Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (December 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.

DECEMBER 22

• Making Sense of Modern Cosmology / January 2001 / P. James E. Peebles / Scientific American
• "Piecing Together the Biggest Puzzle of All" / 8 December 2000 / Martin J. Rees / Science, v.290, p.1919-1925
• The Politics of Education in Kansas / December 2000 / M. Lee Allison / Geotimes
• "Forked seams sabotage swamp theory" / June-August 1994 / Andrew A. Snelling / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.16, n.3, p.10-12

DECEMBER 20

• Genes can't tell us everything / 18 December 2000 / Philip Ball / Nature Science Update — research casts doubt on the theory that genes contain 'signatures' that can provide an insight into how the genetic code itself evolved
• Asteroid Impact Crater Examined for Clues to Dinosaurs' Demise / December 18, 2000 / Matthew Fordahl / Associated Press — the Chicxulub impact crater on the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is smaller than once thought
• "A Dripping Wet Early Mars Emerging From New Pictures" requires free registration / 8 December 2000 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.290, p.1879-1880
• Oldest bacterium? / December 2000 / Geotimes — When a fluid-filled inclusion in a 250-million-year-old salt crystal was reported to harbor ancient life, many scientists raised eyebrows.
• Geotimes editorial / December 2000 / Geotimes — introduction to an issue on the relation between religion and teaching evolution
• "Studying Evolution and Keeping the Faith" / December 2000 / Patricia H. Kelley / Geotimes — for one leading paleontologist, understanding the theory of evolution is fully compatible with being a Christian
• Hot Spots across the U.S. / December 2000 / Kristina Bartlett / Geotimes — a sampling of recent events in the controversy over teaching evolution or creationism
• "Features Found in Flood Basalts" / Fall 1999 / Nahor Neves de Souza / Geoscience Reports, n.28, p.1-3
• "Coal Beds and Noah's Flood" / June 1986 / Andrew Snelling / Creation Ex Nihilo v.8, n.3, p.20-21

DECEMBER 18

• E=mc² Got that? Sure? / December 18, 2000 / Jay Tolson / U.S. News & World Report — it was hard even for Einstein to be Einstein
• Dating an older man / December 18, 2000 / Ben Harder / U.S. News & World Report — early humanoid fossil
• More on Birds and Dinosaurs / December 18, 2000 / Newsweek — two finds support the theory that they’re linked
• "Evidence for Design at the Ecological Level" / Spring 2000 / Henry Zuill / Geoscience Reports, n.29, p.1-6
• Evolution of the Bacterial Flagella / March 2000 / Ian Musgrave / Monash University, Australia
• "Look Who's Stalking" / February 14, 2000 / Ethan Smith / New York Magazine — The ugly feud between pop paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould and science writer Robert Wright has been simmering for ten years now -- except somebody forgot to tell Gould.
• Southern California Integrated GPS Network / 2000 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory — a collaborative project to install 250 permanent, continuously recording Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers in and around the Los Angeles basin to provide accurate deformation information that will improve estimates of earthquake hazards
• Andrew A. Snelling, biography — creationist assistant professor of geology
• Paleontological Resources / University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
• Astrophysics Data System / NASA — database for over two million abstracts in astronomy, astrophysics, instrumentation, physics, and geophysics; also pointers to astronomical data catalogs and data archives
• Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen Paradox in Atomic, Nuclear, and Particle Physics / October 1998 / Alexander Afriat and Franco Selleri / Kluwer Academic-Plenum Publishers — the incompatibility between local realism and the existing quantum theory 

DECEMBER 15

• I'm Not Dead Yet: Genetic Mutation That Lives Up to Its Name Is Found / December 15, 2000 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
• "Geomagnetic intensity variations over the past 780 kyr obtained from near-seafloor magnetic anomalies" requires free registration / 14 December 2000 / Jeffrey S. Gee, et al. / Nature, v.408, p.827-832
• "Analysis of an evolutionary species–area relationship" requires free registration / 14 December 2000 / Jonathan B. Losos and Dolph Schluter / Nature, v.408, p.847-850
• Dinosaur exposed as fake / 8 December 2000 / BBC News
• New Dinosaur Fossil Supports Link to Birds / December 7, 2000 / New York Times
• Feathery fossil sheds light on flight origins / 6 December 2000 / BBC News
• Earth's continental land masses created in short, fast bursts / December 6, 2000 / Janet Wong / University of Toronto — findings challenge multi-million year continental crust theory
• Domestic breeds head for extinction / 5 December 2000 / BBC News — is there a limit to variation in species
• Black hole takes 'light snack' / 1 December 2000 / BBC News
• Quasar unseats galaxy as most distant object in universe / November 30, 2000 / CNN
• Mars: Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet / April 2000 / Paul Raeburn / National Geographic Society — see also Simon & Schuster and Amazon
• The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life / February 2000 / John L. Howland / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The Scopes Trial: Play and Festival / Bryan College, Dayton, TN
• "'Think Weird': An interview with creationist paleontologist, Dr Kurt Wise" / December 1995-February 1996 / Robert Doolan and Carl Wieland / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.18, n.1
• Evolution's Tiny Violences: The Po-Halo Mystery / December 1992 / John Brawley / Talk.Origins — an amateur scientist examines pegmatitic biotite mica

DECEMBER 12

• ARN - Announce, No.10 / December 11, 2000 / Access Research Network — two videos available: "Creation of the Cosmos: Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design" featuring Dr. Walter Bradley; "The Theological Roots of Modern Science" featuring Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III

• More on the Origin of Birds: Scientists Say Fossil Shows Birds Came Before Dinosaurs / December 8, 2000 / ABC News
• "The smallest known non-avian theropod dinosaur" requires free registration / 7 December 2000 / Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou, and Xiaolin Wang / Nature, v.408, p.705-708
• "Granite magma formation, transport and emplacement in the Earth's crust" requires free registration / 7 December 2000 / N. Petford, A. R. Cruden, K. J. W. McCaffrey, and J.-L. Vigneresse / Nature, v.408, p.669-673 — computer simulations indicate that granite, i.e., 70 to 80% of the earth's crust, was formed in a few thousand years
• Humans did come out of Africa, says DNA / 7 December 2000 / Nature, Science Update
• Origin of the species / 7 December 2000 / Nature, Feature of the Week
• DNA Study Reinforces Out-of-Africa Theory / December 7, 2000 / Fox News
• Mother Africa: Mitochondrial DNA Study Supports 'Out of Africa' Evolution / December 6, 2000 / ABC News

DECEMBER 6

• 'Fossil fish' in dramatic sighting / 1 December 2000 / BBC News — the coelacanth fish, that has supposedly existed for at least 360 million years, has been filmed swimming in shallow waters off the northeast coast of South Africa
• Lunar meteorites reveal life's troubles / 30 November 2000 / BBC News — the Earth and Moon underwent intense cosmic bombardment soon after formation
• Feathers fly over fossil reptile / 23 November 2000 / BBC News
• "Repeated, recent and diverse transfers of a mitochondrial gene to the nucleus in flowering plants" requires free registration / 16 November 2000 / Keith L. Adams, et al. / Nature, v.408, p.354-357
• Star Physics Prove the Delicacy of Life / 6 July 2000 / Lee Siegel / Space.com
• "Vestiges of a Beginning: Clues to the Emergent Biosphere Recorded in the Oldest Known Sedimentary Rocks" / April 2000 / Stephen J. Mojzsis and T. Mark Harrison / GSA Today, v.10, n.4 — copy
• Global Volcanism Program / Smithsonian Institution — volcanic activity reports, volcanoes of the world
• Melting the Earth: The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions / June 1999 / Haraldur Sigurdsson / Oxford University Press — a fascinating chronicle of how humankind's perspective on volcanoes has evolved -- from primitive terror to scientific understanding; see also Amazon

DECEMBER 5

• New Layers of Evidence Suggest Mars Had Water / December 5, 2000 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• New ways to predict quakes / 29 November 2000 / Philip Ball / Nature science updates
• "I Don't Need to Find the Flood" (pdf) / November 2000 / Kermit Netteburg / Adventist Review, v.177, n.49, p.6

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