Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (June 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.

JUNE 15

• Darwin hits back / June 14-20, 2001 / Roger Downey / Seattle Weekly — Intelligent Design in the news
• "Creationism Isn't Critical Thinking" / June 11, 2001 / The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), p.A6
• The Pennsylvania Controversy / June 11, 2001 / Phillip Johnson / Weekly Wedge Update, Access Research Network
• New Look at Fossil Record Might Alter Earth's History / June 10, 2001 / Steve Rissing / Columbus Dispatch
• How did we get so smart? Study sheds light on evolution of the brain / 9 May 2001 / Steven Schultz, Princeton University / EurekAlert
• Researchers discover mind's key to self-image / 8 May 2001 / Cheryl Grogan, American Academy of Neurology / EurekAlert
• Rational Methodology for Identifying Supernatural Intervention / 2001 / Steve Hinrichs
• Theory of Evolution / 2001 / Stu Pullen — evolution does not explain the complexity of life
• From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr.: On Science, Literature, and Religion / October 2000 / Martin Gardner / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time / August 2000 / Kitty Ferguson / Walker & Co. — see also Amazon
• Decision Time: How Did It Really Happen? (pdf) / August 1999 / Bernard E. Northrup — scanning well over 125 direct correlations between the physical record of the rocks and the Biblical record
• The Rocks and Shoals of Creation Studies in Prediluvian Research (pdf) / 2000 / Bernard E. Northrup
• Course requirements respecting beliefs / January 27, 1999 / Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Education
• "Response to Hasker" / 1993 / Phillip E. Johnson / Christian Scholar's Review, v.22, n.3, p.297-304 — response to a review of the book Darwin on Trial 

JUNE 12

• Cones on Mars / 11 June 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — evidence for recent water ice on the red planet
• Effect of Ties on the Evolution of Information by the Ev program / 2001 June 7 / Thomas D. Schneider / Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology, National Cancer Institute — information content increase in contrast to William A. Dembski's claim
• "Creationism Takes Root Where Europe, Asia Meet" requires free registration / 18 May 2001 / Robert Koenig / Science, v.292, p.1286-1287 — creationism in Turkey
• "Quantifying differential rock-uplift rates via stream profile analysis" / May 2001 / Eric Kirby and Kelin Whipple / Geology, v.29, n.5, p.415-418
• The Anti-Evolutionists: William A. Dembski / Wesley R. Elsberry — links to scholarly resources concerning the Intelligent Design work of Dembski , including critical commentary
• The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting / October 2000 / Tom Standage / Walker & Co — see also Amazon
• Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse About Science and Society / July 2000 / Ullica Segerstrale, ed. / State University of New York Press — see also Amazon

JUNE 11

• Nasa aims to move Earth / June 10, 2001 / Robin McKie / Gaurdian Unlimited (United Kingdom) — scientists' answer to global warming: nudge the planet farther from the Sun
• Eleven years of constant searching is over / 6 June 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — the Hubble Space Telescope has completed its measurement of the Hubble constant, a measure of how fast the Universe is expanding and a cornerstone of our understanding of the age and size of the Universe
• Radioactive Decay Caused by Neutrinos? (pdf) / April 2001 / Eckhard Dieter Falkenberg / Apeiron, v.8, n.2
• Apeiron — studies in infinite nature
• The Direction of Time / January 2000 / Hans Reichenbach / Dover — see also Amazon
• examples of irreducibly complex structures?
  • Molecular Information Theory and the Theory of Molecular Machines / 2001 / Tom Schneider / Laboratory of Computational and Experimental Biology, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD
  • Movie Gallery of Rossmann's Laboratory / February 2001 / Michael G. Rossmann / Purdue University Biological Sciences
  • "Animation of the Dynamical Events of the Elongation Cycle Based on Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Functional Complexes of the Ribosome" (QuickTime movie) / November 1999 / Joachim Frank, Amy B. Heagle, and Rajendra K. Agrawal / Journal of Structural Biology, v.128
  • Animation Movies of ATP Synthase / 1998 / Hongyun Wang and George Oster /  University of California, Berkeley — see Nature, v. 396, p. 279-282
• Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science / August 1998 / Halton Arp / Apeiron — see also Amazon and review: by Tom Van Flandern / December 15, 1998 / Meta Research Bulletin, v.7, n.4

JUNE 8

• Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions: Speciation -- The Evolution of New Species / May 2001 / Menno Schilthuizen / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• "What Brings a World into Being?" / April 2001 / David Berlinski / Commentary Magazine, 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.
• Biblical Classification of Life: A Framework and Reference for Authentic Biblical Biology / August 2000 / Chard Berndt / Elihu Publishing — see also Amazon
• Creation ex nihilo, Technical Journal
• "Geomagnetic paleointensity and environmental record from Labrador Sea core MD95-2024: global marine sediment and ice core chronostratigraphy for the last 110 kyr" / November 2000 / J. S. Stoner, J. E. T. Channell, C. Hillaire-Marcel, and C. Kissel / Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 183, n.1-2, p.161-177
• Science and Faith: An Evangelical Dialogue / June 2000 / Jimmy H. Davis and Harry Lee Poe / Broadman & Holman — see also Amazon
• Real Science: What it Is and What it Means / May 2000 / John Ziman / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• "I Wonder As I Wander" (pdf) / October 28, 1999 / Bill Knott / Adventist Review, v.176, p.8-13 — a journalist celebrates the glories of God's world; Creation Illustrated
• Interview: Phillip E. Johnson / Spring 1999 / Jeff Lawrence / Communiquι: A Quarterly Journal
• Graham Oppy on the Kalam Cosmological Argument / June 1998 / William Lane Craig / Leadership University
• What about the evolution of the horse? / 1998 / Matthew J. Slick / Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry 
• Is Common Descent an Axiom of Biology? / June 1993 / Paul Nelson and Jonathan Wells / conference paper: “The Darwinian Paradigm: Problems and Prospects”

JUNE 7

• 2001 Spring Meeting, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Boston, MA / May 29 - June 2, 2001 / Eos. Trans. AGU, v.82, n.20, Supplement
  • Is "Intelligent Design" Creationism a Threat to Teaching Earth and Space Science? (session) / May 31 / p.S119-120
    • Splitting Science: Geology, Biology and the Intelligent Design Wedge Movement / Robert T. Pennock
    • Dealing with the Elephant in the Corner; or, You Can't Avoid Religion If You Want to Teach the History of Nature / Jim Miller
    • Paley reborn: "Intelligent" Design in 21st century America / Kenneth R. Miller
    • Intelligent Design and Earth History / Wilfred A. Elders
    • Examining the Latest Threat to the Teaching of Evolution in our Classrooms / Judy Scotchmoor
  • Fluctuations of the Earth's Magnetic Field (Direction and Intensity) III (session) / June 2 / p.S135-137
    • High-precision ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Ages for the Matuyama-Brunhes Reversal and the Big Lost Subchron from Lava Flows on La Palma, Canary Islands / Monica Relle, et al.
  • High-resolution climate records from laminated sediments (session) / May 31 / p.S224-227
  • Ice Cores: Paleoclimates, Glaciology, and Environmental Change I (session) / June 1 / p.S232-234
  • other
    • Earth's Crustal Configuration: Pangaea's Other Edge / Madeline Scott McDowell / p.S407 — expanding earth
    • 20° Shift of the Earth's Rotation Axis Between 120 and 100 Ma ago: a Global Confirmation / Peter D. Weiler, Pierre Camps, and Michel Prevot / p.S419
    • Inclusion-sited Excess Ar in Plagioclase Feldspar from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica / X. Zhang, et el. / p.S435

JUNE 5

• Evolution's Youth Movement / June 2, 2001 / Bruce Bower / Science News Online, v.159, n.22 — fossil children may harbor clues to humanity's origins
• Jellyplants on Mars / June 1, 2001 / NASA — scientists are creating a new breed of glowing plants to help humans explore Mars
• Neutrinos Reveal Star's Inner Secrets / 1 June 2001 / Physical Review Focus — birth of a black hole could be detected from neutrino observations; see "Evolution of Proto-Neutron Stars with Quarks" /  4 June 2001 / Josι A. Pons, Andrew W. Steiner, Madappa Prakash, and James M. Lattimer / Physical Review Letters, v.86, p.5223
• ARN-Announce / May 31, 2001 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.15 — upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
• Tours power tools / 30 May 2001 / Henry Gee / Nature science update — tool transport is as reliable an indicator of early human activity as tool use itself
• The Defective Image: How Darwinism Fails to Provide an Adequate Account of the World / April 2001 / Ben M. Carter / University Press of America — see also Amazon

JUNE 1

• Slumbering in the Egyptian Desert, a Titan of a Dinosaur / June 1, 2001 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times — massive fossil bones found at an Egyptian oasis
• The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God / June 2001 / Hugh Ross / NavPress — see also Amazon
• "Developmental biology: Lungfish dental pattern conserved for 360 Myr" requires free registration / 31 May 2001 / Robert R. Reisz and Moya M. Smith / Nature, v. 411, p. 548
• "Possible displacement of the climate signal in ancient ice by premelting and anomalous diffusion" requires free registration / 31 May 2001 / A. W. Rempel, E. D. Waddington, J. S. Wettlaufer, and M. G. Worster / Nature, v.411, p.568-571
• "Ecological and evolutionary processes at expanding range margins" requires free registration / 31 May 2001 / C. D. Thomas, et al. / Nature, v.411, p.577-581
• Revealed: Darwin's 'severe grief' over death of girl destroyed his Christianity / 29 May 2001 / Anna Whitney / Independent News, United Kingdom
• Some scientists seek to unseat Darwin's theory / May 20, 2001 / Joan Stroer / Athens Banner-Herald, Georgia
• Rock slab records Earth’s infancy / May 11, 2001 / MSNBC — formation could shed light on plate tectonics and life’s origins
• Sea Floor Slab Found Near Great Wall / May 11, 2001 / Discovery Channel — a massive slab of rock in China is a section of ocean floor dating back 2.5 billion years
• CNN Newsroom (transcript) / May 3, 2001 / CNN — debate over the origins of life: PennRidge School Board ... Eric Lander, Hilton Kort, Timothy Jackson, Jonathan Wells, Jerry Coyne, Michael Behe, Eugenia Scott, ...
• The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change / May 2001 / Stephen R. Palumbi / W. W. Norton — a look at the intersection of evolution and high-tech modern life; see also Amazon
• Letters to the Editor / April 26, 2001 / Seattle Weekly — responses to article: The New Creationists on April 19
• The Archean Dongwanzi Ophiolite, North China Craton: World's Oldest Known Complete Ophiolite (abstract) / April 10, 2001 / Timothy M. Kusky, Jianghai Li, and Robert D. Tucker / Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section - 97th Annual Meeting
• "Rethinking Water on Mars and the Origin of Life" requires free registration / 6 Apr 2001 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.292, p.39-40
• Annie's Box / May 2001 / Randal Keynes / Fourth Estate — on human evolution and the tragic death of Charles Darwin's eldest daughter; see review in The Electronic Telegraph, also Amazon
• How Blind Is the Watchmaker?: Nature's Design & the Limits of Naturalistic Science / April 2001 / Neil Broom; William A. Dembski, forward / Intervarsity Press
• Evolution-Creation Pages / Richard Deem — if you believe that the theory of macroevolution is true, prepare to be challenged
• Intelligent Design Network — nonprofit organization organized in 1999 in connection with the debate over the Kansas Science Education Standards
• One Human Race / Answers in Genesis — racism and the teaching of evolution
• The Story of Time / October 1999 / Kristen Lippincott, with Umberto Eco, E. H. Gombrich, and others / Merrell Holberton — see also Amazon
• Origin of the Modern Therian Mammals / 1999 / David L. Atkins / George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences
• Evolution of Mammals (lecture notes) / Thomas W. Kammer / West Virginia University, Department of Geology and Geography
• The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs / September 1998 / John C. Avise / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon

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