Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (October 2002)
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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.
OCTOBER 24
OCTOBER 22
- "Burial Box
of James the Brother of Jesus" / November-December 2002 / Andrι Lemaire /
Biblical Archaeological Review earliest archaeological
evidence of Jesus found in Jerusalem
- 'Jesus'
Inscription on Stone May Be Earliest Ever Found / October 22, 2002 / John
Noble Wilford / New York Times
- Stunning
New Evidence that Jesus Lived / Gordon Govier / October 21, 2002 /
Christianity Today scholars link first-century bone box
to James, brother of Jesus
- The
Universe Seems So Simple, Until You Have to Explain It / October 22, 2002
/ Dennis Overbye / New York Times
-
'Father' of intelligent design to visit NE Ohio / October 18, 2002 / Scott
Stephens / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
- Star orbit nails
black hole / 17 October 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update
astronomers find best evidence yet for supermassive black
hole at the Galactic centre
- Scope seeks
Universal violence / 17 October 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science
update gamma-ray vision to reveal black holes and elusive
blasts
- Inside the
Mind of God: Images and Words of Inner Space / October 2002 / Michael
Reagan (editor), Sharon Begley (introduction) / Templeton Foundation Press see also
Amazon
- The Collapse of
Evolution (video) / 2002 / Harun Yahya / Al-Attique Publishers
-
The Evolution Deceit: The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism and Its Ideological
Background / November 2001 / Harun Yahya
- The Hand of
God: Thoughts and Images Reflecting the Spirit of the Universe /
September 2001 / Michael Reagan (editor), Sharon Begley (introduction) /
Templeton Foundation Press see also
Amazon
- very Dark Energy
/ March 2001 / Karen Wright / Discover, v.22, n.3 Why
is the universe expanding faster and faster? The answer may be a form of
energy we almost can't imagine.
- The Disasters
Darwinism Brought to Humanity / January 2001 / Harun Yahya / Al-Attique
Publishers see also
Amazon
- The Creation of the
Universe / January 2001 / Harun Yahya / Al-Attique Publishers
associated video; see also
Amazon
- Herzog's
Attack on the Bible Unjustified / November 5, 1999 / Hershel Shanks /
Biblical Archaeology Review final edit appeared in Ha'aretz
Magazine
OCTOBER 18
OCTOBER 17
- "A
star in a 15.2-year orbit around the supermassive black hole at the centre of
the Milky Way"
requires free registration
/ 17 October 2002 / R. Schφdel, et al.
/ Nature, v.419, p.694-696
- Ohio
schools to teach evolution 'controversy' / October 17, 2002 / Larry Elder
/ Washington Times
- Ohio science standards
& evolution: 'Teach the controversy,' panel says / October 16, 2002 / Erin
Curry and Art Toalston / Baptist Press News
- Ohio Board
Backs Academic Freedom and Encourages Critical Analysis of Evolution /
October 15, 2002 / Discovery Institute
- Dino-mummy shows some
skin / October 14, 2002 / Alan Boyle / MSNBC fossilized
duckbill dinosaur provides rare clues about diet and appearance
-
"Mummified" Dinosaur Discovered in Montana / October 11, 2002 / Hillary
Mayell / National Geographic News
-
World's oldest tree cutting collected for cloning / October 10, 2002 / CNN
- Cosmic Repulsion / Feng Tian-Yue /
1989
OCTOBER 15
OCTOBER 14
-
Grand Designs / October 13, 2002 / Michael Ruse / Washington Post,
p.BW05 book reviews of:
-
Maintaining Creationist Integrity: A response to Kent Hovind / 11
October 2002 / Carl Wieland, Ken Ham, and Jonathan Sarfati / Answers in
Genesis
- Sex and Death: The awful
existential significance of cellular suicide / October 8, 2002 / Jim
Holt / slate.msn
- Quantum
Evolution: How Physics' Weirdest Theory Explains Life's Biggest Mystery
/ May 2002 / Johnjoe McFadden / W.W. Norton see also
Amazon
- "Construction
and Analysis of a Human-Chimpanzee Comparative Clone Map"
requires free registration
/ 4 January 2002 / Asao Fujiyama, et al. / Science, v.295, n.5552,
p.131-134
- Stem Cell
Research / Joni Eareckson Tada
-
Taming the multiverse / 14 July 2001 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist
parallel universes are no longer a figment of our
imagination; they're so real that we can reach out and touch them, and even
use them to change our world
OCTOBER 10
- Reading Discussion: No Free
Lunch / November 21, 2002 / William Dembski / International Society for
Complexity, Information, and Design sign-up for the ISCID
reading discussion on No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be
Purchased Without Intelligence; live chat with William Dembski
-
Monkey or man? Toumai, hailed as our oldest ancestor, is stirring ancient
scientific rivalries / October 10, 2002 / James Meek / The Guardian
(United Kingdom) palaeontologists are going to war over
whether bones discovered in African desert are of an ape or a proto-human
- Skull draws
daggers / 10 October 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update
rivals argue over whether the fossilized skull is more ape than
human
- "Palaeoanthropology:
Sahelanthropus or 'Sahelpithecus'?"
requires free registration
/ 10 October 2002 / Milford H. Wolpoff, Brigitte Senut, Martin Pickford, and
John Hawks / Nature, v.419, p.581-582
Brunet et al. reply, p.582
- "A
correlation between mid-ocean-ridge basalt chemistry and distance to
continents"
requires free registration
/ 10 October 2002 / Eric Humler and Jean Besse / Nature, v.419,
p.607-609
- New object puts
Pluto back in dock / 8 October 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature
science update astronomers spot largest object in Solar
System for 70 years
- The Rule: A
One-Act Play (pdf) / 2002 / Daniel Schwabauer and John Calvert /
Intelligent Design network on Intelligent Design in public
schools
OCTOBER 9
-
'Charles Darwin': The Scientist Was Celebrated, His Work Dismissed /
October 6, 2002 / John Tooby / New York Times
- Burned /
October 3, 2002 / Mark Hartwig / Wedge Update commentary on
the Cobb County, GA school board vote to let district science teachers teach
the controversy about origins
- The God
shaped Hole / October 2002 / Richard Dawkins / Dubliner (Ireland)
an assessment of the legacy of the Catholic Church in Ireland
and a plea for a religion-free society
- Veggie Bites:
Fossil suggests carnivorous dinosaurs begat vegetarian kin / September 21,
2002 / Sid Perkins / Science News Online, v.162, n.12
- Fall Reading
/ August 26, 2002 / Mark Hartwig / Wedge Update as the ID
movement has grown, more and more scholars have contributed their talents to
the cause resulting in some hot new books rolling off the presses
- World Without Design:
The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism / August 2002 / Michael C.
Rea / Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press) see also
Amazon
- Defending
Naturalism for Scientific Inference / May 2000 / Loren A. King /
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Galileo on the
World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide / May 1997 /
Galileo Galilei [translated and edited by Maurice A. Finocchiaro] / University
of California Press see also
Amazon
- Evolution vs.
Design / GodAndScience.org Is the universe a cosmic
accident or does it display Intelligent Design?
- The Anthropic
Principle Does Not Support Supernaturalism / Michael Ikeda and Bill
Jefferys / Department of Astronomy, University of Texas Austin
- Creation
Topsites listing for creation websites
- Creation SuperLibrary
a multilingual creation mega-site providing answers,
articles, special features and more
OCTOBER 7
OCTOBER 6
- "Georgia
County Opens Door to Creationism"
requires free registration
/ 4 October 2002 / Constance Holden / Science, v.298, n.5591, p.35-36
- "Bell
Labs Fires Star Physicist Found Guilty of Forging Data"
requires free registration
/ 4 October 2002 / Robert F. Service / Science, v.298, n.5591, p.30-31
- "How
Mantle Slabs Drive Plate Tectonics"
requires free registration
/ 4 October 2002 / Clinton P. Conrad and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni /
Science, v.298, n.5591, p.207-209
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SPECIAL ISSUE: The Mosquito Genome
requires free registration
/ 4 October 2002 / Science, v.298, n.5591
- The
attack on evolution: On the sixth day, post-modernism / October 3, 2002 /
The Economist a suburban school board declares that
evolution is just another theory
- "Rings
of Light Could Reveal Black Holes"
requires free registration
/ 27 September 2002 / Robert Irion / Science, v.297, n.5590, p.2188
-
Darwinism Under the Microscope: How Recent Scientific Evidence Points to
Divine Design / September 2002 / James P. Gills / Charisma House
see also
Amazon
- Unlocking
the Mysteries of Creation / September 2002 / Dennis Petersen / Master
Books see also
Amazon
-
Evolutionary Intelligence / August 2002 / Ohio Citizens for Science
includes letter from Richard Dawkins to William Dembski
- Progress in Complexity,
Information, and Design / April-September 2002 / v.1.2 & 1.3
-
Evolving Banners at the Discovery Institute / National Center for Science
Education
- Twin Cities Creation Science
Association (Minnesota)
- Creation Research (Tennessee)
-
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Arguments we think creationists
should NOT use / Answers in Genesis
-
Tree ring dating (dendrochronology) / Don Batten / Answers in Genesis
tree ring dating has been used in an attempt to extend the
calibration of carbon-14 dating earlier than historical records allow, but
this depends on temporal placement of fragments of wood (from long-dead trees)
using carbon-14 dating
- Return to
Reason / May 2001 / Stephen Toulmin / Harvard University Press
see also
Amazon
- Thomas Gold
/ October 2000 / Cornell University
OCTOBER 4
- The Adaptable
Human Body: Transhumanism and Bioethics in the 21st Century / June 27-29,
2003 / Yale University
-
The Intelligent Design Debate / November 10-15, 2002 / Hillsdale College
the second Center for Constructive Alternatives of the
2002-2003 academic year will gather leading proponents of both sides of the
debate over "intelligent design"
- RAPID: Research and Progress in
Intelligent Design (conference) / October 25-27, 2002 / Biola University,
La Mirada, California 50 scholars from the U.S. and abroad to
investigate the current state of Intelligent Design research
-
Cobb County schools can teach creationism / September 27, 2002 / Barnini
Chakraborty / Orlando Sentinel
-
Texts of the old, new policies on teaching on the issue / September 27,
2002 / Atlanta Journal-Constitution
-
Quantum cheat sullies scientific method / September 27, 2002 / Robert Lee
Hotz / Seattle Times
-
Panel Says Bell Labs Scientist Faked Discoveries / September 26, 2002 /
Kenneth Chang / New York Times
-
Human-chimp DNA difference trebled / 23 September 2002 / Andy Coghlan /
New Scientist
-
S. African Hominid Fossils May Force Rethink / September 20, 2002 /
Reuters (Yahoo! News)
- "China
Issues Rules on Fossil Excavation"
requires free registration
/ 20 September 2002 / Ding Yimin and Xiong Lei / Science, v.297,
n.5589, p.1981
- "An
unusual oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from China"
requires free registration
/ 19 September 2002 / Xing Xu, Yen-Nien Cheng, Xiao-Lin Wang, and Chun-Hsiang
Chang / Nature, v.419, p.291-293
- "Testing
time-predictable earthquake recurrence by direct measurement of strain
accumulation and release"
requires free registration
/ 19 September 2002 / Jessica Murray and Paul Segall / Nature, v.419,
p.287-291
-
Faith, Form, and Time: What the Bible Teaches and Science Confirms About
Creation and the Age of the Universe / September 2002 / Kurt P. Wise /
Broadman & Holman Publishers see also
Amazon
- Strange Matters:
Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time / September 2002
/ Tom Siegfried / Joseph Henry Press see also
Amazon
-
The Fish That Was Not a Fish / July 30, 2002 / Hannah Hoag / Discover
a 350-million-year-old fossil was labeled a fish, until close
examination revealed a pelvis and femurs
- "Shannon's
Brief Foray into Genetics" / November 2001 / James F. Crow / Genetics,
v.159, p.915-917
-
Abolishing Man: The Real Risks of Human Cloning / March 2001 / Chuck
Colson / BreakPoint
-
Human Genome Map Has Scientists Talking About the Divine / February 19,
2001 / Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle
surprisingly low number of genes raises big questions
-
Social Darwinism revisited / August 1998 / Leslie Jones / History Today
OCTOBER 3
- The Right
Questions: Truth, Meaning & Public Debate / October 2002 / Phillip E.
Johnson / InverVarsity Press see also
Amazon
- "Nuclear Decay: Evidence
for a Young World" / October 2002 / D. Russell Humphreys / Impact,
n.352 (Institute for Creation Research)
-
Researchers Identify Insect Gene Responsible for Pesticide Resistance /
September 30, 2002 / [Colorado State University] / ScienceDaily Magazine
- A
Critic at Large: The Descent of Gould / September 30, 2002 / H. Allen Orr
/ New Yorker how a paleontologist sought to
revolutionize evolution
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Ga. school board OKs alternatives to evolution / September 27, 2002 / CNN
- Genes caught
skipping from bacteria to beetle / 27 September 2002 / Kendall Powell /
Nature science update Tokyo team claims first direct
evidence of horizontal gene transfer
- Museum
researchers go on display / 27 September 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature
science update Darwin Centre to show science in action
- Evolution versus
Intelligent Design / September 27, 2002 / Press Release - American Family
Association of North Georgia 28 Georgia scientists, in
addition to 132 nation-wide call for academic freedom on Darwinism
- 'Balanced education'
in science: Atlanta-area school board holds firm / September 27, 2002 /
Art Toalston / Baptist Press
-
Creationism Not to Appear in Cobb County Public Schools / September 27,
2002 / National Center for Science Education
-
Cobb takes spotlight today over evolution / September 26, 2002 / David
Burch / Marietta Daily Journal (Georgia)
-
Cobb unanimously approves discussion of other theories / September 26,
2002 / Mia Taylor and Mary MacDonald / Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- The
Undoing of a Star Scientist / September 26, 2002 / [Michelle Delio] /
Wired News
- Physicist found
guilty of misconduct / 26 September 2002 / Geoff Brumfiel / Nature
science update Bell Labs dismisses young nanotechnologist for
falsifying data
- "Extrasolar
planets" / 26 September 2002 / Jack J. Lissauer / Nature, v.419,
p.355-358 Natural philosophers have speculated on the
existence of worlds around other suns for millennia. Now that real data are
available, we find a diversity far beyond that expected by scientists, or
science-fiction writers.
-
Scientist Seeks Body to Make New, Improved Human / September 25, 2002 /
Reuters
-
Science's controversies should be taught / September 25, 2002 / Rick
Santorum / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
-
Cobb school parents turn to cable TV to push alternative to evolution /
September 24, 2002 / Mary MacDonald / Atlanta Journal-Constitution
-
FORUM: Teaching the origins of life - Cobb / September 23, 2002 /
Atlanta Journal-Constitution readers reply
-
Study: Humans, Chimps More Different / September 23, 2002 / Yahoo! News
-
Scientists reach out to Cobb in support of disputed views / September
21, 2002 / David Burch / Marietta Daily Journal (Georgia)
-
Creation vs. Evolution Battle Evolving in Georgia / September 20, 2002 /
Lawrence Morahan / Cybercast New Service
-
The Transhumanists: The next great threat to human dignity / September 20,
2002 / Wesley J. Smith / National Review Online
- Polls take heavy
toll / 20 September 2002 / Kendall Powell / Nature science update
suicide rises under conservative rule
- New class of
black holes / 19 September 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science
update medium-sized black holes lurk in quiet corners of the
Universe
- Late quake
shakes prediction confidence / 19 September 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature
science update earthquake missing in California bodes ill for
prediction models
- Challenging
Darwin / September 19, 2002 / Jen Waters / Washington Times
on the intelligent design movement
-
Top scientists rip Cobb evolution disclaimer / September 19, 2002 / Mary
MacDonald / Atlanta Journal-Constitution
-
A Request to Help Counter the Cobb County, Ga., School Board's Actions on the
Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools / September 18, 2002 / from a
letter by Bruce Alberts to Members of the National Academy of Sciences and
Institute of Medicine who live in Georgia
- Odd dino has
rabbit-like teeth / 18 September 2002 / BBC News
-
What's Up Doc? Scientists Find Remains of a Rabbit-Like Dinosaur /
September 18, 2002 / Alex Dominguez / Associated Press
-
77 years after Scopes trial, evolution fight still rages / September 16,
2002 / Lori Horvitz / Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Force of
Habit / September-October 2002 / Christian Smith / Christianity Today
hostility and condescension toward religion in the
university
- "Paint
It Black" / September 2002 / Arthur M. Shapiro / Evolution, v.56,
n.9, p.1885-1886 comments on the peppered moth paradigm
-
Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction / September 2002 /
Gary B. Ferngren, editor / Johns Hopkins University Press see also
Amazon
- ACLU
Sues Itself Over Origins Question / August 22, 2002 / ScrappleFace.com
(News Fairly Unbalanced)
- Toward a Rational
Reconstruction of Design Inferences / Timothy J. McGrew / September 17,
2001 / Western Michigan University
- Design is not Enough!
/ July 1999 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.127 (Institute for
Creation Research)
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