Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (October 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.

OCTOBER 31

• Intelligent Design since 1959: History in the Making / November 1, 2003 [3:00-5:30 p.m.] / Phillip E. Johnson / Carlsbad Community Church, California
• Discover Dialogue: Ann Druyan / November 2003 / Kathy A. Svitil / Discover, v.24, n.11 — As she prepares to launch the first solar sail, Ann Druyan reflects on church and state and worries about the public's discomfort with scientific knowledge.
• As Solar Flares Reach Earth, House Reviews Forecasting Agency / October 31, 2003 / Matthew L. Wald / New York Times
• "Palaeontology: Preserved organs of Devonian harvestmen" requires free registration / 30 October 2003 / Jason A. Dunlop, Lyall I. Anderson, Hans Kerp, and Hagen Hass / Nature, v.425, p.916
• Big Bang sounded like a deep hum / 30 October 2003 / Marcus Chown / New Scientist
• Pterosaur truth revealed at last / October 30, 2003 / Daily Telegraph — the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs have been victims of a nasty smear
• Zillions of Universes? Or Did Ours Get Lucky? / October 28, 2003 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Row erupts over 'life-starter' vents / 28 October 2003 / Paul Rincon / BBC — The earliest seafloor hydrothermal vents -- supposedly more than three billion years old -- may be nothing more than deposits from underground springs active in the last few thousand years.
• Should evolution be taught in high school science classes? / October 27, 2003 / Richard Anderson / Modesto Bee (California)
• The mystery of the missing links / 25 October 2003 / Mary Wakefield / The Spectator — It is becoming fashionable to question Darwinism, but few people understand either the arguments for evolution or the arguments against it.  This article explains the thinking on both sides.
• Study suggests life sprang from clay / October 25, 2003 / CNN — science backed up religion this week in a study that suggests life may have indeed sprung from clay -- just as many faiths teach
• "Kin Discrimination and the Benefit of Helping in Cooperatively Breeding Vertebrates" requires free registration / 24 October 2003 / Ashleigh S. Griffin and Stuart A. West / Science, v.302, n.5645, p.634-636
• "Experimental Models of Primitive Cellular Compartments: Encapsulation, Growth, and Division" requires free registration / 24 October 2003 / Martin M. Hanczyc, Shelly M. Fujikawa, Jack W. Szostak  / Science, v.302, n.5645, p.618-622
• "Comment on '¹⁴C Dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age Chronology, Pharaohs, and Hebrew Kings'" requires free registration / 24 October 2003 / Israel Finkelstein and Eli Piasetzky / Science, v.302, n.5645, p.568
• Fossil find fills evolution gap / October 23, 2003 / Penelope Debelle / Sydney Morning Herald
• Dinosaurs got cancer / 21 October 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — bone scans reveal tumors only in duck-billed species
• When Science and Christianity Meet / October 2003 / David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (editors) / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
• Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design / July 2003 / Thomas Woodward / Baker Book House — see also Amazon
• Super-Scientist Slams Society’s Spiritual Sickness! / June-August 1994 / Raymond Damadian / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.16, n.3, p.35-37 — pioneer of MRI

OCTOBER 23

• Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness / December 2003 / Dan Lloyd / M.I.T. Press — see also Amazon
  • Art and Science Meet With Novel Results / October 18, 2003 / Emily Eakin / New York Times — embedding a theory of consciousness in a novel to show that consciousness is personal and idiosyncratic and especially bound up with time
• "Creationist Colleges" / November 2003 / Henry M. Morris, Jack Kriege, and Ken Cumming / Impact, n.365 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution" / November 2003 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.179 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "The nature of human altruism" requires free registration / 23 October 2003 / Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher / Nature, v.425, p.785-791
• ARN-Announce, n.32 / October 22, 2003 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Farmer uncovers 'oldest' fishlike fossil / October 22, 2003 / CNN — a tadpole-shaped fossil, believed to be the oldest vertebrate ever found, has been uncovered in southern Australia
• Museum Claims Fishlike Fossil Is Oldest Ever Vertebrate / October 22, 2003 / Mike Corder / Associated Press
• Scientists Revisit an Aegean Eruption Far Worse Than Krakatoa / October 21, 2003 / William J. Broad / New York Times
• New Clue on Which Came First, Tools or Better Diets / October 21, 2003 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Ethics 101: A Course About the Pitfalls / October 21, 2003 / Gina Kolata / New York Times — graduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University are getting quite a different view of research ethics
• A New Kind of Genomics, With an Eye on Ecosystems / October 21, 2003 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• No Nobel Prize for Whining / October 20, 2003 / Horace Freeland Judson / New York Times — full-page advertisements appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times charging at angry length that the Nobel committee was trying to rewrite history by failing to include Raymond V. Damadian, who says in the ads that it was he who discovered M.R.I.
• Of Mice and Men / October 20, 2003 / William Safire / New York Times — Do we really want to cross a man with a mouse?
• Scientists see purpose in 'junk' DNA / October 17, 2003 / Sophia Kazmi / Contra Costa Times (Bay Area, California)
• One number explains animal flight / 16 October 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — engineers and evolutionists take note: wings and tails beat to the same drum
• Detection rescues cause and effect / 16 October 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — information does not really travel faster than light
• ARN-Announce, n.31 / September 18, 2003 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact / September 2003 / John Cornwell / Viking Press — see also Amazon
• Holmes Rolston III Wins 2003 Templeton Prize / March 19, 2003 / Templeton Prize — the prize, valued at more than one million dollars, was given for writing and lecturing on the religious imperative to respect nature and establishing the field of environmental ethics
  • Holmes Rolston, III / University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University
• Natural Philosophy: A Survey of Physics and Western Thought / 2003 / David W. Snoke / Access Research Network
• Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology / October 1999 / William A. Dembski / InterVarsity Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Designer science / 2000 / Royal Truman / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.14, n.1, p.28-34

OCTOBER 16

• New Visions of Nature, Science, and Religion / December 15, 2003 (application deadline) / Jim Proctor (University of California, Santa Barbara) — primary funding: The John Templeton Foundation
• Old purple frog danced with dinosaurs / 15 October 2003 / CBC News (Canada)
• Evolving by Accident, Not Fitness / October 14, 2003 / David Berreby / New York Times
• Not So 'Bright' / October 12, 2003 / Dinesh D'Souza / Wall Street Journal — atheists aren't as rational as they think
• Astronomers turn to MAGIC / 10 October 2003 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — new telescope to scan skies for gamma rays
• Did Nobel Committee Ignore MRI Creator Because of Creationism? / October 10, 2003 / Ted Olsen / Christianity Today — not everybody on the Nobel Committee loves Raymond Damadian
  • Who gets credit still a Nobel issue / October 12, 2003 / Michael Stroh and Scott Shane / Baltimore Sun, Maryland — in an age of collaborative discoveries, questions of fairness are raised, but it's part of the history of the prizes
  • Lemelson-MIT Program Bestows Lifetime Achievement Award to Pioneer of Diagnostic Medicine / April 24, 2001 / MIT — Raymond Damadian invented MRI machine for scanning human body ... enabled early detection of cancer and other diseases
• "Large Cretaceous sphenodontian from Patagonia provides insight into lepidosaur evolution in Gondwana" requires free registration / 9 October 2003 / Sebastiαn Apesteguνa and Fernando E. Novas / Nature, v.425, p.609-612
• Revising Gravity / 9 October 2003 / Kim Krieger / Physical Review Focus — Most galaxies have more of the mysterious dark matter than ordinary, visible matter. The gravitational attraction between the two might follow a force law that differs from Newton's law of gravity.
• 'Bright' Rights / October 5, 2003 / John Allen Paulos / ABC News — Is a movement to fight for the non-religious a bright idea or merely a 'Bright' one?
• Ancient eruption marks today's tortoises / 3 October 2003 / Betsy Mason / Nature science update — genes of Galapagos giants record volcano history
• Himalayas age nine times overnight / 2 October 2003 / Betsy Mason / Nature science update — birth of world's highest mountains may date back 500 million years
• Plants detonated Cambrian explosion / 1 October 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — global cooling may have allowed complex animals to flourish
• Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? / October 2003 / C. John Collins / Crossway Books — see also Amazon
• Faking Biblical History / September-October 2003 / Neil Asher Silberman and Yuval Goren / Archaeology, v.56, n.5 — the James ossuary: how wishful thinking and technology fooled some scholars--and made fools out of others
• Textbook battle over evolution / September 2003 / Megan Sever / Geotimes
• "Extreme southwestern margin of late Quaternary glaciation in North America: Timing and controls" / August 2003 / Lewis A. Owen, Robert C. Finkel, Richard A. Minnich, and Anne E. Perez / Geology, v.31, n.8, p.729-732
  • Glaciers on LA's doorstep just 5,000 years ago / August 13, 2003 / Andrew Bridges / Mercury News (Associated Press)
• "Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate?" / July 2003 / Nir J. Shaviv and Jαn Veizer / GSA Today, v.13, n.7, p.4-10 — empirical evidence suggests that the galactic cosmic ray flux is linked to climate variability
• Hot to Get Real / 2003 / Roger Caldwell / Philosophy Now, n.42 — Is Postmodernism finally on its deathbed? An examination of the the evidence and a look at its would-be successor: Critical Realism.
• Science & Spirit Magazine / John Templeton Foundation
• Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes
• The ‘Principle of Least Astonishment’! / 1995 / Andrew Snelling / Creation Ex NihiloTechnical Journal, v.9, n.2, p.138-139 — rapid reversals of Earth's magnetic field
• Evolutionary Creationism: Torah Solves the Problem of Missing Links / 1984 / Susan Schneider / A Still Small Voice, Jerusalem, Israel

OCTOBER 6

• Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design / November 2003 / Barbara Carroll Forrest and Paul R. Gross / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• "Episodic sediment accumulation on Amazonian flood plains influenced by El Niρo/Southern Oscillation" requires free registration / 2 October 2003 / Rolf Aalto, et al. / Nature, v.425, p.493-497
• "The oldest articulated chondrichthyan from the Early Devonian period" requires free registration / 2 October 2003 / Randall F. Miller, Richard Cloutier, and Susan Turner / Nature, v.425, 501-504
• World's Oldest Shark Fossil Found / October 1, 2003 / Sean Markey / National Geographic News
• Unintelligent Designs on Academic Freedom / October 1, 2003 / Hunter Baker / American Spectator
• Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings / September 2003 / Duane M. Rumbaugh and David A. Washburn / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
• Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists / March 2002 / W. Mark Richardson, Robert John Russell, Philip Clayton, and Kirk Wegter-McNelly (editors) / Routledge — see also Amazon
• Putting It All Together; Seven Patterns for Relating Science and the Christian Faith / 1995 / Richard H. Bube / University Press of America — see also Amazon

OCTOBER 1

• Discovering the Creator (conference) / June 9-11, 2004 / Bryan College — sponsored by the BSG
  • Baraminology Study Group / Bryan College, Dayton, TN
• From the Big Bang to Biology: Does the Latest Evidence Point Back to God? (scroll down to conference) / October 24-25, 2003 / Michael G. Strauss, Scott Minnich, Nancy Pearcey / University of California, Santa Barbara — co-sponsored by American Scientific Affiliation, Templeton Foundation, and the Veritas Forum
• "Carbon Dating Undercuts Evolution's Long Ages" / October 2003 / John Baumgardner / Impact, n.364 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "The Evolving Humanist Manifestos" / October 2003 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.178 (Institute for Creation Research)
• RATE Featured at ICC (pdf) / October 2003 / Acts & Facts, v.32, n.10, p.1-3 — reports from the RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth) group given at the August International Conference on Creationism in Pittsburgh, PA
• Big Teeth in Ancient Jaw Offer Clues About Our Ancestors / September 30, 2003 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• SCIENTIST AT WORK: Other Dimensions? She's in Pursuit / September 30, 2003 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Small, Isolated Elephants Follow Own Evolutionary Path / September 30, 2003 / Mark Derr / New York Times
• 'Alpha and Omega': Mysteries of the Cosmos / September 28, 2003 / Lawrence M. Krauss / New York Times
• First cloned rats born / 26 September 2003 / Helen R. Pilcher / Nature science update — genetically identical rodents may help pinpoint gene function
• Dog genome unveiled / 26 September 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — Venter's poodle Shadow joins ranks of the sequenced
• "A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft" requires free registration / 25 September 2003 / B. Bertotti, L. Iess, and P. Tortora / Nature, v.425, p.374-376
• Gamma-ray burst linked to mass extinction / 24 September 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — 440-million-year-old fossils hint at cosmic explosion
• Perspectives on an Evolving Creation / September 2003 / Keith B. Miller (editor) / Wm. B. Eerdman's — see also Amazon
• Chronobiology: Biological Timekeeping / April 2003 / Jay C. Dunlap, Jennifer J. Loros, and Patricia J. Decoursey (editors) / Sinauer Associates — see also Amazon
• The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences / 2003 / Harun Yahya
• "Junk DNA: evolutionary discards or God’s tools?" (pdf) / 2000 / Linda K. Walkup / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.14, n.2, p.18-30
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark / February 1997 / Carl Sagan / Ballantine Books (Random House)  — see also Amazon
  • review: Billions and Billions of Demons / January 9, 1997 / Richard Lewontin / New York Times Book Reviews

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