Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (April 2001)

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APRIL 26

• Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True / May 2001 / Robert Ehrlich / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• "The Human Genome: A Creationist Overview" / May 2001 / Todd Charles Wood / Impact, n.335, Institute for Creation Research
• "The distribution of integumentary structures in a feathered dinosaur" requires free registration / 26 April 2001 / Qiang Ji, Mark A. Norell, Ke-Qin Gao, Shu-An Ji, and Dong Ren / Nature, v.410, p.1084-1088
• "Genetic evidence for Near-Eastern origins of European cattle" requires free registration / 26 April / Christopher S. Troy, et al. / Nature, v.410, p.1088-1091
• Feathery fossil ruffles dinosaur debate / April 25, 2001 / CNN
• A New Dinosaur Specimen With Feather-like Structures / April 25, 2001 / American Museum of Natural History
• In search of God / 21 April 2001 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist — Are our religious feelings just a product of how the brain works? ... researchers are trying to explain our most sacred thoughts
• A few Africans founded Europe, study suggests / April 21, 2001 / Emma Ross (Associated Press) / Philadelphia Inquirer
• The New Creationists / April 19-25, 2001 / Nina Shapiro / SeattleWeekly.com — Seattle's Discovery Institute leads a national movement challenging Darwinism
• PhyloCode / April 2001 / Ohio University — a formal set of rules designed (1) to name the parts of the tree of life by explicit reference to phylogeny and (2) to be used concurrently with the existing Linnaean nomenclature
• Solving Charles Darwin's "Abominable Mystery" / April 17, 2001 / NASA — Scientists are using chemical fossils to hunt down one of our planet's most vexing missing links -- the first-ever flowering plant.
• "TAXONOMY: Linnaeus's Last Stand?" requires free registration / 23 March 2001 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.291, p.2304-2307
• Evolution's Workship: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands / March 2001 / / Edward J. Larson / Basic Books — also see review: "Darwin's Ladder" / April 22, 2001 / Anne Matthews / Washington Post, BW06; and Amazon
• Science rivals open the book of life / 12 February 2001 / Roger Highfield / Electronic Telegraph
• Genome 'treasure trove' / 11 February 2001 / BBC News — the first detailed look at the human genome has revealed a few surprises
• Kepler's Philosophy and the New Astronomy / December 2000 / Rhonda Martens / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Extreme Science / 1997-2001 / Elizabeth Keller — the ultimate online science experience

APRIL 23

• Science, Life, and Christian Belief: A Survey of Contemporary Issues / July 1999 / Malcolm A. Jeeves and R. J. Berry / Baker Books — also see review: "A Balanced View of Science and Faith" / 1998 / Clyde L. Webster / Origins 25(2):99-101; and Amazon
• The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods / 1999 / John Woodmorappe / Institute for Creation Research — also see review: "Are Radioisotope Dating Methods Reliable?" / 1998 / R. H. Brown / Origins 25(2):104-108
• Mere Creation: Science, Faith, & Intelligent Design / September 1998 / William A. Dembski (ed.) / InterVarsity Press — also see review: "Intelligent Design Comes of Age" / 1998 / L. James Gibson / Origins 25(2):101-104; and Amazon

APRIL 20

• Japanese take revolutionary snapshots / 19 April 2001 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — pictures of the cell's miniature motor at work
• "Increased sedimentation rates and grain sizes 2-4 Myr ago due to the influence of climate change on erosion rates" requires free registration / 19 April 2001 / Zhang Peizhen, Peter Molnar, and William R. Downs / Nature, v.410, p.891-897
• BR legislator calls theory racist / April 18, 2001 / Will Sentell / The Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Darwin's theory of evolution is under fire again in the Louisiana Legislature
• A Web Site Aims to Explain Paleoanthropology to Lucy's Many Descendants / April 18, 2001 / Scott Carlson / Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right / January 2001 / Pat Shipman / Simon & Schuster — see also Amazon
• EarthRef / National Science Foundation & San Diego SuperComputer Center — earth reference data and models
• Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) / 1997 / University of California - Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology — biographical sketch of one of the founders of geological science

APRIL 19

• The Wedge: A Progress Report / April 16, 2001 / Phillip E. Johnson / Access Research Network — two goals of the Wedge strategy: (1) legitimate the topic of intelligent design, and hence the critique of Darwinism and its basis in naturalistic philosophy, within the mainstream intellectual community; (2) make the critique of naturalism the central focus of discussion in the religious world, replacing the deadlocked debate over the Genesis chronology
• The "New" Creationism / April 16, 2001 / Robert Wright / Slate, msn.com — now evolutionists find themselves arrayed, not against traditional creationism, but the more sophisticated intelligent design theory
• Universe began by colliding with another / April 13, 2001 / Richard Stenger / CNN
• Meteorite disappoints scientists after a year-long study / April 6, 2001 / CNN — a meteorite that fell on a frozen Canadian lake has been found to contain none of the organic ingredients believed necessary to have initiated life on Earth
• A Map to Nowhere / April 2001 / Tom Bethell / The American Spectator — the genome isn't a code and we can't read it
• The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future / November 2000 / Richard B. Alley / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Page Museum - La Brea Tar Pits / Los Angeles, California — saber-toothed cats, Columbian mammoths ... the world-famous repository of Ice Age fossils
• "A History and Analysis of the 15.7 Light-Year Universe" / March 1988 / Perry G. Phillips / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.40, n.1, p.19-23 — history and validity of  the young-universe theory that material bodies can be located at great distances while the light-travel time from them remains quite short

APRIL 16

• Genetic research to eliminate disease should not be prevented by fear / 16 April 2001 / Independent Argument (United Kingdom)
• Evolution trial remembered / April 2001 / Geotimes — almost 20 years after McLean vs. Arkansas declared creation science was religion and not science at all, the antievolution movement has itself evolved
• P/T extinction explained / April 2001 / Geotimes — evidence that a giant extraterrestrial body collided with the supercontinent Pangaea and triggered catastrophic events that obliterated nearly 90 percent of Earth’s organisms at the Permian-Triassic boundary
• Flatterland / March 2001 / Ian Stewart / Perseus Books — modern version of Edwin Abbott's classic Flatland; see also Amazon
• The Dragon Seekers / March 2001 / Christopher McGowan / Perseus Books — how an extraordinary circle of fossilists discovered the dinosaurs and paved the way for Darwin; see also Amazon
• Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galαpagos Islands / March 2001 / Edward J. Larson / Perseus Books — see also Amazon
• Becoming Human: Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins / Donald Johanson / Institute of Human Origins
• Was Darwin Right after all? / April 2000 / Mark Hartwig / Boundless Webzine, Focus on the Family
• "How Well Do Paleontologists Know Fossil Distributions?" / December 1999 - February 2000 / Michael J. Oard / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.14, n.1
• The Fossil Record: Becoming More Random All the Time / December 1999 - February 2000 / John Woodmorappe / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.14, n.1
• Earth back in balance / January 21, 2001 / Randolph E. Schmid / Canoe (Canada's Internet Network), Associated Press — magnetic measures indicate planet rolled suddenly long ago
• Pre-Mesozoic Ice Ages: Their Bearing on Understanding the Climate System / October 1999 / John C. Crowell / Geological Society of America Memoir 192 — see also Amazon
• The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science / April 1999 / Naomi Oreskes / Oxford University Press — in the early 20th century, American earth scientists vociferously opposed the notion of continental drift; 50 years later the same idea was heralded as a major scientific breakthrough; today continental drift is accepted as a scientific fact; see also Amazon
• A Creation/Flood Model / 1998 / Arthur V. Chadwick / Earth History Research Center
• "The Sands of Time: A Biblical Model of Deep Sea-Floor Sedimentation" / December 1996 / Larry Vardiman / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.33 
• Computer Modeling of the Large-Scale Tectonics Associated with the Genesis Flood / July 1994 / John R. Baumgardner / Third International Conference on Creationism, Creation Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, PA

APRIL 11

• "Discontinuity in Biology" (Conference Announcement) / August 15-17, 2001 / Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio
• Biotech CEO says map missed much of genome / April 9, 2001 / Raja Mishra / Boston Globe
• Evolutionists Battle New Theory on Creation / April 8, 2001 / James Glanz / New York Times
• Biology Text Illustrations More Fiction Than Fact / April 8, 2001 / James Glanz / New York Times
• Odyssey Off to Mars, Seeking Water and a Bit of Redemption / April 8, 2001/ New York Times
• On the Trail of a Few More Ancestors / April 8, 2001 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times — fossils of what may be the earliest known ancestor of the human family have been unearthed in Kenya
• Test boosts notion that comets brought life / April 6, 2001 / Richard Stenger / CNN
• Found in sequence space / 5 April 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — "you'd have to strain a sizeable quantity of primordial soup before you found something that evolution could get its teeth into"
• Icons of Evolution: Legitimate Questions of Evolution, or Stealth Creationism? / January 2001 / Dave Ussery / Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark — review of Icons of Evolution
• The Creation Controversy & The Science Classroom / 2000 / James W. Skehan, Craig E. Nelson, and Gerald Skoog / NSTA Press, National Science Teachers Association — provides religious grounding in favor of modern science and effective
  strategies for dealing with common creationism arguments
• Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology (Australia)

APRIL 6

• Evolution bill focus to be changed / April 2, 2001 / Seth Blomeley / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette — the Arkansas House member sponsoring a bill to require that evolution be referred to as a theory in public schools said Friday that he plans to water down his bill to require only that the Department of Education study the accuracy of textbooks
• Darwin's God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil / April 2001 / Cornelius G. Hunter / Brazos Press (Baker Books) — see also Amazon and Christian Book Distributors
• "Chicxulub and the Demise of the Dinosaurs" / April 2001 / Don B. DeYoung / Impact, n.334, Institute for Creation Research
• "What Brings a World into Being?" / April 2001 / David Berlinski / Commentary, v.111, n.4 — Information -- from words on a page to the genetic code to the elementary particles in the cosmos -- seems to explain a lot; whether it explains what its enthusiasts claim for it (namely, everything) is another question.
• EARTH: Hot flush over in a flash / 31 March 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — new research reveals that the surface of the Earth might not have been hot enough for long enough to allow heat-loving bacteria to evolve from primal slime
• ARN-Announce / March 30, 2001 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.13 — upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
• PHYSICS: Sun to help try relative values? / 30 March 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — a new proposal to track a long-range spacecraft as it whizzes past the Sun could give physicists their best analysis of General Relativity yet
• Global climate: no change / 29 March 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — A new study of the growth rings of partially fossilized trees in southern Chile hints that the global climate before the last ice age was rather like today's.
• Leaf me alone / 29 March 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — plants can't run from trouble, but neither do they lie down and take it.
• Meave Leakey Announces New Hominid Genus / March 27, 2001 / Phillip E. Johnson / Access Research Network — report on her lecture
• How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity / March 2001 / Brian Goodwin / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• The Radiation of the First Animals / March 2001 / Jerry Lipps, University of California - Berkeley / Access Excellence, National Health Museum — Animals first appear in the fossil record around 580 million years ago -- 300-700 million years later than the molecular data suggest that animals originated -- leaving an enormous period of time without a fossil record.
• Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design / February 2001 / William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner (eds.) / Brazos Press (Baker Books) — see also Access Research Network and Amazon
• Nature, Design, and Science: The Status of Design in Natural Science / February 2001 / Del Ratzsch / State University of New York Press — see also Access Research Network and Amazon
• Fossil Hominids: The Evidence for Human Evolution / January 2001 / Jim Foley / Talk.Origins Archive
• Frequently Asked Questions about Intelligent Design / 2001 / Access Research Network
• The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences / Nature Publishing Group — most ambitious single reference source ever to be published in the biological sciences
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics / Nature Publishing Group — most comprehensive reference on astronomy and astrophysics ever published
• Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe / December 2000 / Michael Behe, William A. Dembski, and Stephen C. Meyer / Ignatius Press — see also Access Research Network and Amazon
• Computers Ltd: What They Really Can't Do / November 2000 / David Harel / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• A Designer Universe? / October 21, 1999 / Steven Weinberg / New York Review of Books — based on a talk given at the Conference on Cosmic Design of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• NYU Chemist Supports New Theory For Origin Of Life / May 13, 1999 / ScienceDaily.com — Robert Shapiro has published a new book and paper that challenge existing assumptions about life in the Universe
• Discovery Institute Goes on Warpath / April 1999 / Dave Thomas / NMSR Reports, v.5, n.4 — New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) debates intelligent design proponent Jonathan Wells
• God and Evolution / 1998 / Warren Kurt VonRoeschlaub / Talk.Origins Archive
• Evolution and Philosophy: An Introduction / 1997 / John Wilkins / Talk.Origins Archive

APRIL 2

• "Climate variability 50,000 years ago in mid-latitude Chile as reconstructed from tree rings" requires free registration / 29 March 2001 / Fidel A. Roig, Carlos Le-Quesne, Josι A. Boninsegna, Keith R. Briffa, Antonio Lara, Hεkan Grudd, Philip D. Jones, and Carolina Villigrαn / Nature, v.410, p.567-570
• "An exceptionally preserved vermiform mollusc from the Silurian of England" requires free registration / 22 March 2001 / Mark D. Sutton, Derek E. G. Briggs, David J. Siveter, and Derek J. Siveter / Nature, v.410, p.461-463
• Anti-Evolution Legislation Introduced in Michigan! / March 2001 / Michigan Scientific Evolution Education Initiative (MSEEI)
• Second Thoughts about Peppered Moths / February 2001 / Jonathan Wells / True.Origin Archive — this classical story of evolution by natural selection needs revising
• The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics / May 2000 / Robin Marantz Henig / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon and MendelWeb
• When Science Meets Religion / April 2000 / Ian G. Barbour / Harper, San Francisco — see also Amazon and Barnes & Noble
• The Human Genome and the Master Architect / Margaret Helder / Creation Science Association of Alberta 
• Haeckel and the Vertebrate Archetype / October 1997 / Scott F. Gilbert / Swarthmore College, PA — Long an icon of embryology and evolutionary biology books, a 100-year-old drawing by E. Haeckel showed that all vertebrate embryos pass through an identical stage. Recent studies suggest this was wishful thinking.
• Darwinism: Science or Philosophy / March 26-28, 1992 / Jon Buell and Virginia Hearn (eds.) / Foundation for Thought and Ethics — proceedings of a symposium entitled "Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?" held at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; contributors: Michael J. Behe, William A. Dembski, Fredrick Grinnell, Peter van Inwagen, Leslie K. Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Stephen C. Meyer, K. John Morrow, Michael Ruse, Arthur M. Shapiro, David L. Wilcox

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