Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (September 2001)

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SEPTEMBER 28

• Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives / December 2001 / Robert T. Pennock (ed.) / MIT Press
• ARN-Announce / October 1, 2001 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.18
• Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain / October 2001 / Peter J. Bowler / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
• The Mother of All Extinctions / October 2001 / Karen Wright / Discover, v.22 — what could have wiped out 95 percent of marine life, not to mention 70 percent of all species on land?
• The Hole Story / October 2001 / Bob Berman / Discover, v. 22 — nature's blackest creations slowly reveal their true identities
• Fatuous filmmaking / September 28, 2001 / Michael J. Behe / WorldNetDaily.com
• Darwin's public defenders / September 28, 2001 / Stephen Meyer / WorldNetDaily.com 
• Author inherits the wind, but keeps his wit / September 27, 2001 / Bob Minzesheimer / USA Today
• PBS' 'Evolution' generates a debate / September 27, 2001 / Larry Witham / Washington Times
• "Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia" requires free registration / 27 September 2001 / R. X. Zhu, et al. / Nature, v.413, p.413-417
• New York Review Enters the Fray / September 25, 2001 / Phillip Johnson / Weekly Wedge Update
• Upholding Accuracy in Science Journalism / September 24, 2001 / Chuck Colson / BreakPoint — PBS misses the mark 
• Looking for the Real Evidence / September 24, 2001 / Chuck Colson / BreakPoint — worldview versus genuine science in the PBS Evolution series
• "Evolution" Series Claim on Eye Evolution More Fiction than Fact / September 20, 2001 / Mark Edwards / Discovery Institute
• Response to the PBS Evolution Project / Access Research Network
• Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life / August 2001 / Peter Raby / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Rebuilding the Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century / August 2001 / Denis Alexander / Lion Publishing
• Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant / August 2001 / Richard Stone / Perseus Books — 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
• The End of Certainty and the Beginning of Faith: Religion and Science for the 21st Century / March 2000 / D. Brian Austin / Smyth & Helwys Pub. — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 25

• The Artistic Animal / October 2001 / Caleb Crain / Lingua Franca, v.11, n.7 — is creativity in our genes?
• Can we be sure about anything? Questions of Truth in Science and Christianity (conference) / 29 September 2001 / Christians in Science, London
• Evolution Questions and Answers / September 24-27, 2001 / National Science Teachers Association — in conjunction with the PBS television series Evolution: A Journey into Where We're From and Where We're Going, NSTA is pleased to offer this opportunity for our members to pose questions to a distinguished panel of experts on evolution
• PBS's 'Evolution' More of the Same / September 24, 2001 / Mark Hartwig / Focus on the Family
• Fossil Links Whales Back to the Land / September 24, 2001 / Usha Lee McFarling / Los Angeles Times — scientists unearth skeletons of what they believe is the direct land-based ancestor of the marine mammals
• Brimstone pickled Permian / 18 September 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — before the dinosaurs' demise another meteorite impact may have devastated life on Earth

SEPTEMBER 24

• Earth Science Week / October 7-13, 2001 / American Geological Institute
• A Critique of PBS's Evolution / 2001 / Discovery Institute — see also: "Getting the Facts Straight: A Viewer's Guide to PBS's Evolution" (pdf) / Access Research Network
• "The Plasticity of Evolution Theory" / July 2001 / Frank Sherwin / Acts & Facts, v.30, n.7, p.4
• "The Unasked Question" of Macroevolution / June 2001 / Frank Sherwin / Acts & Facts, v.30, n.6, p.10

SEPTEMBER 21

• War over Darwin examined in 'Evolution' / September 21, 2001 / M. S. Mason / Christian Science Monitor — a new PBS TV series shows how his theories continue to affect us
• ARN-Announce / September 20, 2001 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.17 — on PBS Evolution Video Series: September 24-27 -- analysis web pages, viewer’s guide, report on PBS Evolution press conference
• There is no religious bias in the PBS Evolution Project because Ken Miller says there isn’t / September 19, 2001 / Josh Gilder / Access Research Network — a first-hand report on the PBS Press Conference for the Evolution Project, held July 26, 2001 at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California
• “Come to Darwin” - Anti-Design Group Launches a Public Relations Campaign / September 14, 2001 / John Mark Reynolds / Access Research Network
• The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry / July 2001 / Bryan Sykes / W. W. Norton — a dramatic story of genetic discovery, a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come; see also Amazon and Barnes & Nobel
• AGE Laboratory / McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - archaeometry and geochronology using: electron spin resonance (ESR), thermoluminescence (TL) of flint, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) of sediments, infra-red stimulated luminescence (IRSL), and uranium series (TIMS)
• Who Were the First Americans? / September 2000 / Sasha Nemecek / Scientific American — see also sidebar: Archaeology's Dating Game: Matching Radiocarbon Dates to the Calendar
• Biochemical Limits to Evolution: The Untold Story / David A. Plaisted, University of North Carolina — protein structure argues against evolution
• Varves: Problems for Standard Geochronology / Kurt Howard / Creation in the Crossfire, South Bay Creation Science Association
• "Creation and Quantum Mechanics" / November 1998 / Don B. DeYoung / Impact, n.305 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Darwinism and Neodarwinism in Evolutionary Change / 1992 / David J. Tyler and Arthur J. Jones / Biblical Creation Society

SEPTEMBER 20

• Saving Us from Darwin / October 4, 2001 / Frederick C. Crews / New York Review of Books — review of 7 books on Intelligent Design
• Almost like a whale / 20 September 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — fossils bridge gap between land mammals and whales
• When whales walked the Earth / 20 September 2001 / Nature feature of the week
• "Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls" requires free registration / 20 September 2001 / J. G. M. Thewissen, E. M. Williams, L. J. Roe, and S. T. Hussain / Nature, v.413, p.277-281
• If Ahab only knew: cetaceans (whales) descend from hoofed mammals / September 20, 2001 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor
• How Old Is It? / September 2001 / Carl Zimmer / National Geographic, p.78-101 — a fossil, the Grand Canyon, the universe -- armed with simple principles and new techniques that find clues even in atoms, scientists can now date all manner of matter
• Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest / May 2001 / Kim Sterelny and Jon Turney (eds.) / Totem Books — see also Amazon
• The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul / May 2001 / Richard Morris / W. H. Freeman — see also Amazon
• Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated / April 2001 / Steve Jones / Random House — see also Amazon, New York Times review

SEPTEMBER 18

• Creepy-crawlies keep secrets / 13 September 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — centipede genealogy has scientists and supercomputers foxed
• Social conscience came early / 11 September 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — new-found jawbone hints at 200 thousand years of care in the community
• Response to the PBS Evolution Project / 2001 / Access Research Network
• Sodom & Gomorrah Found? / 2001 / Michael S. Sanders / Mysteries of the Bible — satellite spots submerged Sodom & Gomorrah?

SEPTEMBER 13

• The Fine-Tuning Design Argument: A Scientific Argument for the Existence of God / September 1998 / Robin Collins / Discovery Institute (reprinted form Reason for the Hope Within)
• The Origin of Life and the Death of Materialism / April 1996 / Stephen C. Meyer / Discovery Institute (from Intercollegiate Review 31, no. 2)

SEPTEMBER 11

• Divisive Issues / September 10, 2001 / Phillip Johnson / Weekly Wedge Update (Access Research Institute)
• Genetics: it's all in the mind / 7 September 2001 / Colin Tudge / Independent (UK) — the science of evolutionary psychology is often derided
• The 'Ample' Man Who Saved My Faith / September 3, 2001 / Philip Yancey / Christianity Today — Should not atheists have an obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness? ... G. K. Chesterton propounded the Christian faith with great wit -- and sheer intellectual force. See section entitled "The Problem of Pleasure." 
• Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution / September 2001 / John F. Haught / Paulist Press — see also Amazon
• Answering Kids' hottest dinosaur questions (video) / July 9, 2001 / Answers in Genesis & Gospel Communications — Discovery Team video series

SEPTEMBER 10

• Universe Could Disintegrate at Any Moment / September 7, 2001 / Space News
• Huge black hole in Milky Way / 6 September 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — astronomers find long-sought evidence confirming black hole close to home
• The ice man cameth early / 4 September 2001 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — early mammoth hunters braved the Arctic
• "Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation" requires free registration / 16 August 2001 / Robin M. Canup and Erik Asphaug / Nature, v.412, p.708-712
• "Sex determination: Viviparous lizard selects sex of embryos" requires free registration / 16 August 2001 / Kylie A. Robert and Michael B. Thompson / Nature, v.412, p.698-699
• "Has NASA Discovered a 'Missing Day'?" / May 1991 / Bert Thompson / Reason & Revelation, v.11, n.5, p.17-19

SEPTEMBER 7

• Academics clash over Darwinism / 7 September 2001 / Steve Connor / Independent (UK)
• "A question of intent: when is a 'schematic' illustration a fraud" (pdf) / 8 March 2001 / Michael K. Richardson and Gerhard Keuck / Nature, v.410, p.144 — Haeckel's embryos

SEPTEMBER 5

• "Rapid X-ray flaring from the direction of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre" requires free registration / 6 September 2001 / F. K. Baganoff, et al. / Nature, v.413, p.45-48
• "Evolutionary genetics: Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA" requires free registration / 6 September 2001 / Sofia Berlin and Hans Ellegren / Nature, v.413, p.37-38
• A Critique of Douglas Theobald’s “29 Evidences For Macroevolution” / 3 September 2001 / Ashby Camp / The True.Origin Archive — see the original: "29 Evidences for Macroevolution" -- Scientific Evidences for the Theory of Common Descent with Gradual Modification / Douglas Theobald / 2001 / Talk.Origins Archive
• Respuestas en Génesis — Creación/Evolución, Autoridad Bíblica [Spanish Answers in Genesis]

SEPTEMBER 3

• Etna in identity crisis / 30 August 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — Sicily's volcano could be getting more violent
• Volcano Live / John Seach (Australian volcanologist) — 1.5 million hits per month
• Volcano World / supported by NASA — the web's premier source of volcano info
• Rivers of fire / 22 May 2000 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — the first observation of burning sulphur flows from a volcano reveals that such features may be common on Earth and beyond

SEPTEMBER 2

• PALEOCLIMATOLOGY: Jurassic monsoons / September 2001 / Jann Vendetti / Geotimes
• A Duck's Bill + an Ostrich's Legs = a Dinosaur / August 30, 2001 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Science, semi-science and nonsense / August 27, 2001 / Suzy Hansen / salon.com — a professional skeptic (Michael Shermer) talks about what's real science (evolution, the Big Bang), what's balderdash (ESP, Creationism) and what lies between (hypnotism, superstring theory)
• The Five Crises in Evolutionary Theory / 2000 / Ray Bohlin / Probe Ministries — missing mechanism, origin of life, complex adaptations, design, prevalence of stasis
• "Too Much Coal for a Young Earth?" / 1997 / Gerhard Schönknecht and Siegfried Scherer / Creation Ex Nihilo Tech. J., v.11, n.3, p.278–282
• The RNA World: A Critique / 1996 / Gordon C. Mills and Dean Kenyon / Origins & Design, v.17, n.1
• "Ice Cores and the Age of the Earth" / April 1992 / Larry Vardiman / Impact, n.226 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Why Don't We Find More Human Fossils?" / January 1992 / John D. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.37 (Institute for Creation Research)

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