Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (February 2004)

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FEBRUARY 25

• From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany / May 2004 / Richard Weikart / Palgrave Macmillan — see also Amazon
• The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery / March 2004 / Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards / Regnery Publishing — see also Amazon
• The Triumph of Hope Over Science / February 25, 2004 / Mark Derr / New York Times
• Earth sows its seeds in space / 23 February 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — life could be leaking out all over the cosmos
• Uses and Abuses of Science / February 23, 2004 / New York Times
  • Scientists Say Administration Distorts Facts / February 19, 2004 / James Glanz / New York Times
  • Preeminent Scientists Protest Bush Administration's Misuse of Science / February 18, 2004 / Union of Concerned Scientists — Nobel laureates, National Medal of Science recipients, and other leading researchers call for end to scientific abuses
  • Scientific Integrity in Policymaking / Union of Concerned Scientists — an investigation into the administration's misuse of science
• New Data on 2 Doomsday Ideas, Big Rip vs. Big Crunch / February 21, 2004 / James Glanz / New York Times
• Many dino species 'undiscovered' / February 10, 2004 / BBC News — up to 500 dinosaur groups may remain undiscovered, yet our knowledge of the creatures and how they were related is relatively complete
• Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight / February 7 - September 7, 2004 / San Diego Natural History Museum
• "Shaping of Hooks in New Caledonian Crows" requires free registration / 9 August 2002 / Alex A. S. Weir, Jackie Chappell, and Alex Kacelnik / Science, v.297, n.5583, p.981 — tool-making crows; see also movie
• The Creation of the Universe / November 2000 / Harun Yahya / Al-Attique Publishers — see also Amazon
• The Evolution Deceit / July 1999 / Harun Yahya / Ta-Ha Publishers — see also Amazon
• "The Return of Hopeful Monsters" / June-July 1977 / Stephen Jay Gould / Natural History, v.86, p.22-30

FEBRUARY 20

• "The Evolution of the Golden Rule" requires free registration / 20 February 2004 / Gretchen Vogel / Science, v.303, n.5661, p.1128-1131
• Evolution caught in the act / February 20, 2004 / University of Michigan / BrightSurf.com — an experiment which forced E. coli bacteria to adapt or perish showed that they were capable of improvising a novel molecular tool
• Black Holes' Vast Power Is Documented / February 19, 2004 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• With Close-Ups of Mars, the Mystery Gets Lost in Space / February 17, 2004 / Sarah Boxer / New York Times
• Specter of Cloning May Prove a Mirage / February 17, 2004 / Stephen S. Hall / New York Times
• From Space, a New View of Doomsday / February 17, 2004 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• 70 Million-Year-Old Bird Fossil Found / February 17, 2004 / ABC News (Associated Press) — bird fossil and egg remains in Romania
• Assaults on evolution have evolved as well / February 15, 2004 / Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott / Mercury News (San Francisco area, CA) — religious opponents of Darwin's discovery open new battles in schools, public arena
• Cloned human embryos yield stem cells / 12 February 2004 / Helen R. Pilcher / Nature science update — study brings therapeutic cloning one step closer
• "Forensic Science: Oxymoron?" requires free registration / 5 December 2003 / Donald Kennedy / Science, v.302, n.5651, p.1625
• World's Oldest Larder / November 2003 / Carole Gee, University of Bonn — researchers find 17 million year old hamster burrow
• Is anybody out there? / 10 May 2003 / New Scientist — Are aliens hiding their messages?
• Design vs. Darwin / April 1, 2002 / Amanda Onion / ABC News — Ohio science standards under fire by supporters of alternative theory

FEBRUARY 16

• Shifting Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology / March 2004 / Thomas W. Davis / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Despite Advance in Cloning, Scientists Are Tempering Hope With Reality / February 15, 2004 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
• Human Cloning Marches On, Without U.S. Help / February 15, 2004 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• INTELLIGENT DESIGN: Incorporate controversy into the curriculum / February 15, 2004 / Stephen C. Meyer and John Angus Campbell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Evolution Critics Are Under Fire For Flaws in 'Intelligent Design' / February 13, 2004 / Sharon Begley / Wall Street Journal
• Ohio wading into debate on biology / February 8, 2004 / Peter Bronson / The Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH)
• Evolution Under the Microscope: A Scientific Critique of the Theory of Evolution / December 2002 / David W. Swift / Leighton Academic Press — see also Amazon

FEBRUARY 13

• Split on Clones: Research vs. Reproduction / February 13, 2004 / Laurie Goodstein and Denise Grady / New York Times
• Medical and Ethical Issues Cloud Plans to Clone for Therapy / February 13, 2004 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• The Cloning Success in Korea / February 13, 2004 / New York Times
• "Scientists Take Step Toward Therapeutic Cloning" requires free registration / 13 February 2004 / Gretchen Vogel / Science, v.303, n.5660, p.937-939
• "Transitions from Nonliving to Living Matter" requires free registration / 13 February 2004 / Steen Rasmussen, Liaohai Chen, David Deamer, David C. Krakauer, Norman H. Packard, Peter F. Stadler, and Mark A. Bedau / Science, v.303, n.5660, p.963-965
• 'Out of Gas': They're Not Making More / February 8, 2004 / Paul Raeburn / New York Times
• "Prize Fight" / December 2003 / Rick Weiss / Smithsonian, p.35,36,38 — Raymond Damadian refuses to take his failure to win a Nobel Prize, for a prototype MRI machine, lying down. Is this failure due to his staunch support for creationist science?
• Can Science Confirm the Missing Day Referred to in the Bible? / 1997 / Padi Boyd and Laura Whitlock / NASA
• Joshua's Long Day and the NASA Computers: Is the Story True? / 1997 / Robert C. Newman / Reasons to Believe

FEBRUARY 12

• ID and the Future of Science Conference / April 22-24, 2004 / Biola University (California) — on intelligent design
• Cloning Creates Human Embryos / February 12, 2004 / Gina Kolata / New York Times
• Oldest Known Insect Identified From 400-Million-Year-Old Jaws / February 12, 2004 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• "New light shed on the oldest insect" requires free registration / 12 February 2004 / Michael S. Engel and David A. Grimaldi / Nature, v.427, p.627-630
• Oldest insect hints at dawn of flight / 11 February 2004 / Hazel Muir / New Scientist
• Oldest insect delights experts / 11 February 2004 / Paul Rincon / BBC News Online — a tiny fossil preserved in red sandstone from Scotland has been identified as the oldest known insect
• Martian 'pebbles' don't prove watery past / 10 February 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update — NASA probe could be walking on broken glass
• An early flowering of genetics / February 8, 2003 / Richard Dawkins / The Guardian (UK) — an obscure letter found in a library shows that Darwin was already doing research into heredity which anticipated the breakthroughs of the next century
• Greetings From the Island of Stability / February 8, 2004 / Oliver Sacks / New York Times
• "New Chemical Elements Probe the Shoals of Stability" requires free registration / 6 February 2004 / Adrian Cho / Science, v.303, n.5659, p.740
• "Evolutionary Dynamics of Biological Games" requires free registration / 6 February 2004 / Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund / Science, v.303, n.5659, p.793-799
• "Life's Patterns: No Need to Spell It Out?" requires free registration / 6 February 2004 / Adrian Cho / Science, v.303, n.5659, p.782-783 — rather than being specified by genes alone, elaborate biological structures may arise through simple dynamical mechanisms
• Intelligent design bill in House / February 5, 2004 / Jack "Miles" Ventimiglia / Sun-News of the Northland (Kansas City, MO) — two Northlanders co-sponsor legislation reminiscent of the Kansas creation science debate
• Modern alchemists make two new elements / 3 February 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update — heavy elements approach fabled ‘island of stability’
• Biology Evolution vs. Intelligent Design / February 3, 2004 / Robert Wayne Cooper / St. Louis Post-Dispatch — a measure now in the Missouri Legislature would require schools to acknowledge the dispute
• "Nuclear Fossils in Stardust" requires free registration / 30 January 2004 / Larry R. Nittler / Science, v.303, n.5658, p.636-637
• Stephen Hawking rejects abuse claims / January 23, 2004 / CNN (Associated Press) — famed astrophysicist said that allegations he was abused are "completely false," but his ex-wife urged police to investigate reports that he suffered a series of unexplained injuries
• Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World / January 2004 / Carl Zimmer / Free Press — see also Amazon
• 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
• Mars Life: A Second Opinion / 2001 / Fazale R. Rana / Facts for Faith, n.5 (Reasons to Believe)
• Radioactive Age Estimation Methods / 1998 / Paul S. Taylor / Christian Answers Network — Do they prove the earth is billions of years old?
• Biblical Literalism: Constricting the Cosmic Dance / August 4-11, 1982 / Conrad Hyers / Christian Century, p.823

FEBRUARY 3

• MarsToday.com
• When Giants Had Wings and 6 Legs / February 3, 2004 / Henry Fountain / New York Times
• Adventure or Inquiry? Two Visions of Cosmic Destiny / February 3, 2004 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Rover Offers More Evidence That Water Existed on Mars / February 1, 2004 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• "Fossil whale preservation implies high diatom accumulation rate in the Miocene-Pliocene Pisco Formation of Peru" / February 2004 / Leonard R. Brand, Ra๚l Esperante, Arthur V. Chadwick, Orlando Poma Porras, and Merling Alomํa / Geology, v.32, n.2, p.165-168
• "Time Is Running Out for the Theory of Evolution" (pdf) / February 2004 / Acts & Facts, v.33, n.2, p.1 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "My Dream" / February 2004 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, v.182 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Biology Confronts Evolution" / February 2004 / Joseph Mastropaolo / Impact, n.368 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "ASTRONOMY: Nuclear Fossils in Stardust" requires free registration / 30 January 2004 / Larry R. Nittler / Science, v.303, n.5658, p.636-637
• Georgia Takes on 'Evolution' / January 30, 2004 / Andrew Jacobs / New York Times
• Ga. Official Wants to Replace 'Evolution' / January 30, 2004 / Georgia Department of Education / ABC News (Associated Press) — Georgia school official proposes taking word 'evolution' from science curriculum
• Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal / January 30, 2004 / CNN — former President Jimmy Carter said he was "embarrassed" by Georgia's proposal to ban the word "evolution" from the state's curriculum
• "Devonian tetrapod from western Europe" requires free registration / 29 January 2004 / Ga๋l Cl้ment, Per E. Ahlberg, Alain Blieck, Henning Blom, Jennifer A. Clack, Edouard Poty, Jacques Thorez, and Philippe Janvier / Nature, v.427, p.412-413
• Creationism quandary / January 29, 2004 / Christopher Harrop / Kansas State Collegian — Missouri legislators shouldn’t force creation theory in schools via bill
• Monkeys unable to master grammar crucial to language / January 22, 2004 / Steve Bradt / Harvard University Gazette — nonhuman primates appear capable of understanding only very basic grammatical structures
• A Potpourri of Pooches / January 2004 / Peter Tyson / Nova (PBS) — How is it that the dog, alone among Earth's species, comes in so many shapes and sizes?
• Water on Mars: What Does It Mean? / 2000 / Hugh Ross / Connections, v.2, n.3 (Reasons to Believe)

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