Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (January 2001)

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JANUARY 28

• "Where We Come From" / January 29, 2001 / U.S. News & World Report — recent advances in genetics are starting to illuminate the wanderings of early humans
• "Did early man mix it up?" / January 29, 2001 / U.S. News & World Report — Neanderthal mystery
• Monkey Business / January 11, 2001 / Lauren Kern / Dallas Observer — William Dembski thought Baylor University would be the perfect place to investigate a scientific alternative to Darwinism. He didn't know he'd be crucified for his cause.
• Intelligent Design Coming Clean / November 17, 2000 / William A. Dembski / Access Research Network
• The Journey: In Search of Our Origins (video) / Bruce Tiffney, Jeffrey Schloss, Alan Wallace (panel discussion) / Access Research Network
• Darwinism: Science or Naturalistic Philosophy (video study kit) / William B. Provine and Phillip E. Johnson (debate at Stanford University) / Access Research Network — a teaching kit for home, church, or school that contains 3 important resources available for examining the questions surrounding the origins controversy
• Design as a Research Program: 14 Questions to Ask About Design / June 13, 2000 / William A. Dembski / Access Research Network

JANUARY 26

• Earthquake Rocks India; Death Toll Tops 650 / January 26, 2001 / Reuters
• "A bizarre predatory dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar" requires free registration / 25 January 2001 / Scott D. Sampson, Matthew T. Carrano, and Catherine A. Forster / Nature, v.409, p.504-506
• Freezing light / 25 January 2001 / Nature, Feature of the Week
• Disasters reveal social secrets of the dead / 23 January 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update
• Stop that light beam, I want to get off / 19 January 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science update
• Human Genome Project Director Peers Into the Future / January 19, 2001 / New York Times — previously unknown biological missions have now been ascribed to genes that scientists once thought were inactive or so-called "junk genes"
• "300-Myr-old magmatic CO₂ in natural gas reservoirs of the west Texas Permian basin" requires free registration / 18 January 2001 / Chris J. Ballentine, Martin Schoell, Dennis Coleman, and Bruce A. Cain /  Nature, v.409, p.327-331 — the inferred closed-system preservation of natural gas in a trapping structure for 300 Myr is far longer than the residence time predicted by diffusion models
• "Speciation in a ring" requires free registration / 18 January 2001 / Darren E. Irwin, Staffan Bensch, and Trevor D. Price / Nature, v.409, p.333-337 — The evolutionary divergence of a single species into two has never been directly observed in nature, primarily because speciation can take a long time to occur....
• Tools Suggest Early Human Termite Diet / January 17, 2001 / New York Times
• "Mitochondrial DNA sequences in ancient Australians: Implications for modern human origins" / January 16, 2001 / Gregory J. Adcock, et al. / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, v.98, n.2, p.537-542
• Are our kin Neanderthals? / January 15, 2001 / Deseret News — University of Utah research says they bred with modern man
• Hominid child discovered / 15 January 2001 / BBC News
• Manitoba geologist thinks he's found evidence of Noah's flood / January 14, 2001 / Scott Edmonds / The Canadian Press
• Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation / December 2000 / James A. Secord / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
• Intelligent Design Network — organized in connection with the debate over the Kansas Science Education Standards to enhance public awareness of the evidence of intelligent design in the universe and living systems
• Supernovae and Their Remnants / NASA, Ask a High Energy Astronomer
• The Missing Day / 1999 — NASA appears to prove God's Word
• Flight of the Bumblebee / March 1997 / Ivars Peterson / Mathematical Association of America
• Runaway Subduction as the Driving Mechanism for the Genesis Flood / July 1994 / John R. Baumgardner / Third International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, PA
• "The Earth's Magnetic Field Is Young" / August 1993 / Russell Humphreys / Impact, n.242, Institute for Creation Research
• "A Whale of a Tale: Fundamentalist Fish Stories" / 1991 / Edward B. Davis / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.43, p.224-237
• "The Sign of the Prophet Jonah and its Modern Confirmations" / 1927 / Ambrose John Wilson / Princeton Theological Review, v.25, p.630-642

JANUARY 18

• Scientists Bring Light to Full Stop, Hold It, Then Send It on Its Way / January 18, 2001 / James Glanz / New York Times
• Still no sense in signal / 17 January 2001 / BBC News — A detailed look at the point in space from where an intelligent signal might have come has revealed nothing unusual. 
• Experiments on Dense Matter Evoke Big Bang / January 16, 2001 / James Glanz / New York Times
• BIOTECHNOLOGY: First GM primate bred / 12 January 2001 / David Adam / Nature science update
• ECOLOGY: Coral reefs worm their way up / 11 January 2001 / Juliette Shackleton / Nature science update
• The Lost Squadron [Grønlandsekspeditionen] / 1998 — Aircraft were left on the ice in Greenland in 1945. Their current depth in the ice has been used to suggest that the Greenland icecap can accumulate much more rapidly than is usually assumed.

JANUARY 15

• Biology and Purpose: Altruism, Morality, and Human Nature in Evolutionary Theory / July 2-27, 2001 / John Templeton Foundation Sponsored Summer Seminar / Calvin College
• Rescuers Search for Missing After Deadly Central America Quake / January 14, 2001 / New York Times
• Monkey Born With Genetically Engineered Cells / January 12, 2001 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
• "Fossil that fills a critical gap in avian evolution" requires free registration / 11 January 2001 / Mark A. Norell and Julia A. Clarke / Nature, v.409, p.181-184
• "Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago" requires free registration / 11 January 2001 / Simon A. Wilde, John W. Valley, William H. Peck, and Colin M. Graham / Nature, v.409, p.175-178
• Mungo Man: the last of his kind? / 9 January 2001 / Leigh Dayton / news.com.au (Australia)
• "Chromosomal Effects of Rapid Gene Evolution in Drosophila melanogaster" requires free registration / 5 January 2001 / Dmitry Nurminsky, Daniel De Aguiar, Carlos D. Bustamante, Daniel L. Hartl / Science, v.291, p.128-130
• "Bursts, Rays, and Jets" requires free registration / 5 January 2001 / Linda Rowan and Robert Coontz / Science, v.291, p.65
• "Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays: Physics and Astrophysics at Extreme Energies" requires free registration / 5 January 2001 / Günter Sigl / Science, v.291, p.73-79
• ARCHAEOLOGY: Japanese Fraud Highlights Media-Driven Research Ethic" requires free registration / 5 January 2001 / Dennis Normile / Science, v.291, p.34-35
• "Ravenous Black Holes Never Say Diet" requires free registration / 5 January 2001 / Mark Sincell / Science, v.291, p.28
• "EVOLUTION: Tooth Theory Revises History of Mammals" requires free registration / 5 January 2001 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.291, p.26 — paleontologists propose that the tribosphenic molar evolved not once, but twice--a highly provocative idea
• Teaching Critical Thinking: Evolution in the Classroom / January-February 2001 / Anne Kibbler / Indiana Alumni Magazine, v.63, n.3 — Getting students to think about the theory of evolution teaches critical thinking as well as science.
• "Cancer and the Curse" / January 2001 / David Demick / Back to Genesis, No. 145, Institute for Creation Research
• "The Scientific Case Against Evolution: A Summary - Part II" / January 2001 / Henry M. Morris / Impact, No.331, Institute for Creation Research
• "Simple Mechanisms Help Explain Insect Hovering" / December 2000 / Richard Fitzgerald / Physics Today, v.53, n.12, p.22-23 — how can bumblebees fly?
• "Is Out of Africa Going Out the Door?" / August 1999 / Kate Wong / Scientific American — Reanalysis of gene studies and new fossil evidence cast doubts of a popular theory of human origins.
• Green River varves / 2 January 1998 / Ole J Anfindsen / American Scientific Affiliation e-mail list

JANUARY 10

• "Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals" requires free registration / 4 January 2001 / Zhe-Xi Luo, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska / Nature, v.409, p.53-57 — parallel evolution or creation?
• Poles apart, molars together / 4 January 2001 / Juliette Shackleton / Nature Science Update — mammals' complex teeth may have evolved twice (or been created?)
• Secret of elephant graveyard: revealed / 3 January 2001 / Juliette Shackleton / Nature Science Update — African elephants may be more closely related to extinct mammoths than to Asian elephants
• "Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum" requires free registration / 21,28 December 2000 / Joan E. Strassmann, Yong Zhu, and David C. Queller / Nature, v.408, p.965-967
• Boost for Big Bang theory / 21 December 2000 / Philip Ball / Nature science update
• "'Sir Mammoth' Leads Charge to Uncover Ice Age Fossils" requires free registration / 15 December 2000 / Richard Stone / Science, v.290, p.2062-2063

JANUARY 5

• The Iceman ate-eth meat / 2 January 2001 / Jessa Netting / Nature science update
• Universe in the balance / 16 December 2000 / New Scientist
• The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth / November 2000 / Cherry Lewis / Cambridge University Press — biography of Arthur Holmes; see also Amazon
• Geoscience Research Institute Report / July 2000 / L. James Gibson / Adventist Review, General Conference Session, Bulletin 9

JANUARY 2

• Where Darwin Mused, Strife Over Ecosystem / December 27, 2000 / New York Times
• Theories Evolve in T. Rex Discoveries / December 26, 2000 / New York Times
• It's perilous to ponder the design of the universe / December 21, 2000 / Uwe Siemon-Netto / United Press International — on William Dembski and Baylor University
• "Tiny, Feathered Dino Is Most Birdlike Yet" requires free registration / 8 December 2000 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.290, p.1871-1872
• "Geological conflict: Young radiocarbon date for ancient fossil wood challenges fossil dating" / March-May 2000 / Andrew Snelling / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.22, n.2, p.44–47
• Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: A Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative / 2000 / Larry Vardiman, Andrew A. Snelling, and Eugene F. Chaffin, eds. / Institute for Creation Research and Creation Research Society
• The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions / 2000 / Mark A. Richards, Richard G. Gordon, and Rob D. Van der Hilst, eds / American Geophysical Union

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