Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (May 2004)

DISCLAIMER:  The following links do not necessarily 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.

MAY 28

• A Geologic Time Scale 2004 / October 2004 / Felix Gradstein, Jim Ogg, and Alan Smith / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing / June 2004 / William A. Dembski (editor) / Intercollegiate Studies Institute — see also Amazon
• "New Measurement of Stellar Fusion Makes Old Stars Even Older" requires free registration / 28 May 2004 / Kim Krieger / Science, v.304, n.5675, p.1226
• "Ultraconserved Elements in the Human Genome" requires free registration / 28 May 2004 / Gill Bejerano, Michael Pheasant, Igor Makunin, Stuart Stephen, W. James Kent, John S. Mattick, and David Haussler / Science, v.304, n.5675, p.1321-1325
• 'Youngest planet' flouts theory of formation / 28 May 2004 / Stephen Battersby / New Scientist
• NASA Telescope Finds Likely Young Planet / May 27, 20004 / Marcia Dunn / Yahoo! News
• Chimp chromosome creates puzzles / 27 May 2004 / Laura Nelson / Nature science update — first sequence is unexpectedly different from human equivalent
• Hippos create their own sunscreen / 26 May 2004 / CBC News (Canada)
• Then a Miracle Occurs / May 10, 2004 / Michael Shermer / e-Skeptic magazine (Skeptics Society) — an obstreperous evening with the insouciant Kent Hovind, young earth creationist and defender of the faith
• Viruses, Genes, and Sin: A look at Bioethics, the Bible and Theology / February 2004 / Robert Sheldon (NASA)
• Evolution, Randomness, and Hashkafa / 1998 / Lee Spetner

MAY 26

• "The Anti-Creationists" / June 2004 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.186 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "A Story of Two Professors" / June 2004 / Jerry Bergman / Impact, n.372 (Institute for Creation Research)
• What Came Before DNA? / June 2004 / Carl Zimmer / Discover, v.25, n.6 — will scientists soon reveal how life began on Earth by creating a primordial organism in the lab
• Useless Body Parts / June 2004 / Jocelyn Selim / Discover, v.25, n.6 — what do we need sinuses for, anyway
• Origin of species / May 27, 2004 / Deborah Smith / Sydney Morning Herald — our closest relative, the chimpanzee, is not quite as close to us as was thought
• Dust rocks Martian river theory / 25 May 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — signs of water may really be slumping sand
• Ancient continents sent flying / 21 May 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update — shifting core may have accelerated land movements
• "Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic" / May 2004 / Douglas S. Robertson, Malcolm C. McKenna, Owen B. Toon, Sylvia Hope, and Jason A. Lillegraven / Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., v.116, n.5, p.760-768
• "Rethinking the emplacement and evolution of zoned plutons: Geochronologic evidence for incremental assembly of the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California" / May 2004 / Drew S. Coleman, Walt Gray, and Allen F. Glazner / Geology, v.32, n.5, p.433-436

MAY 24

• Rethinking Genetic Determinism / May 24, 2004 / Paul H. Silverman / The Scientist, v.18, n.10, p.32 — with only 30,000 genes, what is it that makes humans human?
• Four-winged birds may have been first fliers / 23 May 2004 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• An Open Letter to the Scientific Community / 22 May 2004 / Halton Arp, et al. / New Scientist, p.20 — opponents of the big bang theory of the universe are being unjustly starved of funds, says a group of dissenting cosmologists
• Science "Discovers" Our Need for God / May 21, 2004 / Jennifer Roback Morse / ToTheSource — scientific evidence indicates humans are biologically primed to seek moral and spiritual meaning
• Grand Canyon Mystery Tour / May 2004 / Phillip E.Johnson / Touchstone — recently bookstores in Grand Canyon National Park sold a book entitled Grand Canyon: A Different View that argued for the creationist “flood geology”

MAY 21

• The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution / October 2004 / Richard Dawkins / Houghton Mifflin
• Without A Doubt: Answering The 20 Toughest Faith Questions / July 2004 / Kenneth R. Samples / Baker Book House — see also Reasons to Believe and Amazon
• A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy / June 2004 / Hugh Ross / NavPress — see also Reasons to Believe and Amazon
• Collie or Pug? Study Finds the Genetic Code / May 21, 2004 / Mark Derr / New York Times
• Theory proposes new view of sun and Earth's creation / May 21, 2004 / Arizona State University / brightsurf.com
• "Galaxy Clusters Bear Witness to Universal Speed-Up" requires free registration / 21 May 2004 / Adrian Cho / Science, v.304, n.5674, p.1092
• "EXOPLANETS: Hotter-Than-Hot Newcomers Push the Planetary Envelope" requires free registration / 21 May 2004 / Govert Schilling / Science, v.304, n.5674, p.1092
• "Iranian Dig Opens Window on New Civilization" requires free registration / 21 May 2004 / Andrew Lawler / Science, v.304, n.5674, p.1096-1097
• "The Cradle of the Solar System" requires free registration / 21 May 2004 / J. Jeff Hester, Steven J. Desch, Kevin R. Healy, and Laurie A. Leshin / Science, v.304, n.5674, p.1116-1117
• "Rapid Rise of Sea Level 19,000 Years Ago and Its Global Implications" requires free registration / 21 May 2004 / Peter U. Clark, A. Marshall McCabe, Alan C. Mix, and Andrew J. Weaver / Science, v.304, n.5674, p.1141-1144
• "Discovery and Directed Evolution of a Glyphosate Tolerance Gene" requires free registration / 21 May 2004 / Linda A. Castle, et al. / Science, v.304, n.5674, p.1151-1154
• "The Involvement of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in the Experience of Regret" requires free registration / 21 May 2004 / Nathalie Camille, Giorgio Coricelli, Jerome Sallet, Pascale Pradat-Diehl, Jean-Renι Duhamel, and Angela Sirigu / Science, v.304, n.5674, p.1167-1170
• Claim made for new form of life / 19 May 2004 / Paul Rincon / BBC News — doctors claim to have uncovered new evidence that the tiny particles known as "nannobacteria" are indeed alive and may cause a range of human illnesses
• Geological time gets a new period / 17 May 2004 / BBC News — geologists have added a new period to their official calendar of Earth's history - the first in 120 years
• "Cretaceous flowers of Nymphaeaceae and implications for complex insect entrapment pollination mechanisms in early Angiosperms" / May 17, 2004 / M. A. Gandolfo, K. C. Nixon, and W. L. Crepet / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
• Earth Impact Effects Program / Robert Marcus, H. Jay Melosh, and Gareth Collins / Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona — interactive web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on Earth - ejecta distribution, ground shaking, atmospheric blast wave, thermal effects, crater size
• Reclaiming Evolution for the Fossils / 30 August 2002 / Graham Budd / Palaeontologia Electronica

MAY 20

• Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness / March 2004 / Benjamin Libet / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number / September 2003 / Mario Livio / Broadway Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• The Big Questions: Probing the Promise and Limits of Science / June 2003 / Richard Morris / Owl Books
• When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time / May 2003 / Michael J. Benton / Thames & Hudson — see also Amazon
• The Nature of Science: An A-Z Guide to the Laws and Principles Governing Our Universe / April 2003 / James Trefil / Houghton Mifflin — see also Amazon
• The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul / May 2002 / Richard Morris / Owl Books (Henry Holt) — see also Amazon
• Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos / May 2001 / Alan W. Hirshfeld / W H Freeman — see also Amazon
• Dinosaurs of the East Coast / 1998 / David B. Weishampel and Luther Young / Johns Hopkins University Press — see also Amazon
• Fire and Mud: Eruptions and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines / June 1997 / Christopher G. Newhall and Raymundo S. Punongbayan (editors) / University of Washington Press — see also Amazon

MAY 19

• "Articulated Palaeozoic fossil with 17 plates greatly expands disparity of early chitons" requires free registration / 20 May 2004 / Michael J. Vendrasco, Troy E. Wood, and Bruce N. Runnegar / Nature, v.429, p.288-291
• "Evolutionary biology: Lamprey Hox genes and the evolution of jaws" requires free registration / 20 May 2004 / Yoko Takio, Massimo Pasqualetti, Shigehiro Kuraku, Shigeki Hirano, Filippo M. Rijli, and Shigeru Kuratani / Nature, v.429
• "John Maynard Smith (1920-2004)" requires free registration / 20 May 2004 / Eφrs Szathmαry and Peter Hammerstein / Nature, v.429, p.258-259
• Galaxy cluster X-rays confirm dark energy / 18 May 2004 / Stephen Battersby / New Scientist
• Hubble snaps new world / 14 May 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update — Is this the first photo of a planet beyond our solar system?
• NOAA, partners film active deep-sea volcanic activity / May 13, 2004 / contact: Fred Gorell / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — liquid CO₂, rare mix of chemical, sunlight-based life
• Disaster Movie Makes Waves / 12 May 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update — but could the climate crash 'the day after tomorrow'?
• In Wisconsin Rock, Traces of a Meteor / April 27, 2004 / New York Times
• "Nonavian Feathers in a Late Triassic Archosaur" requires free registration (pdf) / 23 June 2000 / Terry D. Jones, et al. / Science, v.288, n.5474, p.2202-2205
• On the Alleged Dinosaurian Ancestry of Birds / April 2000 / Ashby L. Camp / Origins (British Creation Society)

MAY 16

• T. Rex Bones, Uncovered With a Pick, Will Be Sold With a Hammer / May 15, 2004 / Nick Madigan / New York Times
• Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius / November 2003 / William R. Shea and Mariano Artigas / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be / March 2003 / Dana Mackenzie / John Wiley — see also Amazon

MAY 14

• Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome / July 2004 / Henry Gee / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon
• ARN-Announce, n.38 / May 14, 2004 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• "Evidence of Huge, Deadly Impact Found Off Australian Coast?" requires free registration / 14 May 2004 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.304, n.5673, p.941
• "GEOCHEMISTRY: Life's Chemical Kitchen" requires free registration / 14 May 2004 / Barbara Sherwood Lollar / Science, v.304, n.5673, p.972-973
• "Hyperactive antifreeze protein in a fish" requires free registration / 13 May 2004 / Christopher B. Marshall, Garth L. Fletcher, and Peter L. Davies / Nature, v.429, p.153
• Handsome men evolved thanks to picky females / 12 May 2004 / Andy Coghlan / New Scientist
• "Surprise Hummingbird Fossil Sets Experts Abuzz" requires free registration / 7 May 2004 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.304, n.5672, p.810-811
  • "Old World Fossil Record of Modern-Type Hummingbirds" requires free registration / 7 May 2004 / Gerald Mayr / Science, v.304, n.5672, p.861-864
• New Crater Beckons Mars Rover / May 7, 2004 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times — the Mars rover Opportunity took a panoramic photograph of the 430-foot-wide crater known as Endurance, which scientists are eager to explore with the rover's instruments
• Life In The Universe Could Be Just About Everywhere / May 6, 2004 / Dan Whipple / SpaceDaily.com (UPI)
• Ancient arthropod caught moulting / 6 May 2004 / BBC News
• Californians Say Teach Scientific Evidence Both For and Against Darwinian Evolution, Show New Polls / May 3, 2004 / Discovery Institute
• Mars rovers begin marathon trek / 3 May 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature science update — aims change as Opportunity contemplates Endurance
• Synthetic Life / May 2004 / W. Wayt Gibbs / Scientific American — biologists are crafting libraries of interchangeable DNA parts and assembling them inside microbes to create programmable, living machines
• Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes / May 2004 / Simon Lamb / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• "Earliest Signs of Human-Controlled Fire Uncovered in Israel" requires free registration / 30 April 2004 / Michael Balter / Science, v.304, n.5671, p.663-665
• Earliest fire sheds light on hominids / 30 April 2004 / Nadja Neumann / Nature science update
• Darwin back in Italy's schools / April 29, 2004 / Rossella Lorenzi / The Scientist — science and education minister changes her mind on teaching evolutionary theory
• Explorers plan quest in search of Noah's Ark / April 27, 2004 / Hope Yen / MSNBC News (Associated Press)
• Entrepreneur to fund Ark search / April 26, 2004 / Julia Duin / Washington Times
• In Harm's Way: Population and Volcanic Risk / April 2004 / John W. Ewert and Christopher J. Harpel / Geotimes
• Paths of Destruction: The Hidden Threat at Mount Rainier / April 2004 / Lisa M. Pinsker / Geotimes
• Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology / April 2004 / Darrel R. Falk / Intervarsity Press — see also Amazon
• The Constants of Nature: The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe / March 2004 / John Barrow / Pantheon Books (Random House) — see also Amazon
• The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus / March 2004 / Owen Gingerich / Walker & Co — see also Amazon
• Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo Erectus / February 2004 / Noel Thomas Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon  / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory / January 2004 / Niall Shanks / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Intelligent Design: Giving creation back to God / 2004 / Casey Luskin / pastors.com
• ArcImaging — Archaeological Imaging Research Consortium is focused on researching biblical and historic cities, sites, objects and locations based on the scientific means of archaeological imaging, ground penetrating radar, satellite imagery, and airborne remote sensing with follow up on-site archaeological studies
• Ark Research Project — the search for Noah's ark
• Noah's Ark Search
• Mission Noah
• The Biology of Death: Origins of Mortality / November 2003 / Andrι Klarsfeld and Frιdιric Revah / Cornell University Press — see also Amazon
• Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society / October 2003 / David Sloan Wilson / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
• The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science / September 2003 / Arthur W. Wiggins and Charles M. Wynn / John Wiley & Sons — see also Amazon
• Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design / July 2003 / Thomas Woodward / Baker Book House — see also Amazon
• Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? / May 2003 / Michael Ruse / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Darwin In the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution / October 2002 / Lynn Helena Caporale / McGraw-Hill & Contemporary Books — see also Amazon
• The Dream of Eternal Life: Biomedicine, Aging and Immortality / February 2002 / Mark Benecke / Columbia University Press — see also Amazon
• Substantial Numbers of Americans Continue to Doubt Evolution as Explanation for Origin of Humans / March 5, 2001 / Deborah Jordan Brooks / Gallup News Service
• Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design / March 2001 / William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner (editors) / Brazos Press — see also Amazon
• The Genesis Debate: Persistent Questions About Creation and the Flood / January 2000 / Ronald F. Youngblood (editor) / Wipf & Stock Pub. — see also Amazon
• Beliefs and Values in Science Education / June 1995 / Michael Poole / Open University Press — see also Amazon
• Is There Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God? / September-October 1994 / Walter L. Bradley / The Real Issue — how the recent discoveries support a designed universe

MAY 11

• 'Junk' DNA reveals vital role / 7 May 2004 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — inscrutable genetic sequences seem indispensable
• A Top Scientist's Research Is Under Attack / May 6, 2004 / Jane E. Brody / New York Times
• Oldest hummingbird fossils found / 6 May 2004 / BBC News
• Darwin-Free Fun For Creationists / May 1, 2004 / Abby Goodnough / New York Times, p.B7
• George Ellis Wins 2004 Templeton Prize / March 17 / contact: Donald Lehr
  • South African Cosmologist Wins $1.4 Million Templeton Religion Prize / March 17, 2004 / Chris Herlinger / Religion News Service (beliefnet)
  • Templeton Prize, world's largest, won by George F. R. Ellis, theoretical cosmologist / 17 March 2004 / contact: Brent Waters / EurekAlert!

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