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
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
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
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
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