Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (May 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.

MAY 28

• Darwin's Entangled Bank: The Cultural Legacy of Evolution (Interdisciplinary Conference) / June 8, 2001 / Princeton University
• "The Effect of Darwinism on Morality and Christianity" / June 2001 / Jerry Bergman / Impact, n.336, Institute for Creation Research
• "The Cosmic Bubbleland" / June 2001 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.150, Institute for Creation Research
• 'The Genomic Revolution': Human Genome Gets to Meet the Family / May 25, 2001 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• "An Early Cambrian tunicate from China" requires free registration / 24 May 2001 / D.-G. Shu, L. Chen, J. Han, and X.-L. Zhang / Nature, v.411, p.472-473 — like the Burgess Shales of Canada, the Chengjiang Lagerstไtte from the Lower Cambrian of China is renowned for the detailed preservation as fossils of delicate, soft-bodied creatures, providing an insight into the Cambrian explosion
• Tiny creature may be ancestor of all mammals / May 24, 2001 / CNN
• Researchers discover fossil of tiny mammal from Early Jurassic / May 24, 2001 / Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh — discovery provides important new evidence on the earliest evolution of mammals
• Making babies / 23 May 2001 / Anil Ananthaswamy / New Scientist Online News — computer-controlled chip could lead to production-line embryos
• "Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification" / May 22, 2001 / J. Alroy, et al. / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, v. 98, p.6261-6266
• Fossil Findings May Force Revisions in the History of Life / May 22, 2001 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• Before the Big Bang, There Was ... What? / May 22, 2001 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Lectures Far and Wide / May 21, 2001 / Phillip Johnson / Weekly Wedge Update, Access Research Network
• Fishy clue to rise of humans / 21 May 2001 / Helen Briggs / BBC News Online
• New form of creationism shouldn't be in school curriculum / May 20, 2001 / Robyn Blumner / St. Petersburg Times, Florida
• New State Science Standards Leave Door Open to Teaching Creationism / May 20, 2001 / Mario F. Cattabiani / The Morning Call, p.A17 (Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania) — 50 people attacked proposed wording, 5 write in support
• Twisting Darwin / May 18-24, 2001 / Margaret Wertheim / Los Angeles Weekly — evolution, eugenics and racism, American style
• "Can Genes Explain Biological Complexity?" requires free registration / 18 May 2001 / E๖rs Szathmแry, Ferenc Jordแn, and Csaba Pแl / Science, v.292, p.1315-1316
• Link Between Human Genes and Bacteria Is Hotly Debated / May 18, 2001 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• The evolution of an activist / May 17, 2001 / Zlati Meyer / Philadelphia Inquirer — Pennridge High School senior says Darwin's ideas should be taught only as theory
• "A 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles" requires free registration / 17 May 2001 / Gregory J. Retallack / Nature, v.411, p.287-290
• "Why science and religion need to talk" / 17 May 2001 / Charles L. Harper / Nature, v.411, p.239-240 — human 'fallenness', freedom and pain are the preserve of both arenas
• Mystery force tugs distant probes / 15 May 2001 / David Whitehouse / BBC News Online
• Faith's role in birth of science reviewed at think tank conference / May 15, 2001 / Karen L. Willoughby / Baptist Press, Southern Baptist Convention
• Icons of Evolution exposed on CNN / May 7, 2001 / Phillip Johnson / Weekly Wedge Update, Access Research Network
• A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness / May 2001 / Merlin Donald / W.W. Norton — consciousness as an evolutionary triumph and the center of human genius; see also Amazon
• Astrobiology, the Origin of Life, and the Death of Darwinism / May 2001 / Rhawn Joseph / University Press, California — see also Amazon and Barnes & Noble
• The Taboo of Subjectivity: Towards a New Science of Consciousness / October 2000 / B. Alan Wallace / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?: The Relationship Between Science and Religion / October 2000 / Michael Ruse / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts / June 2000 / David Ray Griffin / State University of New York Press — a metaphysical position capable of rendering both science and religious experience simultaneously and mutually intelligible; see also Amazon
• On the Alleged Dinosaurian Ancestry of Birds / April 2000 / Ashby L. Camp / Origins, British Creation Society
• Problems in Literary Study: Darwin's Entangled Bank / Spring 2001 / William Howarth, Professor of English / Princeton University — Darwinism and its ethical and theological implications; includes syllabus of readings and numerous links
• Ancient oil means complex life / September 1999 / Beate Kittl / Discover, v.20 — 2.7 billion year-old biological molecules not mere contamination; organisms they belonged to shouldn't have evolved until one billion years later
• When Whales Walked / January 1999 / Corey S. Powell / Discover — whales are one of evolution's great enigmas -- after life went to all the trouble of adapting to dry land, some mammals decided life was better in the water after all
• Reappraising the “Crown Jewel” / September-October 1998 / Ashby L. Camp / Creation Matters, Creation Research Society — on the reptile-to-mammal evolutionary transition
• The Overselling of Whale Evolution / May-June 1998 / Ashby L. Camp / Creation Matters, Creation Research Society
• "Science and God: A Warming Trend?" / 15 August 1997 / Gregg Easterbrook / Science, v.277, p.890-893 — Can rational inquiry and spiritual conviction be reconciled? Although some scientists contend that the two cannot coexist, others believe they have linked destinies.
• "Should Evolution Be Immune from Critical Analysis in the Science Classroom?" / December 1996 / David Buckna and Denis Laidlaw / Impact, n.282, Institute for Creation Research
• "Shouting 'Heresy' in the Temple of Darwin" / October 24, 1994 / Phillip E. Johnson / Christianity Today, v.38, n.12, p.22-26

MAY 24

• Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution / July 2001 / Carole Jahme / Soho Press — fiercely dedicated and devoted female primatologists who go to remarkable lengths to conduct their studies and protect their great apes; see also Amazon
• Evolution (movie) / June 8, 2001 / Dreamworks — the comedy follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term “survival of the fittest”
• Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity / June 2001 / Jennifer G. Ackerman / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon
• Can Science Explain Everything? Anything? / May 31, 2001 / Steven Weinberg / New York Review of Books, v.48, n.9
• Climatologists pore over past / 17 May 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles
• The secret of matter discovered / 14 May 2001 / David Whitehouse / BBC News — Charge Parity (CP) violation and nature's subtle preference for matter over antimatter
• In Ruin, Symbols on a Stone Hint at a Lost Asian Culture / May 13, 2001 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Scientists Claim to Revive Alien Bacteria / May 10, 2001 / Rossella Lorenzi / Discovery Channel — Italian researchers claim to have found conclusive evidence that life on Earth arrived from outer space.
• Evolution debate: Student leads textbook challenge / May 9, 2001 / Joel Hochmuth / CNN
• Academic Team Accuses Commercial Rival of Faulty Work on Genome / May 2, 2001 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth / May 2001 / Gerald L. Schroeder / Free Press — see also Amazon
• Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry / May 2001 / Frank Close / Oxford University Press — both matter and antimatter, positive and negative charge, yet we plainly live in a skewed environment; almost all of our proteins are left-handed; life as we know it couldn't exist without a few crucial imbalances; see also Amazon
• Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time / May 2001 / J. Richard Gott / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon
• EVOLUTION: Slave's genome Lilliputian / 26 April 2001 / Henry Gee / Nature science update — a single-celled organism swallowed a photosynthetic bacterium and created the first plant cell
• Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life / April 2001 / David W. Wolfe / Perseus Books — see also Amazon
• Life Everywhere: The New Science of Astrobiology / March 2001 / David Darling / Basic Books — see also Amazon
• Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe / February 2001 / NASA — "cool pictures, interactives, and movies"; online companion to traveling exhibition which is touring the United States
• Creation Education Resources
• Supertasks / Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — an infinite number of actions performed in a finite amount of time -- a problem for philosophy since the time of Zeno of Elea
• Is the Biblical History of the Earth Plausible? / November 2000 / Ken Noel / The Bible Only
• Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe / October 2000 / Richard F. Mould / Institute of Physics — see also Amazon
• The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy / September 2000 / The Editors of Lingua Franca / Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press) — see also Amazon
• "Baraminology — Classification of Created Organisms" / September 2000 / Wayne Frair / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.37, n.2, p.82-91
• Staring down evolution / July 1, 2000 / James Woodford / Sydney Morning Herald, Australia — the Wollemi Pine, a living fossil from the age of the dinosaurs, is an impossibly perfect clone
• An Introduction to the Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution / July 2000 / Dina Prialnik / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• "A Mechanism for Accelerated Radioactive Decay" / June 2000 / Eugene F. Chaffin / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.37, n.1, p.3-9
• The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: An Alphabetical Reference to All Life in the Universe / June 2000 / David J. Darling / Times Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• Scientific Controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives / May 2000 / Peter MacHamer, Marcello Pera, and Aristides Baltas, eds. / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• "Why Abiogenesis Is Impossible" / March 2000 / Jerry Bergman / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.36, n.4
• "Embryology and Evolution" / September 1999 / Wayne Frair / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.36, n.2, p.62-67
• Explaining Chaos / November 1998 / Peter Smith / Cambridge University Press — chaotic dynamics has been hailed as the third great scientific revolution in physics in this century, comparable to relativity and quantum mechanics; see also Amazon
• Science and Creationism / 1998 / National Academy of Sciences — resources about evolution and the nature of science
• "The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields" / December 1984 / D. Russell Humphreys / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.21, n.3

MAY 8

• Complexity Research and Its Challenge to Other Disciplines (colloquy live) / May 10, 2001 (noon, EST) / Chronicle of Higher Education — How can complexity theory reshape the way scholars examine evolution, economics, and many other fields?
• Weekly Wedge Update / Phillip E. Johnson — the latest news on the Intelligent Design movement
• Pennridge is in a whirl over evolution / May 7, 2001 / Pervaiz Shallwani / The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), p.B1 — skeptic of Darwinian theory to speak tonight; author's visit comes a day before high school curriculum committee to meet on creationism
• Life's intelligent design / May 7, 2001 / Steve Maynard / News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) — author of Darwin on Trial sees a win
• Some teachers talk of alternatives to evolution theory / May 7, 2001 / Debbie Cafazzo / News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
• God's two books: nature and Scripture / May 5, 2001 / Elizabeth Nickson / National Post Online
• Louisiana calls Darwin a racist / May 4, 2001 / Fiona Morgan / Salon.com (San Francisco, CA) — state Legislature casts Darwin in the same league as Hitler; science educator says it's going to be a rough year for evolutionists
• Genetically altered babies born / 4 May 2001 / David Whitehouse / BBC News — see also: Questions & Answers
• CHEMISTRY: Mineral left right behind / 1 May 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — suggestion that the 'left-handed' amino acids that make up our proteins were first segregated on the surface of rocks before life began
• ARN-Announce / April 30, 2001 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.14 — upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
• "The Genetic Archaeology of Race" / April 2001 / Steve Olson / The Atlantic Monthly, v.287, n.4, p.69-80 — DNA analysis is explaining where "racial difference" comes from and what it does and doesn't mean; the study of human genetic variation has become the most contentious area in modern science
• Is Life That Simple? / April 2001 / Eli Kintisch / Discover, v.22 — as a team of researchers strips genes from the simplest bacterium to create a life-form nature never thought of, some wonder what might happen if it gets out of the lab
• High Priest of Evolution Reveals His Religion / February 2001 / Gary L. Achtemeier / True.Origin Archive — Stephen Jay Gould and social Darwinism
• "The Design Argument" (.pdf) / 2001 / Elliott Sober / in: The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Religion
• An Introduction to Intelligent Design / Peter Gegenheimer / Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence
• Genomes to Life / Office of Biological and Environmental Research and Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy
• Harun Yahya (Istanbul, Turkey) — book author proving the existence and marvelous creation of Allah, revealing the fallacy of materialistic and atheistic philosophies, demolishing their foremost mainstay, Darwinism, and dealing with the basic issues referred to in the Qur'an and political issues concerning Muslims
• C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana / June 1999 / Roger Mortimer and Jason A. Pierce / Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina

MAY 4

• Faith Is More Than A Feeling / May 7, 2001 / Kenneth L. Woodward / Newsweek (MSNBC) — the problem with neurotheology is that it confuses spiritual experiences -- which few believers actually have -- with religion
• Religion And The Brain / May 7, 2001 / Sharon Begley / Newsweek (MSNBC) — mystic visions or brain circuits at work; in the new field of “neurotheology” scientists seek the biological basis of spirituality; is God all in our heads?
• A fossil of feathers? / May 7, 2001 / Thomas Hayden / U.S. News & World Report — the dino-chicken debate
• LEGISLATURE: Panel bashes Darwin / May 2, 2001 / Will Sentell / The Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana — see also: text of the resolution by Rep. Sharon Weston Broome, approved May 1 by the House Education Committee
• Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective, 3rd ed. / May 2000 / J. Philippe Rushton / Charles Darwin Research Institute — an incendiary thesis that separate races of human beings evolved different reproductive strategies to cope with different environments; see also Amazon
• Studies Shed Light on Universe in the Moments of Creation / April 30, 2001 / Los Angeles Times
• A Feathery Theory Takes Wing / April 29, 2001 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Feathered Dinosaur Fossils Are Unearthed in China / April 26, 2001 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Feathery fossil ruffles dinosaur debate / April 25, 2001 / CNN
• Theory blends 'Deep Impact' with Darwin / April 24, 2001 / Robert Roy Britt / MSNBC — Did cosmic catastrophes play a part in evolution of modern humans?
• Science's Elusive Realm: Life's Little Mysteries / April 24, 2001 / Sandra Blakeslee / New York Times
• Approaching Biology From a Different Angle / April 17, 2001 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times — on the DNA sequencer
• "Big Bang's New Rival Debuts With a Splash" requires free registration / 13 April 2001 / Charles Seife / Science, v.292, p.189-191
• "Paleontological Rift in the Rift Valley" requires free registration / 13 April 2001 / Michael Balter / Science, v.292, p.198-201
• Is God a State of Mind? / April 11, 2001 / Jacqueline Brooks / MSN 
• Surviving Galeras / April 2001 / Stanley Williams and Fen Montaigne / Houghton Mifflin Co. — a harrowing first-person account of a volcanic eruption and its aftermath; see also Amazon
• 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
• Dynamic Earth: Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection / January 2000 / Geoffrey F. Davies / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• It's not Darwin who's in the wrong, it's his supporters / 2000 / Robert Matthews / Electronic Telegraph, United Kingdom — examination of the survival of Darwin's theory of evolution
• "Darwinism and the Nazi race Holocaust" / 1999 / Jerry Bergman / Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.13, n.2, p.101–111

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