One day while browsing in the library stacks, I stumbled across an essay collection entitled Self-Organizing Systems: The Emergence of Order. I had the experience of scales falling from my eyes.

I never quite pictured the context in which I'd get to say it, but Charles Darwin, a brave and honest man even if he was wrong, deserves better.

Russell Garwood, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester, knows his field is plagued with gaps

And CNN's hard-hitting newsman Dr. Drew Pinsky proves it by investigating the burning question: "Why are men obsessed with breasts?"

People are too big. If we want to save the planet, we must shrink ourselves.

"My friends on the left make much of the apparent correlation between creationism and skepticism about assured climate disaster," complains Patrick J. Michaels.

We often receive e-mails from students seeking information on evolution. Recently a university student posed a good question.

In an earlier article, I described how proteins are composed of units of secondary structure called alpha helices and beta sheets.

Now another professor comes along and responds to Richard Weikart's op-ed in the Baltimore Sun defending Ben Carson and gets the point of Weikart's article totally wrong.

It's not only intelligent-design advocates who are in on the action but others with no ties to ID, or evident sympathies for it, who are breaking free of evolutionary orthodoxy.

The idea of millions of years is like a disease, and biological evolution is like the symptom. Many Christians are willing to deal with the symptom, but not the disease.

The economy, unemployment, terrorism, politics, finances, moral decline, major sickness, a prodigal child, an unhealthy marriagefor most of us, contemplating any one of these pressures will knot our stomach.

Khirbet Qeiyafa, science standards: The Next Generation, primitive pollinator, biological corkscrew, stone soup, and more in this weeks News to Note.

Is a molar pregnancy really a baby? Does it have a gender? Does aborting it end a life? Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, AiGU.S., explains.

There is an unbridgeable chasm between theistic evolution and the biblical doctrine of creation.

A blind Chinese activist who was supported by Christians in fighting againstforced abortions and defending the disabled has left China for the United States, ending a near month diplomatic standoff between the two nations, witnesses said.

Activists from Britain and Ireland were taking part in a protest outside the Eritrean embassy in London on Thursday, May 17, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of mass detentions of Eritrean Christians, organizers said.

For three days an unidentified mob set fire to homes and vehicles in a predominantly Christian neighborhood in the Moluccas as dozens of families fled in fear of suspected Islamists.

Contact: Suzanne Ward, Georgia Right to Life, 770-891-8320 NORCROSS, Ga., May 21, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Georgia Right to Life President Dan Becker today announced that Republican voters in all 159 GA counties will have the opportunity to approve granting "personhood" status to all human beings from their earliest biological beginning. The ballot question will appear on the July 31st Republican primary ballot. "Of all the freedoms we hold sacred," Becker said, "the right to li Source: Georgia Right to Life

Many Healed, Others Not, but Divine Healing More Prevalent Than Realized, Especially in Two-Thirds WorldContact: Ty Mays, 770-256-8710, tmays@inchristcommunications.com; for The Mission Society NORCROSS, Source: InChrist Communicatinos

With time running out, dioceses, agencies resort to the courts Church united in defense of religious liberty Diversity of church ministries at stake Contact: Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 202-541-3200, mwalsh@usccb.orgWASHINGTON, May 21, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in a May 21 statement applauded 43 dioceses, hospitals, schools a Source: CCN

Contact:Leslie Palma, Priests for Life, 347-286-7277STATEN ISLAND, NY, May 21, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, applauded the additional 12 lawsuits filed around the country today in protest of the Health and Human Services mandate forcing employers to provide coverage for activities they find objectionable.The lawsuits represent 43 plaintiffs, including the Archdioceses of New York, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, Source: Priests for Life

Contact: Jeff Field, Director of Communications, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 212-371-3191, cl@catholicleague.org NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on two newspaper ads he wrote that were published yesterday and today:Yesterday, we let the workers at Kellogg's know what we think of their senior management by taking out a full-page ad in the Kalamazoo Gazette (click here to read it). Today, we let Source: Catholic League

Canadian researchers claim that analytic tasks (vs. intuitive tasks) promote religious disbelief. However, what they really showed was that group of female unbelievers subjected to stressful analytic tasks increased their disbelief in God.