Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (June 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.
JUNE 20
- Staples
of Evolutionary Teaching May Not Be Textbook Case / June 18, 2002 /
Nicholas Wade / New York Times peppered moth
evolution example has come unglued
- LETTER:
Teaching Creationism Would Be Favoritism / June 18, 2002 / Colin
William / Columbus Dispatch, p.8A
- New
theory fills in the gap before Darwin / June 17, 2002 / Tim Friend / USA
Today
- School
board must side with real science (editorial) / June 17, 2002 / Dayton
Daily News (Ohio)
- Christian College
Fights To Teach Creation / June 17, 2002 / Paul Serrell / Christian
Broadcasting Network
- Re-thinking
how cells evolved / June 17, 2002 / Jim Kling / United Press
International results call into question the generally
held theory that all cells on Earth descended from a single ancestral cell
some three billion years ago
- New
cellular evolution theory rejects Darwinian assumptions / 17 June 2002 /
contact: Jim Barlow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- What's
So New in a Newfangled Science? / June 16, 2002 / George Johnson / New
York Times
- Got
Silk / June 16, 2002 / Lawrence Osborne / New York Times Insert
a single spider gene into a female goat. Milk regularly.
- DEVOLUTION:
Creationism proponents take to the trenches (editorial) / June 14, 2002
/ Columbus Dispatch, p.18A
- Astronomers
Detect Signs That Jupiter Has a 'First Cousin' / June 14, 2002 / John
Noble Wilford / New York Times
- 15 new planets
/ 14 June 2002 / Nature science update hints of
solar system like ours spotted
- EXOPLANETS: "'New
Jupiter' Turns Up in Strange Company" requires
free registration / 14 June 2002 / Donald Goldsmith /
Science, v.296, n.5575, p.1951
- Noah's
Flood Hypothesis May Not Hold Water / June 14, 2002 / contact: Jodi
Ackerman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- A Designer
World / June 13, 2002 / John D. Martin / Boundless Webzine (Focus on the
Family) Evidence is mounting that the Earth didnt
develop by accident. But the more the evidence points to God, the more
desperately some academics try to deny it.
- Newfound
Planetary System has "Hometown" Look / June 13, 2002 / NASA /
Cosmiverse
- The
radical politics of the biologist Stephen Jay Gould / June 7, 2002 /
Phil Gasper / Socialist Worker contributions of Marxist
biologist Gould, a scientist of the people
- 'Intelligent
design' pushed for Ohio by 2 lawmakers / June 2, 2002 / Michael A.
Fletcher / Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA)
JUNE 13
- "The
recent breakup of an asteroid in the main-belt region" requires
free registration / 13 June 2002 / David Nesvornύ,
William F. Bottke Jr, Luke Dones, and Harold F. Levison / Nature,
v.417, p.720-771
- And
Congress Said, Let There Be Other Views. Or Did It? / June 12, 2002 /
David J. Hoff / Education Week
- Critics
Rave Over Icons of Evolution / June 12, 2002 / Jonathan Wells /
Discovery Institute a response to published reviews
- EDITORIAL:
Missing link / June 11, 2002 / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) a
response from
the Discovery Institute
- One
school stands tall on expanding view of evolution / June 9, 2002 / Liz
Sidoti / Cincinnati Enquirer 'Higher power' OK in
classes as state continues debate
- Intelligent
Design? / April 2002 / Natural History reprint
of a special report
- Introduction / Richard Milner and Vittorio Maestro
- The Challenge of Irreducible Complexity / Michael J. Behe every
living cell contains many ultrasophisticated molecular machines
- The Flaw in the Mousetrap / Kenneth R. Miller intelligent
design fails the biochemistry test
- Detecting Design in the Natural Sciences / William A. Dembski intelligence
leaves behind a characteristic signature
- Mystery Science Theater / Robert T. Pennock the
case of the secret agent
- Elusive Icons of Evolution / Jonathan Wells what do
Darwin's finches and the four-winged fruit fly really tell us?
- The Nature of Change / Eugenie C. Scott evolutionary
mechanisms give rise to basic structural differences
- The Newest Evolution of Creationism / Barbara Forrest intelligent
design is about politics and religion, not science
- Developing
a Christian Worldview: Science and Evolution / October 2001 /
Charles W. Colson and Nancy Pearcey / Tyndale House Publ see
also Amazon
- A
Case Against Accident and Self-Organization / May 2001 / Dean L.
Overman / Rowman & Littlefield see also Amazon
- The
Savior of Science / July 2000 / Stanley L. Jaki / Wm. B. Eerdmans
Publ see also Amazon
JUNE 11
- Darwin
would love this debate / June 10, 2002 / Bruce Chapman and Stephen C.
Meyer / Seattle Times
- "PARTICLE
PHYSICS:
Dark-Matter 'Sighting' Returns to Shadows" requires
free registration / 7 June 2002 / Charles Seife / Science,
v.296, n.5574, p.1782-1783
- "Flood
Basalts--Bigger and Badder" requires
free registration / 7 June 2002 / Paul R. Renne / Science,
v.296, n.5574, p.1812-1813
- "40Ar/39Ar
Dates from the West Siberian Basin: Siberian Flood Basalt Province Doubled"
requires free registration
/ 7 June 2002 / Marc K. Reichow, et al. / Science, v.296, n.5574,
p.1846-1849
- More evidence for
mass extinction / 7 June 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science
update lava flow twice the size of Europe covered Siberia
- Black holes have
ring of truth / 6 June 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update
big black holes behave like little black holes
- The
Cobb County statement / May 22, 2002 / Kevin Griffis / Creative Loafing
Atlanta "This textbook contains material on
evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living
things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied
carefully and critically examined."
- In
"The Designer" We Trust? / May 14, 2002 / Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld
/ Harvard Political Review Intelligent Design theory is
right-wing fundamentalism masquerading as science
- Questioning the Orthodoxy
/ May 14, 2002 / Richard Halvorson / Harvard Political Review Intelligent
Design theory is breaking the scientific monopoly of Darwinism
- "First
steps on land: Arthropod trackways in Cambrian-Ordovician eolian sandstone,
southeastern Ontario, Canada" / May 2002 / Robert B. MacNaughton,
Jennifer M. Cole, Robert W. Dalrymple, Simon J. Braddy, Derek E.G. Briggs,
Terrence D. Lukie / Geology, v.30, n.5, p.391-394
- Reflections
on Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" / 2002 / Ray
Kurzweil
- An
Introduction to the Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution / July
2000 / Dina Prialnik / Cambridge University Press see
also Amazon
JUNE 10
- OPINION:
Love Him or Hate Him, Stephen Jay Gould Made a Difference / June 10,
2002 / Barry A. Palevitz / The Scientist, v.16, n.12, p.12
- COMMENTARY:
Stephen Jay Gould / June 10, 2002 / Ricki Lewis / The Scientist,
v.16, n.12, p.10
- A
majority of those surveyed want evolution, intelligent design to get equal
time in school / June 9, 2002 / Scott Stephens and John Mangels / Plain
Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
- Evolution
teaching mandated / June 8, 2002 / Judith Nygren / Omaha World-Herald
- Volcanic
'flood' linked to extinction / 6 June 2002 / BBC
- Physics bans
cloning / 21 May 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update it
is impossible to make an exact copy of any object, living or not
JUNE 6
- "Ecology:
Darwin's naturalization hypothesis challenged" requires
free registration / 6 June 2002 / Richard P. Duncan
and Peter A. Williams / Nature, v.417, p.608-609
- "Computational
and evolutionary aspects of language" requires
free registration / 6 June 2002 / Martin A. Nowak,
Natalia L. Komarova, and Partha Niyogi / Nature, v.417, p.611-617
- Scientific
Boehner / June 5, 2002 / Iain Murray / American Prospect the
new creationism and the congressmen who support it
- Darwinian
dogma / June 3, 2002 / Al Dobras / Washington Times
- Scientists
put love under the microscope / June 3, 2002 / Jane Lampman / Christian
Science Monitor
- Theory
of 'intelligent design' isn't ready for natural selection / June 3, 2002
/ Mindy Cameron / Seattle Times with letters to
the editor:
- Intelligent
discussion (4th, 5th, and 6th letters) / June 6, 2002 the
designer has no label; clear-eyed faith; designer's dream
- In
the beginning / June 5, 2002 whether evolution or
creation, both are still theories; a divine spark; unevolved thought;
barriers at the gate; separate but equal
- Devolution
of Ohio science / June 2, 2002 / Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, IN)
intelligent design is really repackaged creationism
- "Creation and
First Amendment Rights" (.pdf) / June 2002 / John D. Morris / Acts
& Facts, v.31, n.6, p.1-3 (Institute for Creation Research)
- "Water, Water
Everywhere ... and Not a Drop to Drink" / June 2002 / Donna L.
O'Daniel / Impact, n.348 (Institute for Creation Research) origin
of avian salt glands
- "Inquiring
Skeptics Want to Know" / June 2002 / Henry M. Morris / Back To
Genesis, n.162 (Institute for Creation Research) why
does the public believe in creation more than evolution?
- The Shamans
of Scientism / June 2002 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American
On the occasion of Stephen W. Hawking's 60th trip around
the sun, we consider a social phenomenon that reveals something deep about
human nature.
- A
Challenge to Science and Nature / May 31, 2002 / Kendra
Mayfield / Wired News (Lycos) a new journal will
challenge publishing behemoths by offering free access to research articles
- "GENOMICS:
Charting a Genome's Hills and Valleys" requires
free registration / 31 May 2002 / Elizabeth Pennisi /
Science, v.296, n.5573, p.1601-1603 some of the
noncoding DNA that was believed to be useless turns out to be highly
conserved among humans and mice--an indication that it might have an
important function after all
- "Estimating
event rates in the presence of dating error with an application to lunar
impacts" / 30 May 2002 / Andrew R. Solow / Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, v. 199, n.1-2, p. 1-6
- Evolutionist
Stephen Jay Gould Dies / May 29, 2002 / Al Dobras / Culture & Family
Report scientist tried to explain absence of evidence in
fossil record
- Evolving
dispute aptly summed up / May 26, 2002 / Carlin Romano / Philadelphia
Inquirer author pits Gould against Dawkins
- Anthropology
Afoul of the Facts / May 19, 2002 / Benjamin Wiker / National Catholic
Register Margaret Meads flights of fancy in Samoa
- Playing Games
with Good & Evil / May 1, 2002 / Benjamin Wiker / Crisis Magazine
the failure of Darwinism to explain morality
- "GEOPHENOMENA:
Mount Pelιe, Martinique 1902-2002" / May 2002 / Christina Reed / Geotimes,
v.47, n.5, p.28-29 on May 8, 1902, the eruption of Mount
Pelιe killed 28,000 people and became the century's largest volcanic
disaster
- "Revised
ages for tuffs of the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field: Assignment of the
Huckleberry Ridge Tuff to a new geomagnetic polarity event" / May
2002 / Marvin A. Lanphere, Duane E. Champion, Robert L. Christiansen, Glen
A. Izett, and John D. Obradovich / GSA Bulletin, v. 114, n. 5,
p.559-568
- Darwin
Under the Microscope / December 7, 2001 (filming) / William Dembski and
Eugenie Scott (guests) / Uncommon Knowledge (PBS and NPR) Is
it time to take Charles Darwin down a peg or two?
- In Whose Image?
/ December 7, 2001 (filming) / William Dembski, Robert Russell, and Eugenie
Scott (guests) / Uncommon Knowledge (PBS and NPR) Did
life on earth unfold by chance or by design? On this crucial question,
science and religion appear to be irreconcilable. But are they?
- The
Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates / September 2001 / Michael
Ruse / Rutgers University Press see also Amazon
- Dawkins
vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest / May 2001 / Kim Sterelny / Icon
Books see extract;
see also Amazon
- The
Salvation of Doug / William T. Sullivan / University of California,
Santa Cruz a tale of two retired scientists (biochemist
and geneticist) and some rope; see also the other point of view:
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