Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (October 2000)
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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.
OCTOBER 31
- Statement of the
Cranach Institute Protesting the Removal of William Dembski as Director of
the Michael Polanyi Center at Baylor University / October 25, 2000 /
Concordia University, Wisconsin
- EVOLUTION:
Model of good (and bad) behaviour / 20 October 2000 / Jessa Netting / Nature
science update The meek might inherit the Earth, but they will be
sandwiched between ranks of the selfish, according to a new computer model
of evolution.
- RELICS:
Hardcore hibernation / 19 October 2000 / David Adam / Nature
science update US researchers claim to have revived bacteria that
have spent the last 250 million years in suspended animation
- Faith, Science and
Understanding / October 2000 / John Polkinghorne / Yale University
Press see also Amazon
- "DNA
and Other Designs" / April 2000 / Stephen C. Meyer / First
Things, n.102, p.30-38
- Summary
of Reasons To Believe's Testable Creation Model / 2000 / Hugh Ross / Reasons
To Believe
- Geoarchaeology:
Exploration, Environments, Resources / October 1999 / A. M.
Pollard, ed. / Geological Society (London) Special Publication, No. 165
- The Fear of God
/ April 7, 1999 / Phillip E. Johnson / Access Research Network review
of: The
Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin of Life, by Paul Davies (1999)
- "Where
Science and Religion Meet" / February 1998 / Tim Beardsley / Scientific
American the U.S. head of the Human Genome Project, Francis
S. Collins, strives to keep his Christianity from interfering with his
science and politics
- Biotic
Recovery from Mass Extinction Events / April 1996 / M. B. Hart, ed.
/ Geological Society (London) Special Publication, No. 102
OCTOBER 30
- Selling
Evolution in Ways Darwin Never Imagined / October 28, 2000 / Andrew
Pollack / New York Times
- How the
Sun Shines / August 30, 2000 / John N. Bahcall (Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, NJ) / Nobel e-Museum
- Are
Souls Real? / April 2000 / Jerome W. Elbert / Prometheus Books see
also Amazon
- The
Arguments of Time / February 2000 / Jeremy Butterfield, ed. /
Oxford University Press
- Creation Research, Science
Education Foundation (Columbus, Ohio)
- Life Design Academy exploring
life's greatest questions
- Savage Earth
/ PBS earth's crust, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis;
especially see the last paragraph of The
Volcanoes of North America for questions about the radiometric dating of
zircon crystals in the Long Valley Caldera
- Other
Worlds: Images of the Cosmos from Earth and Space / September 1999
/ James S. Trefil and David H. Levy / National Geographic Society see
also Amazon
- Sudden
Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species / March 1999
/ Jeffrey H. Schwartz / John Wiley & Sons see also Amazon
OCTOBER 26
- Microorganisms from the
Moon / 27 October 2000 / Brig Klyce / Cosmic Ancestry Russian
biologists recognize fossils of microorganisms in lunar soil
- Scientists
Now Acknowledge Role of Humans in Climate Change / October 26, 2000 /
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times
- "Evidence
for a 20° tilting of the Earth's rotation axis 110 million years ago"
/ 15 July 2000 / Michel Prιvot, Estelle Mattern, Pierre Camps and Marc
Daigniθres / Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.179, n.3-4,
p.517-528
- Building
Planet Earth: Five Billion Years of Earth History / March 2000 /
Peter Cattermole / Cambridge University Press see also Amazon
- The Birth of Time:
How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe / March 2000 /
John Gribbin / Yale University Press see also Amazon
- Galactic
Encounters, Apollo Objects and Atlantis: A Catastrophical Scenario for
Discontinuities in Human History / 8 October 1999 / Emilio Spedicato / University
of Bergamo, Italy
- Resources and Environment
World Atlas / 1998 / V. M. Kotlyakov, et al., eds. / Institute of
Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences and Ed. Hφlzel, Vienna
- On the Possibility
of Very Rapid Shifts of the Poles / 1997 / Flavio Barbiero / University
of Bergamo, Italy
- Space Telescope Science Institute /
for NASA Hubble Space Telescope
- Hubble Reveals
Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions / October 21, 1997 /
Space Telescope Science Institute (for NASA)
OCTOBER 25
- Unintelligent
Designs / October 23, 2000 / ChristianityToday.com Baylor's
dismissal of Polyani Center director Dembski was not a smart move
- Earth Science Week /
October 8-14, 2000 / American Geological Institute
- "Late
Precambrian paradoxical glaciation and obliquity of the Earth a discussion
of dynamical constraints" / 30 December 1999 / M. A. Pais, J. L. Le
Mouλl, K. Lambeck, and J. P. Poirier / Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, v.174, p.155-171 rapid and substantial decrease in
obliquity; suggestion that in the past the obliquity was >54°
- Earth
in Turmoil: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Their Impact on Humankind /
August 1999 / Kerry E. Sieh and Simon LeVay / W.H. Freeman & Co see
also Amazon
- Earth and
Planetary Science Letters / Elsevier Science The
articles published reflect the great impact made on research in the
geosciences by the use of successful research methods from other disciplines
such as chemistry, physics, and mathematics. It also covers research into
all aspects of lunar studies, plate tectonics, ocean floor spreading, and
continental drift, as well as basic studies of the physical, chemical and
mechanical properties of the Earth's crust and mantle, the atmosphere and
the hydrosphere.
- Geochimica
et Cosmochimica Acta / Elsevier Science journal of The
Geochemical Society and The Meteoritical Society
- Wyatt Archaeological Museum Ron
Wyatt's discoveries include Noah's Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Red Sea
Crossing, Mt. Sinai, the Ark of the Covenant and How the Pyramids were
built.
- "Mass
Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say" / April 21, 1998 /
Joby Warrick / Washington Post, p.A-4 includes numerous links
to specific examples
OCTOBER 24
- A
Deluge of Beliefs / October 20, 2000 / Helen T. Gray / Kansas City
Star a recent underwater archaeological find in the Black
Sea raises scientific and theological questions
- "Intellectual
McCarthyism" at Baylor University / October 20, 2000 /
ChristianityToday.com (see third news note on page)
- 'Intelligent
design' leader demoted / October 19, 2000 / Ron Nissimov / Houston
Chronicle on Bill Dembski and the Polanyi Center at Baylor
University
- "An
eruption at Piton de la Fournaise" / October 2000 / Thomas
Staudacher / Geotimes, v.45, p.29 witnessing the
stirrings of the world's most active volcanoes
- "The
Trouble with Fossil Thieves" / October 2000 / Christina Reed and
Laura Wright / Geotimes, v.45, p.22 in the world of
fossil collecting, the line between legal and illegal is sometimes hard to
see
- "Here
be monsters" / 23 September 2000 / Graham Lawton / New
Scientist, v.167, p.22 T. Rex, the icon of the dinosaur age,
is about to be knocked off its pedestal
- "Basaltic Rocks from the Pinacate Volcanic Field Yield Notably Young 40Ar/39Ar
Ages" / January 25, 2000 / James T. Gutmann, Brent D. Turrin, and John
C. Dohrenwend / EOS,
Transactions (American Geophysical Union), v.81, n.4, p.33,37
- The
Search for Intelligent Design in the Universe / January 9, 2000 / San
Jose Mercury News (Silicon Valley magazine) about Philip
Johnson
- The Act of
Creation: Bridging Transcendence and Immanence / 10 August 1998 /
William A. Dembski / Access Research Network presented at
Millstatt Forum, Strasbourg, France
- "The First
Young-Earth Conference on Radioisotopes" / August 1997 / Larry
Vardiman / Impact, n.290, Institute for Creation Research
OCTOBER 20
OCTOBER 18
- Baylor
Releases Polanyi Center Committee Report / October 17, 2000 / Baylor
University current status of the Polanyi Center, directed by
William Dembski who has written and researched extensively on intelligent
design
- Sugar
in space sweetens chances of life / 16 June 2000 / BBC News
- Atom
smasher revs up / 14 June 2000 / BBC News Deep in the sandy
woods of New York's Long Island, physicists are travelling back to the dawn
of the Universe.
- Astronomers:
Star collisions are rampant, catastrophic / June 2, 2000 / CNN
- "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
- "A classification of
possible routes of Darwinian evolution" / 2000 / Richard H.
Thornhill and David W. Ussery / The Journal of Theoretical Biology,
v.203, p.111-116
- How Old is the Earth? / Institute
for Biblical and Scientific Studies Dr. John D. Morris in his
book entitled The Young Earth claims the earth is only a few
thousand years old. Lets look closely at the evidence.
- "Herbivores,
Carnivores and the Created Order" / May-June, 1996 / David J. Tyler
/ Creation Matters, v.1, n.3 a bimonthly publication of
the Creation Research Society
- "Ruse 'Gives Away
the Store,' Admits Evolution a Philosophy" / November-December 1994
/ Tom Woodward / The Real Issue, v.13, n.4, p.7
- "Obstacles
and Opportunities in Science for Christian Witness" / 1993 / Robert
Kaita / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.45,
p.112-115
- "Christian
Discipleship and the Challenge of Physics: Formation, Flux, and Focus"
/ 1990 / Robert John Russell / Perspectives on Science and Christian
Faith, v.42, p.139-154
OCTOBER 16
- "A
search for the weight of the matter" / October 16, 2000 / Tim
Appenzeller / U.S. News & World Report a last-ditch
effort to detect the 'God particle'
- Scientists
Find Completely New Animal in Greenland / October 12, 2000 / Yahoo! News
- Significance
of the Peppered Moth Argument / October 10, 2000 / Jonathan Wells /
Access Research Network letter and response
- "Evolution
theories challenged" / October 8, 2000 / Ted Byfield / Edmonton
Sun natural selection called 'creation myth' of the 20th
century: review of the book, Icons
of Evolution, by Dr. Jonathan Wells, a molecular and cell biologist
from the University of California at Berkeley who is a senior fellow of the
Discovery Institute
- PALAEONTOLOGY:
Fossil record of mass moth migration" requires
free registration / 1 June 2000 / Jes Rust / Nature,
v.405, p.530-531
- "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
- "Second
Thoughts about Peppered Moths" / May 24, 1999 / Jonathan Wells / The
Scientist, v.13, n.11, p.13 this classical story of
evolution by natural selection needs revising
- Bogus "Noah's
Ark" from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure / Lorence
Gene Collins / Department of Geological Sciences, California State
University Northridge
- regarding
the claims of Ron Wyatt / September 26, 1996 / John Baumgardner, Los
Alamos, NM
- Transcript:
Speech by Professor Michael Ruse / February 13, 1993 Annual
Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the
symposium "The New Antievolutionism"
OCTOBER 13
- "Fossil
Databases Move to the Web" requires
free registration / 29 September 2000 / Jocelyn
Kaiser / Science, v.289, p.2307
- "ANTHROPOLOGY:
Misconduct Alleged in Yanomamo Studies" requires
free registration / 29 September 2000 / Charles C.
Mann / Science, v.289, p.2251-2253
- "Ice
Man Warms Up for European Scientists" requires
free registration / 29 September 2000 / Richard Stone
/ Science, v.289, p.2253-2254
- "A
Victim of the Black Sea Flood Found" requires
free registration / 22 September 2000 / Richard A.
Kerr / Science, v.289, p.2021-2022
- "Evolution
of biological complexity" / April 25, 2000 / Christoph Adami,
Charles Ofria, and Travis C. Collier / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA,
v.97, p.4463-4468
- John Woodmorappe /
Revolution Against Evolution
- Biblical Creation Society
(United Kingdom)
- The Scientist news
journal for the life scientist
- Defeating
Darwinism by Opening Minds / 1998 / Phillip E. Johnson /
InterVarsity Press excerpts
OCTOBER 11
- "Germline
DNA: Wheat mutation rate after Chernobyl" requires
free registration / 5 October 2000 / Olga Kovalchuk,
et al. / Nature, v.407, p.583-584 crops grown in
contaminated land surrounding Chernobyl show a mutation rate six times
higher than normal; see also: "Chernobyl's
soiled legacy"
- SPACE:
Picking up the pieces / 5 October 2000 / Philip Ball / Nature
science update a puzzle about the number of meteorites that get
to Earth
- "A
yeast prion provides a mechanism for genetic variation and phenotypic
diversity" requires free
registration / 28 September 2000 / Heather L. True
and Susan L. Lindquist / Nature, v.407, p.477-483 A
major enigma in evolutionary biology is that new forms or functions often
require the concerted effects of several independent genetic changes. It is
unclear how such changes might accumulate when they are likely to be
deleterious individually and be lost by selective pressure.
- "Not
(Just) in Kansas Anymore" / 5 May 2000 / Eugenie C. Scott / Science,
v.288, p.813 an essay on teaching evolution/creation in public
schools, including 50 responses
- Science
& Its Limits: The Natural Sciences in Christian Perspective /
February 2000 / Del Ratzsch / InterVarsity Press see also Amazon
- Science News Online
- Science and
Faith / Arnold Neumaier
- "The Ascent of
Racism" / February 1987 / Paul G. Humber / Impact, n.164,
Institute for Creation Research
OCTOBER 9
- "Experiments in
Stratification" / October 2000 / Guy Berthault / Impact,
n.328, Institute for Creation Research
- "Adventists
and the Scopes Trial" / September 21, 2000 / James A. Dittes / Adventist
Review, v.177, p.8-12
- "Opening
Darwin's Black Box" / Apologetics.org interview with Dr.
Michael Behe filmed on the occasion of his lecture at Princeton; includes
video clips of a cilium and flagellum
- Behe's Empty
Box / August 8, 1999 reviews and criticisms of Darwin's
Black Box and the hypothesis of Intelligent Design
- Creation Evidence Museum /
Carl Baugh / Glen Rose, TX
- "What Are
They Thinking?" / October 1997 / Rebecca Zacks / Scientific
American students' reasons for rejecting evolution go beyond
the Bible
- Behe,
Dennett, Haig debate at Notre Dame / 11 April 1997 / Terry M. Gray /
American Scientific Affiliation discussion
- "Contrasting
Views on Behe" / 1997 / Braxton M. Alfred and Alice Fulton / Perspectives
on Science and Christian Faith, v.49, p.119-122
OCTOBER 6
- The Origins Club / Penn
State University, Student Activities to disseminate information
on creation science
- Hooper Virtual
Natural History Museum / Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- "Copernicus and
the Aesthetic Impulse" / July 2000 / Owen Gingerich / APS News,
v.9, p.8
- Wyatt Archaeological
Research Fraud Documentation / March 2000 / Tentmaker
- Volcano Hazards Program /
September 2000 / U.S. Geological Survey
- "Alleged
Evolutionary Ancestors Coexisted with Modern Humans" / April 1997 /
Marvin L. Lubenow / Impact, n.286, Institute for Creation Research
- Naturalism,
Theism and the Scientific Enterprise / February 20-23, 1997 / University
of Texas, Austin an Interdisciplinary Conference
- Radiometric
Dating: A Christian Perspective / Roger C. Wiens / American Scientific
Affiliation, Resource Paper
- Are Stromatolites
Really Fossils? New Findings from Precambrian Rocks / November 1996 /
David J. Tyler / Biblical Creation Society
- Ice Ages /
1995 / Illinois State Museum
- "The Dating Gap"
/ October 1993 / Marvin L. Lubenow / Impact, n.244, Institute for
Creation Research
OCTOBER 5
- God,
Science, and Humility: Ten Scientists Consider Humility Theology /
Robert L. Herrmann, ed. / November 2000 / Templeton Foundation Press see
also Amazon
- Walking back to
Hox / 3 October 2000 / Henry Gee / Nature science update genetic
surprises found within a humble sea creature could shed light on our own
evolution
- "High
Direct Estimate of the Mutation Rate in the Mitochondrial Genome of Caenorhabditis
elegans" requires free
registration / 29 September 2000 / Dee R. Denver, et
al. / Science, v.289, p.2342-2344 see review: Running
slow / 28 September 2000 / New Scientist Online News; molecular
clocks may be running far faster than thought, with profound implications
for the dating of the origin of humans
- "Increase
of Maximum Life-Span in Sweden, 1861-1999" requires
free registration / 29 September 2000 / J. R. Wilmoth,
et al. / Science, v.289, p.2366-2368 see review: Age
old / 28 September 2000 / New Scientist Online News; the
maximum human life span is increasing, a fact which may cast doubt on the
idea of a maximum possible age
- What
really killed T. Rex? / 28 September 2000 / Electronic Telegraph (United
Kingdom)
- When
slime is not so thick / 27 September 2000 / BBC News a
single-celled organism can negotiate the shortest way through a maze
- God for
the 21st Century / March 2000 / Russell Stannard, ed. / Templeton
Foundation Press see also Amazon
- Marie
Curie and the Science of Radioactivity / 1997 / Naomi Pasachoff /
Oxford University Press see related website by the American
Institute of Physics
- The
Myth of the Flat Earth / August 4, 1997 / Jeffrey Burton Russell / for
the American Scientific Affiliation Conference at Westmont College
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