Why Ida fossil is not the missing link (off site)
Chris Beard, NewScientist, 21 May 2009
"Unbridled hoopla attended the unveiling of a 47-million-year-old-fossil primate skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on 19 May. Found by private collectors in 1983 in Messel, Germany, the press immediately hailed the specimen as a 'missing link' and even the 'eighth wonder of the world'."

Virtual fossils reveal how ancient creatures lived  (off site)
Jo Marchant, 27 May 2009
"BEHIND the war of words over the significance of Ida, the 47-million-year-old-primate fossil  unveiled last week, a quiet revolution in palaeontolgy is unfolding. Thanks to a souped-up version of a technique better known for its use in medical diagnostics, we are gaining unprecedented insights into the way prehistoric creatures lived, breathed and grew."

On the origin of ignorance (off site)
Ian Bell, Sunday Herald
Christian English high-school 'academies', with their creationist thought police, are allowing 'the theory' to be heard as merely one account among many. It is as though Einstein is being asked to compete with the Tooth Fairy."

Casey Luskin Visits Lucy (off site)
from Afarensis - anthropology, evolution & science
"... it takes far more work to correct the distortions and misunderstandings frequently peddled by Luskin than it does for Luskin to peddle them. His article on Lucy is a case in point."

Darwin the Disturber (off site)
Susan Jacoby
"Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, disturber of the peace, and this year also marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On The Origin of Species. It seems only fitting to reflect on the reasons why Darwin's conclusions about the origins and evolution of human--and all--life continue to trouble and challenge members of the human species in the 21st century."

The two faces of intelligent design creationism (off site)
From Playing Chess with Pigeons
"Over at Uncommen Descent they are taking advantage of the brouhaha over the New York Post's 'gunned-down chimp' cartoon (which many have taken as a racist slur against President Obama) to take their own pot-shots at evolution and in the process they have served up another example of the two faces of intelligent design."

Puijila darwini - a prehistoric walking seal (off site)
"This prehistoric animal represents a 'missing link'—a branch on an evolutionary tree—between an ancestor that walked on land and today's sea-going seals and their relatives."

Who will be Steve #1000? (off site)
NCSE, February 12th, 2009
1000th Steve to be crowned at AAAS press conference
 

Origin Of Jawed Vertebrates: Prehistoric Fish Provides New Piece In Evolution's Jigsaw Puzzle (off site)
ScienceDaily, Jan. 19, 2009
"In an article in the journal Nature January 14, Uppsala researcher Martin Brazeau describes the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago.
The study may give important clues to the origin of jawed vertebrates, and thus ultimately our own evolution."
 

PHOTOS: 7 Major "Missing Links" Since Darwin (off site)
National Geographic

"For the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth (February 12, 2009), National Geographic News asked leading scientists for their picks of the most important fossils that show evolution in action—seven of which are presented here, starting with this 'fishapod.'"
 

Extended Family: Long Lost Cousins (off site)
"The author of the landmark Primate Taxonomy, Colin Groves is formally known as a Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, but he has been acknowledged as 'the senior statesman, philosopher, and historian of primatology.' With his new book Extended Family, Colin Groves has created a work which is both unique to its field and an essential prerequisite — a compact history of the Western world's gradually deepening awareness of the primate order."
 

Dinosaur Fossils Fit Perfectly Into The Evolutionary Tree Of Life (off site)
ScienceDaily, Jan. 30, 2009

"A recent study by researchers at the University of Bath and London's Natural History Museum has found that scientists' knowledge of the evolution of dinosaurs is remarkably complete."
 

New Protocetid Whale from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan: Birth on Land, Precocial Develpment, and Sexual Dimorphism (off site)
"Discovery of a near-term fetus positioned for head-first delivery provides important evidence that early protocetid whales gave birth on land."
 

Court: Creationists should settle out of court  (off site)
Dylan T. Lovan - Associated Press Writer

"A federal appeals court has told an Australian ministry to settle out of court with the founder of a popular Kentucky museum dedicated to biblical history."
 

CMI/AIG: What's the dispute all about? (off site)
 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS (off site)
ANSWERS IN GENESIS OF KENTUCKY, INC.,
Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant,
v.
CREATION MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL, LTD.,
Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.
 

Darwin 200 (off site)
Nature News
"The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Robert Darwin falls on 12 February 2009."
 

Darwin200 (off site)
 

Texas: Religious Antievolution's Silly Season  (off Site)
The Austringer' The Weblog of Wesley R. Elsberry
"You may not be able to 'balance' science with nonsense, but you can use nonsense to undermine any hope that science will take root in the mind of a child."

"Voices for Evolution"  (off Site)
"Voices for Evolution is a beacon for students, teachers, and the curious public who never knew the full extent that biological evolution is recognized and accepted among secular as well as religious organizations." — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Padian featured in SVP video  (off Site)
National Center for Science Education, 9 November 2008
"A video project from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology devotes a segment to discussing paleontology, evolution, and creationism."

We are SVP  (off Site)
"WE ARE SVP is a 33-minute video that tells the inside story of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology -- who we are, what we do, and why our work is important for science and society.  The video is introduced and narrated by Sam Waterston, the long-time star of 'LAW & ORDER.' "  

Human ancestors had big brained babies  (off Site)
ABC Science
"The fossilised Homo erectus pelvis found in Ethiopia suggests females swayed their hips as they walked and gave birth to relatively developed babies with big heads, say researchers."

Human hair linked to ancient claws  (off Site)
ABC Science
"A new study has identified a gene associated with hair production in present-day lizards and chickens, which may trace its origins back more than 300 million years ago."
 

When scum ruled the earth  (off Site)
Planet Earth online, 29 December 2008
"Newly-discovered fossils are shedding light on the organisms that lived on land before plants came on the scene."
 

Report on the Sixth International Conference on Creationism, Part Two

Report on the Sixth International Conference on Creationism, Part Three

Report on the Sixth International Conference on Creationism, Part Four

Report on the Sixth International Conference on Creationism, Conclusion
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse on his Evolutionblog
 

Probability, Statistics, Evolution, and Intelligent Design  (off Site)
Peter Olofsson
 

Elitist Liberals Visit The Creation Museum  (off Site)
Sunday, December 21, 2008
 

Creation Museum - A Preliminary Review   (off Site)
Greg Neyman, Answers in Creation, First Published 13 April 2007
"Even in this brief walk-thru, it is easy to see the flawed science and wrong Biblical interpretation used by Answers in Genesis.  Once again, the world will laugh at young earth creationists (and in doing so, at the church as a whole), as they try to pass off their bad science as the truth."   

A Major Australian Museum's Disgraceful Concession to Creationism  (off Site)
The Baliset Palimpsest, 19 April 2008
"Young Earth Creationists suffer from a humiliating lack of credibility, and rightly so, among the mainstream scientific community. Hence, if any “secular” institution appears to slip and confirm any tenet of the Creationist worldview, you can count on them to crow about it. Of course, the context or intent of the reference is rarely of interest to them."

Joyce McMillan - Myth of creationism weakens the vital morality of religion (off site)
NEWS.scotsman.com, 13 September 2008
 

Flying Spaghetti Monster statue at Tennessee courthouse (off site)
Daniel Terdiman
"If you're a fan of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the gospel of Pastafarianism, then you have to love what's going on in Crossville, Tenn."