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• Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal

  October 31, 2008 Zenobia Jacobs, et al. Science, v.322, n.5902, p.733-735

• EVOLUTION: "Two Sets of Cave Bear DNA Uncover the Bear Facts"

  October 31, 2008 Michael Balter Science, v.322, n.5902, p.662

• "Two Legs Good"

  October 31, 2008 Elizabeth Culotta Science, v.322, n.5902, p.670-671

  how our famed ancestor "Lucy's" two-legged gait evolved

• News Update/Commentary

  Predicting Evolution’s Next Best Move with Simulator

  October 31, 2008 Rockefeller University Science Daily

• "Earth science: The sands of tsunami time"

  October 30, 2008 Stein Bondevik Nature, v.455, p.1183-1184

  the scale of the 2004 tsunami that devastated shores around the Indian Ocean has no precedent in written histories of the region, but evidence of similar events has been unearthed from the geological record

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY:

• "Evolutionary biology: Small regulatory RNAs pitch in"

  October 30, 2008 Ulrich Technau Nature, v.455, p.1184-1185

  How did organismal complexity evolve at a cellular level, and how does a genome encode it? The answer might lie in differences, not in the number of genes an organism has, but rather in the regulation of gene expression.

• EDITOR'S SUMMAR

• Archaeologists report finding oldest Hebrew text

  October 30, 2008 Ari Rabinovitch Reuters

• "Modest heroines of time and space"

  October 30, 2008 Patricia Fara Nature, v.455, p.1177-1178

• Yes, Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist

  October 30, 2008 Roddy Bullock Access Research Network (blog)

• The Christian Man's Evolution: How Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist

  October 30, 2008 Sally Lehrman Scientific American

  A geneticist ordained as a Dominican priest, Francisco J. Ayala sees no conflict between Darwinism and faith. Convincing most of the American public of that remains the challenge.

• Ask the Rabbi: Intelligent design?

  October 30, 2008 Schlomo Brody Jerusalem Post

  why don't more Orthodox Jews support the intelligent design movement against evolution

• Supporters of James Ossuary Inscription’s Authenticity Vindicated

  October 30, 2008 Hershel Shanks Biblical Archaeology Review

• Stephen Hawking to address Vatican conference on evolution

  October 30, 2008 Richard Owen Times Online (UK)

  there is no contradiction between creation and science, says Benedict XVI

• Petal power: How flowering plants conquered the world

  October 29, 2008 James O'Donoghue New Scientist, n.2680

  behind that showy floral exterior lies a ruthless evolutionary machine

• Why Einstein was wrong about relativity

  October 29, 2008 Mark Buchanan New Scientist, n.2680

  the special theory of relativity is one of the most successful theories of modern physics -- but one of its assumptions is way off-beam

• Can animals escape the present?

  October 29, 2008 Henry Nicholls New Scientist, n.2680

  do animals ponder the past and contemplate the future

• Popular face of maths to succeed godless Dawkins

  October 29, 2008 Alok Jha Guardian (UK)

• News Update/Commentary

  New Cell Division Mechanism Discovered

  October 29, 2008 Uppsala University Science Daily

• Religion in disguise

  October 29, 2008 Peter McKnight Vancouver Sun

  intelligent design stumbles by revealing itself as religious theory

• Simulator allows scientists to predict evolution’s next best move

  October 29, 2008 Rockefeller University

• 2004 tsunami biggest in 600 years

  October 29, 2008 MSNBC long gap could explain earthquake that launched killer waves

• Ancient tsunami uncovered

  October 29, 2008 Quirin Schiermeier Nature News

  Indian Ocean disaster of 2004 was biggest in more than 600 years

• How does your dinosaur smell?

  October 29, 2008 Matt Kaplan Nature News

  quite well, on the whole

• Creation Debate a Smashing Success!

  October 29, 2008 Jeff Chacon International Teaching Ministry of Douglas Jacoby

  in the large ballroom at the University of Florida, Douglas Jacoby debated the renowned skeptic Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine and columnist for Scientific American, on the subject: Science, Man, God: A Creationism vs. Evolut

• REVIEW: 5 November 2008

  October 29, 2008 New Scientist, n.2681, p.48

• Dinosaur 'mummies' were just thick-skinned

  October 28, 2008 New Scientist, n.2679, p.15

• ‘Dino Pastor’

  October 28, 2008 Bill Devlin Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA)

  a case for creationism as a viable and scientific explanation in the debate on the origin of man

• Evolutionary Science, God and Ethics: Who believes and why?

  October 28, 2008 McGill Reporter (McGill University, Quebec)

• Why America owes a debt to John Muir

  October 28, 2008 Philip Seib Dallas Morning News

• Ten Ways the World Will End

  October 28, 2008 Phil Plait Discover Magazine

  will it be a solar flare or a gamma-ray burst

• Proto-humans mastered fire 790,000 years ago

  October 27, 2008 David Robson New Scientist

• Why did Neanderthals have such big noses?

  October 27, 2008 Ewen Callaway New Scientist

• Penn State graduate student shares knowledge of evolution

  October 27, 2008 Erin Rowley Daily Collegian

• Stephen Hawking to retire

  October 27, 2008 Daniel Cressey Nature blog

• King Solomon's (Copper) Mines?

  October 27, 2008 Inga Kiderra University of California, San Diego

  deep dig finds confluence of science and the Bible

• News Update/Commentary

  Development Puts an End to Evolution of Endless Forms

  October 25, 2008 Public Library of Science Science Daily

• Flunking Spore

  October 24, 2008 John Bohannon Science, v.322, n.5901, p.531

  the blockbuster video game Spore is being marketed as a science-based adventure that brings evolution, cell biology, and even astrophysics to the masses, but after grading the game's science with a team of researchers the Gonzo Scientist has some bad news

• UCF Speakers Series Tackles Evolution Versus Creationism for Darwin's Anniversary

  October 24, 2008 Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala University of Central Florida

  Eugenie Scott, a national expert on the teaching of evolution, will speak on November 3

• Miller's iconic experiments resurface

  October 24, 2008 David Tyler Access Research Network (blog)

• Tiny dino loved veggies--and meat too

  October 24, 2008 Daniel Cressey Nature blog

• A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers

  October 23, 2008 Fucheng Zhang, Zhonghe Zhou, Xing Xu, Xiaolin Wang, and Corwin Sullivan Nature, v.455, p.1105-1108

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Theropod evolution: a trick of the tail feathers

• A look within

  October 23, 2008 Nature, v.455, p.1007-1008

  a series of Essays examines what science has to say about being human

• Being human: Religion: Bound to believe?

  October 23, 2008 Pascal Boyer Nature, v.455, p.1038-1039

  atheism will always be a harder sell than religion because a slew of cognitive traits predispose us to faith

• Astrophysics: How do galaxies form?

  October 23, 2008 Sidney van den Bergh Nature, v.455, p.1049-1051

  prevailing views on the process of galaxy formation could need revision

• "Galaxies appear simpler than expected"

  October 23, 2008 M. J. Disney, J. D. Romano, D. A. Garcia-Appadoo, A. A. West, J. J. Dalcanton, and L. Cortese Nature, v.455, p.1082-1084

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Galactic structure: a simple answer

• Biogeochemistry: Life before the rise of oxygen

  October 23, 2008 Woodward W. Fischer Nature, v.455, p.1051-1052

  The discovery of molecular fossils in 2.7-billion-year-old rocks prompted a re-evaluation of microbial evolution, and of the advent of photosynthesis and rise of atmospheric oxygen. That discovery now comes into question.

• "Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria"

  October 23, 2008 Birger Rasmussen, Ian R. Fletcher, Jochen J. Brocks, and Matt R. Kilburn Nature, v.455, p.1101-1104

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY: The advent of photosynthesis: postponing the event — the organic biomarkers are not of Archaean age and must

• Same Song, Second Verse

  October 23, 2008 Craig M. Story Christianity Today — Rana's anti-evolution arguments are well worn, but his portrait of cells' inner workings conveys the beauty of creation

• Book

  The Cell's Design: How Chemistry Reveals the Creator's Artistry

  October 23, 2008 Fazale Rana Baker Books

  see also Amazon

• Conscientiousness is the secret to a long life

  October 23, 2008 Andy Coghlan New Scientist, n.2679