Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (December 2001)
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two, particularly in the area of creation and evolution.
DECEMBER 28
- Congress Urges
Teaching of Diverse Views on Evolution, but Darwinists Try to Deny It /
December 28, 2001 / Discovery Institute
- Santorum
Amendment Stripped from Education Bill / December 21, 2001 / National
Center for Science Education the Elementary and Secondary
Education Authorization Act does not contain the antievolution "Santorum
amendment"
- One-cell
organism linked to humans / December 18, 2001 / John Fauber / Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel common gene reported, aiding
evolution theory
- Dr. Henry F.
"Fritz" Schaefer, III / November 2001 / Leadership University
director of the Center for Computational Quantum
Chemistry at the University of Georgia, Nobel Prize nominee, and recently
named the third-most cited chemist in the world ... "The significance
and joy in my science comes in the occasional moments of discovering
something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it!' My goal is
to understand a little corner of God's plan."
- Earth's
Climate: Past and Future / 2001 / William F. Ruddiman / W. H.
Freeman see companion
site and also Amazon
- Conference
on Naturalism, Theism, and the Scientific Enterprise / February 20-23,
1997 / Robert C. Koons / University of Texas at Austin reflections
from an organizer
DECEMBER 27
- Cosmic Sweet
Tooth / December 27, 2001 / Christian Science Monitor
- "Invertebrate
evolution (Communications arising): Acaenoplax polychaete or
mollusc?" requires free
registration / 6 December 2001 / Gerhard Steiner and
Luitfried Salvini-Plawen / Nature, v.414, p.601-602 see
reply
- "PALEONTOLOGY:
TV Dinosaur Team Treads Tricky Mammalian Terrain" requires
free registration / 30 November 2001 / Andrew Watson
/ Science, v.294, p.1815
- "GAMMA
RAY BURSTS:
Cosmic Mystery Objects Start to Yield Secrets" requires
free registration / 30 November 2001 / Govert
Schilling / Science, v.294, p.1816-1817
- "MICROBIAL
GENOMES:
Sequences Reveal Borrowed Genes" requires
free registration / 23 November 2001 / Elizabeth
Pennisi / Science, v.294, p.1634-1635 sequences
are so perplexing that they call into question what defines a species
- "North
American Devastation or Global Cataclysm?" requires
free registration / 23 November 2001 / Tim Flannery /
Science, v.294, p.1668-1669
- "A
Near-Earth Asteroid Population Estimate from the LINEAR Survey" requires
free registration / 23 November 2001 / Joseph Scott
Stuart / Science, v.294, p.1691-1693
- "Indication
of Global Deforestation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary by New Zealand
Fern Spike" requires free
registration / 23 November 2001 / Vivi Vajda, J. Ian
Raine, and Christopher J. Hollis / Science, v.294, p.1700-1702
- Supernovae
and Gamma-ray Bursts / July 2001 / Mario Livio, Nino Panagia, and
Kailash Sahu, eds. / Cambridge University Press the
greatest explosions since the Big Bang; see also Amazon
- Phylogenetics
Trees Made Easy: A How-To Manual for Molecular Biologists / June
2001 / Barry G. Hall / Sinauer Assoc see also Amazon
- Observing
Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays from Space and Earth / May 2001 /
Humberto Salazar, Luis Villaseρor, and Arnulfo Zepeda, eds. / American
Institute of Physics, Conf. Proc. #566 Metepec, Puebla,
Mexico, 9-12 August 2000; see also Amazon
- Life
Everywhere: The New Science of Astrobiology / March 2001 / David
Darling / Basic Books see also Amazon
- Biblical
Chronology: The Answer! / Ken Baumgardt / Digger's
World how old is the earth?
- Alien
Intelligence? Think Again / 29 February 2000 / Guillermo Gonzalez /
Space.com
- Charles
Darwin: The Man and His Influence / April 1996 / Peter J. Bowler /
Cambridge University Press see also Amazon
- The
Origin of Continents and Oceans / 1966 / Alfred Wegener / Dover
Publications one of the most influential, most
controversial books in science, the classic statement for continental drift;
see also Amazon
DECEMBER 26
- Education
Bill Featured Darwinism Side Show / December 26, 2001 / Christine Hall /
CNSNews.com the recently passed education bill in
Congress became a stage for the on-going debate over whether schools should
teach alternative theories about the origin of life on earth
- Shooting stars
sugar coated / 20 December 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science
update meteorites could have sweetened the earliest life
- Stanford
researchers develop system for field testing mechanisms of evolution /
20 December 2001 / Sheila Foster, Stanford University Medical Center
- "A Review of the
PBS Video 'Evolution' Series" / December 2001 / Ken Cumming / Impact,
n.342 (Institute for Creation Research) see also Yahoo!
Groups: Creation,
Evolution, Design
- Ape Brains Have
Linguistic Component / November 29, 2001 / Cosmiverse
- Steady-State Eternal
Inflation / 9 November 2001 / Anthony Aguirre and Steven Gratton / Los
Alamos National Laboratory, abstract
- Terrorists
and Death / September 2001 / Ken Ham and Jonathan Sarfati / Answers in
Genesis
- Newton
to Einstein: The Trail of Light / September 2001 / Ralph Baierlein /
Cambridge University Press an excursion to the
wave-particle duality and the special theory of relativity; see also Amazon
- "The
Metaphilosophy of Naturalism" / Fall 2001 / Quentin Smith / Philo,
v.4, n.2 nature and goals of naturalist philosophy
- It
Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
/ August 2001 / Richard C. Lewontin / New York Review of Books see
also Amazon
- Superbug
Survives Radiation, Eats Toxic Waste / August 2001 / Microbial Genomics
Gateway, U. S. Department of Energy a can of spoiled meat
and nuclear waste may appear to have little in common, but the bacterium Deinococcus
radiodurans thrives in both environments; see also John
R. Battista
- Eugenics:
A Reassessment / June 2001 / Richard Lynn / Praeger, Greenwood Publ.
Group argues that the condemnation of eugenics went too
far and that it needs reassessment; see also Amazon
- Idaho Museum of Natural
History
- Maps of
the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
/ January 1997 / Charles H. Hapgood / Adventures Unlimited Press see
also Amazon
- Craters,
Cosmos, and Chronicles: A New Theory of Earth / March 1995 / Herbert
R. Shaw / Stanford University Press see also Amazon
- Evolution: The
History of an Idea / 1989 / Peter J. Bowler / University of
California Press see also Amazon
DECEMBER 24
- "Carbonaceous
meteorites as a source of sugar-related organic compounds for the early
Earth" requires free
registration / 20,27 December 2001 / George Cooper,
Novelle Kimmich, Warren Belisle, Josh Sarinana, Katrina Brabham, and
Laurence Garrel / Nature, v.414, p.879-883
- Intelligent design
among topics of new Internet-based society / December 20, 2001 / Tammi
Reed Ledbetter / BPNews
- "QUANTUM
PHYSICS:
Spooky Twins Survive Einsteinian Torture" requires
free registration / 9 November 2001 / Charles Seife /
Science, v.294, p.1265 in an experiment that turns
commonsense notions of causality on their head, relativity and quantum
mechanics don't mix, and when they square off, Einstein loses
- "ASTROPHYSICS:
Black Hole Blazes Away Without a Fuel Supply" requires
free registration / 9 November 2001 / Mark K.
Anderson / Science, v.294, p.1263 theorists
baffled by black hole at the center of a nearby galaxy that somehow
maintains its jets without the expected vast stockpile of fuel
- "The
Origin and Evolution of the Woolly Mammoth" requires
free registration / 2 November 2001 / Adrian M.
Lister and Andrei V. Sher / Science, v.294, p.1094-1097 the
mammoth lineage provides an example of rapid adaptive evolution in response
to the changing environments of the Pleistocene
- "Preservation
of Species Abundance in Marine Death Assemblages" requires
free registration / 2 November 2001 / Susan M.
Kidwell / Science, v.294, p.1091-1094 relation
between fossil assemblages of skeletal material and their source live
communities, particularly in relative abundance of species, owing to
postmortem transport and time-averaging of multiple generations
- No
Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without
Intelligence / November 2001 / William A. Dembski / Rowman &
Littlefield endorsements;
see also Amazon
- Reconciling
Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
/ October 2001 / Peter J. Bowler / University of Chicago Press see
also Amazon
- Parallax:
The Race to Measure the Cosmos / May 2001 / Alan W. Hirshfeld / W.
H. Freeman see also Amazon
- Evolutionary
Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record / August 2001
/ Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, and Frank K. McKinney, eds. /
University of Chicago Press see review:
"Changes in Life Across Many Temporal Scales" requires
free registration / 2 November 2001 / Richard Bambach
/ Science, v.294, p.1008; see also Amazon
DECEMBER 21
- "Vesuvius:
A Threat Subsiding?" requires
free registration / 19 October 2001 / Alexander
Hellemans / Science, v. 294, p.495-497
- "GENETICS
AND EVOLUTION:
Come Fly, and Leave the Baggage Behind" requires
free registration / 19 October 2001 / Richard E.
Lenski / Science, v.294, p.533-534 one question
that evolutionary biologists love to ponder is why sex evolved
- "COSMOLOGY:
A Census of Cosmic Matter" requires
free registration / 19 October 2001 / Brian D. Fields
/ Science, v.294, p.529-530 new, high-precision
data are set to revolutionize cosmology
- "An
Ossified Meckel's Cartilage in Two Cretaceous Mammals and Origin of the
Mammalian Middle Ear" requires
free registration / 12 October 2001 / Yuanqing Wang,
Yaoming Hu, Jin Meng, and Chuankui Li / Science, v.294, p.357-361
- Shattering the Myths
of Darwinism / March 2000 / Richard Milton / Park Street Press see
also Amazon
DECEMBER 20
- "MAMMALIAN
EVOLUTION:
Placentals' Family Tree Drawn and Quartered" requires
free registration / 14 Dec 2001 / Elizabeth Pennisi /
Science, v.294, p.2266-2268
- "PALEONTOLOGY:
Utah's Fossil Trove Beckons, and Tests, Researchers" requires
free registration / 5 October 2001 / Erik Stokstad / Science,
v.294, p.41-43
- "Is
a New Eugenics Afoot?" requires
free registration / 5 October 2001 / Garland E. Allen
/ Science, v. 294, p.59-61 a historical account of
the early eugenics movement and questions about whether we are now moving
toward a new era of eugenics
- "Making
Sense of Eukaryotic DNA Replication Origins" requires
free registration / 5 October 2001 / David M. Gilbert
/ Science, v.294, p.96-100
- The
Ecology of Adaptive Radiation / November 2000 / Dolph Schluter /
Oxford University Press see review: "EVOLUTION:
Explaining Exuberant Diversification" requires
free registration / 5 October 2001 / Axel Meyer / Science,
v.294, p.64-65; see also Amazon
DECEMBER 19
- "Curiously
Wrought" / December 2001 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis,
n.156 (Institute for Creation Research)
- "A Review of the
PBS Video 'Evolution' Series" / December 2001 / Kenneth C. Cumming
/ Impact, n.342 (Institute for Creation Research)
- Journey
of Faith / December 2001 / Tad Szulc / National Geographic Abrahams
biblical trek through the Middle East kindled three major religions, whose
past and present conflicts would surely sadden this patriarch of peace.
- "The Imminent Death
of Darwinism and the Rise of Intelligent Design" / November 2001 /
Gregory J. Brewer / Impact, n.341 (Institute for Creation Research)
- Evolution
of Whales / November 2001 / Douglas H. Chadwick / National Geographic
Earths largest animals are sometimes born with a leg
or two, a startling genetic reminder of the time, 50 million years ago, when
their ancestors walked on dry land.
- "PALEONTOLOGY:
Unhatched Eggs Help Dinos Get a Head" requires
free registration / 28 September 2001 / Erik Stokstad
/ Science, v. 293, p.2371 see also "Embryonic
Skulls of Titanosaur Sauropod Dinosaurs" requires
free registration / 28 September 2001 / Luis M.
Chiappe, Leonardo Salgado, and Rodolfo A. Coria / Science, v.293,
p.2444-2446
- "For
Ice Man, the Band Plays On" requires
free registration / 28 September 2001 / Ben Shouse / Science,
v. 293, p. 2373 tenth anniversary of the Tyrolean Ice
Man's famous emergence from an Alpine glacier
- "Tools
Show Humans Reached Asia Early" requires
free registration / 28 September 2001 / Ann Gibbons /
Science, v.293, p.2368-2369
- SuperCroc /
2001 / Paul Sereno / National Geographic see also SuperCroc
Rocks!, movie
- Was Darwin Right? / Luke
Randall
DECEMBER 18
DECEMBER 14
DECEMBER 11
- Engineers
Ask Nature for Design Advice / December 11, 2001 / Jim Robbins / New
York Times
- Did
Noah really need the Ark? / December 8, 2001 / Kevin Cox / Globe and
Mail (Canada), p.F6 Two sets of geologists are having
a flood feud. The Americans say they have proof that the Great Deluge
happened just when the Bible says it did. The Canadians say it's hogwash.
- Bird
Searches for Ark / December 3, 2001 / Ted Olsen / Christianity Today
world's highest-resolution commercial imaging satellite
will investigate the "Ararat Anomaly"
DECEMBER 10
- Mission to
Pluto edges closer to a 2006 liftoff / December 10, 2001 / Peter N.
Spotts / Christian Science Monitor exploration of
the solar system's most remote planet is back on the drawing board ... for
now
- Left Behind:
Darwin's Redemption? / December 9, 2001 / Per Abrahmson / Intelligent
Design Undergraduate Research Center, Access Research Network
- Physicists:
No sign of 'God particle' / December 6, 2001 / CNN News
- Animal
Planet / December 6, 2001 / J. Bottum / Daily Standard What's
worse than cloning? Human-animal hybrids. And they're coming to a lab near
you.
- Time-Varying Alpha and
Particle Physics / 4 December 2001 / T. Banks, M. Dine, M. R. Douglas /
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, abstract models in
which an observable variation of the fine structure constant is explained by
motion of a cosmic scalar field, are not stable under renormalization, and
require massive fine tuning that cannot be explained by any known mechanism
- Challenging
Particle Physics as Path to Truth / December 4, 2001 / George Johnson / New
York Times
- Scientism:
Science, Ethics and Religion / November 2001 / Mikael Stenmark /
Ashgate Publ. Co. see also Amazon
- American Institute of Biological Sciences
/ Washington, D.C.
- Of Gods
and Gaps: Intelligent Design and Darwinian Evolution / 15-22 July 1998 /
Edward B. Davis / The Christian Century, v.115, n.20, p.678-681 an
essay review of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to
Evolution, by Michael J. Behe (The Free Press, 1996); Defeating
Darwinism, by Opening Minds, by Phillip E. Johnson (InterVarsity Press,
1997); and The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an
Intelligent Designer, ed. by J.P. Moreland (InterVarsity Press, 1993).
- "The
Origin of Peoples" / February 1998 / Trevor Major / Reason &
Revelation, v.18, n.2, p.9-14 [a monthly journal of Christian evidences
by the Apologetics Press]
- The
Major Transitions in Evolution / February 1997 / John Maynard Smith
and Eors Szathmary / Oxford University Press see also Amazon
DECEMBER 7
- The
Ghosts of Evolution / February 2002 / Connie Barlow / Perseus Books
see also Amazon
- New society
ponders universe's design / 7 December 2001 / Uwe Siemon-Netto / United
Press International Bill Dembski said, "As a
Christian -- though not
as a scientist -- I hold a doctrine of Creation."
- "Direct
detection of a microlens in the Milky Way" requires
free registration / 6 December 2001 / C. Alcock, et
al. / Nature, v.414, p.617-619 the nature of dark
matter remains mysterious, with luminous material accounting for at most 25
per cent of the baryons in the Universe
- "Growth
processes in teeth distinguish modern humans from Homo erectus and
earlier hominins" requires free
registration / 6 December 2001 / Christopher Dean, et
al. / Nature, v.414, p.628-631
- 'We
Now Know' / December 3, 2001 / John Wilson / Christianity Today
the boast of imperial science
- Evolution
Expert Defends Theory But Brushes Off Critics / December 2, 2001 / Rich
Elias / Columbus Dispatch The title of Ernst
Mayr's "What Evolution Is" is a statement rather than a question.
Evolution is what Mayr says it is.
- Massive hole
makes theories leaky / 29 November 2001 / John Whitfield / Nature
science update surprising black hole weigh-in has
astronomers scratching their heads
- Far-Out
Atmosphere: Scientists Use Hubble to Detect Atmosphere of Distant Planet
/ November 28, 2001 / Amanda Onion / ABC News in a method
that could someday be used to detect life on distant planets, scientists
have analyzed the atmosphere of a planet at least 150 light-years away
- An
Interview with the BBC / November 27, 2001 / Phillip Johnson / Weekly
Wedge Update, Access Research Network BBC interview on
the book, The Wedge of Truth, and more generally on scientific
materialist dogmatism
- Neutrinos feel
the force / 27 November 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science
update the orthodox worldview of fundamental physics is
challenged by new experiments
- Dembski
and Kauffman Square Off in New Mexico / November 19, 2001/ Phillip
Johnson / Weekly Wedge Update, Access Research Network
- The crazy
world of Stephen Hawking / 12 October 2001 / Charles Arthur /
Independent (UK) scientists don't generally become cult
figures, and their books aren't usually blockbusters, so what's so special
about Stephen Hawking and how do fellow physicists react to his fame
- Praying
for Pregnancy: Study Says Prayer Helps Women Get Pregnant / October 4,
2001 / Tim Johnson / ABC News new study on the power of
prayer over pregnancy reports surprising results; but many physicians remain
skeptical
- Getting the
Facts Straight: A Viewer's Guide to PBS's Evolution / October 2001 /
Discovery Institute see also Amazon,
Barnes
& Noble, and "National
Center for Science Education's Shrill Campaign in Defense of 'Evolution'"
/ September 22, 2001
- International Society for Complexity,
Information, and Design (ISCID) / William A. Dembski, Executive Director
investigates information- and design-theoretic concepts
for complex systems apart from external constraints like materialism,
naturalism, or reductionism
- Evolution, Science &
Society Evolutionary science plays a fundamental role
in modern biology. Its unique role in biological research, education and
practical applications are described here.
- The 'werewolf'
gene / December 1995-February 1996 / Thomas Awtry / Creation Ex
Nihilo, v.18, n.1 a reawakening gene of human
evolution, or a harmful mutation
- Rationality
in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life: A Critical Evaluation of Four
Models of Rationality / 1995 / Mikael Stenmark / University of Notre
Dame Press see also Amazon
- Creative
Evolution / 1994 / John H. Campbell and J. William Schopf, eds. /
Jones & Bartlett Publ. see also Amazon
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