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Mastodon bonanza for creationist
January 24, 2008 Nature blog
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Lauded China skull find far from the greatest
January 24, 2008 Nature blog
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Longest Piece of Synthetic DNA Yet
January 24, 2008 Scientific American
scientists have created an entire bacterial genome with off-the-shelf chemicals
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"Exceptional occurrence of fossil baleen in shallow marine sediments of the Neogene Pisco Formation, Southern Peru"
January 23, 2008 Raúl Esperante, Leonard Brand, Kevin E. Nick, Orlando Poma, and Mario Urbina
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v.257, n.3, p.344-360
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Creationists launch 'science' journal
January 23, 2008 Nature, v.451, p.382-383
research within a biblical framework to be peer reviewed
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News Update/Commentary
RNA Biology Finding Makes Waves by Challenging Current Thinking
January 23, 2008 Science Daily
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Brown professor defends evolution in South Carolina
January 23, 2008 Brown Daily Herald (Providence, RI)
biology textbook stirs controversy
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Is information essential for life?
January 23, 2008 New Scientist, n.2639
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100,000-year-old human skull found
January 23, 2008 China Daily
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Why Darwinism is So Dangerous
January 23, 2008 Christian Post
Ben Stein, host of a new film on Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism, gives an answer
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A fundamental avian wing-stroke provides a new perspective on the evolution of flight
January 23, 2008 Nature
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All in a flap: New evidence of how birds took to flight
January 23, 2008 physorg.com
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Coal-Fires Science: Ready to Ignite Around the World
January 23, 2008 Geological Society of American, Release No. 08-05
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Islamic science and the long siesta
January 23, 2008 Times Online (UK)
Did scientific progress in the Islamic world really grind to a halt after the twelfth century?
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REVIEW: Bob Lane
January 22, 2008 Metapsychology, v.12, n.4
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News Update/Commentary
'Tree of Life' Has Lost a Branch, According to Largest Genetic Comparison of Higher Life Forms Ever
January 22, 2008 Science Daily
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The Apostles of Atheism and the Confusion of Faith
January 22, 2008 Intellectual Conservative
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Walking with arthropods
January 22, 2008 Access Research Network
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"International genome project launched"
January 22, 2008 Nature, v.451, p.378-379
three-year study will capture variation in 1,000 people
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Evolution a matter of belief, not fact
January 22, 2008 Orlando Sentinel (Florida)
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News Update/Commentary
Aging Stars Give Birth Again
January 22, 2008 Fox News
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Jackson County School Board opposes the teaching of evolution as fact
January 21, 2008 Jackson County Floridan
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Worlds weirdest amphibians
January 21, 2008 Nature blog
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Platypus fossil suggests slow evolution
January 21, 2008 Nature News
Did egg-laying mammals evolve more slowly than other mammals?
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The Tree of Life Has Lost a Branch
January 21, 2008 Apollon (University of Oslo)
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News Update/Commentary
Tiny Genetic Differences Have Huge Consequences
January 20, 2008 Science Daily
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The real danger in Darwin is not evolution, but racism
January 20, 2008 Philadelphia Inquirer
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News Update/Commentary
Secret of Scottish Sheep Evolution Discovered
January 20, 2008 Science Daily
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The New Theology
January 20, 2008 Chicago Tribune
transforming the way people think about God has become a vital mission for a wave of scientists and theologians who want to place the natural world at the forefront of religion
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Evolution's status may be debated by state board
January 19, 2008 Star-Telegram (Texas)
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Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith
January 19, 2008 Ignatius Press see also Amazon
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Theologian links evolution to Christ in 'Chance or Purpose'
January 19, 2008 American-Statesman (Austin, TX)
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The New Theology
January 19, 2008 Chicago Tribune
reconciling the biblical God with Darwin's theories would challenge even an omnipotent being, but a growing number of thinkers and scientists are altering their concept of the deity to make room for evolution
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Is time an illusion?
January 19, 2008 New Scientist, n.2639
the greatest trick the universe ever pulled was convincing us that time exists
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Dinosaur teens were keen on sex
January 19, 2008 New Scientist, n.2639, p.16
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Animal-human embryo research is approved
January 18, 2008 Times Online (UK)
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of Human Genome's 'Guardian' Gives People Unique Protections from DNA Damage
January 18, 2008 Science Daily
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Microevolutionary study reveals pitfalls for adaptationists
January 18, 2008 Access Research Network
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Orion Continues to Surprise
January 18, 2008 Science, v.319, n.5861, p.289-290
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ARCHAEOLOGY: "Just Don't Call It the Garden of Eden"
January 18, 2008 Science, v.319, n.5861, p.280
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"Most-Massive Black Hole Confirms Relativity Rules the Universe"
January 18, 2008 Science, v.319, n.5861, p.271
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Pope pulls out
January 18, 2008 Nature blog
the Pope will not be addressing the University of Rome La Sapienza at the inauguration of its academic year
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First Temple seal found in Jerusalem
January 17, 2008 Jerusalem Post
a stone seal bearing the name of one of the families who acted as servants in the First Temple and then returned to Jerusalem after being exiled to Babylonia has been uncovered in an archeological excavation in Jerusalem's City of David
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"Earth science and society"
January 17, 2008 Nature, v.451, p.301-303
the unique set of challenges that face humankind today mean that it is more essential than ever that Earth scientists apply their understanding of the planet to benefit society and that society invite them to do so
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"Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages"
January 17, 2008 Nature, v.451, p.284-285
much progress has been made towards understanding what caused the waxing and the waning of the great ice sheets, but a complete theory of the ice ages is still elusive
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"From landscapes into geological history"
January 17, 2008 Nature, v.451, p.274-276
Erosional and depositional landscapes are linked by the sediment-routing system. Observations over a wide range of timescales might show how these landscapes are translated into the narrative of geological history.
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A planetary perspective on the deep Earth
January 17, 2008 Nature, v.451, p.261-265
Earth's composition, evolution and structure are in part a legacy of provenance (where it happened to form) and chance (the stochastics of that formation)
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Astronomy: Elliptical view of galaxies past
January 17, 2008 Nature, v.451, p.253-254
How and when galaxies assembled their mass to become the structures seen today are among astronomy's big outstanding questions. A comprehensive study of nearby galaxies provides a new angle on the issue.
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"Restricted access to fossils hinders claim confirmation"
January 17, 2008 Nature, v.451, p.244
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Book
The Good and the Groaning: Evolution, the Problem of Suffering and the Call of Humanity
January 17, 2008 Westminster John Knox Press