Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (September 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.

SEPTEMBER 29

• "Einstein's Gulf: Can Evolution Cross It?" / August 2000 / John W. Oller, Jr. / Impact, n.327, Institute for Creation Research
• The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity / June 2000 / Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin / Touchstone — see also Science News and Amazon
• "Neanderthals Are Still Human!" / May 2000 / Dave Phillips / Impact, n.323, Institute for Creation Research
• "Cosmology on Trial" / May 2000 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.137, Institute for Creation Research
• Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species / September 2000 / Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio / MIT Press — see also Amazon and review in Scientific American / October 2000
• Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times / June 2000 / Steve Fuller / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon and review in Scientific American / September 2000
• "Top Twenty Technological Screw-ups of the 20th Century" / May 2000 / Marc Abraham / APS News, v.9, n.5, p.8 (American Physical Society) — see responses
• Physics in Perspective / Birkhäuser Verlag AG — a journal addressing the way physics is conducted, its content and applications, and the influence it has had in changing our conception of the natural world and in shaping our modern scientific and technological culture
• "The Polystrate Trees and Coal Seams of Joggins Fossil Cliffs" / October 1999 / John D. Morris / Impact, n.316, Institute for Creation Research
• "All Spaced Out" / February 1999 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.122, Institute for Creation Research
• Paleomagnetic reversals / 1998 / David Brezevec / Scientific American (Ask the Experts)

SEPTEMBER 28

• California Gets 'A' in Evolution Education; 19 other states fail to make the grade in national survey / September 27, 2000 / San Francisco Chronicle
• On Subject of 'E,' Ohio Ranks an 'F' / September 27, 2000 / David Lore / Columbus Dispatch, p.4D
• Evolution teaching doesn't make the grade / September 26, 2000 / USA Today
• Good Science, Bad Science: Teaching Evolution in the States / September 26, 2000 / Lawrence S. Lerner / Thomas B. Fordham Foundation — evaluation of state standards for teaching evolution in the public schools
• Seven Wonders of the Cosmos / April 1999 / Jayant Vishnu Narlikar / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• The Skeptical Creationism Website / American Humanist Association
• The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe / October 1992 / Eric J. Lerner / Vintage Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• Christianity and the Age of the Earth / 1988 / Davis A. Young / Artisan Publishers — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 26

• "20 Ways the World Could End" / October 2000 / Corey S. Powell / Discover, v.21, p.50
• "20 of the Greatest Blunders in Science in the Last Twenty Years" / October 2000 / Judith Newman / Discover, v.21, p.78
• Scientists defrost 5,300 year-old-mummy / September 26, 2000 / CNN.com
• Science report: A third of U.S. schools don't teach evolution / September 21, 2000 / CNN.com
• Dinosaur History Evolving with New Fossil Finds / September 21, 2000 / Hillary Mayell / National Geographic
• Galactic roundabout / 21 September 2000 / Philip Ball / Nature Science Update — An immense black hole, a bottomless pit that has swallowed a mass of over two million Suns and continues to suck up more, may lurk at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
• "The 100,000-Year Ice-Age Cycle Identified and Found to Lag Temperature, Carbon Dioxide, and Orbital Eccentricity" requires free registration / 15 September 2000 / Nicholas J. Shackleton / Science, v.289, p.1897-1902
• "Titanic" / 11 September 2000 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist, v.167, p.24 — today's stars are mere whippersnappers compared with the first suns
• "PALEONTOLOGY: Biggest Extinction Hit Land and Sea" requires free registration / 8 September 2000 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.289, p.1666-1667
• "Quantifying the oldest tidal record: The 3.2 Ga Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa" / September 2000 / Kenneth A. Eriksson and Edward L. Simpson / Geology, v.28, p.831
• "Evolutionary paleoecology of the earliest echinoderms: Helicoplacoids and the Cambrian substrate revolution" / September 2000 / Stephen Q. Dornbos and David J. Bottjer / Geology, v.28, p.839
• "Automatic design and manufacture of robotic lifeforms" requires free registration / 31 August 2000 / Hod Lipson and Jordan B. Pollack / Nature, v.406, p.974-978 — see also: "Artificial life: From robot dreams to reality", p.945-947 / Rodney Brooks; and Supplementary Information
• "The role of microbes in accretion, lamination and early lithification of modern marine stromatolites" requires free registration / 31 August 2000 / R. P. Reid, et al. / Nature, v.406, p.989-992

SEPTEMBER 22

• The Care of Creation: Focusing Concern and Action / August 2000 / R. J. Berry, ed. / Intervarsity Press — see also Amazon
• Evolution at NYU / 2000 / David H. A. Fitch / New York University — reference supplements to the course on Evolution
• Being a Christian in Science / June 1999 / Rich Milne / Leadership University
• Evolution and the Science and Religion Dialogue / 1999 / Audrey R. Chapman / American Association for the Advancement of Science
• The Act of Creation: Bridging Transcendence and Immanence / October 1998 / William A. Dembski / Leadership University
• A New Design Argument / March 1998 / Charles Thaxton / Access Research Network
• Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution / April 1995 / Douglas J. Futuyma / Sinauer Assoc — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 21

• "An enduring mystery" / September 25, 2000 / Michael Satchell / U.S. News & World Report, v.129, p.38 — evidence points to a flood of biblical proportions in the Black Sea area
• A Romantic Natural History / Ashton Nichols / Department of English, Dickinson College — surveys the relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859)
• The Case for Creationism / 1994 / Colin W. Mitchell / Alma Park, Grantham: Autumn House

SEPTEMBER 19

• Open Line Focuses on Intelligent Design / September 20, 2000 / Moody Bible Institute — hear the arguments yourself on the Moody Broadcasting Network
• ARN Announce / September 17, 2000 / Access Research Network, Newsletter #7 — Phillip Johnson's book, Chicago tour, and radio appearance; Paul Nelson speaking at CU Boulder and USAFA
• Splitting the electron / 15 September 2000 / Philip Ball / Nature (science update)
• Mother Nature's Two Laws: Ringmasters for Circus Earth / August 2000 / A. D. Kirwan, Jr. / World Scientific — lessons on entropy, energy, critical thinking, and the practice of science
• Anthropology Tutorials / July 2000 / Behavioral Sciences Department, Palomar College
• How Can Evolution Cause Irreducibly Complex Systems? / June 2000 / Don Lindsay
• The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos / January 2000 / Mario Livio / John Wiley & Sons — see also Amazon
• Zoom Dinosaurs — comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension
• Criticisms of Evolutionary Computation / September 1999 / Wesley R. Elsberry / Online Zoologists
• "The Miracles of Darwinism" / 1996 / Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (interview) / Origins & Design, v.17, n.2 — member of the French Academy of Sciences feels that all existing theories of evolution fall far short of the phenomena they must explain

SEPTEMBER 13

• Explorer Finds Evidence of Life Before Great Flood / September 13, 2000 / Sue Pleming / Yahoo! News
• National Geographic's Black Sea Expedition Uncovers Evidence of Human Habitation / National Geographic
• The Faith of Great Scientists / January 1998 / MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Independent Activities Period — How did the Christian faith, which so many great scientists professed, influence their scientific thinking, and how did their science affect their faith?

SEPTEMBER 12

• "Out of the digital ooze, robotic life" / September 11, 2000 / Charles W. Petit / U.S. News & World Report, v.129, p.84 — designs evolve without human aid
• An Evaluation of Ten Recent Biology Textbooks / September 5, 2000 / Jonathan Wells / Discovery Institute, Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture — based on their use of: Miller-Urey experiment, Darwin's tree of life, homology in vertebrate limbs, Haeckel's embryos, Archaeopteryx — the missing link, peppered moths, Darwin's finches
• How to Talk to Your Kids About Evolution and Creation / September 2000 / Ray and Sue Bohlin / Probe Ministries
• Clues to origins of life / 25 August 2000 / BBC News — life may have started in undersea vents
• Calls to crack chimp genome / 22 August 2000 / BBC News — chimps are 99 percent genetically identical to humans
• The Creation Controversy & The Science Classroom / 2000 / James W. Skehan and Craig E. Nelson / National Science Teachers Association Press
• Ecology and Evolution: Islands of Change / 2000 / Richard Benz / National Science Teachers Association Press — The complex ideas of how ecological pressures shape the evolutionary processes of adaptation and natural selection are anchored in a setting kids will love learning about — the Galápagos Islands.
• The Designed 'Just So' Universe / February 1999 / Walter L. Bradley
• "Explosion of Life" / March-April 1997 / Paul Chien / The Real Issue, v.15, n.3, p.1,8-10 — details of the Cambrian explosion, a biological puzzle that confounds the Darwinists
• Creation Resources Trust
• The Age of the Earth / Creation Science Facts — our planet is not more than a few thousand years old
• "Life as a Manifestation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics" / 1994 / Eric D. Schneider and James Kay / Mathematical and Computer Modeling, v.19, n.6-8, p.25-48

SEPTEMBER 11

• "Microtubule motors in mitosis" requires free registration / 7 September 2000 / David J. Sharp, Gregory C. Rogers, and Jonathan M. Scholey / Nature, v.407, p.41-47
• Ballard & the Black Sea: The Search for Noah's Flood / National Geographic — see recent dispatches: ..., 9/3/00, 9/4/00, 9/5/00
• Doctrinal discussions: Science and Faith, Creation / Adventist Today Discussion Forums — postings from a variety of viewpoints
• Origins of Niagara Falls: A Geological History / Thunder Alley — "Thunder Alley, the most comprehensive web site about Niagara Falls"
• Creation vs. Evolution, Part II / ThinkQuest — a discussion/debate site by teens, for teens
• Creation-Evolution Encyclopedia / Pathlights — an astounding amount of scientific evidence disproving evolutionary theory has been uncovered
• Facts for Faith / Hugh Ross / Reasons to Believe — a Christian apologetics magazine

SEPTEMBER 7

• "The earliest known sauropod dinosaur" requires free registration / 7 September 2000 / Eric Buffetaut, et al. / Nature, v.407, p.72-74
• Christian Right Lobbies to Overturn Second Law of Thermodynamics / 6 September 2000 / the Onion
• Creationism / 19 May 2000 / Helen Fryman / True.Origin Archive
• Cosmic Catastrophes: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Adventures in Hyperspace / July 2000 / J. Craig Wheeler / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Earth Science textbooks / 1997, 1999, 2000 / Edward J. Tarbuck and Frederick K. Lutgens / Prentice Hall — for grades 6, 8, and 9
• Creation Science Association of Alberta
• Nature.net — birds, wildlife, nature photography, John Muir
• Education Now — technology for Adventist education, grades 5-8
• Skewl Sites — the best in educational science websites: general, earth & space, life, physical, environmental
• Addison Wesley Longman — Benjamin Cummings, higher education science publishing, provides life science and chemistry content in print and electronic products to meet the evolving needs of instructors and students.
• Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge History of Science Series) / June 1991 / John Hedley Brooke / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 6

• New York Paleontological Society — especially see the News Links
• The Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track" Controversy / 18 October 1999 / Glen J. Kuban
• The Arthur Custance Memorial Library — complete texts of The Doorway Papers and other books on the Interface between Faith and Science
• Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation
• Cyber Ministries / John Woodmorappe
• Planetary Catastrophism / Donald W. Patten
• Northrup's Biblical Nuggets / Bernard E. Northrup — Old Testament scholar with knowledge in geology
• Internet Center for Creation Science
• Triangle Association for Scientific Creationism (Research Triangle Park, NC)
• Amen Website (United Kingdom)

SEPTEMBER 5

• "When Life Nearly Came to an End: The Permian Extinction" / September 2000 / Hillel J. Hoffmann / National Geographic, v.198, p.100 — about 90 percent of all species vanished in a mysterious mass extinction 250 million years ago
• "ORIGIN OF LIFE: Life as We Don't Know It" requires free registration / 25 August 2000 / Günter Wächtershäuser / Science, v.289, p.1307-1308
• "Did Volcanoes Drive Ancient Extinctions?" requires free registration / 18 August 2000 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.289, p.1130-1131
• "Evolutionary Trends From Bacteria to Birds" requires free registration / 18 August 2000 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.289, p.1131-1133

SEPTEMBER 4

• Quake Hits California on New Fault, Startling the Experts / September 4, 2000 / New York Times

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