Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (October 2002)

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OCTOBER 24

• Intelligent Design advocate lauds state plan on teaching evolution / October 23, 2002 / Scott Stephens / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Proposed science standards flawed / October 22, 2002 / Lawrence M. Krauss / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Scholar Touts Oldest Link to Jesus / October 21, 2002 / Associated Press

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

• Inherited Debate / October 18, 2002 / Pamela R. Winnick / National Review Online — Ohio classrooms get a second opinion on evolution
• Intelligent Design & Evolution Awareness Conference / September 27-28, 2002 / University of San Francisco — official IDEA Center report; is neo-Darwinism the only explanation for life's complexity?
• The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science / March 1998 / Peter Harrison / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought / February 1996 / John C. Greene / Iowa State University Press — see also Amazon

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

• Panel approves science guidelines / October 15, 2002 / Scott Stephens / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Committee compromises on wording of science guidelines / October 15, 2002 / Catherine Candisky / Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
• Ohio students should be taught evolution, school board panel says / October 14, 2002 / Liz Sidoti / Associated Press ... Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)

OCTOBER 14

• Grand Designs / October 13, 2002 / Michael Ruse / Washington Post, p.BW05 — book reviews of:
  • Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science from the Babylonians to the Maya / November 2002 / Dick Teresi / Simon & Schuster — see also Amazon
  • Charles Darwin: The Power of Place / September 2002 / Janet Browne / Knopf — see also Amazon
  • In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History / September 2002 / Michael Shermer / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• 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

• The God of Hope and the End of the World / April 2002 / John C. Polkinghorne / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
• Is Nature Supernatural? A Philosophical Exploration of Science and Nature / March 2002 / Simon L. Altmann / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• Science, Faith and Ethics / November 2001 / Larry L. Hench / Imperial College Press — see also Amazon
• Volcanoes in America's National Parks / August 2001 / Robert Decker and Barbara Decker / Odyssey Publications (W. W. Norton) — Double Decker Press; book reviews: #1, #2, #3; see also Amazon
• Fundamentals of Cosmology / July 2001 / James Rich / Springer Verlag — see also Amazon
• Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist / 1994 / Adrian Desmond and James Moore / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon

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
• 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
  • review: Returning to Reason Reasonably / August-September 2002 / Peter Berkowitz / First Things, n.125, p.61-63
• Thomas Gold / October 2000 / Cornell University
  • The Deep Hot Biosphere / April 1, 2002 / Oil and Gas International
  • Fuel's Paradise / July 2000 / Oliver Morton / Wired — world-class contrarian Thomas Gold has a theory about life on the planet: it's pumping out of the Earth's crust - and it's swimming in oil
  • The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels / May 2001 / Thomas Gold / Copernicus Books (Springer-Verlag) — see also Amazon
  • Tom Gold, Oil Man / November 1, 1999 / Ken Ringle / Washington Post, p.C01 — a scientific heretic says we'll never have to worry about running out of gas
  • Deep Dwellers: Microbes thrive far below ground / March 29, 1997 / Richard Monastersky / Science News Online
  • The Deep, Hot Biosphere / July 1992 / Thomas Gold / 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
  • review: 'Strange Matters': Mathematics and the Playful Side of Physics / September 29, 2002 / Jon Turney / New York Times
• 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
  • commentary: The Right Conclusions / September 30, 2002 / Charles Colson / BreakPoint
• "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
• 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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