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• Darwin’s Surprise

  December 3, 2007 Michael Specter New Yorker

  Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct deadly viruses?

• In the Genes

• Official Leaves Post as Texas Prepares to Debate Science Education Standards

  December 3, 2007 Ralph Blumenthal New York Times

• Poll: More Americans Believe in Devil than Darwin

  December 3, 2007 Ethan Cole Christian Post

• Design Was the Issue After All: ISU’s official explanation in Gonzalez case exposed as a sham (Updated)

  December 3, 2007 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Secret ISU Faculty E-mails Express Vitriol Towards Intelligent Design, Disregard for Academic Freedom, and attempts to Hide a Plot to Oust an Outstanding Scientist

  December 3, 2007 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Momentous Find of Dinosaur Mummy with Fossilized Skin and Soft Tissues

  December 3, 2007 National Geographic

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  Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science

  December 3, 2007 Phillip Manning Random House

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• Is creationism museum good for kids?

  December 2, 2007 James K. Willmot Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

  mainstream science dismissed at the new Creation Museum

• Concern Over Scientist's Support for Intelligent Design Surfaced Before Tenure Vote

  December 2, 2007 Chronicle of Higher Education

  public support for the idea of intelligent design damaged an Iowa State University astronomer’s prospects for tenure long before his peers voted against his application

• Fossil hunter digs up climate clues

  December 2, 2007 Douglas Brown Denver Post

  "Johnson grew up in Washington state, in an observant Seventh Day Adventist household."

• Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate: The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues

  December 1, 2007 Kristen Renwick Monroe, Ronald B. Miller, and Jerome Tobis (editors) University of California Press — see also Amazon

• An intelligently designed response

  December 1, 2007 Nature Methods, v.4, n.12, p.983

  scientists are increasingly likely to be called upon to discuss the myth of intelligent design as a scientific theory

• Is misdeed a creation of political doctrine?

  December 1, 2007 American Statesman (Austin, TX)

• Hey Science, Don't Mess with Texas

  December 1, 2007 Zach Marks Yahoo! News — science curriculum director, Chris Comer, forwarded an e-mail announcing a presentation titled, "Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse," by Barbara Forrest

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  Acts & Facts, v.36, n.12 (pdf)

  December 1, 2007 Institute for Creation Research

• Evolutionary 'big bang' gave rise to flowering plants

  December 1, 2007 New Scientist, n.2632, p.21

• Reason or religion

  December 1, 2007 Ron Gibson New Scientist, n.2632, p.25

• An Unauthorized Autobiography of Science

  December 1, 2007 Michael Shermer Scientific American

  journal article explanations of how science works often differ from the actual process

• Evolution in a Petri Dish

  December 1, 2007 Luis Miguel Ariza Scientific American

  in the lab, seeing how infectious disease triggers new species

• Bigfoot Anatomy

  December 1, 2007 Marguerite Holloway Scientific American

  Sasquatch is just a legend, right? According to the evidence, maybe not, argues Jeffrey Meldrum--a position he holds despite ostracism from his fellow anthropologists and university colleagues

• Are Aliens Among Us?

  December 1, 2007 Paul Davies Scientific American

  in pursuit of evidence that life arose on Earth more than once, scientists are searching for microbes that are radically different from all known organisms

• On the Wings of the Albatross

  December 1, 2007 Carl Safina

  National Geographic / carried by the longest wingspans of any bird, they soar for thousands of miles without ever setting webbed foot on land

• Bizarre Dinosaurs

  December 1, 2007 John Updike

  National Geographic / fossil finds are revealing how evolution took some dinosaurs in bizarre directions, from domed skulls to sickle-shaped toenails

• Creation-Evolution Headlines

  December 1, 2007 David F. Coppedge Master Plan Productions

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  Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming

  December 1, 2007 Mark Bowen Dutton (Penguin)

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  Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences

  December 1, 2007 Bernard Lightman University of Chicago Press

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  The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

  December 1, 2007 Ralph O'Connor University of Chicago Press

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• Mummy hair tells gruesome story

  December 1, 2007 Erin Wayman Geotimes

  few people ever witnessed the human sacrifice rituals performed by the Inca high on the snow-covered peaks of the Andes

• Toothy duck-billed dinosaur found

  December 1, 2007 Geotimes

• Controversial Origins: A Discussion With Olaf Bininda-Emonds and John Wible

  December 1, 2007 Geotimes / radiation of placental mammals

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  Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

  December 1, 2007 John Allen Paulos Hill and Wang

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  The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe

  December 1, 2007 Chris Impey Random House

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  Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction

  December 1, 2007 Alex Rosenberg and Daniel W. McShea Routledge

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  Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA

  December 1, 2007 Prometheus Books

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• Israeli Says Elusive Biblical Wall Found

  November 30, 2007 Regan E. Doherty breitbart.com (Associated Press)

  a wall mentioned in the Bible's Book of Nehemiah and long sought by archaeologists apparently has been found

• The creation of a new Giant's Causeway row

  November 30, 2007 Jonathan McCambridge Belfast Telegraph

  report on the creationism versus evolution debate in Ulster ... supporters of the Causeway Creation Committee believe that the Giant's Causeway was created by Noah's flood

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  How Our Ancestors Were Like Gorillas

  November 30, 2007 University College London Science Daily

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  Human Genome Has Four Times More Imprinted Genes Than Previously Identified

  November 30, 2007 Duke University Medical Center Science Daily

• Evolution Debate Led to Ouster, Official Says

  November 30, 2007 New York Times (Associated Press)

• "Is artificial life moving any closer?"

  November 29, 2007 Greg Bear Nature, v.450, p.612

• "The great debate"

  November 29, 2007 Christopher Thomas Scott Nature, v.450, p.611

  today's take on the stem-cell field could recede rapidly in tomorrow's rear-view mirror

• "Modifying theories is the fabric of scientific progress"

  November 29, 2007 Felix E. Schweizer Nature, v.450, p.610

• Obituary: Leslie Orgel (1927–2007)

  November 29, 2007 Gerald F. Joyce Nature, v.450, p.627

  chemist, molecular biologist and pioneer in the study of the origins of life

• "God Delusion" publisher may face prosecution

  November 29, 2007 Daren Butler Reuters

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  Group Selection, a Theory Whose Time Has Come ... Again

  November 29, 2007 University of Chicago Press Journals Science Daily

• Evolution vs. creationism

  November 28, 2007 Kendrick Marshall Lake County News-Sun (Chicago)

  Carmel Catholic High School Principal Robert Carroll has 3.8 million-year-old rocks in his office that he found while vacationing in Minnesota a few years ago

• Backers battle ISU professor's tenure denial

  November 28, 2007 Lisa Rossi Des Moines Register (Iowa)

  the fight will rage on over Iowa State University astronomy professor Guillermo Gonzalez, who advocated for intelligent design, and lost a bid for tenure

• Trading Places

  November 28, 2007 Joseph Bottum Wall Street Journal

  Will the secular left soon attack the religious right for being pro-science?

• Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life

  November 28, 2007 Jessica Riskin (editor) University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon

• The Global Flood as You've Never Seen It

  November 27, 2007 Michael F. Haverluck CBN News

  director of the Center for Scientific Creation, Dr. Walt Brown challenges many of the accepted theories, while offering scientific evidence backing a global flood and a young earth