Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (January 2004)

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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 — NASA’s 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
  • review: Are we here by chance? / January 17, 2004 / Michael Ruse / The Globe and Mail (Canada), p.D9
• Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design / January 2003 / Francis J. Beckwith / Rowman & Littlefield — see also Amazon
  • review: Not Your Daddy's Fundamentalism: Intelligent Design in the Classroom / January 2004 / Harvard Law Review, v.117, p.964
• 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
  • Doubting Darwin: Changing Paradigms, Intelligently / January 8, 2004 / Kim I. Robbins / BreakPoint
• Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind / May 2003 / Peter Corning / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
  • review: "Beware of Theories of Everything" / 1 January 2004 / David Sloan Wilson / Evolutionary Psychology, v.2, n.1-2
• 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
  • "The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way" requires free registration / 2 January 2004 / Charles H. Lineweaver, Yeshe Fenner, Brad K. Gibson / Science, v.303, n.5654, p.59-62
• "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 Earth’s 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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