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• A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa

  October 26, 2006 Robert W. Gess, Michael I. Coates, and Bruce S. Rubidge Nature, v.443, p.981-984

• Pope Benedict’s New Statements on Evolution and Design

  October 26, 2006 Bruce Chapman Evolution News & Views

  compare with book by two Discovery Fellows

• St. Petersburg court starts investigation of a schoolgirl’s civil suit against teaching of Darwin’s theory

  October 26, 2006 Interfax the Russian Ministry of Education and Science is named a defendant

• Scientists Endorse Candidate Over Teaching of Evolution

  October 26, 2006 Cornelia Dean New York Times

  75 science professors at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have signed a letter endorsing a candidate for the Ohio Board of Education

• The elephant and the event horizon

  October 26, 2006 Amanda Gefter New Scientist, n.2575, p.36-39

  What happens when you throw an elephant into a black hole?

• A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa

  October 26, 2006 Robert W. Gess, Michael I. Coates, and Bruce S. Rubidge Nature, v.443, p.981-984

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Out of the shadows — [a recently discovered lamprey fossil dates from the twilight age of their supposed ance

• Polish scientists fight creationism

  October 26, 2006 Almut Graebsch Nature, v.443, p.890-891

  deputy education minister calls evolution a 'lie'

• Debate continues over dinosaur demise

  October 26, 2006 Kathryn Hansen Geotimes

• Photo in the News: Oldest-Ever Bee Found in Amber

  October 25, 2006 Brian Handwerk National Geographic News

• Evolution Debate at Center of Ohio Board of Education Race

  October 25, 2006 Scott Stephens Newhouse News Service

• The Rev Arthur Peacocke

  October 25, 2006 Telegraph (UK)

  Peacocke, who died on Saturday, made a significant contribution to understanding the structure of DNA during his early career as a scientist, though he became better known, after his ordination as an Anglican priest, as a leading advocate of the propositi

• Older embryos can survive stem-cell extraction

  October 25, 2006 Helen Pearson Nature (news@nature)

  mouse study suggests stem-cell work could be made more efficient

• Big bird had swift legs

  October 25, 2006 Helen Pearson Nature (news@nature)

  fossil find reveals 'terror bird' was fast on its feet

• Delusions of faith as a science

  October 25, 2006 Henry Gee Nature (news@nature)

  Dawkins's attempt to test the existence of God is as silly as using logic to tear down Santa Claus in the eyes of a child

• Scientists suffer human-rights abuses

  October 25, 2006 Heidi Ledford Nature (news@nature)

  around the world, researchers are being harassed, imprisoned and murdered

• Moon and rain could mean quakes

  October 25, 2006 New Scientist, n.2574, p.17

• Honeybees have their genome sequenced

  October 25, 2006 Bob Holmes New Scientist, n.2575, p.13

• Quebec Government Forcing Evangelical Private Schools to Teach Sex Ed, Darwinism

  October 24, 2006 Gudrun Schultz Life Site News

  schools will be shut down if they do not comply with order, regardless of religious beliefs

• Mass Extinctions: New Approaches Analyzing Process Links Between Land and Sea (Session 137)

  October 24, 2006 David J. Bottjer and Peter D. Ward (presiding) Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia

• Evidence for Long-Term Survival of Microorganisms and Preservation of DNA (Session 125)

  October 24, 2006 Tim K. Lowenstein, Michael N. Timofeeff, and Brian A. Schubert (presiding) Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia

• Paper No. 125-9 --- Geologically Ancient DNA: Fact or Artefact? / Martin Bay Hebsgaard and Eske Willerslev

• Why There Almost Certainly Is No God (500 comments)

  October 23, 2006 Huffington Post

• Sunflower speciation highlights roles for transposable elements in evolution

  October 23, 2006 contact: Heidi Hardman EurekAlert!

• Truth in Science Material

  October 23, 2006 British Centre for Science Education

  Non-believers must be challenged in such a way that they can no longer hide behind the delusion that science has disproved the existence of God. "Truth in Science" seeks to encourage scientists to present the truth fairly and to expose as charlatans those

• Normally low-profile contest in spotlight

  October 22, 2006 Scott Stephens Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)

  evolution debate at center of state school board race

• God knows why faith is thriving

  October 22, 2006 Dinesh D'Souza San Francisco Chronicle, p.E-3

  a group of leading atheists is puzzled by the continued existence and vitality of religion

• Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

  October 21, 2006 Hank Tippins Observer News (Florida)

• Half-life heresy: Accelerating radioactive decay

  October 21, 2006 New Scientist, n.2574

  there's nothing you can do to hurry radioactive decay, the textbooks will tell you, but a physicist begs to differ

• Biologists want to drop the word 'cloning'

  October 21, 2006 New Scientist, n.2574, p.7

• A passionate atheist's case against religion

  October 20, 2006 Jim Holt International Herald Tribune

• News Update/Commentary

  Faces of the week: Charles Darwin

  October 20, 2006 BBC News

• LETTERS: "The Danger of Mathematical Models"

  October 20, 2006 Keith Backman Science, v.314, n.5798, p.419

• PHYSICS: "Voilà! Cloak of Invisibility Unveiled"

  October 20, 2006 Adrian Cho Science, v.314, n.5798, p.403

• The God Delusion

  October 20, 2006 Marilynne Robinson Harper's Magazine

  a review of Richard Dawkin's new book

• Scientists prove that parts of cell nuclei are not arranged at random

  October 20, 2006 PhysOrg.com

• Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching

  October 19, 2006 Terry Eagleton London Review of Books, v.28, n.20

• Evolution debate is state school board campaign issue

  October 19, 2006 Meredith Heagney Contra Costa Times, CA (Associated Press)

• Evangelicals Ally With Democrats on Environment

  October 19, 2006 Stephanie Simon Los Angeles Times

  religious leaders hope the global-warming campaign sends a message to the GOP

• Charles Darwin's works go online

  October 19, 2006 Daily Telegraph (Australia) — the complete works of Charles Darwin will be available on the internet over the next two years as part of a project described as the first of its kind

• The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

  October 19, 2006

• States supporting removal of intelligent design in classrooms

  October 19, 2006 Jamie Smith Daily Vidette (Illinois State University)

• "Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny"

  October 19, 2006 Timothy Y. James, et al. Nature, v.443, p.818-822

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY: First fungi — [an international consortium of researchers has produced an impressive new tree of life for the

• "Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe"

  October 19, 2006 Clive Finlayson, et al. Nature, v.443, p.850-853

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Rock on — [apparently Neanderthals survived in southern Iberia long after all other well-dated occurrences of

• Evolutionary biologist discusses probability of intelligent design

  October 17, 2006 Darla Slipke University Daily Kansan — Richard Dawkins discussed his book, The God Delusion, and said that although evolution seems improbable, it's not impossible, and that natural selection is the only logical answer for creation.

• Fossils of Dwarf Water Buffalo Found

  October 17, 2006 John Noble Wilford New York Times

• News Update/Commentary

  Human species 'may split in two'

  October 17, 2006 BBC News

  humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by H. G. Wells

• News Update/Commentary

  West Australian Fossil Find Rewrites Land Mammal Evolution

  October 17, 2006 Monash University Science Daily

• Renowned Scientist Defects from Belief in Global Warming -- Caps Year of Vindication for Skeptics

  October 17, 2006 contacts: Marc Morano and Matt Dempsey U. S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

• Light at the end of the tunnel

  October 17, 2006 Douglas Fox New Scientist, n.2573

  near-death experiences aren't just the preserve of the dying -- everyone can have one

• Magazine Article

  Element 118 Discovered Again--for the First Time

  October 17, 2006 J. R. Minkel Scientific American

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists Claim Creation of Element 118, for Second Time

  October 17, 2006 Fox News