Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (May 2000)

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.

MAY 28

• "Not (Just) in Kansas Anymore" / 5 May 2000 / Eugenie C. Scott / Science, v.288, p.813-815
• It pays to be nice / 5 May 2000 / BBC News — Can evolution explain why we would give to a beggar?
• Predators: The ultimate killing machines / 4 May 2000 / BBC News — life-and-death contests between hunter and hunted have been filmed by miniaturised cameras mounted on the hunters themselves
• Pictures of the early Universe / 28 April 2000 / BBC News — scientists have produced the best evidence yet to show that the Universe is "flat"
• Delivered at the Kansas State Board of Education Public Forum / May 11, 1999 / William S. Harris / Intelligent Design network, inc.
• The Origin of Life on Earth / April 1997 / Leslie E. Orgel — Growing evidence supports the idea that the emergence of catalytic RNA was a crucial early step. How that RNA came into being remains unknown.
• "Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism" / October 1990 / Phillip E. Johnson / First Things

MAY 26

• Teaching Children the Truth About Science / May 30, 2000 / James Dobson welcomes Phillip Johnson / Focus on the Family (radio broadcast) — exploration of modern science and its portrayal in the classroom; Johnson will take a look at world views - the truth about evolution, creationism and how to teach our children; part 2 on May 31
• Natural Theology: Problems and Prospects / 26-29 May 2000 / sponsored by the Gifford Lectureship Committees of the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St. Andrews  / Aberdeen, Scotland
• Answers in 'Genesis Park' Raise Strategy Questions / May 26, 2000 / Kim Robbins and Peter Edman / BreakPoint with Chuck Colson
• Underwater volcano simmering near Samoa / May 23, 2000 / Discovery Channel
• Selfish Gene Theory of Evolution Called Fatally Flawed / 25 April 2000 / Daily University Science News
• "Quiet Agenda Puts Science on Defense: Creation Debate Evolves Into Politics" / January 2000 / David Brown / Amer. Assc. Petr. Geol. Explorer — follow up in May issue: | Earth's Origin ... The Debate Continues | Sermons in Stone. 1958. Wallace E. Pratt | Letters |
• "Early Fixation of an Optimal Genetic Code" / 2000 / Stephen J. Freeland, et al. / Molecular Biology and Evolution, v.17, p.511-518
• "Where Do Toes Come From?" / July 31, 1995 / J. Madeleine Nash / Time, v.146, p.69 — linking fish fins to mouse paws, researchers may have solved an important evolutionary puzzle; "The drawback for scientists is that nature's shrewd economy conceals enormous complexity."

MAY 25

• "An Ugly Baby" / 18 May 2000 / Andrew Berry / London Review of Books, v.22, n.10 — review of: Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon / November 1999 / Sandra Knapp / Natural History Museum
• In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation / 1999 / edited by John F. Ashton / New Holland Publishers, Sydney, Australia — see review by Colin Groves in The Skeptic, v.19, n.2
• State Fossil -- Tully Monster / 1995 / Illinois State Museum

MAY 24

• "Ordinary miracles" / 6 May 2000 / Michael Brooks / New Scientist, v.166, p.26 — How do the complexities of the living world arise from dumb matter? A speck of angelic assistance may be all that's needed.
• "Beyond belief" / 22 April 2000 / New Scientist, v.166 — editorial: science isn't religion; you can't use one to justify the other
• "Unnatural selection" / 22 April 2000 / Debora MacKenzie /  New Scientist, v.166, p.34 — creation science is far from extinct; on the contrary, it's mutating and spreading
• "Take me to your leader" / 22 April 2000 / New Scientist, v.166, p.40 — Tom Willis heads the Creation Science Association for Mid-America and master-minded the recent school science curriculum controversy in Kansas. Today he believes the Bible to be God's literal words, but as a young man Willis was an atheist and trained in the hard sciences.
• "You asked for it" / 22 April 2000 / Bryan Appleyard / New Scientist, v.166, p.44 — creationists may be dogmatic and arrogant, but so are some scientists
• "According to the book" / 22 April 2000 / New Scientist, v.166 — the battle over evolution has spawned many millions of words; from creationist tomes through to biology textbooks, here's New Scientist's highly adaptive selection
• Faster than a Speeding Light Wave / 19 May 2000 / Physical Review Focus — article: "Observation of Superluminal Behaviors in Wave Propagation" / 22 May 2000 / D. Mugnai, A. Ranfagni, and R. Ruggeri / Physical Review Letters, v.84, p.4830-4833
• The Battle for God / February 2000 / Karen Armstrong / HarperCollins — review in New Scientist; see also Amazon
• How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science / October 1999 / Michael Shermer / W. H. Freeman — review in New Scientist; see also Amazon
• The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution / 1996 / John Brockman / Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) — see excerpts and Amazon
• "God and Evolution: An Exchange" / June-July 1993 / Howard J. Van Till & Phillip E. Johnson / First Things v.34, p.32-41

MAY 23

• "Fossil signatures: forged or real?" / May 2000 / Christina Reed / Geotimes, v.45, p.8 — heralded as one of the oldest animal imprints, the worm fossil Vermiforma antique Cloud is being cast as a fossil mistake
• "Mount St. Helens 20 Years Later" / May 2000 / Robert I. Tilling / Geotimes, v.45, p.14-18 — The volcanologist who directed the Volcano Hazards Program of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1980 offers his perspective on what has been learned from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, the worst volcanic disaster in U.S. recorded history.
• "Aping Culture" / May 2000 / Meredith F. Small / Discover, v.21, p.52-57 — Chimpanzees speak in dialects, invent odd grooming styles, and drum better than most kids in marching bands. So what's left to separate them from us?
• "Rapid warming buried ancient forest" / April 2000 / Christina Reed / Geotimes, v.45, p.7-8
• Lulworth Cove / 2000 / Ian West / Southampton University — Lulworth Cove, on the south coast of England, notable for its geology and geomorphology is the most-visited geological locality in Britain. There are excellent exposures of folded Jurassic and Cretaceous strata and on the cliffs to the east is the Fossil Forest with an ancient soil and tree remains. The Lower Cretaceous, Purbeck Formation is contorted into the Lulworth Crumples at Stair Hole and the spectacular coast around here has caves, natural arches, sea-stacks and high vertical Chalk cliffs.
• Finding Darwin's God / October 1999 / Kenneth R. Miller / HarperCollins — a scientists's search for common ground between God and evolution; see also Amazon

MAY 22

• Double-Dealing in Darwin / 2000 / Michael Ruse / Beliefnet.com — Are intellectuals allowing dogma in science but not in religion?
• News & Society: Science & Religion / 2000 / Beliefnet.com
• Extinctions: Cycles of Life and Death Through Time / 1996 / Kim West / Hooper Virtual Paleontology Museum — Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre and Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada

MAY 21

• Intelligent Design: You and Me Baby Ain't Nothin' but Mammals / 19 May 2000 / Bob Park / What's New - American Physical Society
• Skulls point to early human migration out of Africa / May 12, 2000 / CNN.com
• Sue fossil provides insights into T. rex's behavior and diet / May 11, 2000 / CNN.com
• Fossils may be 'first Europeans' / 11 May 2000 / BBC News — remains of what may be the earliest human ancestors to migrate from Africa into Europe have been found in the Republic of Georgia
• Astronomers find evidence of eight objects orbiting distant stars / May 9, 2000 / CNN.com
• Paleontologists Unveil Most Complete Ape-Man Skull Ever Excavated / April 27, 2000 / New York Times

MAY 19

• "Building a Better Dinosaur" / May 15, 2000 / Newsweek, p.58 — the first movie from Disney's digital studios brings the prehistoric age to virtual life
• "When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth" / May 15, 2000 / Newsweek — findings by scientists challenge fossilized assumptions
• "How It All Started" / May 8, 2000 / Newsweek, v.135, p.48 — the best-ever observations of the origins of the universe hint at the way it will end
• Early humans may have "coasted" out of Africa / May 3, 2000 / Discovery Channel
• "DINOSAURS: A Real Heart of Stone" / May 1, 2000 / Newsweek, p.53 — new evidence for warm-blooded dinos
• "What Miracles Mean" / May 1, 2000 / Kenneth L. Woodward / Newsweek, v.135, p.54
• "Why I Don't Believe in Miracles" / May 1, 2000 / Philip Hefner / Newsweek, v.135 — a prominent theologian with a love for science explores the contradictions of faith in divine intervention
• "Newsweek Poll: Most Americans Believe in Miracles" / May 1, 2000 / Newsweek
• The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam / May 2000 / Kenneth L. Woodward / Simon & Schuster — see also Amazon
• Most complete ape-man skull found — but he is a she / April 27, 2000 / Discovery Channel
• Who said dinosaurs didn't have a warm heart? / April 20, 2000 / Discovery Channel
• The Triumph of Design and the Demise of Darwin / 1999 / featuring Phillip Johnson / Video Post Productions — clearly and dramatically shows the gaping holes in Darwinian theory and the mounting evidence for the intelligent design of the universe

MAY 18

• "How evolution became a religion" / May 13, 2000 / Michael Ruse / National Post — creationists correct? Darwinians wrongly mix science with morality, politics
• Discovery Institute to Hold Congressional Policy Briefing May 10 in Washington / 8 May 2000 / U.S. Newswire — The Discovery Institute will bring top scientists and scholars to brief Congressional representatives on the scientific evidence for intelligent design and its implications for public policy and education.
• Stirring Up a Magnetic Field / 5 May 2000 / Physical Review Focus — a Latvian-German collaboration reports that they have created a magnetic field the same way the Earth does; see full article: "Detection of a Flow Induced Magnetic Field Eigenmode in the Riga Dynamo Facility" / 8 May 2000 / Agris Gailitis, et al. / Physical Review Letters, v.84, p.4365-4368
• "A dinosaur with heart" / May 1, 2000 / U.S. News & World Report, v.128, p.59 — preserved organ tells tales from land of the lost
• Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud / May 2000 / Robert L. Park / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon, and interview with Robert Park in U.S. News & World Report, May 8, 2000

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