Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (July 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.

JULY 31

• "Board Decision on Evolution Roils an Election in Kansas" / July 29, 2000 / New York Times
• "The Bible, as History, Flunks New Archaeological Tests" / July 29, 2000 / New York Times — "Still, considerable disagreement exists among archaeologists on how to interpret many recent finds."
• "They've seen a ghost" / 8 July 2000 / Robert Irion / New Scientist, v.167, p.24 — The quantum world is so spooky that we could make computers with atoms that aren't really there.
• Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution / October 2000 / Richard Fortey / Knopf (Random House) — see also Amazon and review: "Look back in wonder" / 22 July 2000 / Michael Taylor / New Scientist
• EDITORIAL: "The coming revolution" / 1 July 2000 / New Scientist — "I'm a little confused on timing," said a reporter at the London press conference to announce the working draft of the human genome. "You've mapped 97 per cent of the genome, sequenced 85 per cent and finished 24 per cent. So why did you choose now to make your announcement?"
• "Just a normal town..." / 1 July 2000 / Ian Sample / New Scientist, v.167, p.20 — ...but out of nowhere a wave of chaos was to wash over that world. In a millisecond it was gone. And then the blind panic set in. What's going on?
• Creationism: Unnatural selection / 22 April 2000 / New Scientist — an overwhelming response
• "Deluge" / 1908 (1999) / A. J. Maas / The Catholic Encyclopedia
• "Noah" / 1911 (1999) / F. Bechtel / The Catholic Encyclopedia

JULY 28

• "RATE Group to Release Book" (Adobe's Acrobat Reader format [.PDF]) / August 2000 / Acts & Facts, Institute for Creation Research — 700 page book to be printed by the end of September on Radioisotope Dating, Radioactive Isotopes in the Earth, the Mineral Isochron Method, Geochemical Processes, Accelerated Radioactive Decay, and Radiohalos
• "Polonium Radiohalos: Still 'A Very Tiny Mystery'" / August 2000 / Andrew A. Snelling / Impact #326, Institute for Creation Research
• God and Evolution in Kansas Classrooms / July 27, 2000 / Ted Koppel / ABC News, Nightline — unedited, uncorrected transcript; includes interview with Phillip Johnson
• "Scopes in reverse" / July 24, 2000 / Nancy R. Pearcey / The Washington Times — As Kansas wound down its week-long observance of the 75^th anniversary of the Scopes Trial, a striking irony largely escaped notice.
• Monkey Trial: Debate Over Creationism and Evolution Still With Us / July 23, 2000 / Claire Moore / ABC News
• Dinosaur Through the Eyes of a Child / 2000 / Douglas W. Phillips / Institute for Creation Research — review of the new Disney movie Dinosaur

JULY 27

• Wedge issues: An intelligent discussion with Intelligent Design's designer / July 29, 2000 / Nancy R. Pearcey / World Magazine, v.15, n.29 — interview with Phillip Johnson; ARN copy
• Scopes Trial Anniversary & Teaching Evolution / July 21, 2000 / National Public Radio — Join Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward Larson for a look back at the trial on its 75th anniversary, and at the ongoing battle over teaching evolution in the public schools. Plus, a talk with Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, about his theory of intelligent design.
• The fairy tales of evolutionary psychology: Of Vice and Men / April 3, 2000 /  Jerry A. Coyne / New Republic Online — In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics.
• "The Search for Intelligent Design in the Universe" / January 9, 2000 / Michelle Quinn / San Jose Mercury News — Johnson is a new breed of creationist, one who uses books and articles rather than a pulpit to argue his position. He says even more should be taught about evolution -- including its contradictions. Johnson  argues that, like him, most Americans believe in a mixture of evolution and creation theory, but their opinions have been shut out of scientific and public debates.

JULY 26

• Where's God in the Machine? / July 24, 2000 / Wired News — Francis Collins the scientist (director of the Human Genome Project) is engaged in an internal battle with Collins the believer (Christian) over just how far is far enough in the quest to learn how humans work.
• ARN-Announce, No. 6 / July 10, 2000 / Access Research Network — upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
• "Copying the Human Script: Genome Project Raises Hopes, Fears" / July 8, 2000 / Nancy R. Pearcey / World Magazine, v.15, n.27
• Teaching Moments from Disney's Dinosaur / July 7, 2000 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, Library Files
• "Creation Mythology: Defenders of Darwinism resort to suppressing data and teaching outright falsehoods" / June 24, 2000 / Nancy R. Pearcey / World Magazine, v.15, n.25
• "Overcoming the Scandal of the Christian Mind" / February 2000 / J. Budziszewski / First Things, v.100, p.52-56 — review of: How Now Shall We Live? / Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey / Tyndale
• Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics / 2000 / J. P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae / InterVarsity Press — see also Access Research Network and Amazon
• Ballard & the Black Sea: The Search for Noah's Flood / 1999 / National Geographic
• "Has Noah's Ark Been Found?" / May 20 & 27, 1993 / David Merling / Adventist Review, p.13-15 & p.16-17 — see also responses: "Noah's Ark — The Other Side" / Ron Wyatt, Richard Rimmer, Marguerite Lacey Flemming, and Andrew Jones / July 15, 1993 / Adventist Review, p.2 -AND- "Where Is the Golden Ark of the Covenant?" / August 26, 1993 / David Merling / Adventist Review, p.16-18
• Creation vs. Evolution / November 1991 / Gallup Poll

JULY 25

• Travelling over c / 20 July 2000 / Nature — see also: "Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation" / 20 July 2000  / Nature, v.406, p.277-279
• "Spider manipulation by a wasp larva" requires free registration / 20 July 2000 / William G. Eberhard / Nature, v.406, p.255-256
• Evolution's next step in Kansas: Ballot box / July 19, 2000 / Mary Beth Marklein / USA Today
• Annual Highlights Issue: 1999 Discoveries and Research Trends / July 2000 / Geotimes — SOLID EARTH: Volcanoes, Structure and Tectonics, Sediments, Caves and Karst; LIFE THROUGH TIME: Vertebrates, Geoarchaeology; OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERE: Paleoceanography, Marine Geology; BEYOND EARTH: Meteorites, Planetary Geology
• "Wrath of the Gods: Earthquake in Turkey; A History Forged by Disaster" / July 2000 / Rick Gore / National Geographic, v.198, p.32 — Last year two massive quakes tore through Turkey, killing tens of thousands and leaving many more homeless. The relentless tectonic forces that have rocked the region for millennia nurtured myths of Poseidon and tales of Troy and may explain why Noah had to build an ark.
• "Ancient History" / January 1998 / Discover, v.19 — fossilized tree resin (amber) apparently isn't such a foolproof preservative of ancient insect DNA as once thought
• "Cretaceous Pompeii" / January 1998 / Discover, v.19 — a scene of mass death in Liaoning Province, China; hundreds of birds, dinosaurs, fish, insects, and plants all died suddenly on the shores of an ancient lake and their remains are numerous and well-preserved
• Tennessee vs. John Scopes / 1925 / University of Missouri - Kansas City, Law School — famous trials in American history: details of the "Monkey Trial"

JULY 24

• Getting There Faster: Light's Speed Accelerated / July 20, 2000 / Yahoo! News
• Parasite's web of death / 19 July 2000 / BBC News — on the evening of the day that it will kill the spider, the wasp larva induces the spider to spin an unusual web
• Auction of winged reptile fossil stirs debate / July 18, 2000 / CNN.com
• "Stellar Production Rates of Carbon and Its Abundance in the Universe" requires free registration / 7 July 2000 / H. Oberhummer, A. Csótó, H. Schlattl / Science, v.289, p.88-90 — outside a narrow window of 0.5 and 4% of the values of the strong and Coulomb forces, respectively, the stellar production of carbon or oxygen is reduced by factors of 30 to 1000; see also Star Physics Prove the Delicacy of Life
• "Neighborhood Gamma Ray Burst Boosts Theory" requires free registration / 7 July 2000 / Govert Schilling / Science, v.289, p.29
• "The Nature of Evidence" requires free registration / 7 July 2000 / Boyce Rensberger / Science, v.289, p.61
• "A New Source of Gamma Rays" requires free registration / 30 June 2000 / R. P. Fender / Science, v.288, p.2326
• "Making a Splash With a Hint of Mars Water" requires free registration / 30 June 2000 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.288, p.2295-2297
• "New Feathered Dino Firms Up Bird Links" requires free registration / 9 June 2000 / Dennis Normile / Science, v.288, p.1721
• "Learning to Dissect Dinosaurs--Digitally" requires free registration / 9 June 2000 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.288, p.1728-1732
• Natural Disasters, 2^nd ed. / 1999 / Patrick L. Abbott / McGraw-Hill — see also Amazon

JULY 20

• Biting beetle gives away secrets / 16 July 2000 / BBC News
• Kansas poll evolves into a debate on Darwin / 14 July 2000 / Electronic Telegraph, UK
• Scopes Trial Revisited / July 13, 2000 /  ABC News (Associated Press) — trial still relevant, but now creationists claim censorship
• Earth's ancient atmosphere trapped in rocks / July 13, 2000 / CNN.com
• 'Fossil air' provides climate clues / 12 July 2000 / BBC News
• Darwinism, Design and the Consequences for American Education / 11 July 2000 / U.S. Newswire — Discovery Institute Fellows will be the main speakers at a national symposium in Kansas City on July 15
• Snow microbes found at South Pole / 10 July 2000 / BBC News
• Modern Darwinism: better engines through natural selection / July 5, 2000 / CNN.com
• "Creationists Open a New Front" / July 2000 / David Applegate / Geotimes — advocates of intelligent design theory bring their message to Congress
• Kansas evolution decision got widespread criticism and praise / July 1, 2000 / Kate Beem / Kansas City Star
• Scientists crack human code / 26 June 2000 / BBC News — rough draft of the entire human genetic code as "the most wondrous map ever produced by human kind"
• Water may flow on Mars / 23 June 2000 / BBC News
• Earliest feathers fan controversy / 22 June 2000 / BBC News
• Visual evidence suggests water springs on Mars / June 22, 2000 / CNN.com
• NASA: Mars Is All Wet / June 25, 2000 / Sharon Begley and Erika Check / Newsweek — Hints of recent water flows on the Red Planet raise new hope that life once existed there — and could still
• Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought over T-Rex Ever Found / May 2000 / Steve Fiffer / W.H. Freeman — see also Amazon
• The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times / April 2000 / Adrienne Mayor / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon and review: "Greek Myths: Not Necessarily Mythical" / July 4, 2000 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction / November 1999 / Kenneth Carpenter / Indiana University Press — see also Amazon

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