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    — News Archive (March 2004)

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MARCH 30

• The view from 2025: How Design beat Darwin / April 3, 2004 / World on the Web, v.19, n.13 — four leaders of the Intelligent Design movement imagine writing in 2025 and explain how Darwinism has bit the dust
  • The demise of naturalism / Phillip Johnson
  • Whatever happened to evolutionary theory? / Jonathan Wells
  • Mind transcending matter / Jeffrey Schwartz
  • The new age of information / William Dembski
• Science on verge of new 'Creation' / March 28 2004 / Ronald Kotulak / Sun-Sentinel (south Florida) — labs say they have nearly all the tools to make artificial life
• Dino 'signature' may be erased / March 26, 2004 / Greg Lavine / Salt Lake Tribune — traces of squatting dinosaurs are very rare
• Scientists Find Dinosaur Tracks in Utah / March 26, 2004 / Yahoo! News
• Jaw-dropping theory of human evolution / 25 March 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature science update — Did mankind trade chewing power for a bigger brain?
• Crows switch sides to use tools / 24 March 2004 / Laura Nelson / Nature science update — study suggests brain differences between making and using tools
• Co-opted Terms / University of California Museum of Paleontology — many useful terms have been borrowed by antievolutionist groups
• "Implications of Paraconformities" (pdf) / Fall 2003 / Ariel A. Roth / Geoscience Reports, n.36, p.1-5
• On Creation Science and the Alleged Decay of the Earth's Magnetic Field / June 1997 / Tim Thompson / Talk.Origins

MARCH 28

• By Design or by Chance: The Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe / Spring 2004 / Denyse O’Leary / Castle Quay Books (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Canada)
• ARN-Announce, n.37 / March 26, 2004 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Georgia, Ohio, and the Developing Dilemma for Darwinists / February 23, 2004 / Paul Nesselroade / Wedge Update (Access Research Update)
• CreationDigest.com
• A Field Guide to the Invisible Universe / December 2003 / Martin Rees and Priyamvada Natarajan / Discover, v.24, n.12 — at least 96% of the cosmos cannot be seen through any telescope, but what we cannot detect may hold the secret of our fate
• The Case of the Pseudogenes / May 23, 2003 / Paul Nesselroade / Wedge Update (Access Research Update)
• Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism / November 17, 2002 / Michael Behe and Michael Ruse / Test of Faith (panel TV show)
• In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion / November 2002 / Scott Atran / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
  • review: David Livingstone Smith / 28 January 2003 / Human Nature Review, v.3, p.102-103
• Galileo and the Powers Above / Fall 2002 / Virginia Stem Owens / Christian History (Christianity Today) — the convoluted tale of a faithful Catholic caught in a web of theological inflexibility, papal power, and his own political naοvetι
• Worldwide Museum of Natural History / 1999 / Pan Terra (South Dakota) — photo galleries and quality educational products for homes, schools and museums

MARCH 26

• "HUMAN EVOLUTION: The Primate Bite: Brawn Versus Brain?" requires free registration / 26 March 2004 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.303, n.5666, p.1957
• "Life or Volcanic Belching on Mars?" requires free registration / 26 March 2004 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.303, n.5666, p.1953
• Bible Commentary
• "PERCEPTIONS IN SCIENCE: Is Evolution a Secular Religion?" requires free registration / 7 March 2003 / Michael Ruse / Science, v.299, n.5612, p.1523-1524
• Refuting Evolution: A Handbook for Students, Parents, and Teachers Countering the Latest Arguments for Evolution / June 1999 / Jonathan Sarfati / Master Books — online version at Answers in Genesis; see also Amazon
  • e.g., chapter 9: Is the design explanation legitimate?

MARCH 25

• Less Jaw, Big Brain: Evolution Milestone Laid to Gene Flaw / March 25, 2004 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Early humans swapped bite for brain / 24 March 2004 / Anil Ananthaswamy / New Scientist
• Bite makes way for brain / March 24, 2004 / Brendan A. Maher / The Scientist — a single mutation may have caused gross anatomical changes that spurred human evolution
• Ideological Tug of War / March 24, 2004 / Stephen K. Ritter / Chemical & Engineering News — objectivity in environmental science can turn to subjectivity when human nature takes its course
• Mars water discoveries loom huge / March 24, 2004 / Phil Berardelli / United Press International
• Scientists Report Evidence of Saltwater Pools on Mars / March 24, 2004 / Warren E. Leary / New York Times
• Who's brainwashed in America? / March 23, 2004 / Dennis Prager / townhall.com

MARCH 23

• Ohio lesson plan pleases conservatives, irks apostles of Darwin / March 22, 2004 / Phyllis Schlafly / townhall.com
• Did cracking continent trigger a deep freeze? / 18 March 2004 / Philip Ball  / Nature science update — the break-up of a supercontinent may have caused a 'Snowball Earth'
• Dark matter could be light / 17 March 2004 / Philip Ball  / Nature science update — gamma rays from galaxy center may signify less massive missing particles
• Astronomers spy new 'planet' / 15 March 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update — Sedna spotted far beyond Pluto
• Darwinism, Design and Public Education / December 2003 / John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer (editors) / Michigan State University Press — see also Amazon
  • excerpt: The Cambrian Explosion: Biology’s Big Bang / Stephen C. Meyer, Marcus Ross, Paul Nelson, and Paul Chien
• Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology / February 2003 / Gerd B. Mόller and Stuart A. Newman (editors) / MIT Press — see also Amazon
   

MARCH 22

• Evolution's twist / March 22, 2004 / University of Southern California / BrightSurf.com — meat-tolerant genes offset high cholesterol and disease
• SETI coffers boosted by Paul Allen donation / March 22, 2004 / ZD Net UK (Reuters) — the co-founder of Microsoft has made a multimillion-dollar donation to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
• "Parallel Evolution Is in the Genes" requires free registration / 19 March 2004 / Hopi E. Hoekstra and Trevor Price / Science, v.303, n.5665, p.1779-1781
• "Gamma Rays Spotlight a Dark Horse for Dark Matter" requires free registration / 19 March 2004 / Charles Seife / Science, v.303, n.5665, p.1746
• The Nobel Prize in Medicine / March 16, 2004 / Michael Ruse / Metanexus Salus — Was there a religious factor in this year's (non) selection?
• Early human marks are 'symbols' / 16 March 2004 / Paul Rincon / BBC News
• Dragons of the Air: Pterosaurs Flew with Smart Wings / March 15, 2004 / contact: Ann Cairns / Geological Society of America
• New Evidence Suggests Early Oceans Bereft of Oxygen for Eons / March 5, 2004 / National Science Foundation — early life may have lived very differently than life today
• Ultimate equation is pie in the sky, says Hawking / February 23, 2004 / Ian Sample / The Guardian (UK)
• The Earth's Magnetic Field / March 31, 2002 / D. Russell Humphreys / Creation Matters (Creation Research Society Quarterly) — closing a loophole in the case for the earth's youth
• The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment / February 2002 / Richard C. Lewontin / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon

MARCH 16

• A Biological Dig for the Roots of Language / March 16, 2004 / Nicholas Wade / New York TImes
• Early man steered clear of Neanderthal romance / 16 March 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature science update — no evidence of interbreeding between primitive humans
• "Investigating Molecular Motors Step by Step" / March 15, 2004 / Jeffrey M. Perkel / The Scientist, v.18, n.5, p.19 — recent discoveries begin to answer how dyneins, kinesins, and myosins actually work
• The Professor’s Paroxysm / March 15, 2004 / Hunter Baker / National Review Online — a scholar's attack on a student writer -- and academic freedom
• The Meaning of 'Human' in Embryonic Research / March 13, 2004 / Edward Rothstein / New York Times
• "A depositional record of deglaciation in a paleofjord (Late Carboniferous [Pennsylvanian] of San Juan Province, Argentina): The role of catastrophic sedimentation" / March 2004 / Ben Kneller, Juan Pablo Milana, Clare Buckee, and Omar al Ja'aidi / Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.116, n.3, p.348-367
• God: Fact or Fiction? / 2004 / Brendan Roberts / Kiwi Graphix Publishing — exploring the relationship between science, religion, and the origin of life
• From Darwinism to Transhumanism / July 6, 2003 / Benjamin Wiker / National Catholic Register (Discovery Institute website)
• "Are wisdom teeth (third molars) vestiges of human evolution?" / 1998 / Jerry Bergman / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.12, n.3, p.297-304

MARCH 12

• UCLA Conference Brings Together World-Renowned Scientists to Address Origin of Animals / for: April 16, 2004 / AScribe Newswire — Charles Darwin argued that the lack of a rich fossil record predating the rise of animals at the beginning of the Cambrian period of geological time was "inexplicable," an absence that could be "truly urged as a valid argument" against his theory of evolution
• Good News from Ohio: Teaching the Controversy / March 12, 2004 / Charles Colson / BreakPoint
• New Theory: Universe Created by Intelligent Being / March 11, 2004 / John Roach / National Geographic News
• New Evolutionary Link Analyzed / March 11, 2004 / Steve Jordahl / Focus on the Family
• Second Thoughts / March 11, 2004 / Joel Achenbach / Washington Post, p.C01 — if you believe there's no time like the present, you'd be right -- or would you be wrong?
• Ohio evolution lesson plan irks science groups / March 10, 2004 / CNN (Associated Press)
• The trouble with homology / March 9, 2004 / Cathy Holding / The Scientist — two new terms are proposed to describe similarity without implying relationship
• Fossil Human Teeth Fan Diversity Debate / March 5, 2004 / Kate Wong / Scientific American
• Old Colonies: Ancient formations are termites' legacy / February 28, 2004 / Sid Perkins / Science News, v.165, n.9
• "Advanced Early Jurassic Termite (Insecta: Isoptera) Nests: Evidence From the Clarens Formation in the Tuli Basin, Southern Africa" / February 2004 / Emese M. Bordy, Adam J. Bumby, Octavian Catuneanu, and Patrick G. Eriksson / Palaios, v.19, n.1, p.68-78
• Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life / November 2003 / David Grinspoon / Ecco (HarperCollins) — see also Amazon
• The Biology of Death: Origins of Mortality / November 2003 / Andrι Klarsfeld and Frιdιric Revah / Cornell University Press — see also Amazon
• A Brief History of the Human Race / October 2003 / Michael Cook / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon

MARCH 10

• Images Reveal Deepest Glance Into Universe / March 10, 2004 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Hubble's Most Penetrating View Yet of the Early Universe / March 10, 2004 / Scientific American
• State OKs evolution lessons / March 10, 2004 / Andrew Welsh-Huggins / Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) — schools could use optional set in teaching for test; critics say it contains elements of intelligent design; lawsuit likely
• Ohio Votes 13-5 To Approve Lesson Plan Critical of Evolution / March 9, 2004 / Discovery Institute
• Spirit Findings Provide More Evidence of Martian Water / March 9, 2004 / Scientific American
• Protein Sequences: Not So Predictable After All / March 8, 2004 / Ludwig Institute For Cancer Research / ScienceDaily
• Four Keys to Cosmology / February 2004 / George Musser / Scientific American — the big bang theory works better than ever ... if only cosmologists could figure out that mysterious acceleration
• Dark energy tops science class / 20 December 2003 / Paul Rincon / BBC News — a series of breakthroughs in the quest to identify the mysterious fabric of the Universe has topped a list of the 10 key scientific advances of 2003
• Design After Darwin, 1860–1900 / August 2003 / Richard England (editor) / Bristol: Thoemmes Press — see Introduction; see also Amazon

MARCH 9

• Niles Eldredge: Bursts of Cornets and Evolution / March 9, 2004 / Margaret Wertheim / New York Times
• On Mars, Signs of Water Don't Necessarily Mean Signs of Life / March 9, 2004 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• Ohio likely to put doubts into teaching of evolution / March 7, 2004 / Jennifer Mrozowski / Cincinnati Enquirer
  • Board violates its own standard / March 7, 2004 / Lawrence M. Krauss / Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio)
  • Don't let dogma censor teaching / March 7, 2004 / Benjamin Wiker / Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio)
• Crops of Circles Imaged on Mars / 5 March 2004 / Leonard David / space.com
• More signs of water on ancient Mars / 4 March 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update — Opportunity rover finds further evidence of wet Martian past
• Scientists behaving badly / 4 March 2004 / Jim Giles / Nature science update — journal editors reveal researchers' wicked ways

MARCH 8

• Science in the Light of Faith: A Valuable Perspective / March 8, 2004 / Charles Colson / BreakPoint
• Engineer wants 'intelligent design' taught in schools / March 5, 2004 / Eli Kintisch / Post-Dispatch (St. Louis)
• "A Wet Early Mars Seen in Salty Deposits" requires free registration / 5 March 2004 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.303, n.5663, p.1450
• "Discovery of Ancient Silicate Stardust in a Meteorite" requires free registration / 5 March 2004 / Ann N. Nguyen and Ernst Zinner / Science, v.303, n.5663, p.1496-1499
• "The Earliest Hominins--Is Less More?" requires free registration / 5 March 2004 / David R. Begun / Science, v.303, n.5663, p.1478-1480
  • "Late Miocene Teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and Early Hominid Dental Evolution" requires free registration / 5 March 2004 / Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Gen Suwa, and Tim D. White / Science, v.303, n.5663, p.1503-1505
• Science and Religion: Two Ways of Knowing? / March 4, 2004 / Carlton Cross / Collegian, v.88, n.18 (Walla Walla College)
• Argument from Design / 2004 / Peter Kreeft / Catholic Educator's Resource Center
• Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence? / July 2003 / Henry F. Shaefer III / The Apollos Trust (University of Georgia) — see also Amazon
• What We Can't Not Know: A Guide / March 2003 / J. Budziszewski / Spence Pub — see also Amazon
  • review: March 2004 / Phillip Johnson / The Real Issue

MARCH 5

• Another Branch of Human Ancestors Reported / March 5, 2004 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Again, teach the best science / March 4, 2004 / Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH)
• Rover Finds Mars Was Wet Enough for Life / March 2, 2004 / Paul Recer / Yahoo! News (Associated Press)
• "American Genesis: The Cosmological Genesis of the Indians" / March 2004 / Bill Johnson / Impact, n.369 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Strange Strings" / March 2004 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.183 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Modern Day Book Banning?" (pdf) / March 2004 / John D. Morris / Acts & Facts, v.33, n.3, p.1-2
• Objecting to 'origins': Darby student protest highlights concern over new policy / February 26, 2004 / Jenny Johnson / Ravalli Republic (Darby, MT)

MARCH 1

• Charles Darwin Knew: Science and Freedom / March 1, 2004 / Charles Colson / BreakPoint
• Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve? / February 29, 2004 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• Montana Creationism Bid Evolves Into Unusual Fight / February 29, 2004 / James Glanz / New York Times
• ARN-Announce, n.36 / February 28, 2004 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Creatures queue up to be sequenced / 28 February 2004 / Helen R. Pilcher / Nature science udpate — researchers set sights on opossum genome
• "Look, Up in the Sky! It's a Threatening Asteroid!" requires free registration / 27 February 2004 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.303, n.5662, p.1272
• "Light From Most-Distant Supernovae Shows Dark Energy Stays the Course" requires free registration / 27 February 2004 / Charles Seife / Science, v.303, n.5662, p.1271
• "CREATIONISM: Georgia Backs Off a Bit, But in Other States Battles Heat Up" requires free registration / 27 February 2004 / Constance Holden / Science, v.303, n.5662, p.1268
• "First Words" requires free registration / 27 February 2004 / Elizabeth Culotta and Brooks Hanson / Science, v.303, n.5662, p.1315 — several articles on the origin of complex language
• The Devil's Chaplain: Richard Dawkins on Christianity / February 25, 2004 / Albert Mohler / Crosswalk (Dallas Theological Seminary)
• Enzymes stitch together non-natural DNA / 24 February 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — guided evolution and HIV help create man-made stuff of life
• The Major Unsolved Problem in Biology / February 9, 2004 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American — three books try to explain consciousness
• What Darwin Didn't Know: A Doctor Dissects the Theory of Evolution / January 2004 / Geoffrey Simmons / Harvest House — see also Access Research Network and Amazon
• Darwin's Proof: The Triumph of Religion over Science / May 2003 / Cornelius G. Hunter / Brazos Press (Baker Books) — see also Access Research Network and Amazon

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