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• The Neanderthal within

  March 3, 2007 Dan Jones New Scientist, n.2593

  Did our ancestors interbreed with other species of human?

• Reading fiction with Darwin's eyes

  March 3, 2007 Jonathan Gottschall New Scientist, n.2593

  you cannot understand a story without understanding human nature, so literary critics should take their lead from evolutionary biology

• Interview: How we tell right from wrong

  March 3, 2007 Ivan Semeniuk New Scientist, n.2593

  our ability to make lightning moral judgments shows we are born with an innate moral faculty, argues Marc Hauser -- now let's talk good and evil

• Inside inflation: after the big bang

  March 3, 2007 Peter Coles New Scientist, n.2593

• A taste for milk shows evolution in action

  March 3, 2007 Roxanne Khamsi New Scientist, n.2593

  the adult northern Europeans' ability to digest milk appeared in the last 7000 years -- perhaps the first direct evidence of natural selections at work in modern humans

• Wild chimps use spears to hunt bush babies

  March 3, 2007 Rowan Hooper New Scientist, n.2593

  the latest revelation from the savannah destroys yet another cherished notion of human uniqueness

• Books on Atheism Are Raising Hackles in Unlikely Places

  March 3, 2007 Peter Steinfels New York Times

• A tale from a crypt

  March 2, 2007 Answers in Genesis — a preliminary comment

• Has James Cameron Found Jesus's Tomb or Is It Just a Statistical Error?

  March 2, 2007 Christopher Mims Scientific American — should you accept the 600-to-one odds that the Talpiot Tomb belonged to Jesus

• "Emulating Membrane Protein Evolution by Rational Design"

  March 2, 2007 Mikaela Rapp, Susanna Seppälä, Erik Granseth, and Gunnar von Heijne Science, v.315, n.5816, p.1282-1284

  stepwise modifications to a drug efflux pump show how the bacterial dimeric pump may have evolved through duplication and inversion of an ancestral protein domain

• "Halwaxiids and the Early Evolution of the Lophotrochozoans"

  March 2, 2007 Simon Conway Morris and Jean-Bernard Caron Science, v.315, n.5816, p.1255-1258

  a new species from the Burgess Shale unites two enigmatic groups important in the early evolution of bilateria and implies that mollusks diverged early in the Cambrian

• BIOCHEMISTRY: "A Missing Link in Membrane Protein Evolution"

  March 2, 2007 Bert Poolman, Eric R. Geertsma, and Dirk-Jan Slotboom Science, v.315, n.5816, p.1229-1231

• Spiky oddball prowled ocean half billion years ago

  March 2, 2007 Will Dunham Yahoo! News (Reuters)

• Lawmaker questions evolution

  March 2, 2007 Erik Schelzig Washington Times (Associated Press)

  Tennessee state Sen. Raymond Finney sponsored a resolution to ask the Education Commissioner whether the universe "has been created or has merely happened by random, unplanned and purposeless occurrences"

• Intelligent Design Conference to Address Nationwide School Disputes

  March 2, 2007 Doug Huntington Christian Post

  Lutheran Wartburg College will be holding an intelligent design conference later this month

• Higgs boson: Glimpses of the God particle

  March 2, 2007 Anil Ananthaswamy New Scientist, n.2593, p.8-11

• Polystrate Fossils Require Rapid Deposition

  March, 2007 Michael J. Oard and Hank Giesecke Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.43, n.3, p.232-240

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  Something There: The Biology of the Human Spirit

  March 1, 2007 David Hay Templeton Foundation Press

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• "What Is Wrong with Intelligent Design?" (pdf)

  March 1, 2007 Elliott Sober Quarterly Review of Biology, v.82, n.1, p.3-8

• What Darwin didn’t know

  March 1, 2007

• Cosmic Variance

  March 1, 2007

• ASTROPHYSICS: Black Hole Blowback

  March 1, 2007 Wallace Tucker, Harvey Tananbaum, and Andrew Fabian Scientific American

  a single black hole, smaller than the solar system, can control the destiny of an entire cluster of galaxies

• PHYSICS: Alone at the Top

  March 1, 2007 Alexander Hellemans Scientific American

  closer to god: Fermilab makes solo top quarks

• Mapping the Cancer Genome

  March 1, 2007 Francis S. Collins and Anna D. Barker Scientific American

  pinpointing the genes involved in cancer will help chart a new course across the complex landscape of human malignancies

• Space Travel? Shields UP!

  March 1, 2007 David F. Coppedge Back to Genesis (Institute for Creation Research)

• "How Will the Present Earth Pass Away?"

  March 1, 2007 John Morris Back to Genesis (Institute for Creation Research)

• Scientific Discoveries Continue to Erode Darwinism

  March 1, 2007 Frank Sherwin Back to Genesis (Institute for Creation Research)

• Flood Geology and Intelligent Design

  March 1, 2007 William Hoesch Back to Genesis (Institute for Creation Research)

• The Code of Life: Little Words, Big Message

  March 1, 2007 Daniel Criswell Impact, n.405 (Institute for Creation Research)

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  March 1, 2007 Acts & Facts, v.36, n.3 (Institute for Creation Research)

• Mission to Study Earth's Gaping 'Open Wound'

  March 1, 2007 Ker Than Live Science

  a voyage to study the Atlantic seafloor where the Earth’s deep interior lies exposed without any crust covering

• Ancient Prickly Bugs Discovered

  March 1, 2007 Jeanna Bryner Live Science

• Constitutionality of creationism resolution questioned

  March 1, 2007 Erik Schelzig Florida Times-Union

• A question of faith, not science

  March 1, 2007 Bristol Herald Courier (TN/VA) — an East Tennessee lawmaker seeks to put the state’s education commissioner on the hot seat

• What if Humans were Designed to Last?

  March 1, 2007 S. Jay Olshansky, Robert N. Butler, and Bruce A. Carnes The Scientist, v.21, n.3, p.28

• Dr. Dobson, Evangelical Leaders Challenge Global-Warming Rhetoric

  March 1, 2007 citizenlink (Focus on the Family)

  letter urges National Association of Evangelicals to restrain its D.C. spokesman

• Bacterial fossils and microbial dolomite in Triassic stromatolites

  March 1, 2007 Edoardo Perri and Maurice Tucker Geology, v.35, n.3, p.207-210

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  Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves

  March 1, 2007 Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall Texas A&M University Press

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• Scientists probe 'hole in Earth'

  March 1, 2007 BBC News — scientists are to sail to the mid-Atlantic to examine a massive "open wound" on the Earth's surface

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  Almost Human: Making Robots Think

  March 1, 2007 Lee Gutkind W. W. Norton

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  Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism

  March 1, 2007   Andrew J. Petto and Laurie R. Godfrey (editors) W. W. Norton

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• Kingdom of Love

  March 1, 2007 Rikki Hall Metro Pulse, v.17, n.13 (Knoxville, TN)

  creationists drop religion for intelligence

• Sisters High School biology teacher fired amid controversial curriculum

  March 1, 2007 Alisha Wilson Bend Weekly (Oregon)

  Kris Helphinstine, a part-time biology teacher at Sisters High School, was fired for deviating from the curriculum on the theory of evolution

• Eugenics — view

• Cosmic Explosions

  March 1, 2007 National Geographic supernova -- the cataclysmic death of stars

• Creation-Evolution Headlines

  March 1, 2007 David F. Coppedge Master Plan Productions

• Did animals escape to higher ground?

  March 1, 2007 Earth History (UK) a critique of The Genesis Flood and ecological zonation theory

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  Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives

  March 1, 2007 David Sloan Wilson Delacorte Press (Random House)

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• Earthquakes: New Madrid fault dying?

  March 1, 2007 Carolyn Gramling Geotimes

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  From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution

  March 1, 2007 Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein (editors) MIT Press

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  The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

  March 1, 2007 Stuart Clark Princeton University Press

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