Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (February 2001)

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.

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• Evolution Outdated / February 22, 2001 / Gailon Totheroh / Christian Broadcasting Network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.123–126
• "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.131–134
• 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? Here’s a beginner’s 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; A BEST SELLER
• 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.305–424
  

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

FEBRUARY 2

• Cloned human planned 'by 2003' / 30 January 2001 / BBC News
• Children of the Stars / 30 January 2001 / Edna DeVore, Director of Educational Programs, SETI Institute — search for extraterrestrial intelligence
• "Is Intelligent Design Testable?" / January 24, 2001 / William A. Dembski / Discovery Institute — a response to Eugenie Scott
• Creation of the Cosmos: Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design (video) / Walter Bradley / Access Research Network
• The Theological Roots of Modern Science (video) / Henry F. Schaefer / Access Research Network
• Focus on the Origin of Life (video) / Charles Thaxton / Access Research Network
• On the Origin of Phyla (video) / 1999 / James W. Valentine (interview) / Access Research Network
• "What is a Species, and What is Not?" / June 1996 / Ernst Mayr / Philosophy of Science, v.63, p.262-277
• Observed Instances of Speciation / September 1995 / Joseph Boxhorn / TalkOrigins

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