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Evolutionary Theology: How to Love God and Science
December 4, 2007 Wired
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News Update/Commentary
Life on Earth May Have Originated As the Organic Filling in a Multilayer Sandwich of Mica Sheets
December 5, 2007 Science Daily
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'Blind' fish offers insight into vertebrate vision
December 5, 2007 New Scientist, n.2632
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Did 'slushball' Earth help trigger explosion of life?
December 5, 2007 New Scientist, n.2633
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The physics of information: From entanglement to black holes (debate)
December 5, 2007 EurekAlert!
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"Patching together a world view"
December 6, 2007 Nature, v.450, p.761
data sets encapsulating the behaviour of the Earth system are one of the greatest technological achievements of our age
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Earliest galaxies had building blocks of life
December 8, 2007 New Scientist, n.2633, p.19
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Did a comet kickstart Earth's plate tectonics?
December 8, 2007 New Scientist, n.2633
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Was life forged in a quantum crucible?
December 8, 2007 New Scientist, n.2633
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Commentary: No, science does not 'rest on faith'
December 8, 2007 New Scientist, n.2633, p.55
in a recent opinion piece in The New York Times, physicist Paul Davies asserts that it is a mistake to distinguish science from religion by describing the former as based on testable hypotheses while the latter is based on faith
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Reclaiming the peppered moth for science
December 8, 2007 New Scientist, n.2633
Once the textbook example of evolution in action, the peppered moth has been annexed by creationists. Now biologists are fighting to take it back.
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Mass extinctions: The Armageddon factor
December 8, 2007 New Scientist, n.2633
Why do some asteroid impacts and mega-eruptions wipe out most life on Earth, while others leave barely a trace in the fossil record?
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News Update/Commentary
Ask 'The God Delusion' author Richard Dawkins
December 9, 2007 BBC News
Our guest on the Have Your Say programme will be Professor Richard Dawkins. He is an outspoken atheist who says science explains the world better than religion.
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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 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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A move worthy of 'monkey trial'
December 4, 2007 Wisconsin State Journal
Texas just forced the resignation of its director of science for the Texas Education Agency because the director is suspected of being pro-evolution
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School Board overturns Policy 401
December 5, 2007 Rio Rancho Observer (New Mexico)
the policy which attracted attention for its permissiveness in teaching Creation and Intelligent Design along with evolution was put to rest by the Public Schools Board of Education
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Info-lution
December 5, 2007 Boise Weekly (Idaho)
Nova on November 12: a summary of Darwin's theory of evolution interspersed with the clumsy attempts to contaminate and sabotage it
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"Effects of a large asteroid impact on ultra-violet radiation in the atmosphere"
December 5, 2007 Geophysical Research Letters, v.34, n.23, L23805
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Swiss Evangelicals Heat Up Creationism Debate
December 5, 2007 Christian Post
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"Paleontologists Get X-ray Vision"
December 7, 2007 Science, v.318, n.5856, p.1546-1547
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On intelligent design, a lesson in Political Science 101
December 7, 2007 Star-Telegram (Tarrant County, TX)
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Biologist fired for beliefs, suit says
December 7, 2007 Boston Globe
Woods Hole states creationist stance at odds with work
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Lawsuit claims job tied to faith in natural selection
December 8, 2007 researcher sues over dismissal because he didn't 'believe'
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The art of the soluble
December 8, 2007 The Guardian (UK)
full of praise for
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Fight against evolution uses new strategy
December 8, 2007 Winston-Salem Journal (Associated Press)
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Book
Evidence of Intelligent Design in Human Physiology
September 1, 2007 Star Publish
see also Amazon
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E-mails Reveal Darwinian Conspiracy to Deny Intelligent Design Professor from Tenure
December 6, 2007 Life Site
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Debate Over Teaching Evolution Moves to Florida
December 8, 2007 local10 (Miami, FL)
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In the beginning ...
December 9, 2007 The Telegram (Newfoundland)
PBS recently aired a Nova special on the famous Dover case over a school board decision to introduce intelligent design into science class
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"Eramosa Lagerstätte--Exceptionally preserved soft-bodied biotas with shallow-marine shelly and bioturbating organisms (Silurian, Ontario, Canada)"
December 9, 2007 Geology, v.35, n.10, p.879-882
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Volcano Theory of Dino Die-Off Gets New Support
November 5, 2007 National Geographic News
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News Update/Commentary
Petrified Velvet Worms from 425 Million Years Ago Reveal True Ecology of Distant Past
November 26, 2007 Science Daily
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Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science
November 26, 2007 momentous find of dinosaur mummy with fossilized skin and soft tissues
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Why science needs history
December 5, 2007 Houston Chronicle
a recent flap at the Texas Education Agency demonstrates why we need to teach history better so we can teach science better
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Consider lessons, complexity of intelligent-design case
December 8, 2007 Kansas City Star
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N.M. school board rescinds policy on evolution 'alternatives'
December 8, 2007 First Amendment Center (Associated Press)
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Christian biologist fired for beliefs, suit says
December 10, 2007 Yahoo! News (Reuters)
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Researchers: Human Evolution Speeding Up
December 10, 2007 My Way News (Associated Press)
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News Update/Commentary
Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More Different, Not Alike
December 11, 2007 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Human evolution is 'speeding up'
December 11, 2007 BBC News
humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasingly different
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Parent wants intelligent design in PV
December 11, 2007 Star Beacon (Ashtabula, OH)
a concerned parent questioned Pymatuning Valley Local School officials at Mondays meeting, as to how they are teaching the science curriculum regarding the theory of creationism
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For God's sake, let's stick to science in school
December 11, 2007 Tallahassee Democrat (FL)
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Historian: First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists
December 11, 2007 Live Science
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Satirical Monsters More Competition for Darwin
December 11, 2007 The Ledger (Lakeland, FL)
the Flying Spaghetti Monster offers Polk school officials a view of the origin of life they say is just as valid as intelligent design
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Texas biology professors voice support for evolution education
December 11, 2007 Austin American-Statesman (Associated Press)
professors sent the letter in response to the departure of Chris Comer, who said evolution politics were behind her forced resignation last month as the state's director of science curriculum
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Eight Baylor professors join peers voicing support for evolution education
December 12, 2007 Waco Tribune-Herald (TX)
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Teaching of evolution to go under microscope
December 13, 2007 Dallas Morning News
director's departure opens door for changes in Texas' curriculum
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The Pope condemns the climate change prophets of doom
December 13, 2007 Daily Herald (UK)
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"Transformation and diversification in early mammal evolution"
December 13, 2007 Nature, v.450, p.1011-1019
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"Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins"
December 13, 2007 Nature, v.450, p.1075-1078
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: The mother load