Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (February 2001)
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religious issues, and the interface between the two, particularly in the area of creation
and evolution.
FEBRUARY 23
- Signs
of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design / March 2001 /
William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner (editors) / Brazos Press see
also Amazon
- Evolution
Outdated / February 22, 2001 / Gailon Totheroh / Christian
Broadcasting Network
- "Geological
constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over
the past three million years" requires
free registration / 22 February 2001 / Lucas J.
Lourens, Rolf Wehausen, and Hans J. Brumsack / Nature, v. 409,
p.1029-1033
- "Desperately
seeking aliens" requires free
registration / 22 February 2001 / Brian W. Aldiss / Nature,
v. 409, p.1080-1082
- "The
habitat and nature of early life" requires
free registration / 22 February 2001 / E. G. Nisbet
and N. H. Sleep / Nature, v. 409, p.1083-1091
- "Chance
and necessity: the evolution of morphological complexity and diversity"
requires free registration
/ 22 February 2001 / Sean B. Carroll / Nature, v. 409, p.1102-1109
- "The
search for extraterrestrial intelligence" requires
free registration / 22 February 2001 / T. L. Wilson /
Nature, v.409, p.1110-1114
- Mother
fights evolution curriculum / February 20, 2001 / WorldNetDaily
mother in West Virginia faces battle with state board of
education over accuracy of information
- POPULATION
BIOLOGY: Metapopulation extinction caused by mutation accumulation
/ February 20, 2001 / Kevin Higgins and Michael Lynch / Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA
- EVOLUTION:
Land plants divided and ruled / 19 February 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature
science update AAAS Special from San Francisco
- Human
Genome Map Has Scientists Talking About the Divine / February 19, 2001 / Tom
Abate / San Francisco Chronicle surprisingly
low number of genes raises big questions
- Humbled by
the Genome's Mysteries / February 19, 2001 / Stephen Jay Gould / New
York Times
- Event honors life of
evolutionist / February 16, 2001 / Rosemary Nottoli / Daily
Beacon (University of Tennessee), v.86, n.27 Darwin
Day, February 12-14
- A
galaxy cluster on the X-ray edge / February 16, 2001 / MSNBC 10
billion light-years from Earth, galaxies shed light on how the universe
evolved
- Newton's Still Correct / 15
February 2001 / Physical Review Focus Newtonian
gravity remains in tact so far, which eliminates some theories proposing
extra spatial dimensions, beyond the three we know. But extra dimensions may
still exist, "curled up" to smaller sizes.
- 'Intelligent
Design Movement' Penetrates Loma Linda / February 5, 2001 / David Larson
/ AAF
- "Understanding
fossilization: Experimental pyritization of plants" / February 2001
/ Stephen T. Grimes, et al. / Geology, v.29, n.2,
p.123126
- "Earliest
crinoids: New evidence for the origin of the dominant Paleozoic echinoderms"
/ February 2001 / Thomas E. Guensburg and James Sprinkle / Geology,
v.29, n.2, p.131134
- Populus: Simulations
of Population Biology / 2001 / Don Alstad / University of Minnesota software
simulations to teach population biology and evolutionary ecology
- George
Gaylord Simpson: Paleontologist and Evolutionist / November 2000 / Lιo
F. Laporte / Columbia University Press see also Amazon
- Goat-Spider
Experiment: Biotech Company to Produce BioSteel Milk / June 18,
2000 / ABC News 150 goats bred with a spider gene in
Plattsburgh, NY
- Spider
gene spins goats' milk into super fibre / May 20, 2000 / Martin Kettle /
Guardian Unlimited
- Evolution of
the Bacterial Flagella / March 2000 / Ian Musgrave, Australia
- My Life After
Darwin / February 2000 / John R. Morgan / LewRockwell.com
- American Meteorological Society
- Metaviews Meta
Listserver on Science and Religion
- Elementary
Geology / 1863 / Edward Hitchcock and Charles H. Hitchcock / Ivison,
Phinney, & Co. connection between geology and natural
and revealed religion
FEBRUARY 19
- Evolution
Debate Lingers Just Beyond the Spotlight in Kansas / February 17, 2001 /
Fox News
- Pratt
likely to review biology standards / February 17, 2001 / Topeka
Capital-Journal, Kansas
- "The
Risk of Extinction What You Don't Know Will Hurt You" requires
free registration / 9 February 2001 / John L.
Gittleman and Matthew E. Gompper / Science, v.291, n.5506,
p.997-999
- "RADIOACTIVITY:
Are Protons Leaving in Pairs?" requires
free registration / 9 February 2001 / Phil Woods /
Science, v.291, n.5506, p.995-997
- "HIGH-ENERGY
PHYSICS: Muon Experiment Challenges Reigning Model of Particles"
requires free registration
/ 9 February 2001 / Charles Seife / Science, v.291, n.5506,
p.958
- "Evolution is
Religion Not Science" / February 2001 / Henry M. Morris / Impact,
n.332 (Institute for Creation Research)
- "Just How Simple
Are Bacteria?" / February 2001 / Frank Sherwin / Back to
Genesis, n.146 (Institute for Creation Research)
- "How Earth
Rocks" / February 2001 / Karen Wright / Discover, v.22,
n.2 when you're standing on Idaho, is it really
Australia?
- "The Cold Zone"
/ February 2001 / Richard Stone / Discover, v.22, n.2 testing
a new theory of mammoth extinction
- "The End is
NEAR" / February 2001 / Kathy A. Svitil / Discover,
v.22, n.2 remarkable journey of a tough little space
probe to the place where killer asteroids lurk
- The World
of Design / 2000 / Mark Hartwig / Teachers in Focus
Magazine Is "intelligent design" legitimate
science? Or is it just religion in disguise? Heres a beginners guide
to the world of intelligent design.
- Life During
the Cambrian Period / University of California (Berekeley) Museum of
Paleontology with one exception, every metazoan phylum
with hard parts, and many that lack hard parts, make their first appearances
in the Cambrian
- Darwinism
and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the
Nineteenth Century / January 1999 / Stephen G. Alter / Johns Hopkins
University Press see also Amazon
- COVER
STORY: When Life Exploded / December 4, 1995 / J. Madeleine Nash
/ Time Magazine, v.146, n.23 For billions of
years, simple creatures like plankton, bacteria and algae ruled the earth.
Then, suddenly, life got very complicated.
FEBRUARY 16
- "MOLECULAR
BIOLOGY: In the Beginning Was the Word" / 16 February 2001 / R.
C. Lewontin / Science, v.291, n.5507, p.1263-1264 review
of: Who
Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code / June 2000 /
Lily E. Kay / Stanford University Press; see also Amazon
- The
Human Genome / 15 February 2001 / Nature, v.409, p.814-823 7
news and views
- "Evolutionary
analyses of the human genome" / 15 February 2001 / Wen-Hsiung Li,
Zhenglong Gu, Haidong Wang and Anton Nekrutenko / Nature, v.409,
p.847-849
- Kansas
Puts Evolution Back Into Public Schools / February 15, 2001 / John W.
Fountain / New York Times
- Kansas
takes its evolution seriously / February 14, 2001 / CNN
- Kansas
Schools Believe in Evolution Once Again / February 14, 2001 / John
Milburn / Fox News (AP)
- Nature
news service celebrates the human genome / 12 February 2001 / Nature
science update links to 8 articles
- Life's
Blueprint in Less Than an Inch / February 11, 2001 / Rick Weiss / Washington
Post only a small DNA segment makes a human
- Genome
Analysis Shows Humans Survive on Low Number of Genes / February 11, 2001
/ New York Times
- Tilling
History With Biology's Tools / February 10, 2001 / Emily Eakin / New
York Times
- Astronomers
hatch plan to move Earth's orbit from warming sun / February 5, 2001 / Dennis
Newman / CNN
- "ESSAYS
ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Is the Genome the Secular Equivalent of the
Soul?" requires free
registration / 2 February 2001 / Alex Mauron / Science,
v.291, n.5505, p.831-832
- "Cloning:
Could Humans Be Next?" requires
free registration / 2 February 2001 / Gretchen
Vogel / Science, v. 291, n. 5505, p.808-809
- "Doubts
Raised About Dinosaur Heart" requires
free registration / 2 February 2001 / Erik
Stokstad / Science, v. 291, n. 5505, p.811
- "Science
Teachers See the Case for Creation" / February 2001 / Frank Sherwin
/ Acts & Facts, v.30, n.2, p.4 (Institute for Creation Research)
- Cracking
the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA / February 2001 /
Kevin Davies / Free Press see also Amazon
- The
never-ending conflict / January 28, 2001 / John Carey / Sunday Times,
United Kingdom review of Rocks
of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by
Stephen Jay Gould
- Icons of Evolution: Science
or Myth? / October 2000 / Jonathan Wells / Regnery Publishing a
critical review;
see also Amazon;
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- Dinosaur
heart update: just a lump of mud? / October 14, 2000 / David
Catchpoole / Answers in Genesis
- Evolution Deceit
/ July 2000 / Harun Yahya the scientific collapse of the
theory of evolution and ideological background of the theory
- Defenders of the
Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond
/ May 2000 / Ullica Segerstrεle / Oxford University Press see
also Amazon
- Randomness
by Design / October 1998 / William A. Dembski / Leadership University
- "Radioisotopes and
the Age of the Earth" / July 1998 / Larry Vardiman / Impact,
n.301, Institute for Creation Research
- The
Doctrine of Creation: Essays in Dogmatics, History and Philosophy /
December 1997 / Colin E. Gunton (editor) / T&T Clark Ltd see
also Amazon
- The Myth of
Natural Origins: How Science Points to Divine Creation / November
1994 / Ashby L. Camp / Ktisis Publishing see also Amazon
- "Are
There Oceanographic Explanations for the Israelites' Crossing of the Red
Sea?" / 1992 / Doron Nof and Nathan Paldor / Bull. Amer. Meteor.
Soc., v.73, n.3, p.305424
FEBRUARY 9
- Technical Problems with
Intelligent Design Theory (lecture) / February 19, 2001 / Dave Thomas /
New Mexicans for Science and Reason, University of New Mexico
- Destiny is
in our grasp, say scientists / February 9, 2001 / Mark Henderson / The
Times, United Kingdom mankind will have the ability
to control and alter its evolutionary destiny within 30 years using secrets
unlocked by the mapping of the human genetic code
- Tiniest of
Particles Pokes Big Hole in Physics Theory / February 9, 2001 / New
York Times
- "Measurement
of stellar age from uranium decay" requires
free registration / 8 February 2001 / R. Cayrel, et
al. / Nature, v.409, p.691-692
- "Evolutionary
radiations and convergences in the structural organization of mammalian
brains" requires free
registration / 8 February 2001 / Willem de Winter and
Charles E. Oxnard / Nature, v. 409, p.710-714
- Physicists
put 'spin' on theory / February 8, 2001 / Dan Vergano / USA Today
possible flaw in a theory that has been a foundation of
scientific thought for more than
30 years
- Six-million-year-old
fossil predates 'Lucy' / February 8, 2001 / Elaine Ganley /
Associated Press
- "Complete
mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution"
requires free registration
/ 8 February 2001 / Alan Cooper, et al. / Nature, v.409,
p.704-707
- The
"Genius Babies," and How They Grew / February 7, 2001 / David
Plotz / MSN Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank
for Nobel Prize winners: part altruism, part social engineering, part
science experiment, the repository was supposed to help reverse genetic
decay
- Bones
of contention / February 6, 2001 / The Telegraph, London
it's all bitter feuds and dirty tricks as rival
anthropologists race to claim they've found the 'missing link'
- Our
genes are doomed / February 5, 2001 / Johnjoe McFadden / Guardian
Unlimited the ethics of genetics: unless we embrace
genetic engineering, we will become a sickly and frail species
- New model of
expanding Universe / 2 February 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature
science update
- EVOLUTION:
Shaking the family tree / 1 February 2001 / Henry Gee / Nature
science update
- Geophenomena /
February 2001 / Geotimes earthquake in El
Salvador; Mexico's last millennium blast; floods, fires batter Australia;
earthquake shakes Japan; floods in Mozambique; killer freeze hits Asia
- Blast from the
past / 31 January 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science
update earth, air, fire and water stimulated the
evolution of air-breathing organisms
- "Searching
for an alien haven in the heavens" / January 30, 2001 / Bridget C.
Coughlin / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, v.98, n.3, p.796
- The Modern
Human Origins Morass / January 29, 2001 / Scientific American
When it comes to explaining the emergence of modern
humans, researchers generally subscribe to one of two hypotheses. Recent
studies, though, support the more controversial view.
- "Making
Sense of Modern Cosmology" / January 2001 / P. James E. Peebles / Scientific
American Observational cosmology is about to become a
mature science. Explanation for the universe's unexpectedly odd behaviors
may then be around the corner. See additional articles in this issue: Brave
New Cosmos
- "Mitochondrial
genome variation and the origin of modern humans" requires
free registration / 7 December 2000 / Max Ingman, et
al. / Nature, v.408, p.708-713
- GSA Charges Two
Panels with Work on Position Statements / December 2000 / Geological
Society of America new statement on evolution and
creationism
- "We're
Not in Kansas Anymore" / May 22, 2000 / Nancy Pearcey / Christianity
Today why secular scientists and media can't admit
that Darwinism might be wrong
- Case
of the Curious Cranium / October 20, 1999 / Angela M. H. Schuster / Archaeology
- Human
Origins: On the Way to Modern Humans (lecture) / November 1997 / Anthropology,
University of Iowa older stages of late Homo, the
transitionals and the Neanderthaloids raise several interesting problems
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