Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (June 2004)
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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
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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
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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
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
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Reflections on Human Origins (pdf) / June 21, 2004 / William A. Dembski
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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
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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
- Institute and Museum of the History of
Science / Florence, Italy
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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
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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
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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
- "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
- "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
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Chromosomes reveal surprise human-chimp differences / 26 May 2004 / Bob
Holmes / New Scientist
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Intelligent Design: Yesterday’s Orthodoxy, Today’s Heresy / January 17,
2004 / William A. Dembski / lecture: Grace Valley Christian Center, Davis,
California
JUNE 3
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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)
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UW-Madison Scientists Find a Key to Cell Division / May 28, 2004 /
University of Wisconsin, Madison / ScienceDaily
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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
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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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