Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (April 2004)

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APRIL 29

• Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos / June 2004 / Don Lincoln / World Scientific — see also Amazon
• "Evolution hopes you don't know chemistry: The problem with chirality" / May 2004 / Charles McCombs / Impact, n.371 (Institute for Creation Research)
• A Glimpse at the Future of DNA: M.D.'s Inside the Body / April 29, 2004 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• J. Maynard Smith, 84, Who Saw Darwinism as Game Theory, Dies / April 29, 2004 / Carol Kaesuk Yoon / New York Times
• "Surprisingly rapid growth in Neanderthals" requires free registration / 29 April 2004 / Fernando V. Ramirez Rozzi and Josι Maria Bermudez de Castro / Nature, v.428, p.936-939
• Neanderthals matured faster than humans / April 28, 2004 / CNN
• Mineral brew grows 'cells' / 28 April 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — a mixture of simple chemicals produces fungus-like structure
• No evolution for Italian teens / April 28, 2004 / Rossella Lorenzi / The Scientist — scientists, teachers shocked by plan to cut evolutionary teaching in secondary school
• Expedition to search for Noah's Ark / April 26, 2004 / CNN — an expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey's Mount Ararat where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah's Ark
  • Expedition Will Seek to Find Noah's Ark / April 26,2004 / Hope Yen / Yahoo! News (Associated Press)
• "Irreducible complexity: some candid admissions by evolutionists" / 2003 / John Woodmorappe / TJ (Creation ex Nihilo, Technical Journal), v.17, n.2, p.56-59
• Introduction to Spacetime: A First Course on Relativity / January 1995 / Bertel Laurent / World Scientific — see also Amazon
• Creation of the Universe / April 1989 / Fang Li Zhi and Li Shu Xian  / World Scientific — see also Amazon

APRIL 26

• Darwin’s Doubters: Changing Paradigms, Intelligently / April 26, 2004 / Charles Colson / BreakPoint
• "Early Life Recorded in Archean Pillow Lavas" requires free registration / 23 April 2004 / Harald Furnes, Neil R. Banerjee, Karlis Muehlenbachs, Hubert Staudigel, and Maarten de Wit / Science, v.304, n.5670, p.578-581
• "The Strange and Twisted World of Pulsars" requires free registration / 23 April 2004 / Linda Rowan and Robert Coontz / Science, v.304, n.5670, p.531
• Centro Studi Creazionismo (Italy)
• Herman Boerhaave, 1668-1738: Calvinist Chemist and Physician / September 2003 / Rina Knoeff / Amsterdam University Press — see also the biographical dictionary of medical eponyms
• The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World / July 2003 / Marcelo Gleiser / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon
• Sociobiology: Evolution, Genes and Morality / 1992 / Raymond Bohlin / Probe Ministries International

APRIL 20

• Earth: An Intimate History / November 2004 / Richard Fortey / Knopf — see also Amazon
• "Here Comes the Sun" / May 2004 / Dana Mackenzie / Discover, v.25, n.5, p.62-69 — the sun's stormy and unpredictable weather produces intense solar flares and eruptions of superheated gases up to 100,000 miles across that can speed through space and threaten Earth
• Does atheism require more faith? / April 20, 2004 / David Limbaugh / townhall.com
• Database lists human genes / 20 April 2004 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — international effort creates resource for geneticists
• Gravity probe to test Einstein / 19 April 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update — satellite will measure how the Earth warps space
• Some Things Are Better Left on Mars / April 19, 2004 / Olivia Judson / New York Times
• IRS raids business, home of creationist / April 17, 2004 / Brett Norman / Pensacola News Journal — museum owner questions timing
• The semantic engineer / April 17, 2004 / Andrew Brown / The Guardian (UK) — Daniel Dennett  is writing a new book opposing the rise of supernaturalism
• Ancient jewellery found in African cave / 16 April 2004 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — shell beads point to Stone Age sophistication
• "Oldest Beads Suggest Early Symbolic Behavior" requires free registration / 16 April 2004 / Constance Holden / Science, v.304, n.5669, p.369
• Ancient shell jewellery hints at language / 16 April 2004 / Hazel Muir / New Scientist
• "Migrating Songbirds Recalibrate Their Magnetic Compass Daily from Twilight Cues" requires free registration / 16 April 2004 / William W. Cochran, Henrik Mouritsen, and Martin Wikelski / Science, v.304, n.5669, p.405-408
• Big Bang or Big Bloom? Were We Intended or Just Lucky? / April 15, 2004 / Benjamin Wiker / To the Source
• Researchers Close In on How Gene Changes Lead to New Traits / April 15, 2004 / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Science Daily
• Hostile Territory: University Conservatives Take Stronger Stand on Campus, Liberal Intolerance Increases / April 14, 2004 / Jason Collum / Agape Press
• Dealing with the Backlash Against Intelligent Design / April 14, 2004 / William A. Dembski
• Hungry hummingbirds flex their jaws to trap flies / 13 April 2004 / CBC News (Canada)
• Human Origins from Afar / April 12, 2004 / Ricki Lewis / The Scientist, v.18, n.7, p.18
• "Dependence of the duration of geomagnetic polarity reversals on site latitude" requires free registration / 8 April 2004 / Bradford M. Clement / Nature, v.428, p.637-640
• The doctors of myth and fantasy meet bioethics / April 8, 2004 / Suzanne Fields / townhall.com
• 'Bogus' story aired by CNN / April 7, 2004 / World Net Daily — TV journalist does report on evolution bill, mischaracterizes what legislation would do
• New light shed on chimp genome / 5 April 2004 / Becky McCall / BBC News — a comparison of the chimp and human genomes casts new light on why the two species are so different despite having very similar genetic code
• "From Fins to Fingers" requires free registration / 2 April 2004 / Jennifer A. Clack / Science, v.304, n.5667, p.57-58
• Less rain in a warmer world / 1 April 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — global warming and pollution could give us drier days
• Rat genome unveiled / 1 April 2004 / Helen R. Pilcher / Nature science update — deciphered DNA will boost medical research
• Decorated ostrich beads show symbolic thought / 1 April 2004 / CBC News (Canada)
• Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off / April 2004 / Fazale Rana and Hugh Ross / Navpress — see also Amazon
• "Dinosaur National Monument: Jurassic Park or Jurassic Jumble?" / April 2004 / William A. Hoesch and Steven A. Austin / Impact, n.370 (Institute for Creation Research)
• BIOTECHNOLOGY: Evolution Encoded / April 2004 / Stephen J. Freeland and Laurence D. Hurst / Scientific American — more information about the evolution of the genetic code can be found on Stephen J. Freeland's laboratory website
• Creation holds deeper meaning / March 31, 2004 / Phillip L. Jones / News-Leader (Springfield, MO)
• Fossil Birds (pdf) / Spring 2004 / Timothy G. Standish / Geoscience Reports, n.37, p.1-5
• "A Somewhat Higher Opinion of God" / March-April 2004 / Karl W. Giberson (interviewer) Christianity Today (Books & Culture) — a conversation with biologist Ken Miller
• Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness / March 2004 / Gerald M. Edelman / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
• The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach / March 2004 / Christof Koch / Roberts and Co — see also Amazon
  • After the Double Helix: Unraveling the Mysteries of the State of Being / April 13, 2004 / Margaret Wertheim / New York Times — scientist at work: Francis Crick
  • The Quest for Consciousness / March 17, 2004 / interview: Professor Christof Koch / Berkeley Groks
  • Dr. Christof Kock: Searching for the Biological Roots of Consciousness / Mary K. Miller / Apple Computer — another link
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• The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science / February 2004 / Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• FAQ: Can irreducible complexity be evolved via gene duplication and co-optation of parts? / IDEA Center
• Giants and Dinosaurs Together?! / November 11, 2003 / Anatolii Vasilev, "Kontinent" / Pravda (Russia)
• Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory / September 2003 / Michael A. Cremo / Torchlight Publishing — see also Amazon
• C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason / September 2003 / Victor Reppert / Intervarsity Press — see also Amazon
• Researchers stake fresh claim to early human ancestry / April 25, 2003 / ABC News
• Old Earth? Why Not! / 2003 / James I. Nienhuis / Genesis Veracity
• The Truth About Human Origins / 2003 / Brad Harrub and Bert Thompson / Apologetics Press
• Does the Bible Teach Science / 2003 / Robert J. Schneider / Berea College
• "The fossil record of ‘early’ tetrapods: evidence of a major evolutionary transition?" / 2003 / Paul Garner / TJ (Creation ex Nihilo, Technical Journal), v.17, n.2, p.111-117
• Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning / October 2002 / Christian De Duve / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Early humans smart but forgetful / 13 September 2002 / Clodagh O'Brien / New Scientist
• Theory Challenges Darwin Doctrine of Common Descent / 18 June 2002 / contact: Jim Barlow / Daily University Science News
• Early clues to 'modern' humans / 7 November 2001 / BBC News
• Demon-Haunted World / February 1997 / Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan / Ballantine Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" / 1995 / David J. Chalmers / Journal of Consciousness Studies, v.2, n.3, p.200-219
• The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900 / June 1979 / James R. Moore / Cambridge University Press

APRIL 2

• Intelligent Design Conference: Dispelling the Myth of Darwinism / June 24-26, 2004 / Highlands, North Carolina
• Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science / March 2004 / Angus Menuge / Rowman & Littlefield — see also Amazon
• Evolving Double Standards / April 1, 2004 / John G. West / National Review Online — establishing a state-funded church of Darwin
• Ice cores vs the Flood / 31 March 2004 / Michael J. Oard / Answers in Genesis
• Evolved DNA stitches itself up / 31 March 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — could DNA have kick-started life on Earth instead of RNA
• The Right Questions (DVD or VHS) / Phillip E. Johnson (interview) / Access Research Network
• Evolution Under the Microscope: A Scientific Critique of the Theory of Evolution / December 2002 / David W. Swift / Leighton Academic Press — see also Amazon
• Realism Regained: An Exact Theory of Causation, Teleology, and the Mind / December 2000 / Robert C. Koons / Oxford University Press — see Access Research Network; see also Amazon

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