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• Scientist finds fossilized claw of man-sized sea scorpion

  November 21, 2007 CNN (Associated Press)

• Mankind 'shortening the universe's life'

  November 21, 2007 Roger Highfield Telegraph (UK)

• Sunday School for Atheists

  November 21, 2007 Jeninne Lee-St. John Time

• Giant sea scorpion discovered

  November 21, 2007 Daniel Cressey Nature News

  two-and-a-half metre arthropod prowled ancient rivers

• "The Design of Life" is out

  November 20, 2007 Tom Magnuson Access Research Network

• More stasis in amber: the Compsocidae

  November 20, 2007 David Tyler Access Research Network (blog)

• Rocks Around the Clock (DVD)

  November 20, 2007 Creation on the Web

  geological ‘anomalies’ that secular scientists avoid … because they conflict with the idea of evolution!

• News Update/Commentary

  Skin transformed into stem cells

  November 20, 2007 BBC News

  human skin cells have been reprogrammed by two groups of scientists to mimic embryonic stem cells with the potential to become any tissue in the body

• Race to mimic human embryonic stem cells

  November 20, 2007 David Cyranoski Nature News

  'personalized' tissues come a step closer

• Evolution News & Views

  November 19, 2007 Casey Luskin Discovery Institute

• Book

  The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems

  November 19, 2007 William A. Dembski and Jonathan Wells Foundation for Thought and Ethics

• Wikipedia
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  Evolution Is Deterministic, Not Random, Biologists Conclude from Multi-species Study

  November 19, 2007   New York University Science Daily

• Noah’s flood brought farming to Europe

  November 19, 2007 Daniel Cressey Nature blog

• Are Aliens Among Us?

  November 19, 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

• Cosmic-ray source still in doubt

  November 19, 2007 Katharine Sanderson Nature News

  high-energy cosmic rays might not be from active galactic nuclei after all

• Polk School Board Leans Toward Inclusion of Intelligent Design

  November 19, 2007 John Chambliss The Ledger (Lakeland, FL)

• News Update/Commentary

  'Time-sharing' Tropical Birds Key to Evolutionary Mystery

  November 19, 2007 Queen's University Science Daily

• Evolution wars take a bizarre twist

  November 18, 2007 New Scientist, n.2630, p.7

• Give thanks for a nation of tolerance and faith

  November 18, 2007 Thomas F. Dailey Morning Call (Pennsylvania)

• Book

  The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

  November 18, 2007 Ray Kurzweil Penguin

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• MOVIE

• Norman Mailer on God

  November 17, 2007 Times Online (UK) — Norman Mailer's final book takes the form of a conversation with his fellow writer Michael Lennon exploring the nature of Mailer’s typically idiosyncratic belief in God. Our exclusive extract begins with his thoughts on the creator’s p

• Fossil find changes evolutionary beliefs

  November 17, 2007 Alex Rodriguez Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) 

  new human fossils found in Georgia, north of Africa, have some rethinking migration of early man

• REVIEW: 29 September 2008

  November 17, 2007 Telegraph (UK) — it wasn't only the Romantic poets who had a sense of the sublime; the age's scientists did too

• Biased Judgment: Comments on NOVA TV’s Judgment Day and its analysis of the Dover ID Trial

  November 16, 2007 David A. DeWitt Answers in Genesis

• Evolution lecture hits on middle ground

  November 16, 2007 Morgan Brief Daily Campus (Southern Methodist University)

  cellular biologist Kenneth Miller gave a speech on what the collapse of intelligent design means for science and faith in America in his lecture entitled, "Is it Time to Abandon Darwin?"

• Dolly creator Prof Ian Wilmut shuns cloning

  November 16, 2007 Roger Highfield Telegraph (UK)

• INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUES: "A Robotic Future"

  November 16, 2007 Marc S. Lavine, David Voss, and Robert Coontz Science, v.318, n.5853, p.1083

• Sun loses crown as biggest body in the Solar System

  November 16, 2007 Michael Hopkin Nature News

  Comet Holmes is now bigger than the Sun. So are we doomed or is there a more mundane explanation?

• Dinosaur of the Day: a ‘Flintstones lawnmower’

  November 16, 2007 Daniel Cressey Nature blog

• Analysis confronts model of universe’s formation

  November 16, 2007 Jon Cartwright Physics World

• A sixth mass extinction?

  November 15, 2007 Chris D. Thomas Nature, v.450, p.349

  past species losses have much to teach us about current and future declines due to human activity

• Jornadas de Creación, Evolución y Educación

  November 15, 2007 Universidad Adventista del Plata (Libertador San Martín, Entre Ríos, Argentina)

• Scientists Use Monkey Clones to Extract Stem Cells

  November 15, 2007 Gina Kolata New York Times

• Research in Creation

  November 15, 2007 creation science publication and online article database

• A runaway collision in a young star cluster as the origin of the brightest supernova

  November 15, 2007 Simon F. Portegies Zwart and Edward P. J. van den Heuvel Nature, v.450, p.388-389

  EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Collision course

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  Humans and Chimps Differ at Level of Gene Splicing

  November 15, 2007 University of Toronto Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Ancient Retroviruses Spurred Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks in Humans and Other Primates

  November 15, 2007 University of California, Santa Cruz Science Daily

• Dinosaur discovered after a century on the shelf

  November 15, 2007 Michael Hopkin Nature News

  new sauropod genus lay unappreciated in London museum basement for 113 years

• Blurring our edges

  November 15, 2007 Judy Illes Nature, v.450, p.351-352

• Iconoclastic to the end

  November 15, 2007 Glenn C. Altschuler Jerusalem Post

• Did a Comet Cause the Great Flood?

  November 15, 2007 Scott Carney Discover Magazine

  the universal human myth may be the first example of disaster reporting

• Does science make belief in God obsolete?

  November 15, 2007 Steven Pinker, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, William D. Phillips, Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, Mary Midgley, Robert Sapolsky, Christopher Hitchens, Keith Ward, Victor J. Stenger, Jerome Groopman, Michael Shermer, Kenneth R. Miller, Stuart Kauffman John Templeton Foundation

  the third in a series of conversations among leading scientists and scholars about the "Big Questions"

• Powerful Quake Hits Northern Chile

  November 14, 2007 Maria Newman New York Times

• Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

  November 14, 2007 Roger Highfield Telegraph (UK)

  an impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists

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  Changing Environment Organizes Genetic Structure

  November 14, 2007 Rice University Science Daily

• A Tale of Two Chromosomes

  November 14, 2007 Jean K. Lightner Answers in Genesis

• Conservatism's Unintelligent Design

  November 14, 2007 Greg Anrig, Jr. TPM Cafe (blog)

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  Times Magazine Piece on Former Atheist Kicks Up Controversy

  November 14, 2007 Lynn Garrett Publishers Weekly

  British philosopher Flew--perhaps the highest-profile atheist of his generation--articulates his change of heart

• New great ape fossil

  November 14, 2007 Daniel Cressey Nature blog

• Cloned monkey stem cells produced

  November 14, 2007 David Cyranoski Nature News

  stem cells extracted from cloned primate embryos