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• Does Anyone Understand Genesis?

  September 24, 2006 Herman Cummings The Conservative Voice

• Magical underground world

  September 24, 2006 Chuck Squatriglia San Francisco Chronicle

  just-discovered cave in Sequoia National Park (California) said to house astounding rock formations, clues to region's geologic history

• Baylor boot

  September 23, 2006 Mark Bergin World Magazine

  academia is no friend to conservative Christian views -- even at a Southern Baptist university

• Confirmation, Induction and Science (conference)

  September 23, 2006 London School of Economics and Center for Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh

• Book

  The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin

  September 23, 2006 Keith E. Stanovich University of Chicago Press

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• Debate over man's origin grows

  September 23, 2006 Carrie A. Moore Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City, UT)

• OSU’s Horton Lecture Series starts back up with evolution talk

  September 23, 2006 Corvallis Gazette-Times (Oregon)

  speakers at Oregon State University: Eugenie Scott, Ronald Numbers, Edward Larson, David Kaiser, John Dupre, and James Moore

• Oldest writing of the New World discovered

  September 23, 2006 Jeff Hecht New Scientist, n.2570

  a 3000-year-old inscribed slab, dating back to the Olmec period, nearly ended up as landfill in a Mexican road

• Pregnant Prehistoric Fossil Offers Clues to Past

  September 22, 2006 physorg.com

• Ancient birds flew on all-fours

  September 22, 2006 contact: Grady Semmens EurekAlert!

  bird flight evolved using front and hind limbs as wings, new fossil study argues

• DeVos' true colors pop out

  September 22, 2006 Eric Baerren Morning Sun (Mt. Pleasant, MI)

• PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: "Lucy's 'Child' Offers Rare Glimpse of an Ancient Toddler"

  September 22, 2006 Ann Gibbons Science, v.313, n.5794, p.1716

• EDITORIAL: "Genetic Testing Oversight"

  September 22, 2006 p.1853

• BOOKS: "An Ointment for the Fly"

  September 22, 2006 p.1892

• "Genomics and the Tree of Life"

  September 22, 2006 p.1897-1899

• "Mining the Molecules That Made Our Mind"

  September 22, 2006 p.1908-1911

• "Casting a Genetic Light on the Evolution of Eyes"

  September 22, 2006 p.1914-1918

• "Genomic Evolution of Hox Gene Clusters"

  September 22, 2006 p.1918-1922

• "Gene Regulatory Networks in the Evolution and Development of the Heart"

  September 22, 2006 p.1922-1927

• Adapting Itself Into Oblivion?

  September 21, 2006 Mary Beckman Science NOW Daily News

• Believers say atheism no longer a 'dirty word'

  September 21, 2006 Rebecca Rosen Lum Contra Costa Times (California)

• Do the laws of nature last forever?

  September 21, 2006 Lee Smolin New Scientist, n.2570

  the universe might make more sense if they don't

• A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia

  September 21, 2006 Zeresenay Alemseged, Fred Spoor, William H. Kimbel, René Bobe, Denis Geraads, Denné Reed, and Jonathan G. Wynn Nature, v.443, p.296-301

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY: The child of her time — [the skeleton of a three-year-old child provides an outstanding resource to understan

• Palaeoanthropology: The history man

  September 21, 2006 Rex Dalton Nature, v.443, p.268-269

  Maurice Taieb laid the groundwork for the discovery of Lucy, the most famous fossil human ancestor

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Desert memories

• Dinosaur's reputation challenged

  September 20, 2006 BBC News a US study has bruised the fearsome reputation of a popular dinosaur

• Scientific Evidence Does Not Prove All

  September 20, 2006 Babu Ranganathan Excalibur (York University, Canada)

  science is not the only useful tool in explaining origins of life

• Second World Conference on the Future of Science

  September 20, 2006 Venice, Italy

• DeVos: Science teachers should be allowed to present intelligent design

  September 20, 2006 Chris Christoff and Lori Higgins Detroit Free Press

• The amazing fossil of 'Lucy's little sister'

  September 20, 2006 Jeff Hecht New Scientist, n.2570, p.8

• Scientists Are Born, Not Made

  September 19, 2006 Greg Blonder Business Week

• Experts Reject Validity of Intelligent Design Theory

  September 19, 2006 William Tomlin Emory Wheel (Emory University)

• Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark?

  September 19, 2006 Gerry Chudleigh Pacific Union Conference

• Life is a Devil's Bargain: Cancer or Aging

  September 18, 2006 Ker Than Live Science

• Shark that walks on fins is discovered

  September 18, 2006 Michael Casey Yahoo! News

• An Evolving Faith

  September 18, 2006 Kenneth Silber TCS Daily (Technology, Commerce, Society)

  Angela Rawlett wants to study biology to be a veterinarian, but this will involve studying evolution, which seems to be in conflict with her Christian faith

• Teaching Creationism an intelligent plan

  September 18, 2006 Jeffrey Padgett Western Courier (Western Illinois University)

• Scientists on Religion

  September 18, 2006 George Johnson Scientific American

  theist and materialist ponder the place of humanity in the universe

• Educators await decision on science courses

  September 17, 2006 Jeffrey Joe Pe-Aguirre South Bend Tribune (Indiana)

  State Board of Education to decide curriculum in October

• Deaf to the divine

  September 17, 2006 Stephanie Ramage Sunday Paper (Atlanta)

  Thanks to rapid advancement in science, American life is more convenient and controllable than ever. So where does God fit in?

• Masters of the universe

  September 17, 2006 Tim Adams Guardian Unlimited (UK)

  What is the purpose of existence? Is there an afterlife? Is there anyone else out there? It's not every day we confront the big questions about life, the universe and everything. But, seizing on our increased interest in this search for meaning, three of

• Pope's speech at University of Regensburg

  September 17, 2006 Catholic World News

  the following is the prepared text from which Pope Benedict XVI spoke as he addressed an academic audience at the University of Regensburg on September 12

• Island creatures evolve to be great and small

  September 16, 2006 New Scientist, n.2569, p.17

  For years, it was assumed that evolution must speed up to produce such variety so rapidly. Now, for the first time, biologists have found empirical evidence that this happens.

• The Big Bang fails another test

  September 15, 2006 John Hartnett Creation Ministries International

  the ‘background echo of the big bang' was supposed to cast a shadow -- but only if it is really true that this radiation is coming from far away

• Students, Beware Professor Osama

  September 15, 2006 Rosa Brooks Los Angeles Times

  fear-mongering conservatives are on their perennial crusade to purge universities of liberal professors

• Mild Climate, Lack of Moderns Let Last Neandertals Linger in Gibraltar

  September 15, 2006 Michael Balter Science, v.313, n.5793, p.1557

• GEOCHEMISTRY: "Radiocarbon Dating's Final Frontier"

  September 15, 2006 Michael Balter Science, v.313, n.5793, p.1560-1563

• Germans reconsider religion

  September 15, 2006 Christa Case Christian Science Monitor

  Pope Benedict XVI's challenge to secularism meets with receptivity during his German visit

• World`s oldest webbed bird footprint found in South Korea

  September 15, 2006 Angola Press

• Neanderthals May Have Hung On Longer Than Thought

  September 14, 2006 Charles Q. Choi Fox News (Live Science)

• Liberty Baptist hosts seminar

  September 14, 2006 The Daily Citizen (Searcy, Arkansas)

  Liberty Baptist Church is hosting a Ken Pennington Creation Seminar which will address issues like: The Genesis Creation, Noah’s Flood, carbon-14 dating, the Ice Age, text book lies, fossil evidence used to date the earth