Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (March 2003)

DISCLAIMER:  The following links do not necessarily 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.

MARCH 28

• "The Voyage of the Beagle - In the Creator's Service" / Louise Lavallee / April 2003 / Impact, n.358 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 / April 2003 / Simon Winchester / Harper Collins — see also Amazon
• "PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Early Hominids--Diversity or Distortion?" requires free registration / 28 March 2003 / Tim White / Science, v.299, n.5615 — it is too early to say whether many more hominid lineages are waiting to be found and recognized in Africa, or whether just a few hominid species expanded their ranges and invaded new habitats
• "High-Tech Fingers on Earth's Erratic Pulse" requires free registration / 28 March 2003 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.299, n.5615, p.2016-2020 — predicting when a volcano near an inhabited area may erupt
• "Digital analysis: Manual dexterity in Neanderthals" requires free registration / 27 March 2003 / Wesley A. Niewoehner, Aaron Bergstrom, Derrick Eichele, Melissa Zuroff, and Jeffrey T. Clark / Nature, v.422, p.395 — manual dexterity in Neanderthals was probably not significantly different from that of modern humans
• "Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos" requires free registration / 27 March 2003 / Erik R. Seiffert, Elwyn L. Simons, and Yousry Attia / Nature, v.422, p.421-424
• "Unravelling angiosperm genome evolution by phylogenetic analysis of chromosomal duplication events" requires free registration / 27 March 2003 / John E. Bowers, Brad A. Chapman, Junkang Rong, and Andrew H. Paterson / Nature, v.422, p.433-438
• Evolution critics argue free speech / March 25, 2003 / Phillip Taylor / Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• DNA pioneers lash out at religion / March 24, 2003 / Roger Highfield / London Daily Telegraph
• 'Rational Mysticism': On a Journalistic and Spiritual Quest / March 23, 2003 / Dick Teresi / New York Times
• "Robotic Telescopes Catch Up With Gamma Ray Bursts" requires free registration / 21 March 2003 / Robert Irion / Science, v.299, n.5614, p.1833-1834
• "Wingless Insects and Plucked Chickens" requires free registration / 21 March 2003 / Richard H. Thomas / Science, v.299, n.5614, p.1854-1855 — the evolutionary relationships among arthropods have been consistently controversial
• SETI workshops selfless message / 21 March 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — artists and scientists discuss how to tell ET about morality
• Tusked fossil sparks resurrection row / 19 March 2003 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — Australian paleontologists claim museum reptile weathered mass extinction
• Out on a Limb / March 2003 / Kate Wong / Scientific American — a stunning new fossil shows how simians got their start
• The Search for Dark Matter / March 2003 / David B. Cline / Scientific American — Dark matter is usually thought of as something "out there." But we will never truly understand it unless we can bring it down to earth.
• Sizing Up Evangelicals / March 2003 / Rodger Doyle / Scientific American — fundamentalism persists but shows signs of moderation
• Which Came First, the Feather or the Bird? / March 2003 / Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush / Scientific American — a long-cherished view of how and why feathers evolved has now been overturned
• Creation Matters, v.7, n.5 (pdf) / October-December 2002
  • review: Faith, Form and Time: What the Bible Teaches and Science Confirms About Creation and the Age of the Universe / 2002 / Kurt P. Wise / Broadman & Holman
  • "Aspects of Deity Perceived from Natural Science, Part 1: God's Presence" / George F. Howe
  • "The Acquisition of Virus Resistance Does Not Provide Evidence for Macroevolution" / Jerry Bergman
  • "Does Creation Matter?" / Don B. DeYoung
  • Committee Provides Direction for Van Andel Creation Research Center
• Intelligent Design? / April 2002 / Natural History — Three proponents of Intelligent Design present their views of design in the natural world. Each view is immediately followed by a response from a proponent of evolution.
  • Introduction / Richard Milner and Vittorio Maestro
  • The Challenge of Irreducible Complexity / Michael J. Behe — every living cell contains many ultrasophisticated molecular machines
  • The Flaw in the Mousetrap / Kenneth R. Miller — intelligent design fails the biochemistry test
  • Detecting Design in the Natural Sciences / William A. Dembski — intelligence leaves behind a characteristic signature
  • Mystery Science Theater / Robert T. Pennock — the case of the secret agent
  • Elusive Icons of Evolution / Jonathan Wells — What do Darwin's finches and the four-winged fruit fly really tell us?
  • The Nature of Change / Eugenie C. Scott — evolutionary mechanisms give rise to basic structural differences
  • The Newest Evolution of Creationism / Barbara Forrest — intelligent design is about politics and religion, not science
• A Scientific Scandal / January 2001 / David Berlinski / Commentary — the evolution of the mammalian eye has always seemed difficult to imagine

MARCH 21

• To Test Evolution, Press the 'Undo' Button / March 18, 2003 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• This Tiny Bird Knows an Impostor When It Hatches / March 18, 2003 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• In Click Languages, an Echo of the Tongues of the Ancients / March 18, 2003 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Big Bang theory may just be a lot of poof / March 17, 2003 / Independent Online (South Africa) — images of galaxies four billion light years away threaten to rip apart modern theories about space and time
• MUW educator returned to post / March 15, 2003 / Andy Kanengiser / Clarion-Ledger (Mississippi) — a Mississippi University for Women educator who believed she was removed as a division head after voicing alternative views on evolution is back at her post
• ISU professor says moon holds secrets of early Earth / March 14, 2003 / Brandon Babcock / Des Moines Register — an Iowa State University professor wants astronauts to go back to the moon
• Water 'flows' on Mars / 13 March 2003 / David Whitehouse / BBC News — dark streaks on crater and valley walls may indicate that brackish water currently flows across the surface of Mars
• Earliest human footprints found? / 13 March 2003 / Helen R. Pilcher / Nature science update — Italian volcano bears tracks of early Europeans
• A Conversation with James D. Watson / March 10, 2003 / Scientific American
• Dinosaurs Come Alive / March 2003 / Joel Achenbach / National Geographic — a new generation of scientists is using computer modeling and a better understanding of living animals to bring dinosaurs back to life, virtually
• How Many Times Does “Mitochondrial Eve” Have to Die? / March 2003 / Bert Thompson and Brad Harrub / Apologetics Press
• Perfect Planet, Clever Species: How Unique Are We? / September 2002 / William C. Burger / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
  • "The case that we are alone in the galaxy" / March 18, 2003 / David Arnold / Boston Globe, p.C22
• Are Science and Religion Compatible? / March-April 2002 / Paul Kurtz / Skeptical Inquirer — We need separations between religion and science, ethics, and the state. But there is an appropriate domain for religion, and in this sense science and religion are not necessarily incompatible.
• The Wedge: A Progress Report / Phillip Johnson / April 16, 2001 / Access Research Network
• The Truth About "Lucy" (pdf) / Brad Harrub and Bert Thompson / Apologetics Press

MARCH 14

• By Design: Science and the Search for God / April 2003 / Larry A. Witham / Encounter Books — see also Amazon
• At Play With DNA / March 14, 2003 / Sarah Boxer / New York Times
• "PALAEONTOLOGY: Human footprints in Pleistocene volcanic ash" requires free registration / 13 March 2003 / Paolo Mietto, Marco Avanzini, and Giuseppe Rolandi / Nature, v.422, p.133
• Footprints from 350,000 B.C. / March 12, 2003 / Rick Callahan / MSNBC News (Associated Press) — scientists say Paleolithic humans left behind trails in Italian volcanic terrain
• Intelligently Designed Films / March 2003 / Thomas E. Woodward / Christianity Today — the youthful ID movement flexes its muscles in two documentaries

MARCH 12

• Darwin's Proof: The Triumph of Religion Over Science / April 2003 / Cornelius G. Hunter / Baker Books — see also Amazon
• Universe as Doughnut: New Data, New Debate / March 11, 2003 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• The Unbearable Loneliness of Being Homo Sapiens / March 11, 2003 / James Gorman / New York Times — nothing is ever quite settled when it comes to ancient hominids, and I doubt there is a single claim in paleoanthropology that can't be used to start an argument
• "ANTHROPOLOGY: The evolution of altruistic punishment" / March 11, 2003 / Robert Boyd, Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, and Peter J. Richerson / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
• Professor Dumped Over Evolution Beliefs / March 11, 2003 / Jim Brown and Ed Vitagliano / Agape Press (Christian News Service)
• ARN-Announce, n.28 / March 10, 2003 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Science claims to explain soul / March 10, 2003 / The Australian
• Worldview shapes one's conclusions about creation, Kurt Wise writes / March 10, 2003 / Ken Walker / Baptist Press
• "Letters of Recommendation: From God or Darwin?" requires free registration / March 10, 2003 / Barry A. Palevitz / The Scientist, v.17, n.5, p.16
• A Frog Lends a Hand to Rhododendrons / March 9, 2003 / Henry Homeyer / New York Times — inserting genes derived from an African frog into rhododendrons, trying to create a plant with extra resistance to root rot
• An Unsentimental Reverie on the Life Cycle of Nature / March 9, 2003 / Pete Bodo / New York Times
• "A Challenge to the World's Scientists" requires free registration / 7 March 2003 / Kofi Annan / Science, v.299, n.5612, p.1485
• "Is Evolution a Secular Religion?" requires free registration / 7 March 2003 / Michael Ruse / Science, v.299, n.5612, p.1523-1524
• "Whither the Neanderthals?" requires free registration / 7 March 2003 / Richard G. Klein / Science, v.299, n.5612, p.1525-1527
• Yeast evolution reversed / 6 March 2003 / Hannah Hoag / Nature science update — engineering turns two species back into one
• Ancient ape found in orangutan's homeland / 6 March 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — ten-million-year-old fossil teeth turn up in Thailand
• Darwinism Versus Intelligent Design by David Berlinski & Critics / March 2003 / Paul R. Gross / Commentary
• "Geomagnetic secular variation in the Indian Ocean" / 28 February 2003 / J. R. Heirtzler and K. Nazarova / Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.207, n.1-4, p.151-158 — secular variations that may change rapidly and over short geographical distances in the Indian Ocean area have not been accounted for in geomagnetic field models
• Space Shuttle Columbia: Descent Into Eternity / February 2003 / Leadership University (Campus Crusade for Christ)
  • Astronauts: Eternity and the Elite / Phil Bishop
  • Glimpses of a Godly Astronaut / Byron Barlowe
  • Message from Professor Robert Jastrow
• The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology / January 2003 / Marcello Barbieri / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• "A Trigger for the Cambrian Explosion?" requires free registration / 22 November 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.298, n.5598, p.1547
• A Presentation Without Arguments: Dembski Disappoints / November-December 2002 / Mark Perakh / Skeptical Inquirer
• What (If Anything) Hath God Wrought? Academic Freedom and the Religious Professor / September-October 1995 / Phillip E. Johnson / Academe (official journal of the American Association of University Professors)
• A Scopes Trial in Reverse / January-February 1994 / John Myers / The Real Issue
• Danger: Indoctrination - A Scopes Trial for the '90s / December 6, 1993 / Stephen C. Meyer / Wall Street Journal

MARCH 7

• Making Robots More Like Us / March 6, 2003 / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / New York Times
• Genetic Variability by Design / February 18, 2003 / Christopher W. Ashcraft / Creation Science Resource — homologous DNA recombination occurs in all organisms and is at the heart of genetics
• Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery / February 2003 / John Waller / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Supernatural Science (play) / January 8, 2003 / Shawn Dawson / Secular Web
• The Link: Natural Adversaries? / Fall 2002 / David Lindberg / Christian History (Christianity Today) — Christianity and science are not at war--and never have been
• 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 — see also Amazon
• Athena and Eden: The Hidden Meaning of the Parthenon’s East Faηade / May 2002 / Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. / Solving Light Books — the majesty of the Parthenon and its mystical connection to the Book of Genesis;  see also Amazon
• Encyclopedia of Evolution / April 2002 / Mark D. Pagel / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Unlocking the Mystery of Life (video) / 2002 — the story of contemporary scientists who are advancing a powerful, but controversial, idea--the theory of "intelligent design"
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life / September 1996 / Daniel C. Dennett / Penguin — see also Amazon
• Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton's Theology / 1990 / James E. Force and Richard Henry Popkin (eds.) / Kluwer — see also Amazon
• The Prophecies of Daniel and The Apocalypse / 1733 / Sir Isaac Newton / Printland Publishers (1998)  — see also Amazon

MARCH 5

• The Real Scientific Hero of 1953 / March 4, 2003 / Steven Strogatz / New York Times — in 1953 Enrico Fermi and two of his colleagues at Los Alamos invented the concept of a "computer experiment"
• God, Satan and the Media / March 4, 2003 / Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times
• DNA Junk or Not? / March 4, 2003 / C. Claiborne Ray / New York Times
• 'The Journey of Man': Following the Genes of a Common Ancestor / March 2, 2003 / Carl Zimmer / New York Times
• Cloning Countdown / March 1, 2003 / New York Times
• "Fellowship, Creation, and Schistosomes" / March 2003 / Stephanie R. Mace, Bevin A. Sims, and Todd C. Wood / Impact, n.357 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "God's Dominion Mandate and the Nations Today" / March 2003 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.171 (Institute for Creation Research)
• A Chilling Triumph of 'Science' Over Sanity / February 25, 2003 / Peter Carlson / Washington Post, p.C01 — in 1927 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that idiots can be forcibly sterilized
• Defend evolution publicly to avoid mass acceptance of creationist theory / February 21, 2003 / Rachel Robson / University Daily Kansan (University of Kansas)
• Freedom Evolves / February 2003 / Daniel C. Dennett / Viking Press (Penguin) — see also Amazon
  • 'Freedom Evolves': Evolution Explains It All for You / March 2, 2003 / Galen Strawson / New York Times
  • Fate by fluke / March 1, 2003 / Mary Midgley / The Guardian (UK) — chart of a new and welcome course between free will and scientific determinism
• Darwin debate spreads / 24 October 2002 / Copenhagen Post (Denmark)

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