Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (October 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.

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

• New Species Arise More Quickly Than Previously Believed, UMass Researcher Finds / October 19, 2000 / University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Spores provide intimations of immortality / October 19, 2000 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor — scientists revive spores dormant for million of years, bolstering notion that life could exist elsewhere
• 'Intelligent design' center at Baylor gains support from review committee / October 18, 2000 / Ron Nissimov / The Houston Chronicle
• Polanyi committee suggests compromise / October 18, 2000 / Blair Martin / The Baylor Lariat — peer review committee finds Center's research legitimate
• "The Apple (Computer) Bites the African Eve" / July 1992 / Marvin Lubenow  / Impact, n.229, Institute for Creation Research

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. Let’s 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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