Geoscience Research Institute
— News Archive (August 2000)
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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.
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- "Extreme light
rare earth element mobilization by diagenetic fluids in the geological environment of the
Oklo natural reactor zones, Franceville basin, Gabon" / August 2000 / Michel
Cuney and Régis Mathieu / Geology, v.28, p.743-746
- "How new technology put a coelacanth among the heirs of Piltdown Man" / 27
July 2000 / Nature,
v.406, p.343
- "Recriminations and confusion over 'fake' coelacanth photo" / 20 July 2000 / Nature,
v.406, p.225 — the hunt is on for the explanation of an apparently faked
photograph of a coelacanth
- "Evolution of Biological
Information" / July 15, 2000 / T. D. Schneider / Nucleic Acids Research,
v.28, n.14, p.2794-2799
- "Schrödinger's
cat is now fat" requires free registration
/ 6 July 2000 / Gianni Blatter / Nature, v.406, p.25-26 — Schrödinger's
dead-and-alive cat was a thought experiment applying the physics of electrons and atoms to
our macroscopic world. New experiments with superconductors narrow the gap between
theoretical ideas and reality.
- "Tempo of the
end-Permian event: High-resolution cyclostratigraphy at the Permian-Triassic boundary"
/ July 2000 / Michael R. Rampino, et al. / Geology, v.28, p.643-646 — faunal
changes at the P-T boundary can be constrained within an interval of <60 k.y. (possibly
<8 k.y.) suggesting a catastrophic cause
- "Quaternary
bryozoan reef mounds in cool-water, upper slope environments: Great Australian Bight"
/ July 2000 / Noel P. James, et al. / Geology, v.28, p.647-650 — bryozoan
reef mounds are common features in the geological record, but until now have not been
recorded from the modern ocean
- "Feathers fly in Beijing" / 29 June 2000 / Rex Dalton / Nature,
v.405, p.992 — The question of whether birds evolved from dinosaurs arouses
strong opinions. A report on a scientific meeting that at times bore more resemblance to a
political sparring match.
- Evolution
by Design / Jonathan Wells / True Parents Organization (Unification Church, Rev. Sun
Myung Moon, founder) — also by the same author: Darwinism: Why I
Went for a Second Ph.D.
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- "Monsters of
Madagascar" / August 2000 / John Flynn and David Krause / National Geographic,
v.198, p.44 — pug-nosed herbivorous crocodiles, flesh-eating birds, and what
may be the oldest dinosaurs ever found
- "Embryonic
Lens Prompts Eye Development" requires free
registration / 28 July 2000 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science,
v.289, p.522-523
- "Rapid
Kimberlite Ascent and the Significance of Ar-Ar Ages in Xenolith Phlogopites" requires free registration / 28 July
2000 / S. P. Kelley and J-A. Wartho / Science, v.289, p.609-611 — phlogopite
grains preserve Ar-Ar ages recorded at high temperature in the mantle, 700°C above the
conventional closure temperature
- "Pattern of
Marine Mass Extinction Near the Permian-Triassic Boundary in South China" requires free registration / 21 July
2000 / Y. G. Jin, et al / Science, v.289, p.432-436
- Extinct
Humans / June 2000 / Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz / Westview Press
— no longer can human evolution be viewed as a simple progression of a single
lineage from a primitive ancestor to ourselves; see also Amazon
- "A New Rex"
/ May 2000 / Eric Niiler / Scientific American — the biggest meat
eater of them all bolsters the theory of pack hunting
- Education or
Indoctrination? Analysis of Textbooks in Alabama / December 1995 / Norris Anderson /
Access Research Network
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- Rejected:
Kansas Voters Turn Back Candidates Who Back De-Emphasizing Evolution / August 2, 2000
/ ABC News
- Thomas Kuhn's
irrationalism / June 2000 / James Franklin / The New Criterion, v.18, n.10
— Kuhn's "achievement" was to put the view of Galileo's scholastic
opponents back on the agenda. He declared logic outmoded and replaced it with history.
- How
evolution became a religion / May 13, 2000 / Michael Ruse / National Post — An
ardent evolutionist and ex-Christian concedes that evolution is promoted by its
practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a
secular religion -- a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality.
- The
End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics / January 2000 / Julian B. Barbour /
Oxford University Press — time simply doesn't exist; see also Amazon
and review: The Question
of Time / July 14, 2000 / Mitchell Stephens / FEED Magazine
- Scientific Theology / 1997 / Paul A. L. Giem / La Sierra
University Press, Riverside, CA — see review: "A Natural
Union" / 1997 / R. H. Brown / Origins 24(2):102-104
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