Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (April 2000)

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APRIL 16

• Astronomers spot most distant object ever / April 14, 2000 / CNN.com
• Dark Energy and the Microwave Background / April 13, 2000 / Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein / Physics News Update (American Institute of Physics), Number 479
• Cosmic Ray Puzzle Solved? / April 13, 2000 / Physical Review Focus — further information: "Violation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff: A Tempest in a (Magnetic) Teapot? Why Cosmic Ray Energies above 10²⁰ eV May Not Require New Physics" / April 17, 2000 / Glennys R. Farrar and Tsvi Piran / Phys. Rev. Lett., v.84, p.3527-3530
  

APRIL 14

• Biology professor forced out / April 14, 2000 / WorldNetDaily — pointed to flaws in theory of evolution, encouraged critical thinking
• Virginia hill may be site of oldest American settlement to date / April 7, 2000 / CNN.com
• "Holes in one" / 1 April 2000 / New Scientist — Despite their fearsome reputation, not all black holes are cosmos-gobbling monsters. There could even be one inside you.
• "God of the norns" / 1 April 2000 / New Scientist — A new species, the world's most sophisticated artificial life forms, norns are cute little creatures with their own digital DNA and biochemistry. They can get sick, reproduce, evolve.
• Kansas Board of Education's science standards continue to draw controversy / March 14, 2000 / Kansas City Star
• New Zogby "American Values Polls" reveals / March 9, 2000 — creationism and evolution should be taught equally
• Alien Intelligence? Think Again / 29 February 2000 / Guillermo Gonzalez / space.com
• Rare Earth Punctures Alien Assumptions / 9 February 2000 / Kenneth Silber / space.com — [see Feb. 1 for original posting on this book]
• The Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track" Controversy / October 1999 / Glen J. Kuban

APRIL 13

• Walking with Dinosaurs / April 16, 2000 / Discovery Channel
• Confirmed: amphibian populations are declining / April 12, 2000 / Discovery Channel
• End of the Archaeoraptor tale / April 7, 2000 / Emma Reid / Discovery Channel
• National Geographic admits feathered dinosaur error / April 7, 2000 / CNN.com
• The Birth of Astrobiology / April 5, 2000 / ABC News — NASA’s new field draws many researchers
• The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World / March 2000 / David Berlinski / Harcourt Brace — foretells the end of scientific materialism, suggesting nothing so much as a world permeated by the marks of intelligence and design
• "The Paluxy River Mystery" / January 1986 / John D. Morris / Impact, No. 151 (Institute for Creation Research)

APRIL 10

• "A solution in place of evolution" / April 10, 2000 / U.S. News & World Report, v.128, n.14, p.50 — hunting for God on a "creation safari"
• "Decoding the Human Body" / April 10, 2000 / Sharon Begley / Newsweek, v.135, n.15, p.50
• Crawling Out of the Sea / April 5, 2000 / ABC News — researchers say they have missing link
• Fossil bridges land and sea / 4 April 2000 / BBC News
• Possible vegetarian dinosaur nests found in Argentina / April 4, 2000 / CNN.com

APRIL 7

• "Deltas, radiocarbon dating, and measurements of sediment storage and subsidence" / April 2000 / Daniel Jean Stanley and Arghya K. Hait / Geology, v.28, n.4, p.295 — In Holocene marine deltaic sequences there is no simple relationship between radiocarbon age and depth of sampling.
• "Art of darkness" / 18 March 2000 / New Scientist, v.165, n.2230, p.22 — a vortex so powerful it can suck in light could reveal some of the Universe's deepest secrets
• "Limbless Tetrapods and Snakes with Legs" requires free registration / 17 March 2000 / Science, v.287, n.5460, p.1939-1941
• "Fossil faux pas" / March 2000 / Geotimes, v.45, n.3, p.6 — News Notes: A fossil having the body of a bird and tail of a dinosaur is a hoax.
• "Evolutionary Biology: A Powerhouse Divided" requires free registration / 18 February 2000 / Science, v.287, n.5456, p.1219 — new evidence to indicate that cellular organelles were originally free-living bacteria
• God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution / November 1999 / John F. Haught / Westview Press — review by Michael J. Behe, with response by Haught / Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science [see Feb. 25 for original posting on this book]

APRIL 6

• Linking fish to the land / April 4, 2000 / Discovery Channel
• Neanderthal DNA shows strong differences from modern humans / March 29, 2000 / CNN.com
• Scientists beginning to shed light on dark matter / March 27, 2000 / CNN.com
• New class of gamma rays discovered in Milky Way / March 23, 2000 / CNN.com
• The Triumph of Design and the Demise of Darwin / 1999 / featuring Phillip Johnson / Video Post Productions — a video that shows the gaping holes in Darwinian theory and the mounting evidence for the intelligent design of the universe

APRIL 3

• Early Humans Caused Quick Extinction of Bird Species / March 24, 2000 / Paul Recer (Associated Press) / Fox News — A huge flightless bird called the Moa was extinct within just a few decades after humans first arrived at the animals' New Zealand homeland. This suggests that whole species can be wiped out more quickly than once believed, according to a new study appearing in the journal Science.

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