Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (April 2003)

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APRIL 25

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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
• '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
• 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

• Who Is The Designer? (conference) / June 26-28, 2003 / Reasons To Believe
• Scientist Defends Account of Exodus / April 10, 2003 / Richard N. Ostling / Washington Post (Associated Press)
• The battle for American science / April 10, 2003 / Oliver Burkeman and Alok Jha / The Guardian (UK) — creationists, pro-lifers and conservatives now pose a serious threat to research and science teaching in the US
• God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science / March 2003 / Neil A. Manson (editor) / Routledge — see also Amazon
• Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order / March 2003 / Steven Strogatz / Hyperion — see also Amazon
  • The Popsci Reading List / April 2003 / Gualtiero Piccinini / Popular Science — a new book explores how everything stays in sync
  • Seeing Order: a Scientific Revolution Long in the Making / March 7, 2003 / Cornell University — a lay person's handbook to the difficult science of synchrony
• Mathematics in a Postmodern Age: A Christian Perspective / May 2001 / Russell W. Howell and W. James Bradley (editors) / Wm. B. Eerdmans — see also Amazon
• The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds / October 1997 / Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe / W. H. Freeman
• The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis / June 1994 / William Glen (editor) / Stanford University Press — see also Amazon

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
• 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
  • review: "Newman, Yes; Paley, No" / January 2001 / Edward T. Oakes / First Things, n.109, p.48-52
  • response: "Edward T. Oakes and His Critics: An Exchange" / April 2001 / First Things, n.112, p.5-13
• 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

• Spaceship Travel to Another Universe Through a Black Hole / April 2, 2003 / Phil Schewe, James Riordon, and Ben Stein / Physics New Update, n.631
• Aliens Inside Us: A (Mostly Friendly) Bacterial Nation / April 1, 2003 / James Gorman / New York Times
• Death to Intelligent Design / March 31, 2003 / Jonathan H. Esensten / Harvard Crimson
• Politicizing Science Education / Paul R. Gross / Thomas Fordham Foundation — resisting "Darwinism" and keeping the votes

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