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Cretaceous fossil assigned to the Recent family Octopodidae
March 28, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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Cole Lecturer Ayala Discusses Darwin, Religion
March 20, 2009 Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Indiana)
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Faith, hope and the academy
March 26, 2009 Times Higher Education (UK)
as UK universities with a Christian heritage seek to collaborate more closely, some academics are calling for more explicitly theologically inspired institutions
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Texas School Board News and Commentary
March 29, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
let the whining begin!
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Nebraska Religious Coalition for Science Education
webmaster: Chuck Austerberry (Creighton University, Omaha)
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Creationism in the classroom
March 26, 2009 Guardian (UK)
evolution is a scientific fact -- except, perhaps, in Texas, where the school board is trying to cast doubt on it
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Rage Against the Art Gene
March 28, 2009 Newsweek
Darwin revolutionized our understanding of mankind's origins. Now scientists think they can apply his theories to the source of our creativity without it sounding like a lot of monkey business.
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Time variation of a fundamental dimensionless constant (pdf)
March 30, 2009 arxiv (lanl.gov)
humor: a changing value for pi
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Evolutionary Semantics, Texas-Style comments
March 30, 2009 New York Times
the Texas Board of Education gave grudging support last week to teaching the mainstream theory of evolution without the most troubling encumbrances sought by religious and social conservatives
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Ex-Texas Education Agency employee's lawsuit tossed in ouster over creationism
March 31, 2009 Dallas Morning News
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Science setback for Texas schools
March 31, 2009 physorg.com
after three all-day meetings and a blizzard of amendments and counter-amendments, the Texas Board of Education cast its final vote Friday on state science standards
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News Update/Commentary
Groundbreaking Study Reveals Intermediary Steps of Genetic Encoding for the First Time
March 31, 2009 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
New Theory on Largest Known Mass Extinction in Earth's History
March 31, 2009 Science Daily
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The Unlikely Disciple
March 31, 2009 Christian Science Monitor
an Ivy Leaguer spends a semester undercover at a fundamentalist Christian university and is surprised by what he discovers
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Everybody Believes Something Unbelievable
March 31, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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Philosophy 101 for the New Atheists
April 1, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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On the trail of mythical beasts
April 1, 2009 New Scientist, n.2702, p.44
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Evolution at the Vatican
April 1, 2009 Templeton Foundation
"Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories" held in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, March 3-7, 2009
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Evolution vs. Creation -- the Debate Continues as Darwin's Work Marks 150th Anniversary
April 1, 2009 Christian Newswire
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Book
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
January 1, 2008 Cambridge University Press
see also Amazon
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Book
The Smartest Animals on the Planet: Extraordinary Tales of the Natural World's Cleverest Creatures
February 1, 2009 Firefly Books
see also Amazon
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200 Years of Darwinism
February 9, 2009 Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
two centuries later, Charles Darwin still manages to stir the evolutionary pot
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Book
Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
March 1, 2009 Harvard University Press
see also Amazon
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How misery inspired Handel's Messiah
April 1, 2009 New Scientist, n.2702, p.42-43
England's favourite composer produced some of his greatest works after binge-eating and lead poisoning began to take their toll
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Should God be kept out of Science?
April 1, 2009 Nouse (University of York, UK)
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Texas vote leaves loopholes for teaching creationism
April 1, 2009 New Scientist, n.2702, p.5
in a vote on state science standards, the Texas Board of Education included amendments commonly backed by the intelligent design movement
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Leave education to the experts, not creationists
April 1, 2009 New Scientist, n.2702, p.3
the right of children in the US to be taught sound science is at risk, but that's democracy
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Texas textbook decisions on science standards have national implications
April 1, 2009 Associated Baptist Press
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My Son the Expert! Part III: A Challenge to Texas Darwinists
April 2, 2009 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Hal, Call Your Office: Computers That Act Like Physicists
April 2, 2009 New York Times
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Texas Evolution Lobby Dealt Another Blow with Dismissal of Chris Comer Lawsuit
April 2, 2009 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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"Evolution and intelligent design in Hong Kong"
April 2, 2009 Nature, v.458, p.571
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News Update/Commentary
No Sponge in Human Family Tree: Sponges Descended from Unique Ancestor
April 3, 2009 Science Daily
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"Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data"
April 3, 2009 Science, v.324, n.5923, p.81-85
an algorithm has been developed to search for natural laws of physics in large data sets
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"Sequencing and Analyses of All Known Human Rhinovirus Genomes Reveal Structure and Evolution"
April 3, 2009 Science, v.324, n.5923, p.55-59
rhinoviruses, which are a common cause of colds, fall into three or possibly four major clades and can undergo strain recombination
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"On the Origin of Flowering Plants"
April 3, 2009 Science, v.324, n.5923, p.28-31
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New cosmic map reveals colossal structures
April 4, 2009 New Scientist
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A Taste for Insects
April 13, 2009 UCTV
How did the passion for collecting and collections of Darwin, Wallace and others of their period force them to understand and explain biodiversity?
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Evolution and Intelligent Design: A View from the Dover Trial
April 20, 2009 UCTV
in 2005, eleven parents sued the Dover, PA, school board for requiring that a statement be read in biology classes promoting "intelligent design" as science and denigrating evolution
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What Will the Creationists Do Next?
April 27, 2009 UCTV
explores how the failure of Intelligent Design to survive a legal test of its constitutionality led it to evolve new strategies
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LETTERS: Back and Forth on Faith and Physics
April 1, 2009 APS News, v.18, n.4 (American Physical Society)
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Acts & Facts, v.38, n.4 (pdf)
April 1, 2009 Institute for Creation Research
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Muslim students weigh in on evolution
April 3, 2009 Nature News
in Indonesia and Pakistan, questions about how science and faith can be reconciled
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News Update/Commentary
Hermit Arthropods 500 Million Years Ago?
April 4, 2009 Science Daily
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An 'evolution proof' solution to malaria
April 8, 2009 New Scientist, n.2703, p.4
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Absence of Evidence and Evidence of Absence: Evidential Transitivity in connection with Fossils, Fishing, Fine-Tuning, and Firing Squads (pdf)
April 8, 2009
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Darwin’s Sacred Cause?
April 7, 2009 Answers in Genesis
book review
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Intelligent Design for dummies
April 7, 2009 One News Now
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News Update/Commentary
Lice Genomes Uniquely Fragmented: How Did It Evolve?
April 7, 2009 Science Daily
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Benedictine Priest Stanley Jaki Dies
April 8, 2009 Science & Religion Today
Jaki, a Hungarian physicist and theologian known for exploring the relationship between modern science and orthodox Christianity (and who won the Templeton Prize in 1987), died yesterday