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

• Scientists and other Intellectuals that Doubt Darwinism and other Naturalistic Theories of Origins / Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club — an incomplete and continually updated list
• Why We Believe in a Designer! / 1997 / E.T. Babinski, ed. / Cretinism or Evilution?, n.4&5 (Talk.Origins)

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

JANUARY 23

• A New Kind of Science / March 2002 / Stephen Wolfram / Wolfram Media — see also Amazon
• Hawking's Breakthrough Is Still an Enigma / January 22, 2002 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Evolution's Pregnant Pause: Artificial Wombs / January 21, 2002 / Jeremy Rifkin / Los Angeles Times
• The Lure of the Unfathomable / January 13, 2002 / Margaret Wertheim / Los Angeles Times — on Stephen Hawking's best sellers
• "Genome Duplications: The Stuff of Evolution?" requires free registration / 21 December 2001 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.294, p.2458-2460
• "A New Twist in the Radiocarbon Tale" requires free registration / 21 December 2001 / Paula J. Reimer / Science, v.294, p.2494-2495 — records from different locations in the Northern Hemisphere may have the same calendar age but a different radiocarbon-age
• "PALEONTOLOGY: Paring Down the Big Five Mass Extinctions" requires free registration / 7 December 2001 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.294, p.2072-2073
• Warrant and Proper Function / 1993 / Alvin Plantinga / Oxford University Press — concluding chapters address the problems of evolutionary naturalism; see also Amazon
• God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God / 1990 / Alvin Plantinga / Cornell University Press — see also Amazon

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
  • Art history doubles / 11 January 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update 
  • Researchers: Ancients Were 'Modern' / January 10, 2002 / New York Times 
  • 'Oldest' prehistoric art unearthed / 10 January 2002 / David Whitehouse / BBC
• 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
  • Beaks, the Beagle, and other Misconceptions about Evolution and its Nature / William McComas
  • Why Evolution is Not Random / Kevin Padian
  • Nature of Science: Conversations and Strategies about the Teaching of Evolution / Bruce Tiffney, Eugenie Scott, Judy Scotchmoor, Kevin Padian
  • Examining Icons of Evolution in Textbooks: Good, Bad, and Ugly / Eugenie Scott
  • The Judeo-Christian Tradition of Belief Knowledge and the Evolution of Research Knowledge / Bruce Tiffney
• 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:
  • And God Created Darwin: the Death of Darwinism / 2001 / Duane A. Schmidt / Allegiance Press (Xulon Press) — see also Amazon
  • First They Want Our Children: How Darwinists Seek to Rule our Schools / 2002 / Duane A. Schmidt / Allegiance Press
• 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

JANUARY 3

• "The Mystery of Complexity" / January 2002 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.157 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Creation in the Natural History Museum of Great Britain" / January 2002 /Larry Vardiman / Impact, n.343 (Institute for Creation Research)
• A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness / June 2001 / Merlin Donald / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon
• Computers that improve themselves / April 9, 2001 / Paul Gilster / newobserver.com
• Inherently Wind: A Hollywood History of the 1925 Scopes 'Monkey' Trial / 2001 / David N. Menton / Missouri Association for Creation

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