Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (April 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.
APRIL 25
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love /
September 2003 / Richard Dawkins / Houghton Mifflin — see also
Amazon
- review: "Gould
and God" / 24 April 2003 / Jerry A. Coyne / Nature, v.422,
p.813-814
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Feds drop case after professor changes evolution policy / April 23, 2003 /
Sebastian Kitchen / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (TX)
- Justice
Department Drops Probe of Professor's Evolution Policy / April 22, 2003 /
Associated Press
-
Scientific views of Biblical miracles / 22 April 2003 / BBC News —
many of the miracles of the Bible can be explained by science,
according to a Cambridge University professor
- The
Citizen-Scientist's Obligation to Stand Up for Standards / April 22, 2003
/ Lawrence M. Krauss / New York Times
- I Feel,
Therefore I Am / April 19, 2003 / Emily Eakin / New York Times
- Siberia yields
oldest authenticated DNA / 18 April 2003 / Rex Dalton / Nature
science update — 400,000-year-old plant sequence pulled from
the permafrost
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 / April 2003 /
Simon Winchester / HarperCollins — see also
Amazon
- review: 'Krakatoa': The Wrath of the Earth / April 20, 2003 / Richard
Ellis / New York Times
-
Scientists find evidence for crucial root in the history of plant evolution
/ March 23, 2003 / Jason Gorss / American Chemical Society
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Impossible Extinction: Natural Catastrophes and the Supremacy of the Microbial
World / March 2003 / Charles S. Cockell / Cambridge University Press — see also
Amazon
-
Chemistry guides evolution, claims theory / 20 January 2003 / Anil
Ananthaswamy / New Scientist
- Theory Challenges
Darwin Doctrine of Common Descent / 18 June 2002 / Jim Barlow / UniSci
Daily
- Religious
Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century (Studies in
European Judaism, Volume 1) / November 2001 / Jürgen
Helm and Annette Winkelmann (editors) / Brill Academic — see also
Amazon
- The Lure of the
Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs
/ November 2001 / Brenda Denzler / University of California Press — see also
Amazon
- Volcanoes in Human
History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions / January 2001 /
Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders / Princeton University
Press — see also
Amazon
- "Theological
Analysis of Selected Recent Creationist Assertions Concerning the Occurrence
of Death before Sin" / September 2000
/ Gary Emberger
/ Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.52, p.160-168
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Doomsday: The Science of Catastrophic Events / January 2000 / Antony
Milne / Praeger — see also
Amazon
- "Disease
and Dying in the Fossil Record: Implications for Christian Theology"
/ December 1999
/ Clarence Menninga /
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.51, n.4, p.226-230
- "Design
Up to Scratch? A Comparison of Design in Buckland (1832) and Behe" /
December 1999 / Michael B. Roberts / Perspectives on Science and Christian
Faith, v.51, n.4, p.244-252
-
What Is This Thing
Called Science? 3rd ed. / 1999 / Alan F. Chalmers / Hackett Publishing
Co. — see also
Amazon
- "Creature
Mortality: From Creation or the Fall?" /
March 1992 / John C. Munday, Jr. /
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, v.35, n.1, p.51-68
APRIL 18
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Parallel Universes / May 2003 / Max Tegmark / Scientific American —
not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a
direct implication of cosmological observations
-
ARN-Announce, n.29
/ April 18, 2003 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
- "Reaching
Their Goal Early, Sequencing Labs Celebrate"
requires free registration
/ 18 April 2003 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.300, n.5618, p.409
- "Ancient
DNA Pulled From Soil"
requires free registration
/ 18 April 2003 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.300, n.5618, p.407
- "Lessons
from Kepler and the theory of everything" / April 17, 2003 / Lincoln
Wolfenstein / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA— Johannes
Kepler's successes and failures provide lessons for reductionists seeking the
theory of everything as well as for those who have proclaimed the end of
reductionism.
- Ancient Proteins
Reveal the Past / April 16, 2003 / Amanda Yarnell / Chemical &
Engineering News — mass spectroscopic amino acid sequencing
methods open genetic window to long ago
- Scientists
Say Human Genome Is Complete / April 15, 2003 / Nicholas Wade / New
York Times
-
Human Genome Is Completed -- Now Comes the Hard Part / April 15, 2003 /
Rosie Mestel / Los Angeles Times
- Final
human genome sequence released / 14 April 2003 / Andy Coghlan / New
Scientist
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'The Extravagant Universe': Department of Dark Energy / April 13, 2003 /
Michael Riordan / New York Times
- A Brief
History of the Multiverse / April 12, 2003 / Paul Davies / New York
Times
- Gene Study
Finds Cannibal Pattern / April 11, 2003 / Nicholas Wade / New York
Times
- "Dates
Boost Conventional Wisdom About Solomon's Splendor"
requires free registration
/ 11 April 2003 / Constance Holden / Science, v.300, n.5617, p.229-231
- "14C
Dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age Chronology, Pharaohs, and Hebrew Kings"
requires free registration
/ 11 April 2003 / Hendrik J. Bruins, Johannes van der Plicht, and Amihai Mazar
/ Science, v.300, n.5617, p.315-318
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Humans 'nearly impossible' to clone: study / April 11, 2003 / Margaret
Munro / National Post
- Mass-extinction
controversy flares again / 10 April 2003 / Rex Dalton / Nature
science update — core from asteroid crater fuels debate on what
wiped out the dinosaurs
- Double coup for
nuclear physicists / 7 April 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science
update — rare reactions give glimpse of Universe's beginnings
-
Discerning Truth: A Review of The Right Questions / April 7, 2003 /
Seth Cooper / The Prolific Reporter (Seattle U. School of Law)
- Race -- The
Power of an Illusion / April 2003 / PBS
-
Genome Evolution / January 27, 2003 / Ricki Lewis / The Scientist,
v.17, n.2, p.18 — first, a bang ... then, a shuffle ... Did
duplication fuel vertebrate genome evolution?
- A Panel
Discussion on the Theory of Evolution (video) / Michael Ruse, Bruce
Tiffney, and Jonathan Wells / Access Research Network
- A God of
Math & Order / Fall 2002 / Peter Harrison / Christian History (Christianity
Today) — the new science rode in on the shoulders of new
theological ideas
APRIL 11
APRIL 10
- Dark matter
doesn't move in mysterious ways / 7 April 2003 / Geoff Brumfiel /
Nature science update — visible matter's elusive
counterpart jiggles like gas
- Does
Science Point to God? The Intelligent Design Revolution / April 7, 2003 /
Benjamin D. Wiker / Crisis Magazine — More scientists are
coming to a conclusion they never expected: The universe was designed. And if
it was designed, there must be a Designer. What the Intelligent Design
movement could mean for the future of science and religion.
-
'Enough': The Dangers of Genetic Technologies / April 6, 2003 / Natalie
Angier / New York Times
-
'A Shortcut Through Time': Quantum Weirdness / April 6, 2003 / Jim Holt /
New York Times
- Creationism
vs. evolution central debate behind rejection of textbooks / April 5, 2003
/ Erin Hudson / The Daily Times (Maryville, TN)
- Dinosaurs ate
each other / 3 April 2003 / Helen R. Pilcher / Nature science
update — chewed bones convict ancient cannibal
- What's life like?
/ April 2, 2003 / Tabitha M. Powledge / The Scientist —
contemplating 'weirdness' in the search for signs of company in the universe
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Questioning the Oldest Signs of Life / April 2003 / Sarah Simpson /
Scientific American — In the past year scientists have been
forced to reconsider how they identify life in the most ancient rocks on
earth--and elsewhere in the solar system.
-
Was Light Faster in the Past? / April 2003 / Philip Morrison /
Scientific American — a maverick physicist posits the
possibility--and much more
-
Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem / April 2003 / Arthur B. McDonald,
Joshua R. Klein, and David L. Wark / Scientific American —
the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory has solved a 30-year-old
mystery by showing that neutrinos from the sun change species en route to the
earth
-
The
Rise of Mammals: Adapting, Evolving, Surviving / April 2003 / Rick Gore /
National Geographic — Once upon a time, a warm-blooded,
milk-producing, fur-covered beast was born. Since then, mammals have conquered
every habitat on Earth.
-
Fifi Fights Back / April 2003 / Jane Goodall / National Geographic
— Forty-three years after Jane Goodall first set foot in the
forests of Africa, Fifi is a mom again, Frodo is the alpha male, and Gremlin
is teaching her twins to fish for termites.
- Flat-faced Man
in family feud / Rex Dalton / 28 March 2003 / Nature science update
— paleontologist claims geology set human relative apart
- Flu evolution
modelled / 27 March 2003 / Helen R. Pilcher / Nature science update
— mathematics may boost vaccine development
- Neanderthals'
capable of fine handiwork / 27 March 2003 / Michael Hopkin / Nature
science update — our primitive cousins didn't lose the
evolutionary race for want of manual dexterity
-
Distant black hole 3 billion times bigger than Sun / 21 March 2003 / Steve
Connor / Independent (UK)
-
Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation
/ December 2002 / João Magueijo / Perseus Publishing — see also
Amazon
- Design Yes,
Intelligent No: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory and Neocreationism
/ September 2001 / Massimo Pigliucci / Skeptical Inquirer —
The claims by Behe, Dembski, and other "intelligent design"
creationists that science should be opened to supernatural explanations and
that these should be allowed in academic as well as public school curricula
are unfounded and based on a misunderstanding of both design in nature and of
what the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution is all about.
- "God
Above Science"
/ July 5, 2001 / Gerald F. Colvin / Adventist Review —
all the sophistication of quantum physics and relativity theory
are simply inadequate in explaining God's universe
- The Wedge of
Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism / August 2000 / Phillip
E. Johnson / InterVarsity Press — see also
Amazon
-
Closer to Truth: Challenging Current Belief / May 2000 / Robert
Lawrence Kuhn (editor) / McGraw-Hill
- The Sun in
the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories / October 1999 / J. L.
Heilbron / Harvard University Press —
adaptation from the opening
chapters of the book; see also
Amazon
- "Discovering
the American Aristotle" / December 1993 / Edward T. Oakes / First
Things, n.38, p.24-33
APRIL 4
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