Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (June 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.

JUNE 25

• "ASTRONOMY: The Short Spectacular Life of a Superstar" requires free registration / 25 June 2004 / Gerry Gilmore / Science, v.304, n.5679, p.1915-1916
• "Michael Majerus Profile: In Defense of Darwin and a Former Icon of Evolution" requires free registration / 25 June 2004 / Fiona Proffitt / Science, v.304, n.5679, p.1894-1895 — after a severe drubbing, the famous example of the peppered moth is getting refurbished
• Mother Lode of Mutations / June 24, 2004 / University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine / ScienceDaily — zebrafish early development survey sheds light on human infertility and birth defects
• Dark Days Doomed Dinosaurs / June 24, 2004 / Purdue University / ScienceDaily — though the catastrophe that destroyed the dinosaurs' world may have begun with blazing fire, it probably ended with icy darkness
• Thomas Gold: 1920-2004 / 23 June 2004 / Matin Durrani / Physics World — A controversial astronomer and geoscientist, Gold is best known for helping to develop the steady-state theory of the universe. Although the theory is widely viewed to be incorrect, many of his other unconventional ideas have stood the test of time.
• Creationism & the Early Church / January 1999 / Robert I. Bradshaw — the early church's interpretations of Genesis 1-11 from the close of the New Testament until the death of Augustine of Hippo (430 AD)

JUNE 23

• "The Greenhouse Warming Hype of the Movie The Day After Tomorrow" / July 2004 / Jerry Bergman / Impact, n.373 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "The Eternal Future of Time, Space, and Matter" / July 2004 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.187 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Fundamental physics constants stay put / 23 June 2004 / Justin Mullins / New Scientist
• 'Birth cry' of the cosmos heard / 23 June 2004 / David Whitehouse / BBC News — astronomers have recaptured the sounds of the early Universe showing it was born not with a bang but a quiet whisper that became a dull roar
• Worshipers at the Secular Altar / June 17, 2004 / David Klinghoffer / Los Angeles Times

JUNE 21

• Earth: An Intimate History / November 2004 / Richard A. Fortey / Alfred A. Knopf — see also Amazon
• Grasping for Light of Distant Worlds / June 22, 2004 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times — for astronomers, improved technology is bringing more planets into view
• Reflections on Human Origins (pdf) / June 21, 2004 / William A. Dembski
• Stone Age elephant remains found / 19 June 2004 / BBC News
• "Changing a Fish's Bony Armor in the Wink of a Gene" requires free registration / 18 June 2004 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.304, n.5678, p.1736
• "Cometary Dust Unveiled" requires free registration / 18 June 2004 / Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd / Science, v.304, n.5678, p.1762-1763 — one of half a dozen article on dust in the solar system
• Noah's Ark Painting / Elfred Lee / Bibleland Studios
• The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator
• What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes / April 2002 / Jonathan Marks / University of California Press — see also Amazon

JUNE 17

• "Radiocarbon evidence of mid-Holocene mammoths stranded on an Alaskan Bering Sea island" requires free registration / 17 June 2004 / R. Dale Guthrie / Nature, v.429, p.746-749
• Perfect pterosaur found in fossil egg / 10 June 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature science update — find sheds light on prehistoric flying reptiles
• Record ice core gives fair forecast / 9 June 2004 / Fred Pearce / New Scientist
• Messages from intergenic space / June 3, 2004 / David Secko / The Scientist — a non-protein-coding RNA regulates a neighboring gene by simply being turned on
• Giant human skeleton found in Saudi Arabia / April 22, 2004 / Saalim Alvi (from Riyadh) / The New Nation (Bangladesh) — recent gas exploration activity in the southeast region of the Arabian desert uncovered skeletal remains of a human of phenomenal size
  • Giant Human Skeleton Found in Desert / Urban Legends and Folklore — description: Email hoax
• Institute and Museum of the History of Science / Florence, Italy
• CreationEvolutionDesign / Yahoo! Groups
• Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul / February 2004 / Roy Porter / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon
  • review: Body and Soul: Roy Porter on the body of Enlightenment thought / June 21, 2004 / Joseph Epstein / The Weekly Standard, v.9, n.39
• What Is Thought? / January 2004 / Eric B. Baum / Bradford Books (MIT Press) — see also MIT Press and  Amazon
• Everything's Relative: And Other Fables from Science and Technology / September 2003 / Tony Rothman / Wiley — see also Amazon
• Faith, Form, and Time: What the Bible Teaches and Science Confirms About Creation and the Age of the Universe / September 2002 / Kurt P. Wise / Broadman & Holman — see also Amazon
  • review: (pdf) / October-December 2002 / Ashby L. Camp / Creation Matters, v.7, n.5, p.1-5
• The Literal Meaning of Genesis, Vol. 1 / [May 1983] / St. Augustine / Paulist Press — see also Amazon

JUNE 9

• "Palaeoclimate: Frozen time" requires free registration / 10 June 2004 / Gabrielle Walker / Nature, v.429, p.596-597 — researchers have pulled the oldest-yet core of ice from the Antarctic -- giving a 740,000-year record of the planet's climate
  • "Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core" requires free registration / 10 June 2004 / EPICA community members / Nature, v.429, p.623-628
• "High levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide necessary for the termination of global glaciation" requires free registration / 10 June 2004 / Raymond T. Pierrehumbert / Nature, v.429, p.646-649
• "Palaeontology: Pterosaur embryo from the Early Cretaceous" requires free registration / 10 June 2004 / Xiaolin Wang and Zhonghe Zhou / Nature, v.429, p.621
• Key theory of galaxy formation no longer conflicts with observations / June 9, 2004 / University of Chicago / BrightSurf.com
• Scientists 'see new species born' / 9 June 2004 / David Whitehouse / BBC News Online — scientists at the University of Arizona may have witnessed the birth of a new species for the first time
• "Bedout: A Possible End-Permian Impact Crater Offshore of Northwestern Australia" requires free registration / 4 June 2004 / L. Becker, R. J. Poreda, A. R. Basu, K. O. Pope, T. M. Harrison, C. Nicholson, and R. Iasky / Science, v.304, n.5676, p.1469-1476
• "Youngest Extrasolar Planet Reported" requires free registration / 4 June 2004 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.304, n.5676, p.1423
• "Controversial Fossil Could Shed Light on Early Animals' Blueprint" requires free registration / 4 June 2004 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.304, n.5676, p.1425
• Democracy in action / June 3, 2004 / Josh Mahan / Missoula Independent (Montana) — pro-Intelligent Design board members were looking for an anti-evolutionary test case, but election results show that the district’s citizens are happy with the current science curriculum
  •  School's Out: The Intelligent Design Controversy / December 1, 2003 / Glenn Branch / Seed
• "Helium Diffusion Age of 6,000 Years Supports Accelerated Nuclear Decay" / June 2004 / D. Russell Humphreys, Steven A. Austin, John R. Baumgardner, and Andrew A. Snelling / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.41, n.1, p.1-16
• Chromosomes reveal surprise human-chimp differences / 26 May 2004 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist
• Intelligent Design: Yesterday’s Orthodoxy, Today’s Heresy / January 17, 2004 / William A. Dembski / lecture: Grace Valley Christian Center, Davis, California

JUNE 3

• Discovering the Creator (conference) / June 9-11, 2004 / Bryan College (Dayton, Tennessee)
• Life goes on without 'vital' DNA / 3 June 2004 / Sylvia Pagán Westphal / New Scientist
• Dinosaur Footprints Found Off Sweden / June 3, 2004 / ABC News (Associated Press) — science student finds dinosaur footprints on rocky island south of Sweden
• Scientists find new type of gene in junk DNA / June 2, 2004 / MSNBC News (Reuters) — gene helps regulate other genes, researchers say; junk DNA may not be so useless after all
• We Know Very Little / June 2004 / interview with: Rosalind Picard / The Real Issue (Christian Leadership Ministries), n.2 — Picard speaks about her life-changing experience with Christ and how her beliefs inform her world-renowned work in artificial intelligence in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology media lab
• LANDMARKS: Forgotten Black Hole Birth / 28 May 2004 / David Lindley / Physical Review Focus — had J. Robert Oppenheimer not led the US effort to build the atomic bomb, he might still have been remembered for conceiving of black holes
• Black says he's still a 'Darwinian capitalist' / May 28, 2004 / Barbara Shecter / National Post (canada.com)
• UW-Madison Scientists Find a Key to Cell Division / May 28, 2004 / University of Wisconsin, Madison / ScienceDaily
• Dog DNA Study Yields Clues to Origins of Breeds / May 20, 2004 / John Pickrell / National Geographic News
• By Design or by Chance? The Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe / April 2004 / Denyse O’Leary / Castle Quay Books — see also Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Canada
  • review: Darwin vs. divine design / May 29, 2004 / Kathy Shaidle / Toronto Star — "Of the three grand old men of the 19th century (or dead white males, depending on your point of view) who dominated the thinking of the 20th century -- Marx, Freud and Darwin -- only Darwin is left. Will he follow Marx and Freud into oblivion?"
• Dinosaur Bones and Eggs in South Korea (pdf) / 2003 / Yuong-Nam Lee / Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, v.2, p.113-121
• The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking / November 2001 / Dennis Danielson (editor) / Perseus Publishing — see also Amazon
• Evolution, Science and Society (pdf) / 1999 / editorial chair: Douglas J. Futuyma (State University
  of New York, Stony Brook) / financial sponsorship: A. P. Sloan Foundation, National Science Foundation — evolutionary biology and the national research agenda

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