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 didn’t 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 Mead’s 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:
  • The Demise of Bill / Douglas R. Kellogg

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