Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (July 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.

JULY 30

• Educators: Creation theory not scientific / July 28, 2001 / Crystal Kua / Honolulu Star-Bulletin — creationism can be taught, but not in science class, teachers and scientists say
• "PBS's 'Evolution' Prompts a New Sort of Trial" / July 27, 2001 / Lisa de Moraes / Washington Post, p.C07
• Not life as we know it / July 26, 2001 / Andrew Pollack / NationalPost.com — DNA in all living creatures consists of four bases, known by their initials, A, C, G and T. Scientists are trying to move beyond this limit to create, essentially, aliens.
• Wording in education bill sparks evolution concerns / July 25, 2001 / Tamara Henry / USA Today
• Big quake theory at fault / 25 July 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — small earthquakes may help predict large ones after all
• SETI sees the light / 25 July 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — alien hunters look for light signals from other worlds
• Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia / June 2001 / Luis M. Chiappe, Lowell Dingus / Scribner — see also Amazon
• Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution / December 2000 / Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Professors Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of Christian Faculty / December 1998 / Paul M. Anderson / InterVarsity Press — see also Reasons to Believe and Amazon
• The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy / Charles Officer and Jake Page / Addison-Wesley — see also Amazon

JULY 25

• "Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins" requires free registration / 26 July 2001 / Kevin Padian, Armand J. de Ricqlθs, and John R. Horner / Nature, v.412, p.405-408
• Time magazine's new ape-man / July 24, 2001 / James Perloff / WorldNetDaily.com — publication's latest evolution contention less-than-believable
• Intelligent design advocate asserts reconciliation with Baylor faculty / July 24, 2001 / Tammi Reed Ledbetter / Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist Press — William Dembski praised the support he has received from Baylor University President Robert Sloan following a year of conflict ignited by Dembski's demotion as director of the Polanyi Center for Complexity, Information and Design
• Geologist Fights to Save Dinosaur Fossils / July 23, 2001 / Michael Janofsky / New York Times
• Ye Shall Be as Gods / July 20, 2001 / Roger Kimball / Wall Street Journal — honoring Whittaker Chambers, a deeply religious man: Chambers' revelation about naturalistic world views such as communism and scientism flashed upon him one day while gazing at his infant daughter. She was not created by any random coming together of atoms in nature, but by immense design. Even with the staggering strides in science and technology, not every human problem is susceptible to mankind's ingenuity and control.
• Johnson: Evangelicals focus on the heart at expense of the mind / July 19, 2001 / Jeff Robinson / Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist Press — Phillip E. Johnson at a recent conference at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
• Watching boils pot / 18 July 2001 / Erica Klarreich / Nature science update — frequent check-ups could stop quantum data decaying
• Decision Time: How Did It Really Happen? (.pdf) / August 25, 1999 / Bernard E. Northrup — scanning well over one 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) / Bernard E. Northrup

JULY 24

• Meteor Shower Lights Northeast Sky / July 24, 2001 / Associated Press

JULY 22

• Coming to Blows Over How Valid Science Really Is / July 21, 2001 / Edward Rothstein / New York Times — in 1962 Thomas Kuhn did for conceptions of science what Copernicus and Einstein did for astronomy and physics
• Huge Genetic Variation Found in Human Beings / July 12, 2001 / Will Dunham / ABC News
• How Volcanoes Work / March 2001 / Vic Camp, Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University / NASA sponsored
• Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature / February 2001 / Eric J. Chaisson / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Michael Faraday: Physics and Faith / 2001 / Colin A. Russell / Oxford University Press — in addition to his extraordinary scientific activities, Faraday was a leader in his church, whose faith and wish to serve guided him throughout his career; see also Amazon
• Evolution of the Automobile: A Parable / August 2000 / John C. Studenroth, PhD (plant pathology, Cornell) / Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute — evidence points to a Designer working sometimes by guiding natural processes and sometimes by intervening to produce results that would never happen by themselves
• A Designed Universe / August 2000 / Robert C. Newman / Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute
• Coral Reefs: Indicators of an Old Earth / August 2000 / Perry G. Phillips / Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute
• Varves: Layered Sediments as Evidence for an Old Earth / August 2000 / Perry G. Phillips / Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute
• Geological Dating Principles Questioned under construction / May-June 2000 / Guy Berthault / Fusion, n.81 — paleohydraulic analysis : a new approach
• What's Darwin Got to Do With It: A Friendly Conversation About Evolution / January 2000 / Robert C. Newman, John L. Wiester, Janet Moneymaker, and Jonathan Moneymaker  / Intervarsity Press — see also Amazon

JULY 20

• Evidence does not support the theory of evolution / July 18, 2001 / The Irish Times — Not everyone believes that Charles Darwin got it right. Dr. Dominique Tassot is one of the doubters, and here explains why.
• The human genome: Think of a number, then double it / July 12, 2001 / The Economist — the "book of life" may be missing half of its words
• "Genomics: Genes lost during evolution" requires free registration / 28 June 2001 / Jeroen Roelofs and Peter J. M. van Haastert / Nature, v.411, p.1013-1014
• Does God Exist? / John Clayton (South Bend, Indiana) — journal and program to provide thinking, seeking people with scientific evidence that God does exist and that the Bible is His Word
• The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals / 2000 / Simon Conway-Morris / Oxford University Press — precise but entertaining ride through modern palaeontology and evolutionary biology; see also Amazon
• Reef Evolution / 1999 / Rachel Wood / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath / November 1997 / Anthony Hallam and P. B. Wignall / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution / 1995 / Ian Tattersall / Oxford University Press — an intriguing chronicle of the study of human evolution; see also Amazon

JULY 19

• The Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change (symposium) / October 25-28, 2001 / University of Chicago
• Biology, Religion and Origins: How do we Introduce Extra-Scientific Issues in the Science Classroom? (symposium) / September 7-8, 2001 / CTNS (Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences) and The Centre for Cultural Renewal / University of British Columbia, Vancouver — reflections on the exciting and challenging new ways that science and religion are in dialogue regarding contested issues in the biological sciences, philosophy and theology
• INSECTS IN AMBER AND ANCIENT DNA: millions of years old, thousands of years old, or contamination?
  • World of Amber / Susie Ward Aber / Earth Science Dept., Emporia State University, Kansas — includes link to a patent on the means of obtaining ancient organisms from amber
  • Amber, A View of the Past / Amberica West — listserv, links, exhibits, pictures, congresses, purchasing
  • Amber Ants / January 1999 / Michael Hagmann / Discover, v.20 — 92-million-year-old ants in amber from New Jersey
  • Ants Were Already a Nuisance At Dinosaurs' Picnics / January 29, 1998 / John Schwartz / Washington Post, p.A03 — fossil specimen dated to 92 million years ago
  • Ancient History / January 1998 / Ann Gibbons / Discover, v.19
  • Ancient DNA? / November-December 1996 / Todd Wood / Creation Matters, v.1, n.6
  • Ancient nucleic acids from amber-preserved insects / Natural History Museum, London — research to verify whether ancient DNA has survived and can be extracted from insects that have been entombed in amber for millions of years
  • Amber: the Jurassic Gem / International Colored Gemstone Assc.
  • Insects in amber / Garry Platt (UK) — see also: The Oldest Fossiliferous Amber?
• Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century / August 2001 / Howard K. Bloom and Richard Curtis/ John Wiley — see also Amazon
• The Dawn of Man / July 23, 2001 / Michael D. Lemonick and Andrea Dorfman / Time Magazine— discovery of bones in Ethiopia; includes a map of other hominid finds in Africa
• "Evolution of digital organisms at high mutation rates leads to survival of the flattest" requires free registration / 19 July 2001 / Claus O. Wilke, Jia Lan Wang, Charles Ofria, Richard E. Lenski, and Christoph Adami / Nature, v.412, p.331-333
• The Meaning of Intelligent Design / July 18, 2001 / Mark Hartwig / Boundless Webzine (Focus on the Family) — Profs say it's true: we evolved. No ifs, ands or buts. But the facts show otherwise. And scientists are starting to take notice.
• Lost City of Atlantis vents its secrets / 12 July 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — the discovery of new hydrothermal vents could shed light on the origins of life
• Saturn's dirty dozen / 12 July 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — the new moons discovered orbiting Saturn are the remnants of larger ancestors
• New early human fossils / 12 July 2001 / Henry Gee / Nature science update — fossils fuel controversy about humanity's earliest days
• "God Above Science" / July 5, 2001 / Gerald F. Colvin / Adventist Review, p.16-21 — Just as most scientists probably believe that the Bible was not specifically designed to explain natural laws, so most Christians likely believe that scientists cannot by searching quantify God. ... also see sidebar: "What's So Amazing About the Universe?" / L. James Gibson / p.21
• A Mind for Consciousness / July 2001 / Julie Wakefield  / Scientific American  — somewhere in the brain, Christof Koch believes, there are certain clusters of neurons that will explain why you're you and not someone else
• Victim of Geology / July 2001 / Alan Burdick / Discover, v.22 — whatever you do, don't get started on fossils
• Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galαpagos Islands / March 2001 / Edward J. Larson / Basic Books — the famous islands before and after Charles Darwin; see review: Our Evolving View of the Galαpagos / July 2001 / Richard Milner / Scientific American; see also Amazon
• "Evolution for John Doe: Pictures, the Public, and the Scopes Trial Debate" / March 2001 / Constance Areson Clark / J. Amer. History, v.87, p.1275-1301
• One Cosmos / 2001 / allied with: Ann Druyan and the Planetary Society — science entertainment, such as the re-release of "Cosmos" and 3D representations of the Milky Way galaxy, the bloodstream of the human body, or back in time to the dinosaurs
• Anthropology of the brain / 2001 / Eric Haseltine / Discover — replay 525 million years of evolution and 40 weeks of gestation; computer animations of ontogeny and phylogeny
• How We Got to Be Human: Subjective Minds with Objective Bodies / August 2000 / William H. Libaw / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• Evolution Opponents Hold Congressional Briefing / May 11, 2000 / David Applegate / Government Affairs Program, American Geological Institute
• Tales of the Rational: Skeptical Essays About Nature and Science / May 2000 / Massimo Pigliucci / Atlanta Freethought Society — see also Amazon

JULY 18

• Origins / Geoscience Research Institute — the most recent issue
  • EDITORIAL: Rivers out of Eden / 2001 / L. James Gibson / Origins, n.51, p.4-5
  • Carbon-14 Content of Fossil Carbon / 2001 / Paul Giem / Origins, n.51, p.6-30 — measurable carbon-14 in material that should be "dead" suggests an age of less than 100,000 years for life on Earth 
  • ANNOTATIONS FROM THE LITERATURE / 2001 / Origins, n.51, p.31-45 — development, dinosaurs, evolution, genetics, human origins, human fossils, molecular evolution, origin of life, paleobiogeography, paleontology, phylogeny
  • LITERATURE REVIEW: Inherit the Wind — Revisited / 2001 / L. James Gibson / Origins, n.51, p.46-49
  • NEWS AND COMMENTS: Geological Society of America Meeting / 2001 / Kurt P. Wise and Arthur V. Chadwick / Origins, n.51, p.50-60

JULY 16

• The Inside Look: Meaningful Discussion About Creation Essential, Say Church Leaders / June 26, 2001 / Bettina Krause / Adventist News Network
• Have No Fear. Genes Aren't Everything: Heredity and Humanity / June 20, 2001 / Francis S. Collins, Lowell Weiss, and Kathy Hudson / New Republic — Collins is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Excerpts from the last 4 paragraphs: "a higher power must also play some role in who we are" ... can "biology really account for the universal intrinsic knowledge of right and wrong ... the unselfish form of love that the Greeks called agape ... the experience of feeling called to sacrifice for others" ... "God has no meaning unless God is more than nature" ... "human beings have only scratched the surface of self-understanding"
• How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science / September 2000 / Michael Shermer / W. H. Freeman — see also Amazon
• The Riddled Chain: Chance, Coincidence, and Chaos in Human Evolution / July 2000 / Jeffrey Kevin McKee / Rutgers University Press — see also Amazon
• Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist / June 1994 / Adrian Desmond, James Moore (Contributor) / W. W. Norton

JULY 13

• Board passes teaching standards / July 13, 2001 / Pamela R. Winnick / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — evolution focus of science classes
• State panel rejects teaching Creation / July 12, 2001 / Pamela R. Winnick / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — science standards endorse evolution
• Fossils May Be Earliest Human Link / July 12, 2001 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Indicators 2000: Science and Engineering / 2000 / National Science Foundation — biennial report on the state of science and engineering in the United States: 1940-1990 history; R&D funds and alliances; workforce; elementary, secondary, and higher education; industry; the global marketplace; public attitudes and understanding; information technologies
• The Lost World of Jack Horner / Michael Shermer / Skeptic — an interview with the world's most famous dinosaur digger
• Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender / 1999 / Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse, eds. / Cambridge University Press — see review: Darwinism Gone to Seed / March-April 2001 / James Moore / Christianity Today, Books & Culture
• Have NASA computers really proven Joshua’s ‘long day’? / Jonathan Sarfati / Answers in Genesis
• Has NASA Discovered a “Missing Day”? / May 1991 / Bert Thompson / Reason & Revelation, v.11, n.5, p.17-19

JULY 12

• Time and Eternity: The Cosmic Odyssey (conference) / July 2002 / C.S. Lewis Summer Institute, Oxford and Cambridge, England
• "Mars exploration" requires free registration / 12 July 2001 / Michael H. Carr and James Garvin / Nature, v.412, p.250-253 — many spacecraft will be sent to Mars over the next decade in an effort to understand the planet's geology and climate history and to determine whether some form of life ever started there
• "Rapid and recent origin of species richness in the Cape flora of South Africa" requires free registration / 12 July 2001 / James E. Richardson, et al. / Nature, v.412, p.181-183
• "Late Miocene hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia" requires free registration / 12 July 2001 / Yohannes Haile-Selassie / Nature, v.412, p.178-181
• "Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia" requires free registration / 12 July 2001 / Giday Woldegabriel, et al. / Nature, v.412, p.175-178
• "A test of general relativity from the three-dimensional orbital geometry of a binary pulsar" requires free registration / 12 July 2001 / W. van Straten, et al. / Nature, v.412, p.158-160
• Evolution fraud in current biology textbooks / July 7, 2001 / WorldNetDaily.com — exposed as fakes decades ago, major publishers still include them
• Survival of the fittest? / July 7, 2001 / Alan Keyes / WorldNetDaily.com — the American nation and our way of life were founded on a moral premise which the doctrine of evolution directly contradicts
• Tiny Discovery May Answer a Question About the Big Bang / July 7, 2001 / James Glanz / New York Times — subtle lopsidedness in nature that may explain why the universe contains mostly matter
• New Insight into Reason Matter Exists / July 7, 2001 / Kathy Sawyer / Washington Post, p.A01
• IRRCed by creationism / July 7, 2001 / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — questioning some of the science guidelines urged by backers of creationism and intelligent design
• Imprinting marks clones for death / 6 July 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — unstable genes make normal clones unlikely
• Crisis put life in a fix / 5 July 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — a fall in atmospheric carbon dioxide might have driven bacteria to fix their own nitrogen
• "Microbial Genes in the Human Genome: Lateral Transfer or Gene Loss?" requires free registration / 8 June 2001 / Steven L. Salzberg, Owen White, Jeremy Peterson, and Jonathan A. Eisen / Science, v.292, p.1903-1906
• "A Multispecies Overkill Simulation of the End-Pleistocene Megafaunal Mass Extinction" requires free registration / 8 June 2001 / John Alroy / Science, v.292, p.1893-1896 — includes links to related articles in Science
• "GENETICS: Can Organisms Speed Their Own Evolution?" requires free registration / 8 June 2001 / Marina Chicurel / Science, v.292, p.1824-1827 — in times of stress, organisms may be able to crank up their mutation rates, helping accelerate their own evolution
• "Geochronology and calibration of global Milankovitch cyclicity at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary" / June 2001 / Andreas Prokoph, Mike Villeneuve, Frederik P. Agterberg, and Volker Rachold / Geology, v.29, p.523-526
• The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings / June 2001 / Mark Ridley / Free Press (Simon & Schuster) — see also Amazon
• Intelligent Design and Sound Theology / April 28, 2001 / PCANews (web magazine of the Presbyterian Church in America) — we need to look at ID as to whether it is theologically and factually sound
• 'Intelligent Design' -- Rival for Darwinian Evolution / April 26, 2001 / PCANews (web magazine of the Presbyterian Church in America) — various biochemical structures in cells could not have been built in a stepwise Darwinian fashion
• Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 / April 2001 / Peter Dear / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Discovering Dinosaurs and Other Fossils / Time — almost half of America's 384 National Parks cover fossil rich areas, e.g., Petrified Forest, Dinosaur Monument, Big Bend, Florissant, and Gettysburg
• Galactic Habitable Zones / Leslie Mullen / Astrobiology News (NASA) — complex life, like us, is probably unique in the observable Universe because of a balance of unique conditions: a massive Milky Way Galaxy, the right amount of "metals" in the Sun, the Sun's circular orbit about the galactic center, the distance of the Solar System from the galactic center
• God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe / November 2000 / Amir D. Aczel / Dell Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• Methuselan Microbes / 19 October 2000 / Nature feature of the week — raising of a bacterium from spores trapped in a 250 million year old salt crystal recovered from a New Mexico salt pan
• Earth Processes: Reading the Isotopic Code / 1996 / Asish Basu and Stan Hart, eds. / American Geophysical Union, Monograph, v.95 — examines the diverse applications of isotopic measurements and carefully traces the chronology and evolution of radioactive dating methodology over the past 70 years
• A Geologic Time Scale 1989 / June 1990 / W. B. Harland, et al. / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon

JULY 6

• Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives / December 2001 / Robert T. Pennock / MIT Press
• "A possible nitrogen crisis for Archaean life due to reduced nitrogen fixation by lightning" requires free registration / 5 July 2001 / Rafael Navarro-Gonzαlez, Christopher P. McKay, and Delphine Nna Mvondo / Nature, v.412, p.61-64
• "Annual monsoon rains recorded by Jurassic dunes" requires free registration / 5 July 2001 / David B. Loope, Clinton M. Rowe, and R. Matthew Joeckel / Nature, v.412, p.64-66
• "Morphological and ecological complexity in early eukaryotic ecosystems" requires free registration / 5 July 2001 / Emmanuelle J. Javaux, Andrew H. Knoll, and Malcolm R. Walter / Nature, v.412, p.66-69
• "Cryptic evolution in a wild bird population" requires free registration / 5 July 2001 / J. Merilδ, L. E. B. Kruuk, and B. C. Sheldon / Nature, v.412, p.76-79
• Do Greenland ice cores show over one hundred thousand years of annual layers? / 4 July 2001 / Michael J. Oard / Answers in Genesis
• EVOLUTION: The basis of all life, or a fairy tale for scientists who reject God? / July 3, 2001 / WorldNet Magazine
• Creationism issue may get new look / July 3, 2001 / Eleanor Chute / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — state Board of Education may revisit the issue of proposed state science standards and creationism
• Is Intelligent Design Science, and Does It Matter? / July 1, 2001 / J. Alder / Access Research Network
• "The Dangers of Compromise" / July 2001 / Henry M. Morris III / Back to Genesis, n.151, Institute for Creation Research
• Setting the Record Straight: Two studies find no evidence that humans have acquired genes directly from bacteria / June 25, 2001 / Edward R. Winstead / Genome News Network, Celera Genomics
• Looking for God at Berkeley / June 20, 2001 / Mark Athitakis / San Francisco Weekly — A provocative theory called "intelligent design" claims evolution is hogwash. But it's not the usual religious zealots leading the latest attack on Darwin. It's scientists and professors at Cal.
• Intelligent design does not compute / June 19, 2001 / Chet Raymo / Boston Globe, p.C2
• The Rate Book / June 2001 / Margaret Helder / Creation Dialogue, v.28, n.2 — book review: Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: A Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative
• "New Dig at Old Trove Yields Giant Sauropod" requires free registration / 1 Jun 2001 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.292, p.1623-1625
• "Digging Up Fresh Clues About the Origin of Mammals" requires free registration / 25 May 2001 / Andrι Wyss / Science, v.292, p.1496-1497
• "Putting Limits on the Diversity of Life" requires free registration / 25 May 2001 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.292, p.1481 — preliminary results contradict previous studies that showed biodiversity increasing over time
• "QUANTUM PHYSICS: Microscale Weirdness Expands Its Turf" requires free registration / 25 May 2001 / Charles Seife / Science, v.292, p.1471
• "Ultrafast Source-to-Surface Movement of Melt at Island Arcs from ²²⁶Ra-²³⁰Th Systematics" requires free registration / 18 May 2001 / Simon Turner, Peter Evans, and Chris Hawkesworth / Science, v.292, p.1363-1366
• "Can Genes Explain Biological Complexity?" requires free registration / 18 May 2001 / Eφrs Szathmαry, Ferenc Jordαn, Csaba Pαl / Science, v.292, p.1315-1316
• "VOLCANOLOGY: Oregon's Rising, an Eruption to Follow" requires free registration / 18 May 2001 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.292, p.1281-1283
• "Making Copies in the RNA World" requires free registration / 18 May 2001 / R. John Davenport / Science, v.292, p.1278 — evidence for a primitive biological world that existed before DNA and proteins entered the scene
• "Early Tyrannosaur Was Small But Well Armed" requires free registration / 18 May 2001 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.292, p.1278-1279
• "Sudden Productivity Collapse Associated with the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary Mass Extinction" requires free registration / 11 May 2001 / P. D. Ward, J. W. Haggart, E. S. Carter, D. Wilbur, H. W. Tipper, and T. Evans / Science, v.292, p.1148-1151
• "¹⁴C-Dead Living Biomass: Evidence for Microbial Assimilation of Ancient Organic Carbon During Shale Weathering" requires free registration / 11 May 2001 / S. T. Petsch, T. I. Eglinton, and K. J. Edwards / Science, v.292, p.1127-1131
• "Evolution of Cell Recognition by Viruses" requires free registration / 11 May 2001 / Eric Baranowski, Carmen M. Ruiz-Jarabo, and Esteban Domingo / Science, v.292, p.1102-1105
• "Genes Lost and Genes Found: Evolution of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Symbiosis" requires free registration / 11 May 2001 / Howard Ochman and Nancy A. Moran / Science, v.292, p.1096-1099
• "Oceanic Crust When Earth Was Young" requires free registration / 11 May 2001 / Jeffrey A. Karson / Science, v.292, p.1076-1079
• "Modern Men Trace Ancestry to African Migrants" requires free registration / 11 May 2001 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.292, p.1051-1052
• "Two ages of porphyry intrusion resolved for the super-giant Chuquicamata copper deposit of northern Chile by ELA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP" / May 2001 / Julian R. Ballard, J. Michael Palin, Ian S. Williams, Ian H. Campbell, and Alejandro Faunes / Geology, v.29, p.383-386 — agreement between U-Pb, Re-Os, and ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar ages
• "Single-crystal ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar dating of pyrite: No fool's clock" / May 2001 / Patrick E. Smith, Norman M. Evensen, Derek York, Peter Szatmari, and Diogenes Custodio de Oliveira / Geology, v.29, p.403-406
• Defending Evolution in the Classroom: A Guide to the Evolution/Creation Controversy / May 2001 / Brian J. Alters and Sandra M. Alters / Jones & Bartlett Publ. — see also Amazon
• Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions / May 2001 / Charles Gallenkamp / Viking Press — "Indiana Jones" finds dinosaur bones in the Gobi desert of Mongolia; see also Amazon and Barnes & Noble
• "Edward T. Oakes and His Critics: An Exchange" / April 2001 / Phillip E. Johnson / First Things, n.112, p.5-13 — response to book review of The Wedge of Truth
• The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin / March 2001 / Christopher McGowan / Perseus Books — see also Amazon
• "Earliest crinoids: New evidence for the origin of the dominant Paleozoic echinoderms" February 2001 / Thomas E. Guensburg and James Sprinkle / Geology, v.29, p.131-134
• Artificial Intelligence / Discovery Channel, Canada
• Scirus — search engine for scientific information only
• Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion / American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club / managed by University of California, San Diego students, faculty, staff, ...
• Evidence for God from Science / Rich Deem 
• Dinosaur Figurines of Acambaro, Mexico — evidence that dinosaurs and humans coexisted
• Scientific Controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives / May 2000 / Peter K. MacHamer, Marcello Pera, and Aristides Baltas (eds.) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters / 2000 / Matt Ridley / HarperCollins — see also Amazon
• Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism / 2000 / Robert T. Pennock / MIT Press — see review by Charles De Wolf
• The lost squadron / June-August 1997 / Carl Wieland / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.19, n.3, p.10-14 — deeply buried missing planes challenge ‘slow and gradual’ preconceptions about icecap accumulation
• Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution / May 1997 / Kent C. Condie / Butterworth-Heinemann — see also Amazon
• Donald Ervin Knuth — world-renowned computer scientist; Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University
  • "Glimpses of God: Faith and Computer Science" / October 18-21, 2000 / Pascal Lectures on Christianity and the University, University of Waterloo, Ontario
  • 3:16 : Bible Texts Illuminated / April 1991 / A-R Editions
• "Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids" / 1953 / J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick / Nature, v.171, p.737-738 — original article: "We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest."

JULY 2

• Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior / July 2001 / Tetsuro Matsuzawa / Springer-Verlag — see also Amazon
• Artificial Intelligence for the New Millennium / June 30, 2001 / Barnaby J. Feder / New York Times
• ARN-Announce / June 29, 2001 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.16 — upcoming events and new articles, books, videos and other resources on Intelligent Design
• We've got company / June 29, 2001 / Suzy Hansen / Salon.com, San Francisco — astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system
• Single mite female / 29 June 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — bacteria turn a male mite into a genetically under-endowed female
• "Genomics: Genes lost during evolution" requires free registration / 28 June 2001 / Jeroen Roelofs and Peter J. M. van Haastert / Nature, v.411, p.1013-1014
• "Mineral disequilibrium in lavas explained by convective self-mixing in open magma chambers" requires free registration / 28 June 2001 / S. Couch, R. S. J. Sparks, and M. R. Carroll / Nature, v. 411, p. 1037-1039
• "Protein dispensability and rate of evolution" requires free registration / 28 June 2001 / 
  Aaron E. Hirsch and Hunter B. Fraser / Nature, v.411, p.1046-1049
• Chaos killed the dinosaurs / 28 June 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — subtle shifts in the solar system could have caused the dinosaur-devastating crash
• Scott Blows Smoke in Science / June 25, 2001 / Phillip Johnson / Weekly Wedge Update, Access Research Network
• Seeing Faith Through Science / June 23, 2001 / William Lobdell / Los Angeles Times — Hugh Ross, astronomer and minister, looks to biology, physics and other fields in an effort to prove the Bible's truth. He draws fire from scientists and fundamentalists alike.
• Human genome debugged / 21 June 2001 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — quarrel over bacteria-to-human gene transfers resolved
• Ignorance Is No Crime / Summer 2001 / Richard Dawkins / Free Inquiry magazine, v. 21, n.3 (Council for Secular Humanism)
• Spotted: mass exodus from the Sun / 19 June 2001 / Jim Giles / Nature science update — flavor-switching solves riddle of missing neutrinos
• Errors and Alarms / June 18, 2001 / Phillip Johnson / Weekly Wedge Update, Access Research Network
• Stiff challenge to spacetime / 12 June 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — magnetic fields flatten curved space and cast doubt on the Universe's youth
• Deep Black Sea / May 2001 / Robert D. Ballard / National Geographic, p.52-69 — ancient shipwrecks and telltale shells bring to life epics of distant trade and a prehistoric flood
• Pterosaurs / May 2001 / Richard Monastersky / National Geographic, p.86-105 — largest animals that ever flew, pterosaurs ruled the skies for 150 million years before their sudden demise
• Did those feathers tickle or what? / May 2001 / American Museum of Natural History — first complete specimen of a feather-covered dinosaur that couldn't fly
• Dinos invented the huggies / April 26, 2001 / Geological Society, United Kingdom — fossil dinosaur covered from head to tail with downy fluff and primitive feathers
• Astrobiology / April 2001 / Monica M. Grady / Smithsonian Institution Press
• Religion Explained / April 2001 / Pascal Boyer / Basic Books — as an anthropological explanation for religious feeling, it is sure to arouse controversy; see also Amazon
• Evolutionary Biology: How Do New Species Arise? / 5 January 2001 / ScienceWeek
• The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms / January 2001 / Marcus Chown / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The Genomic Revolution / American Museum of Natural History
• Powers of Ten (Interactive Java Tutorial) / Michael W. Davidson / Florida State University — in successive orders of magnitude view: the Milky Way, the Earth, a tree, a leaf, leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA, electrons and protons
• Terrestrial Magnetism / Herbert Frey, et al. / NASA — satellite magnetics and models; crustal anomalies; origin of core field; Martian magnetics; rock magnetism
• Evolution Poster / Chick Publications, Inc. — 2½ foot long poster; uses humor and facts to expose the truth about Heidelberg man, Piltdown man and others
• A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space / November 2000 / Michael W. Friedlander / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Maybe We Are Alone in the Universe, After All / February 8, 2000 / William J. Broad / New York Times
• Concerned Citizens for Objective Science Education / September 1999 (founded) / Nebraska — internet-based, grass-roots organization, dedicated to helping people understand the controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution to our public school children

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