Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (March 2001)

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MARCH 30

• "Forensic palaeontology: The Archaeoraptor forgery" / 29 March 2001 / Timothy Rowe, Richard A. Ketcham, Cambria Denison, Matthew Colbert, Xing Xu, and Philip J. Currie / Nature, v.410, p.539-540
• Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression / October 2000 / Jon E. Kalb / Copernicus Books — see also Amazon
• Java Man: How Two Geologists' Dramatic Discoveries Changed our Understanding of the Evolutionary Path to Modern Humans / January 2000 / Roger Lewin, Garniss H. Curtis, Carl C. Swisher / Scribner — see also Amazon

MARCH 29

• "Thy Will Be Done" / April 2001 / Cullen Murphy / The Atlantic Monthly, v.287, n.4, p.18-20 — blind studies and unanswered prayers
• Atlantic Sturgeon Cling to Life in Virginia River / March 27, 2001 / Rex Springston / National Geographic News (Richmond Times-Dispatch) — the Atlantic sturgeon, a bone-plated 10-foot long behemoth that once kept company with dinosaurs, is clinging to life in the James River
• "Great minds reflect on how God fits into the equation" / March 27, 2001 / Kevin Maney / USA Today, p.1B — the curiosity that makes technologists shine, puts faith to the test
• Enlisting Science to Find the Fingerprints of a Creator / March 25, 2001 / Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times — believers in 'intelligent design' try to redirect evolution disputes along intellectual lines
• Interstellar Infestations? / March 22, 2001 / Sky & Telescope — computer simulations suggest that rocks blasted from Mars have up to an 8% chance of reaching Earth
• "The Origins of Modern Corals" requires free registration / 9 March 2001 / George D. Stanley Jr. and Daphne G. Fautin / Science, v.291, p.1913-1914
• The Evolution Project / 2001 / PBS — a public television series, a content-rich and
  easy-to-navigate Web site, and extensive educational resources
• Genesis, Creation and Early Man / March 2000 / Seraphim Father Rose, et al. / Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood — see also Amazon
• Large Gene Study Questions Cambrian Explosion / January 21, 1999 / 
  Penn State Eberly College of Science / ScienceDaily.com
• Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein / 1998 / Richard Weikart / University Press of America, Bethesda, MD — see Humanities & Social Sciences review; see also Amazon
• A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization / November 1997 / Dean L. Overman / Rowman & Littlefield Publishing — see also Amazon
• "Domesticating Darwin" / May 1993 / Phillip E. Johnson / First Things, n.33, p.38-40 — review of: In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought / 1992 / Carl Degler / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon review

MARCH 28

• The flat faced man of Kenya / 22 March 2001 / Nature feature of the week
  • Fossil Skull Diversifies Family Tree / March 24, 2001 / Bruce Bower / Science News Online
  • "New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages" requires free registration / 22 March 2001 / Meave G. Leakey, Fred Spoor, Frank H. Brown, Patrick N. Gathogo, Christopher Kiarie, Louise N. Leakey, and Ian McDougall / Nature, v.410, p.433-440
  • New hominid skull / 22 March 2001 / Henry Gee / Nature science update
  • New Face Added to Humankind's Family Tree / March 21, 2001 / Lisa Krause / National Geographic News
  - general news reports
  • The New Old Man / April 2, 2001 / Sharon Begley / Newsweek — discovery of a 3.5 million-year-old skull suggests that the famous ‘Lucy’ may not be our direct ancestor
  • Tree of life sprouts mankind's destiny / March 28, 2001 / Adam Goodheart / USA Today, p.13A
  • The Flat-Faced Guy From Kenya / March 27, 2001 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
  • Fossil Find: The Family of Man Grows a Little Larger / March 25, 2001 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
  • New Human Relative Shakes Family Tree / March 23, 2001 / Jennifer Viegas / Discovery Channel — Scientists working in northern Kenya have unearthed a battered, but almost complete, skull for a new breed of early human ancestor that could change human evolutionary history.
  • Ancient skull points to new path for evolution / March 22, 2001 / Mark Sappenfield / Christian Science Monitor
  • Skull Raises Doubts About Our Ancestry / March 22, 2001 / Guy Gugliotta / Washington Post
  • New fossil adds an early branch to the human family tree / March 22, 2001 / Gareth Cook / Boston Globe
  • Discovery of an Ancient Skull Clouds the Origins of Humans / March 22, 2001 / Robert Lee Hotz / Los Angeles Times — find in Kenya confounds the belief in a single early ancestral species
  • A New Face Joins the Family: Flat-Faced Hominid Throws Human Lineage Into Confusion / March 21, 2001 / Willow Lawson / ABC News — A 3.5-million-year-old, flat-faced early human skull, which paleontologists found poking from the crumbling Kenyan earth, could push "Lucy" out of our ancestral family tree.
  • Flat-faced man is puzzle / 21 March 2001 / BBC News
  • New Find Challenges 'Lucy' as Mankind's Oldest Ancestor / March 21, 2001 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
  • Skull may redefine human ancestry / March 21, 2001 / CNN
  • Fossil shakes the evolutionary tree / March 21, 2001 / MSNBC — Scientists discover new genus of pre-human, raising questions about the origins of our species
• Researchers Find Big Risk of Defect in Cloning Animals / March 25, 2001 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
• Arkansas House Bill 2548 is a composite of anti-evolutionary sources / March 23, 2001 / Online Zoologists
• Arkansas considers banning evolution from textbooks / March 22, 2001 / CNN (Reuters)
• ASTROBIOLOGY: Are Martian 'Pearl Chains' Signs of Life? / 9 March 2001 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.291, p.1875-1876
• The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist / December 2000 / Frans De Waal / Basic Books — see also Amazon
  • Do Animals Have Culture? / April 2001 / Meredith F. Small / Scientific American — an eminent primatologist challenges long-held convictions about what makes humans distinct; review of The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist
• Anthropology in the News / Texas A&M University

MARCH 21

• "Colorful Pebbles and Darwin's Dictum" / April 2001 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American, v.284, p.38 — Darwin was right: the facts never just speak for themselves; science is an exquisite blend of data and theory
• Much DNA just 'junk' -- or is it? / March 19, 2001 / Edie Lau / Sacramento Bee (California) — Human Genome Project spurs new look at mystery material
• "Multiplicity's perils" / March 19, 2001 / Nell Boyce / U.S. News & World Report — A human is likely to be cloned soon. Is it worth the risk?
• "From scientists, a little light music" / March 19, 2001 / Tim Appenzeller / U.S. News & World Report — illuminating the weird world of photons
• Fall put leaves on trees / 15 March 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update
• Primate roots of red-green vision / 14 March 2001 / Helen Briggs / BBC News
• "The Omega Man" / 10 March 2001 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist — Gregory Chaitin, a mathematics researcher at IBM, has shown that mathematicians can't actually prove very much at all.
• Hungry primates see red / 8 March 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update
• "PHYLOGENETICS: Which Mammalian Supertree to Bark Up?" requires free registration / 2 March 2001 / Mark S. Springer and Wilfried W. de Jong / Science, v. 291, p.1709-1711
• "GEOPHYSICS: When the Compass Stopped Reversing Its Poles" requires free registration / 2 March 2001 / Subir K. Banerjee / Science, v. 291, p.1714-1715
• "The Riddle of Coexistence" requires free registration / 2 March 2001 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v. 291, p.1725-1729 — Neandertals and modern humans coexisted in Europe
• "Anthropologists Duel Over Modern Human Origins" requires free registration / 2 March 2001 / Michael Balter / Science, v. 291, p.1728-1729
• "A primitive sarcopterygian fish with an eyestalk" requires free registration / 1 March 2001 / Min Zhu, Xiaobo Yu, and Per E. Ahlberg / Nature, v.410, p.81-84
• Martian life appears to be true / February 28, 2001 / USA Today
• Martian life debate intensifies / 27 February 2001 / David Whitehouse / BBC News
• Alien biology sparks class / February 27, 2001 / Sandy Coleman / Boston Globe — pilot course considers far-away possibilities
• The Origin-of-Life Prize / February 2001 / The Gene Emergence Project
• "Why Abiogenesis Is Impossible" / March 2000 / Jerry Bergman / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.36, n.4
• Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy / November 1999 / Arthur N. Strahler / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• Spiritual Evolution: Scientists Discuss Their Beliefs / July 1998 / John Marks Templeton and Kenneth Seeman Giniger (eds.) / Templeton Foundation Press — see also Amazon

MARCH 15

• "Evolutionary Psychology and Its True Believers" / March 19, 2001 / Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard, v.6, n.26 — Darwin's troubles come not only from religiously minded conservatives, but also from social scientists and even some real scientists
• "Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous" requires free registration / 15 March 2001 / Else Marie Friis, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen, and Peter R. Crane / Nature, v.410, p.357-360
• Bill would OK teaching several theories on beginning of life & Legislators aim to teach creation with evolution / March 13, 2001 / Judy Putnam / MichiganLive
• Examining Peacocke's Plumage / March 12, 2001 / John Wilson / ChristianityToday.com — the winner of the 2001 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion rejects everything resembling Christian orthodoxy, but that doesn't stop him from co-opting the language
• New Study by Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute Suggests an Answer for One of the Oldest Questions in Biology / February 15, 2001 / Scripps Research Institute — see also ScienceDaily.com
• God and Computers Lecture Series / 1999 / Donald Knuth / Massachusetts Institute of Technology — titles: Randomization and Religion; Language Translation; Aesthetics; Glimpses of God; God and Computer Science
• "Beyond Neptune: Voyager II Supports Creation" / May 1990 / Russell Humphreys / Impact, n.203, Institute for Creation Research
• "The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields" / December 1984 / D. Russell Humphreys / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.21, n.3

MARCH 12

• Origins of Species and Inheritance of Bacteria (Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series) / April 3, 2001 / Lynn Margulis / Duquesne University — Symbiogenesis provides a mechanism to resolve the major issues of evolution: how do great evolutionary changes occur, how do new species appear, and what leads to new taxonomic groups?
• Integrating doubt, faith and science / March 10, 2001 / Richard Scheinin / San Jose Mercury News — philosopher seeks to overcome the apparent incompatibility of Christian belief and reason
• Monkey Trial before the camera lens / March 10, 2001 / Chris Shackleford / Times Free Press — Bryan College (Dayton, TN) hosts a new one-hour documentary about the "Scopes Monkey Trial"
• Arthur Peacocke Wins 2001 Templeton Prize / March 8, 2001 / John Templeton Foundation
• "Dating of the oldest continental sediments from the Himalayan foreland basin" requires free registration / 8 March 2001 / Yani Najman, Malcolm Pringle, Laurent Godin, and Grahame Oliver / Nature, v.410, p.194-197
• "Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers" requires free registration / 8 March 2001 / Xing Xu, Zhong-He Zhou, and Richard O. Prum / Nature, v.410, p.200-204
• "Orbit-related long-term climate cycles revealed in a 12-Myr continental record from Lake Baikal" requires free registration / 1 March 2001 / Kenji Kashiwaya, Shinya Ochiai, Hideo Sakai, and Takayoshi Kawai / Nature, v.410, p.71-74
• Substantial Numbers of Americans Continue to Doubt Evolution as Explanation for Origin of Humans / March 5, 2001 / Deborah Jordan Brooks / Gallup News Service — some Americans appear uncertain as to meaning of terms, however
• Missing links made simple / 5 March 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science update
• Are Scientists Taking Orders from Pat Robertson? / March 5, 2001 / John Wilson / Christianity Today — a Salon.com essay accuses the Intelligent Design movement of being primarily an arm of "conservative Republicans" and the "religious right"
• Inherit the what? Monkeying around with the Scopes trial / 2 March 2001 / Douglas Todd / Vancouver Sun
• Darwinian Dissonance? / February 2001 / Paul A. Dernavich / Internet Infidels — Language used by many of today's prominent Darwin defenders is inherently self-defeating. No sooner do they finish arguing that the universe could not possibly have an Intelligent Designer, than they proceed to comment on how the universe is so seemingly intelligently designed.
• "WONDERS: The Big Bang: Wit or Wisdom?" / February 2001 / Philip and Phylis Morrison / Scientific American — the way the universe came into existence, and how it continues to evolve
• "Mammoth Kill" / February 2001 / Kate Wong / Scientific American — did humans hunt giant mammals to extinction? or give them lethal disease?
• "Counting Particles from Space" / February 2001 / Shawn Carlson / Scientific American — how to build a cosmic-ray telescope
• The Adoption Paradox / January 2001 / Evan Eisenberg / Discover, v.22 — raising someone else's child seems to make no sense from an evolutionary standpoint
• Mammoths - Frequently Asked Questions / 2001 / Answers in Genesis
• Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology / October 2000 / Hilary Rose and Steven Rose / Harmony Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• Christian Scholarly and Professional Societies / Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
• Creation Science Fellowship & The International Conference on Creationism (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Science and Religion Forum (United Kingdom) / Arthur Peacocke (president), Mary Midgely (vice-president), Sam Berry (vice-president) — there is a need for communication between all who have an interest in the relationship between science and religion
• Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science (Philadelphia, PA)
• Centro Studi Creazionismo (Italy)
• CREATIONISM: Unnatural Selection / 22 April 2000 / Debora MacKenzie / New Scientist — creation science is far from extinct; on the contrary, it's mutating and spreading
• The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life / February 2000 / John L. Howland / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• "Oh My Darwin!" / November 1999 / James Schwartz / Lingua Franca, v.9, n.8 — Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to some of the country's most prominent evolutionary scientists. But that doesn't make them friends or allies. Harvard entomologist E. O. Wilson and MIT psychologist Steven Pinker believe we owe even language and morality to gene-based natural selection. They are adamantly opposed by Harvard biologists Stephen J. Gould and Richard Lewontin, who believe that the mysteries of evolution cannot be reduced to DNA. Is Cambridge big enough for both points of view?
• Darwinian Fairytales / January 1996 / David C. Stove / Avebury — see also Amazon

MARCH 5

• Neuroscience, Religious Experience and the Self / May 31-June 5, 2001 / Montrιal CTNS (Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley) Advanced Workshop
• The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis / May 2001 / John Polkinghorne, ed. / Eerdman's — Contributors: Ian G. Barbour, Sarah Coakley, George F. R. Ellis, Paul S. Fiddes, Malcolm Jeeves, Jόrgen Moltmann, Arthur Peacocke, John Polkinghorne, Holmes Rolston III, Keith Ward, and Michael Welker; see also Amazon
• Did Christianity thrive in China? / March 5, 2001 / Bay Fang / U.S. News & World Report — digging for evidence in an ancient church
• Big Quake Jolts Northwest; Damage Estimated in Billions / March 1, 2001 / Sam Howe Verhovek / New York Times
• Announce, No. 12 / February 28, 2001 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network — upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
• Assault on evolution / February 28, 2001 / Larry Arnhart / Salon.com — the religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory
• Martian life appears to be true / February 28, 2001 / USA Today
• Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory, Dies at 84 / February 26, 2001 / Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories
• Why science should warm our hearts / 26 February 2001 / Colin Tudge / The New Statesman Essay
• The facts back Darwin / February 23, 2001 / Arthur Caplan / The Philadelphia Inquirer — a critical finding was missing amid all the media coverage of the mapping of the human genome; responses at bioethics.net
• Prehistoric Asteroid a Killer / February 23, 2001 / Jeremy Manier / Chicago Tribune — scientists say earth hit 251 million years ago
• Slashing and slicing / 22 February 2001 / Henry Gee / Nature science update — about the violent eating habits of a Jurassic predator
• Intelligent Design Network's John Calvert on creationism vs. evolution in schools / February 13, 2001 / CNN.com
• Opportunity to debate theories appreciated / February 2001 / David E. Thomas / Daily Lobo, University of New Mexico — letter to editor on Phillip Johnson's visit
• Intelligent Design Undergraduate Research Center — designed to bring together a community of undergraduate and high school students interested in Intelligent Design Theory
• Astrophysics Data System / NASA 
• Public Beliefs about Evolution and Creation / September 2000 / B. A. Robinson / Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
• The Ascent of Science / February 1998 / Brian L. Silver / Oxford University Press  — named an outstanding academic book for 1999; a fascinating and highly accessible history of science from the Renaissance to the present; see also Amazon

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