Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (November 2003)

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NOVEMBER 24

• Solar storms trip magnetic flip / 24 November 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — sun sloughs magnetic field, leaving a reversed one in its place
• Genome complexity / November 24, 2003 / Cathy Holding / The Scientist — complex genomes evolved by chance?
• Gene-Altering Revolution Nears the Pet Store: Glow-in-the-Dark Fish / November 22, 2003 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• A Mind That Grasped Both Heaven and Hell / November 22, 2003 / Joseph Loconte / New York Times — regarding C. S. Lewis who died 40 years ago today
• Man vs. Computer: Still a Match / November 21, 2003 / Charles Krauthammer / Jewish World Review
• Meteor Seen as Causing Extinctions on Earth / November 21, 2003 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• "Chondritic Meteorite Fragments Associated with the Permian-Triassic Boundary in Antarctica" requires free registration / 21 November 2003 / Asish R. Basu, Michail I. Petaev, Robert J. Poreda, Stein B. Jacobsen, and Luann Becker / Science, v.302, n.5649, p.1388-1392
  • "MASS EXTINCTION: Has an Impact Done It Again?" requires free registration / 21 November 2003 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.302, n.5649, p.1314-1316
  • "MASS EXTINCTION: Extinction by a Whoosh, Not a Bang?" requires free registration / 21 November 2003 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.302, n.5649, p.1315
• Volcanoes kick-start El Niρo / 20 November 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — eruptions make natural climate swings twice as likely
• Scientists hail new 'map of life' / 20 November 2003 / David Whitehouse / BBC News Online — biologists have produced a detailed map of protein interactions in a complex organism -- the fruit fly
• "Flightless birds: When did the dodo become extinct?" requires free registration / 20 November 2003 / David L. Roberts and Andrew R. Solow / Nature, v.426, p.245
• "The long-term carbon cycle, fossil fuels and atmospheric composition" requires free registration / 20 November 2003 / Robert A. Berner / Nature, v.426, p.323-326
• Evolution of a theory / November 19, 2003 / Amy Davis / The State News (Michigan State University) — researchers probe other beginnings of existence
• Eruption Science: Volcanoes as Labs / November 18, 2003 / James Glanz / New York Times
• Sons I gave birth to are 'unrelated' to me / 13 November 2003 / Roger Highfield / Telegraph (UK)
• The Case of the Midwife Toad / November 13, 2003 / The Museum of Hoaxes — Can acquired characteristics be passed on to one's offspring?
• God, man and growth / November 13, 2003 / The Economist — two economists go where angels fear to tread
• Evolution to stay in Texas texts / November 11, 2003 / Megan Sever / Geotimes
• Ancient glaciers near L.A. / October 2003 / Sara Pratt / Geotimes
• DVD Review: Revisiting The Core / October 2003 / Christina Reed / Geotimes
• Extreme Depositional Environments: Mega End Members in Geologic Time / September 2003 / Marjorie A. Chan and Allen W. Archer (editors) / Geological Society of America — see also Amazon
• So just exactly what is a person? / March 10, 2000 / John Polkinghorne / The Church of England Newspaper

NOVEMBER 21

• The Origins of Life and the Universe / March 2003 / Paul F. Lurquin / Columbia University Press — see also Amazon
• Uncertain Science... Uncertain World / February 2003 / Henry N. Pollack / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology / February 2003 / Keith Parsons (editor) / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation / December 2002 / Joδo Magueijo / Perseus Publishing — see also Amazon
• Selectivity and Discord: Two Problems of Experiment / November 2002 / Allan Franklin / University of Pittsburgh Press — see also Amazon
• What Is Life? Scientific Approaches and Philosophical Positions / August 2002 /  Hans-Peter Dόrr, Fritz-Albert Popp, and Wolfram Schommers (editors) / World Scientific — see also Amazon
• The Little Book of Earthquakes and Volcanoes / June 2002 / Rolf Schick / Copernicus Books — see also Amazon

NOVEMBER 20

• Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time / August 2003 / Peter Louis Galison / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon
• Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe / July 2003 / Charles Seife / Viking Press — see also Amazon
• Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension / June 2003 / Stephen S. Hall / Houghton Mifflin Co — see also Amazon
• 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
• Impossible Extinction: Natural Catastrophes and the Supremacy of the Microbial World / March 2003 / Charles S. Cockell / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• The Development of Animal Form: Ontogeny, Morphology, and Evolution / March 2003 / Alessandro Minelli / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Consciousness: A User's Guide / March 2003 / Adam Zeman / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
• The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science / February 2003 / John L. Heilbron (editor) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• God's Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science / December 2002 / Kenneth James Howell / University of Notre Dame Press — see also Amazon
• The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey / December 2002 / Spencer Wells / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse / October 2002 / Ann Thwaite / Faber & Faber Ltd — see also Amazon
  • review: Sins of the father / September 28, 2002 / D. J. Taylor / The Guardian (UK) — The world remembers the Victorian naturalist Philip Henry Gosse as the rigid evangelical patriarch of his son's famed memoir. Ann Thwaite sets the record straight.
• Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction / March 2002 / Vincent Courtillot / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• New Perspectives in Astrophysical Cosmology, 2nd edition / March 2002 / Martin Rees / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics / October 2001 / Nicholas Wright Gillham / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times / October 2001 / Adrienne Mayor / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861 / October 2001 / S. M. Walters and E. A. Stow / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• History and Theory in Anthropology / June 2000 / Alan Barnard / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia / June 2000 / Gary B. Ferngren, Edward J. Larson, and Darrel W. Amundsen (editors) / Garland Publishing — see also Amazon
• 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt / June 1996 / James A. Haught / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory / April 1995 / Niles Eldredge / John Wiley & Sons — see also Amazon
• Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History / January 1989 / Claude C. Albritton / Kluwer Academic Publishers — see also Amazon

NOVEMBER 17

• The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science / November 19-21, 2003 / Richard Dawkins / Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Center for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University
• Ernst Mayr, Darwin's Disciple / November 17, 2003 / Christine Bahls / The Scientist, v.17, n.22, p.17
• Astrophysicist strikes blow to lightning theory / 17 November 2003 / Betsy Mason / Nature science update — model suggests electric fields cannot grow large enough to generate bolts
• "TEACHING EVOLUTION: Texas Resolves War Over Biology Texts" requires free registration / 14 November 2003 / Constance Holden / Science, v.302, n.5648, p.1130
• Earth's asteroid risk reduced / 14 November 2003 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — warmth of nearby space rocks gives clue to their size
• Virus built from scratch in two weeks / 14 November 2003 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — new method accelerates prospect of designer microbes
• Scientists create a virus that reproduces / November 13, 2003 / Elizabeth Weise / USA Today
• Scientists Progress on Artificial Bugs / November 13, 2003 / ABC News (Associated Press) — scientists report progress in making artificial bacterial-killing bugs
• "Rapid body size decline in Alaskan Pleistocene horses before extinction" requires free registration / 13 November 2003 / R. Dale Guthrie / Nature, v.426, p.169-171
• ARN-Announce, n.33 / November 12, 2003 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design / July 2003 / Thomas Woodward / Baker Book House — see also Access Research Network and Amazon
• Flood Stories from Around the World / September 2002 / Mark Isaak / Talk.Origins Archive
• The God of Hope and the End of the World / 2002 / John Polkinghorne / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
• "Living Fossils -- How Significant Are They?" (pdf) / March-April 1998 / Margaret Helder / Creation Matters, v.3, n.2, p.1-3

NOVEMBER 11

• Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science / March 2004 / Angus Menuge / Rowman & Littlefield — see also Amazon
• Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism / 2004 / Matt Young and Taner Edis (editors) / Rutgers University Press
• The Day the World Burned / December 2003 / David A. Kring and Daniel D. Durda / Scientific American — the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs also ignited a firestorm that consumed the world's forests
• Science Times / November 11, 2003 / New York Times — Science is not a collection of answers, but a way of asking questions, an enterprise driven by curiosity. Following are some of the most provocative questions facing science. Answers are provisional.
  • Does Science Matter? / William J. Broad and James Glanz
  • When Will the Next Ice Age Begin? / Andrew C. Revkin
  • What Happened Before the Big Bang? / Dennis Overbye
  • Could We Live Forever? / Gina Kolata
  • Can Robots Become Conscious? / Kenneth Chang
  • Can Science Prove the Existence of God? / George Johnson
  • Is Evolution Truly Random? / Carol Kaesuk Yoon
  • How Did Life Begin? / Nicholas Wade
  • Do Paranormal Phenomena Exist? / Kenneth Chang
• UN blocks human cloning ban / 7 November 2003 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — vote postpones cloning resolution for two years
• Atoms Team Up to Slow Down / 7 November 2003 / Adrian Cho / Physical Review Focus
• Textbook Reformers See Last-Minute Victory in Texas Decision / November 7, 2003 / Discovery Institute / Yahoo! — board adopts textbooks after education agency head pledges to address remaining factual errors
• Board gives final approval to biology books / November 7, 2003 / April Castro / Star-Telegram (Dallas-Fort Worth)
• Vote in Texas Is One for the Science Books / November 7, 2003 / Scott Gold / Los Angeles Times — state board, in what is seen as a rebuke to religious conservatives, adopts high school biology texts that teach the theory of evolution
• Religion, Science May Turn a Page Over Textbook in Texas / November 6, 2003 / Scott Gold / Los Angeles Times — conservatives want the state to reject a biology book or require editing of parts on evolution; some say it may open the door to creationism
• Board to vote on texts' take on evolution / November 6, 2003 / Karen Adler / San Antonio Express-News
• Biased texts mess with Texas / November 5, 2003 / Della Sentilles / Yale Daily News
• Nearest galactic neighbour discovered / 5 November 2003 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — Milky Way caught consuming Big Dog next door
• North Village To Be Home To First Faculty-in-Residence / November 4, 2003 / Lori Scott Fogleman / Baylor University —  Dr. Walter Bradley, Distinguished Professor of Engineering and associate dean for research in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, and his wife, Ann, will be student housing residents. Bradley has co-authored one book and six book chapters on faith and science issues and spoken at more than 60 college and university campuses on the topic, “Is There Scientific Evidence for Existence of God.” ... “Ann and I decided that God was calling us to a career in academia to be for our students what no professor ever was for us.”
• Acceleration Disrupts Quantum Teleportation / November 4, 2003 / Phil Schewe, James Riordon, and Ben Stein / Physics News Update (AIP), n.660 #2
• Evolution at center of textbook debate / November 3, 2003 / April Castro / Austin American-Statesman — state board to decide whether books should include criticism of theory
• Volcanoes may have choked Earth, helped dinosaurs / November 3, 2003 / CNN — low oxygen levels could have triggered two giant extinctions hundreds of millions of years ago, allowing the dinosaurs to reign supreme over the ancestors of mammals
• Holes in space are not empty / 3 November 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — universe may be full of great dark voids where rules are different
• The Adjacent Possible / November 3, 2003 / Stuart Kauffman / Edge, n.127 — an autonomous agent (e.g., a free-living cell) is something that can both reproduce itself and do at least one thermodynamic work cycle
• The Unseen Genome: Gems among the Junk / November 2003 / W. Wayt Gibbs / Scientific American — just when scientists thought they had DNA almost figured out, they are discovering in chromosomes two vast, but largely hidden, layers of information that affect inheritance, development and disease
• Life's Really Big Questions / November 2003 / Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers / PBS
  • Is Anybody Out There?
  • Meet Lucy
  • Deep Freeze
  • PROFILE: Daniel Dennett
• "Origin and Migration of the Alpine Iceman" requires free registration / 31 October 2003 / Wolfgang Mόller, Henry Fricke, Alex N. Halliday, Malcolm T. McCulloch, and Jo-Anne Wartho / Science, v.302, n.5646, p.862-866
• Seafloor vents spawn spat / 30 October 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — ancient springs are thousands of years old, not billions, say geologists
• Evolution under fire? / October 2003 / David F. Dawes / Canadian Christianity — interviews related to the fact that evolutionary theory is being increasingly called into question by some scientists and scholars
  • Part 1 / Kirk Durston / New Scholars Society — a Campus Crusade for Christ ministry consisting of faculty members from Canadian universities
  • Part 2 / Denyse O'Leary — columnist on science issues for Faith Today, ChristianWeek, and Christianity Today
• Caring for Creation Today: Dialogue, Debate and Discipleship / September 2003 / George L. Murphy / Journal of Lutheran Ethics, v.3, n.9
• A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love / September 2003 / Richard Dawkins / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon
  • review: Through a Glass, Darkly / November-December 2003 / Michael Ruse / American Scientist
• Clues to Creation in Genesis [e-book] / September 2003 / Donald J. Wiseman (editor)
• The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities / April 2003 / Stephen Jay Gould / Harmony Books (Random House) — in what has become his final book, Gould argues for a conciliation between science and the humanities that recognizes the importance of both; see also Amazon
• "Darwin and Political Theory" / 2003 / Denis Dutton / Philosophy and Literature, v.27, p.241-254
• Christian Resources — provides materials that will help thinking Christians think
• The Discovery of a Scientific Proof of God / George Hammond
• Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher about Evolution / January 2002 / Jonathan Wells / Access Research Network
• On the Cosmic Horizon: Ten Great Mysteries for Third Millennium Astronomy / September 2000 / Jeffrey Bennett / Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings — see also Amazon
  • review: Access Research Network
• Science & Christianity: Four Views / August 2000 / Richard F. Carlson (editor) / Intervarsity Press — see also Amazon
• Free People From Superstition / April 2000 / Steven Weinberg / Freethought Today
  • Physics Nobelist takes stand on evolution / Steven Weinberg / American Institute of Physics
• Genes, Genesis and God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History / February 1999 / Holmes Rolston / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Is There Really Scientific Evidence for a Young Earth? / 1999 / Matthew Tiscareno
• A Social Statement on Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice / August 28, 1993 / Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• "Is the War Between Science and Religion Over?" / May-June 1986 / Norman F. Hall and Lucia K. B. Hall / Humanist, p.26
• Bible and Astronomy: An Exposition of the Biblical Cosmology and Its Relations to Natural Science / 1857 / John Henry Kurtz / Kessinger Publishing
• Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge: and of the Progress of Reason, from Sense to Science and Philosophy / 1794 edition (October 1999) / James Hutton / Thoemmes Press — see also Amazon

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