Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (November 2001)

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NOVEMBER 30

• ARN-Announce / November 30, 2001 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.19 — critiques of Evolution on PBS
• "Asymmetric Broca's area in great apes" requires free registration / 29 November 2001 / Claudio Cantalupo and William D. Hopkins / Nature, v.414, p.505 — an asymmetry that has been correlated with language dominance
• Exorcising Einstein's spooks / 29 November 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — is there another layer of reality beyond quantum physics
• Palaeoecology: Fossils and avian evolution / 29 November 2001 / Alan Feduccia / Nature, v.414, p.507-508 — also, see communication by Julia A. Clarke and Mark A. Norell, p.508
• "GEOLOGY: North American Devastation or Global Cataclysm?" requires free registration / 23 November 2001 / Tim Flannery / Science, v.294, p.1668-1669
• "MICROBIAL GENOMES: Sequences Reveal Borrowed Genes" requires free registration / 23 November 2001 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.294, p.1634-1635 — two bugs seem to have nabbed enough genes from other organisms that they no longer resemble their supposedly closest relatives--raising fascinating questions about how and why they obtained these new traits
• "Evolution of cooperation without reciprocity" requires free registration / 22 November 2001 / Rick L. Riolo, Michael D. Cohen, and Robert Axelrod / Nature, v.414, p.441-443
• U.S. Students Flunk Science Assessment / November 21, 2001 / Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times — barely half of the nation's high school seniors meet even basic requirements; California scores are among lowest
• Scientific terms do need protection / 16 November 2001 / Lewis Wolpert / Independent (UK) — science is supposed to use words with care and preferably strict definitions
• Darwinists and Rotting Fish / November 15, 2001 / Per Abrahmson / Intelligent Design Undergraduate Research Center, Access Research Network
• "Darwin and the Descent of Morality" / November 2001 / Benjamin Wiker / First Things, n.117, p.10-13
• Atapuerca, A World Heritage Site / November 2001 / Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain — Spanish; in prehistoric and historic times a refuge, hunting ground, sanctuary, battleground, landmark, limestone quarry, and now an archaeological site
• A Whale Fantasy from National Geographic / November 2001 / Harun Yahya, Turkey
• What Evolution Is / October 31, 2001 / Ernst Mayr / Edge — "one of Darwin's great contributions was that he replaced theological, or supernatural, science with secular science"
• DNA Identifies Body of Bible's Luke / October 16, 2001 / Jennifer Viegas / Discovery Channel — DNA extracted from the teeth of a corpse thought to be that of the well-known biblical figure Luke suggests that the body likely is the evangelist's
• Sprites touch cloud-tops / 12 October 2001 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — power of sprites not to be underestimated
• Genetic Algorithms: Do They Show that Evolution Works? / 2001 / Don Batten / True.Origin
• The Problem of Information for the Theory of Evolution: Has Tom Schneider Really Solved It? / 2001 / Royal Truman / True.Origin
• Starlight Wars: Starlight and Time withstands attacks / 2000 / D. Russell Humphreys / Answers in Genesis
• The Unraveling of Starlight and Time / March 1999 / Samuel R. Conner and Hugh Ross / Reasons to Believe

NOVEMBER 29

• "An unusually massive stellar black hole in the Galaxy" requires free registration / 29 November 2001 / J. Greiner, J. G. Cuby, and M. J. McCaughrean / Nature, v.414, p.522-525
• Distant starlight reveals alien atmosphere / 27 November 2001/ John Whitfield / Nature science update — Hubble spots atmosphere on planet 150 light years away
• "Primitive deuterostomes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Lower Cambrian, China)" requires free registration / 22 November 2001 / D.-G. Shu, S. Conway Morris, J. Han, L. Chen, X.-L. Zhang, Z.-F. Zhang, H.-Q. Liu, Y. Li, and J.-N. Liu / Nature, v.414, p.419-424
• Scientists build tiny computer from DNA / November 22, 2001 / Patricia Reaney / Yahoo! News
• Are miracles really against the laws of nature? / November 21, 2001 / Denis Alexander / Electronic Telegraph
• "Trials of the Monkey" by Matthew Chapman / November 21, 2001 / Damien Cave / salon.com — Charles Darwin's boozy, girl-crazy great-great-grandson goes to Tennessee to sneer at the Bible-quoting locals -- and stays to learn a lesson in faith
• Deception fuels domestic bliss / 21 November 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — evolution may make men ignorant and gullible
• Researchers dispute life-on-Mars report / November 19, 2001 / Paul Recer / Houston Chronicle — meteorite evidence inadequate, they say
• Fossils of Chipmunk-Sized Mammal Found / November 18, 2001 / Rick Callahan / Yahoo! News
• Out of Africa come fascinating fossils / November 15, 2001 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor — finds from Africa's vastness will help fill in biology's history of the dinosaurs' demise
• Icons Haven't Lost Their Touch / November 15, 2001 / Casey Luskin and Nathan Gapper / Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club — a reply to Eugenie Scott's lecture at the California Science Teachers Association annual conference in Palm Springs on October 26th, 2001 entitled "Examining Icons of Evolution in Textbooks: Good, Bad and Ugly"; see also "Responses to Jonathan Wells's Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher"
• Scientists' Hopes Raised for a Front-Row Seat to Evolution / October 24, 2001 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times — researchers studying salmon present evidence suggesting that new species can evolve much more rapidly than biologists had previously thought
• In favor of God-of-the-gaps reasoning (.pdf) / June 5, 2001 / David Snoke / Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

NOVEMBER 26

• The Alfred Russel Wallace Page / Charles H. Smith / Western Kentucky University
• No Answers in Genesis! / 2001 / John Stear

NOVEMBER 18

• The Universe in a Nutshell / November 2001 / Stephen Hawking / Random House — see also Amazon
• "Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?" / October 26, 2001 / Frans B. M. de Waal / Chronicle of Higher Education, v.48, p.B7
• A step closer to solving Mars' water mystery / October 25, 2001 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor — Mars Odyssey, which arrived Tuesday at the red planet, will beam geological data 
• The 2001 Principle / 2001 / Gerald Schroeder / formerly of M.I.T. — according to a growing number of scientists, the laws and constants of nature are so "finely-tuned," and so many "coincidences" have occurred to allow for the possibility of life, the universe must have come into existence through intentional planning and intelligence
• Evolution, Change: Life's Grand Design / 2001 / Kenneth R. Miller / PBS
• The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology / June 2000 / John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker, eds. / Trinity Press
• Voyage Inside the Cell (video) / 1999 / Christian Sardet, Laurent Larsonneur, Andreas Koch, Philippe Valembois / Digital Studio (Sinauer Assc.) — spectacular computer-generated images transport us inside a living cell; also a stereoscopic 3D version
• "What Would Newton Do?" / November 1998 / Phillip E. Johnson / First Things, n.87, p.25-31
• Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist / 1994 / Adrian Desmond and James Moore / W.W. Norton

NOVEMBER 16

• Dembski/Pigliucci Debate / November 13, 2001 / Phillip Johnson / Access Research Network — summary of the debate held November 1 at the New York Academy of Sciences
• "Mammoth Extinction Mystery Draws 3 Theories" / November 12, 2001 / Susan Okie / Washington Post, p.A09
• Alabama Retains Disclaimer on Evolution / November 10, 2001 / New York Times — biology textbooks include a sticker warning students that evolution is a "controversial theory" that they should question
• Digital beasts roam large / 8 November 2001 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — pre-historic creatures brought to speculative life
• An earlier date for when humans began acting 'human' / November 8, 2001 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor — archaeologists announce discovery of tools and spear points in South Africa that may be 70,000 years old
• "Late Cretaceous relatives of rabbits, rodents, and other extant eutherian mammals" requires free registration / 1 November 2001 / J. David Archibald, Alexander O. Averianov, and Eric G. Ekdale / Nature, v.414, p.62-65
• "Seeking development by design" / November 2001 / Karen Hopkin / Current Biology, v.11, p.R896-R897
• Plus Ça Change: Has a Fundamental Constant Varied Over the Aeons? / November 2001 / Graham P. Collins / Scientific American
• Stephen Hawking is wrong / November 2001 / Hilary Lawson / Prospect (United Kingdom) — Science has no monopoly on truth, merely models for bits of reality. These are useful "closures," but they replace one mystery with another.
• How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science / October 30, 2001 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• What a croc! Scientists discover supersized reptile / October 26, 2001 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor
• Scientists catch supermassive black hole in spin mode / October 25, 2001 / Christian Science Monitor
• Science and the Spiritual Quest / October 22, 2001 / John Wilson / Christianity Today — a place at the table for Christians, but at a price
• Evolution Is In Trouble: What Should Conservatives Do About It? / August 21, 2001 / Robert Locke / FrontPageMagazine.com
• The Scientific Case Against Evolution / August 20, 2001 / Robert Locke / FrontPageMagazine.com — a review of Michael Denton's Evolution: A Theory in Crisis and  Michael J. Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box
• Fossils Challenge Theory of Rapid Animal Evolution in Cambrian / July 20, 2001 / John Roach / National Geographic News
• Evolution, Science, and Scripture: Selected Writings / April 2000 / B. B. Warfield (Mark A. Noll and David N. Livingstone, eds.) / Baker Books — see review: The Evolving Debate over Origins / October 2001 / Jay W. Richards / Touchstone, v.14, n.8; see also Amazon
• On the Alleged Dinosaurian Ancestry of Birds / April 2000 / Ashby L. Camp / Origins (British Creation Society)
• Is Our ‘Inverted’ Retina Really ‘Bad Design’? / 1999 / Peter W. V. Gurney / 
  Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.13, n.1
• On the Design of the Vertebrate Retina / Winter 1996 / George Ayoub / Origins & Design, v.17, n.1

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