Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (January 2004)
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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.
JANUARY 29
-
Georgia may shun 'evolution' in schools / January 29, 2004 / Mary
MacDonald / Atlanta Journal-Constitution
revised curriculum plan outrages
science teachers
- "A
new orang-utan relative from the Late Miocene of Thailand"
requires free registration
/ 29 January 2004 / Yaowalak Chaimanee, Varavudh Suteethorn, Pratueng
Jintasakul, Chavalit Vidthayanon, Bernard Marandat, and Jean-Jacques Jaeger /
Nature, v.427, p.439-441
- "Friction
falls towards zero in quartz rock as slip velocity approaches seismic rates"
requires free registration
/ 29 January 2004 / Giulio di Toro, David L. Goldsby, and Terry E. Tullis /
Nature, v.427, p.436-439
- ARN-Announce,
n.35 / January 28, 2004 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
- Built for
the Arctic: A Species' Splendid Adaptations / January 27, 2004 / Natalie
Angier / New York Times
- The
Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design
/ January 2004 / William A. Dembski / InterVarsity Press
see also
Access Research
Network and
Amazon
-
A
Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos
/ February 1999 / A. K. Dewdney / John Wiley
see also
Access Research
Network and
Amazon
JANUARY 27
-
Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing / June
2004 / William A. Dembski (editor) / ISI Books
see also
Amazon
- New
study shows Neanderthals were not our ancestors / January 27, 2004 / New
York University / BrightSurf.com
-
Eager NASA Is Bringing Mars Down to Earth / January 27, 2004 / Amy Harmon
/ New York Times
-
Higher Learning / January 26, 2004 / Rebecca Winters / Time Magazine
Can an institution [such as Azusa Pacific University]
that doubts Darwin and mandates chapel attendance provide an education the
mainstream world respects?
- Mission to Mars / 26 January
2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update
Mars special
-
Images From 2nd Mars Rover Show 'Bizarre Alien Landscape' / January 25,
2004 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times
- Telepathy debate
hits London / 22 January 2004 / John Whitfield / Nature science
update
audience charmed by the
paranormal
-
The code that must be cracked / January 22, 2004 / Steven Rose / The
Guardian (UK)
the honeybee has been sequenced
- and nobody noticed
-
Study: Red Sea parting was possible / January 21, 2004 / Washington
Times (UPI)
-
Good reason to shoot for the moon / January 21, 2004 / Guillermo Gonzalez
and Jay W. Richards / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- No
Foolproof Way Is Seen to Contain Altered Genes / January 21, 2004 / Andrew
Pollack / New York Times
- Spirit
Moves to Investigate Composition of Martian Rock / January 21, 2004 / John
Noble Wilford / New York Times
-
Scientists Confirm Evolutionary Exception / January 21, 2004 / Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
researchers provide strong
evidence that an ancient microbe thrives and evolves without sex
-
At Grand Canyon Park, a Rift Over Creationist Book / January 20, 2004 /
Kimberly Edds / Washington Post, p.A17
- Mole
rat's magnetic magic revealed / 19 January 2004 / Gaia Vince / New
Scientist
-
What sort of patterns do scientists working on the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence (SETI) project look for? / Peter R. Backus / Scientific
American
JANUARY 19
- Volcanic impact
not so chilling / 19 January 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature science
update
super-eruptions might not be as
environmentally devastating as we thought
-
Critics Say the Park Service Is Letting Religion and Politics Affect Its
Policies / January 18, 2004 / Michael Janofsky / New York Times
- Life
(and Death) on Mars / January 15, 2004 / Paul Davies / New York Times
- Mars rover rolls
out / 15 January 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update
NASAs craft Spirit has hit the dirt and is set to go
- Monkey morality
/ 14 January 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature science update
sharing might not be as nice as
it's cracked up to be
- The
Allure of an Outpost on the Moon / January 13, 2004 / Kenneth Chang /
New York Times
-
Comments on the TV programmes The Big Question / 12 January 2004 /
Biblical Creation Society
- "Was Charles Darwin
Psychotic? A Study of His Mental Health" / January 2004 / Jerry Bergman /
Impact, n.367 (Institute for Creation Research)
- Creation Research
We exist to seek evidence for the Biblical account of
Creation, Noah's Flood, Tower of Babel and related subjects. We investigate
and promote such evidence in order to glorify Christ and build His church.
- Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe / September
2003 / Simon Conway Morris / Cambridge University Press
see also
Amazon
-
Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the
Challenge of Intelligent Design / January 2003 / Francis J. Beckwith /
Rowman & Littlefield
see also
Amazon
-
Responsible Conduct of Research / November 2002 / Adil E. Shamoo and
David B. Resnik / Oxford University Press
see also
Amazon
-
Study, Review and
Editorial Focus on Religion, Spirituality and Medicine / December 11, 2001
/ Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN)
it is difficult to prove the result that better health comes
from intercessory prayer
JANUARY 14
-
Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science / March
2004 / Angus J. L. Menuge / Rowman & Littlefield
see also
Amazon
- Faith & Reason
Series / January 16 & 17, 2004 / William A. Dembski
- Detecting Design in Biological Systems / University of California, Davis
- Intelligent Design: Yesterday's Orthodoxy, Today's Heresy / Grace Valley
Christian Center, Davis, CA
- "Fossil
embryos from the Middle and Late Cambrian period of Hunan, south China"
requires free registration
/ 15 January 2004 / Xi-Ping Dong, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Hong Cheng, and Jian-Bo
Liu / Nature, v.427, p.237-240
- Evolution
of Gene Related to Brain's Growth Is Detailed / January 14, 2004 /
Nicholas Wade / New York Times
- Tests
Suggest Scientists Have Found Big Bang Goo / January 14, 2004 / James
Glanz / New York Times
-
The Grand Canyon Tears America Apart in Battle Between Science and Faith /
January 12, 2004 / Andrew Gumbel / Independent (UK)
- A
Cosmic Ego Trip: Be Careful What You Look for on Mars / January 11, 2004 /
William J. Broad / New York Times
-
Mars Rovers in Quest for Grail: Signs of Water / January 11, 2004 / John
Noble Wilford / New York Times
- Finding the
Universal Laws That Are There, Waiting ... / January 10, 2004 / Edward
Rothstein / New York Times
-
Astronomers see era of rapid galaxy formation / January 9, 2004 / National
Science Foundation
new findings pose a challenge
for cold dark matter theory
- Star twins /
9 January 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update
the first double-team of pulsars
may reveal secrets of gravity
- "A
Better Radiocarbon Clock"
requires free registration
/ 9 January 2004 / Edouard Bard, Frauke Rostek, and Guillemette Mιnot-Combes /
Science, v.303, n.5655, p.178-179
- "14C
Activity and Global Carbon Cycle Changes over the Past 50,000 Years"
requires free registration
/ 9 January 2004 / K. Hughen, S. Lehman, J. Southon, J. Overpeck, O. Marchal,
C. Herring, and J. Turnbull / Science, v.303, n.5655, p.202-207
- "Wanted:
One Good Cosmic Blast to Shake the Neighborhood"
requires free registration
/ 9 January 2004 / Charles Seife / Science, v.303, n.5655, p.164-165
- "Once
Again, Muons Defy Reigning Theory"
requires free registration
/ 9 January 2004 / Charles Seife / Science, v.303, n.5655, p.154
-
Study Suggests Life On Earth Sprang From Borax Minerals / January 9, 2004
/ University of Florida / ScienceDaily
-
Religion, Geology Collide at the Grand Canyon / January 7, 2004 / Julie
Cart / Los Angeles Times
In the park's stores is a book saying the chasm is due
to the biblical flood. It's a hot seller but a source of controversy among
scientists.
- Mars rover opens
eyes / 6 January 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature science update
NASA probe sends back first photos of Red Planet
-
Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher about Design (pdf) / January
2004 / William A. Dembski
-
Irreducible Complexity Revisited (pdf) / January 2004 / William A. Dembski
-
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body / November 2003 /
Armand Marie Leroi / Viking Press
see also
Amazon
-
Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design / July 2003 /
Thomas Woodward / Baker Book House
see also
Access Research
Network and
Amazon
-
Natures Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind / May
2003 / Peter Corning / Cambridge University Press
see also
Amazon
-
Anything Into Oil / May 2003 / Brad Lemley / Discover, v.24, n.5
technological savvy could turn
600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of
light Texas crude each year
- Confessions of
a Skeptic / April 7, 2003 / Richard T. Halvorson / Harvard Crimson
- "Bird
evolution: discontinuities and reversals" / 2003 / John Woodmorappe /
Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.17, n.1, p.88-94
JANUARY 5
- Information:
The New Language of Science / March 2004 / Hans Christian Von Baeyer /
Harvard University Press
see also
Amazon
-
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality /
February 2004 / Brian Greene / Knopf
see also
Amazon
-
Scientists and Their Gods: The Question of Coherence / January 5, 2004 /
Charles Colson / BreakPoint
-
Eco-warriors of the science labs can't see the truth / 5 January 2004 /
Barbara Amiel / Telegraph (UK)
- Relieved
Mars Enthusiasts Celebrate Successful Landing / January 5, 2004 / Anahad
O'Connor / New York Times
- Rover
Unfurls, Opening New Stage in Exploring Mars / January 5, 2004 / John
Noble Wilford / New York Times
- "ARCHAEOLOGY:
A Surprising Survival Story in the Siberian Arctic"
requires free registration
/ 2 January 2004 / Richard Stone / Science, v.303, n.5654, p.33
- "The
Yana RHS Site: Humans in the Arctic Before the Last Glacial Maximum"
requires free registration
/ 2 January 2004 / V. V. Pitulko, P. A. Nikolsky, E. Yu. Girya, A. E.
Basilyan, V. E. Tumskoy, S. A. Koulakov, S. N. Astakhov, E. Yu. Pavlova, and
M. A. Anisimov / Science, v.303, n.5654, p.52-56
- "Are
Most Life-Friendly Stars Older Than the Sun?"
requires free registration
/ 2 January 2004 / Robert Irion / Science, v.303, n.5654, p.27
- "Long
Gamma-Ray Bursts"
requires free registration
/ 2 January 2004 / Andrew MacFadyen / Science, v.303, n.5654, p.45-46
- "SCIENTIFIC
CONDUCT: Charges Don't Stick to The Skeptical Environmentalist"
requires free registration
/ 2 January 2004 / Lone Frank / Science, v.303, n.5654, p.28
- "Unmatched
tempo of evolution in Southern African semi-desert ice plants"
requires free registration
/ 1 January 2004 / C. Klak, G. Reeves, and T. Hedderson / Nature,
v.427, p.63-65
-
The Time We Thought We Knew / January 1, 2004 / Brian Greene / New York
Times
- Earth loses its
magnetism / 31 December 2003 / Molly Bentley / BBC News
the Earth's magnetic field strength has steadily and
mysteriously waned, leaving parts of the planet vulnerable to increased
radiation from space
- Fingers crossed
for Beagle 2 / 23 December 2003 / Philip Ball / Nature science
update
search for life on Mars set to
enter a new phase
- "Influence
of wildfires on apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He ages" / December 2003 / Sara
Gran Mitchell and Peter W. Reiners / Geology, v.31, n.12, p.1025-1028
- "Fireball
passes and nothing burns" / December 2003 / Claire M. Belcher, Margaret E.
Collinson, Andrew C. Scott, Arthur R. Sweet, and Alan R. Hildebrand /
Geology, v.31, n.12, p.1061-1064 the role of thermal
radiation in the Cretaceous-Tertiary event ... evidence from the charcoal
record of North America
- Neither
Intelligent nor Designed / November 2003 / Bruce and Frances Martin /
Skeptical Inquirer
- Is the Earth
preparing to flip? / 27 March 2003 / David Whitehouse / BBC News
in recent years, the Earth's
magnetic field has been behaving in ways not previously seen
- "The
Earths Magnetic Field is Still Losing Energy" / June 2002 / D. Russell
Humphreys / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.39, n.1, p.1-11
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