BBC News

  each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology

• Human-only genes found

  September 2, 2009 The Scotsman (Edinburgh)

  three genes that are "uniquely human" and not shared by chimpanzees have been identified by scientists

• The law-abiding Universe

  September, 2009 Mark Buchanan Nature Physics

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  The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

  September 1, 2009 Free Press (Simon & Schsuter)

  see also Amazon

• The Origins of the Origins Issue

  September 1, 2009 Mariette DiChristina

• The Origin of: Computing / Martin Campbell-Kelly

  the information age began with the realization that machines could emulate the power of minds

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  No Such Thing As Ethnic Groups, Genetically Speaking

  September 1, 2009 Science Daily

  more genetic differences within ethnic groups than between them, indicating that separate 'ethnic groups' exist in the mind more than the blood

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  Acts & Facts, v.38, n.9 (pdf)

  September 1, 2009 Institute for Creation Research

• Creating Controversy

  September 1, 2009 Jack Stripling Inside Higher Ed

• Well, that was predictable

  September 1, 2009 Uncommon Descent

  both Sean Carroll and Carl Zimmer have resigned as contributors from Bloggingheadstv.com (BhTV)

• Young Earth Creationist, John P. Marcus

  September 1, 2009 Christian Worldview Examiner

  evolution is like a fairy tale sprinkled with science

• Molecular 'Chevaliers' Rattle the Darwin-faithful

  September 1, 2009 Robert Deyes Access Research Network (blog)

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  Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings

  September 1, 2009 Princeton University Press

  see also Amazon

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  The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

  September 1, 2009 Bantam Press (Simon & Schuster)

  see also Amazon

• A Look at Intelligent Evolution

  September 1, 2009 Ed Gungor Relevant Magazine

• Blown Away

  September 1, 2009 Dan Peterson American Spectator

  review of:

• Sex, flies and videotape: the secret lives of Harun Yahya

  September 1, 2009 Humanist, v.124, n.5

  inspired by the high profile of its Christian American counterpart, Muslim creationism is becoming increasingly visible and confident

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  The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

  September 1, 2009 Bantam Press (Simon & Schuster)

  see also Amazon

• REVIEW: 19 September 2009

  September 1, 2009 New Scientist, n.2726, p.50

  careful reading leaves you feeling you could easily wake up in a post-pandemic apocalyptic world

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  The Year of the Flood

  September 1, 2009 Random House

  God's Gardeners -- a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion; see also Amazon

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  Breaking the Ice Age Myth

  September 1, 2009 Beata Smith Winepress Pub.

• The Complicated World of Ancient Humans

  September 1, 2009 Discover Magazine

  recent digs show long-distance trade and complex social structures were around for longer than archaeologists thought

• Creation-Evolution Headlines

  September 1, 2009 David F. Coppedge Master Plan Productions

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  The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

  September 1, 2009 Oxford University Press

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  The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason

  September 1, 2009 Victor J. Stenger

  Prometheus Books — see also

  "Fast octopus fossils reveal no evolution"

  September 1, 2009 Garry Graham Creation, v.31, n.4, p.40-41

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  Did Time Begin? Will Time End?: Maybe the Big Bang Never Occurred

  September 1, 2009 World Scientific

  see also Amazon

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  Exploring the Origin, Extent, and Future of Life: Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Perspectives

  September 1, 2009 Cambridge University Press

  see also Amazon

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  Megaflooding on Earth and Mars

  September 1, 2009 Cambridge University Press

  see also Amazon

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  Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will

  September 1, 2009 Springer

  see also Amazon and

  Ontong Java Plateau eruption as a trigger for the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event

  September 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.9, p.855-858

  strengthens and explores the correlation between Oceanic Anoxic Event 1 and the Ontong Java large igneous province

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  Model Suggests How Life's Code Emerged from Primordial Soup

  August 31, 2009 Rockefeller University Science Daily

• (Un)wired for God

  August 31, 2009 Sharon Begley Newsweek

  religious beliefs may not be innate

• Marking a Centenary for the Burgess Shale fossils

  August 30, 2009 David Tyler Access Research Network (blog)

• PALEONTOLOGY: "Much Hype and Many Errors"

  August 28, 2009 Richard F. Kay Science, v.325, n.5944, p.1074-1075

  this account of Darwinius masillae, its discovery, and its importance was rushed into print as part of the hype surrounding the public announcement of the work

• Single molecule, one million times smaller than a grain of sand, pictured for first time

  August 28, 2009 Claire Bates Daily Mail (UK)

• "On the Origin and Spread of an Adaptive Allele in Deer Mice"

  August 28, 2009 Science, v.325, n.5944, p.1095-1098

  the light coat-color variant in deer mice is a mutation selected for its adaptive value for living in sand hills

• Flourishing After the End-Permian Mass Extinction

  August 28, 2009 Charles R. Marshall and David K. Jacobs Science, v.325, n.5944, p.1079-1080

  cephalopods, which live in the water column, recovered much faster from the end-Permian mass extinction than did bottom-dwelling fauna

• "Good Genes and Good Luck: Ammonoid Diversity and the End-Permian Mass Extinction"

  August 28, 2009 Science, v.325, n.5944, p.1118-1121

  in contrast to other groups, ammonoid diversity recovered within 1 million years of the end-Permian extinction to levels higher than before

• Human-chimp interbreeding challenged

  August 28, 2009 Nature News

  mutation rates may be explained by differences in female promiscuity

• Jacksonville Conference Confronts Creation-Evolution Debate

  August 27, 2009 Institute for Creation Research Christian Newswire

• Small fluctuations in solar activity, large influence on the climate

  August 27, 2009 physorg.com

• Did two species mix to make butterflies?

  August 27, 2009 New Scientist, n.2723, p.12

  ancient hybridisation between an insect and a worm-like creature may have led to the near-magical transformation from caterpillar to butterfly