Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (November 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.
NOVEMBER 30
- "Geochemical
evidence for terrestrial ecosystems 2.6 billion years ago" requires
free registration / 30 November 2000 / Yumiko
Watanabe, Jacques E. J. Martini, and Hiroshi Ohmoto / Nature, v.408,
p.574-578
- "Variation
in the reversibility of evolution" requires
free registration / 23 November 2000 / Henrique Teotσnio
and Michael R. Rose / Nature, v.408, p.463-466
- "The
'feathers' of Longisquama" requires
free registration / 23 November 2000 / Robert R.
Reisz and Hans-Dieter Sues / Nature, v.408, p.428 the
dorsal scales of Longisquama are not feathers
- "The public has (rightly) lost faith in scientists" / 23
November 2000 / Nature, v.408, p.402
- Geoscience
Building Dedication / November 7, 2000 / Adventist News Network 6
photos
- Rational
Methodology for Identifying Supernatural Power and Purpose / October 23,
2000 / Steve Hinrichs
- links
for Phillip E. Johnson - books, essays, reviews
- Evolutionary
and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Actions /
September 1999 / Robert John Russel, William R. Stoeger, Francis J. Ayala,
eds. / University of Notre Dame Press see also Amazon
- Very
Intelligent Design: It beats waiting around for something else to evolve
/ November 30, 1996 / Joel Belz / World Magazine, v.11, n.28, p. 5
NOVEMBER 28
NOVEMBER 27
NOVEMBER 16
- "First
Upright Vertebrate Lived Fast, Died Young" requires
free registration / 3 November 2000 / Erik
Stokstad / Science, v.290, p.917
- "Gamma
Ray Bursts May Pack a One-Two Punch" requires
free registration / 3 November 2000 / Govert
Schilling / Science, v.290, p.926-927
- "Why is There
Life?" / November 2000 / Brad Lemley / Discover, v.21
because, says Britain's Astronomer Royal, you happen to be in the
right universe
- "Schrφdinger's
Cat Is Out of the Hat" requires
free registration / 27 October 2000 / Claudia
Tesche / Science, v.290, p.720-721
- "A
Meteorite Falls on Ice" requires
free registration / 13 October 2000 / Jeffrey N.
Grossman / Science, v.290, p.283-285
- Irreducible
Complexity and Darwinian Pathways: Guest response to article by R.H.
Thornhill and D.W. Ussery / June 16, 2000 / Access Research Network
- Intelligent Design
Defended from the Floor of the US House of Representatives / June 2000 / Access
Research Network
- Warranted
Christian Belief / May 2000 / Alvin Plantinga / Oxford University
Press see also Amazon
- "Salty seas:
Evidence for a young earth" / December 1998February 1999 /
Jonathan Sarfati / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.21, n.1, p.1617
- The
Intelligent Design Movement / March 1998 / William A. Dembski /
Discovery Institute
- "Polystrate"
Tree Fossils / 1997 / Andrew MacRae / Talk.Origins Are "polystrate"
fossils a problem for conventional geology?
- Salt in
the sea / 1996 / Glenn Morton / ASA discussion response
on ocean salinity as evidence for a young earth
NOVEMBER 14
- "Isolation
of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal"
requires free registration
/ 19 October 2000 / Russell H. Vreeland, William D. Rosenzweig, and Dennis
W. Powers / Nature, v.407, p.897-900 can bacteria really
live that long?
- "The
Democratization of Science" / March 2000 / Brian Harvey / First
Things, n.101, p.17-20 How can it be that such a large body
of opinion in the United States holds a view so at odds with standard
evolutionary science?
- Trends
in Ecology & Evolution / Elsevier Science highest-cited
journal in ecology and evolutionary biology
- Near Earth Objects report
of the United Kingdom taskforce
- Dialogue on Science, Ethics,
and Religion / American Association for the Advancement of Science
- In
Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
/ December 1999 / Henry Gee / Free Press see also Amazon
- "How old are Animals?" / 1999 / M. de L. Brooke / Trends in
Ecology & Evolution, v.14, n.6,
p.211-212 How reliable is molecular dating? If it is reliable,
why is there such an enormous gap between the origin of phyla and their
appearance in the fossil record; see review
by David Tyler
- On Becoming Human
/ 1998 / Ian Tattersall / American Museum of Natural History what
is that strange quality of consciousness that sets us off from all other
living organisms? and how and when did we acquire it?
- Of Gods
and Gaps: Intelligent Design and Darwinian Evolution / 15-22 July
1998 / Edward B. Davis / The Christian Century, v.115, n.20,
p.678-81 An essay review of Darwin's Black Box: The
Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, by Michael J. Behe; Defeating
Darwinism, by Opening Minds, by Phillip E. Johnson; and The Creation
Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer, ed. by J.P.
Moreland
- The Chesapeake Bay
Bolide: Modern Consequences of an Ancient Cataclysm / 1997 / C. Wylie
Poag / U.S. Geological Survey see also The
Chesapeake Bay Bolide Impact
- Neandertals: A
Cyber Perspective / 1997 / Kharlena Marνa Ramanan / Indiana
State University
NOVEMBER 13
NOVEMBER 7
- In the
Beginning: From Creation to Commandments (TV miniseries) / November
12-13, 2000 / NBC
- The
Bible According to NBC / Answers in Genesis NBC is planning a
November release of its interpretation of Genesis and Exodus. "In the
Beginning" is being promoted as a more accurate presentation of the
Biblical account than its predecessor, "Noah's Ark".
- "Early
onset and tropical forcing of 100,000-year Pleistocene glacial cycles"
requires free registration
/ 2 November 2000 / Scott Rutherford and Steven d'Hondt / Nature,
v.408, p.72-75
- Can
a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion
/ October 2000 / Michael Ruse / Cambridge University Press see
also Amazon
- What It
Means to Be an Antidarwinian at the University of Vermont / 2000 / John
A. Davison, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Vermont
- "UserCalc:
A Web-based uranium series calculator for magma migration problems (pdf)
/ August 11, 2000 / M. Spiegelman / Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,
v.1
- Geological
Society (United Kingdom)
- Alvin
Plantinga / Department of Philosophy, The University of Notre Dame articles
on Christianity, philosophy, and science
- Comet
and Asteroid Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth: Computer Modeling
/ September 1999 / John S. Lewis / Academic Press see also Amazon
- Spinning
Evolution / November 26, 1996 / Stephen Jay Gould (interview), Harvard
University / PBS
NOVEMBER 3
- A universal
timekeeper? / 2 November 2000 / Nature feature of the week How
much of your DNA do you share with a roundworm?
- The
Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty /
November 2000 / Walter Gratzer / Oxford University Press an
insightful and often amusing look at why good scientists often go wrong; see
also Amazon
- Even early
man was late for first date / October 31, 2000 / The Times
(United Kingdom)
- "Deep roots of Nazi science revealed" / 19 October 2000 / Alison
Abbott and Quirin Schiermeier / Nature, v.407, p.823-824 A
Berlin-based group of science historians has found that the ties between the
top German scientists whose research was used to justify Nazi policies and
the regime itself were much closer than was once thought.
- "Rapid
Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in the Wild: Evidence from Introduced
Salmon" requires free
registration / 20 October 2000 / Andrew P. Hendry,
John K. Wenburg, Paul Bentzen, Eric C. Volk, and Thomas P. Quinn / Science,
v.290, p.516-518
- Trilobite!
Eyewitness to Evolution / October 2000 / Richard Fortey / Knopf see
also Amazon
- Kansas School Removes Evolution
from State Competency Tests / February 2000 / Access Research Network
links to numerous articles
- Geology Labs On-Line
web-based lab activities that enhance earth science courses at
the college and high school level; e.g., virtual
age dating; virtual
earthquake
- Hall of Planet Earth (HOPE) /
1999 / American Museum of Natural History
- Of
Skeptics and Believers: Considering Religion and Science /
November-December 1998 / American Scientist, v.86, p.572-574 Essay
review of: Belief in God in an Age of Science, by John Polkinghorne
(Yale University Press, 1998), and Skeptics and True Believers: The
Exhilarating Connection between Science and Religion, by Chet Raymo
(Walker and Company, 1998)
- Lyell:
The Past is the Key to the Present / October 1998 / D. Blundell and
A. C. Scott, eds. / Geological Society (London) Special Publication, No. 143
NOVEMBER 2
- The Great
Magnet, the Earth / March 2000 / David P. Stern / NASA commemorating
the 400th anniversary of "De Magnete" by William Gilbert of
Colchester
- Dynamic
Earth: Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection / January 2000 /
Geoffrey F. Davies / Cambridge University Press see also Amazon
- Creation Studies Institute (Fort
Lauderdale, FL)
- Encyclopedia
of Volcanoes / October 1999 / Haraldur Sigurdsson, chief ed. /
Academic Press see also Amazon
- Stepping
Stones: The Making of Our Home World / August 1999 / Stephen Drury /
Oxford University Press the forces that have fueled the evolution
of the Earth; see also Amazon
- Paleomagnetic
Principles and Practice / December 1998 / Lisa Tauxe / Kluwer
Academic Publ.
- Meteorites
Flux with Time, Impact Effects / 1998 / G. J. H. McCall, M.M.
Grady, R. Hutchison, and D. Rothery, eds. / Geological Society (London)
Special Publication, No. 140
NOVEMBER 1
- Archaeologists
find 'oldest' habitation / October 24, 2000 / Japan Times
- Oldest
Cave Paintings Ever Found Light Up Human History / October 19, 2000 /
NationalGeographic.Com (The Guardian Unlimited)
- Planet Hunters on Trail
of Worlds Smaller than Saturn / March 29, 2000 / Origins Education Forum
(for NASA)
- Archaeology
of Geological Catastrophes / March 2000 / W. J. McGuire, D. R.
Griffiths, P. L. Hancock, and I. Stewart, eds. / Geological Society (London)
Special Publication, No. 171
- Day Star / Fred Heeren With
the help of today's foremost scientists, the Day Star Network is here to
promote knowledgeable discussion of the ultimate issues that every human
faces.
- James
Hutton: Present and Future / 1999 / G. Craig and J. H. Hull, eds. /
Geological Society (London) Special Publication, No. 150
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