Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (June 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.

JUNE 27

• "INTERVIEW: Soul man" / 17 June 2000 / New Scientist, v.166, p.46 — Satish Kumar wants science to find space for the soul
• "Earth's Core and the Geodynamo" requires free registration / 16 June 2000 / Bruce A. Buffet / Science, v.288, p.2007-2012
• "Palaeobiology: The realms of Archaean life" requires free registration / 8 June 2000 / Euan Nisbet / Nature, v.405, p.625-626
• "QUANTUM PHYSICS: Furtive Glances Trigger Radioactive Decay" requires free registration / 2 June 2000 / Charles Seife / Science, v.288, p.1564
• "ECOLOGY: Mount St. Helens, Revisited" requires free registration / 2 June 2000 / Richard A. Lovett / Science, v.288, p.1578-1579
• "Environmental genetics: Rapid chromosomal evolution in island mice" requires free registration / 13 January 2000 / Janice Britton-Davidian, et al. / Nature, v.403, p.158
• "Design and Evil: Some Musings on the Coming Controversy" / Summer 1998 / Rikk Watts / Origins & Design, v.19, n.1 — Is the influenza virus strictly necessary? How about tornadoes? Cancer? Theologian Rikk Watts grapples with some ancient questions coming increasingly into the foreground of the design debate.

JUNE 26

• "The Search for Extreme Life" / July 2000 / Julie Wakefield / Scientific American, v.283, p.30,32 — highly evolved life is very unlikely in our solar system, but we have to continue our search; profile of Baruch S. Blumberg, head of NASA's fledgling Astrobiology Institute
• "Where Are They?" / July 2000 / Ian Crawford / Scientific American, v.283, p.38-43 — maybe we are alone in the galaxy after all
• "Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought" / July 2000 / Ernst Mayr / Scientific American, v.283, p.79-83
• Feathery Fossil Shows Birds Aren't Dinosaurs / June 22, 2000 / Maggie Fox / Yahoo! News
• The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology / June 2000 / J. C. Polkinghorne and Michael Welker / Trinity Press International
• The Triumph of Evolution ... And the Failure of Creationism / May 2000 / Niles Eldredge / W. H. Freeman and Co. — see also Amazon, and review by Scientific American, July 2000
• Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier / April 2000 / Brenda Fowler / Random House — see also Amazon
• "The Polystrate Trees and Coal Seams of Joggins Fossil Cliffs" / October 1999 / John D. Morris / Impact #316, Institute for Creation Research

JUNE 22

• Evidence of water found on Mars / June 21, 2000 / David McCormick / Discovery Channel
• Water springs found on Mars / June 21, 2000 / CNN.com
• Water 'found on Mars' / 21 June 2000 / BBC News
• News Site Reports NASA Has Found Water on Mars / June 21, 2000 / FoxNews.com
• NASA To Reveal New Evidence For Water On Mars / June 20, 2000 / MarsDaily.com

JUNE 21

• To Interpret the Earth: Ten Ways to be Wrong / August 1998 / Stanley A. Schumm / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Monkey Trouble: Shaking the Family Tree / May 18, 1998 / Jesse Fox Mayshark / weekly wire — 140 years after Darwin, creationists are still fighting evolution; can science and religion coexist?
• "The Gorbachev of Darwinism" / January 1998 / Phillip E. Johnson / First Things, v.79, p.14-16
• My Scientific Discussions of Evolution for the Pope and His Scientists / May 27, 1997 / Sidney Fox / Harbinger Symposium — transcript of presentation at the symposium, "Religion & Science: The Best of Enemies - the Worst of Friends"
• Time and Eternity / April 1997 / Arthur C. Custance / published on the Internet
• "The Truth About Inherit the Wind" / February 1997 / Carol Iannone / First Things, v.70, p.28-33 — a discussion of the classic American movie about the 1925 Scope's "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, TN
• The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts / October 1996 / Edward Grant / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• "Faith, hope and the Darwin man" / March 29, 1996 / The Times, United Kingdom — Richard Dawkins argues in his book that all living things owe their design not to God but to evolution
• The Complexities of Time / 1987 (revised 1999) / Lambert Dolphin
• "We Believe in Creation" / 1971 / Richard H. Bube / Journal Amer. Sci. Affil., v.23, p.121-122

JUNE 19

• $10 Million Loss in Fire at College and Science Center / February 6, 2000 / Kurt Wise / Center for Origins Research and Education, Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee
• "Channelized fluid flow in oceanic crust reconciles heat-flow and permeability data" / 6 January 2000 / A. T. Fisher and K. Becker / Nature, v.403, p.71-74

JUNE 16

• "We're Not in Kansas Anymore" / May 22, 2000 / Nancy Pearcey / Christianity Today, v.44, p.42 — If you think the debate about creation and evolution is limited to the heartland or the Bible Belt, think again. The intelligent-design movement is pushing back the borders. Plus: What Is Intelligent Design?
• "Inherit the Monkey Trial" / May 22, 2000 / Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa / Christianity Today, v.44, p.50 — Scopes-trial historian discusses what the intelligent-design movement still needs to accomplish and why Christians should study evolution
• "Your Darwin Is Too Large" / May 22, 2000 / John Wilson / Christianity Today, v.44, p.52 — theologian John Haught greatly exaggerates Darwinism's significance for theology
• "You Talk About an Evolution" / May 22, 2000 / David Neff / Christianity Today, v.44, p.7 — editorial
• Defending Faith and Learning / April 24, 2000 / John Wilson / Christianity Today — Baylor University’s Polanyi Center comes under fire from the university’s faculty
• President Sloan Addresses Polanyi Center Issue / April 20, 2000 / Robert B. Sloan, Jr. / Baylor University
• The Future of the Universe and the Future of Our Civilization / April 2000 / V. Burdyuzha & G. Khozin (eds.) / World-Scientific — symposium volume: Budapest-Debrecen, Hungary, 2-6 July 1999
• "The Act of Creation: Bridging Transcendence and Immanence" / 10 August 1998 / William A. Dembski / Access Research Network — presented at Millstatt Forum, Strasbourg, France

JUNE 15

• "Paleontology's Indiana Jones" / June 2000 / Scientific American, v.282, p.36 — from digging to designing, this celebrity scientist, Paul C. Sereno, has helped map the evolution of dinosaurs
• A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation / 2000 / Peter Singer / Yale University Press — see review in Scientific American
• "Fly's Eye Spies Highs in Cosmic Rays' Demise" requires free registration / 19 May 2000 / Charles Seife / Science, v.288, p.1147 — more ultrasuperhigh-energy cosmic rays that deepen the mystery about the origin of these strange particles
• "Mount St. Helens, Master Teacher" requires free registration / 19 May 2000 / Christopher G. Newhall / Science, v.288, p.1181-1183 — explosive volcanism; ecological recovery
• "Sinless Originals" requires free registration / 19 May 2000 / Olivia P. Judson and Benjamin B. Normark / Science, v.288, p.1185-1186 —  rotifers evolved without sexual reproduction
• "Evolutionary Exploitation of Design Options by the First Animals with Hard Skeletons" requires free registration / 19 May 2000 / R. D. K. Thomas, Rebecca M. Shearman, Graham W. Stewart / Science, v.288, p.1239-1242 — within 15 million years of the appearance of crown groups of phyla with substantial hard parts, at least 80 percent of skeletal design elements recognized among living and extinct marine metazoans were exploited in the skeletons of Burgess Shale animals
• "A Glimpse of Humans' First Journey Out of Africa" requires free registration / 12 May 2000 / Michael Balter and Ann Gibbons / Science, v.288, p.948-950 — new skulls, dates, and simple stone tools from Georgia
• "Stretching the Reign of Early Animals" requires free registration / 5 May 2000 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.288, p.789 — age for Ediacaran fauna determined through highly precise uranium-lead radiometric dating has produced a surprisingly early date that doubles the length of the late Ediacaran reign
• "Relativity Passes a Tough Cosmic Test" requires free registration / 28 April 2000 / Govert Schilling / Science, v.288, p.593 —  a rigorous test has shown that the speed of light is independent of the velocity of the light source to at least 20 decimal places
• "The Science of Astrobiology Takes Shape" requires free registration / 28 April 2000 / Robert Irion / Science, v.288, p.603-605 — first Astrobiology Science Conference
• "Sulfate Clues for the Early History of Atmospheric Oxygen" requires free registration / 28 April 2000 / Adina Paytan / Science, v.288, p.626-627
• "When Fittest Survive, Do Other Animals Matter?" requires free registration / 21 April 2000 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.288, p.414-415 — some paleontologists have questioned whether Darwinian competition among animals has all that much to do with who wins and who loses
• "Revealing a Dinosaur's Heart of Stone" requires free registration / 21 April 2000 / Virginia Morell / Science, v.288, p.416-417 — first known dinosaur heart is more like that of birds and mammals than crocodiles or other reptiles
• "Dinos and Turkeys: Connected by DNA?" requires free registration / 14 April 2000 / Constance Holden / Science, v.288, p.238
• "Was Lamarck Just a Little Bit Right?" requires free registration / 7 April 2000 / Michael Balter / Science, v.288, p.38 — epigenetics, the study of changes in genetic expression that are not linked to alterations in DNA sequences, could play a role in evolution

JUNE 13

• "Filamentous microfossils in a 3,235-million-year-old volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit" requires free registration / 8 June 2000 / Birger Rasmussen / Nature, v.405, p.676-679
• "Law professor unleashes fury on macro-evolution" / April 9, 2000 / Lawrence [Kansas] Journal-World
• The Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man / January 2000 / Roger Downey / Copernicus Books — see also Amazon
• In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life / December 1999 / Henry Gee / Free Press (Simon & Schuster) — see also Amazon

JUNE 12

• "Who am I?" / June 12, 2000 / U.S. News & World Report, v.128, p.50 — introspective scientists are probing the mystery of human consciousness
• "And then came fat" / June 12, 2000 / U.S. News & World Report, v.128, p.57 — Did life on Earth begin with fat?
• "Star light, star bright" / June 12, 2000 / U.S. News & World Report, v.128, p.57 — leading astronomers make their wishes known
• "Before the big bang" / 3 June 2000 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist, v.166, p.24 — How did the Universe begin? Not with a bang but with a whimper
• "A dinosaur's tell-tale heart" / June 2000 / Geotimes, v.45, p.6
• "Teaching and Propaganda" / June 2000 / Mano Singham / Physics Today, v.53, p.54-55 — "Weigh the arguments for and against any issue but, ultimately, stand up for what you believe. Don’t ever feel forced to accept something just because some 'expert' tells you it is true."
• "Old radiocarbon ages in the southwest Pacific Ocean during the last glacial period and deglaciation" requires free registration / 1 June 2000 / Elisabeth L. Sikes, et al. / Nature, v.405, p.555-559
• Teaching the Origins Controversy: A Guide for the Perplexed / August 20, 1999 / David K. DeWolf / Special Discovery Institute Report — a guide for helping public schools do a better job of presenting the wide range of scientific interest on the origins controversy
• Fides et Ratio / 1998 / John Paul II — encyclical of the supreme pontiff to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the relationship between faith and reason

JUNE 9

• The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism / July 2000 / Phillip E. Johnson / InterVarsity Press — Science is the supreme authority in society. Yet a society ruled by science (and the naturalistic philosophy that undergirds much of it) faces major problems.
• "AAS Statement on the Teaching of the History of the Universe" / June 6, 2000 / American Astronomical Society / American Institute of Physics, Bulletin of Science Policy News
• Rare Mars meteorite discovered in Middle East / May 25, 2000 / CNN.com
• New £10 Banknote Design / 17 May 2000 / Bank of England — to allow for the easy identification of the new £10, the reverse includes a portrait of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin, replacing the current design featuring Charles Dickens

JUNE 6

• "Romancing the Bone" / June 2000 / Jack McClintock / Discover, v.21, p.84 — big-name paleontologists never imagined that giant dinosaurs could have thrived on a small, isolated landmass like New Zealand
• "Delayed biological recovery from extinctions throughout the fossil record" requires free registration / 9 March 2000 / James W. Kirchner and Anne Weil / Nature, v.404, p.177-180
• The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions / October 1999 / Charles Frankel / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age / October 1999 / David Rains Wallace / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon
• Vulcan's Fury: Man Against the Volcano / September 1999 / Alwyn Scarth / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
• Time: A Traveler's Guide / 1998 / Clifford A. Pickover / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon

JUNE 5

• "Eureka! Scientists break speed of light" / June 4, 2000 / The Sunday Times
• "Life associated with a 2.76 Ga ephemeral pond?: Evidence from Mount Roe #2 paleosol" / June 2000 / Rob Rye and Heinrich D. Holland / Geology, v.28, p.483
• "Dinosaur abundance was not declining in a '3 m gap' at the top of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana and North Dakota" / June 2000 / Peter M. Sheehan, et al. / Geology, v.28, p.523
• "The Channeled Scabland: Back to Bretz?" / June 2000 / Geology, v.28, p.573
• It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome Project and Other Illusions  / February 2000 / Richard Lewontin / New York Review of Books — see also Amazon, sample of Lewontin's writing, and review: "Science needs good critics, too"  / May 31, 2000 / The Times
• Time, Conflict, and Human Values / October 1999 / J. T. Fraser / Univ. of Illinois Press — see also Amazon
• Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology / October 1999 / Max Jammer / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• The Search for Life on Other Planets / November 1998 / Bruce Jakosky / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon

JUNE 2

• SYMPOSIUM: "Darwin, Design & Democracy: Teaching the Evidence in Science Education" / July 15, 2000 / Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, MO — see collection of articles and news item by the Access Research Network
• "Acceleration of quantum decay processes by frequent observations" requires free registration / 1 June 2000 / A. G. Kofman and G. Kurizki / Nature, v.405, p.546-550
• "Fossil record of mass moth migration" requires free registration / 1 June 2000 / Jes Rust / Nature, v.405, p.530-531
• "Debut Sue" / June 2000 / Donovan Webster / National Geographic, v.197, p.24 — the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered has found new stomping grounds at Chicago's Field Museum
• Canadian meteorite composed of rare, organic material / May 31, 2000 / Discovery Channel
• "Chromosomal evolution in Saccharomyces" requires free registration / 25 May 2000 / G. Fischer, et al. / Nature, v.405, p.451-454
• "Dawn of Humans" / May 2000 / André W. Keyser / National Geographic, v.197, p.76 — Drimolen, one of  the richest hominid sites in Africa, not far from Johannesburg
• Driving ice-age cycles / 2 March 2000 / Nature (feature of the week)
• Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program / December 1999 / United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction — project of some 500 scientists world-wide; includes map
• Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution / 1996 / Michael J. Behe / Free Press — see review by James Mahaffy, June 1997
• The Time Lords / 2 December 1996 / BBC Online — transcript of a television program on time travel, including interviews with many leading theoretical physicists

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