Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (September 2003)

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SEPTEMBER 23

• God, Man, and E.T. (conference) / October 25, 2003 / University of Wisconsin — Is there any evidence for an intelligent extraterrestrial presence? If so, could the traditional Judeo-Christian faith survive such a revelation?
• What the Monkeys Can Teach Humans About Making America Fairer / September 21, 2003 / Adam Cohen / New York Times
• Fossil reveals world's oldest genitals / 20 September 2003 / Rob Edwards / New Scientist — proof that little has changed over the last 400 million years -- at least for daddy-long-legs
• "The Anatomy of the World's Largest Extinct Rodent" requires free registration / 19 September 2003 / Marcelo R. Sαnchez-Villagra, Orangel Aguilera, and Inιs Horovitz / Science, v.301, n.5640, p.1708-1710
  • "A Rodent as Big as a Buffalo" requires free registration / 19 September 2003 / R. McNeill Alexander / Science, v.301, n.5640, p.1678-1679
• "The Small Ones Can Kill You, Too" requires free registration / 19 September 2003 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.301, n.5640, p.1647 — asteroids too small to wipe out civilization, but big enough to destroy a major city or trigger a deadly tidal wave
• Monkeys strike for justice / 18 September 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — Capuchin umbrage suggests sense of fairness extends beyond humans
• Grand Canyon born on East coast / 16 September 2003 / Betsy Mason / Nature science update — uranium-dating reveals origin of western US sandstone
• "Mediated Design" / September 2003 / Todd Charles Wood / Impact, n.363 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Intelligent Design and that Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (pdf) / September 2003 / Paul R. Gross / Science Insights, v.7, n.4
  • response: Paul Gross’s Dilemma (pdf) / September 2003 / William A. Dembski
• E.T. and God / September 2003 / Paul Davies / Atlantic Monthly — Could earthly religions survive the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe?
• Prestigious Journal Endorses Basics of Creationist Cosmology / 2003 / D. Russell Humphreys / Institute for Creation Research
• Scibel / 2003 / United Kingdom — committed to promoting understanding of the harmony between mainstream Christian faith and modern science
• "Extremely Large Variations of Atmospheric ¹⁴C Concentration During the Last Glacial Period" requires free registration / 29 June 2001 / J. Warren Beck, et al. / Science, v.292, n.5526, p.2453-2458
  • "Extending the Calibrated Radiocarbon Record" requires free registration / 29 June 2001 / Edouard Bard / Science, v.292, n.5526, p.2443-2444
• "Diapiric Flow at Subduction Zones: A Recipe for Rapid Transport" requires free registration / 29 June 2001 / Paul S. Hall and Chris Kincaid / Science, v.292, n.5526, p.2472-2475
• Bishop Ussher Dates the World: 4004 BC / 1996 / Colin Groves / Archaeology in Oceania, v.31, p.145-151

SEPTEMBER 19

• 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 Christianity Scholarly Societies (Baylor University, Waco, Texas)
• Christian Faith & Natural Sciences: Friends or Foes? / October 3-4, 2003 / Alister McGrath (Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University) / Falls Church, VA — see also pdf
• Genetic Basis to Fairness, Study Hints / September 18, 2003 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• Monkeys show sense of justice / 17 September 2003 / David Whitehouse / BBC News Online — Monkeys have a sense of justice. They will protest if they see another monkey get paid more for the same task.
• Religious right monkeying with our kids' textbooks again / September 14, 2003 / Jan Jarboe Russell / San Antonio Express-News — it's monkey business time again in Texas
• Microscopes have no morals / September 13, 2003 / Colin Tudge / The Guardian (UK) — science needs the ethical underpinning that religion can best provide
• Craters in a Sandbox / 12 September 2003 / Kim Krieger / Physical Review Focus — large lunar craters have stories to tell about explosive collisions of meteorites with the moon
• "Nuclear DNA sequences detect species limits in ancient moa" requires free registration / 11 September 2003 / L. Huynen, C. D. Millar, R. P. Scofield, and D. M. Lambert / Nature, v.425, p.175-178
• Radio-dating backs up biblical text / 11 September 2003 / Helen R. Pilcher / Nature science update — Siloam Tunnel located and dated to 700 BC
• Scientists back Biblical tunnel / 10 September 2003 / Richard Black / BBC — Israeli scientists have used radiometric dating to show when a tunnel in Jerusalem, described in the Bible, was excavated
• Testimony for Textbook Hearing, Austin, Texas (pdf) / September 10, 2003 / William A. Dembski
  • Three Frequently Asked Questions About Intelligent Design (pdf) / September 10, 2003 / William A. Dembski
• Groups debate how origin of life should be taught in Texas / September 10, 2003 / April Castro / Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Associated Press)
• Biology textbooks spark ideological fireworks at hearing / September 10, 2003 / R. A. Dyer / Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania)
• New poll shows overwhelming majority of Texans favor teaching both strengths and weaknesses of Darwin’s theory of evolution / September 8, 2003 / Discovery Institute (Seattle, WA)
• Fur flies as dinosaur experts feud / September 8, 2003 / Robin McKiethe / Taipei Times, p.7 — the row about what wiped out the dinosaurs has sparked allegations of deception and unethical behavior in scientific circles
• Themes from Creation's Blueprint / August 15, 2003 / Vernon Jenkins
• A Short History of Nearly Everything / May 2003 / Bill Bryson / Broadway Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• Connecting Quarks With the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century / April 2003 / Board on Physics and Astronomy / National Academies Press — see also Amazon
• Comparing Hostage-Takers / May 15, 1997 / Phillip E. Johnson / Access Research Network — This paper, which appeared even before the publication of Darwin on Trial, shows Phillip Johnson attempting to find common ground with theistic evolutionists. All such attempts failed.

SEPTEMBER 9

• Science cannot provide all the answers / September 4, 2003 / Tim Radford / The Guardian (UK) — Why do so many scientists believe in God?
• Lion man takes pride of place as oldest statue / 4 September 2003 / Rex Dalton / Nature science update — 30,000-year-old carving might be work of Neanderthals or modern humans
• Earthquake fired steam-powered boulders / 3 September 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — heat from sliding rocks created pressure-cooker effect
• Universe grows faster than we thought / September 3, 2003 / Ian Hoffman / Oakland Tribune
• "Ancient Weapon of Mass Destruction: Methane Gas?" requires free registration / 29 August 2003 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.301, n.5637, p.1168 — What wiped out the vast majority of species at the end of the Permian?
• Evolutionist overreacts / August 18, 2003 / Editor, Standard Times (San Angelo, Texas)
• 8th European Creationist Congress / August 15-20, 2003 / Sweden
• 400 Fragile Regions in Human Genome Vulnerable to Evolutionary 'Earthquakes' / 17 June 2003 / University of California, San Diego
• How Many Times Does "Mitochondrial Eve" Have to Die? / 2003 / Bert Thompson and Brad Harrub / Apologetics Press
• Accuracy in Genesis
• Mitochondrial Eve -- An Explanation / 2002 / BBC (UK)
• "Aquinas and the Big Bang" / November 1999 / William E. Carroll / First Things, n.97, p.18-20
• "Is it Possible to be a Christian and an Evolutionist?" / September-November 1989 / Duane Gish / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.11, n.4, p.21-23 — a leading creationist answers an often-asked question

SEPTEMBER 8

• "The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change" • August 2003 • Spencer Weart • Physics Today, v.56, n.8, p.30-36 — Only within the past decade have researchers warmed to the possibility of abrupt shifts in Earth's climate. Sometimes, it takes a while to see what one is not prepared to look for.
• "Science Fashions and Scientific Fact" • August 2003 • Michael Riordan • Physics Today, v.56, n.8, p.50-51

SEPTEMBER 4

• International Conference on Creationism / August 4-9, 2003 / Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA — some Research Papers, Institute for Creation Research:
  • Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (pdf) / Larry Vardiman, Steven A. Austin, John R. Baumgardner, Eugene F. Chaffin, Donald B. DeYoung, D. Russell Humphreys, Andrew A. Snelling
  • Measurable ¹⁴C in Fossilized Organic Materials: Confirming the Young Earth Creation-Flood Model (pdf) / John R. Baumgardner, D. Russell Humphreys, Andrew A. Snelling, Steven A. Austin
  • Accelerated Decay: Theoretical Models (pdf) / Eugene F. Chaffin
  • Radiohalos — A Tale of Three Granitic Plutons (pdf) / Andrew A. Snelling and Mark H. Armitage
  • Helium Diffusion Rates Support Accelerated Nuclear Decay (pdf) / D. Russell Humphreys, Steven A. Austin, John R. Baumgardner, Andrew A. Snelling
  • Whole-Rock K-Ar Model and Isochron, and Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and Pb-Pb Isochron, "Dating" of the Somerset Dam Layered Mafic Intrusion, Australia (pdf) / Andrew A. Snelling
  • The Relevance of Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and Pb-Pb Isotope Systematics to Elucidation of the Genesis and History of Recent Andesite Flows at Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, and the Implications for Radioisotopic Dating (pdf) / Andrew A. Snelling
• "Earth's earliest microbial mats in a siliciclastic marine environment (2.9 Ga Mozaan Group, South Africa)" / August 2003 / Nora Noffke, Robert Hazen, and Noah Nhleko / Geology, v.31, n.8, p.673-676
• "New model for the emplacement, bioturbation, and preservation of fine-scaled sedimentary strata" / August 2003 / S.J. Bentley and A. Sheremet / Geology, v.31, n.8, p.725-728
• "Archaeology, history, and geology of the A.D. 749 earthquake, Dead Sea transform" / August 2003 / Shmuel Marco, Moshe Hartal, Nissim Hazan, Lilach Lev, and Mordechai Stein / Geology, v.31, n.8, p.665-668
• "Granite recrystallization: The key to the nuclear waste problem?" / August 2003 / Fergus G. F. Gibb and Philip G. Attrill • Geology, v.31, n.8, p.657-660 — high-temperature, high-pressure experiments show that granite can be partially melted and completely recrystallized on a time scale of years as opposed to millennia as widely believe

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