Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (May 2002)
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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.
MAY 31
- "Berkeleys
Radical: An Interview with Phillip E. Johnson" / June 2002 / Touchstone,
v.15, n.5, p.40
- "Sauropod
Trackways, Evolution, and Behavior" requires
free registration / 31 May 2002 / Julia J. Day, Paul
Upchurch, David B. Norman, Andrew S. Gale, and H. Philip Powell / Science,
v.296, n.5573, p.1659
- "Best
Big Bang Pictures Show New Wrinkles" requires
free registration / 31 May 2002 / Charles Seife / Science,
v.296, n.5573, p.1588-1589
- Republicans
seek to loosen Darwin's grip in schools / May 30, 2002 / John Ibbitson /
Globe and Mail (Canada), p.A16 new law mandates
Ohio educators to teach religious alternatives, legislators believe
- Teaching
Alternative To Evolution Backed / May 29, 2002 / Michael A. Fletcher / Washington
Post, p.A03 Ohio lawmakers cite reform legislation
- Stephen
Jay Gould, 1942-2002: In Memoriam / May 29, 2002 / David Berlinski /
Discovery Institute
- Education
Reform Legislation Language May Help Intelligent Design Theory / May 29,
2002 / Ted Olsen / Christianity Today
- Faces
from the Ice Age / 28 May 2002 / David Whitehouse / BBC
- Row
unravels over claim of oldest DNA / 22 May 2002 / Emma Young / New
Scientist Traces of 425 million-year-old microbial
DNA have been found in samples of rock salt. Some say this is the oldest DNA
described to date. Other experts on ancient DNA are far from convinced.
- What
is Science and How Open are Scientists to New Ideas? / 21 May 2002 /
Robin Bernhoft / Catholic Educator's Resource Center
- "ASSYRIA:
Bringing a Long-Lost Library Back to Life" requires
free registration / 3 May 2002 / Andrew Lawler / Science,
v.296, n.5569, p.834-835
- "Fossil
Plant Hints How First Flowers Bloomed" requires
free registration / 3 May 2002 / Erik Stokstad / Science,
v.296, n.5569, p.821
- "Not
Just in Kansas Anymore" / May 2002 / Phillip E. Johnson / Touchstone,
v.15, n.4, p.12
- "'Fantastic'
Fossil Helps Narrow Data Gap" requires
free registration / 26 April 2002 / Erik Stokstad / Science,
v.296, n.5568, p.637-639
- "Evolutionary
Rate in the Protein Interaction Network" requires
free registration / 26 April 2002 / Hunter B. Fraser,
Aaron E. Hirsh, Lars M. Steinmetz, Curt Scharfe, and Marcus W. Feldman / Science,
v.296, n.5568, p.750-752
- "Unpredictable
Evolution in a 30-Year Study of Darwin's Finches" requires
free registration / 26 April 2002 / Peter R. Grant
and B. Rosemary Grant / Science, v.296, n.5568, p.707-711
- Ukrainian
Knight of Science Disproves Einstein and Prepares Himself for Solving
Gravitation's Mystery / March 18, 2002 / Andrei Lubensky / Pravda
(Russia)
- Is
Nature Supernatural? A Philosophical Exploration of Science and Nature
/ March 2002 / Simon L. Altmann / Prometheus Books see
also Amazon
- The
Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 / December 2001
/ Brian M. Fagan / Basic Books (Perseus) see also Amazon
- Plate
Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth /
December 2001 / Naomi Oreskes, ed. / Westview Press (Perseus) see
also Amazon
- "Historical
science, experimental science, and the scientific method" /
November 2001 / Carol E. Cleland / Geology, v.29, n.11, p.987990
- The
Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth Century /
October 2001 / Gerard Piel / Basic Books (Perseus) see
also Amazon
- Mammoth:
The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant / September 2001 / Richard
Stone / Perseus Publishing see also Amazon
- Icons of
Evolution: Science or Myth? / October 2000 / Jonathan Wells /
Regnery Publishing see the Icons
of Evolution website and also Amazon;
for critical reviews, see:
- Pythagoras'
Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars / September 1997 /
Margaret Wertheim / W.W. Norton a spirited look at the
relationship between physics and religion, and the implications for both
sexes; see also Amazon
MAY 28
- Avian
Quick-Change Artists / June 2002 / Alexander V. Badyaev and Geoffrey E.
Hill / Natural History Magazine exemplars of rapid
adaptation, house finches show that mothers know best
- Cloning
Can't Be Stopped / June 2002 / Daniel J. Kevles / Technology Review
(MIT)
- What Wiped Out the
Dinosaurs? / June 2002 / Edwin Dobb / Discover, v.23, n.6 new
studies suggest that dramatic climate changes were killing off behemoths
even before the asteroid impact
- Does the
Universe Exist if We're Not Looking? / June 2002 / Tim Folger / Discover,
v. 23, n. 6 eminent physicist John Wheeler says he has
only enough time left to work on one idea: that human consciousness shapes
not only the present but the past as well
- Death of
an Evolutionist / May 28, 2002 / John Wilson / Christianity Today
RIP Stephen Jay Gould
- "LETTER:
Cloning, Science, and Beliefs" / May 27, 2002 / Tony Picking / The
Scientist, v.16, n.11, p.14 being a scientist does
not preclude a strongly Biblical, pro-life stance
- "Designing
Science by Politics" / May 27, 2002 / Barry A. Palevitz / The
Scientist, v.16, n.11, p.25 "where biological
evolution is taught, the curriculum should help students to understand why
the subject generates so much continuing controversy, and should prepare the
students to be informed participants in public discussions regarding the
subject"
- "PROFILE:
Eugenie C. Scott" / May 27, 2002 / Myrna E. Watanabe / The
Scientist, v.16, n.11, p.60 'giving ammo to the
choir'
- Life can go on
forever / 27 May 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update an
accelerating universe does not have to fry life
- New word in
life's lexicon / 24 May 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science
update researchers find 22nd amino acid in a microbe
- Missing matter
glimpsed? / 24 May 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update astronomers
see signs of cold dark matter clumped around galaxies
- Evolution, Males,
and Violence / May 24, 2002 / David P. Barash / The Chronicle of
Higher Education
- Creationism
Scandalous / May 24, 2002 / Ted Olsen / Christianity Today debate
over evolution takes Britain by storm
- Bottom-Up
Apologist / May 24, 2002 / Karl W. Giberson / Christianity Today
John Polkinghorne -- particle physicist, Gifford
lecturer, Templeton Prize-winner, and parish priest
- Seal of
Disapproval / May 24, 2002 / Naomi Schaefer / Wall Street Journal
are evangelical views singled out for discrimination?
- Similar
Graphs Raised Suspicions on Bell Labs Research / May 23, 2002 / Kenneth
Chang / New York Times
- Image
could show cosmos at 300,000 years old / May 23, 2002 / CNN
- Psychology
of an Evolutionist / May 23, 2002 / Eric Brandt / Intelligent Design
Undergraduate Research Center (Access Research Network)
- Stop
the Cloning / May 23, 2002 / David Cameron / Technology Review forget
religion and politics, a top researcher says -- reproductive cloning will
never work because biology will always get in the way
- Stephen Jay Gould
dies / 21 May 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update public
face of evolution dies of cancer aged 60
- Science
Journalism with Genuine Balance / May 21, 2002 / Charles Colson /
BreakPoint a new documentary on the Mystery of Life's
Origin
- CBHD Denounces
Patenting of Human Cloning / May 16, 2002 / Daniel McConchie / The
Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
- Killer
blow / 4 May 2002 / Kate Ravilious / New Scientist "A
meteor the size of San Francisco hurtles towards the Earth at 20 kilometres
a second ..."
- Tool-using
Birds / November 2000 / David M. Bird / Birdwatcher's Digest
- Enuma Elish: The Epic
of Creation / L.W. King, translator / from The Seven Tablets of Creation
(London, 1902)
MAY 24
- "PALEONTOLOGY:
Reversals Reveal Pitfalls in Spotting Ancient and E.T. Life" requires
free registration / 24 May 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science,
v.296, n.5572, p.1384-1385 a search for evidence of life
from long ago result in difficulties
- "Can
Chimps Ape Ancient Hominid Toolmakers?" requires
free registration / 24 May 2002 / Gretchen Vogel / Science,
v.296, n.5572, p.1380
- "RESEARCH
INTEGRITY:
Pioneering Physics Papers Under Suspicion for Data Manipulation" requires
free registration / 24 May 2002 / Robert F. Service /
Science, v.296, n.5572, p.1376-1377
- "Measuring
Spacetime: From the Big Bang to Black Holes" requires
free registration / 24 May 2002 / Max Tegmark / Science,
v.296, n.5572, p.1427-1433
- "Extra
Dimensions and Warped Geometries" requires
free registration / 24 May 2002 / Lisa Randall / Science,
v.296, n.5572, p.1422-1427
- "The
Intelligent Noncosmologist's Guide to Spacetime" requires
free registration / 24 May 2002 / Charles Seife / Science,
v.296, n.5572, p.1418-1421
- "Spacetime,
Warped Branes, and Hidden Dimensions" requires
free registration / 24 May 2002 / Ian Osborne, Linda
Rowan, and Robert Coontz / Science, v.296, n.5572, p.1417
- "Recovery
of 16S ribosomal RNA gene fragments from ancient halite" requires
free registration / 23 May 2002 / Steven A. Fish,
Thomas J. Shepherd, Terry J. McGenity, and William D. Grant / Nature,
v.417, p.432-436
- DNA
traces found in ancient rock / 23 May 2002 / Ivan Noble / BBC
- Hawking:
God may play dice after all / May 23, 2002 / Mike Martin / WorldNetDaily
famed physicist presents divine-snowball theory for start
of universe
- Intergalactic Jesus
/ 23 May 2002 / Jerry Coyne / London Review of Books, v.24, n.9 review
of: Can
a Darwinian Be a Christian?: The Relationship between Science and Religion
/ December 2001 / Michael Ruse / Cambridge University Press
- Sister develops
tell-tale bulge / 22 May 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science
update after 1500 years of quiet an Oregon volcano
threatens to blow
- Home
School Expedition Uncovers Rare Allosaur and Giant Sauropod / May 20,
2002 / Vision Forum and Creation Expeditions
- "EVOLUTION:
Did an Impact Trigger the Dinosaurs' Rise?" requires
free registration / 17 May 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science,
v.296, n.5571, p.1215-1216
- "A
Fresh Look at Glacial Floods" requires
free registration / 17 May 2002 / Steven M. Colman / Science,
v.296, n.5571, p.1251-1252
- "An
Expanding Universe of Noncoding RNAs" requires
free registration / 17 May 2002 / Gisela Storz / Science,
v.296, n.5571, p.1260-1263
- Not
the whole truth / May 16-22, 2002 / Roger Downey / Seattle Weekly Icons
of Evolution as competition to the PBS Evolution series
- Catastrophe
and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster / March 2002 / Susanna M.
Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith, eds. / School of American Research Press
see review:
"ANTHROPOLOGY: Dealing with
Disaster" requires free
registration / 24 May 2002 / Robert McC. Adams / Science,
v.296, n.5572, p.1404-1405; see also Amazon
- "Biogeology:
How old are bacteria from the Permian age?" requires
free registration / 10 May 2001 / Robert M. Hazen and
Edwin Roedder / Nature, v.411, p.155
MAY 22
- In
Guatemala, a Rhode Island-Size Jade Lode / May 22, 2002 / William J.
Broad / New York Times
- Home-schoolers
find intact dinosaur skeleton / May 21, 2002 / WorldNetDaily.com scientist
says 22-foot animal likely died during cataclysmic flood
- New
Evidence for Dark Dwarf Galaxies Supports Dark Matter Theory / May 21,
2002 / University of California, San Diego
- Stephen
Jay Gould, Biologist and Theorist on Evolution, Dies at 60 / May 20,
2002 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
- An evolutionary champion
dies at 60 / May 20, 2002 / MSNBC Stephen Jay Gould
wrote about nature, millennium, baseball
- Jupiter gains
rock group / 20 May 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update
eleven new moons found circling Jupiter
- Keeping
an Eye on the Heavens / May 18, 2002 / Bill Broadway / Washington
Post, p.B09 Vatican's chief astronomer, a priest,
sees room for religion and science
- Asteroid let
dinosaurs rule / 17 May 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science
update impact may have caused mass extinction that let
hardy giants thrive
- Cosmic wrinkles
smoothed / 16 May 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update a
new technique could reconstruct images of the early Universe
- From Certainty to
Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century
/ May 2002 / F. David Peat / Joseph Henry Press see also Amazon
- Age of the Universe
/ May 2002 / Edward L. Wright / Astronomy, University of California, Los
Angeles at least 3 ways that the age of the Universe can
be estimated
- Age
of Universe confirmed / 25 April 2002 / BBC
- Do
Human and Chimpanzee DNA Indicate an Evolutionary Relationship? / 2002 /
Brad Harrub and Bert Thompson / Apologetics Press
MAY 20
MAY 17
- "The
Other RNA World" requires free
registration / 17 May 2002 / Guy Riddihough / Science,
v.296, n.5571, p.1259
- "Ascent
of Dinosaurs Linked to an Iridium Anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary"
requires free registration
/ 17 May 2002 / P. E. Olsen, D. V. Kent, H.-D. Sues, C. Koeberl, H. Huber,
A. Montanari, E. C. Rainforth, S. J. Fowell, M. J. Szajna, and B. W.
Hartline / Science, v.296, n.5571, p.1305-1307
- Cosmic
impact could have started dinosaur age / May 16, 2002 / Kate Tobin / CNN
- Accreditor
Says Creationism Mandate Violates Academic Freedom / May 15, 2002 / Ted
Olsen / Christianity Today
- Official World Site
Malachite Man / Interactive Bible
fossilized dinosaurs and humans in the same rock
- Natural Catastrophes
during Bronze Age Civilisations: Archaeological, Geological and
Astronomical Perspectives -- conference / 11-13 July 1997 / Fitzwilliam
College, Cambridge
MAY 14
- Easter
Recast: 97 Percent Chance Jesus Rose from the Dead / May 14, 2002 / Ted
Olsen / Christianity Today
- Odds on aliens
/ 14 May 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update one
in three planets like Earth probably harbor life
- Creationism among
issues in Patrick Henry accreditation / May 13, 2002 / Christine Hall /
Baptist Press News
- New
Theory of Universe Goes Beyond the Bang / May 13, 2002 / Susan Okie / Washington
Post, p.A6
- A
Man Who Would Shake Up Science / May 11, 2002 / Edward Rothstein / New
York Times
- So
God's Really in the Details? / May 11, 2002 / Emily Eakin / New York
Times
- Shock protein
revelations / 10 May 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science
update evolution may plunder hidden genetic variation
- Oldest animal
tracks? / 10 May 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update
many-celled creatures may have made billion-year-old
marks
- No
State of Bliss: Americans' scientific ignorance is appalling / May 9,
2002 / Columbus Dispatch, p.14A (editorial)
- Research
that evolves from fossils to genes / May 8, 2002 / Mark Ridley / Times
Online (UK) review of four books that explore the big
questions of evolution
- Naturalism
Defeated? Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism
/ May 2002 / James K. Beilby, ed. / Cornell University Press see
also Amazon
- No
Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without
Intelligence / November 2001 / William A. Dembski / Rowman &
Littlefield
- Toward
a Creationist Astronomy / December 1991 / Danny R. Faulkner and Don B.
DeYoung / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.28, n.3
MAY 10
- ARN-Announce
/ May 9, 2002 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.23
- The Big Bang
(one more time) / May 9, 2002 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science
Monitor Just when it seems the broad outline of the
universe's origin is as safely in hand as money in the bank, along come two
physicists who could prove to be the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of
cosmology.
- Letter
signed by 27 British scientists & educators / 9 May 2002 / Answers
in Genesis 'Don't change the National Curriculum!'
- High School Students'
Attitudes Toward Creation and Evolution Compared to Their Worldview /
May 2002 / Steve Deckard and Daniel Smithwick / Impact, n.347
(Institute for Creation Research)
- Evolution Versus the
People / May 2002 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.161
(Institute for Creation Research)
- "Cracks are
Widening in Evolution's Dam!" (.pdf) / May 2002 / John D. Morris / Acts
& Facts, v.31, n.5 ( Institute for Creation Research)
- Oldest fossil
footprints on land / 30 April 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science
update animals may have beaten upright plants to land
- "The
earliest known eutherian mammal" requires
free registration / 25 April 2002 / Qiang Ji, et al.
/ Nature, v.416, p.816-822
- "Melting
Glaciers Release Ancient Relics" requires
free registration / 19 April 2002 / Kevin Krajick / Science,
v.296, n.5567, p.454-456
- "New
Insect Order Speaks to Life's Diversity" requires
free registration / 19 April 2002 / Elizabeth Pennisi
/ Science, v.296, n.5567, p.445-447
- "Human
Cloning and Our Sense of Self" requires
free registration / 12 April 2002 / Dan W. Brock / Science,
v.296, n.5566, p.314-316
- "Gene
Activity Clocks Brain's Fast Evolution" requires
free registration / 12 April 2002 / Elizabeth Pennisi
/ Science, v.296, n.5566, p.233-235
- Redesigning
Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future / April 2002 / Gregory Stock /
Houghton Mifflin see also Amazon
- "Origin
of 226Ra-230Th disequilibria in arc lavas from
southern Chile and implications for magma transfer time" / 15 March
2002 / O. Sigmarsson, J. Chmeleff, J. Morris, and L. Lopez-Escobar / Earth
and Planetary Science Letters, v.196, n.3-4, p.189-196 "The
226Ra-230Th disequilibrium in arc lavas suggests
significantly shorter timescales for magma transfer, or less than 8000
years."
- Genesis
of the Big Bang / January 2001 / Ralph A. Alpher and Robert Herman /
Oxford University Press see also Amazon
- What
It Really Means To Be 99% Chimpanzee / November 20, 1999 / Jonathan
Marks / Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
- "The
cosmological constant problem" / January 1989 / Steven Weinberg / Rev.
Mod. Phys., v.61, p.1-23 astronomical observations
indicate that the cosmological constant is many orders of magnitude smaller
than estimated in modern theories of elementary particles
MAY 7
- Krauss Goes
Ballistic over ID; NSF's Biennial "Science Literacy" Survey /
May 5, 2002 / Mark Hartwig / Access Research Network (Weekly
Wedge Update)
- New
Book Explores Rise of Intelligent-Design Idea / May 5, 2002 / David Lore
/ Columbus Dispatch, p.7B
- 'Our
Posthuman Future': Biotechnology as a Threat to Human Nature / May 5,
2002 / Colin McGinn / New York Times
- 'Oldest
flower' found in China / 3 May 2002 / BBC News
- Fresh bunch of
old flowers / 3 May 2002 / Christopher Surridge / Nature science
update fossil plants form new branch in flower family
tree
- Growth clocked
/ 2 May 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update size
and temperature predict pace of life
- "A
new phylum of Archaea represented by a nanosized hyperthermophilic symbiont"
requires free registration
/ 2 May 2002 / Harald Huber, et al. / Nature, v.417, p.63-67
- Animals
May Have Reached Land Before Plants / May 1, 2002 / Cosmiverse
- "Darwin's
Avian Muses Continue to Evolve" requires
free registration / 26 April 2002 / Carl Zimmer / Science,
v.296, p.633-635
- "COSMOLOGY:
Eternal-Universe Idea Comes Full Circle" requires
free registration / 26 April 2002 / Charles Seife / Science,
v. 296, p.639
- A
Cyclic Model of the Universe / April 25, 2002 / Paul J. Steinhardt and
Neil Turok / Science
- Passing
the Torch / April 9, 2002 / Phillip E. Johnson / Access Research Network
(Weekly Wedge Update)
- "IMPACT
HAZARD: Celestial Billiards Threaten Hit in 2880" requires
free registration / 5 April 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science,
v.296, p.27
- "ASTROPHYSICS:
Closing In on the Cause of the Cosmos's Biggest Blasts" requires
free registration / 5 April 2002 / Govert Schilling /
Science, v.296, p.41
- Newton's
Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World / March
2002 / David Berlinski / Touchstone Books (Simon & Schuster) see
also Amazon
- List of Creation
URLs: Dating Issues / Ashby Camp
- A Scientific
Dissent from Darwinism (.pdf) / Discovery Institute
- Cartoon
Guide to Genetics / 1991 / Larry Gonick and Mark Wheelis /
HarperCollins see also Amazon
MAY 3
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