Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (April 2002)

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APRIL 30

• Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate Pseudoscience / April 30, 2002 / Lawrence M. Krauss / New York Times
• Early birds have big eyes / 30 April 2002 / Natasha McDowell / Nature science update — birds that can see better in low light kick off the dawn chorus
• Bug-Spit Experiment Has Implications for Humans / April 28, 2002 / Steve Rissing / Columbus Dispatch, p.5C
• Big bangs spark row / 26 April 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — cosmologists claim Universe has been forming and reforming for eternity
• Questioning the Big Bang / April 25, 2002 / Alan Boyle / MSNBC — could universe follow a cycle without end?
• Moving forward -- arguments we think creationists shouldn’t use / March-May 2002 / Jonathan Sarfati / Creation, v.24, n.2, p.20–34
• Eye Design Book / Curt Deckert / Optical Product Development and Consulting
• Comets, Meteors & Myth: New Evidence for Toppled Civilizations and Biblical Tales / 13 November 2001 / Robert Roy Britt / space.com
• Meteor clue to end of Middle East civilisations / April 11, 2001 / Robert Matthews / Telegraph (UK) — evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilizations more than 4,000 years ago
• Big Daddy? / 2000 / Jack T. Chick — cartoon story of creationist student addressing evolutionist professor

APRIL 28

• "Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network" requires free registration / 26 April 2002 / Hunter B. Fraser, Aaron E. Hirsh, Lars M. Steinmetz, Curt Scharfe, Marcus W. Feldman / Science, v.296, p.750-752
• Universe 13 Billion Years Old / April 24, 2002 / Paul Recer / Washington Post
• Advocates of intelligent design, scientific method square off / April 24, 2002 / Scott Stephens / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Science finds profit in microscopic junk / April 22, 2002 / Garry Barker / The Age (Australia)
• Los Alamos researcher says 'black holes' aren't holes at all / April 21, 2002 / Contact: James Rickman / Los Alamos National Laboratory 

APRIL 24

• "Cosmic Ripples Confirm Universe Speeding Up" requires free registration / 29 March 2002 / Andrew Watson / Science, v.295, p.2341
• "The Study of Superfloods" requires free registration / 29 March 2002 / Victor R. Baker / Science, v.295, p.2379-2380
• "Rates of Evolution in Ancient DNA from Adιlie Penguins" requires free registration / 22 March 2002 / D. M. Lambert, P. A. Ritchie, C. D. Millar, B. Holland, A. J. Drummond, and C. Baroni / Science, v.295, p.2270-2273
• "Ancient DNA Untangles Evolutionary Paths" requires free registration / 22 March 2002 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.295, p.2197
• "African Skull Points to One Human Ancestor" requires free registration / 22 March 2002 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.295, p.2192-2193
• "COSMOLOGY: The Beginning of Time" requires free registration / 22 March 2002 / Craig J. Hogan / Science, v.295, p. 2223-2225
• "Mammalian Dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary" requires free registration / 15 March 2002 / Gabriel J. Bowen, et al. / Science, v.295, p.2062-2065
• "Earliest Signs of Life Just Oddly Shaped Crud?" requires free registration / 8 March 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.295, p.1812
• "Repeated and Sudden Reversals of the Dipole Field Generated by a Spherical Dynamo Action" requires free registration / 8 March 2002 / Jinghong Li, Tetsuya Sato, and Akira Kageyama / Science, v.295, p.1887-1890
• "Water in Earth's Lower Mantle" requires free registration / 8 March 2002 / Motohiko Murakami, Kei Hirose, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Satoru Nakashima, and Naoto Takafuji / Science, v.295, p.1885-1887
• "T. rex Was No Runner, Muscle Study Shows" requires free registration / 1 March 2002 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.295, p.1620-1621
• "PLANETARY SCIENCE: A NEAR Miss Seeking the Origin of Meteorites" requires free registration / 14 December 2001 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.294, p.2276
• "GLACIOLOGY: How Ice Sheets Flow" requires free registration / 14 December 2001 / Christina L. Hulbe / Science, v.294, p.2300-2301
• "High Geothermal Heat Flow, Basal Melt, and the Origin of Rapid Ice Flow in Central Greenland" requires free registration / 14 December 2001 / Mark Fahnestock, Waleed Abdalati, Ian Joughin, John Brozena, Prasad Gogineni / Science, v.294, p.2338-2342

APRIL 23

• "The Earth's Magnetic Field is Still Losing Energy" (.pdf) / June 2002 / D. Russell Humphreys / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.39, n.1, p.1-11
• Coalition battles bill to ban cloning / April 22, 2002 / Mary Leonard / Boston Globe
• New evidence of Neanderthal violence / 22 April 2002 / Helen Briggs / BBC
• Shooting for the moon / April 22, 2002 / Keay Davidson / San Francisco Chronicle — lunar surface may hold evidence that asteroids crashed into Earth
• Intelligent design's public defender / April 21, 2002 / Louis Freedberg / San Francisco Chronicle
• The Real Eve / April 21, 2002 / Discovery Channel
• Millionaire paying scientists to look for proof of God / April 20, 2002 / Faye Flam / Star-Telegram (Dallas-Ft. Worth) — about Sir John Templeton
• Teaching Science -- and God / April 19, 2002 / Felix Hoover / Columbus Dispatch, p.1E — religious schools discuss evolution, but cite Creator
• New insect order found / 18 April 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — two cricket-like creatures establish new insect group
• Debate over evolution in schools spans almost 8 decades since Scopes / April 17, 2002 / Karen L. Willoughby / Baptist Press, Southern Baptist Convention
• An Insatiably Curious Observer Looks Back on a Life in Evolution / April 16, 2002 / Claudia Dreifus / New York Times — a conversation with Ernst Mayr
• "Fin development in a cartilaginous fish and the origin of vertebrate limbs" requires free registration / 4 April 2002 / Mikiko Tanaka, et al. / Nature, v.416, p.527-531
• ‘BPM 1 3-13’-- have they finally found a true feathered dinosaur? / 9 March 2002 / Jonathan Sarfati / Answers in Genesis
• Discovery Team: A Jurassic Ark Mystery (video) / 2002 / Gospel Communications Int'l
• Creation Science Movement — the oldest creationist movement in the world, founded in 1932 as "The Evolution Protest Movement"
• "Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution" requires free registration / 8 February 2001 / Alan Cooper, Carles LaLueza-Fox, Simon Anderson, Andrew Rambaut, Jeremy Austin, and Ryk Ward / Nature, v.409, p.704-707
• Extinct bird in 'ground breaker' / 7 February 2001 / BBC — DNA of extinct birds has shed new light on the formation of the continents in the Southern Hemisphere
• Evolution or Creation? -- Faith Facts: A Christian Apologetic / 1999 / Christian Information Foundation (Gospel Communications Network)
• This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics / February 1996 / W. Jacquelyne Kious and Robert I. Tilling / U. S. Geological Survey

APRIL 19

• New Insect Order Discovered / April 19, 2002 / Kate Wong / Scientific American
• It's an Inch Long and Wingless, and a Surprise to Insect Experts / April 18, 2002 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• Study Suggests Primates and Dinosaurs Shared the Earth / April 18, 2002 / Kate Wong / Scientific American
• "Using the fossil record to estimate the age of the last common ancestor of extant primates" requires free registration / 18 April 2002 / Simon Tavarι, Charles R. Marshall, Oliver Will, Christophe Soligo, and Robert D. Martin / Nature, v.416, p.726-729
• Scientists Discover New Insects / April 17, 2002 / Randolph E. Schmid / Washington Post
• Intelligent design gets hearing in Ohio / April 17, 2002 / Karen L. Willoughby / Baptist Press, Southern Baptist Convention
• Stop the fighting: Use 'creation-evolution' conflict as teaching tool / April 14, 2002 / Charles Haynes / Inside the First Amendment, Freedom Forum
• 'Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics': Supernatural Selection / April 14, 2002 / Jim Holt / New York Times
• Chimps May Have Something to Tell Us / April 12, 2002 / Rosie Mestel / Los Angeles Times — Human and the ape species' genomes are 99% identical. Pinpointing the differences could shed light on AIDS, aging and other mysteries.
• Human brains over chimp / 12 April 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — altered levels of gene activity set human heads apart from our cousins
• Asteroids pile up / 12 April 2002 / Meera Louis / Nature science update — new count doubles the rocks in asteroid belt
• Neutrino weighed up / 11 April 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — astronomers use galaxies to reckon a subatomic particle's mass
• Quark star glimmers / 11 April 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — astronomers may have discovered a strange new form of matter
• Cosmic X-rays reveal evidence for new form of matter / April 10, 2002 / NASA
• A Dim View of a 'Posthuman Future' / April 2, 2002 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Worshipping God can keep you sane: study / March 28, 2002 / Tracey Tong / National Post
• Bibliography of Supplementary Resources for Ohio Science Instruction / March 11, 2002 / Discovery Institute — see response: Intelligent Design Bibliography Misleading / April 5, 2002 / National Center for Science Education
• Adaptive Radiation of Darwin’s Finches / March-April 2002 / Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant / American Scientist — recent data help explain how this famous group of Galαpagos birds evolved, although gaps in our understanding remain
• Bishops speak up for evolution / March 2002 / Pat Ashworth / Church Times — concerns about science teaching at Emmanuel City Technology College in Gateshead, England
• The Ghost in My Machine / October 2001 / Phillip E. Johnson / Touchstone, v.14, n.8, p.13
• Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries / October 2001 / Steven Weinberg / Harvard University Press — see review: The culture wars reach the heavens / February 9, 2002 / Sheilla Jones / globebooks.com; see also Amazon
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Evolution / October 2001 / Leslie Alan Horvitz and Unmesh Kher / Alpha Books
• Genes, Categories, and Species: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Causes of the Species Problem / June 2001 / Jody Hey / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Evolutionary Biology and Human Disease (class) / University of Michigan, Life Sciences Initiative — this course uses the problems of medicine and public health as a framework for teaching the principles of evolutionary biology
• In Defense of the Irreducibility of the Blood Clotting Cascade / July 31, 2000 / Michael J. Behe / Discovery Institute — response to Russell Doolittle, Ken Miller and Keith Robison

APRIL 16

• Science and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (workshop) / 25-30 September 2002 / Italian Ministry of Education & Sicilian Regional Government (sponsors) / Erice-Sicily — the Enrico Fermi and Galileo Galilei celebrations -- a tribute to the "Italian Navigator", father of the weak forces and to Galileo Galilei, founder of modern science
• Evolution vs. creation / April 11, 2002 / Reggie Rivers / Denver Post
• "A Baraminological Analysis of Subtribe Flaveriinae (Asteraceae: Helenieae) and the Origin of Biological Complexity" / 2001 / Todd Charles Wood and David P. Cavanaugh / Origins 52:7-27 — latent genetic information may have been present in the ancestor of certain plant species and been activated during post-Flood diversification

APRIL 12

• X-Ray Evidence Suggests a New Form of Matter / April 12, 2002 / Scientific American
• The Nutty Professors / April 11, 2002 / Steve Ellman / New Times Broward-Palm Beach — the pseudoscientific shills for the creationist "intelligent design" theory bring their stealth tent revival to West Palm Beach
• Satellites Spy Changes to Earth's Magnetic Field / April 11, 2002 / Scientific American
• Anomalies hint at magnetic pole flip / 10 April 2002 / Nicola Jones / New Scientist
• "Redundancy, antiredundancy, and the robustness of genomes" / February 5, 2002 / David C. Krakauer and Joshua B. Plotkin / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), v.99, p.1405-1409
• Limits on Cosmological Variation of Strong Interaction and Quark Masses from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Cosmic, Laboratory and Oklo Data / February 2002 / V.V. Flambaum and Edward V. Shuryak / archives (National Science Foundation & Cornell University) — Recent data on cosmological variation of the electromagnetic fine structure constant from distant quasar (QSO) absorption spectra have inspired a more general discussion of possible variation of other constants.
• Hox Hype / 2002 / David A. DeWitt / Answers in Genesis — from the hype of the press release, it would seem that evolution was finally proven, but far from refuting creation, the scientific evidence is completely consistent with creation
• Institute of Archaeology - Horn Archaeological Museum / Andrews University
• Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Center / University of Queensland, Australia — vision and colour
• The Lurker's Guide to Stromatopods / Airlan San Juan — Stomatopods (mantis shrimps) are predatory crustaceans that live in the shallow waters of tropical and subtropical seas. They use specialized raptorial appendages to capture and subdue prey by either "spearing" the animals or "smashing" them with heavily calcified clubs.

APRIL 11

• 'All Human Cloning Is Wrong,' Says Bush / April 11, 2002 / Ted Olsen / Christianity Today — public is 4-to-1 against all human cloning, but Senate is evenly split on comprehensive ban
• Bush Makes Fervent Bid to Get Senate to Ban Cloning Research / April 11, 2002 / Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times
• Bush Rallies Opponents of Cloning / April 10, 2002 / Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times
• Town's schools abandon creationism / April 10, 2002 / CNN (Associated Press) — threat of lawsuit prompts Colorado school board to change course
• Board rejects plan to teach creationism / April 10, 2002 / Monte Whaley / Denver Post
• Creationism controversy on agenda / April 9, 2002 / Monte Whaley / Denver Post — E. Plains district to decide whether to teach subject with evolution
• There You Go Again, Ken ... / April 9, 2002 / Jonathan Wells / Discovery Institute — a response to Kenneth R. Miller
• Cloned baby in the dark / 9 April 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — rumor and secrecy hampers response to report of human clone
• Landmark Evolution TV Series to Have National Encore Presentation on PBS / April 8, 2002 / National Center for Science Education — Evolution, a comprehensive, multi-media project about the theory of evolution, was launched last September on screen, online and in print. The seven-part, eight-hour television series will again be presented on PBS, May 14, 21, 28 and June 4, 2002.
• Gamma rays illuminate supernova / 4 April 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — astronomers figure out what mysterious gamma-ray bursts spew out into space
• Puncturing the ego gene / 4 April 2002 / Jonathan Amos / BBC — the tricks cells use to generate complexity
• "Abiogenic formation of alkanes in the Earth's crust as a minor source for global hydrocarbon reservoirs" requires free registration / 4 April 2002 / B. Sherwood Lollar, T. D. Westgate, J. A. Ward, G. F. Slater, and G. Lacrampe-Couloume / Nature, v.416, p.522-524
• Guth's Grand Guess / April 2002 / Brad Lemley / Discover, v.23 — the inflationary universe
• What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes / April 2002 / Jonathan Marks / University of California Press — see also Amazon
• Experiments Reveal Ancient Blood Flow Map / March 22, 2002 / (Mark A. Krasnow) / Howard Hughes Medical Institute — how long-range migration of blood cells is accomplished has been an open question for a long time
• Design and Evolution / March 11, 2002 / Fred Hutchison / Discovery Institute — report on the debate before the Ohio Board of Education about Intelligent Design
• Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe / March 2002 / David Devorkin, ed. / National Geographic Society — see also Amazon
• The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism / February 2002 / Stefan Kόhl / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• In Our Own Image: Human Cloning / 2002 / Naomi Rose Rothstein / Jews for Jesus
• Frequently Asked Questions about Intelligent Design / 2001 / Access Research Network
• "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" / Spring-Summer 1996 / Alan D. Sokal / Social Text, n.46-47, p. 217-252 — the famous Sokal hoax on post-modernism

APRIL 5

• Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists / June 2002 / Benjamin Wiker / InterVarsity Press
• Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines / May 2002 / Evelyn Fox Keller / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Discredited dogma / 5 April 2002 / David McKenzie / The Scotsman (Scotland's National Newspaper)
• Cloning pregnancy claim prompts outrage / 5 April 2002 / Emma Young and Damian Carrington / New Scientist
• God's Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science / December 2001 / Kenneth J. Howell / University of Notre Dame Press — see also Amazon
• "Darwin and the Descent of Morality" / November 2001 / Benjamin Wiker / First Things, n.117, p.10-13
• Rethinking the Scientific Revolution / March 2000 / Margaret J. Osler, ed. / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon

APRIL 4

• Darwin, Design and Democracy III: Teaching Origins Science Objectively (symposium) / July 26-27, 2002 / Kansas City, Missouri — speakers: Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, and many more
• Ohio emerges as next battleground for schools' evolution debate / April 2, 2002 / Kate Beem / Kansas City Star
• The Flat Earth / April 2002 / Ethical Atheist — "Did medieval discoverers fear sailing off the edge of the Earth?" ... a detailed study of historical flat-earth thinking
• Movie of a galaxy far, far away / 27 March 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — astronomers shoot first film of the stars, dust and gas at the center of a galaxy

APRIL 3

• "Polyphyly and the Cambrian Explosion" / 2001 / L. James Gibson / Origins 52:3-6 — discussion of the sudden appearance of a wide diversity of fossils at and near the base of the Phanerozoic sediments
• "Local Catastrophes, or a Worldwide Deluge?" / 2001 / L. James Gibson / Origins 52:53-56 — an analysis of local flood theories, including one by Ryan and Pitman
• Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth / 2000 / Larry Vardiman, Andrew A. Snelling, and Eugene F. Chaffin, eds. / Institute for Creation Research & Creation Research Society — see review: "Time Dependency of Radioisotope Decay" / 2001 / R. H. Brown / Origins 52:48-52

APRIL 2

• "LETTER: Evolution as an Event" / April 1, 2002 / Howard Winet / The Scientist, v.16, n.7, p.14
• Two cheers for extinction / 28 March 2002 / Henry Gee / Nature science update — death may have had a steadier hand with the scythe than expected
• Creative creationism: The dishonesty of 'intelligent design' theory / March 25, 2002 / Daytona Beach News-Journal (editorial)
• Believe it or not, YECs [Young Earth Creationists] have a point / March 17, 2002 / Internet Infidels Discussion Forum
• Ohio's students need all the facts / March 8, 2002 / Patrick H. Young / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Intelligent Design Debate / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives / December 2001 / Robert T. Pennock, ed. / MIT Press — an anthology of writings by proponents and critics of intelligent design creationism; see also Amazon
• 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 River of Time / June 2001 / Igor D. Novikov / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Science & Christianity: Four Views / August 2000 / Richard F. Carlson, ed. / InterVarsity Press — see also Amazon
• Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference / March 2000 / Judea Pearl / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research / September 1999 / Derek Freeman / Westview Press (Perseus) — see also Amazon
• The Large, the Small and the Human Mind / March 1997 / Roger Penrose and Malcolm Longair, with chapters by Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' / August 1996 / Erwin Schrφdinger, foreword by Roger Penrose / Cambridge University Press  — see also Amazon
• Putting It All Together: Seven Patterns for Relating Science and the Christian Faith / 1995 / Richard H. Bube / University Press of America — see review and outline by Allan H. Harvey; see also Amazon

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