Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (January 2003)
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and evolution.
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
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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
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
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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
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Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (.pdf) / October-December
2002 / Granville Sewell / Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design,
v.1.4
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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
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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.4452 (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.,
- 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
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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
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Connection Between Geology and Natural and Revealed Religion / 1863 /
Edward Hitchcock and Charles H. Hitchcock
-
Online Literature
Library -
Charles Darwin
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
- 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
-
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
- Facets of Faith and Science / 1996 / Jitse M. van der Meer (editor)
/ University Press of America
- 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
-
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 earths
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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