Geoscience Research Institute
— News Archive (December 2007)
DISCLAIMER: The following links do not necessarily represent endorsement by the Geoscience Research Institute, but are meant to provide information from a wide range of viewpoints and expertise on scientific issues, religious issues, and the interface between the two, particularly in the area of creation and evolution.
DECEMBER 30
- JOURNAL: Evolution: Education and Outreach / January 2008 / Springer — v.1, n.1 of new journal
- ARN-Announce, n.70 / December 31, 2007 / Dennis Wagner (editor) / Access Research Network — describes many of the upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
- Judge explains 'intelligent design' ruling / December 30, 2007 / Robert A. Cohn / The St. Louis Jewish Light
- Evangelicals gather to brainstorm / December 29, 2007 / Rich Barlow / Boston Globe — the "Emerging Evangelical Intelligentsia"
- Top 10 Darwin and Design News Stories of 2007 / December 28, 2007 / PR Newswire — Access Research Network has just released its annual top 10 stories and resources for the year ending in 2007 - http://www.arn.org/top10/
- Faith-based science / December 27, 2007 / Houston Chronicle — state recognition of a creationist institute's degree would undermine science teacher credentials
- Science and Faith: Be vigilant on how they intersect in our schools / December 27, 2007 / Dallas Morning News — creationism institute should stay out of science education
- How Did Defense/Attack Structures Come About? / December 27, 2007 / Andy McIntosh and Bodie Hodge / Answers in Genesis — many people question the goodness of God when they see “nature, red in tooth and claw”
- Scientists probe genomes, looking for what makes us unique / December 27, 2007 / Robert C. Cowen / Christian Science Monitor — by studying a person's DNA, researchers may revolutionize medical practice, but some warn that it could unfairly stigmatize individuals
- 'Test tube universe' hints at unifying theory / 26 December 2007 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
- D'Souza's Comeback / December 25, 2007 / Alan Roebuck / American Thinker — What's So Great About Christianity, a major contribution to the defense of Western Civilization against the threat of atheistic-based leftism
- ARN-Announce, n.69 / December 24, 2007 / Dennis Wagner (editor) / Access Research Network — describes many of the upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
- Science vs Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution / September 2007 / Steve Fuller / Polity Press — see also Amazon
- The Painful Elaboration of the Fatuous / Norman Levitt / December 19, 2007 / eSkeptic (email newsletter of the Skeptics Society) — deconstruction of Steve Fuller’s postmodernist critique of evolution
- The Creationist Debate: The Encounter between the Bible and the Historical Mind / July 2006 / Arthur McCalla / Continuum — see also Amazon
DECEMBER 24
- Evolution fight threatens Texas / December 23, 2007 / American-Statesman (Austin, TX) — Is Texas destined to become the next Kansas, where bitter evolution politics produced three changes in the science curriculum standards in six years?
- Mystery of the monster hailstones / 23 December 2007 / Ed Douglas / New Scientist, n.2635 — giant lumps of ice have been crushing cars and smashing roofs when there is not a cloud in the sky
- The science of swearing / 22 December 2007 / Laura Spinney / New Scientist, n.2635 — bad language is almost universal, but why do we do it and what makes it different to other language
- The big sleep: How dinosaurs die / 22 December 2007 / Graham Lawton / New Scientist, n.2635 — Why are dinosaurs so often found in the same position? Dead birds of prey may have provided the answer
- NEWS REVIEW 2007: Mystery of a giant void in space / 22 December 2007 / Anil Ananthaswamy / New Scientist, n.2635, p.21
- NEWS REVIEW 2007: The Earth reveals its secrets / 22 December 2007 / Catherine Brahic / New Scientist, n.2635, p.24
- NEWS REVIEW 2007: Who decides a person's right to life? / 22 December 2007 / Jessica Marshall / New Scientist, n.2635, p.26
- NEWS REVIEW 2007: Return of the parallel universe / 22 December 2007 / Zeeya Merali / New Scientist, n.2635, p.27
- Is time slowing down? / 21 December 2007 / Zeeya Merali / New Scientist, n.2635
- ICR seeks to grant degrees in Texas / December 21, 2007 / National Center for Science Education
- BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: "Human Genetic Variation" / 21 December 2007 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.318, n.5858, p.1842-1843
- EVOLUTION: "Did an Asteroid Shower Kick-Start the Great Diversification?" / 21 December 2007 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.318, n.5858, p.1854
- Has the missing link of whale evolution been found? / December 21, 2007 / David Tyler / Access Research Network
- Whale 'missing link' discovered / December 20, 2007 / Helen Briggs / BBC News — the whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence
- Plan for Creationist Theme Park Draws Fire / December 20, 2007 / Kevin McCandless / CNS News — a British charity has drawn national attention -- and come under attack -- over plans to build a theme park, including a television studio, to promote creationism
- Hell Froze Over Earlier Than We Thought / December 20, 2007 / Clara Moskowitz / Discover Magazine — ancient diamonds suggest a thick skin on the early Earth
- Green Light for Institute on Creation in Texas / December 19, 2007 / Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times
- Creationist school offers a degree of controversy / December 19, 2007 / Melissa Ludwig / San Antonio Express-News — science teachers are not allowed to teach creationism alongside evolution in Texas public schools, but that's exactly what the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research wants them to do
- "Search for past life on Mars: Physical and chemical characterization of minerals of biotic and abiotic origin" / 19 December 2007 / F. Stalport, et al. / Geophysical Research Letters, v.34, n.24, L24102
- Moon is younger and more Earth-like than thought / 19 December 2007 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist
- The Institute for Creation Research and It's Quest for Official Texas Certification to Award Master's Degrees in Science Education / December 17, 2007 / Steven Schafersman / Texas Citizens for Science
- How To Excuse Yourself from Your Body / December 10, 2007 / Josie Glausiusz / Discover Magazine — once you see--and feel--a virtual self, your mind can move into a mannequin
- Scientist of the Year: David Charbonneau / December 6, 2007 / Stephen Ornes / Discover Magazine — his research heats up the search for alien life--and finds some amazing planets along the way
- Bizarre Dinosaurs / December 2007 / John Updike / National Geographic — fossil finds are revealing how evolution took some dinosaurs in bizarre directions, from domed skulls to sickle-shaped toenails
- On the Wings of the Albatross / December 2007 / Carl Safina / National Geographic — carried by the longest wingspans of any bird, they soar for thousands of miles without ever setting webbed foot on land
- Are Aliens Among Us? / December 2007 / Paul Davies / Scientific American — in pursuit of evidence that life arose on Earth more than once, scientists are searching for microbes that are radically different from all known organisms
- Bigfoot Anatomy / December 2007 / Marguerite Holloway / Scientific American — Sasquatch is just a legend, right? According to the evidence, maybe not, argues Jeffrey Meldrum--a position he holds despite ostracism from his fellow anthropologists and university colleagues
- Evolution in a Petri Dish / December 2007 / Luis Miguel Ariza / Scientific American — in the lab, seeing how infectious disease triggers new species
- An Unauthorized Autobiography of Science / December 2007 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American — journal article explanations of how science works often differ from the actual process
- The 6 Most Important Experiments in the World / November 14, 2007 / Discover Magazine — from the smartest artificial brain to the first artificial life
- Report of Evaluation of the Institute for Creation Research (pdf) / November 8, 2007 / Texas Citizens for Science
- CONDENSED EDITION: On the Origin of Species / Charles Darwin
DECEMBER 19
- "After a dozen years of progress the origin of angiosperms is still a great mystery" / 20 December 2007 / Michael W. Frohlich and Mark W. Chase / Nature, v.450, p.1184-1189
- "Physics: A quantum less quirky" / 20 December 2007 / Seth Lloyd / Nature, v.450, p.1167-1168 — what physicists want for Christmas is a solution to the philosophical conundrums of quantum mechanics
- Whales may be related to deer-like beast / December 19, 2007 / Seth Borenstein / Yahoo! News
- Evolution with a Restricted Number of Genes / December 18, 2007 / National Research Center for Environment and Health / Science Daily
- Laws of Nature, Source Unknown / December 18, 2007 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
- Darwin’s Era, Modern Themes: Science, Faith and Publication / December 18, 2007 / Cornelia Dean / New York Times
- Monkeys add up like we do / 18 December 2007 / Heidi Ledford / Nature News — rhesus monkeys master basic addition in a similar way to humans
- Moving beyond Darwinism to understand human variation / December 18, 2007 / David Tyler / Access Research Network
- Bad Ideas Can Be Contagious / December 17, 2007 / Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post, p.A03
- Creationist College Advances in Texas / December 17, 2007 / Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed
- Proving Evolution, Doggy-Breeding Style / December 17, 2007 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
- Skin Color Evolution in Fish and Humans Determined by Same Genetic Machinery / December 17, 2007 / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Science Daily
- Sandia supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster / December 17, 2007 / contact: Neal Singer / Sandia National Laboratories — smaller asteroids may pose greater danger than previously believed
- Mammoth tusks show up meteorite shower / 12 December 2007 / Rex Dalton / Nature News — fossils could provide a new gold mine for micrometeorite hunters
- Dino of the day -- Student-o-saurs / December 12, 2007 / Daniel Cressey / Nature blog
- Wheel of Spirit hints at life on Mars / December 11, 2007 / Daniel Cressey / Nature blog
- Is evolution speeding up? / December 11, 2007 / Daniel Cressey / Nature blog
- "Evangelical Biologists and Evolution" / 1 July 2005 / Science, v.309, n.5731, p.51
DECEMBER 17
- Scientists enter brave new world of synthetic life / December 17, 2007 / Rick Weiss / Houston Chronicle
- In times of action, not one to retreat / December 16, 2007 / Julie Johnson / Bend Bulletin (Oregon) — "I am more and more of the opinion that God's direct creation of the world as a young universe has very definite scientific validity," Vasa said ...
- "Myths about moths: a study in contrasts" / March 2006 / D. W. Rudge / Endeavour, v.30, n.1, p.19-23
- "Did Kettlewell commit fraud? Re-examining the evidence" / 2005 / David Wÿss Rudge / Public Understanding of Science, v.14, n.3, p.249-268 — Kettlewell is famous for investigations on the phenomenon of industrial melanism, which are widely regarded as the classic demonstration of natural selection
DECEMBER 16
- Science, Evolution, and Creationism / 2008 / Steering Committee on Science and Creationism / National Academies Press — see also Amazon
- Losses of Long-established Genes Contribute to Human Evolution / December 15, 2007 / University of California, Santa Cruz / Science Daily
- Charles Darwin, The Last Icon of Evolution? / December 15, 2007 / Roddy Bullock / The ID Report (Access Research Network)
- The gene decoder at work / December 15, 2007 / Karen Kaplan / Los Angeles Times — Dr. Francis Collins explores every twist of DNA and finds a deeper meaning beyond the natural world
- Creation college seeks state's OK to train teachers / December 15, 2007 / Holly K. Hacker / Dallas Morning News — Dallas school plans master's in science education, fueling debate over teaching evolution
- Rewarding China's fossil hunters / 15 December 2007 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2634
- Is the seat of the soul in the brain? / 15 December 2007 / New Scientist, n.2634
- Modern times causing human evolution to accelerate / 14 December 2007 / David Holzman / New Scientist, n.2634
- Menopause sets humans apart from chimps / 14 December 2007 / Rowan Hooper / New Scientist
- Evolution, Intelligent Design, or God? / December 14, 2007 / Bill Gray / Conservative Voice
- Gliese 581: Extrasolar Planet Might Indeed Be Habitable / December 14, 2007 / Astronomy & Astrophysics / Science Daily
- The Comer controversy continues / December 14, 2007 / National Center for Science Education — Christine Comer was forced to resign from her post at the Texas Education Agency, apparently because she forwarded a brief e-mail announcing a lecture on "intelligent design"
- Jail for deadly creation clash / December 14, 2007 / Sydney Morning Herald
- How can anyone not believe in God? / December 14, 2007 / Don Reynolds / Register-Mail (Galesburg, Illinois)
- Friday Five: William A. Dembski / December 14, 2007 / Devon Williams / Citizen Link — Dembski has devoted years to researching intelligent design, is a research professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has been featured on the front page of The New York Times
- "Carnivorous Fungi from Cretaceous Amber" / 14 December 2007 / Alexander R. Schmidt, Heinrich Dörfelt, and Vincent Perrichot / Science, v.318, n.5857, p.1743
- Worm-eating fungus trapped in amber / 13 December 2007 / Matt Kaplan / Nature News — ancient sample catches carnivorous fungus in the act
- Part of Global-Warming Model May Be Wrong / December 13, 2007 / Fox News
- Happy Newton Day! / 13 December 2007 / Richard Dawkins / New Statesman — December 25th is a date to celebrate not because it is the disputed birthday of the "son of God" but because it is the actual birthday of one of the world's greatest men
- Selection Spurred Recent Evolution, Researchers Say / December 11, 2007 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
- Academic Freedom and Evolution / December 10, 2007 / Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed — Richard Colling said that the bans on what he can teach have hurt him deeply because he feels that he was trying to help his church and its students
- Why Atheists Are So Angry / December 9, 2007 / Dinesh D'Souza / townhall.com
- Apples, oranges, creation, evolution / December 9, 2007 / Howard Troxler / St. Petersburg Times (Florida) — intelligent design and evolution are not opposite things, but entirely separate matters
- Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice / October 2007 / Ronald M. Green / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
- Showing the Intelligence of Design / Caroline Crocker
- The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery / September 2006 / Catherine Brighton / Frances Lincoln — see also Amazon; discovery of the first complete fossil of an Ichthyosaurus told for young readers
- "Intentional Deception: Intelligent Design's Wedge of Creationism" / 2004 / Bruce Grant / Skeptic, v.11, n.2, p.84-86
- Humbled by the Genome's Mysteries / February 19, 2001 / Stephen Jay Gould / New York Times
- "Advice to Christian Philosophers" / October 1984 / Alvin Plantinga / Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers, v.1, n.3, p.253-271
DECEMBER 13
- The Postmodern Face of Science / December 13, 2007 / David Tyler / Access Research Network
- More 'Functional' DNA in Genome Than Previously Thought / December 13, 2007 / Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions / Science Daily
- 'Eye ancestor' debunks ID nonsense / December 13, 2007 / Sydney Morning Herald
- "Coevolution with viruses drives the evolution of bacterial mutation rates" / 13 December 2007 / Csaba Pal, María D. Maciá, Antonio Oliver, Ira Schachar, and Angus Buckling / Nature, v.450, p.1079-1081
- "Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins" / 13 December 2007 / Katherine K. Whitcome, Liza J. Shapiro, and Daniel E. Lieberman / Nature, v.450, p.1075-1078
- "Transformation and diversification in early mammal evolution" / 13 December 2007 / Zhe-Xi Luo / Nature, v.450, p.1011-1019
- The Pope condemns the climate change prophets of doom / 13 December 2007 / Simon Caldwell / Daily Herald (UK)
- Teaching of evolution to go under microscope / December 13, 2007 / Karen Ayres Smith / Dallas Morning News — director's departure opens door for changes in Texas' curriculum
- Eight Baylor professors join peers voicing support for evolution education / December 12, 2007 / Laura Heinauer / Waco Tribune-Herald (TX)
- 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
- Satirical Monsters More Competition for Darwin / December 11, 2007 / John Chambliss / 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
- Historian: First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists / 11 December 2007 / Heather Whipps / Live Science
- For God's sake, let's stick to science in school / December 11, 2007 / Reed Mahoney / Tallahassee Democrat (FL)
- Parent wants intelligent design in PV / December 11, 2007 / Stacy Millberg / Star Beacon (Ashtabula, OH) — a concerned parent questioned Pymatuning Valley Local School officials at Monday’s meeting, as to how they are teaching the science curriculum regarding the theory of creationism
- Human evolution is 'speeding up' / December 11, 2007 / Anna-Marie Lever / BBC News — humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasingly different
- Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More Different, Not Alike / December 11, 2007 / University of Utah / Science Daily
- Researchers: Human Evolution Speeding Up / December 10, 2007 / Randolph E. Schmid / My Way News (Associated Press)
- Evolution in school discussion enters Florida / December 10, 2007 / Bill Kaczor / Bradenton Herald (Florida)
- Christian biologist fired for beliefs, suit says / December 10, 2007 / Jason Szep / Yahoo! News (Reuters)
- N.M. school board rescinds policy on evolution 'alternatives' / December 10, 2007 / First Amendment Center (Associated Press)
- Consider lessons, complexity of intelligent-design case / December 8, 2007 / Dan Margolies / Kansas City Star
- Why science needs history / December 5, 2007 / Rick Casey / Houston Chronicle — a recent flap at the Texas Education Agency demonstrates why we need to teach history better so we can teach science better
- Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science / December 3, 2007 / National Geographic Press Room — momentous find of dinosaur mummy with fossilized skin and soft tissues
- Petrified Velvet Worms from 425 Million Years Ago Reveal True Ecology of Distant Past / November 26, 2007 / University of Leicester / Science Daily
- Volcano Theory of Dino Die-Off Gets New Support / November 5, 2007 / Richard A. Lovett / National Geographic News
- "Eramosa Lagerstätte--Exceptionally preserved soft-bodied biotas with shallow-marine shelly and bioturbating organisms (Silurian, Ontario, Canada)" / October 2007 / Peter H. von Bitter, Mark A. Purnell, Denis K. Tetreault, and Christopher A. Stott / Geology, v.35, n.10, p.879-882
DECEMBER 10
DECEMBER 9
- Fight against evolution uses new strategy / December 8, 2007 / Winston-Salem Journal (Associated Press)
- The art of the soluble / December 8, 2007 / Colin Tudge / The Guardian (UK) — full of praise for
- Lawsuit claims job tied to faith in natural selection / December 8, 2007 / World Net Daily — researcher sues over dismissal because he didn't 'believe'
- Biologist fired for beliefs, suit says / December 7, 2007 / Beth Daley / Boston Globe — Woods Hole states creationist stance at odds with work
- On intelligent design, a lesson in Political Science 101 / December 7, 2007 / Bud Kennedy / Star-Telegram (Tarrant County, TX)
- "Paleontologists Get X-ray Vision" / 7 December 2007 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.318, n.5856, p.1546-1547
- "Dental Evidence Suggests Neandertals Matured Faster Than We Do" / 7 December 2007 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.318, n.5856, p.1547
- Swiss Evangelicals Heat Up Creationism Debate / December 5, 2007 / Michelle Vu / Christian Post
- "Effects of a large asteroid impact on ultra-violet radiation in the atmosphere" / 5 December 2007 / Haruma Ishida, Kunio Kaiho, and Shoji Asano / Geophysical Research Letters, v.34, n.23, L23805
- Info-lution / December 5, 2007 / Bill Cope / 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
- School Board overturns Policy 401 / December 5, 2007 / Gary Herron / 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
- A move worthy of 'monkey trial' / December 4, 2007 / Bill Wineke / 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
- 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 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
DECEMBER 5
- Ask 'The God Delusion' author Richard Dawkins / 9 December 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.
- Mass extinctions: The Armageddon factor / 8 December 2007 / Michael Reilly / 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?
- Reclaiming the peppered moth for science / 8 December 2007 / Jaap de Roode / 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.
- Commentary: No, science does not 'rest on faith' / 8 December 2007 / A. C. Grayling / 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
- Was life forged in a quantum crucible? / 8 December 2007 / Zeeya Merali / New Scientist, n.2633
- Did a comet kickstart Earth's plate tectonics? / 8 December 2007 / Michael Reilly / New Scientist, n.2633
- Earliest galaxies had building blocks of life / 8 December 2007 / New Scientist, n.2633, p.19
- "Patching together a world view" / 6 December 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
- The physics of information: From entanglement to black holes (debate) / December 5, 2007 / Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Canada / EurekAlert!
- Did 'slushball' Earth help trigger explosion of life? / 5 December 2007 / New Scientist, n.2633
- 'Blind' fish offers insight into vertebrate vision / 5 December 2007 / New Scientist, n.2632
- Life on Earth May Have Originated As the Organic Filling in a Multilayer Sandwich of Mica Sheets / December 5, 2007 / University of California, Santa Barbara / Science Daily
- Evolutionary Theology: How to Love God and Science / December 4, 2007 / Brandon Keim / Wired
- Dark Matter in Newborn Universe Doused Earliest Stars / December 4, 2007 / University of Utah / Science Daily
- Rio Rancho school board rescinds policy on intelligent design / December 4, 2007 / Las Cruces Sun-News, NM (Associated Press)
- School System Changes Science Policy / December 4, 2007 / KOAT (Albuquerque, NM) — the Rio Rancho school board has dissolved a policy allowing alternative theories of evolution to be discussed in public school science classes
- The evolution of faith / December 4, 2007 / Jason Ludwig / Ahwatukee Foothills News (Arizona) — a talk, hosted by a theology professor at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, Calif., will address the relationship between evolution and Christianity in modern times
- Politicization of science / December 4, 2007 / John Young / Waco Tribune-Herald (Texas) — Chris Comer (former director of science curricula for the Texas Education Agency) now joins the ranks of martyrs of science, much like Galileo and Nickolai Vavilov
- Evolution and Texas / December 4, 2007 / New York Times — the scary implication of the abrupt ousting of Christine Comer is that Texas may become the next state to undermine the teaching of evolution
- Mary Midgley on ID Theory / December 4, 2007 / David Tyler / Access Research Network
- Poll: More Americans Believe in Devil than Darwin / December 3, 2007 / Ethan Cole / Christian Post
- Concern Over Scientist's Support for Intelligent Design Surfaced Before Tenure Vote / December 2, 2007 / Chronicle of Higher Education — public support for the idea of intelligent design damaged an Iowa State University astronomer’s prospects for tenure long before his peers voted against his application
- Reason or religion / 1 December 2007 / Ron Gibson / New Scientist, n.2632, p.25
- Evolutionary 'big bang' gave rise to flowering plants / 1 December 2007 / New Scientist, n.2632, p.21
- Acts & Facts, v.36, n.12 (pdf) / December 2007 / Institute for Creation Research
- Gene study adds weight to theory that native people of the Americas arrived in a single main migration across the Bering Strait / November 27, 2007 / Ann Rueter / University of Michigan Health System
- Creation-Evolution Headlines / November 2007 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
- Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet / November 2007 / Ted Nield / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon; an account of the assembly and destruction of supercontinents as well as the development of our understanding of such tectonics
- Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith / October 2007 / Christoph Cardinal Schönborn / Ignatius Press — see also Amazon
- The Mystery of Human Origins: Which theories are compatible with Catholic faith? / August 2006 / Mark Brumley / Ignatius Insight
- Measuring 14C in Fossilized Organic Materials: Confirming the Young Earth Creation-Flood Model / August 4-8, 2003 / John Baumgardner, D. Russell Humphreys, Andrew A. Snelling, and Steven A. Austin / Fifth International Conference on Creationism
DECEMBER 3
- Dino Death Trap / December 9, 2007 / National Geographic Channel — unearths a mass dinosaur grave in an area in western China known to scientists as "The Pit of Death" and "Dinosaur Pompeii"
- Official Leaves Post as Texas Prepares to Debate Science Education Standards / December 3, 2007 / Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times
- Is misdeed a creation of political doctrine? / December 1, 2007 / American Statesman (Austin, TX)
- Hey Science, Don't Mess with Texas / December 1, 2007 / Zach Marks / Yahoo! News — science curriculum director, Chris Comer, forwarded an e-mail announcing a presentation titled, "Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse," by Barbara Forrest
- Evolution Debate Led to Ouster, Official Says / November 30, 2007 / New York Times (Associated Press)
- Is creationism museum good for kids? / December 2, 2007 / James K. Willmot / Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) — mainstream science dismissed at the new Creation Museum
- An intelligently designed response / December 2007 / Nature Methods, v.4, n.12, p.983 — scientists are increasingly likely to be called upon to discuss the myth of intelligent design as a scientific theory
- Human Genome Has Four Times More Imprinted Genes Than Previously Identified / November 30, 2007 / Duke University Medical Center / Science Daily
- How Our Ancestors Were Like Gorillas / November 30, 2007 / University College London / Science Daily
- The creation of a new Giant's Causeway row / November 30, 2007 / Jonathan McCambridge / Belfast Telegraph — report on the creationism versus evolution debate in Ulster ... supporters of the Causeway Creation Committee believe that the Giant's Causeway was created by Noah's flood
- Israeli Says Elusive Biblical Wall Found / November 30, 2007 / Regan E. Doherty / breitbart.com (Associated Press) — a wall mentioned in the Bible's Book of Nehemiah and long sought by archaeologists apparently has been found
- Group Selection, a Theory Whose Time Has Come ... Again / November 29, 2007 / University of Chicago Press Journals / Science Daily
- "God Delusion" publisher may face prosecution / 29 November 2007 / Daren Butler / Reuters
- Dinosaur graveyard may unearth new reasons for their extinction / November 29, 2007 / Times Online (UK) — Spanish scientists have unearthed what could be Europe’s largest dinosaur boneyard
- Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science / November 2007 / John G. West / Intercollegiate Studies Institute — see also Amazon
- Answers, v.2, n.4 / October-December 2007 / Answers in Genesis — the current issue of Answers magazine is completely sold out, so the online version is open to all
- Public acceptance of evolution in 34 countries / 2005 / Live Science — the United States ranked near the bottom, beat only by Turkey
- When Science and Christianity Meet / October 2003 / David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (editors) / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
Geoscience Research Institute
— News Archive (November 2007)
DISCLAIMER: The following links do not necessarily represent endorsement by the Geoscience Research Institute, but are meant to provide information from a wide range of viewpoints and expertise on scientific issues, religious issues, and the interface between the two, particularly in the area of creation and evolution.
NOVEMBER 29
- Obituary: Leslie Orgel (1927–2007) / 29 November 2007 / Gerald F. Joyce / Nature, v.450, p.627 — chemist, molecular biologist and pioneer in the study of the origins of life
- "Modifying theories is the fabric of scientific progress" / 29 November 2007 / Felix E. Schweizer / Nature, v.450, p.610
- "The great debate" / 29 November 2007 / Christopher Thomas Scott / Nature, v.450, p.611 — today's take on the stem-cell field could recede rapidly in tomorrow's rear-view mirror
- "Is artificial life moving any closer?" / 29 November 2007 / Greg Bear / Nature, v.450, p.612
- Trading Places / November 28, 2007 / Joseph Bottum / Wall Street Journal — Will the secular left soon attack the religious right for being pro-science?
- Backers battle ISU professor's tenure denial / November 28, 2007 / Lisa Rossi / Des Moines Register (Iowa) — the fight will rage on over Iowa State University astronomy professor Guillermo Gonzalez, who advocated for intelligent design, and lost a bid for tenure
- Evolution vs. creationism / November 28, 2007 / Kendrick Marshall / Lake County News-Sun (Chicago) — Carmel Catholic High School Principal Robert Carroll has 3.8 million-year-old rocks in his office that he found while vacationing in Minnesota a few years ago
- A New Resource for Educators: Discovery Institute’s “The Theory of Intelligent Design: A Briefing Packet for Educators” / November 26, 2007 / Casey Luskin / Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
- Debunking the Galileo Myth / November 26, 2007 / Dinesh D'Souza / townhall.com
NOVEMBER 28
- God, Nature and Design: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / July 10-12, 2008 / speakers include: John Hedley Brooke, Ron Numbers, Michael Ruse, and Richard Swinburne / St Anne's College, Oxford
- Disclosure lacking in ID dispute / November 27, 2007 / Lariat (Baylor University)
- There Once Was a Shark That Ate an Amphibian That Ate a Fish ... / November 27, 2007 / Charles Q. Choi / Yahoo! News (Live Science) — future research could help reconstruct ancient food webs
- Creation and the Flood / November 27, 2007 / Briana Johnson / blog critics — the Flood is a logical explanation for every scientific question and proves the Biblical account of Creation alone is true
- An intelligent new way to support the teaching of evolution / 26 November 2007 / contact: Joan Robinson / EurekAlert!
- Liquid crystal phases of tiny DNA molecules point up new scenario for first life on Earth / 22 November 2007 / contact: Noel Clark (University of Colorado, Boulder ) / EurekAlert!
- Schrödinger's kittens enter the classical world / 22 November 2007 / Philip Ball / Nature News — theory shows how quantum weirdness could still be seen on a large scale
- Giant sea scorpion discovered / 21 November 2007 / Daniel Cressey / Nature News — two-and-a-half metre arthropod prowled ancient rivers
- "The oscillatory nature of the geomagnetic field during reversals" / 15 October 2007 / Clément Narteau, Jean-Louis Le Mouël, and Jean-Pierre Valet / Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.262. n.1-2, p.66-76
- "The local insolation signature of air content in Antarctic ice. A new step toward an absolute dating of ice records" / 30 September 2007 / Dominique Raynaud, Vladimir Lipenkov, Bénédicte Lemieux-Dudon, Paul Duval, Marie-France Loutre, and Nicolas Lhomme / Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.261, n.3-4, p.337-349
- T. rex Blood? Ask the Expert / July 31, 2007 / interview: Mary Schweitzer / Nova (PBS) — her discovery of what may be T. rex blood vessels and red blood cells, the implications of that and similar discoveries, and other matters dinosaurian and paleontological
- Answers in Creation — a creation science ministry believing in an inerrant Word of God, a literal interpretation of Genesis, and a billions of years old earth
- Peril in Paradise: Theology, Science, and the Age of the Earth / October 2005 / Mark S. Whorton / Authentic Media — see also Amazon; biblically based answers that challenge the modern thinking that to be an evangelical Christian is to believe in a young earth
- REVIEW: Krista Bontrager / October 2005 / Connections (Reasons to Believe), v.7, n.4
NOVEMBER 27
- Science & Education / 2009 — special journal issue for the Darwinian Anniversary Year
- The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought / May 2008 / Robert J. Richards / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
- Darwin’s Surprise / December 3, 2007 / Michael Specter / New Yorker — Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct deadly viruses?
- Flowering Plants Evolved Very Quickly Into Five Groups / November 27, 2007 / University of Florida / Science Daily
- The Global Flood as You've Never Seen It / November 27, 2007 / Michael F. Haverluck / CBN News — director of the Center for Scientific Creation, Dr. Walt Brown challenges many of the accepted theories, while offering scientific evidence backing a global flood and a young earth
- Who’s Afraid of “Soulless Scientism”? / November 26, 2007 / John Tierney / New York Times
- 12 Questions With ... President of Creation Museum / November 26, 2007 / Local 12 (Cincinnati, OH) — Ken Ham is President and CEO of Answers in Genesis, and its Creation Museum
- Taking Science on Faith / November 24, 2007 / Paul Davies / New York Times
- RESPONSES: The Reality Club / Jerry Coyne, Nathan Myhrvold, Lawrence Krauss, Scott Atran, Sean Carroll, Jeremy Bernstein, P. Z. Myers, and Lee Smolin / Edge
- Can biology do better than faith? / 2 November 2005 / Edward O. Wilson / New Scientist
- Sunday Morning Commentary / October 18, 2007 / Ben Stein / CBS (craigslist)
- God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science / January 2003 / Neil A. Manson (editor) / Routledge — see also Amazon
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge / March 1998 / Edward O. Wilson / Alfred A. Knopf — see Amazon
NOVEMBER 26
- Creationists Making Monkeys Out of Americans / Chris McGowan / November 26, 2007 / Huffington Post
- Rio Rancho schools could eliminate intelligent design / November 26, 2007 / KOB, Eyewitness News 4 (New Mexico)
- When Night Falls at School, Should Darwin Go Home? / November 25, 2007 / Robin Finn / New York Times
- New Light on Early Formation of Earth and Mars / November 25, 2007 / NASA, Johnson Space Center / Science Daily
- In the crossfire / 24 November 2007 / John Haldane / The Tablet (UK) — The debate surrounding the atheist philosopher Antony Flew's alleged admission of the existence of God has resurfaced with the publication of his latest work, There is a God. Here, a philosophy professor with a ringside seat examines how Flew was embroiled in the culture wars of our time.
- Sunday School for Atheists / November 21, 2007 / Jeninne Lee-St. John / Time
- eSkeptic / October 31, 2007 — the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society
NOVEMBER 25
- CONFERENCE: Darwin Industries / 7-8 February 2008 / Aarhus Universitet (Denmark) — In 2009 Charles Darwin will be celebrated around the world for his 200th birthday 12 February and the 150th anniversary for the publication of On the Origin of Species.
- Natural Laws Vs. Intelligent Design? / November 26, 2007 / Babu G. Ranganathan / Seoul Times
- Rock of Ages, Ages of Rock / November 25, 2007 / Hanna Rosin / New York Times — the First Conference on Creation Geology held on the Cedarville campus in Ohio
- Taking Science on Faith / November 24, 2007 / Paul Davies / New York Times — science has its own faith-based belief system ... all science proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and intelligible way
- The void: Imprint of another universe? / 24 November 2007 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist, n.2631 — an unimaginably vast hole in space might be evidence of another universe beyond our own
- Fundamental constant seems anything but / 24 November 2007 / Michael Brooks / New Scientist, n.2631
- Can't we all just get along? / November 24, 2007 / Sandi Dolbee / Union-Tribune (San Diego) — scholars, students, devotees see a chaotic world in need of inter-religious tolerance
- Tiny DNA Molecules Show Liquid Crystal Phases, Pointing Up New Scenario for First Life on Earth / November 23, 2007 / University of Colorado, Boulder / Science Daily
- "Inconsistencies Between Pangean Reconstructions and Basic Climate Controls" / 23 November 2007 / Clinton M. Rowe, David B. Loope, Robert J. Oglesby, Rob Van der Voo, and Charles E. Broadwater / Science, v.318, n.5854, p.1284-1286
- "Jaw Shows Platypus Goes Way Back" / 23 November 2007 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.318, n.5854, p.1237
- Evolutionary Comparison Finds New Human Genes / November 23, 2007 / Cornell University / Science Daily
- Has observing the universe hastened its end? / 22 November 2007 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist, n.2631
- Mankind 'shortening the universe's life' / 21 November 2007 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
- Analysis confronts model of universe’s formation / November 16, 2007 / Jon Cartwright / Physics World
- "Inferring Design: Evidence of a Preference for Teleological Explanations in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease" / November 2007 / Tania Lombrozo, Deborah Kelemen, and Deborah Zaitchik / Psychological Science, v.18, n.11, p.999-1006
- Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World / November 2007 / Sidney Perkowitz / Columbia University Press — see also Amazon
- "Controls on the patterns of topography and erosion rate in a critical orogen" / 23 October 2007 / Drew Stolar, Gerard Roe, and Sean Willett / Journal of Geophysical Research, v.112, n.F4, F04002
- Gamma Rays from Thunderclouds / October 3, 2007 / Phil Schewe / Physics News Update (American Institute of Physics), n.841, #2
- On God: An Uncommon Conversation / October 2007 / Norman Mailer with Michael Lennon / Random House — see also Amazon
- Norman Mailer on God / November 17, 2007 / Times Online (UK) — Norman Mailer's final book takes the form of a conversation with his fellow writer Michael Lennon exploring the nature of Mailer’s typically idiosyncratic belief in God. Our exclusive extract begins with his thoughts on the creator’s place in history.
- Iconoclastic to the end / November 15, 2007 / Glenn C. Altschuler / Jerusalem Post
- Review: "On God," by Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon / November 4, 2007 / Scott McLemee / Newsday
- Excerpt from 'On God' / November 4, 2007 / Michael Lennon / USA Today
- The Rise of Mailerism / October 7, 2007 / New York Magazine — Norman Mailer’s God, not surprisingly, is a great artist, who created mankind and all the plants and other animals, and could reincarnate them according to his whim. But he was not all-powerful. Because there was the Devil--and the Devil had technology. And lately, the Devil seems to be winning…
- Random to Publish Mailer’s On God / September 24, 2007 / Lynn Andriani / Publishers Weekly
- Norman Mailer Society
- Christian Perspectives in Science: Seminar Series / Fall 2007 / Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI)
- Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes / 21 September 2007 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK) — science fiction looks closer to becoming science fact
- X-Evolutionist.com — reasons why I believe in God
- The First Earth Age, Archaeological Evidence For Creation and Against Evolution / Nick Goggin / Watchmen Bible Study Group
- Fossil Footprints / Genesis Park
- Thousands ... Not Billions / September 2005 / Donald DeYoung / Master Books — see also Amazon
- REVIEW: Stanley Robertson / God of Creation
NOVEMBER 23
- "Producing primate embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer" / 22 November 2007 / J. A. Byrne, D. A. Pedersen, L. L. Clepper, M. Nelson, W. G. Sanger, S. Gokhale, D. P. Wolf, and S. M. Mitalipov / Nature, v.450, p.497-502
- Scientist finds fossilized claw of man-sized sea scorpion / November 21, 2007 / CNN (Associated Press)
- LETTER: Two shills for intelligent design / November 21, 2007 / Herbert Dyer / The Advocate, p.6B (Baton Rouge, LA)
- "Blurring our edges" / 15 November 2007 / Judy Illes / Nature, v.450, p.351-352
- Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (pdf) / November 13, 2007 / Nova (PBS) — briefing packet for educators
- Defending creationism without shame / November 3, 2007 / Jonathan Falwell / World New Daily
- Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington / November 2007 / Matthew Stanley / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
- Why Evolutionary Biology is (so Far) Irrelevant to Law / October 17, 2007 / Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg / Social Science Research Network
- The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics / July 2007 / David Toomey / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
- "Time deconstructed" / 22 November 2007 / Lawrence M. Krauss / Nature, v.450, p.480-481
- REVIEW: October 8, 2007 / Bob Guntrip / Sydney Morning Herald — it may be possible to duck back and forth between the ages
- Planet Earth and the Design Hypothesis / June 2007 / David A. J. Seargent / Hamilton Books — see also Amazon
- Evolution and Religious Creation Myths: How Scientists Respond / June 2007 / Paul F. Lurquin and Linda Stone / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- The Metaphysics Within Physics / May 2007 / Tim Maudlin / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- Isaac Newton / May 2007 / Richard S. Westfall / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- Newton: A Very Short Introduction / February 2007 / Robert Iliffe / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- Art Forms in Nature / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel / August 1998 / Ernst Haeckel, Olaf Breidbach, Richard Hartmann, and Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt / Prestel Publishing — see Amazon
- Art Forms in Nature / 1974 / Ernst Haeckel / Dover Publications — see Amazon
- From Cosmos to Chaos: The Science of Unpredictability / July 2006 / Peter Coles / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness / June 2006 / Philip Clayton / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe / May 2005 / Michael Lockwood / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- Nicolaus Copernicus: Making the Earth a Planet / April 2005 / Owen Gingerich and James MacLachlan / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- Are there alien messages in our DNA strands? / August 9, 2004 / Independent Online (South Africa)
- The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science / July 2001 / Peter Harrison / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
NOVEMBER 21
- Scientists Find Fossil of Enormous Bug / November 21, 2007 / Thomas Wagner / ABC News (Associated Press) — British scientists find ancient fossil of what once was the world's biggest bug
- Stem cell science unlikely to escape politics / November 21, 2007 / Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Los Angeles Times — the controversy over embryonic research probably won't end with the new method that uses mature human cells
- Scientists Bypass Need for Embryo to Get Stem Cells / November 21, 2007 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
- Race to mimic human embryonic stem cells / 20 November 2007 / David Cyranoski / Nature News — 'personalized' tissues come a step closer
- Skin transformed into stem cells / 20 November 2007 / BBC News — human skin cells have been reprogrammed by two groups of scientists to mimic embryonic stem cells with the potential to become any tissue in the body
- 'Time-sharing' Tropical Birds Key to Evolutionary Mystery / November 20, 2007 / Queen's University / Science Daily
- Polk School Board Leans Toward Inclusion of Intelligent Design / November 20, 2007 / John Chambliss / The Ledger (Lakeland, FL)
- Cosmic-ray source still in doubt / 19 November 2007 / Katharine Sanderson / Nature News — high-energy cosmic rays might not be from active galactic nuclei after all
- Are Aliens Among Us? / November 19, 2007 / Paul Davies / Scientific American — in pursuit of evidence that life arose on Earth more than once, scientists are searching for microbes that are radically different from all known organisms
- Noah’s flood brought farming to Europe / November 19, 2007 / Daniel Cressey / Nature blog
- Dinosaur of the Day: a ‘Flintstones lawnmower’ / November 16, 2007 / Daniel Cressey / Nature blog
- Sun loses crown as biggest body in the Solar System / 16 November 2007 / Michael Hopkin / Nature News — Comet Holmes is now bigger than the Sun. So are we doomed or is there a more mundane explanation?
- Dinosaur discovered after a century on the shelf / 15 November 2007 / Michael Hopkin / Nature News — new sauropod genus lay unappreciated in London museum basement for 113 years
- The most accurate measurement ever made / 14 November 2007 / Philip Ball / Nature News — physicists get down to the theoretical limit of precision
- Cloned monkey stem cells produced / 14 November 2007 / David Cyranoski / Nature News — stem cells extracted from cloned primate embryos
- New great ape fossil / November 14, 2007 / Daniel Cressey / Nature blog
- SETI: Is It Worth It? / 8 November 2007 / Seth Shostak / space.com — search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- The Living End: The Future of Death, Aging and Immortality / November 2007 / Guy Brown / Macmillan — see also Amazon
- "Simple switch turns cells embryonic" / 7 June 2007 / David Cyranoski / Nature, v.447, p.618-619 — technique removes need for eggs or embryos
- Rocks Around the Clock (DVD) / Emil Silvestru / Creation on the Web — geological ‘anomalies’ that secular scientists avoid … because they conflict with the idea of evolution!
NOVEMBER 20
NOVEMBER 18
- Give thanks for a nation of tolerance and faith / November 18, 2007 / Thomas F. Dailey / Morning Call (Pennsylvania)
- INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUES: "A Robotic Future" / 16 November 2007 / Marc S. Lavine, David Voss, and Robert Coontz / Science, v.318, n.5853, p.1083
- Dolly creator Prof Ian Wilmut shuns cloning / 16 November 2007 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
- Evolution lecture hits on middle ground / November 16, 2007 / Morgan Brief / Daily Campus (Southern Methodist University) — cellular biologist Kenneth Miller gave a speech on what the collapse of intelligent design means for science and faith in America in his lecture entitled, "Is it Time to Abandon Darwin?"
- Ancient Retroviruses Spurred Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks in Humans and Other Primates / November 15, 2007 / University of California, Santa Cruz / Science Daily
- Humans and Chimps Differ at Level of Gene Splicing / November 15, 2007 / University of Toronto / Science Daily
- "A runaway collision in a young star cluster as the origin of the brightest supernova" / 15 November 2007 / Simon F. Portegies Zwart and Edward P. J. van den Heuvel / Nature, v.450, p.388-389
- Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial / November 13, 2007 / Nova (PBS) — transcripts ... video
- Evolution wars take a bizarre twist / 18 November 2007 / New Scientist, n.2630, p.7
- Biased Judgment: Comments on NOVA TV’s Judgment Day and its analysis of the Dover ID Trial / November 16, 2007 / David A. DeWitt / Answers in Genesis
- Conservatism's Unintelligent Design / November 14, 2007 / Greg Anrig, Jr. / TPM Cafe (blog)
- The evolution of creationism / November 13, 2007 / Gordy Slack / salon.com — after their notorious legal defeat, intelligent design proponents are resurfacing with insidious new assaults on science
- Small town's fight over evolution echoes national debate / November 13, 2007 / Tom Dorsey / Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
- 2-hour 'Nova' reviews Pa. 'intelligent design' trial / November 13, 2007 / Jonathan Storm / Philadelphia Inquirer
- Goodbye Selfish-Gene: A New Upheaval in the Science of Human Behavior / November 3, 2007 / Dan Agin / Huffington Post (blog)
- The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science / December 2006 / Philip Clayton and Zachary Simpson (editors) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
NOVEMBER 15
- Research in Creation / Fall 2008 — creation science publication and online article database
- Scientists Use Monkey Clones to Extract Stem Cells / November 15, 2007 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
- A Tale of Two Chromosomes / November 14, 2007 / Jean K. Lightner / Answers in Genesis
- Changing Environment Organizes Genetic Structure / November 14, 2007 / Rice University / Science Daily
- Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything / 14 November 2007 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK) — an impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists
- Judgment Day Accurate / November 13, 2007 / National Center for Science Education — a documentary about the seminal Kitzmiller v. Dover trial of 2005 accurately portrays the case that showed intelligent design to be a specific religious viewpoint
- "Universe's Highest-Energy Particles Traced Back to Other Galaxies" / 9 November 2007 / Adrian Cho / Science, v.318, n.5852, p.896-897
- "A Cretaceous Hoofed Mammal from India" / 9 November 2007 / G. V. R. Prasad, O. Verma, A. Sahni, V. Parmar, and A. Khosla / Science, v.318, n.5852, p.937 — paleobiogeography ... clues to the evolution, radiation, and dispersal of mammals
- "Accelerated Uplift and Magmatic Intrusion of the Yellowstone Caldera, 2004 to 2006" / 9 November 2007 / Wu-Lung Chang, Robert B. Smith, Charles Wicks, Jamie M. Farrell, and Christine M. Puskas / Science, v.318, n.5852, p.952-956
- "40Ar/39Ar and field studies of Quaternary basalts in Grand Canyon and model for carving Grand Canyon" / November 2007 / Karl E. Karlstrom, Ryan S. Crow, Lisa Peters, William McIntosh, Jason Raucci, Laura J. Crossey, Paul Umhoefer, and Nelia Dunbar / Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.119, n.11, p.1283-1312 — quantifying the interaction of river incision and normal faulting across the western edge of the Colorado Plateau
- 2nd Annual Science & Religion Forum / October 25, 2007 / Andrews University / Midwest Religion and Science Society
- The Universal Force: Gravity -- Creator of Worlds / October 2007 / Louis Girifalco / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul / September 2007 / Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary / Harper Collins — see also Amazon
- Reconstructing Evolution: New Mathematical and Computational Advances / August 2007 / Olivier Gascuel and Mike Steel (editors) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organisms, Persons / May 2007 / Nancey Murphy and William R. Stoeger (editors) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
- The Roots of Reason: Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution, and Probability / February 2006 / David Papineau / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
NOVEMBER 14
- Jornadas de Creación, Evolución y Educación / 4-7 Febrero 2008 / Universidad Adventista del Plata (Libertador San Martín, Entre Ríos, Argentina)
- "A sixth mass extinction?" / 15 November 2007 / Chris D. Thomas / Nature, v.450, p.349 — past species losses have much to teach us about current and future declines due to human activity
- Powerful Quake Hits Northern Chile / November 14, 2007 / Maria Newman / New York Times
- School Official Opposes Evolution Standards Plan / November 13, 2007 / John Chambliss / The Ledger (Lakeland, FL)
- 'Nova' tackles 'intelligent design' / November 13, 2007 / Rick Bird / Cincinnati Post (Ohio)
- Why evolution should be taught in public schools / 13 November 2007 / Laura H. Kahn / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Does God have a place in a rational world? / 11 November 2007 / Michael Reilly / New Scientist, n.2629
- Life could survive longer on a super-Earth / 11 November 2007 / New Scientist
- Humankind cannot live by rational thought alone / 10 November 2007 / New Scientist, n.2629
- Flying mammal is closest primate relative
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