Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (December 2002)

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DECEMBER 30

• Alleged Clone Baby Heads to U.S. for Test / December 30, 2002 / New York Times (AP)
• Reporter Becomes Actor in Human Clone Drama / December 30, 2002 / Kenneth Chang and Jim Rutenberg / New York Times
• F.D.A. Exploring Human Cloning Claim / December 30, 2002 / Linda Greenhouse / New York Times
• Behind a Cult and Cloning / December 29, 2002 / Daniel J. Kevles / New York Times
• Cloning Claim Draws Fierce Denunciations / December 29, 2002 / New York Times (AP)
• Outrage Over Cloning Claim / December 29, 2002 / Denise Grady with Robert Pear / New York Times
• Experts Are Suspicious of Claim of Cloned Human's Birth / December 28, 2002 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
• Sect Claims First Cloned Baby / December 28, 2002 / Dana Canedy with Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• Response to News of First Human Clone / December 27, 2002 / Ray Bohlin / Probe Ministries (Richardson, TX)
• From Lake's Depths, Frozen Bacteria Are Brought Back to Life / December 24, 2002 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• False dawns in the brave world of New Genetics / December 22, 2002 / Mike Bygrave / Guardian Unlimited Observer (UK)

DECEMBER 27

• Religious Sect Says It Will Announce the First Cloned Baby / December 27, 2002 / Donald G. McNeil, Jr. / New York Times
• Our Not-So-Distant Cousin / December 27, 2002 / Lisa Brooks / New York Times — 99% of our genes are also in mice
• From science and computers, a new face of Jesus / December 26, 2002 / Jeordan Legon / CNN
• Plant's smelly trick on flies / 24 December 2002 / BBC News
• The Palette of Humankind / December 24, 2002 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• The Origin of Religions, From a Distinctly Darwinian View / December 24, 2002 / Natalie Angier / New York Times
• Word War Breaks Out in Research on Stem Cells / December 21, 2002 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Creation-Evolution Headlines
  • Billions of Nautiloids Found Buried Suddenly in Grand Canyon / December 24, 2002
  • New Ediacara Fossils Exacerbate Cambrian Explosion / December 23, 2002
• The most natural selection of all / 19 October 2002 / Telegraph (UK)
• DEBATE: "Comparisons of molecules (proteins, DNA) of various species provide independent and compelling support for the hypothesis of biological macro-evolution" / fall 2002 / Dave Thomas and Walter ReMine / New Mexicans for Science and Reason & Twin Cities Creation Science Association

DECEMBER 20

• Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe / July 2003 / Simon Conway Morris / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• "HUMAN GENETICS: Mapping Human History" requires free registration / 20 December 2002 / Mary-Claire King and Arno G. Motulsky / Science, v.298, n.5602, p.2342-2343
• "Earth's Early Atmosphere" requires free registration / 20 December 2002 / Uwe H. Wiechert / Science, v.298, n.5602, p.2341-2342
• Response to: Resolution of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that seeks to Censor Intelligent Design / December 19, 2002 / Intelligent Design Network, Managing Directors and Managers
• "A Late Triassic Impact Ejecta Layer in Southwestern Britain" requires free registration / 13 December 2002 / Gordon Walkden, Julian Parker, and Simon Kelley / Science, v.298, n.5601, p.2185-2188
• "Short-Lived Nuclides in Hibonite Grains from Murchison: Evidence for Solar System Evolution" requires free registration / 13 December 2002 / K. K. Marhas, J. N. Goswami, and A. M. Davis / Science, v.298, n.5601, p.2182-2185
• "The Draft Genome of Ciona intestinalis: Insights into Chordate and Vertebrate Origins" requires free registration / 13 December 2002 / Paramvir Dehal, et al. / Science, v.298, n.5601, p.2157-2167
• "The flux of small near-Earth objects colliding with the Earth" requires free registration / 21 November 2002 / P. Brown, R. E. Spalding, D. O. Revelle, E. Tagliaferri, and S. P. Worden / Nature, v.420, p.294-296
• "The morphogenesis of feathers" requires free registration / 21 November 2002 / Mingke Yu, Ping Wu, Randall B. Widelitz, and Cheng-Ming Chuong / Nature, v.420, p.308-312
• "Archaeoraptor's better half" requires free registration / 21 November 2002 / Zhonghe Zhou, Julia A. Clarke, and Fucheng Zhang / Nature, v.420, p.285
• "In silico simulations reveal that replicators with limited dispersal evolve towards higher efficiency and fidelity" requires free registration / 21 November 2002 / Péter Szabó, István Scheuring, Tamás Czárán, and Eörs Szathmáry / Nature, v.420, p.340-343
• Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics / September 2002 / Leon R. Kass / Encounter Books — on cloning, embryo research, the Human Genome Project, the sale of organs, and the assault on mortality itself; see also Amazon
• Charles Darwin: The Power of Place / September 2002 / Janet Browne / Knopf — see also Amazon
  • review: The origin of Darwin's genius / August 12, 2002 / Anthony Daniels / Telegraph (UK)
  • review: The origin of The Origin of Species / November 10, 2002 / Robin McKie / Guardian (UK)
• Natural Science, Chemistry, and Biochemistry / November 1994 / Terry M. Gray / American Scientific Affiliation — thinking Christianly about natural science

DECEMBER 18

• Darwin in the Classroom: Ohio allows alternatives / December 17, 2002 / John G. West, Jr. / National Review Online
• Scientists exposed as sloppy reporters / 14 December 2002 / Hazel Muir / New Scientist
• Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution (2 vol. set) / December 2002 / Niles Eldredge (editor) / ABC-CLIO — see also Amazon
• "Slow Crawl Across the Salinity Divide: Delayed Colonization of Freshwater Ecosystems by Invertebrates" / December 2002 / Molly Fritz Miller and Conrad C. Labandeira / GSA Today, v.12, n.12, p.4-10
• Science, Optics & You -- Powers of Ten / October 2002 / Michael W. Davidson / National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University — interactive Java tutorial: Milky Way, Earth, oak tree, leaf, cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA, protons
• Evolution: God's Greatest Creation / Chris Ashcraft / Creation Science Resource
• What are the Genesis "kinds"? / September 2000 / Wayne Frair / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.37, n.2, p.82-91 — baraminology--classification of created organisms
• Xujiayao - early Homo sapiens / December 1999 / Peter Brown / University of New England, Australia
• A Poet Reads Darwin / January-February 1999 / Mark Walhout / Christianity Today — on Robert Frost
• "Speciation Conference Brings Good News for Creationists" / 1997 / Carl Wieland / Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.11, n.2, p.135–136
• Invention and Evolution / October 1994 / Michael French / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon

DECEMBER 17

• Adapting to Our Own Engineering / December 17, 2002 / Robin Marantz Henig / New York Times — the world's first human clone
• Gotta Have Faith / December 17, 2002 / Paul Krugman / New York Times — guns don't kill people; Charles Darwin kills people
• New Premise in Science: Get the Word Out Quickly, Online / December 17, 2002 / Amy Harmon / New York Times — electronic challenge to the leading scientific journals
• Nibbling at a New Theory requires free registration / December 10, 2002 / Los Angeles Times — 99% of mouse and human genes are the same
• Beyond Chaos: The Underlying Theory Behind Life, the Universe, and Everything / July 2002 / Mark Ward / Thomas Dunne Books — see also Amazon
• The Prophet and the Astronomer: A Scientific Journey to the End of Time / May 2002 / Marcelo Gleiser / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon
• A Little Book of Coincidence / April 2002 / John Martineau / Walker & Co — see also Amazon
• The Biggest Bangs: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts, the Most Violent Explosions in the Universe / April 2002 / Jonathan I. Katz / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Science, Sense & Soul: The Mystical-Physical Nature of Human Existence / 2001 / Casey Blood / Renaissance Books — see also Amazon

DECEMBER 16

• Our Genes ... Our Choices / January 2003 / PBS
• Butterflies' Flights Disclose Free Spirits / December 12, 2002 / James Gorman / New York Times
• "Sex releases the speed limit on evolution" requires free registration / 12 December 2002 / Nick Colegrave / Nature, v.420, p.664-666
• Ohio Strengthens Teaching of Evolution / December 12, 2002 / New York Times
• Policy resolved on origin of life / December 11, 2002 / Scott Stephens / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• School board approves science guidelines that include evolution / December 11, 2002 / Marion Star (Ohio), Associated Press
• Ohio school board approves evolution / December 11, 2002 / Liz Sidoti / Salina Journal (Kansas), Associated Press
• New standards play down `intelligent design' / December 11, 2002 / Jennifer Mrozowski / Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio) — state board of education updates guidelines on science curricula
• ‘Design’ of life may be taught as science / December 11, 2002 / Sandra Svoboda / Toledo Blade (OH)
• ‘Intelligent design’ whimpers out in Ohio / 11 December 2002 / Michael Matthews / Answers in Genesis
• How we could create life / December 11, 2002 / Paul Davies / Guardian (UK) — the key to existence will be found not in primordial sludge, but in the nanotechnology of the living cell
• Butterflies point to micro machines / 11 December 2002 / BBC News
• Uni announces plans to clone human embryos / December 11 2002 / Sydney Morning Herald — Stanford University announced its intention to clone human embryos, becoming the first US university to publicly embrace the politically charged procedure, after receiving an anonymous $21.5 million donation
• New Ohio Science Standards Open the Door to Creationist Religious Instruction, Americans United Charges / December 10, 2002 / contact: Joseph Conn, Rob Boston / Americans United for Separation of Church and State — national group vows to go to court to fight any attempt to interject religion into Ohio public school science classes
• Robots to scrutinise Mars' rocks / 10 December 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — NASA unveils plans for pair of Mars rovers
• Goldmine yields clues for life on Mars / 9 December 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — radioactive bacteria live deep in the Earth - and maybe elsewhere
• New standards may change little in classroom / December 8, 2002 / Katie Byard / Beacon Journal (Ohio) — public school educators say alternative ideas are discussed: Christian school teaches them
• "Shapes, Numbers, Patterns, and the Divine Proportion in God's Creation" / December 2002 / Fred Willson / Impact, n.354 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Believe Me (Or Else) / 2002 / John D. Martin / Boundless Webzine (Focus on the Family) — at Texas Tech, Dr. Michael Dini claims that belief in human evolution as the sole explanation of human origins is an indispensable prerequisite for the study and practice of medicine
• Anybody Out There? Part I / 2002 / Oliver Sacks / Astrobiology Magazine

DECEMBER 10

• School board approves science guidelines that include evolution / December 10, 2002 / Liz Sidoti / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Associated Press
• Board asked to drop analysis of evolution from science standards / December 10, 2002 / Liz Sidoti / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Associated Press
• At Genetic Frontier, the House Mouse Serves Humanity / December 10, 2002 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• State board to decide on alternative to evolution / December 9, 2002 / Sandra Svoboda / Toledo Blade (OH)
• Microbes thrive in the harshest environments / December 9, 2002 / David Perlman / San Francisco Chronicle — research findings give scientists hope of discovering life on planets
• Intelligent design could offer fresh ideas on evolution / December 6, 2002 / John G. West, Jr. / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• "Kurt Gödel--Separating Truth from Proof in Mathematics" requires free registration / 6 December 2002 / Keith Devlin / Science, v.298, n.5600, p.1899-1900
• "Sequence Tells Mouse, Human Genome Secrets" requires free registration / 6 December 2002 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.298, n.5600, p.1863-1865
• Darwinian Resolution / December 4, 2002 / Mark Hartwig / Wedge Update (Access Research Network)
• New theory for origin of life / 4 December 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — mineral cells might have incubated first living things
• Using Computers, Scientists Successfully Predict Evolution of E. Coli Bacteria / November 14, 2002 / Josh Chamot, Fred Heineken / National Science Foundation
• Alien Ideas: Christianity and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life / November 4, 2002 / Benjamin D. Wiker / Crisis Magazine

DECEMBER 6

• The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega—The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe / January 2003 / John D. Barrow / Pantheon Books — see also Amazon
• Similarities Found in Mouse Genes and Human's / December 5, 2002 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• "Mining the mouse genome" requires free registration / 5 December 2002 / Allan Bradley / Nature, v.420, p.512-514 — we have the draft sequence -- but how do we unlock its secrets?
• The Mouse Genome / 5 December 2002 / Nature — the complete initial sequence and analysis of the mouse genome -- the experimental key to the human genome -- and all content from the mouse genome special issue is available free
• "Thermal alteration of the Earth's oldest fossils" requires free registration / 5 December 2002 / Józef Kazmierczak and Barbara Kremer / Nature, v.420, p.477-478

DECEMBER 4

• Revolutionary New Theory for Origins of Life on Earth / December 4, 2002 / Royal Society / ScienceDaily
• The Dick Staub Interview: Phillip Johnson / December 3, 2002 / Christianity Today — asking the right questions is at the heart of the evolution debate
• Survival of the Slickest / December 2, 2002 / Chris Mooney / The American Prospect, v.13, n.22 — how anti-evolutionists are mutating their message
• Weird Science? A Darwinian Debate Continues / November 11, 2002 / Jonathan Wells / Christianity Today
• The 2002 Denali Fault earthquake Magnitude 7.9 near Denali National Park, AK / November 3, 2002 / U.S. Geological Survey
• Origin of Life a Complex Question (letter) / November 2002 / Richard Jones, David Keller, Phil Skell, Fred Skiff, and David Snoke / APS News (American Physical Society), v.11, n.11, p.4
• Triggering Abrupt Climate Change: Can Global Warming Cause an "Ice Age" / November 2002 / Robert B. Gagosian / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
• Strangling science / October 23, 2002 / Bill Berkowitz / Working For Change — Intelligent Design activist: 'Darwin's dike is finally breaking down'
• Upheaval in Physics: History of the Light-Speed Debate / July 2002 / Helen D. Setterfield / Koinonia House Online
• Critics Rave Over Icons of Evolution: A Response to Published Reviews / June 12, 2002 / Jonathan Wells / Discovery Institute
• Inherit The Spin: Darwinists Answer “Ten Questions” with Evasions and Falsehoods / January 15, 2002 / Jonathan Wells / Discovery Institute
• "Deep-Earth reactor: Nuclear fission, helium, and the geomagnetic field" / September 25, 2001 / D. F. Hollenbach and J. M. Herndon / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, v.98, n.20, p.11085-11090
• An Evolution Revolution / March 20, 2001 / Tiffany Mayer / Discovery Channel — radioactive dating of Nanjing Man, the name given to a Homo erectus fossil found in China
• Science as Process or Dogma? The Case of the Peppered Moth / 1999 / Craig Holdrege / Elemente der Naturwissenschaft, v.70, p.39-51

DECEMBER 3

• Experts Question Authenticity of Bone Box for 'Brother of Jesus' / December 3, 2002 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Conflict resolution / 2 December 2002 / Sanjida O'Connell / Independent (UK) — zoologists used to believe that violence in human society could be traced to higher primates' natural propensity for aggression, but a new theory says that apes are not antagonistic at all
• "What Are They Afraid Of?" / December 2002 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.168 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science—From the Babylonians to the Maya / November 2002 / Dick Teresi / Simon & Schuster — see also Amazon
• Newton: The Making of Genius / November 2002 / Patricia Fara / Columbia University Press — see also Amazon
• Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics / October 2002 / Amir D. Aczel / Four Walls Eight Windows
• Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time / September 2002 / Tom Siegfried / Joseph Henry Press (National Academies Press) — see also Amazon
• The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science / June 2002 / Taner Edis / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe / July 2001 / Matt Young / 1st Books Library — see also Amazon
• The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup / February 2001 / Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada / Perseus Publishing — see also Amazon
• God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe / November 2000 / Amir D. Aczel / Delta (Random House) — see also Amazon

DECEMBER 2

• Fall of fireball in Alberta caught on tape / 2 December 2002 / CBC News (Canada)
• 'Lost Discoveries': The Non-Western Roots of Science / December 1, 2002 / Stephen S. Hall / New York Times
• Pow! Splat! Take That, You Darwin Disparagers! / Think Tank / November 30, 2002 / New York Times
• Between Science and Spirituality / November 29, 2002 / John Horgan / Chronicle of Higher Education
• "Cosmic Rays, Clouds, and Climate" requires free registration / 29 November 2002 / K. S. Carslaw, R. G. Harrison, and J. Kirkby / Science, v.298, n.5599, p.1732-1737
• "A Quickie Birth for Jupiters and Saturns" requires free registration / 29 November 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.298, n.5599, p.1698-1699
• Big Planets Form in Hundreds of Years, Not Millions / November 28, 2002 / Deborah Zabarenko / Reuters
• Astronomers simulate formation of giant gas planets / 28 November 2002 / CBC News (Canada)
• "Recycled dehydrated lithosphere observed in plume-influenced mid-ocean-ridge basalt" requires free registration / 28 November 2002 / Jacqueline Eaby Dixon, Loretta Leist, Charles Langmuir, and Jean-Guy Schilling / Nature, v.420, p.385-389 — a substantial uncertainty in the Earth's global geochemical water cycle is the amount of water that enters the deep mantle through the subduction and recycling of hydrated oceanic lithosphere
• Molting Habits May Have Led to Extinction of Trilobite / November 25, 2002 / Michigan State University / ScienceDaily
• "Primate Origins Nailed" requires free registration / 22 November 2002 / Eric J. Sargis / Science, v.298, n.5598, p.1564-1565
• Raëlian Movement supports ID Theory / November 15, 2002 / PR Web — support of the Intelligent Design Movement and their attempt to promote the teaching of ID theory within science classes
  • Raël — life originated, not from evolution, not from God, but from an extraterrestrial intelligence
• The Blank Slate: Denying Human Nature in Modern Life / September 2002 / Steven Pinker / Viking Press (Penguin) — see also Amazon
• DOES ID = DI? Reflections on the Intelligent Design Movement / 28 September 2001 / Howard J. Van Till / Christians in Science Conference: How does God Act in the World?

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