Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (December 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.
DECEMBER 30
- The
Techno Sapiens Are Coming / January 2004 / C. Christopher Hook /
Christianity Today
When God fashioned man and woman, he called his
creation very good. Transhumanists say that, by manipulating our bodies with
microscopic tools, we can do better.
- "The
Origin of Malaria: Mixed Messages from Genetic Diversity" / 2004 / Daniel
L. Hartl / Nature Reviews Microbiology, v.2, p.15-22
- The
National Creed / December 30, 2003 / David Brooks / New York Times
political parties grow more orthodox, while religions
grow more fluid
-
Experimental Lit / December 28, 2003 / Laura Miller / New York Times
evolutionary psychology, like all alluringly
comprehensive Theories of Everything, can foster both valuable insights and
the daffiest poppycock
-
Strong Earthquake Hits Central California / December 23, 2003 / Charlie
LeDuff and Dean E. Murphy / New York Times
- Lomborg
celebrates ministry ruling / 22 December 2003 / BBC News
the scientist who wrote a
best-selling book that set out to show the world was not heading for
environmental meltdown is celebrating a victory
- RATE Posters
Well Received at AGU Conference / December 2003 / Institute for Creation
Research
- Jesus With a
Genius Grant (pdf) / November 23, 2003 / Alan Rifkin / Los Angeles
Times
Fuller Theological Seminary is teaching that smart
Christians can have it all--science and the Bible, body and soul, left and
right. To some, that's apocalypse now. To others, there's no turning back.
-
History and Future of the Relationship Between the Geosciences and Religion:
Litigation, Education, Reconciliation? / November 5, 2003 / John F.
Bratton (presiding) / Geological Society of America (oral session #249),
Seattle, WA
-
Noah's Flood and the Late Quaternary Geological and Archaeological History
of the Black Sea and Adjacent Basins / November 4, 2003 / Valentina
Yanko-Hombach and Jim Teller (presiding) / Geological Society of America (oral
session #189), Seattle, WA
- "Faith and
the Human Genome" / September 2003 / Francis S. Collins / Perspectives
on Science and Christian Faith, v.55, n.3, p.142-153
-
Searching for the magic bullet / March-May 2003 / Ken Ham / Creation,
v.25, n.2, p.34-37
Why do creation-defenders often seem to be too quick
to jump onto the latest exciting-sounding evidences?
-
Misleading Math about the Earth / January 2002 / John Rennie /
Scientific American
science defends itself against
The Skeptical Environmentalist
DECEMBER 22
-
National Faculty Leadership Conference ... Called to Make a Difference /
June 24-27, 2004 / Washington D.C. area
a national Christian conference for university
professors, administrators and those preparing for a career in academia
-
Exploratorium: Journey
to Mars / January 2004 / San Francisco, CA
webcasts, video conferences with the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, and daily images from JPL will describe the twin Mars Rovers
rendezvous with the red planet
-
Reason and Faith, Eternally Bound / December 20, 2003 / Edward Rothstein /
New York Times
- The Field that Ate the Milky
Way / 19 December 2003 / Shawna Williams / Physical Review Focus
a magnetic field has already
swallowed our entire galaxy, and no one knows where it came from or when it
arrived
- "EVOLUTION:
Climb Every Mountain?"
requires free registration
/ 19 December 2003 / Santiago F. Elena and Rafael Sanjuαn / Science,
v.302, n.5653, p.2074-2075
as a bacterial population becomes a niche specialist,
it is less able to adapt to other niches
- "BREAKTHROUGH
OF THE YEAR: Illuminating the Dark Universe"
requires free registration
/ 19 December 2003 / Charles Seife / Science, v.302, n.5653,
p.2038-2039
dark energy, dark matter, the age of the universe, a
precise speed of expansion
- "BREAKTHROUGH
OF THE YEAR: The Runners-Up"
requires free registration
/ 19 December 2003 / Science, v.302, n.5653, p.2039-2045
-
Cosmic blasts
several discoveries lifted veils that had shrouded the most
energetic explosions in the universe: titanic blasts of energy called gamma
ray bursts
- Religion: For
Dummies / December 18, 2003 / Laura Sheahen (interviewer) / beliefnet.com
scientist Richard Dawkins on
Darwin, the Sistine Chapel, and why the world would be better off without
religion
- "A
larval Devonian lungfish"
requires free registration
/ 18 December 2003 / Keith S. Thomson, Mark Sutton, and Bethia Thomas /
Nature, v.426, p.833-834
- "Recent
ice ages on Mars"
requires free registration
/ 18 December 2003 / James W. Head, John F. Mustard, Mikhail A. Kreslavsky,
Ralph E. Milliken, and David R. Marchant / Nature, v.426, p.797-802
- "Palaeolithic
ivory sculptures from southwestern Germany and the origins of figurative art"
requires free registration
/ 18 December 2003 / Nicholas J. Conard / Nature, v.426, p.830-832
- Carvings
reveal early European's artistic skill / 17 December 2003 / Will Knight /
New Scientist
- New doubts on dark
energy / 17 December 2003 / Belle Dumι / PhysicsWeb (Institute of Physics)
- Oldest evidence
of photosynthesis / 17 December 2003 / Paul Rincon / BBC News Online
scientists claim to have found
the oldest evidence of photosynthesis - the most important chemical reaction
on Earth - in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks
- Coral reveals
ancient origins of human genes / 16 December 2003 / Carina Dennis /
Nature science update
invertebrate DNA raises
questions about evolution models
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Waiting for the Supermutants / December 14, 2003 / Paul Gordon / Los
Angeles Times
how we know Darwin got it wrong
- Genome scan
shows human-chimp differences / 12 December 2003 / John Whitfield /
Nature science update
variations hint at how our
lifestyle is reflected in our genes
- Nobel protester
wins alternative prize / 10 December 2003 / Helen Pearson / Nature
science update
Stockholm ceremony proceeds despite dispute
-
The
Guide: Creation ... Chance or Design? / December 2003 / David Tyler /
Evangelical Press
see also
Amazon
-
The Cosmos in the Light of the Cross / December 2003 / George L.
Murphy / Trinity Press Intl.
see also
Amazon
- Pompeii: A Novel / November 2003 / Robert Harris / Random House
see also
Amazon
- Whose View of
Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells / November 2003 / Jane
Maienschein / Harvard University Press
see also
Amazon
- Eight Preposterous
Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global
Warming / November 2003 / Robert Ehrlich / Princeton University Press
see also
Amazon
-
Science and the Study of God: A Mutuality Model for Theology and Science
/ November 2003 / Alan G. Padgett / Wm. B. Eerdmans
see also
Amazon
- Tycho &
Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the
Heavens / January 2003 / Kitty Ferguson / Walker & Co
see also
Amazon
- EarthScope
the National Science Foundations has awarded $219 million for
applying modern observational, analytical and telecommunications technologies
to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and
the physical processes controlling earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
-
The Little Book of Time / July 2002 / Klaus Mainzer / Copernicus Books
see also
Amazon
- The Future
of Spacetime / May 2002 / Stephen Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Igor Novikov,
Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman / W.W. Norton
see also
Amazon
-
"I'm a Christian Too" ... The Greatest "Proof" of Evolution /
September-October 1999 / Tom Willis / Creation Science Association for
Mid-America
-
Prisons of Light - Black Holes /
September 1996 / Kitty Ferguson / Cambridge University Press
see also
Amazon
DECEMBER 15
-
Radioactive potassium may be major heat source in Earth's core / December
15, 2003 / BrightSurf.com
-
World takes on evolution / 12 December 2003 / Mark Looy / Answers in
Genesis
- Magnetic
Field Is Fading, but No Dire Effects Are Foreseen / December 12, 2003 /
Kenneth Chang / New York Times
- "Genome
Comparisons Hold Clues to Human Evolution"
requires free registration
/ 12 December 2003 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.302, n.5652,
p.1876-1877
- "Marsupial
Origins"
requires free registration
/ 12 December 2003 / Richard L. Cifelli and Brian M. Davis / Science,
v.302, n.5652, p.1899-1900
- "An
Early Cretaceous Tribosphenic Mammal and Metatherian Evolution"
requires free registration
/ 12 December 2003 / Zhe-Xi Luo,Qiang Ji, John R. Wible, and Chong-Xi Yuan /
Science, v.302, n.5652, p.1934-1940
This fossil from China dates to 125 million years ago
and extends the record of marsupial relatives with skeletal remains by 50
million years.
-
The world's expanding waistline: The shape of things to come / December
11, 2003 / The Economist
-
Planet-formation model indicates Earthlike planets might be common /
December 11, 2003 / BrightSurf.com
- "Geochronology:
Dating of the Herto hominin fossils"
requires free registration
/ 11 December 2003 / Peter Faupl, Wolfram Richter, and Christoph Urbanek /
Nature, v.426, p.621-622
"These important discoveries may
therefore be distinctly younger than reported."
- Cave colours
reveal mental leap / 11 December 2003 / David Whitehouse / BBC News Online
red-stained bones dug up in a
cave in Israel are prompting researchers to speculate that symbolic thought
emerged much earlier than they had believed
-
Scientist Links Man to Climate Over the Ages / December 10, 2003 / Kenneth
Chang / New York Times
- Chimp genome
draft completed / 10 December 2003 / Helen Pearson / Nature science
update
closest relative's code will
highlight human qualities
- Humanity?
Maybe It's in the Wiring / December 9, 2003 / Sandra Blakeslee / New
York Times
neuroscientists have given up looking for the seat of
the soul, but they are still seeking what may be special about human brains
- No fiery
extinction for dinosaurs / 9 December 2003 / Paul Rincon / BBC News Online
it is unlikely the dinosaurs perished in a global
firestorm triggered by the asteroid strike on Earth 65 million years ago
- "Episodic
hyperthermic dysoxia: cause of the Permian/Triassic and Triassic/Jurassic mass
extinction events and for the evolution of the saurischian/avian respiratory
systems" (abstract) / November 4, 2003 / Peter D. Ward / Seattle Annual
Meeting, Geological Society of America
- "Death
by hydrogen sulfide: a kill mechanism for the end-Permian mass extinction"
(abstract) / November 3, 2003 / Lee R. Kump, Alexander Pavlov, Michael Arthur,
Yashuhiro Kato, and Anthony Riccardi / Seattle Annual Meeting, Geological
Society of America
- Secular change worthy of Christian
study / October 10-11, 2003 (conference dates) / Julia C. Keller /
Research News & Opportunities in Science and Theology
Princeton University held a conference on the topic of how
people of faith should respond to the challenges of secularism
- See the Glory / Richard Hammar
each observing session with one of my telescopes is a
form of worship; this website shares my images of the heavens with others
- Prehistoric Art
(virtual museum) / Kemerovo State University, Russia
- "Information,
science and biology" / 1996 / Werner Gitt / TJ (formerly Creation ex
Nihilo Technical Journal), v.10, n.2, p.181-187
DECEMBER 9
DECEMBER 8
- Courtly
Combatant / December 13, 2003 / John Perry / World on the Web, v.18, n.48
Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson has been in the
lion's den since 1991, when he horrified the "mandarins of science" by
publicly challenging Darwinism. Now in his 60s and despite suffering the
effects of a stroke, WORLD's Daniel of the Year continues to befriend the
lions even as he declaws them intellectually.
- "Forensic
Science: Oxymoron?" [full article] / 5 December 2003 / Donald Kennedy /
Science, v.302, n.5651, p.1625
- "An
Ostracode Crustacean with Soft Parts from the Lower Silurian"
requires free registration
/ 5 December 2003 / David J. Siveter, Mark D. Sutton, Derek E. G. Briggs, and
Derek J. Siveter / Science, v.302, n.5651, p.1749-1751
how eerily similar the soft tissue anatomy of the
426-million-year-old specimen is to that of modern relatives
- A
Meteoric View of Life / December 4, 2003 / New York Times
-
Weve Been Lied To: Christianity and the Rise of Science / December 4,
2003 / Charles Colson / BreakPoint
- Roast dinosaur
off the menu? / 3 December 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science
update
giant meteorite impact 65
million years ago may not have set the world on fire
- Jury delivers
split verdict on plague researcher / 3 December 2003 / Erika Check /
Nature science update
US microbiologist Thomas Butler guilty of theft,
fraud, and illegally mailing bacteria
-
New
fossils from Ethiopia open a window on Africa's 'missing years' / 3
December 2003 / Cheryl Dybas / EurekAlert!
- Solar activity reaches
new high / 2 December 2003 / Belle Dumι / PhysicsWeb
geophysicists have calculated
that the Sun is more magnetically active now than it has been for over a 1000
years
- Neanderthal
'face' found in Loire / 2 December 2003 / Jonathan Amos / BBC News Online
a flint object with a striking likeness to a human
face may be one of the best examples of art by Neanderthal man ever found
-
For a Good Time, Well, Don't Call Dad / December 2, 2003 / Mary Duenwald /
New York Times
the fledgling field of Darwinian literary studies in
which scholars try to draw connections between literature and evolutionary
science
- When Fish
Fluoresce, Can Teenagers Be Far Behind? / December 2, 2003 / James Gorman
/ New York Times
- ARN-Announce,
n.34 / December 1, 2003 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
- "PSEUDOGENES:
Are They 'Junk' or Functional DNA?" / December 2003 / Evgeniy S. Balakirev
and Francisco J. Ayala / Annual Review of Genetics, v.37, p.123-151
- Language tree
rooted in Turkey / 27 November 2003 / John Whitfield / Nature
science update
evolutionary ideas give farmers
credit for Indo-European tongues
- American
super-quake caused Japanese deluge / 25 November 2003 / Betsy Mason /
Nature science update
historic texts link tsunami to
record-breaking groundswell
- Long Gone
Neanderthals / November 25, 2003 / Jay Ingram and David Newland /
Discovery Channel
- Dinosaur
Museum to Open in Utah / November 25, 2003 / ABC News
a $6 million museum in northeastern Utah will be the
new home to 17 life-sized replicas of prehistoric life
-
Organelle's discovery challenges theory, could alter approach to disease
treatment / 17 June 2003 / Jim Barlow / EurekAlert!
the discovery within a
prokaryotic organism challenges the theory on the origin of eukaryotic
organelles
- Predator-Prey
Interactions in the Fossil Record / January 2003 / Patricia H. Kelley,
Michał Kowalewski, and Thor A. Hansen (editors) / Kluwer Academic - Plenum
Publishers
see also
Amazon
- How Darwinists
Think (DVD and VHS) / 2003 / Phillip E. Johnson / Access Research Network
- Raising Questions
about Evolution in the Schools (DVD and VHS) / 2003 / Phillip E. Johnson /
Access Research Network
- North American Museum
of Ancient Life / Thanksgiving Point / Lehi, Utah
- "Billion-fold
Acceleration of Radioactivity Demonstrated in Laboratory" / 2001 / John
Woodmorappe / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.15, n.2, p.4-6
DECEMBER 1
- "New RATE Data Support a
Young World" / December 2003 / D. Russell Humphreys / Impact, n.366
(Institute for Creation Research)
- "Willingly Ignorant"
/ December 2003 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.180 (Institute
for Creation Research)
-
Evangelical Colleges Make Marks in a Secular World / November 30, 2003 /
Stuart Silverstein and Andy Olsen / Los Angeles Times
enrollment rates and public
acceptance are up as scholarship moves toward the mainstream
-
'Life's Solution': It Had to Happen / November 30, 2003 / Elliott Sober /
New York Times
- THE
WHINE SPECTATOR: Conduct Unbecoming / November 27, 2003 / David
Gelernter / Wall Street Journal
the world's smallest violin
plays for Raymond Damadian, Nobel Prize loser
- A Course
in Evolution, Taught by Chimps / November 25, 2003 / Nicholas Wade /
New York Times
-
Ohio faces a new challenge in intelligent-design debate / November 24,
2003 / Lawrence M. Krauss and Patricia Princehouse / The Plain Dealer
(Cleveland, OH)
-
New
Worlds in the Cosmos: The Discovery of Exoplanets / October 2003 /
Michel Mayor and Pierre-Yves Frei / Cambridge University Press
see also
Amazon
-
Making Truth: The
Roles of Metaphor in Science / June 2003 / Theodore L. Brown /
University of Illinois Press
see also
Amazon
-
Has
Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the
Universe / April 2003 / Victor J. Stenger / Prometheus Books
see also
Amazon
-
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning / March 2003 / Martin J. Rees /
Perseus (Basic) Books
how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten
humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond; see also
Amazon
-
Scientific
Method in Practice / December 2002 / Hugh G. Gauch, Jr / Cambridge
University Press
see also
Amazon
-
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where Is Everybody? /
October 2002 / Stephen Webb / Copernicus Books (Springer)
fifty solutions to Fermi's Paradox and
the problem of extraterrestrial life; see also
Amazon
-
Facing Up: Science
and Its Cultural Adversaries / October 2001 / Steven Weinberg /
Harvard University Press
see also
Amazon
-
Origin of Life and the Universe: Science of Creation / June 2001 /
Paul D. Garnett / 1stBooks Library
see also
Amazon
-
Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality, a Western Perspective
/ 2001 / Shimon Malin / Oxford University Press
see also
Amazon
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