Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (February 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.

FEBRUARY 25

• "BECOMING HUMAN: New Fossils Raise Molecular Questions" requires free registration / 15 February 2002 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.295, p.1217 — some researchers have begun to wonder whether our molecular clock has been correctly calibrated
• Seeing Faith Through Science / June 23, 2001 / William Lobdell / Los Angeles Times — about Hugh Ross
• Defending Darwinism: How Far is Too Far? / 21 November 1990 / Mark D. Hartwig / Origins Research, v.13, n.1 — Forrest Mims and the Scientific American "Amateur Scientist" column

FEBRUARY 22

• Evolution & God: Why Intelligent Design Theory Isn't Science (lecture) / March 2, 2002 / Stephen Jay Gould, Kenneth Miller, Lawrence Krauss, and Cynthia Beall / Allen Theater, Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH
• LETTERS: Looking beyond the 'religion' of evolution / February 22, 2002 / Jeff Porter / Christian Science Monitor — there is a growing body of scientific evidence exposing the "religion" of the theory of evolution and pointing toward an intelligent design to the universe
• Darwin or Design? / February 20, 2002 / Christian Science Monitor
• LETTER: 'Dispatch' is preaching untruths on evolution / February 19, 2002 / David L. Bump / Columbus Dispatch
• 'Intelligent design' pols lack faith / February 19, 2002 / Dayton Daily News
• Origins argument gets new life / February 18, 2002 / Joanne Huist Smith, Laura Bischoff, Mark Fisher, and Jennine Zeleznik / Dayton Daily News — bill would require expanded views in classes
• Debate evolves over biology lessons / February 18, 2002 / Larry Witham / Washington Times
• Evolution Debate / February 17, 2002 / Columbus Dispatch — state board should reject pseudoscience
• Answering the creationist challenge / February 14, 2002 / Joseph N. Bell / Los Angeles Times
• Support for creationism resurfaces / February 4, 2002 / Leo Shane III / Cincinnati Enquirer — some politicians push for 'intelligent design'
• A dinosaur named Sue, and the way science really works / January 25, 2002 / Michelle Thaller / Christian Science Monitor

FEBRUARY 20

• Ohio Has Designs on Science Standards / February 20, 2002 / Todd Hertz / Christianity Today — state may be the first to add intelligent design to education mandates
• Our big brains can overcome our selfish genes / 18 February 2002 / Richard Dawkins / Independent (UK) — from a lecture by the Charles Simonyi professor of the understanding of science, given at the Royal Institution, in London
• The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis / November 2001 / Robert P. George / Intercollegiate Studies Inst. — see also Amazon

FEBRUARY 18

• High-water mark / 18 February 2002 / Sara Abdulla / Nature science update — bleak forecast for sea level in 2100
• Facts to the Wind / February 16-17, 2002 / Benjamin Wiker (fellow at the Discovery Institute) / National Review online — reviewing Monkey Trial, a PBS documentary
• Exploding star strafed Earth / 12 February 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science udpate — a supernova may have caused mass extinction two million years ago
• Jurassic vomit comes up at meeting / 12 February 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science udpate — fossilized sick shows what marine reptiles ate for breakfast
• "Progress in the Ark Search" (.pdf) / February 2002 / John D. Morris / Acts & Facts, v.31, n.2, p.1-2

FEBRUARY 13

• Fossil vomit puts the ‘ick’ in Jurassic / February 11, 2002 / Reuters (MSNBC) — scientists say expelled shells shed light on ichthyosaur’s diet
• Life: By Chance or Design? / February 10, 2002 / Catherine Candisky / Columbus Dispatch, p.1D — Ohio weighs what to teach its children
• Governor Sidesteps Evolution Argument / February 10, 2002 / Catherine Candisky / Columbus Dispatch, p.1A
• Dynamical Complexity and Regularity / 1 February 2002 / Richard A. Johns / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
• Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature / May 2002 / Kenan Malik / Rutgers University Press — see review: February 1, 2002 / Marcin Szwed / HMS Beagle (BioMedNet Magazine), Issue 119

FEBRUARY 11

• American Experience: Monkey Trial (TV) / February 17, 2002 / PBS
• In Ohio School Hearing, a New Theory Will Seek a Place Alongside Evolution / February 11, 2002 / Francis X. Clines / New York Times
• NCSE asks Discovery Institute: Where's the Shrimp? / February 7, 2002 / Alan Gishlick / National Center for Science Education
• Computerized moths diversify to survive / 7 February 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — virtual pecking game proves predators drive diversity
• Meteors go pop in the night / 6 February 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — recordings of sounds from shooting stars defy explanation
• The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World / September 2001 / Bjψrn Lomborg / Cambridge University Press — see Amazon; also reviews in The Economist, January 31, 2002:
  • The litany and the heretic
  • Defending science
  • Never the twain shall meet
• Missing links made simple / 5 March 2001 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — stripped-down biomolecules give a glimpse of how chemistry could have given birth to biology
• Ohio Citizens for Science — OCS represents Ohio's great diversity of religions, political views, philosophies, and scientific traditions. Our current project concerns Ohio's proposed science standards for public schools. We support the teaching of leading scientific theories and methods in all areas of science, including biology where evolutionary theory is the foundation. 
• It's alive – isn't it? / May 2000 / Jon Evans / chembytes e-zine — Speculations on the origin of life have, until recently, been purely theoretical. The latest experimental findings, however, are raising more questions than they're answering.
• Science lists 1998’s biggest breakthroughs / December 17, 1998 / Alan Boyle / MSNBC — weird discovery about our accelerating universe ranks No. 1 in annual review
• Distant Exploding Stars Foretell Fate Of The Universe: It Will Expand Forever / 8 January 1998 / Gerson Goldhaber / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Preliminary Analysis of Sedimentary Deposits from the 1998 PNG Tsunami / U.S. Geological Survey — On July 17, 1998 a magnitude 7.0 earthquake was followed by a series of catastrophic tsunami waves that devastated several villages on the north coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG).
• "Domesticating Darwin" / May 1993 / Phillip E. Johnson / First Things, v.33, p.38-40

FEBRUARY 8

• Darwinism: Science or Philosophy (TV) / February 8, 2002 (8:00 pm) / University of California Television — Two eminent professors, Phillip Johnson of UC Berkeley and William Provine of Cornell University, come to grips with the most important of all questions: Do we owe our existence to a creator? Can the blind watchmaker of natural selection take the place of God?
• Ohio tackles evolution controversy / February 6, 2002 / Phyllis Schlafly / townhall.com
• First Genetic Evidence Uncovered of How Major Changes in Body Shapes Occurred During Early Animal Evolution / February 6, 2002 / William McGinnis and Matthew Ronshaugen / University of California, San Diego
  • Big Fast Change / February 7, 2002 / Amanda Onion / ABC News — a gene that leads to big change bolsters evolution theory, say scientists
  • U.C. San Diego Researchers Exaggerate Findings to Promote Evolutionary Theory / February 6, 2002 / Discovery Institute — a mutant shrimp is being claimed as "a landmark in evolutionary biology" that proves Darwin's critics wrong, but it’s nothing of the sort, says biologist Jonathan Wells
• Evolution vs. Intelligent Design / February 5, 2002 / Catherine Candisky / Columbus Dispatch, p.1B — experts to weigh in on science standards
• LETTER: No Reason Science and Religion Must be at Odds / February 5, 2002 / Floyd V. Stolzenburg / Columbus Dispatch, p.8A 
• DNA downloads alone / 5 February 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — the information in DNA can be copied into new molecules without proteins' help
• Now it's Ohio, debating Darwinism / 5 February 2002 / Apoorva Mandavilli / BioMedNet
• Does Creationism Equal Holocaust Denial? / February 4, 2002 / John Wilson / Christianity Today — "Yes," says Michael Shermer in Scientific American
• LETTER: Schools Should at Least Acknowledge Creationism / February 3, 2002 / Rachel Bennett / Columbus Dispatch, p.2D
• More floods to come / 31 January 2002 / Heike Langenberg / Nature science update — build on hills, modeling of past and present climate warns
• Shermer's Last Law / January 2002 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American — any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God 
• A liberal tragedy / January 2002 / Edward Skidelsky / Prospect Magazine (United Kingdom)— by cutting itself off from its Christian roots, liberalism has become shrill and dogmatic, but there is no other way
• Are Probabilities Indispensable to the Design Inference? (.pdf) / May 22, 2001 / Robert C. Koons (Philosophy Department, University of Texas, Austin)
• Explaining Functional Complexity in Nature: Do the Life Sciences Need a Theory of Design? / March 2000 / Loren A. King (MIT)
• Who's the real fraud? / Nic Tamzek — scientific mistakes, distortions, and sleights-of-hand in Wells' book Icons of Evolution
• Logical Evaluation of Evolution in Science and Science Education / Craig Rusbult / Origins Theories, American Scientific Affiliation — including the many meanings of evolution and creation 
• The Skeptics and their ‘Churchian’ Allies / November 1998 / Jonathan Sarfati / Answers in Genesis — Why is evolution so popular today? What is the attraction of people wanting to believe that things made themselves, so that we are basically self-rearranged pond-scum? Why does the overwhelming evidence for design not convince people?

FEBRUARY 3

• Is human evolution finally over? / February 3, 2002 / Robin McKie / The Observer, Guardian Unlimited (United Kingdom) — scientists are split over the theory that natural selection has come to a standstill in the West
• Man Who Would Be God: Giving Robots Life / February 2, 2002 / Sarah Lyall / New York Times
• Conservative Christian Group Targets Ohio Kids / February 1, 2002 / Tom Baillieul, geologist / Columbus Dispatch, p.14A
• ARN-Announce / January 31, 2002 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.20 — bacterial flagella video, Phillip Johnson videos, William Dembski’s new book, Jonathan Wells replies to critics
• God, Man of Science / January 31, 2002 / Pete Kotz / Cleveland Scene (Ohio) — Jesus nuts have a point about intelligent design
• "Biomechanics: Dinosaur locomotion from a new trackway" requires free registration / 31 January 2002 / Julia J. Day, David B. Norman, Paul Upchurch, and H. Philip Powell / Nature, v.415, p.494-495
• "Identification of diploid endosperm in an early angiosperm lineage" requires free registration / 31 January 2002 / Joseph H. Williams and William E. Friedman / Nature, v.415, p.522-526
• Jellies roll back time / 30 January 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — petrified jellyfish find wows palaeontologists
• Researcher Pinpoints Cause of King Herod's Death / January 28, 2002 / Scientific American
• Fossils Suggest Jellyfish Abounded in the Cambrian Seas / January 25, 2002 / Scientific American
• Inherit The Spin: Darwinists Answer “Ten Questions” with Evasions and Falsehoods / January 2002 / Jonathan Wells / Access Research Network
• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission / NASA, JPL — mission to map the world
• Natural Viral Enzymes Do Battle Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria / December 7, 2001 / Scientific American
• No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence / December 2001 / William A. Dembski / Rowman & Littlefield — see also Amazon
• Bacterial Flagella: A Paradigm for Design (video) / 2001 / Scott Minnich, geneticist (University of Idaho) / Access Research Network — recorded before a live audience at Westmont College
• Reason, Science and Faith / June 2001 / Paul Marston and Roger Forster — see also Amazon
• Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality / 1992 / Pervez Hoodbhoy / Zed Books

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