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

• The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking / July 2000 / Dennis Richard Danielson, ed. / Perseus Books — see also Amazon
• A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth / April 2000 / Samantha Weinberg / Harper Collins — a "living fossil" fish; see also Amazon
• In Search of the Big Bang: The Life and Death of the Universe / December 1999 / John R. Gribbin / Penguin — see also Amazon

NOVEMBER 27

• Scientists discover possible microbe from space / November 24, 2000 / CNN
• Why Now? / 16 November 2000 / Robert Matthews / Physical Review Focus — a mysterious "antigravity" force -- the so-called dark energy -- appears to be a major component of the cosmos
• A Pyrrhic Victory For Kansas / August 11, 2000 / Heather B. Long / Harvard Crimson Online
• "Cell Communication: The Inside Story" / June 2000 / John D. Scott and Tony Pawson / Scientific American — the complexity suggests design
• The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment / April 2000 / Richard C. Lewontin / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Can You Tell Me Anything About Evolution? / November 1981 / Colin Patterson / presentation at the American Museum of Natural History — the absence of an answer suggests that evolution does not convey any knowledge; audio tape and annotated transcript available from Access Research Network

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 1998–February 1999 / Jonathan Sarfati / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.21, n.1, p.16–17
• 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

• "An Australian Fossil Insect Bed Resulting from Cataclysmic Destruction" / November 2000 / Andrew A. Snelling / Impact, n.329, Institute for Creation Research
• "The Profusion of Living Fossils" / November 2000 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.143, Institute for Creation Research

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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