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    — News Archive (January 2003)

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JANUARY 29

• Season of Fire / February 2003 / Betsy Mason / Discover, v.24, n.2 — after centuries of trying to make sense of numbers and observations, researchers may finally have discovered the time of year volcanoes are most likely to erupt
• New four-winged feathered dinosaur? / January 28, 2003 / Jonathan Sarfati / Answers in Genesis
• Ants, Mushroom and Mold: An Evolutionary Arms Race / January 28, 2003 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Birth Pangs / January 28, 2003 / C. Claiborne Ray / New York Times — Why do humans, unlike virtually all other mammals, experience so much pain in giving birth?
• Cloned Cows Are Engineered for Faster Cheese Production / January 27, 2003 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• Clones to cut cheese costs? / 27 January 2003 / Hannah Hoag / Nature science update — protein-rich milk from modified cows could speed dairy processing
• Ultrapowerful X-Rays Reveal How Beetles Really Breathe / January 24, 2003 / Laura Wright / Scientific American
• Dark matter halos found? / 23 January 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — astrophysicists spot solution to puzzle of quasars' quick formation
• Language evolved in a leap / 22 January 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — conflicting needs may have driven rapid development of communication
• Is this how life on Earth began? / 21 January 2003 / Paul Davies / Telegraph (UK)
• Hour Two: Einstein, Cosmology and the Speed of Light / January 17, 2003 / Science Friday

JANUARY 24

• On Evolution and Growth, Clues From Birds' Beaks / January 24, 2003 / New York Times (Associated Press)
• "Four-Winged Dinos Create a Flutter" requires free registration / 24 January 2003 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.299, n.5606, p.491
• Universal truths / January 23, 2003 / Paul Davies / The Guardian (UK) — scientific discovery does not make the cosmos seem increasingly pointless
• Smearing a Skeptic / January 23, 2003 / Bjorn Lomborg / Wall Street Journal — something is rotten in the state of Denmark
• "Spiritual link is part of traditional knowledge" requires free registration / 23 January 2003 / Lynda Kitchikeesic Juden / Nature, v.421, p.313
• Palaeontology: Up in the air / 23 January 2003 / Nature — the discovery of the fossil of a tiny feathered dinosaur with flight feathers on its hindlimbs as well as its forelimbs will put the cat amongst the pigeons in palaeontological circles
• Fossil of 4-Winged Dinosaur Casts Light on Birds and Flight / January 23, 2003 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• A four-winged fossil upends accepted science / January 23, 2003 / Mark Sappenfield / Christian Science Monitor
• Four-winged dinos from China / 23 January 2003 / BBC News
• Fossil boosts trees-down start for flight / 23 January 2003 / Henry Gee / Nature science update — four-winged dinosaur fuels debate over evolution of air-borne birds
• Four-winged dinosaur fossil found / January 22, 2003 / MSNBC (Associated Press) — ‘weirdest creature’ sparks debate among scientists about the origins of birds
• Bible Creation Wins Admission in State Survey / January 22, 2003 / David Callender / The Capital Times (Madison, WI)

JANUARY 22

• Raelian cloning beliefs illustrate dangers of naturalistic worldview / January 21, 2003 / James Dotson / Baptist Press News
• RNA Trades Bit Part for Starring Role in the Cell / January 21, 2003 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• Fickle Evolution: Winged, to Wingless, to Winged / January 21, 2003 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• A Liberty Not Fully Evolved? / January 21, 2003 / Francis J. Beckwith / San Diego Law Review — the case of Rodney Levake and the right of public school teachers to criticize Darwinism
• Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design / January 2003 / Francis J. Beckwith / Rowman & Littlefield — see also Amazon
• An unlocked door… / January 2003 / Al Gotch / Answers in Genesis — an alternate view of the recent Intelligent Design (ID) ruling in the state of Ohio
• Strangest Volcano on Earth / January 2003 / Joel K. Bourne, Jr. / National Geographic — in a remote corner of Tanzania stands an astonishing mountain called Ol Doinyo Lengai, where lava fountains harden in midair then shatter like glass
• "Extremely rapid cooling of a carbonaceous-chondrite chondrule containing very ¹⁶O-rich olivine and a ²⁶Mg-excess" / 15 December 2002 / Hisayoshi Yurimoto and John T. Wasson / Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.66, n.24, p.4355-4363
• Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science, 2nd ed. / November 2002 / Michael White and John R. Gribbin / Joseph Henry Press (National Academies Press) — see also Amazon
• Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence / May 2002 / John R. Skoyles and Dorion Sagan / McGraw-Hill — see also Amazon
• What Is Life? / August 2000 / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan / University of California Press — see also Amazon

JANUARY 20

• Fifth International Conference on Creationism / August 4-9, 2003 / Geneva College — theme: developing and systematizing the creation model of origins
• Gone Ape / January 19, 2003 / Charles McGrath / New York Times
• Chicks Offer Insight Into Origin of Flight / January 17, 2003 / James Gorman / New York Times
• "EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: Uphill Dash May Have Led to Flight" requires free registration / 17 January 2003 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.299, n.5605, p.329
• "Confirmation of Gravity's Speed? Not So Fast" requires free registration / 17 January 2003 / Robert Irion / Science, v.299, n.5605, p.323-324
• "Loss and recovery of wings in stick insects" requires free registration / 16 January 2003 / Michael F. Whiting, Sven Bradler, and Taylor Maxwell / Nature, v.421, p.264-267
• Stick insect forces evolutionary rethink / 15 January 2003 / Nicola Jones / New Scientist
• Frequently Asked Questions about Intelligent Design / 2003 / Mark Hartwig / Access Research Network
• Intelligent Design and Evolutionary Awareness (IDEA) Clubs
  • California State University, Sacramento
  • University of Texas, Dallas
  • Vanderbilt University

JANUARY 16

• Bug Study May Give Wings to Re-evolution Theory / January 16, 2003 / Greg Lavine / Salt Lake Tribune
• Concerns Raised Over Altered Fish / January 15, 2003 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• In a Lab on Long Island, a Visit to the Big Bang / January 14, 2003 / William J. Broad / New York Times
• In Galaxies Near and Far, New Views of Universe Emerge / January 14, 2003 / John Noble Wilford  / New York Times
• Scientists Find Clues to the Earliest Objects / January 10, 2003 / John Noble Wilford  / New York Times
• "Relativity Goes Where Einstein Sneered to Tread" requires free registration / 10 January 2003 / Charles Seife / Science, v.299, n.5604, p.185
• "Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture" requires free registration / 3 January 2003 / Carel P. van Schaik, Marc Ancrenaz, Gwendolyn Borgen, Birute Galdikas, Cheryl D. Knott, Ian Singleton, Akira Suzuki, Sri Suci Utami, and Michelle Merrill / Science, v.299, n.5603, p.102-105
• "SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT: More of Bell Labs Physicist's Papers Retracted" requires free registration / 3 January 2003 / Robert F. Service / Science, v.299, n.5603, p.31
• Second Thoughts on Fine-Tuning / Winter 2003 / Jeremy Patrick / Free Inquiry, v.23, n.1
• Probabilities of randomly assembling a primitive cell on Earth (.pdf) / October-December 2002 / Dermott J. Mullan / Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, v.1.4
• Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (.pdf) / October-December 2002 / Granville Sewell / Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, v.1.4
• Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation / September 2002 / Dennis R. Peterson / Master Books — see also Amazon
  • review: Unleashing the Storm / 13 January 2003 / Answers in Genesis — with heavy heart, AiG must give strong ‘thumbs down’ to beautifully-presented new creationist book
• The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe / July 2002 / Timothy Ferris / William Morrow (Harper-Collins) — see also Amazon

JANUARY 15

• Researchers create novel life form / January 13, 2003 / Christine Suh / Washington Times (UPI Science News)
• Ancient tablet echoes Bible passage / January 13, 2002 / MSNBC (Associated Press) — scientists trying to authenticate find, which has murky origins; the 15-line inscription on the tablet, written in ancient Hebrew, details repair plans for the Jewish Temple of King Solomon
• Young Universe gets busy / 10 January 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — astronomers see cosmic activity from 13 billion years ago
• Evolution versus creationism: Scientists see them differently / January 9, 2003 / Rex Springston / Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
• Speed of gravity and light equal / 8 January 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — Einstein's theory of general relativity passes quasar test
• Camera gets deepest view of Universe / 8 January 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — galaxy group helps Hubble look back in time
• Black Crunch jams Universal cycle / 23 December 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — space might end up dark, thick and boring
• Scientists Ask: What Is a Gene, Anyway? / December 18, 2002 / Matthew Herper / Forbes
• Interior Design / Winter 2002 / James D. Smith III / Christian History (Christianity Today) — sixteenth-century students of anatomy saw the hand of God in the intricacies of the body
• God against Darwin / Robert Piotrowski / American Studies Centre, Warsaw University
• "Mammal-like reptiles: major trait reversals and discontinuities" / 2001 / John Woodmorappe / TJ, v.15, n.1, p.44–52 (Answers in Genesis)
• Insects Bug Evolutionism / Karl C. Priest

JANUARY 13

• On the Constancy of the Speed of Light — papers by: Barry Setterfield, Alan Montgomery, Lambert Dolphin, Trevor Norman, and others
• Focus on Origins / University of California Television — video on-demand, e.g.,
  • Irreducible Complexity: The Biochemical Challenge to Darwinism / Michael Behe
  • Icons of Evolution / Jonathan Wells
  • Darwinism on Trial / Phillip Johnson
  • Creation of the Cosmos / Walter L. Bradley
  • Focus on Darwinism / Dean Kenyon
  • On the Origin of Life / Charles Thaxton
• Siccar Point / University of Edinburgh, Scotland — geology field excursion to the famous angular unconformity observed by James Hutton
• Exploring Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, 2nd ed. / 2002 / Jon P. Davidson, Walter E. Reed, and Paul M. Davis / Prentice-Hall — see also Amazon
• New Internet Software Aids Paleomagnetic Analysis and Plate Tectonic Reconstructions / 6 November 2001 / Antonio Schettino and Christopher R. Scotese / EOS, v.82, n.45
• Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe / May 2000 / Richard F. Mould / Institute of Physics Publ. — see also Amazon
• Continental Drift: Colliding Continents, Converging Cultures / January 2000 / Constantin Roman / Institute of Physics Publ. — see also Amazon
• Modern Mathematics - Its Relation to Physical Science and Theology / March 1999 / Robert A. Herrmann / United States Naval Academy
• What About Carl Baugh? / 1999 / Don Batten (and Carl Kerby and Glen J. Kuban) / Answers in Genesis
• Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science / 1998 / Working Group on Teaching Evolution, National Academy of Sciences / National Academy Press — see also Amazon
  • review: William B. Provine / Cornell University
• Contact / 1997 / Warner Bros. — movie on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
• The Testimony of a Formerly Young Earth Missionary / 1997 / Joshua Zorn / American Scientific Affiliation
• A New Look at an Old Earth: Resolving the Conflict Between the Bible and Science / 1997 / Don Stoner / Harvest House Publishers — see also Amazon
• The Origins Solution: An Answer in the Creation-Evolution Debate / 1996 / Dick Fischer / Fairway Press (CSS Publ. Co.) — see also Amazon
• Excess Argon within Mineral Concentrates from the New Dacite Lava Dome at Mount St. Helens Volcano / 1996 / Steven A. Austin / Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.10, part 3
• Connection Between Geology and Natural and Revealed Religion / 1863 / Edward Hitchcock and Charles H. Hitchcock
• Online Literature Library - Charles Darwin
  • The Voyage of the Beagle
  • The Origin of Species
  • The Descent of Man

JANUARY 10

• Astronomy and Cosmology: 58th Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation (.pdf) / July 25-28, 2003 / Colorado Christian University, Lakewood, CO
• Physicist proposes deeper layer of reality / 8 January 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — new theory takes the chance out of quantum mechanics
• Treasures From Icy Tombs / January 3, 2003 / Usha Lee McFarling / Los Angeles Times — melting glaciers in the Yukon lead to finds archeologists dream of -- mummies and Stone Age artifacts that go back about 10,000 years
• Epicurus' - and Darwin's - Dangerous Idea / November 18, 2002 / Richard Weikart / Christianity Today — how we became hedonists
• Icons of Evolution? Why much of what Jonathan Wells writes about evolution is wrong / November 2002 / Alan D. Gishlick / National Center for Science Education
• "RATE Group Reports Major Advances" (.pdf) / October 2002 / Acts & Facts, v.31, n.10, p.2-3 (Institute for Creation Research) — results have the potential for earth-shaking changes in geochronology
• Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond / September 2002 / Christian Koeberl and Kenneth G. MacLeod (eds.) / Geological Society of America, Special Paper 356 — see also Amazon
• The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of "Irreducible Complexity" / 2002 / Kenneth R. Miller / Brown University — pre-publication copy of an article that will appear in:
  • Debating Design: from Darwin to DNA / 2003 / Michael Ruse and William Dembski (eds.) / Cambridge University Press
• Georgia Citizens for Integrity in Science Education — promoting scientific literacy and excellence in science education
• The Stephen Hawking Pages
• Common Sense Science - Spinning Ring Model of the Atom
• First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe / October 2001 / Julian Chela-Flores, Tobias C. Owen, and Franηois Raulin (editors) / Kluwer Academic Publishers — Proceedings of the Sixth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution, Trieste, Italy (18-22 September 2000); see also Amazon
• PBS Evolution Series / September 24-27, 2001
  • review: Raymond G. Bohlin / Probe Ministries
• Scientist gives Darwin's theory a nudge / February 8, 2001 / Pamela R. Winnick / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• The Cambrian Explosion: Biology's Big Bang (.pdf) / 2001 / Stephen C. Meyer, P. A. Nelson, and Paul Chien / Discovery Institute
• Martian Meteorite and Other Studies / Joseph L. Kirschvink / California Institute of Technology
• Christian Right Lobbies to Overturn Second Law of Thermodynamics / 7 September 2000 / the Onion, v.36, n.31 — satire
• Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives / February 2000 / Robert T. Pennock / MIT Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Design Theory and its Critics: Monologues Passing in the Night (.pdf) / 2002 / Del Ratzsch / Ars Disputandi, v.2
• On The Rabbinical Exegesis of an Enhanced Biblical Value of p / 2000 / Shlomo Edward G. Belaga / Universitι Louis Pasteur, France
• A New Astronomical Quranic Method for the Determination of the Greatest Speed C [of light] / 2000 / Mansour Hassab-Elnaby / Ain Shams University, Cairo
• The Limits of Science / December 1999 / Nicholas Rescher / University of Pittsburgh Press — see also Amazon
• A Review of the Evidence for Trilobite Predecessors in the Fossil Record / 1999 / Robert B. MacNaughton / Oregon Geological Society's newsletter
• Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science / August 1998 / Halton Arp / Apeiron (Montreal, Canada) — see also Amazon
  • review: Doppler toppler? / 2000 / Michael J. Oard / Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.14, n.3, p.39-45
• On the Origin of Stasis / 1998 / Art Battson / Access Research Network
• Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum / August 1998 / Warren A. Nord and Charles C. Haynes / Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development — text: Chapter 7. The Sciences; see also Amazon
• The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals / 1998 / Simon Conway Morris / Oxford University Press
  • review: Cambrian Conflict: Crucible an Assault on Gould’s Burgess Shale Interpretation / September-October 1998 / Peter Bowler / American Scientist, v.86, n.5
• Creation and Change: Genesis 1.1-2.4 in the Light of Changing Scientific Paradigms / August 1997 / Douglas F. Kelly / Christian Focus Publications — see also Amazon
  • review: Douglas Kelly on the Framework Interpretation of Genesis One / December 1998 / Lee Irons / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.50, p.272
• Facets of Faith and Science / 1996 / Jitse M. van der Meer (editor) / University Press of America
  • Vol. I: Historiography and Modes of Interaction — see also Amazon
  • Vol. II: The Role of Beliefs in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences — see also Amazon
  • Vol. III: The Role of Beliefs in the Natural Sciences — see also Amazon
  • Vol. IV: Interpreting God's Action in the World — see also Amazon
• The Burgess Shale: A Hidden Treasure in the Canadian Rockies / 1996 / Niranjala Kottachchi / Hooper Virtual Paleontological Museum
• Creator and Creation: Nature in the Worldview of Ancient Israel / August 1994 / Ronald A. Simkins / Hendrickson Publishers
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882 / October 1993 / Charles Darwin; Nora Barlow (editor) / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon
• A Brief History of the Modern American Creation Movement / Spring 1993 / Jerry Bergman / Contra Mundum, n.7
• Creation and the History of Science (History of Christian Theology, v.3) / 1991 / Christopher B. Kaiser and Paul Avis (editors) / Eerdmans
• The Darwin-Wallace 1858 Evolution Paper / prepared by: James L. Reveal, F.L.S., Paul J. Bottino and Charles F. Delwiche / University of Maryland

JANUARY 9

• "Glimpses of Christ the Creator" / January 2003 / David Demick / Impact, n.355 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Let the Word of God Be True" / January 2003 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.169 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "ICR Geologist Presents Discovery at Geologic Society Meeting" (.pdf) / January 2003 / Acts & Facts, v.32, n.1 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Design Inference Website / William A. Dembski
  • Evolution's Logic of Credulity: An Unfettered Response to Allen Orr / December 2002
  • Evolutionary Logic / September 2002
• Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child: A Classic 1935 Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intelligence / March 2002 / N. N. Ladygina-Kohts / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• A Mingling of Minds / Winter 2002 / David B. Burrell / Christian History (Christianity Today) — Why was one of Christianity's best thinkers (Thomas Aquinas) so ready to learn from a Muslim (Avicenna) and a Jew (Moses Maimonides)?
• Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era: Proceedings of the International Workshop Held in Rome, Italy (17-20 October 2000) / January 2002 / E. Costa, F. Frontera, and J. Hjorth / Springer — see also Amazon
• Earthquake Hazards Program Website / U.S. Geological Survey — information on worldwide earthquake activity, earthquake science, and earthquake hazard reduction
• But How Can the Poles Shift? / 2002 / Robert Bast
• Thoughts on "Joshua's Long Day" / March 2001 / Allan H. Harvey
• Joshua's Long Day and the NASA Computers / 2000 / Robert C. Newman / Biblical Theological Seminary, Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute
• "The earth’s magnetic field: Evidence that the earth is young" / March-May 1998 / Jonathan Sarfati / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.20, n.2, p.15-17
• Explosion of Life / March-April 1997 / Paul Chien / The Real Issue — a scientist reveals details of the Cambrian explosion, a biological puzzle that confounds the Darwinists
• "The 'Principle of Least Astonishment'!" / 1995 / Andrew Snelling / Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.9, n.2, p.138-139 — rapid reversals of Earth's magnetic field
• "Ota Benga: The Story of the Pygmy on Display in a Zoo" / December 1993 / Jerry Bergman / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.30, n.4
• "The Earth's Magnetic Field Is Young" / August 1993 / Russell Humphreys / Impact, n.242 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Darwin Prosecuted / Winter 1993 / Eugenie C. Scott / Creation-Evolution, n.33 — review of: Darwin on Trial / 1991 / Philip E. Johnson / Regnery Gateway
• "Up, Up, and Away! The Helium Escape Problem" / May 1985 / Larry Vardiman / Impact, n.143 (Institute for Creation Research)

JANUARY 8

• How molecular biology opens up a 21st Century view of evolution / February 20, 2003 / James Shapiro / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design — a live chat at 2pm Eastern
• Ontogenetic Depth as a Complexity Metric for the Cambrian Explosion / February 5, 2003 / Paul Nelson / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design — a live chat at 9pm Eastern
• Einstein Was Right on Gravity's Speed / January 8, 2003 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Environment and Science: Danes Rebuke a 'Skeptic' / January 8, 2003 / Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times
• Scientist in Clone Tests Says Hoax Is Possible / January 7, 2003 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• The Promise of Therapeutic Cloning / January 5, 2003 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
• Cloning Company Says Baby Might Not Be Tested After All / January 4, 2003 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• Today's Visions of the Science of Tomorrow / January 4, 2003 / New York Times
• Scientists Say Orangutans Can Exhibit 'Culture' / January 3, 2003 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• Orangutans Said to Exhibit Hallmarks of Culture / January 2, 2003 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• Troubled House: The Modern Trial of a Biology Teacher / Daniel Schwabauer (Olathe, KS) — a play in 3 acts about an agnostic biology teacher persecuted for his lack of faith in Darwinism

JANUARY 2

• Wake Up, Cloning's Day Has Come / January 2, 2003 / Michael Shermer / Los Angeles Times
• All Clones Are Not the Same / January 2, 2003 / Gregory E. Kaebnick / New York Times
• For Clonaid, a Trail of Unproven Claims / January 1, 2003 / Gina Kolata and Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• Attack of the Cloners / January 1, 2003 / Brent Bozell / TownHall.com
• Why not cloning? / January 1, 2003 / Cal Thomas / TownHall.com
• Chimpanzees and the Law / January-February 2003 / Elizabeth Gudrais / Harvard Magazine
• A Rebuilt Neanderthal / December 31, 2002 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• E and mc2: Equality, It Seems, Is Relative / December 31, 2002 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• [Raelians] Firm says it produced world's 1st cloned baby / December 28, 2002 / Religion News Blog (gospelcom.net) — Clonaid says DNA proof forthcoming; experts are skeptical

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