Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (January 2002)
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.
JANUARY 29
JANUARY 28
- Hidden Worlds
/ January 28 - February 1, 2002 / Discovery Channel & Walt Disney Atlantis,
Nazca Lines, Easter Island, Stonehenge
- Stress relief
caused Giant's Causeway / 28 January 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature
science update Ireland's huge hexagonal columns are a
natural consequence of lava cooling
- Refuted
Yet Again! A Brief Reply To Matt Young / January 25, 2002 / William A.
Dembski / Discovery Institute response to How to
Evolve Specified Complexity by Natural Means which appeared in Metanexus
- Assembly
debates life's origins / January 25, 2002 / Jennine Zeleznik / Dayton
Daily News (Ohio) focus on schools and evolution vs.
creationism
- Event horizon
dawns on desktop / 24 January 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature
science update miniature physics phenomena could show
hidden shades of space
- Seismic rumbling
foretold Congo eruption / 24 January 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature
science update scientists received several days' warning
of abnormal seismic activity
- Japan
breeds pigs with spinach / January 24, 2002 / CNN.com researchers
in Japan have developed a pig with a spinach gene
- LETTER:
Evolution Isn't Fare for Classroom, Either / January 24, 2002 / Melissa
M. Leibold / Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
- Lawmakers
Enter Debate on Science Curriculum / January 24, 2002 / Catherine
Candisky / Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
- The
Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human /
November 2001 / Ian Tattersall / Harcourt Brace see review:
15 January 2002 / C. Loring Brace / Human Nature Review, v.2,
p.62-65; see also Amazon
- Consciousness
Explained / 1991, 1992 / Daniel C. Dennett / Little, Brown & Co.
see reviews: "What
Really Goes On in There" / November 10, 1991 / George Johnson / New
York Times, sec.7, p.1, col.1; "Stage
Effects in the Cartesian Theater" / December 1993 / Kevin B. Korb /
Psyche, v.1, n.4; Danny
Yee's Book Reviews / 1993
JANUARY 25
- Creationism
doesn't belong in biology class / January 22, 2002 / Columbus
Dispatch (Ohio)
- Senate
Bill 6500 / January 18, 2002 / Senator Hochstatter / State of
Washington, 57th Legislature an act relating to the
teaching of the theory of evolution in the common schools of the state of
Washington
- Life, as it was
in the beginning? / 17 January 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature
science update a new type of Earth ecosystem could be
found on other planets
- Found:
Life on Earth That Could Exist on Mars / January 17, 2002 / New York
Times
- Discarding
truth / January 16, 2002 / Paul Craig Roberts / townhall.com there
have always been liars, but until recent years liars were rare among
scientists and scholars
- Planet hunters
pledge Eddington support / 15 January 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature
science update belt tightening cloud could have
silver-lining for Europe's planet hunters
- Ohio
State Board of Education / January 13, 2001 / John H. Calvert, J.D. remarks
to the standards committee on what the State should tell our children about
where they come from
- How to
Regulate Science / Winter 2002 / Francis Fukuyama / The Public
Interest both those who embrace new biotechnologies
and those who are wary of them tend to claim that the advance of science is
beyond social control
- Evidence
for Fine-Tuning / Robin
Collins / Messiah College, PA
- The Second Law of
Thermodynamics / Brig Klyce / Cosmic
Ancestry the use of thermodynamics in biology has a
long history rich in confusion
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JANUARY 21
- Astrophysics
of Life / 6-9 May 2002 / Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore,
MD (NASA)
- The Gradual
Illumination of the Mind / February 2002 / Michael Shermer / Scientific
American the advance of science, not the demotion of
religion, will best counter the influence of creationism
- Neanderthals on Trial
/ January 22, 2002 / PBS
- Bush's
Advisers on Ethics Discuss Human Cloning / January 18, 2002 / Sheryl Gay
Stolberg / New York Times
- Gravity leaps
into quantum world / 17 January 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature
science update researchers finally measure the subtle
quantum effects of fourth fundamental force
- Evolution
targeted in curriculum study / January 15, 2002 / John Mangels and Scott
Stephens / cleveland.com (Ohio)
- Scientists
Find Planet That Defies Theories / January 14, 2002 / Usha Lee McFarling
/ Los Angeles Times
- Time
Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
/ January 2002 / Michael J. Novacek / Farrar, Straus & Giroux see
also Amazon
- The
Future of Life / January 2002 / Edward O. Wilson / Knopf "We
have entered the Century of the Environment, in which the immediate future
is usefully conceived as a bottleneck." See book excerpt: The
Bottleneck / February 2002 / Scientific American; see also Amazon
- "The
Leading Edge: Back Home in Mitford" / December 2001 / Phillip E.
Johnson / Touchstone, v.14, n.10, p.11 "my
strategy requires driving a wedge between the atheistical Darwinists and
their dupes in the religious world"
- Another
Way to Detect Design? / March 2001 / William A. Dembski / Leadership
University preliminary reply to: review
of The Design Inference in the September 1999 issue of Philosophy
of Science
- How
Not to Analyze Design / March 2001 / William A. Dembski / Leadership
University reply to: Ellery Eell's review of The
Design Inference, which appeared in Philosophical Books, v. 40,
n. 4, October 1999
- Finding
Ken Miller's Point / March 2001 / William A. Dembski / Leadership
University Ken Miller's Finding Darwin's God is
currently the best critique of intelligent design in book form, but still
comes up short
- Teaching
Intelligent Design: What Happened When? / February 22, 2001 / William A.
Dembski / Metaviews a response to Eugenie Scott
- Is
Intelligent Design Testable? / January 24, 2001 / William A. Dembski /
Metaviews a response to Eugenie Scott
- Who's
Got the Magic? / April 25, 2000 / William A. Dembski / Metaviews 42
- Because
It Works. That's Why! / March-April 2000 / William A. Dembski / Books
& Culture Magazine, v.6, n.2, p.42 review of: The
Concept of Probability in Statistical Physics / July 1999 / Y. M.
Guttmann / Cambridge University Press; see also Amazon
- What
Can We Reasonably Hope For? / January 2000 / William A. Dembski / First
Things, n. 99, p.19-20 a millennium symposium
- Why
Evolutionary Algorithms Cannot Generate Specified Complexity / 1999
November 1 / William A. Dembski / Metaviews 152
- Rocks
from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters, 2nd ed. / March 1998 /
O. Richard Norton / Mountain Press Publ. Co. see also Amazon
- "Beyond
War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and
Science" / September 1987 / David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers
/ Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.39, n.3, p.140-149
studies in the history of science and Christianity
JANUARY 14
- FIRST-PERSON:
Anything goes in some schools, except those that ponder God / January
11, 2002 / Kelly Boggs / Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist Press
- engraved stones from South Africa could be the oldest works of art
- Black Holes from Heaven /
11 January 2002 / J. R. Minkel / Physical Review Focus see
also: "Black
Hole Production by Cosmic Rays" / 14 January 2002 / Jonathan L.
Feng and Alfred D. Shapere / Phys. Rev. Lett., v. 88, p. 021303;
ultrahigh energy cosmic rays create black holes in scenarios with extra
dimensions and TeV-scale gravity
- Hubbub at
galactic hub / 10 January 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science
update X-rays show the center of our Galaxy to be full of
furious activity
- Observatory could
detect hidden dimensions / 8 January 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature
science update cosmic rays could find holes in Standard
Model of particle physics
- Supreme Court
Won't Hear Case on Teaching Evolution / January 8, 2002 / Fox News
(Associated Press)
- UCSC
- Press Release / January 7, 2002 / Tim Stephens / University of
California, Santa Cruz analyzing a planetary system that
closely resembles our solar system, astronomers find habitable worlds are
unlikely
- Scientists
to Study Giant Asteroids by Steering Them into Earth / January 2, 2002 /
SatireWire.com (London) Are major asteroids
as dangerous as predicted? The answer arrives in 2003.
- SURVEY:
Which theory should be taught in our science classrooms? / 2002 /
ChannelOne.com evolution - 17%; creationism - 31%; both -
52%
- The
Evolution of Reason: Logic as a Branch of Biology / January 2001 /
William S. Cooper / Cambridge University Press see also Amazon
- Dawkins
vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest / June 2001 / Kim Sterelny /
Totem Books see Review
/ 1 January 2002 / Daniel Nettle / Human Nature Review, v.2, p.1-2
- "Precambrian
animal diversity: Putative phosphatized embryos from the Doushantuo
Formation of China" (.pdf) / April 25, 2000 / Jun-Yuan Chen, et
al. / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., v.97, n.9, p.4457-4462
- The
Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the
Foundations of Life / January 1999 / Werner R. Loewenstein / Oxford
University Press see review: Information,
Please / May 23, 1999 / George Johnson / New York Times; chapter
1; see also Amazon
- DNA
and the Origin of Life: Information, Specification, and Explanation (.pdf)
/ 2000 / Stephen C. Meyer / Discovery Institute
JANUARY 9
- Annual
Conference, California Science Teachers Association, Palm Springs /
October 25-28, 2001
- ID
as a Theory of Technological Evolution / August 10, 2001 / William A.
Dembski / Metanexus
- Intelligent
Design Coming Clean / 17 November 2000 / William A. Dembski / Metaviews
- Design
as a Research Program: 14 Questions to Ask About Design / June 13, 2000
/ William A. Dembski / Discovery Institute
- Intelligent
Design is not Optimal Design / February 2, 2000 / William A. Dembski / Metaviews
- Alchemy
and the Emergence of Complex Systems / November 30, 1999 / William A.
Dembski / Metaviews 158
- "Are
We Spiritual Machines?" / October 1999 / William A. Dembski / First
Things, n.96, p.25-31
- Explaining
Specified Complexity / September 13, 1999 / William A. Dembski / Metaviews
139
JANUARY 7
- Ice ages and
instabilities / 11 January 2002 / Nature feature of the week
- Surprise
in the Kenyan wild as lioness adopts oryx / January 7, 2002 / Mugumo
Munene / Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya
- Deny,
deny, deny / January 5, 2002 / John West / WorldNetDaily.com After
Congress adopted a landmark statement in December calling for students to be
exposed to a diversity of views when topics "such as biological
evolution" are taught, a pro-Darwin group is absurdly trying to claim
victory through creative reinterpretation of the legislative record.
- In
the Beginning was
what? / January 5, 2002 / Duane A. Schmidt /
WorldNetDaily.com condensed from Dr. Schmidt's books:
- Gene therapy hope
for cystic fibrosis / 4 January 2002 / Jeremy Thomson / Nature
science update SMaRT treatment for fatal disease shows
promise
- "Evolutionary
speed limits inferred from the fossil record" requires
free registration / 3 January 2002 / James W.
Kirchner / Nature, v.415, p.65-68
- The
Universe Might Last Forever, Astronomers Say, but Life Might Not /
January 1, 2002 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
- A
Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of
Eugenics / November 2001 / Nicholas Wright Gillham / Oxford
University Press see also Amazon
- The
Chance of the Gaps (.pdf) / October 2001 / William A. Dembski / Society
of Christian Philosophers, Boulder, Colorado keynote
address
- Why
Natural Selection Can't Design Anything (.pdf) / October 2001 / William
A. Dembski / Society of Christian Philosophers, Boulder, Colorado
- Tsunami:
The Underrated Hazard / July 2001 / Edward Bryant / Cambridge
University Press see also Amazon
- Our
Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence
/ March 2001 / Armand H. Delsemme (forward: Christian de Duve) / Cambridge
University Press see also Amazon
- Inland
Flood Hazards: Human, Riparian and Aquatic Communities / July 2000 /
Ellen E. Wohl (ed.) / Cambridge University Press see also
Amazon
- Disbelieving
Darwin--And Feeling No Shame! / March 16, 2000 / William A. Dembski /
Metaviews
- Earth
Systems: Processes and Issues / March 2000 / W. G. Ernst, ed. /
Cambridge University Press see also Amazon
- Evolutionary
Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction / September 1999 / V.
Courtillot / Cambridge University Press see also Amazon
- Life's
Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's
Ancestry, 1860-1940 / 1996 / Peter J. Bowler / University of Chicago
Press see also Amazon
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