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Nonmoral Nature
February 1, 1982 Natural History, v.91, p.19-26
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C. S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design (pdf)
December 1, 2010 Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.62, n.4, p.253-266
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The Mishkan Model — the portable Hebrew temple, the periodic table of chemistry, the unified model of particle physics, and the grand unified theory of everything
December 1, 2010
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How the Victorians Learned about Darwin’s Theories: Popularizing Evolution (mp3)
December 1, 2010 Yale University
Bernard Lightman’s research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science
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The Biologos Foundation and “Darwin’s Pious Idea”
January 4, 2011 BioLogos (blog)
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The 47 Sins of Isaac Newton, as Recorded by Himself
May 30, 2011 JF Ptak Science Books
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Phosphate biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists
June 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.6, p.539-542
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Evolution 2011
June 1, 2011 University of Oklahoma
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The evolution of drug resistance and the curious orthodoxy of aggressive chemotherapy
June 20, 2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Big Buzzword on Campus: Is "Convergence" a Revolution in Science or Simply Jargon?
July 1, 2011 Scientific American
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The Believing Brain: Why Science Is the Only Way Out of Belief-Dependent Realism
July 1, 2011 Scientific American
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The Vexing Mental Tug-of-War Called Morality
July 1, 2011 Discover Magazine
Would you kill a crying baby to save yourself and others from hostile soldiers outside? Neuroscience offers new ways to approach such moral questions, allowing logic to triumph over deep-rooted instinct.
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Science and Religion in Quest of Truth
August 1, 2011 Yale University Press
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Does the Multiverse Really Exist?
August 1, 2011 Scientific American
proof of parallel universes radically different from our own may still lie beyond the domain of science
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Part Ape, Part Human
August 1, 2011 National Geographic
Malapa Fossils ... a new ancestor emerges from the richest collection of fossil skeletons ever found
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News Update/Commentary
Before the dinosaurs, underground worlds thrived
September 13, 2011 MSNBC
life on Earth 240 million years ago flourished in seas, on land and in intricate burrows
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News Update/Commentary
Bigger than a house, crystals take eons to grow
September 13, 2011 MSNBC
giants found in Mexican cave take a million years to top two stories tall
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First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
May 1, 2011 University of California Press
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The Origin of Our Species
June 1, 2011 Allen Lane (Penguin)
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The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human
June 1, 2011 W. W. Norton
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A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
June 1, 2011 Princeton University Press
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Dinosaurs: Rise of the titans
July 13, 2011 Nature, v.475, p.159-161
the sauropods were the biggest creatures ever to walk the planet, but the keys to their success emerged in their tiny ancestors
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Bridging the dino gap
July 21, 2011 Nature, v.475, p.269
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Regulations proposed for animal-human chimaeras
July 21, 2011 Nature, v.475, p.438
UK lays out first framework to govern ethically sensitive research field
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The search for alien intelligence: SETI is dead -- long live SETI
July 27, 2011 Nature, v.475, p.442-444
the closure of the Allen Telescope Array shifts the search for extraterrestrial intelligence away from big science
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Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences
July 28, 2011 Nature, v.475, p.493-496
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An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae
July 28, 2011 Nature, v.475, p.465-470
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A trilobite's footprint
August 4, 2011 Nature, v.476, p.8
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Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history
August 9, 2011 Nature, v.476, p.136-137
modern humans may have picked up key genes from extinct relatives
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A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals
August 25, 2011 Nature, v.476, p.442-445
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Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will
August 31, 2011 Nature, v.477, p.23-25
scientists think they can prove that free will is an illusion ... philosophers are urging them to think again
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
September 1, 2011 Ecco (Harper Collins)
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Scientists on trial: At fault?
September 14, 2011 Nature, v.477, p.264-269
In 2009, an earthquake devastated the Italian city of L'Aquila and killed more than 300 people. Now, scientists are on trial for manslaughter.
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Linking mantle plumes, large igneous provinces and environmental catastrophes
September 15, 2011 Nature, v.477, p.312-316
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Dinosaur Body Temperatures Determined from Isotopic (13C-18O) Ordering in Fossil Biominerals
July 22, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6041, p.443-445
large dinosaurs had body temperatures similar to those of modern mammals and birds
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Onset of Plate Tectonics
July 22, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6041, p.413-414
analysis of diamonds from the subcontinental mantle reveals that plate tectonics started 3 billion years ago
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New NSF Survey Tries to Separate Knowledge and Belief
July 22, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6041, p.394
the National Science Board's attempt to distinguish between knowledge and belief in how people respond to a science literacy survey has drawn fire from critics who view the changes as surrendering scientific ground
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Tenfold Population Increase in Western Europe at the Neandertal-to-Modern Human Transition
July 29, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6042, p.623-627
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Bad Birthday News for First Bird?
July 29, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6042, p.511
a new fossil from China that looks a lot like Archaeopteryx and is apparently just 10 million years older is threatening to topple the earliest known bird from its perch
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When the World’s Population Took Off: The Springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition
July 29, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6042, p.560-561
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Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree
August 10, 2011 New Scientist, n.2825, p.10
the Siberian Denisova cave has surrendered a treasure that could shed light on early humans' promiscuous relations with their hominin cousins
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Time need not end in the multiverse
August 11, 2011 New Scientist, n.2825, p.8
last year, a group of cosmologists argued that time might end -- now others say they can save the fourth dimension
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First life: The search for the first replicator
August 15, 2011 New Scientist, n.2825, p.32-35
life must have begun with a simple molecule that could reproduce itself -- and now we think we know how to make one
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Moon may be 200 million years younger than thought
August 17, 2011 New Scientist, n.2826, p.13
a rock thought to date from the moon's formation turns out be much younger than previously supposed
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No need to fear rewinding evolution
August 17, 2011 New Scientist, n.2826, p.3
experiments to manipulate a chicken embryo to awaken the dinosaur within are in effect creating a "monster", but they can bring important advances too
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Exoplanetary Research: A Distant Glimpse of Alien Life?
August 19, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6045, p.930-932
as they verge on detecting worlds where organisms might thrive, some astronomers are preparing for the next big step: determining whether E.T. is really there
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Black holes and pulsars could reveal extra dimensions
August 21, 2011 New Scientist, n.2826, p.17
to test for extra dimensions, astronomers should hunt for pulsars that are distancing themselves from their black hole companions
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Evidence for Mars floods all dried up?
August 24, 2011 New Scientist, n.2827, p.15
lava, not water, carved the biggest channels on Mars, argues a new study that would overturn four decades of conventional wisdom
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Oldest fossils show early life was a beach
August 26, 2011 New Scientist, n.2827, p.13
the oldest compelling fossil evidence for cellular life has been discovered on a 3.43-billion-year-old beach in western Australia
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Scour Earth for traces of intelligent aliens
September 7, 2011 New Scientist, n.2829, p.10
if aliens visited Earth long ago, they may have left signs of their technological prowess that would be cheap and easy for us to detect