Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (May 2003)

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MAY 30

• Going for the Green / June 2003 / Bob Berman / Discover, v.24, n.6 — among a sea of white and red, astronomers search for the color of life
• Dinosaur Family Values / June 2003 / Eric Levin / Discover, v.24, n.6 — Were the relatives of T. rex social creatures that stuck together with kin? If a maverick researcher is right, life in the Jurassic was one long, frightening picnic.
• "The Milky Way's Dark, Starving Pit" requires free registration / 30 May 2003 / Robert Irion / Science, v.300, n.5624, p.1356-1358
• "Modulating Mutation Rates in the Wild" requires free registration / 30 May 2003 / Susan M. Rosenberg and P. J. Hastings / Science, v.300, n.5624, p.1382-1383
  • "Stress-Induced Mutagenesis in Bacteria" requires free registration / 30 May 2003 / Ivana Bjedov, Olivier Tenaillon, Bénédicte Gérard, Valeria Souza, Erick Denamur, Miroslav Radman, François Taddei, and Ivan Matic/ Science, v.300, n.5624, p.1404-1409
• "Validity and Ethics in Science" requires free registration / 30 May 2003 / R. Stephen Berry / Science, v.300, n.5624, p.1341
• Another Clone Milestone as a Mule Is Born in Idaho / May 30, 2003 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• "Mantle thermal pulses below the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and temporal variations in the formation of oceanic lithosphere" requires free registration / 29 May 2003 / Enrico Bonatti, Marco Ligi, Daniele Brunelli, Anna Cipriani, Paola Fabretti, Valentina Ferrante, Luca Gasperini, and Luisa Ottolini / Nature, v.423, p.499-505
• Project Will Seek to Uncover Genetic Roots of Major Diseases / May 29, 2003 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Biggest Blast in Cosmos Reveals Its Dark Heart / May 29, 2003 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Way Out There in Arp 299, a Factory for Supernovas / May 28, 2003 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Gene acquisition in eukaryotes / May 28, 2003 / C. L. Bishop / The Scientist — marine protist has acquired genes from several sources through lateral gene transfer
• These writers don't monkey around / May 28, 2003 (26 Iyar 5763) / Lloyd Garver / Jewish World Review
• Monkeys and atheists / May 28, 2003 (26 Iyar 5763) / Dennis Prager / Jewish World Review
• Monkeys and atheists / May 27, 2003 / Dennis Prager / townhall.com
• Research Points to Rapid Planetary Formation Around Distant Stars / May 27, 2003 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Soon, Three New Travelers to Mars / May 27, 2003 / William J. Broad / New York Times
• Dark matter's pull spotted / 26 May 2003 / Geoff Brumfiel / Nature science update — sky survey shows Universe's unseen stuff shifting galaxies
• 'Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville': Stats Are a Fossil Record / May 25, 2003 / Alan Schwarz / New York Times — on Stephen Jay Gould
• What Makes You Who You Are / May 25, 2003 / Matt Ridley / Time — Which is stronger--nature or nurture? The latest science says genes and your experience interact for your whole life.
• Where 2 Tectonic Plates Move and Meet / May 23, 2003 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times — the Algeria earthquake
• SARS came from space: scientist / May 23, 2003 / Mary Vallis / National Post — carried on cosmic dust
• Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth / May 2003 / Andrew H. Knoll / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? / April 2003 / Paul Kurtz (editor) / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• Theology and Science, v.1, n.1 / 2003 / The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
  • "Intelligent Design: The Original Version" / Francisco J. Ayala
  • "Physics and Metaphysics in a Trinitarian Perspective" / Sir John Polkinghorne
  • "Embryonic Persons in the Cloning and Stem Cell Debates" / Ted F. Peters
  • "On The Role Of Philosophy In Theology-Science Dialogue" / Nancey Murphy
  • "Theology and Science: Engaging the Richness of Experience" / Philip Hefner
  • "Religion and Science: Without Symmetry, Plausibility, and Harmony" / Willem B. Drees
• Origin of Life (website) / 2003 / Michael J. Russell and Allan J. Hall / Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
• Irreducible Complexity / Encyclopedia of Science and Philosophy / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
• If Humans Were Built to Last / March 2001 / S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes, and Robert N. Butler / Scientific American
• "The Contemporary Relevance of Augustine's View of Creation" / 1988 / Davis A. Young / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.40, n.1, p.42-45
• Scopes Is Indicted in Tennessee for Teaching Evolution / May 25, 1925 / New York Times — Grand Jury Acts After Judge Reads Genesis on the Creation of Man ... Action Under New Statute ... Schoolroom Is Declared a Place to Develop Character, Not to Violate Laws ... Trial Is Set for July 10 ... Science Association Plans to Aid Defense -- Talk of Stadium to Beat 20,000

MAY 23

• Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community / March 25-27, 2004 / The Baylor Institute for Faith and Learning and The Council of Christian Scholarly Societies / Baylor University, Waco, TX
• Death Toll in Algerian Earthquake Rises Above 1,500 / May 23, 2003 / New York Times (Associated Press)
• "GENOMICS: Not Junk After All" requires free registration / 23 May 2003 / Wojciech Makalowski / Science, v.300, n.5623, p.1246-1247
• "Mammalian microevalution: Rapid change in mouse mitochondrial DNA" requires free registration / 22 May 2003 / Oliver R. W. Pergams, Wayne M. Barnes, and Dennis Nyberg / Nature, v.423, p.397
• Alchemy with light shocks physicists / 21 May 2003 / Charles Choi / New Scientist — "unexpected and stunning new physical phenomena" soon to be published in Physical Review Letters
• Telescopes of the World, Unite! A Cosmic Database Emerges / May 20, 2003 / Bruce Schechter / New York Times
• Scientists and Their Religions / May 19, 2003 / The Scientist
• Chimps should be part of human genus, scientists say / May 19, 2003 / MSNBC News (Associated Press)
• Religion can't be used as an alibi / May 19, 2003 / Roy Hattersley / The Guardian (UK) — it must be wrong to tolerate ritual slaughter, bigotry or creationism
• Evolutionary Leaps of Logic: Dangerously Entertaining / May 18, 2003 / Chris Mooney / Washington Post, p.B03
• A New Slice on Physics / May 17, 2003 / K. C. Cole / Los Angeles Times — Is the world we see trapped on a thin membrane separating us from vast other realms?
• AI [Artificial Intelligence] Founder Blasts Modern Research / May 13, 2003 / Mark Baard / Wired News
• "Catastrophic arid episodes in the Eastern Mediterranean linked with the North Atlantic Heinrich events" / May 2003 / Yuval Bartov, Steven L. Goldstein, Mordechai Stein, and Yehouda Enzel / Geology, v.31, n.5, p.439-442
• "Mystery of naticid predation history solved: Evidence from a 'living fossil' species" / May 2003 / Tomoki Kase and Makiko Ishikawa / Geology, v.31, n.5, p.403-406
• "Number and size of last-glacial Missoula floods in the Columbia River valley between the Pasco Basin, Washington, and Portland, Oregon" / May 2003 / Gerardo Benito and Jim E. O'Connor / Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.115, n.5, p.624-638
• The International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design / May 2003 / Research News & Opportunities in Science and Technology — web society unravels complex theories
• When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time / May 2003 / Michael J. Benton / Thames & Hudson — see also Amazon
• Einstein Archives Online / 2003 / Hebrew University of Jerusalem & California Institute of Technology
  • Now on the Web, a Peek Into Einstein's Thoughts / May 20, 2003 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Unlocking the Mystery of Life (60 minute video) / Focus on the Family & Illustra Media — advances the theory of intelligent design using state-of-the-art computer animation
• From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning / November 2002 / Niels Henrik Gregersen (editor) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect / October 2002 / Ernest B. Hook (editor) / University of California Press — see also Amazon
• Darwin In the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution / October 2002 / Lynn Helena Caporale / McGraw-Hill — see also Amazon
• Genetic study finds greater difference from chimps / September 23, 2002 / Nando Times (Associated Press)
• UGa Study of Cell Elements Called Retroviruses Shows that Human-Specific Variety Developed When Humans, Chimps Diverged / August 1, 2002 / Phil Williams and John McDonald / University of Georgia
• The Illusion of Conscious Will / April 2002 / Daniel M. Wegner / MIT Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Susan Blackmore / Times Literary Supplement
• Evolution: God's preferred pathway for creating / 1996 / Fr. Anthony Zimmerman / CatholicMind.com

MAY 16

• Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design / October 2003 / Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Perspectives on an Evolving Creation / August 2003 / Keith B. Miller (editor) / Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. — see also Amazon
• Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design / July 2003 / Thomas Woodward / Baker Book House — see also Amazon
• Evolution, Religion, and Education: A Workshop for Science and Social Studies Teachers / June 23-27, 2003 / Messiah College — with financial support from the John Templeton Foundation
• "PALEONTOLOGY: Life's Diversity May Truly Have Leaped Since the Dinosaurs" requires free registration / 16 May 2003 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.300, n.5622, p.1067-1069
• ARN-Announce, n.30 / May 16, 2003 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• It Came From the Gene Lab / May 14, 2003 / Kenneth R. Weiss / Los Angeles Times — Faster-growing salmon? Aquarium fish that glow in the dark? Regulators are at a crossroads over bioengineered animals.
• Earth's shadow to cause lunar eclipse / 13 May 2003 / Helen Pilcher / Nature science update — astronomers prepare for blood-red Moon
• Fishing for Clarity in the Waters of Consciousness / May 13, 2003 / James Gorman / New York Times
• A Functional Pseudogene?: An Open Letter to Nature / May 13, 2003  / Michael J. Behe / Discovery Institute
• Outcry at creationism in UK schools / May 12, 2003 / The Guardian (UK)
• Scientists foresee the end of the earth / May 12, 2003 / MSNBC.com — our planet's long-term fate is to 'fry and dry'
• In potentially important discovery, scientists find two forms of genetic material chromatin / May 12, 2003 / David Williamson / University of North Carolina
• Give six monkeys a computer, and what do you get? Certainly not the Bard / May 9, 2003 / David Adam / The Guardian (UK)
• PBS to Air Unlocking the Mystery of Life / May 8, 2003 / Illustra Media & Discovery Institute
• Potassium heated Earth's core / 8 May 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — radioactive decay in molten core hints at early origin of geomagnetic field
• Darwin Proved Right by Experiment with 'Alien' Life / 7 May 2003 / Robert Roy Britt / space.com
• Darwin's Proof: The Triumph of Religion over Science / May 2003 / Cornelius G. Hunter / Brazos Press (Baker Books) — see also Amazon
• Freedom Evolves / February 2003 / Daniel C. Dennett / Viking Press (Penguin) — see also Amazon
  • review: Why Be Good? / May 2003 / Adam Schulman / Commentary
• "Chromosome Rearrangements and Transposable Elements" / 2002 / Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig and Heinz Saedler / Annu. Rev. Genet., v.36, p.389-410
• The Rhetoric of Charles Darwin (video) / 2002 / UCTV, University of California at Santa Barbara (being distributed by Access Research Network) — interview with Professor John Angus Campbell
• Mammal-like reptiles: major trait reversals and discontinuities / 2001 / John Woodmorappe / Creation ex nihilo Technical Journal, v.15, n.1, p.44–52
• The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions / October 1999 / Charles Frankel / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein / January 1998 / Richard Weikart / University Press of America — see also Amazon
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: Cutting Nature at Its Seams / December 1996 / Robert Klee / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon

MAY 9

• Time to abandon Darwin? The Challenge from Intelligent Design (lecture) / May 22, 2003 / Kenneth Miller and Brent Waters / American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare / May 9, 2003 / Jill Lawless / Yahoo! News (AP News)
• "Experimental evidence that potassium is a substantial radioactive heat source in planetary cores" requires free registration / 8 May 2003 / V. Rama Murthy, Wim van Westrenen, and Yingwei Fei / Nature, v.423, p.163-165
• "Palaeontology: A fly in the biogeographic ointment" requires free registration / 8 May 2003 / Allan C. Ashworth and F. Christian Thompson / Nature, v.423, p.135-136
• "The evolutionary origin of complex features" (pdf) / 8 May 2003 / Richard E. Lenski, Charles Ofria, Robert T. Pennock, and Christoph Adami / Nature, v.423, p.139-144
• ALife experiments show how complex functions can evolve / 7 May 2003 / Richard Lenski / EurekAlert
•  'Digital organisms' illuminate evolution / 7 May 2003 / New Scientist — computer programs designed to "evolve" solutions to mathematical problems support the idea that complexity in nature emerges in small, often apparently unremarkable, steps
• Virtual Life-Forms Mutate, Shedding Light on Evolution / May 7, 2003 / John Roach • National Geographic News
• The Indestructible Worm / May 7, 2003 / New York Times — hundreds of C. elegans worms survived the space shuttle Columbia disintegration
• An Orchid by Any Other Name: An Asparagus? / May 6, 2003 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• New subatomic particle found / 3 May 2003 / Geoff Brumfiel / Nature science update — mysterious quark blend hints at what holds atoms together
• Lab tests tenets' limits / 3 May 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — if the fundamental constants of physics change, they do so too slowly for us to detect
• Scientists can make human eggs from male embryos / 2 May 2003 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
• Eggs made from embryos / 2 May 2003 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — reprogramming step towards safer reproductive cloning
• A Humanist's Sojourn Among Scientists / May 2, 2003 / Leonard Cassuto / Chronicle of Higher Education
• "Dating Niagara Falls" / May 2003 / John D. Morris / Impact, n.359 (Institute for Creation Research
• Tegmark’s Parallel Universes: A Challenge to Intelligent Design? / 29 April 2003 / Karl D. Stephan / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
• Corals Defy Species Classification / February 19, 2003 / Netherlands Organization For Scientific Research / ScienceDaily
• Stick insect forces evolutionary rethink / 15 January 2003 / Nicola Jones / New Scientist
• The Cambrian Explosion: Biology's Big Bang (pdf) / 2001 / Stephen C. Meyer, P. A. Nelson, and Paul Chien / Discovery Institute
• "Recent Cosmic Microwave Background data supports creationist cosmologies" (pdf) / 2001 / John G.Hartnett / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.15, n.1, p.8-12

MAY 2

• Pennsylvania Researchers Turn Stem Cells to Egg Cells / May 2, 2003 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• New Software Gauges the Size of Imminent Earthquakes / May 2, 2003 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• "The Potential for Earthquake Early Warning in Southern California" requires free registration / 2 May 2003 / Richard M. Allen and Hiroo Kanamori / Science, v.300, n.5620, p.786-789
• "Black Holes at the Cosmic Dawn" requires free registration / 2 May 2003 / Xiaohui Fan / Science, v.300, n.5620, p.752-753
• "Migration of a Late Cretaceous fish" requires free registration / 1 May 2003 / Scott J. Carpenter, J. Mark Erickson, and F. D. Holland, Jr. / Nature, v.423, p.70-74 — sediments yield exceptionally well preserved fossils that serve as proxies for the changing climate
• "Three Sisters–evidence for Noah’s Flood" / March-May 2003 / Tas Walker / Creation, v.25, n.2, p.38–42
• Who'll sweep the Gene Sweepstake? / April 30, 2003 / Charles Q Choi / The Scientist — betting is still open on the long-debated number of genes in the human genome
• New evidence that fish feel pain / 30 April 2003 / Quirin Schiermeier / Nature science update — trout study may fuel anti-angling debate
• Database free for all / 30 April 2003 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — Human Genome Organization calls for open-access sequence repositories
• Chimps expose humanness / 29 April 2003 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — preliminary genome comparison points to primate individuality
• DNA re-write could allay cloning fears / 29 April 2003 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — extra step might overcome safety objections to reproductive cloning
• Showers and air-con for WIMPs down Yorkshire mine / 29 April 2003 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — underground lab upgrade might shed light on dark matter
• From Many Imaginations, One Fearsome Creature / April 29, 2003 / Donald G. McNeil, Jr. / New York Times — a dragon
• At a Town Meeting, Cosmologists Debate — Well, Everything / April 29, 2003 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• The Monk in the Lab / April 26, 2003 / Tenzin Gyatso / New York Times
• Faith and Reality / April 25, 2003 / Gina Dalfonzo / BreakPoint (a Christian perspective on today's news and trends) — Do You Have to Choose?
• "Great Age Suggested for South African Hominids" requires free registration / 25 April 2003 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.300, n.5619, p.562
  • "Lower Pliocene Hominid Remains from Sterkfontein" requires free registration / 25 April 2003 / T. C. Partridge, D. E. Granger, M. W. Caffee, and R. J. Clarke / Science, v.300, n.5619, p.607-612
• "Darwin's Hummingbirds" requires free registration / 25 April 2003 / Douglas L. Altshuler and Christopher James Clark / Science, v.300, n.5619, p.588-589
  • "Adaptation in a Plant-Hummingbird Association" requires free registration / 25 April 2003 / Ethan J. Temeles and W. John Kress / Science, v.300, n.5619, p.630-633
• Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning / February 2003 / Martin J. Rees / Basic Books — how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century--on earth and beyond; see also Amazon
  • review: Sir Martin Rees: Prophet of doom? / 25 April 2003 / Andrew Walker / BBC News — The human race has only a 50/50 chance of surviving another century, says the Astronomer Royal, in his latest book - a work as thoughtful as the man who wrote it.
• Design and Nature: Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering / August 2002 / C. A. Brebbia, L. J. Sucharov, and P. Pascolo (editors) / WIT Press — see also Amazon
• 'Creationism' discussion belongs in religion class / January 16, 2002 / Lawrence M. Krauss / Plain Dealer
• Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur / October 2001 / Tom Rea / University of Pittsburgh Press — see also Amazon
• Dark Matter / March 2000 / Don B. DeYoung / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.36, n.4
• "No Dark Matter Found in the Milky Way Galaxy" / 1999 / Michael Oard and Jonathan Sarfati / Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.13, n.1, p.3–4

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