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
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
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
Universitys Polanyi Center comes under fire from the universitys 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
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.
Dont 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
JUNE 6
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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