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How fire made us human
June 8, 2009 New Scientist, n.2711
- EXCERPT: May 23, 2009 / New York Times
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Darwin 2009 -- The Festival
June 8, 2009 University of Cambridge
a major international festival to mark 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species
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Evolution, the Bible, and the Book of Nature
July 10, 2009 Christianity Today
a conversation with Francis Collins
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Summer Newsletter
July 27, 2009 BioLogos Foundation
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Faith and Darwin: Harmony, Conflict, or Confusion? (pdf)
July 27, 2009 Newsletter of the American Scientific Affiliation, v.51, n.4, p.1,3
Collins forms BioLogos Foundation
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Francis Collins, Karl Giberson, and Books and Culture Promote Misconceptions About Intelligent Design, Falsifiability & Junk DNA
August 5, 2009 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Amino Acids Found on Comet
August 18, 2009 Laboratory Equipment
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News Update/Commentary
Ink found in Jurassic-era squid
August 19, 2009 BBC News
palaeontologists have drawn with ink extracted from a preserved fossilised squid uncovered during a dig in Trowbridge, Wiltshire
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Where does white skin come from?
August 19, 2009 New Scientist, n.2722
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"Misadventures in the Burgess Shale"
August 20, 2009 Nature, v.460, p.952-953
one hundred years after Charles Doolittle Walcott found a wealth of Cambrian fossils in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, a reflection on the bumpy road of their classification
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"Please Be My Toothpick You Scrumptious Old Wrasse!"
August 3, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
synopsis of 3rd chapter
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Masquerades Unmasked and the Designed IQ
July 18, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
synopsis of 2nd chapter
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The Intelligent Design of Animal Behaviors
July 6, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
synopsis of 1st chapter
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Nature's I.Q.: Extraordinary Animal Behaviors That Defy Evolution
April 1, 2009 Torchlight Publications
see also Amazon
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Creation-Evolution Headlines
May 1, 2009 Master Plan Productions
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Religions owe their success to suffering martyrs
May 27, 2009 New Scientist, n.2710, p.9
willingness to endure suffering for your beliefs inspires others to believe too, according to an analysis of behavioural evolution
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Virtual fossils reveal how ancient creatures lived
May 27, 2009 New Scientist, n.2710, p.6-7
a flood of spectacular new insights is emerging as palaeontologists swap hammers and chisels for X-rays and high-speed computers
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Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
June 1, 2009 Harper Collins
see also Amazon
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Creation-Evolution Headlines
June 1, 2009 Master Plan Productions
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Long odds on space viruses seeding life
June 1, 2009 New Scientist, n.2710, p.10
the theory that extraterrestrial microbes brought in by meteorites started life on Earth is challenged by a new study
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Did first hominids live in Europe?
June 3, 2009 New Scientist, n.2711, p.17
a 12-million-year-old fossil from Spain suggests that hominids migrated into Africa before modern humans evolved
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Supervolcano may be brewing beneath Mount St Helens
June 10, 2009 New Scientist, n.2712, p.10
peering beneath the US volcano suggests that it may be connected to an extraordinarily large zone of semi-molten rock, which would be capable of feeding a giant eruption
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'The deeply embedded view is that Christ is returning soon, so why should we care about the environment?'
June 10, 2009 New Scientist, n.2712, p.10
evangelical Christian Craig Sorley, an "environmental missionary" trying to encourage green practices in Kenya, on the attitude of his church colleagues in the US
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'Resurrection bug' revived after 120,000 years
June 17, 2009 New Scientist, n.2713, p.8
an ultra-small bacterium brought back to life after being recovered from the Greenland ice sheet could resemble extraterrestrial life
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In praise of scientific heresy
June 17, 2009 New Scientist, n.2713, p.3
we have to think the unthinkable to take science forward -- even if it annoys the establishment
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Creation-Evolution Headlines
July 1, 2009 Master Plan Productions
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Dinosaur mummy gives up organic material
July 1, 2009 New Scientist, n.2715, p.10
a mummified dinosaur seems to contain traces of 66-million-year old amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- which could provide vital information about its evolution
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Australia's dinosaur drought is ending
July 8, 2009 New Scientist, n.2716, p.17
the discovery of three large fossils in central Queensland is finally putting the continent on the dinosaur map
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Dinosaurs burrowed for winter warmth
July 15, 2009 New Scientist, n.2717, p.14
the discovery of three fossil burrows in south-eastern Australia is shedding new light on how dinosaurs survived the winter at the poles
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Comment: The Dawkins dogma
July 19, 2009 New Scientist, n.2717, p.24-25
metaphors like the "selfish gene" paint a vivid picture of how evolution works, but the reality is more subtle
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Opinion: Do you believe in miracles?
August 5, 2009 New Scientist, n.2720, p.26-27
miracles are heresy in a scientific age, and prominent thinkers have railed against them -- but what if their arguments don't stack up
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Did asteroids flock together to build planets?
August 17, 2009 New Scientist, n.2721, p.9
swarms of boulders may have collapsed spontaneously under their own gravity in the early solar system, forming the building blocks of the planets
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Francis Collins Resigns from Faith and Science Foundation
August 19, 2009 Christianity Today
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News Update/Commentary
Research Reveals Major Insight into Evolution of Life on Earth
August 20, 2009 Science Daily
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
August 1, 2006 Regnery Publishing
see also Amazon
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An International Coalition of Non-Religious ID Scientists & Scholars (blog)
August 1, 2006
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Speciation and Patterns of Diversity
January 1, 2009 Cambridge University Press
see also Amazon; explores such issues as the nature of species, how species are counted, limits on diversity, mechanisms of s
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The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
February 1, 2009 Basic Books
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Science: A Four Thousand Year History
March 1, 2009 Oxford University Press
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Rock Science: First Meteorites Recovered on Earth from an Asteroid Tracked in Space
March 25, 2009 Scientific American
fragments in the Sudanese desert make up an "asteroid trifecta": discovery, prediction and recovery
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SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
April 1, 2009 HarperOne
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Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
May 1, 2009 Palgrave Macmillan
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The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology
May 1, 2009 University of Chicago Press
see also Amazon
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"Giant trilobites and trilobite clusters from the Ordovician of Portugal"
May 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.5, p.443-446
a unique Ordovician fossil lagerstätte reveals new information on the social behavior of trilobites and provides several of the world's largest trilobite specimens (some reaching 70 cm)
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Are Dog Breeds Actually Different Species?
June 1, 2009 Scientific American
a humorous take on using dog breeds to prove evolution
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Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World
June 1, 2009 Scientific American
a skeptic's take on souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens and other invisible powers that be
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Unlikely Suns Reveal Improbable Planets
June 1, 2009 Scientific American
astronomers are finding planets where there were not supposed to be any
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The Evolution of House Cats
June 1, 2009 Scientific American
genetic and archaeological findings hint that wildcats became house cats earlier--and in a different place--than previously thought
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Unearthing the Mayan Creation Myth
June 1, 2009 Discover Magazine
researchers find that the tale of the "Hero Twins" goes back more than 2,000 years
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"Visualizing fossilization using laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry maps of trace elements in Late Cretaceous bones"
June 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.6, p.511-514