DECEMBER 21

• Unexpected mammals / December 20, 2006 / John Timmer / Nobel Intent — The general view of mammalian evolution is that the group spent its first few million years limited to rodent-sized life forms. As with most generalizations, the exceptions to this one are probably more interesting than anything which supports it.
• Virgin Dragon Prepares to Give Birth / December 20, 2006 / Maria Cheng / My Way News (Associated Press)
• Pa. native works on screenplay for intelligent design trial movie / December 20, 2006 / Christina Kauffman / York Dispatch (Pennsylvania)
• Ga. school board abandons defense of evolution stickers / December 20, 2006 / First Amendment Center (Associated Press)
• Livermore scientists team with Russia to discover element 118 / October 16, 2006 / contact: Anne M. Stark / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Element 118 Discovered Again--for the First Time / October 17, 2006 / J. R. Minkel / Scientific American
  • Scientists Claim Creation of Element 118, for Second Time / October 17, 2006 / Fox News
  • Scientists discover new element -- No. 118 / October 16, 2006 / Ian Hoffman / Mercury News (San Jose, California) — ununoctium destroys itself in a few thousandths of a second

DECEMBER 20

• Agreement Ends Textbook Sticker Case / December 19, 2006 / Cobb County School District — end to a lawsuit over stickers addressing evolution that were placed in science textbooks
  • Americans United Applauds Settlement of Georgia Lawsuit Over Evolution Disclaimer / December 19, 2006 / Americans United for Separation of Church and State — AU's Lynn commends Cobb County School Board for supporting sound science education
• Intelligent design equals creationism / December 19, 2006 / Bo Alawine / Hattiesburg American (Mississippi) — a response to "Darwin's Deadly Legacy," a program by Coral Ridge Ministries that aired a few weeks ago on WDAM-TV
• Human-chimp difference may be bigger / 19 December 2006 / contact: David Bricker / EurekAlert!
• How to avoid a bat / 18 December 2006 / contact: Cherry Lewis / EurekAlert! — new findings change our understanding of the co-evolution of bats and moths and have implications for the hearing of many other animals
• Top Ten Junk Science Moments for 2006 / December 14, 2006 / Steven Milloy / Fox News
• What Is the Hobbit? / December 12, 2006 / Tabitha M. Powledge /  PLoS (Public Library of Science) Biol, v.4, n.12, p.e440 — the tiny hominid bones of Homo floresiensis, which a joint Australian-Indonesian team unearthed in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores, have quickly become as celebrated (and derided) as any find in the tempestuous history of human paleontology

DECEMBER 19

• Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) -- evolutionary “junk” or God’s tools? / December 19, 2006 / Georgia Purdom / Answers in Genesis
• LETTERS: Creationism in the classroom / December 19, 2006 / Richard Dawkins and others / The Guardian (UK)
• Billboards aim to stoke an evolving debate / December 17, 2006 / Bob Von Sternberg / Star Tribune (Minnesota) — a Minnetonka woman is using freeway signs in Minneapolis and Duluth to direct people to her pro-creationism Web site
• Finding an equation for God / December 17, 2006 / James D. Davis / Sun-Sentinel (South Florida) — review of:
  • The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief / July 2006 / Francis S. Collins / Free Press (Simon & Schuster) — see also Amazon
• Judge's integrity attacked / December 17, 2006 / Dale Davenport / Patriot-News (Pennsylvania) — the Discovery Institute, which backed the losing side in last year's intelligent design trial, now claims that Judge John E. Jones copied some of his ruling from documents submitted by the winning side
• Critic of Darwinism Questions Judges Use of ACLU Facts in Anti-ID Ruling / December 15, 2006 / WDC Media News (Agape Press)
  • Seattle Group Discovers Judge's Anti-ID Ruling Partly Plagiarized from ACLU / December 12, 2006 / Jim Brown / Agape Press
• Move over Institute for Creation Research, here comes the Biologic Institute (blog) / December 15, 2006 / evolutiongeek / progressive U
• The poetry of peace / December 15, 2006 / Donald Eastman / St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
• Comet born of our own Sun / 14 December 2006 / Katharine Sanderson / Nature (news@nature) — solar material in comet dust brings confusion about Solar System modelling
• Deep sea yields record-breaking bug / 14 December 2006 / Emma Marris / Nature (news@nature) — sub-seafloor microbes perform ancient biochemical trick in scalding heat
• The mutation that takes away pain / 13 December 2006 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — studies of rare disorder shed light on pain mechanism
• Intolerance and the Politicization of Science at the Smithsonian (pdf) / December 11, 2006 / Mark Souder / United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform
  • Sternberg, Smithsonian, Meyer, and the Paper That Started It All / October 19, 2005 / Discovery Institute
• Pentecostals vs. Paleoanthropologists / December 5, 2006 / Bill Redeker / ABC News — famed paleontologist Richard Leakey is taking on church leaders who are pressing Kenya's National Museum to hide its world-famous fossil collection
• Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history / November 21, 2006 / Dinesh D'Souza / Christian Science Monitor
• Sad dispute between CMI and AiG-USA / 21 November 2006 / Creation Ministries International — dispute with Answers in Genesis
  • A brief chronology of events (pdf) / 8 December 2006
• The Scientist as Rebel / November 2006 / Freeman Dyson / Random House — see also Amazon
  • Where science and ethics meet / December 19, 2006 / Gregory M. Lamb / Christian Science Monitor — physicist Freeman Dyson explores the ability of science to help us make sense of the world
• The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind / November 2006 / Marvin Minsky / Simon & Schuster — see also Amazon
  • Thinking about the human mind / December 10, 2006 / William S. Kowinski / San Francisco Chronicle
• The Top Ten Myths about Evolution / November 2006 / Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
  • review: December 19, 2006 / Sandy Amazeen / Monsters & Critics
• Revolution Against Evolution — essays
  • Darwin Skeptics / September 11, 2006 / Jerry Bergman — a select list of academics, scientists and scholars involved in various creationist movements and Intelligent Design
  • Creationists of the Past / July 21, 2003 / Mark Stewart
• British Centre for Science Education — dedicated to keeping creationism and intelligent design out of the science classroom in publicly-funded schools in the United Kingdom
  • Index of Leading Creationist Activists

DECEMBER 15

• Aped decision / December 23, 2006 / Mark Bergin / World Magazine — last year's judicial blow to intelligent design came straight from ACLU attorneys
• Scientists against God / 16 December 2006 / Florian Bouyer / New Scientist, n.2582, p.21
• Oxygen boom led to explosion of complex life / 16 December 2006 / New Scientist, n.2582, p.17
• Anatomy of a super-Earth / 16 December 2006 / Stuart Clark / New Scientist, n.2582
• Intelligent design: The God Lab / 15 December 2006 / Celeste Biever / New Scientist, n.2582, p.8-11
• Was it water, water everywhere on Mars? / 15 December 2006 / David L. Chandler / New Scientist, n.2582
• The problem with Dawkins’ anti-God crusade / December 15, 2006 / Vasantha Raja / Asian Tribune
• Why Intelligent Design is Stupid / 15 December 2006 / Sophie Davies / New Humanist
• SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT: "Online Sleuths Challenge Cell Paper" / 15 December 2006 / Hao Xin / Science, v.314, n.5806, p.1669
• "France to Launch First Exoplanet Hunter" / 15 December 2006 / Alexander Hellemans / Science, v.314, n.5806, p.1671
• HUMAN EVOLUTION: "There's More Than One Way to Have Your Milk and Drink It, Too" / 15 December 2006 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.314, n.5806, p.1672
• "Honey Bees and Humans: Shared Innovation" / 15 December 2006 / David W. Lightfoot / Science, v.314, n.5806, p.1681
• PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: "Grand Challenges and Great Opportunities in Science, Technology, and Public Policy" / 15 December 2006 / Gilbert S. Omenn / Science, v.314, n.5806, p.1696-1704
• INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE: "Look into the Seeds of Time" / 15 December 2006 / Joanne Baker / Science, v.314, n.5806, p.1707
  • "Whence Comets?" / 15 December 2006 / Michael F. A'Hearn / Science, v.314, n.5806, p.1708-1709
  • "NASA Returns Rocks from a Comet" / 15 December 2006 / Don S. Burnett / Science, v.314, n.5806, p.1709-1710
• Comets as Toolkits for Jump-Starting Life / December 14, 2006 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
• Samples of Comet Dust Show a Mix / December 14, 2006 / Alicia Chang / My Way News (Associated Press) — detailed observations from the first comet samples returned to Earth are debunking some of science's long-held beliefs on how the icy, celestial bodies form
• Stardust may be basis of life on Earth / December 15, 2006 / Alok Jha / Guardian (UK)
• Why life on Earth was a sure thing / 14 December 2006 / Rowan Hooper / New Scientist, n.2582 — What if life on Earth was inevitable and arose merely as the consequence of the laws of physics. Would that thought encourage alien-hunters?
• Metacognition: Known unknowns / 14 December 2006 / Helen Phillips / New Scientist, n.2582 — sometimes being sure that you're unsure is cleverer than a plain yes or no ... a missing link in the evolution of consciousness
• Climate Change Has Animals Heading for the Hills / 14 December 2006 / Jeanna Bryner / Live Science
• "Making the paper: Jin Meng" / 14 December 2006 / Nature, v.444, p.xv — how a fossil helped to redraw the mammalian family tree
• "Australia lifts ban on cloning" / 14 December 2006 / David Cyranoski / Nature, v.444, p.799 — scientists hail move to allow more stem-cell research
• "Martian gullies turn tide in hunt for life" / 14 December 2006 / Katharine Sanderson / Nature, v.444, p.800-801 — signs of liquid water prompt rethink for Mars exploration teams
• "A microworld in Triassic amber" / 14 December 2006 / Alexander R. Schmidt, Eugenio Ragazzi, Olimpia Coppellotti, and Guido Roghi / Nature, v.444, p.835 — amber as old as the first dinosaurs captured the diversity of microbial life 220 million years ago
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Forever amber
• "A Mesozoic gliding mammal from northeastern China" / 14 December 2006 / Jin Meng, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Xiaolin Wang, and Chuankui Li / Nature, v.444, p.889-893
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Early flight
• "Dynamical evolution of ecosystems" / 14 December 2006 / Sandro Azaele, Simone Pigolotti, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Amos Maritan / Nature, v.444, p.926-928
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Ecology: act neutral
• The Human Difference / December 2006 / Eric Cohen / Commentary Magazine — in China and Britain, scientists are creating cloned man-animal embryos using rabbit eggs and human DNA
• The “Vise Strategy” Undone: Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District / 2006 / Barbara Forrest / Creation & Intelligent Design Watch
• Literature / David Tyler / Access Research Network — a discussion of ID-related reading

DECEMBER 14

• It's still about religion / 16 December 2006 / New Scientist, n.2582 — Can intelligent design -- the idea that certain features of living organisms are too complex to have arisen by evolution -- ever lead to good science?
• Russian Teen Sues School Over Teaching of Evolution / December 13, 2006 / Fox News (Associated Press)
• Here endeth the lesson / December 13, 2006 / James Randerson / The Guardian (UK) — Intelligent design is just creationism in disguise. This nonsense has no place in science classes.
• Did the air belong to mammals first? / 13 December 2006 / New Scientist, n.2582, p.18
• Flying Mammal Found from 125 Million Years Ago / December 13, 2006 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• 'Design' folks lose poorly / December 13, 2006 / York Dispatch (Pennsylvania)
• Judges' wording often borrowed / December 13, 2006 / Rick Lee / York Daily Record (Pennsylvania) — intelligent design supporters say Jones copied ACLU's language in his opinion
• Judge copied ACLU in anti-intelligent design ruling / December 12, 2006 / Art Moore / World Net Daily — 90% of 'masterpiece' Dover opinion error-filled 'cut-and-paste' job by 'activist' verbatim
• Arctic Summer Could be Ice-Free by 2040 / 11 December 2006 / Sara Goudarzi / Live Science
• Darwin's Graveyards / November-December 2006 / Edward T. Oakes / Christianity Today — yes, he really was a Social Darwinist

DECEMBER 12

• The Cost of an Overheated Planet / December 12, 2006 / Steve Lohr / New York Times
• New Insights into the Origin of Life on Earth / December 12, 2006 / American Chemical Society / Science Daily
• Noted scientist discusses religion's role at Colgate event / December 11, 2006 / Colgate University — Francis S. Collins, director of the National Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and head of the team that mapped the human genome, firmly believes in science and evolution. He believes in God, too.
• Lactose Tolerance in East Africa Points to Recent Evolution / December 11, 2006 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• UN downgrades man's impact on the climate / 11 December 2006 / Richard Gray / Telegraph (UK)
• Small Nuclear War Would Cause Global Environmental Catastrophe / 11 December 2006 / Jeanna Bryner / Live Science
• Opinion special: Lone voices in science / 9 December 2006 / New Scientist, n.2581, p.44-45
  • God said, let the dry land appear / Peter Aldhous — John Baumgardner, creationist and geophysical modeller, explains how his Christian faith has shaped an unusual scientific career
  • Watch out for the UFOs / Bob Park — how do you tell the difference between a robust challenge to established thinking and an idea that's plain off-the-wall
  • Hard to swallow / Alison George — Barry Marshall was so sure the medical establishment was wrong about the cause of stomach ulcers that he ate the bacteria he believed were to blame
  • How we know what we know / Harry Collins — How do you sift crackpot ideas from genuine maverick genius? Alas, heroes and villains come in every possible guise.
  • At play in the multiverse / Amanda Gefter
  • Take nobody's word for it / Alison George — you don't come across many Nobel prizewinners who believe in the paranormal, but Brian Josephson is one of them
• It pays to keep a little craziness / 9 December 2006 / New Scientist, n.2581 — scientific mavericks through history have been so successful it's hard to imagine what modern science would be without them, but are they a dying breed
• Scientists against God / 9 December 2006 / Denis Alexander / New Scientist
• Space rock clue to life's first home / 9 December 2006 / New Scientist, n.2581, p.21
• How Etna's Neolithic hiccup set off a tsunami / 9 December 2006 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2581
• Neanderthals' fight for survival revealed / 9 December 2006 / Rower Hooper / New Scientist, n.2581 — the view of our sister species as brutes is tempered by findings suggesting that they were often forced to make the best of a desperately tough life
• "A Shot of Oxygen to Unleash the Evolution of Animals" / 8 December 2006 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.314, n.5805, p.1529
  • Finding an answer to Darwin's Dilemma / December 9, 2006 / Hindu News — oxygen may be the clue to first appearance of large animals
  • Oxygen burst seen before the birth of complex life / 8 December 2006 / Narelle Towie / Nature (news@nature) — air to breathe may have spurred the evolution of large animals
• "Ancient Cataclysm Marred the Med" / 8 December 2006 / Jacopo Pasotti / Science, v.314, n.5805, p.1527
• "Stone Age World Beneath the Baltic Sea" / 8 December 2006 / Andrew Curry / Science, v.314, n.5805, p.1533-1535 — settlements that were covered by water 6000 to 8000 years ago
  • "A Hunter's Paradise" / 8 December 2006 / Andrew Curry / Science, v.314, n.5805, p.1535
• "Big Bang Points to Stellar Mix-Up" / 8 December 2006 / Philipp Podsiadlowski and Stephen Justham / Science, v.314, n.5805, p.1551-1552
• EVOLUTION: "The Puzzle of Human Sociality" / 8 December 2006 / Robert Boyd / Science, v.314, n.5805, p.1555-1556
  • "Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation" / 8 December 2006 / Martin A. Nowak / Science, v.314, n.5805, p.1560-1563
  • "Group Competition, Reproductive Leveling, and the Evolution of Human Altruism" / 8 December 2006 / Samuel Bowles / Science, v.314, n.5805, p.1569-1572
• "U-Pb Isotopic Age of the StW 573 Hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa" / 8 December 2006 / Joanne Walker, Robert A. Cliff, and Alfred G. Latham / Science, v.314, n.5805, p.1592-1594
• Fold testament: The shape of the universe / 7 December 2006 / Stephen Battersby / New Scientist, n.2581
• "Journal reveals plans to fight fraud" / 7 December 2006 / Meredith Wadman / Nature, v.444, p.658-659 — Science to select papers for extra-secure review process
• CORRESPONDENCE / 7 December 2006 / Nature, v.444
  • "A timely wake-up call as anti-evolutionists publicize their views" / U. Kutschera / p.679
  • "Creationist views have no basis in science" / Gabriela Lorenc-Plucińska / p.679
  • "Creationists weaken society's trust in scientists" / Joanna Rutkowska / p.679
  • "Claim of bias against critics is refuted by publication" / Gerdien de Jong and Gert Korthof / p.679
  • "Pseudoscience should not be published in Nature" / Uwe Balthasar and Susannah Maidment / p.679-680
  • "There is no new evidence that undermines evolution" / Brian Charlesworth / p.680
  • "Walking with dinosaurs? Not in the real world" / Gary S. Hurd / p.680
  • "Creationists pose political, not scientific, threat" / Jerzy Banbura / p.680
• "Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean" / 7 December 2006 / D. A. Fike, J. P. Grotzinger, L. M. Pratt, and R. E. Summons / Nature, v.444, p.744-747
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Animals in the air
• "How Neanderthal molar teeth grew" / 7 December 2006 / Roberto Macchiarelli, et al. / Nature, v.444, p.748-751
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Dental history
• "Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous" / 7 December 2006 / Julia A. Clarke, Claudia P. Tambussi, Jorge I. Noriega, Gregory M. Erickson, and Richard A. Ketcham / Nature, v.444, p.780
• Built in compass helps bats find their way home / 6 December 2006 / Narelle Towie / Nature (news@nature) — big brown bats use magnetic field to navigate long distance
• Water could be flowing on Mars today / 6 December 2006 / Katharine Sanderson / Nature (news@nature) — photos show gullies growing within the past few years
• Intelligence and design / 5 December 2006 / Peter Hitchens / The Mail (UK)
• The Fountain (film) / November 2006 / director: Darren Aronofsky / Warner Brothers — What if you could live forever?
  • REVIEW: "The quest for immortality" / 7 December 2006 / Emma Marris / Nature, v.444, p.684
• The God Delusion / October 20, 2006 / Marilynne Robinson / Harper's Magazine — a review of Richard Dawkin's new book
• The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness / August 2006 / Lee Alan Dugatkin / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
  • REVIEW: "One good deed" / 7 December 2006 / Oliver Curry / Nature, v.444, p.683 — Can a simple equation explain the development of altruism?

DECEMBER 10

• A Defense of Atheism / January-February 2007 / David Baltimore / American Scientist — review of:
  • The God Delusion / Fall 2006 / Richard Dawkins / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon
• Legacy of Charles Darwin / 2007 / Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University — events
  • Reading Genesis after Darwin
  • Legacy of Darwin
  • Darwin, Science and Belief Conference / 19 April
  • The Darwinian Legacy: Earth, Life and Mind
    • Is Darwinism an Exhausted Paradigm? / 26 April / Michael Ruse
    • Darwin, Landforms and the Theory of the Earth / 10 May / Mike Summerfield
    • Fossils, Genes and Major Evolutionary Transitions / 17 May / Neil Shubin
    • What can Evolution tell us about the Origins of Religion? / 31 May / Robin Dunbar
    • Race, Language and Darwinism since Darwin / 14 June / Gregory Radick
• A man who believes in Darwin as fervently as he hates God / 9 December 2006 / Rod Liddle / The Spectator — Richard Dawkins
• Scientist-believer sees God's hand in evolution / December 9, 2006 / John F. Fink / Indianapolis Star — review of:
  • The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief / July 2006 / Francis S. Collins / Free Press (Simon & Schuster) — see also Amazon
• Growing political pressure (news blog) / 8 December 2006 / Truth in Science — Members of Parliament and Government ministers seek to discourage science teachers from using our resource pack that critiques Darwin's theory of evolution and shows scientific evidence suggesting that the living world is intelligently designed
• Evolution, 'design' are still hot topics / December 8, 2006 / Jennifer Toomer-Cook / Deseret Morning News (Utah)
• Biologist speaks for intelligent design / December 8, 2006 / Dave Toplikar / Lawrence Journal-World (Kansas) — Michael Behe's lecture was part of the “Difficult Dialogues” lecture series sponsored by Kansas University
• Why altruism paid off for our ancestors / 7 December 2006 / Richard Fisher / New Scientist
• Evolution of the Penis Worm: Research Reveals Embryos More Than Half a Billion Years Old / December 7, 2006 / University of Bristol / Science Daily
• The Universe is Meaning-full / December 5, 2006 / Carl E. Olson interview with Benjamin Wiker / Ignatius Insight
• Neanderthal Women Joined Men in the Hunt / December 5, 2006 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution / October 2006 / Sean B. Carroll / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
  • review: Natural Selection for Everyone / January-February 2007 / Douglas Erwin / American Scientist
• The Biblical Geological Model (pdf) / 1994 / T. B. Walker / 3rd International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, PA
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DECEMBER 7

• Ministers to ban creationist teaching aids in science lessons / December 7, 2006 / James Randerson / The Guardian (UK)
• Intelligent Design Debated in Louisiana / December 6, 2006 / Elaine McKewon / BayouBuzz
• Why Do Some Queen Bees Eat Their Worker Bee's Eggs? / December 6, 2006 / University of Chicago Press Journals / Science Daily
• Vanishing Beetle Horns Have Surprise Function / December 5, 2006 / Indiana University / Science Daily
• Peering into the Shadow World of RNA: Crosstalk May Control the Genome / December 5, 2006 / The Wistar Institute / Science Daily
• NCSE's Scott on Culture Shocks / December 4, 2006 / National Center for Science Education — among the topics discussed were the recent book Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for Our Schools
• Creationism in Turkey / December 4, 2006 / National Center for Science Education — creationism is a major issue in Turkish politics; the debate is much more tense than in the United States; all biology textbooks now used in schools are creationist in tone
• Single Asteroid Impact, Not Two, Killed Dinos / November 30, 2006 / Richard A. Lovett / National Geographic News
• Meteorite's Organic Matter Older Than the Sun / November 30, 2006 / Brian Handwerk / National Geographic News
• Ancient 'Jaws' had monster bite / 29 November 2006 / BBC News
• Life goes on without 'vital' DNA / 3 June 2004 / Sylvia Pagαn Westphal / New Scientist
• Conserved Non-Genic Sequences / 20 November 2003 / Brig Klyce / Cosmic Ancestry

DECEMBER 5

• Evidence isn’t what it used to be / December 5, 2006 / Mukul Sharma / Economic Times — Lawrence Krauss has become famous for being an absolutely uncompromising adversary of creationism
• New Clues to How Sex Evolves / December 4, 2006 / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Science Daily
• EVOLUTION: Almost all human genes resulted from ancient duplication / December 4, 2006 / Roy J. Britten / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
• Scientist Fights Church Effort to Hide Museum's Pre-Human Fossils / 3 December 2006 / Kendrick Frazier / Live Science — famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey is giving no quarter to church leaders pressing Kenya's national museum to relegate to a back room its collection of hominid fossils
• Evolution or Creation? A Definitive Statement / December 3, 2006 / Veritas Liberabit Vos
• Evolution debate: agreeing to disagree / December 2, 2006 / Kate McNeil / Daily Herald (Central Utah)
• N. La. board policy "next wave of attack by anti-evolution forces" / December 1, 2006 / NOLA.com, New Orleans, Louisiana (Associated Press) — a new science policy is "an underhanded way to undercut the theory of evolution"
• Adam or ape? OCUB exhibit purports to disprove evolution / December 1, 2006 / Mike Ricketts / Bedford Times-Mail (Indiana) — museum at Oakland City University, Bedford
• From Jefferson to Jones: Self-Evident Truths Made Illegal / December 1, 2006 / Roddy M. Bullock / The ID Report (Access Research Network)
• "A Tale of Two Hourglasses" / December 2006 / D. Russell Humphreys / Impact, n.402 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "How Did Methuselah Die?" / December 2006 / John Morris / Back to Genesis, n.216a (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Those Amazing G Protein Receptors" / December 2006 / Frank Sherwin / Back to Genesis, n.216b (Institute for Creation Research)
• "The Big Thaw" / December 2006 / William Hoesch / Back to Genesis, n.216c (Institute for Creation Research)
• "There's Only One Universe" / December 2006 / David F. Coppedge / Back to Genesis, n.216d (Institute for Creation Research)
• Intelligent Design: The Clincher / December 2006 / Jack Woodall / The Scientist, v.20, n.12, p.53 — a butterfly explodes the theory
• Top U.S. scientific journal pledges to curb fraud / November 29, 2006 / Will Dunham / Reuters
• In search of lost time / 29 November 2006 / Jo Marchant / Nature (news@nature) — the ancient Antikythera Mechanism doesn't just challenge our assumptions about technology transfer over the ages -- it gives us fresh insights into history itself
• Gulf Stream weakened in 'Little Ice Age' / 29 November 2006 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — freezing medieval weather linked to diminished ocean current
• Learning English -- Words in the News: Intelligent Design / 27 November 2006 / BBC — dozens of British schools are using creationist materials in science classes
• Islam and Science / 2 November 2006 / Nature (news@nature) — newsblog
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / November 2006 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• Scientific Pluralism / November 2006 / Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino, and C. Kenneth Waters (editors) / University of Minnesota Press — see also Amazon
• Digital Evolution Laboratory / Charles Ofria and Richard Lenski / Michigan State University — to experimentally study digital organisms to improve our understanding of how natural evolution works

DECEMBER 1

• Just a few genes can keep species apart / 2 December 2006 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist, n.2580 — evolution is a complex beast, but it can operate in breathtakingly simple ways
• Creationism creeps into UK schools / 2 December 2006 / New Scientist, n.2580, p.4
• Oceans' 'great dying' led to marine life explosion / 2 December 2006 / New Scientist, n.2580, p.16
• Climate change sceptics lose vital argument / 29 November 2006 / Zeeya Merali / New Scientist, n.2580, p.9
• Volcano diets / 2 December 2006 / New Scientist, n.2580 — Vesuvius ate the equivalent of breakfast, lunch and dinner before erupting, albeit with a few decades between meals
• Hidden Antarctica: What lies beneath / 2 December 2006 / Gabrielle Walker / New Scientist, n.2580 — Could a lake sealed by ice for millions of years contain life?
• "Responding to Fraud" / 1 December 2006 / Donald Kennedy / Science, v.314, n.5804, p.1353
  • SCIENTIFIC CONDUCT: "China's Fraud Buster Hit by Libel Judgments; Defenders Rally Round" / 1 December 2006 / Jia Hepeng and Hao Xin / Science, v.314, n.5804, p.1366-1367
  • "Fraud Investigation Clouds Paper on Early Cell Fate" / 1 December 2006 / Gretchen Vogel / Science, v.314, n.5804, p.1367-1369
• ASTROPHYSICS: "Burst-Hunter's Rich Data Harvest Yields a Cosmic Enigma" / 1 December 2006 / Tom Siegfried / Science, v.314, n.5804, p.1376-1377
• "Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism" / 30 November 2006 / T. Freeth, et al. / Nature, v.444, p.587-591
  • "In search of lost time" / 30 November 2006 / Jo Marchant / Nature, v.444, p.534-538 — the ancient Antikythera Mechanism doesn't just challenge our assumptions about technology transfer over the ages -- it gives us fresh insights into history itself
  • Archaeology: High tech from Ancient Greece — The Antikythera Mechanism, salvaged 100 years ago from an ancient shipwreck, was long known to be some sort of mechanical calendar. But modern analysis is only now revealing just how sophisticated it was.
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Planetary gears
  • Early Astronomical ‘Computer’ Found to Be Technically Complex / November 30, 2006 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Once more into the breach -- the Intelligent Design debate continues (blog) / November 30, 2006 / evolutiongeek / progressive U
• The Neandertals: Our Worthy Ancestors / November 29, 2006 / Marvin Lubenow / Answers in Genesis
• Kansas Outlaws Practice of Evolution (humor) / November 20, 2006 / The Onion
• CreationWiki — a free encyclopedia of creation science being assembled by the international creationist community
• Darwinian Conservatism / September 2005 / Larry Arnhart / Imprint Academic — see also Amazon
  • review: "Natural Law Without a Lawgiver" (pdf) / 2006 / Francis J. Beckwith / Review of Politics, v.68, p.680-682
• An Open Letter to the Scientific Community / May 22, 2004 / New Scientist — the big bang today relies on a growing number of hypothetical entities, things that we have never observed
• Methodological Naturalism? / 1997 / Alvin Plantinga / Origins & Design, v.18, n.1

• Journal Faulted in Publishing Korean’s Claims / November 29, 2006 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times — fraudulent stem cell reports that shook the scientific world could have been prevented by extra review procedures
• Study Finds that a Single Impact Killed the Dinosaurs / 28 November 2006 / Red Orbit
• Intolerance is irrational, Prof Dawkins / 28 November 2006 / Cristina Odone / Telegraph (UK) — Richard Dawkins gives Creationism a good name. He pumps out his vitriol about religion being wicked ...
• Intelligent Design Filtering into British Schools as Darwin Debate Intensifies / November 28, 2006 / Daniel Blake / Christian Today — the debate has come to the forefront, with science teachers saying that Intelligent Design classes would benefit students
• The lessons learned / November 28, 2006 / Daniel Davies / Comment is free (Guardian, UK) — religious education in schools is the cornerstone of a secular society, because it puts children off religion for life
• Marine Life Leaped From Simple to Complex After Greatest Mass Extinction / November 28, 2006 / Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times
• How Does My DNA Work? / November 27, 2006 / Babu G. Ranganathan / Best Syndication
• Here is where you find the 'mountains' / November 19, 2006 / Allan Powell / Herald-Mail (Maryland) — a local resident complains that I have frequently made the claim that "there are mountains of evidence" in support of evolution
• Declaration in Defense of Science and Secularism / November 14, 2006 / Center for Inquiry — endorsed by over 50 prominent scientists and scholars, this document is a clarion call for improvements in scientific understanding, support of scientific inquiry and the use of secular principles in the formulation of public policy

NOVEMBER 28

• Humpback whales have 'human' brain cells / November 27, 2006 / CNN (Reuters)
• Did snowball Earth's melting let oxygen fuel life? / 27 November 2006 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• Dawkins campaigns to keep God out of classroom / November 27, 2006 / Alexandra Smith / Guardian (UK)
• Revealed: rise of creationism in UK schools / November 27, 2006 / James Randerson / Guardian (UK) — PR packs spread controversial theory
• Dover trial on silver screen? / November 27, 2006 / Teresa McMinn / York Daily Record (Pennsylvania) — Paramount Pictures recently hired Ron Nyswaner to write the screenplay for a movie about the landmark Dover trial that stopped a York County school board from including the mention of "intelligent design" in ninth-grade biology classes
• Human genome more variable than previously thought / 22 November 2006 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — surprisingly large segments of DNA found to differ from person to person
• Submarine eruption bares volcanic island in Tonga / 22 November 2006 / Nature (news@nature) — newly born island may only last a month before disappearing beneath waves
• Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival / November 5-7, 2006 / Salk Institute (La Jolla, California)
• Reasons for Faith: Philosophy in the Service of Theology / November 2006 / K. Scott Oliphint / P & R Publishing — see also Amazon
• Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life / October 2006 / Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb / MIT Press — see also Amazon
• The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion / August 2006 / Philip Clayton and Paul Davies (editors) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The Language and Reality of Time / July 2006 / Thomas Sattig / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness / June 2006 / Philip Clayton / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness / June 2006 / Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The Arguments of Time / May 2006 / Jeremy Butterfield (editor) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The Metaphysics of Hyperspace / January 2006 / Hud Hudson / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Magic Universe: A Grand Tour of Modern Science / December 2005 / Nigel Calder / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence, and Truth / December 2005 / Jody Azzouni / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Science Does Not Need God. Or Does It? (pdf) / October 21, 2005 / George V. Coyne / American Enterprise Institute — lecture presented by the director of the Vatican Observatory
• Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher / June 2005 / William Taussig Scott and Martin X. Moleski / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory / January 2004 / Jim Baggott / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon

NOVEMBER 27

• Dark-matter particles could 'X-ray' the Sun / 27 November 2006 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist, n.2579, p.15 — an intriguing particle first glimpsed last year, which could be related to particles that make up the universe's dark matter, might help us see right through the sun
• Let us test Darwin, teacher says / 27 November 2006 / BBC News
• Atheists Agonistes / November 27, 2006 / Richard A. Shweder / New York Times — one of the surest ways to bring a certain type of dinner party to a halt is to speak piously about “God”
• Q&A: intelligent design / November 27, 2006 / Anna Seward / Guardian (UK) — the theories behind intelligent design
• Combating creationism / 25 November 2006 / James Williams Falmer / New Scientist, n.2579, p.23
• Interview: Can we escape the mess we've made? / 25 November 2006 / Ehsan Masood / New Scientist, n.2579 — we are swamped every day with news of impending doom and disaster
• Leggy lizards evolve in fast-forward / 25 November 2006 / New Scientist, n.2579, p.18
• Consciousness comes later / 25 November 2006 / Andy Simmonds / New Scientist, n.2579, p.23 — since conscious decision-making can be quite a slow, involved process, there is an evolutionary advantage in it not being involved in the movement
• The solar system, but not as we know it / 25 November 2006 / David L. Chandler / New Scientist, n.2579
• Sense of self keeps robots on the move / 25 November 2006 / Celeste Biever / New Scientist, n.2579 — can a robot be conscious
• Somebody hates me, so I must be doing something right (blog) / November 25, 2006 / evolutiongeek / progressive U — I am a Christian and I don't believe the science of evolution and faith to be mutually exclusive
• "Two Rapidly Evolving Genes Spell Trouble for Hybrids" / 24 November 2006 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.314, n.5803, p.1238-1239
• "Life's Complexity Cast in Stone" / 24 November 2006 / Wolfgang Kiessling / Science, v.314, n.5803, p.1254-1255 — since the end of the Paleozoic era, the structure of marine communities has become more complex
  • "Abundance Distributions Imply Elevated Complexity of Post-Paleozoic Marine Ecosystems" / 24 November 2006 / Peter J. Wagner, Matthew A. Kosnik, and Scott Lidgard / Science, v.314, n.5803, p.1289-1292
• A universe like no other, or is it? / 24 November 2006 / Stephen Battersby / New Scientist, n.2579 — the anthropic principle cannot make useful predictions about the universe
• 4.5 magnitude quake shakes Hawaii's Big Island / November 24, 2006 / CNN (Associated Press)
• A Rejoinder to the Refutation of Adam and Eve / November 24, 2006 / Corey Gilkes / Trinicenter — time to deconstruct the social legacy of the myth
• "Anti-evolutionists raise their profile in Europe" / 23 November 2006 / Almut Graebsch and Quirin Schiermeier / Nature, v.444, p.406-407 — the teaching of alternative theories to evolution in schools is not just an issue in the United States
• CORRESPONDENCE: "Religious authorities overrule scientists in Iran" / 23 November 2006 / Kamran Behnia / Nature, v.444, p.422
• "Life in the universal porridge" / 23 November 2006 / Jim Al-Khalili / Nature, v.444, p.423-424 — What were the chances that the conditions in the Universe would be just right for life?
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Bear necessities
• "Global variation in copy number in the human genome" / 23 November 2006 / Richard Redon, et al. / Nature, v.444, p.444-454
  • "Human genomics: In search of normality" / 23 November 2006 / Kevin V. Shianna and Huntington F. Willard / Nature, v.444, p.428-429 — The first map of copy-number variation in the human genome has been created. It is now feasible to examine the role of such genome variation in disease and to explore in depth the extent of 'normal' variability.
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Genomics: vive les diffιrences
• Mirror, Mirror / November-December 2006 / G. A. Bradshaw and Robert M. Sapolsky / American Scientist — evidence that psychology, like biology, is conserved between human and nonhuman species augurs a shake-up for science and society
• Snowflakes and Snow Crystals / California Institute of Technology
• The evolutionary revolutionary / March 27, 2005 / Drake Bennett / Boston Globe — in the 1970s, Robert Trivers wrote a series of papers that transformed evolutionary biology

NOVEMBER 24

• How Science and Faith Can Exist in Harmony / December 3, 2006 / Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church, Maryland — Francis S. Collins to kick off spiritual journeys series
• Turkish book traces terror’s origin to Darwin’s theory / November 24, 2006 / Indian Express (Reuters)
  • Creation vs Darwin takes Muslim twist in Turkey / 22 November 2006 / Alarab Online
• Greatest Mass Extinction Gave Oceans a Face Lift / 23 November 2006 / Jeanna Bryner / Live Science
• Both sides find value in creation / November 23, 2006 / Walter Witschey / Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) — Christianity and science share common values
• Did an eco-disaster spawn complex life? / 23 November 2006 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• Humans show big DNA differences / November 23, 2006 / BBC News — the genetic make-up of humans can vary hugely -- far more than was previously thought
• Anti-Religion Extremist Dawkins Advocates Eugenics / November 21, 2006 / Hilary White / Life Site News — says Nazi regime’s genocidal project “may not be bad”
• Stem cells, Holy Spirit go hand in hand at SBU / November 21, 2006 / Steve Koehler / News-Leader (Springfield, Missouri) — at Southwest Baptist University classes are being offered that give both the scientific theories and religious beliefs about biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics
• A Free-for-All on Science and Religion / November 21, 2006 / George Johnson / New York Times
• Returning to pro-evolution standards could take months / November 21, 2006 / John Hanna / Wichita Eagle, Kansas (Associated Press)
• Historic Volcanic Eruption Shrunk the Mighty Nile River / November 21, 2006 / Mike Bettwy (Goddard Space Flight Center) / NASA
• "The Specified Complexity of Retinal Imagery" / June 2006 / David E. Stoltzmann / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.43, n.1, p.4-12

NOVEMBER 21

• Scientists Explore Function of 'Junk DNA' / November 21, 2006 / University of Iowa / Science Daily
• Gender-bending boy fruit flies fight like girls / November 19, 2006 / Will Dunham / Reuters
• Godless Dawkins challenges schools / November 19, 2006 / Steven Swinford / Times Online (UK) — the Oxford University professor and campaigning atheist is planning to take his fight against God into the classroom by flooding schools with anti-religious literature
• Maps of Ancient Earth Need Revising / 17 November 2006 / Ker Than / Live Science — a section of the Appalachian Mountains discovered in Mexico is forcing scientists to redraw their maps of ancient Earth
• Hubble sees dark energy's youth / 17 November 2006 / Geoff Brumfiel / Nature (news@nature) — ancient supernovae show that mysterious force existed early in Universe
• Injured robots learn to limp / 16 November 2006 / Heidi Ledford / Nature (news@nature) — must...keep...going...complete...mission
• Science and the Search for Meaning: Perspectives from International Scientists / November 2006 / Jean Staune (editor) / Templeton Foundation Press — see also Amazon
• Understanding Genesis: Contemporary Adventist Perspectives / October 2006 / Brian S. Bull, Fritz Guy, and Ervin Taylor (editors) / Adventist Today — see also Amazon
• Intelligent Design and Fundamentalist Opposition to Evolution / October 2006 / Angus M. Gunn / McFarland — see also Amazon
• Why the Science and Religion Dialogue Matters: Voices from the International Society for Science and Religion / October 2006 / Fraser Watts and Kevin Dutton (editors) / Templeton Foundation Press — see also Amazon
• Science and Grace: God's Reign in the Natural Sciences / March 2006 / Tim Morris and Don Petcher / Crossway Books — see also Amazon

NOVEMBER 19

• Science Gives Christians Upper Hand Over Atheists / November 18, 2006 / Lillian Kwon / Christian Post
• 99.5 Percent Like a Neanderthal / November 18, 2006 / New York Times
• Unraveling Where Chimp and Human Brains Diverge / November 17, 2006 / University of California, Los Angeles / Science Daily
• Neanderthal bone gives DNA clues / November 16, 2006 / CNN (Associated Press)
• Church Hopes to Make DNA Decoding Accessible / August 4, 2006 / Katherine M. Gray / Harvard Crimson — George Church, director of Harvard’s Personal Genome Project, hopes to push costs for DNA sequencing below ,000 making personalized genomics and medicine a possibility
• Chaos and Harmony: Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century / March 2006 / Trinh Xuan Thuan / Templeton Foundation Press — see also Amazon
• "Gas age–ice age differences and the chronology of the Vostok ice core, 0-100 ka" / 2006 / M. L. Bender, et al / J. Geophys. Res., v.111, D21115

NOVEMBER 17

• The biggest questions ever asked / 18 November 2006 / New Scientist, n.2578, p.31
  • What is reality? / Roger Penrose — Can we be sure that the world we experience is not just a figment of our imaginations?
  • What is life? / Robert Hazen — if we encountered alien life, chances are we wouldn't recognise it -- not even if it were here on Earth
  • Do we have free will? / Patricia Churchland — the more we find out about how the brain works, the less room there seems to be for personal choice or responsibility
  • What is consciousness? / Paul Broks — How does the brain, with its diverse distributed functions, come to arrive at a unified sense of identity?
  • What happens after you die? / Mary Roach — we have all wondered if there is an afterlife, but only a few are brave -- or foolish -- enough to try and find out
  • What comes after Homo sapiens? / James Hughes — all species are fated either to die out or to evolve into something else -- all except humans, who have a chance of a transcendent future
  • Will we ever have a theory of everything? / Michio Kaku — 2000 years of rational enquiry may be approaching their crowning glory
  • Is the universe deterministic? / Vlatko Vedral — however you look at it, the answer seems to be "maybe"
• Beyond belief: In place of God / 18 November 2006 / Michael Brooks and Helen Phillips / New Scientist, n.2578 — can secular science ever oust religious belief -- and should it even try
• Solar system might not be as young as it looks / 18 November 2006 / New Scientist, n.2578
• Darwin got it right -- it's survival of the fastest / November 17, 2006 / Lewis Smith / Times Online (UK)
• Evangelical atheists crusade against ‘pernicious’ religions / November 17, 2006 / Logan Gage / The Examiner
• Scientists Discover Role for Dueling RNAs / November 17, 2006 / Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research / Science Daily — a class of RNA molecules, previously thought to have no function, may in fact protect sex cells from self-destructing
• "Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal Genomic DNA" / 17 November 2006 / James P. Noonan, Graham Coop, Sridhar Kudaravalli, Doug Smith, Johannes Krause, Joe Alessi, Feng Chen, Darren Platt, Svante Pδδbo, Jonathan K. Pritchard, and Edward M. Rubin / Science, v.314, n.5802, p.1113-1118
  • Neanderthal DNA to give up his secrets / 18 November 2006 / New Scientist, n.2578, p.20
  • PALEOGENETICS: "The Dawn of Stone Age Genomics" / 17 November 2006 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.314, n.5802, p.1068-1071
  • PALEOGENETICS: "A Neandertal Legacy?" / 17 November 2006 / Michael Balter / Science, v.314, n.5802, p.1071
  • Neanderthal DNA partially sequenced / November 16, 2006 / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / World Science
• 'Lizard Isles' reveal natural selection at work / 16 November 2006 / Roxanne Khamsi / New Scientist
• 'Dover' heads to Par / November 16, 2006 / Pamela McClintock / Variety — Paramount Pictures has hired Ron Nyswaner to pen the screenplay for "Dover," based on the landmark 2005 trial that stopped a Pennsylvania school board from teaching "intelligent design"
• The problem with Intelligent Design / November 15, 2006 / Natan Slifkin / Jerusalem Post
• Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputation / November 2006 / Martyn Amos / Atlantic Books — see also Amazon
  • review: 18 November 2006 / Tom Simonite / New Scientist, n.2578, p.80
• Thomas Aquinas vs. The Intelligent Designers / Michael W. Tkacz / Socratic Club (Gonzaga University) — what is God’s finger doing in my pre-biotic soup
• "Creation, Evolution, and Thomas Aquinas" / 2000 / William E. Carroll / Revue des Questions Scientifiques, v.171, n.4, p.319-347

NOVEMBER 16

• How to get your genes switched on / 16 November 2006 / New Scientist — whereas standard RNAi silences a target gene, the new technique boosts gene activity, providing a genetic "on" switch
• "Creationists attack secular education in Russia" / 16 November 2006 / Georgy S. Levit, Uwe Hoίfeld, and Lennart Olsson / Nature, v.444, p.265
• "Creationism, evolution: nothing has been proved" / 16 November 2006 / Maciej Giertych / Nature, v.444, p.265
• "Upper Palaeolithic infant burials" / 16 November 2006 / Thomas Einwφgerer, Herwig Friesinger, Marc Hδndel, Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, Ulrich Simon, and Maria Teschler-Nicola / Nature, v.444, p.285
• "Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA" / 16 November 2006 / Richard E. Green, et al. / Nature, v.444, p.330-336
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Neanderthal Genomics
  • What happened to the Neanderthals? Check their DNA / November 16, 2006 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor
  • Neanderthal: 99.5 Percent Human / 15 November 2006 / Ker Than / Live Science
  • Scientists mapping genetic blueprint of Neanderthals / November 15, 2006 / Dan Vergano / USA Today
  • New Machine Sheds Light on DNA of Neanderthals / November 15, 2006 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Faith Matters: Why can kids talk faith but adults cannot? / November 15, 2006 / Rene Schafer Horton / Explorer, v.13, n.46 (Arizona)
• The "tolerant" Sir Elton wants to ban religion / November 15, 2006 / Michael Medved / townhall.com — are secular militants, or believers, the bigger source of narrow-mindedness
• What's the Difference Between Mice and Men? / November 14, 2006 / Public Library of Science / Science Daily — It's often said that a man shares 30% of his genes with a banana, rather more with a fruit fly, and yet more with a mouse; so why are these organisms so different if many of their genes are so similar?
• Judge's public comments called activism for Darwinism / November 14, 2006 / James Patterson / Baptist Press — Federal Judge John E. Jones III has been on the campaign trail in behalf of his ruling upholding Darwinism against Intelligent Design
• Intelligent Design suffers setbacks in midterm elections / November 14, 2006 / Erin Roach / Baptist Press
• Presuppositions and Evidence / 14 November 2006 / Cross Rhythms — Answers in Genesis explains the difference
• The New Unbelievers / November 5, 2006 / Jay Tolson / U.S. News & World Report — books on atheism are hot, but do they have anything fresh to say
• How to Live with Delusion / November 2006 / David J. Tyler / Biblical Creation Society — a response to The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Knowing Things for Sure: Science and Truth / July 2006 / Mariano Artigas / University Press of America — see also Amazon
• The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon / June 2006 / Brian Clegg / St. Martin's Press — see also Amazon
• Exoplanets / University of California & Carnegie Institution — extrasolar planet search
• Genetics beyond Genes / International PostGenetics Society — the conceptual meltdown of 'gene thesis' and 'junkDNA antithesis' demands a synthesis -- PostGenetics

NOVEMBER 14

• Loving God with All Your Mind (apologetics conference) / November 16-18, 2006 / McLean Bible Church (Vienna, Virginia)
• Darwin evolves in movie theaters / November 14, 2006 / Borys Kit / Reuters — "Evolution's Captain" is based on a novel about Robert FitzRoy, the captain of the H.M.S. Beagle, and the relationship developed with Charles Darwin
  • Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage Aboard the Beagle / June 2004 / Peter Nichols / HarperCollins — see also Amazon
• You are what your grandmother ate / 13 November 2006 / Roxanne Khamsi / New Scientist — a mother’s diet can change the behaviour of a specific gene for at least two subsequent generations
• A scientist's willing leap for morality / November 12, 2006 / Frank Wilson / Philadelphia Inquirer — in The Language of God, Francis Collins sees evolution as elegant creation, and God as the answer where science can't go
• Got God? No way / November 11, 2006 / Brad A. Greenberg / Los Angeles Daily News — evangelical atheists increase visibility
• Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest / November 2006 / John G. West / Discovery Institute Press — see also Amazon
  • New Book Examines Misguided Quest of Darwin's Conservatives / November 13, 2006 / Anika Smith / Evolution News & Views
• Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science / May 2006 / John F. Haught / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• "How accurate is 'paleomagnetic dating'? New evidence from historical lavas from Mount Etna" / 2006 / F. Speranza, S. Branca, M. Coltelli, F. D'Ajello Caracciolo, and L. Vigliotti / J. Geophys. Res., v.111, B12S33
• "Geomagnetic excursion captured by multiple volcanoes in a monogenetic field" / 2006 / John Cassidy / Geophys. Res. Lett., v.33, L21310
• "Symmetry and stability of the geomagnetic field" / 2006 / R. S. Coe and G. A. Glatzmaier / Geophys. Res. Lett., v.33, L21311
• Random Mutation Generator — do your own Darwinian evolution experiments
• Rumours of Another World / November 2003 / Philip Yancey / Christianity Magazine
• The Universe Has a Mind of Its Own / February 1, 2001 / Karl Giberson (interviewer) / Science & Theology News — a conversation with Freeman Dyson, 2000 Templeton Prize Winner
• Templeton Prize Address / 1995 / Paul Davies / Australian Centre for Astrobiology

NOVEMBER 12

• Astrobiology, Comets and the Origin of Life / 2007 / Chandra Wickramasinghe / World Scientific — see also Amazon
• The God-Delusion? Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the Meaning of Life / November 20, 2006 / Alister E. McGrath and David Helfand / Veritas Forum, Columbia University
• BOOK REVIEW: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and E.O. Wilson on the gospel of science / November 12, 2006 / Robert Lee Hotz / Los Angeles Times
• Smoggy skies 'created life on Earth' / 11 November 2006 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
• In scientific predictions, the only certainty is nothing is certain / November 10, 2006 / Carol Glatz / Catholic New Service
• Lawsuit Challenges Academic 'Freedom' / November 7, 2006 / Wendy McElroy / Fox News — Does a professor have the right to require his students to comply with a certain political or social view in order to pass a course?
• Reason and reverence / November 1, 2006 / William R. Murry / Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations — a new religious humanism is emerging that offers depth, meaning, and purpose without sacrificing intellectual honesty or the spiritual dimension
• The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics / September 2006 / Robert Oerter / Plume (Penguin) — see also Amazon
• Dinosaurs: Where Did They Come From ... and Where Did They Go? / Summer 2006 / Elaine Graham-Kennedy / Pacific Press
  • Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark? / September 19, 2006 / Gerry Chudleigh / Pacific Union Conference
  • Adventist Scientist Publishes Book on Dinosaurs / September 13, 2006 / Nicole Batten / Pacific Press (media release)
  • CIRCLE: Curriculum and Instruction Resource Center Linking Educators
• The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization / June 2006 / Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith / Bear & Co — see also Amazon
  • review: July 21, 2006 / Lee Prosser / Ghost Village
• Ethics of Emerging Technologies: Scientific Facts and Moral Challenges / April 2006 / Thomas F. Budinger and Miriam D. Budinger / Wiley — see also Amazon
• The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos / April 2006 / Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams / Riverhead (Penguin) — see also Amazon
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  • review: October 16, 2006 / Jeff Foust / Space Review
• Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought / March 2006 / Tony Robbin / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
• Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design / February 2006 / Henry Petroski / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind / February 2006 / Eric R. Kandel / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
• Flat Earth / Wikipedia
• Ancient India's Contribution to Cosmology / Richard L. Thompson / United India — the cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana
• Theology and Modern Physics / November 2005 / Peter E. Hodgson / Ashgate Pub. — see also Amazon
• Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist / October 2005 / Roger Hahn / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions / October 2005 / Lawrence M. Krauss / Viking (Penguin) — see also Amazon
• A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen / October 2005 / Joe Jackson / Viking (Penguin) — see also Amazon
• Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America / August 2005 / Philip Dray / Random House — see also Amazon
• Comets: Nature, Dynamics, Origin, and their Cosmogonical Relevance / August 2005 / Julio Angel Fernαndez / Springer-Verlag — see also Amazon
• Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System / June 2005 / Paul Clancy, Andrι Brack, and Gerda Horneck / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Very High Energy Cosmic Gamma Radiation: A Crucial Window on the Extreme Universe / July 2004 / Felix A. Aharonian / World Scientific — see also Amazon
• An Introduction to Astrobiology / June 2004 / Iain Gilmour and Mark A. Sephton (editors) / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon

NOVEMBER 10

• Blueprint for a Neanderthal / 11 November 2006 / Dan Jones / New Scientist, n.2577 — How like us were they?
• Gravity's secret / 11 November 2006 / Stuart Clark / New Scientist, n.2577 — in a twist that not even Einstein expected, large masses may exert a swirling influence when they rotate
• Survival of the nicest / 11 November 2006 / Lee Alan Dugatkin / New Scientist, n.2577 — the quest for a biological explanation for altruism is intricately linked to our ideas of goodness
• Altered half-life / 11 November 2006 / Rudi van Nieuwenhove Halden / New Scientist, n.2577, p.26
• Milky Way's Neighbouring Galaxies Have Different History / November 10, 2006 / European Southern Observatory / Science Daily
• "Sea Urchin Genome Confirms Kinship to Humans and Other Vertebrates" / 10 November 2006 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.314, n.5801, p.908-909
• SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY MEETING: "Soft Tissue in Dinosaur Fossils? The Evidence Hardens" / 10 November 2006 / Science, v.314, n.5801, p.920
• "Telling the time" / 9 November 2006 / Rex Dalton / Nature, v.444, p.134-135 — geochronologists are pinning down dates in deep time better than ever before
• "An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins" / 9 November 2006 / John A. Long, Gavin C. Young, Tim Holland, Tim J. Senden, and Erich M. G. Fitzgerald / Nature, v.444, p.199-202
  • EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Tetrapods: the long march
• Anti-ID Bias in Journal of the History of Biology / November 9, 2006 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views
• Science?! We don't need no stinkin' science / November 9, 2006 / Richard Hooper / Monsters & Critics (United Press International)
• A date with Ken Miller / November 9, 2006 / Answers in Genesis — on October 26 a Brown University biology professor presented a talk entitled “Science, God & Intelligent Design: Why All of These Matter in the 2006 Ohio School Board Elections”
• A Creator God and Creationism in State Constitutions / November 9, 2006 / Jerry Bergman / Revolution Against Evolution
• Could our big brains come from Neanderthals? / November 8, 2006 / CNN (Reuters)
• Tonga volcanic eruption seen by yacht crew / 8 November 2006 / Matangi (Tonga Online)
  • New island emerges in Tonga / 6 November 2006 / Matangi (Tonga Online)
  • Fredrik and Crew on Maiken (blog) / August 17, 2006
• "What can biology teach us?" / 2006 / Richard Jones / Nature Nanotechnology, v.1, p.85-86 — Is it possible to use modern science and engineering techniques to improve on nature, or has evolution already found the best solutions?
• Speculations on biology, information and complexity / Gregory