Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (July 2003)

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JULY 29

• New World Ancestors Lose 12,000 Years / July 25, 2003 / Nicholas Wade and John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Dealer arrested in Jesus relic forgery / July 24, 2003 / CNN (Associated Press)
• "Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore" requires free registration / 24 July 2003 / Barry W. Brook, Navjot S. Sodhi, and Peter K. L. Ng / Nature, v.424, p.420-426
• Ichthyosaurs ate turtle soup / 23 July 2003 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — dietary preference backs extinction re-think
• Direct evidence found for dark energy / 23 July 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — mysterious force of cosmic acceleration marked Big Bang's afterglow
• Stars with metal harbour planets / 21 July 2003 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — planet-hunters know where to look for distant solar systems
• "Estimating the Rock Volume Bias in Paleobiodiversity Studies" requires free registration / 18 July 2003 / James S. Crampton, Alan G. Beu, Roger A. Cooper, Craig M. Jones, Bruce Marshall, and Phillip A. Maxwell / Science, v.301, n.5631, p.358-360
• "Making the Best of a Patchy Fossil Record" requires free registration / 18 July 2003 / Andrew B. Smith / Science, v.301, n.5631, p.321-322
• Asteroid hazard revised / 17 July 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — big meteorites may break up in Earth's atmosphere before landing
• Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence? / July 2003 / Henry Schaefer / University of Georgia
• "Time constant for equilibration of erosion with tectonic uplift" / July 2003 / Roger LeB. Hooke / Geology, v.31, n.7, p.621-624
• "Increase of human over natural erosion rates in tropical highlands constrained by cosmogenic nuclides" / July 2003 / Tilak Hewawasam, Friedhelm von Blanckenburg, Mirjam Schaller, and Peter Kubik / Geology, v.31, n.7, p.597-600
• "10 k.y. depositional cyclicity in the early Eocene: Stratigraphic and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar evidence from the lacustrine Green River Formation" / July 2003 / J. T. Pietras, A. R. Carroll, B. S. Singer, and M. E. Smith / Geology, v.31, n.7, p.593-596
• "Subsurface combustion in Mali: Refutation of the active volcanism hypothesis in West Africa" / July 2003 / Henrik Svensen, Dag Kristian Dysthe, Einar H. Bandlien, Samba Sacko, Henri Coulibaly, and Sverre Planke / Geology, v.31, n.7, p.581-584
• The Light Bulb, v.2, n.1 (pdf) / Summer 2003 / IDEA (Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness) Center
  • "Pseudogenes or Pseudoscience?" / Casey Luskin — an up-to-date look at the debate over "junk-DNA" and "sub-optimal" design
• Echo of the Big Bang / May 2003 / Michael D. Lemonick / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? / May 2003 / Michael Ruse / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
  • Evolution: More fallout from the Darwin thesis -- from barnacles to standing up straight / July 20, 2003 / Mark Parascandola / Washington Post, p.BW08
• Evolution and Information: The Nylon Bug / Dave Thomas / New Mexicans for Science and Reason — evidence that not all mutations are harmful, deleterious, degrade the genome, scramble information, produce no new "information"
• Science Devotions / Peter Murphy / Gospel Communications — chemical illustrations of biblical truths
• Darwinism Watch — responding to evolutionist propaganda in the media
• Bushmanland — human, apelike, and dinosaur footprints
• Evolution Under the Microscope: A Scientific Critique of the Theory of Evolution / December 2002 / David W. Swift / Leighton Academic Press
• "Transitional Forms and the Evolution of Phyla" / March 2001 / Glenn R. Morton / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.53, n.1, p.42-51
• Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species / March 2000 / Jeffrey H. Schwartz / John Wiley — see also Amazon

JULY 23

• Judith River Dinosaur Institute of Montana • May 2003
  • Brachylophosaurus dinosaur discovery • 1994 — 95% complete; 3-dimensional; quickly covered in sand after death, with sand also filling the rib cage cavity; so well preserved that tendons and ligaments are still visible
• A 'Smoking Gun' for Dinosaur Extinction • March 6, 2003 • Rosemary Sullivant • Jet Propulsion Lab
• "Mummified" Dinosaur Discovered In Montana • October 11, 2002 • Hillary Mayell • National Geographic News

JULY 17

• "Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator-prey system" requires free registration / 17 July 2003 / Takehito Yoshida, Laura E. Jones, Stephen P. Ellner, Gregor F. Fussmann, and Nelson G. Hairston, Jr. / Nature, v.424, p.303-306
• "Comparative genomics of archaea: how much have we learned in six years, and what's next?" / 16 July 2003 / Kira S. Makarova and Eugene V Koonin / Genome Biology, v.4, n.8, p.115
• Early Voices: The Leap to Language / July 15, 2003 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Cluck, Cluck, Chomp, Chomp / July 14, 2003 / Philip Hunter / The Scientist, v.17, n.14, p.16 — an Anglo-French research team has created a chicken with teeth
• Biologists find unexpected rapid evolution in Caribbean lizards / 14 July 2003 / Tony Fitzpatrick / Washington University, St. Louis
• Two Heavenly Subjects / July 14, 2003 / Charles Colson / BreakPoint — linking science and faith
• Is Race Real? / July 11, 2003 / Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times
• Integrity in Science Award Is Neither / July 11, 2003 / Steven Milloy / Fox News
• "Championing a 17th Century Underdog" requires free registration / 11 July 2003 / Richard Stone / Science, v.301, n.5630, p.152 — a 17th century scientist and maverick thinker who suggested evolution two centuries before Charles Darwin
• "Ancient Planet Turns Back the Clock" requires free registration / 11 July 2003 / Robert Irion / Science, v.301, n.5630, p.151
• Oldest Planet Is Revealed, Challenging Old Theories / July 11, 2003 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Oldest Known Planet Identified / July 10, 2003 / Brad Hansen, Harvey Richer, Steinn Sigurdsson, Ingrid Stairs, and Stephen Thorsett / NASA (Hubble Site)
• "Transcription regulation and animal diversity" requires free registration / 10 July 2003 / Michael Levine and Robert Tjian / Nature, v.424, p.147-151
• Does Science Point to God? Part II: The Christian Critics / July 9, 2003 / Benjamin D. Wiker / Crisis Magazine
• Our greatest quest / 9 July 2003 / Martin Rees / New Scientist — the search for alien life is now more urgent than any other task in astronomy because we need to uncover the truth about the significance of life on Earth
• Refereed Journals: Do They Insure Quality or Enforce Orthodoxy? / 1 July 2003 / Frank J. Tipler / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
• A Five-Quark State Has Been Discovered / June 30, 2003 / Phil Schewe, James Riordon, and Ben Stein / Physics News Update, n.644 #1
• The future looks bright / June 21, 2003 / Richard Dawkins / The Guardian (UK) — an attempt to raise consciousness about atheism by co-opting a word with cheerful associations
  • The Bright Stuff / July 12, 2003 / Daniel C. Dennett / New York Times — a bright is a person with a naturalist as opposed to a supernaturalist world view
  • "Brights": An Exchange with Daniel C. Dennett / July 14, 2003 / Michael C. Rea / University of Notre Dame
• For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery / May 2003 / Rodney Stark / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Does Science Point to God? The Intelligent Design Revolution / April 7, 2003 / Benjamin D. Wiker / Crisis Magazine
• By Design: Science and the Search for God / April 2003 / Larry A. Witham / Encounter Books — see also Amazon
  • review: Travis K. McSherley / townhall.com
• "Ascent of Dinosaurs Linked to an Iridium Anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary" requires free registration / 17 May 2002 / P. E. Olsen, et al. / Science, v.296, n.5571, p.1305-1307

JULY 9

• "Widespread horizontal transfer of mitochondrial genes in flowering plants" requires free registration / 10 July 2003 / Ulfar Bergthorsson, Keith L. Adams, Brendan Thomason, and Jeffrey D. Palmer / Nature, v.424, p.197-201
• Search for Life Out There Gains Respect, Bit by Bit / July 8, 2003 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Dark matter may be undetectable / 8 July 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — super-WIMPs might hide ninety percent of the universe
• "PERCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE: Natural Enemies--Metaphor or Misconception?" requires free registration / 4 July 2003 / Matthew K. Chew and Manfred D. Laubichler / Science, v.301, n.5629, p.52-53
• The New Eugenics / July 4, 2003 / Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times
• Accelerating Universe theory dispels dark energy / 3 July 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — tweaking gravity does away with need for strange forces
• New subatomic species found / 2 July 2003 / David Cyranoski / Nature science update — collision debris yields five-quark particle
• Driving man and chimp apart / June 26, 2003 / Cathy Holding / The Scientist — indels, not single substitutions, in the MHC region account for differential immune response
• The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth / April 2003 / Alan Cutler / Penguin — The remarkable story of Nicolaus Steno, the seventeenth-century anatomist whose pioneering studies of fossils and strata launched a revolution in earth science. Unlike Galileo, Steno was never condemned by the Catholic Church but instead in 1988 was beatified.
  • see also - Amazon, Barnes & Noble, audio
  • review: 'Seashell on the Mountaintop' probes complexities of science / July 6, 2003 / Seattle Times
• How molecular biology opens up a 21st Century view of evolution / February 20, 2003 / James Shapiro / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
• Developmental Plasticity and Evolution / February 2003 / Mary Jane West-Eberhard / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• On the Application of Irreducible Complexity / January-June 2003 / Joshua A. Smart / Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, v.2.1 and 2.2
• Tegmark's Parallel Universes: A Challenge to Intelligent Design? / January-June 2003 / Karl D. Stephan / Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, v.2.1 and 2.2
• Probability of randomly assembling a primitive cell on Earth: Part II / January-June 2003 / Dermott J. Mullan / Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, v.2.1 and 2.2

JULY 3

• book chapter / 2 July 2003 / William A. Dembski / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design — If intelligent design is a scientific research program, why don't design theorists publish or have their work cited in the peer-reviewed literature?
• Giant sea specimen baffles scientists / July 2, 2003 / Miguel Llanos / MSNBC News — the mystery specimen found on Chile's coast was first thought to be whale skin, but could be huge octopus
• Era of 'unborn mother' looms as scientists use aborted foetuses to grow human eggs / 1 July 2003 / Steve Connor / Independent (UK)
• Are Darwinists Immoral? / July 1, 2003 / The Dick Staub Interview / Christianity Today — Benjamin Wiker says Darwinism isn't science per se: it's just a reiteration of a 2,300-year-old philosophy
• Beyond the Genome / July 2003 / Erick Schonfeld / Business 2.0 — the next goal of DNA research makes the breakthroughs of the past few years look like high school biology
• "The Bounds of the Dominion Mandate" / July 2003 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.175 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Are Polar Ice Sheets Only 4500 Years Old?" / July 2003 / Michael J. Oard / Impact, n.361 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Mapping Long-Term Changes in Earth's Magnetic Field" requires free registration / 27 June 2003 / Catherine L. Johnson, Catherine G. Constable, Lisa Tauxe / Science, v.300, n.5628, p.2044-2045
• Evolution comes to Chico / June 26, 2003 / Kristina Seward and Marsha Davison / Chico News & Review (California) — five-day conference brings hundreds of scientists to town
• "The evolution of reproductive isolation through sexual conflict" requires free registration / 26 June 2003 / Oliver Y. Martin and David J. Hosken / Nature, v.423, p.979-982
• "Uranium series dates from Qesem Cave, Israel, and the end of the Lower Palaeolithic" requires free registration / 26 June 2003 / R. Barkai, A. Gopher, S. E. Lauritzen, and A. Frumkin / Nature, v.423, p.977-979
• Monkeys link faces and sounds / 26 June 2003 / Helen R. Pilcher / Nature science update — humans may have evolved a language skill from primate ancestors
• "The evolution of vertebrate blood coagulation as viewed from a comparison of puffer fish and sea squirt genomes" / June 24, 2003 / Y. Jiang and R. F. Doolittle / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, v.100, n.13, p.7527-7532 — see review
• Below decks with Darwin / 23 June 2003 / Anthony Daniels / Telegraph (UK) — Charles Darwin was not the only remarkable man on board the Beagle
• Darwin faces a new rival / June 22, 2003 / Laurel Rosen / Sacramento Bee — a Roseville high school parent urges that 'intelligent design' also be taught in biology
• Ginkgo is living fossil / 19 June 2003 / Christopher Surridge / Nature science update — ancient plants mirror modern trees
• "Pb isotope variations among Bandelier Tuff feldspars: No evidence for a long-lived silicic magma chamber" / June 2003 / J. A. Wolff and F. C. Ramos / Geology, v.31, n.6, p.533-536 — observations undermine any age significance of the Rb-Sr isotope variations
• MARGINALIA: Hooke, Fossils and the Anti-Evolutionists / May-June 2003 / Keith Stewart Thomson / American Scientist
• Apologetics and Biblical Courses / Creation Research and Apologetics Society of India — Bible and Science (6 Lessons), Evolution or Creation (4 Lessons)
• Notes towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare / 2002 / Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe, and Rowan [Sulawesi Crested Macaques (Macaca Nigra) from Paignton Zoo Environmental Park (UK)] / Kahve-Society & Liquid Press — produced in response to the familiar idea that if an infinite number of monkeys are given typewriters for an infinite amount of time, they will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare; see also Vivaria

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