Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (September 2002)

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SEPTEMBER 18

• Conservative Churches Grew Fastest in 1990's, Report Says / September 18, 2002 / Laurie Goodstein / New York Times
• "Runaway Universe" May Collapse In 10 Billion Years, New Studies Predict / September 17, 2002 / Stanford University / ScienceDaily
• A Matter of Time / September 2002 / Scientific American — special issue
• How to Build a Time Machine: It wouldn't be easy, but it might be possible / September 2002 / Paul Davies / Scientific American
• Meet the missing link (wink, wink) / August 26, 2002 / Samantha Levine / U.S. News & World Report — on the Piltdown Hoax
• Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale / August 2002 / Judith Hooper / W. W. Norton — Mutant moths and feuding scientists -- the real story behind the most famous experiment in twentieth-century evolutionary biology. It was a world-famous example of evolution in action, and it was rigged. How the case of the peppered moth proved that "scientific fact" sometimes isn't either.
  • review: September 18, 2002 / Alison Motluk / salon.com
  • review: Roy Herbert / New Scientist
  • review: Darwinism's Dark Secret: The strange case of the mutant moths / September 2002 / Laurence Marschall / Discover, v.23, n.9 — see 3rd review on page
  • review: Evolution takes wings in Moths / August 20, 2002 / Michael Kenney / Boston Globe
  • review: Darwinism in a flutter / May 11, 2002 / Peter D. Smith / The Guardian (UK)
  • review: Peppered moths and a pinch of salt / 15 April 2002 / Marek Kohn / This Is London
  • see also Amazon
• Eukaryotic Origins: Revolution in the Classification of Life / July 31, 2002 / Stephen Hart / Astrobiology Magazine
• In its second major test, Intelligent Design seems headed for decisive victory in Ohio / July 22, 2002 / Ted & Virginia Byfield / Report (Canada)
• Response to: Ohio Academy of Science / June 7, 2002 / William S. Harris, John H. Calvert, Jody F. Sjogren / Intelligent Design Network, Inc. — a response to a resolution by the Ohio Academy of Science advocating the teaching of cosmic, geological and biological evolution and the censorship of "Intelligent Design" in public school science education
• Barry Setterfield: Research Library
• The writings of Charles Darwin on the web / John van Wyhe
• Associates for Biblical Research — demonstrating through field work the historical reliability of the Scriptures
• Astrobiology: The Quest for the Conditions of Life / 2001 / Gerda Horneck and Christa Baumstark-Khan, editors / Springer Verlag — see also Amazon
• How a 20th Century eye operation shows the Bethsaida miracle actually happened / June 9, 1997 / Keith Mano / National Review
• Behe Responds to Postings in Talk Origins Newsgroup / 16 October 1996 / Mike Behe / Access Research Network

SEPTEMBER 17

• Climate and water / 12 September 2002 / Nature — As floods devastated central Europe and Asia this summer, climate scientists found themselves in great demand from journalists struggling to explain the connections between recent catastrophic weather and expected long-term changes in climate.
• Hubble sees 'wheel within wheel' / 8 September 2002 / David Whitehouse / BBC News
• "Holography Stabilizes the Vacuum Energy" / 19 August 2002 / Scott Thomas / Physical Review Letters, v.89, 081301 — Gravitational holography is argued to render the cosmological constant stable against divergent quantum corrections, thus providing a technically natural solution to the cosmological constant problem.
• Creation Science and Earth History / John Stear / Evolution Education Site Ring
• Short Articles by Scientist and Author John Woodmorappe
• Woodmorappe's Fraudulent Attacks on Radiometric Dating Exposed / Kevin R. Henke
• Radiometric Dating / David A. Plaisted — includes photo gallery of dating errors

SEPTEMBER 15

•  "A Little Respect for the Asteroid Threat" requires free registration / 13 September 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.297, n.5588, p.1785-1787
• "GEOCHEMISTRY: The Solar System's First Clocks" requires free registration / 6 September 2002 / Jamie Gilmour / Science, v.297, n.5587, p.1658-1659
• "PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Can a Fossil Be Too Accessible?" requires free registration / 30 August 2002 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.297, n.5586, p.1465
•  "Glasnost for Hominids: Seeking Access to Fossils" requires free registration / 30 August 2002 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.297, n.5586, p.1464-1468
•  "'Speech Gene' Tied to Modern Humans" requires free registration / 16 August 2002 / Michael Balter / Science, v.297, n.5584, p.1105
• "EVOLUTION: Could Poor Nutrition Have Held Life Back?" requires free registration / 16 August 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.297, n.5584, p.1104-1105
•  "Gene Duplication and Evolution" requires free registration / 9 August 2002 / Michael Lynch / Science, v.297, n.5583, p.945-947
• Storms from the Sun: The Emerging Science of Space Weather / May 2002 / Michael J. Carlowicz and Ramon E. Lopez / Joseph Henry Press (National Academy Press) — see also Amazon
• From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century / May 2002 / F. David Peat / Joseph Henry Press (National Academy Press) — see also Amazon
• Ocean Drilling Program / U.S. National Science Foundation
• Nick Pollard talks to Dr. Richard Dawkins / April 1995 / Third Way, v.18, n.3
• Is the Basis of Morality Natural or Supernatural? / October 8, 1993 / Richard Taylor and William Lane Craig (debate) / Union College, Schenectady, New York

SEPTEMBER 13

• What Sort of Property is Specified Complexity? / 29 August 2002 / William A. Dembski / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
• "Intelligent Design Creationism: None of Your Business? Think Again" / August 2002 / Barry A. Palevitz / Evolution, v.56, n.8, p.1718-1720
• "Antler Size in Red Deer: Heritability and Selection but no Evolution" / August 2002 / Loeske E. B. Kruuk, et al. / Evolution, v.56, n.8, p.1683-1695
• The Future of Spacetime / May 2002 / Stephen Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon
• Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World / December 2001 / Leslie Alan Horvitz / John Wiley — see also Amazon
• Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth / November 2001 / James Lawrence Powell / Free Press (Simon & Schuster) — see also Amazon
• Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time / November 2001 / Martin Gorst / Broadway Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries / October 2001 / Steven Weinberg / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time / May 2001 / J. Richard Gott / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon
• Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History / May 2000 / Alexander Waugh / Carroll & Graf — see also Amazon
• In the Minds of Men: Darwin and the New World Order / October 1999 / Ian T. Taylor / TFE Publishing, Toronto — see also Amazon and Barnes & Noble
• Evolution and the Origin of Life / August 1998 / Stu Pullen — the theory of evolution does not explain the origin of complexity or the origin of life
• Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation / January 1996 / John F. Haught / Paulist Press— see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 12

• Earth Science Week / October 13-19, 2002 / American Geological Institute
• Two new Neanderthals turn up / 10 September 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — palaeontologists strike gold in nineteenth-century rubbish
• "Intelligent-Design Proponents Seek Spot in Social-Studies Class" / September 10, 2002 / Catherine Candisky / Columbus Dispatch (Ohio), p.3B
• First gravity measurement this weekend / 6 September 2002 / Ed Gerstner / Nature science update — scientists jump at the chance to test Einstein's general theory of relativity
• Lost Neanderthal baby found / 5 September 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — fossil infant skeleton could shed light on hominid development
• Triassic reptile saw red / 5 September 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — resurrected protein suggests that crocodiles' ancestors roamed at night
• Scientists wrangle with questions of faith / September 5, 2002 / G. Jeffrey MacDonald / Christian Science Monitor
• A Theory of Evolution, for Robots / September 5, 2002 / Lakshmi Sandhana / wired.com — if you can't program a robot to fly, then program it so it will figure out how to fly without your help
• Keeping up with the science that goes beyond Darwin / September 4, 2002 / Andrea Neal / Indianapolis Star
• Creationists Fight Back! / September 2002 / Brad Harrub and Bert Thompson / Apologetics Press — a review of U.S. News & World Report’s cover story on evolution
• 15 Answers to John Rennie and Scientific American's Nonsense / September 2002 / Bert Thompson and Brad Harrub / Apologetics Press
• "Lawrence Berkeley Lab Concludes that Evidence of Element 118 Was a Fabrication" / September 2002 / Bertram Schwarzschild / Physics Today, p.15-17
• The Right Questions: Truth, Meaning & Public Debate / September 2002 / Phillip E. Johnson / InterVarsity Press — see also Amazon
• An Unbeautiful Mind / August 2, 2002 / Simon Blackburn / The New Republic Online — reviews of
  • The God of Hope and the End of the World / 2002 / John C. Polkinghorne / Yale University Press — see also Powell's Books
  • Faith, Science and Understanding / 2000 / John C. Polkinghorne / Yale University Press
• "Differential incision of the Grand Canyon related to Quaternary faulting — Constraints from U-series and Ar/Ar dating" / August 2002 / Joel Pederson, Karl Karlstrom, Warren Sharp, and William McIntosh / Geology, v.30, n.8, p.739–742
• "Rate of plate creation and destruction: 180 Ma to present" / August 2002 / David B. Rowley / Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.114, n. 8, p.927–933
• Creationists of the World Unite! / 13 July 2002 / Gordon Lewis / Leadership University (Campus Crusade for Christ)
• An Evolving Dialogue: Theological and Scientific Perspectives on Evolution, 2nd edition / August 2001 / James B. Miller (editor) / Trinity Press — see also Amazon
• "Junk DNA: evolutionary discards or God's tools?" (pdf) / 2000 / Linda K. Walkup / Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.14, n.2, p.18-30
• Evolving Arguments (letters) / January 1997 / Earl Aagaard, Glenn Niblock / reason online — Michael Ruse is livid at Phillip Johnson in his review of Johnson's book Reason in the Balance

SEPTEMBER 11

• State science debate approaches / September 11, 2002 / Angela An / Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) — Ohio's state board of education will decide in October if evolution should be the only theory taught in science classrooms

SEPTEMBER 4

• Adventist Scholars and Leaders Begin Faith and Science Conversation (Ogden, Utah) / September 3, 2002 / Ray Dabrowski / Adventist New Network
• Light switch turns genes on and off / 2 September 2002 / Christopher Surridge / Nature science update — scientists have a new way to watch genes in action
• "Evolution: The Secret Behind the Propaganda" / September 2002 / Margaret Helder / Impact, n.351 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "The Light of the World" / September 2002 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.165 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "There They Go Again! Another Missing Link" (.pdf) / September 2002 / John D. Morris / Acts & Facts, v.31, n.9, p.1-2
• The race to find out how the universe will end / September 2002 / Corey S. Powell / Discover, v.23, n.9 — two young astronomers run a daring competition to see who can be first to uncover one of the greatest mysteries of the cosmos
• Intermediate Stages: A Problem for Evolutionary Gradualism / August 31, 2002 / John Runyan / Intelligent Design Undergraduate Research Center 
• AiG’s views on the Intelligent Design Movement / 30 August 2002 / Carl Wieland / Answers in Genesis
• Satellite Search Underway For Noah's Ark / 30 August 2002 / Leonard David / space.com
• Planets were precocious / 29 August 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — Earth and Mars were born 20 million years earlier than thought
• "Rapid accretion and early core formation on asteroids and the terrestrial planets from Hf–W chronometry" requires free registration / 29 August 2002 / T. Kleine, C. Mόnker, K. Mezger, and H. Palme / Nature, v.418, p.952-955
• "A short timescale for terrestrial planet formation from Hf–W chronometry of meteorites" requires free registration / 29 August 2002 / Qingzhu Yin, S. B. Jacobsen, K. Yamashita, J. Blichert-Toft, P. Tιlouk, and F. Albarθde / Nature, v.418, p.949-952
• Earth formed faster than thought: geologists / 28 August 2002 / CBC News (Canada)
• Making monkeys out of evolutionists / August 27, 2002 / Cal Thomas / TownHall.com
• Evolution and free speech / August 26, 2002 / Cal Thomas / Bakersfield Californian — It's back-to-school time. That means school supplies, clothes, packing lunches and the annual battle over what can be taught.
• Scots scientists challenge rules of evolution / 26 August 2002 / Frank Urquhart / The Scotsman (Scotland's National Newspaper)
• Next ice age on ice? / 23 August 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — another big freeze might never happen
• Georgia School Board Requires Balance of Evolution and Bible / August 23, 2002 / Kate Zernike / New York Times
• Fossils Help Determine When Humans, Apes Diverged / August 23, 2002 / National Geographic
• The Cosmic Code / August 19, 2002 / Charles W. Petit / U. S. News & World Report
• Evolutionists Present Their 1.3% Solution / August 19, 2002 / Leslie Pray / The Scientist, v.16 — altered gene expression could explain the genetic difference between human and chimp
• Gene leaves apes speechless / 15 August 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — great apes lack nuts and bolts of language gene
• Language Gene Is Traced to Emergence of Humans / August 15, 2002 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• "A primitive fish close to the common ancestor of tetrapods and lungfish" requires free registration / 15 August 2002 / Min Zhu and Xiaobo Yu / Nature, v.418, p.767-770
• Fossil fuel without the fossils / 14 August 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — petroleum: animal, vegetable or mineral?
• 'A Nuclear Bomb' For Evolution? / August 14, 2002 / Todd Hertz / Christianity Today — critics of Darwinism say skull's discovery isn't all it's cracked up to be
• Is physics watching over us? / 13 August 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — our Universe is so unlikely that we must be missing something
• Kansas town lighted fuse of Ohio feud over origins / August 12, 2002 / Scott Stephens / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Nature, Brought to You by ... / August 11, 2002 / Matt Richtel / New York Times — genetic technology that might dictate what colors appear on butterfly wings
• The Wife Beaters of Kibale / August 11, 2002 / Eugene Linden / Time — author of a new book offers a glimpse of evolution in action, as chimps in Uganda take up arms
• Clever crows know their tools / 9 August 2002 / Kendall Powell / Nature science update — birds have rare talent for tool-making
• Speed of light slowing down after all? / 9 August 2002 / Carl Wieland / Answers in Genesis — famous physicist makes headlines
• Einstein's theory may be relatively wrong / August 8, 2002 / CNN — crux of Einstein's theory of relativity -- that E=mc² -- is under challenge, following evidence that the speed of light might be slowing down
• Einstein's relativity theory hits a speed bump / August 8, 2002 / David Wroe / The Age (Australia) — light isn't quite as fast as it used to be
• Speed of light has changed, claims Macquarie physicist / 8 August 2002 / Public Relations, Macquarie University, Australia
• "Cosmology: Black holes constrain varying constants" requires free registration / 8 August 2002 / P. C. W. Davies, Tamara M. Davis, and Charles H. Lineweaver / Nature, v.418, p.602-603
• "Reassessing the evidence for the earliest traces of life" requires free registration / 8 August 2002 / Mark A. van Zuilen, Aivo Lepland, and Gustaf Arrhenius / Nature, v.418, p.627-630 
• Charmed by Six Feet of Circuitry / August 8, 2002 / Curtis Gillespie / New York Times — robot debut at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Redrawing Humanity's Family Tree  / August 6, 2002 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times — two ancient skulls have shaken the human family tree to its roots, sending scientists scrambling to see if their favorite theories are among the fallen fruit
• Earth's girth grows / 2 August 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — our planet's waistline is mysteriously increasing
• Forever Young / August 2002 / Ronald Bailey / reason online — the new scientific search for immortality
• Pathway to the Stars / August 2002 / Tim Folger / Discover, v.23, n.8 — the narrow road up Mauna Kea leads to the deep sky
• Nuclear Planet / August 2002 / Brad Lemley / Discover, v. 23, n. 8 — Is there a five-mile-wide ball of hellaciously hot uranium seething at the center of the Earth?
• Celestial Fireworks / August 2002 / Karen Wright / Discover, v. 23, n. 8 — gamma-ray bursts illuminate the farthest reaches of space
• Not Out of Africa / August 2002 / Joseph D'Agnese / Discover, v. 23, n. 8 — Alan Thorne's challenging ideas about human evolution
• Top Scientists to Hold Summit on Cosmology, Evolution, Neuroscience, Biotechnology, and the Abrahamic Faiths (Granada, Spain) / July 17, 2002 / contact: Silas Deane / Religion News Service
• Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate Pseudoscience / April 30, 2002 / Lawrence M. Krauss / New York Times
• The Trilobite Eye / 2 February 2002 / S. M. Gon III
• The Big Myth / 2002 / International Association of Intercultural Education / Dutch Ministry of Education and Culture — experimental learning module designed for use in European primary school classrooms; a sociology textbook for the comparative study of world creation mythology
• No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence / November 2001 / William A. Dembski / Rowman & Littlefield — see also Amazon
  • review: Summer 2002 / H. Allen Orr / Boston Review
  • response: Sheer vs. Real Possibilities: A Response to Allen Orr / William A. Dembski / August 2002
  • review: "On Dembski's Law of Conservation of Information" (pdf) / Erik
  • response: If Only Darwinists Scrutinized Their Own Work as Closely: A Response to "Erik" / William A. Dembski / August 2002
• Assault on Evolution / February 28, 2001 / Larry Arnhart / salon.com — the religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory
• The Human Brain Testifies Against Evolution: Confession of a neurosurgeon / December 2000 / C. P. Yu / Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
• "Evolution as a Religion: A Comparison of Prophecies" / June 1987 / Mary Midgley / Zygon (Journal of Science and Religion), v.22, n.2, p.179-194

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