Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (September 2004)

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SEPTEMBER 30

• "Dressed for Success: Neandertal Culture Wins Respect" requires free registration / 1 October 2004 / Michael Balter / Science, v.306, n.5693, p.40-41
• "Cope's Rule, Hypercarnivory, and Extinction in North American Canids" requires free registration / 1 October 2004 / Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Xiaoming Wang, and John Damuth / Science, v.306, n.5693, p.101-104
• "Extinct ²⁴⁴Pu in Ancient Zircons" requires free registration / 1 October 2004 / Grenville Turner, T. Mark Harrison, Greg Holland, Stephen J. Mojzsis, and Jamie Gilmour / Science, v.306, n.5693, p.89-91
• "Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents" requires free registration / 1 October 2004 / Anthony D. Barnosky, Paul L. Koch, Robert S. Feranec, Scott L. Wing, and Alan B. Shabel / Science, v.306, n.5693, p.70-75
• ARN-Announce, n.42 / September 30, 2004 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature / June 2004 / William R. Newman / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
  • review: August 2, 2004 / Edward Rothstein / International Herald Tribune
• Disorder is Good for You / Jonah Lehrer / Seed Magazine, n.11 — Ever since Darwin, biologists have assumed that living things tend toward order. But now they're discovering that life at the molecular level is fraught with chaos and chance.
• Darwinian Naturalism: Cultural and Philosophical Implications (DVD lecture) / October 2003 / Nancy Pearcey / University of California, Santa Barbara
• The Advancement: Keeping the Faith in an Evolutionary Age / September 2003 / L. Russ Bush / Broadman & Holman Publishers — see also Amazon
• Assault on evolution / February 28, 2001 / Larry Arnhart / salon.com — the religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory
• The Scopes Trial / 1925 / University of Missouri, Kansas City
  • "The Monkey Trial": A Reporter's Account / H. L. Mencken

SEPTEMBER 29

• "Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans" requires free registration / 30 September 2004 / Douglas L. T. Rohde, Steve Olson, and Joseph T. Chang / Nature, v.431, p.562-566
• "Two new carnivores from an unusual late Tertiary forest biota in eastern North America" requires free registration / 30 September 2004 / Steven C. Wallace and Xiaoming Wang / Nature, v.431, p.556-559
• Quake Hits California 11 Years Late / September 29, 2004 / Nick Madigan and Kenneth Chang / New York Times
• Origins / September 28-29, 2004 / Nova (PBS)
• Paleontologists Put Ancient Long-Necked Monster in Its Place / September 28, 2004 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• "Chemistry Probing Life" / September 27, 2004 / Rudy M. Baum / Chemical & Engineering News, v.82, n.39, p.3
• The Genesis Project / September 26, 2004 / Charles Siebert / New York Times
• Glaciers are flowing faster / 23 September 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — as its fringes collapse, the ice of Antarctica is slipping into the sea
• Polar microbes get helping hand / 22 September 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — thaws and meteors could create cradles for life
• Plagiarism in paleontology / September 22, 2004 / Xavier Bosch / The Scientist — journal reveals persistent plagiarism by an author in the field of fossil algae
• Martian methane hints at oases of life / 21 September 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — microbe population estimated, but space community is unconvinced
• Noah's Ark Quest Dead in Water -- Was It a Stunt? / September 20, 2004 / Stefan Lovgren / National Geographic News
• Ice cores vs the Flood / 31 March 2004 / Michael J. Oard / Answers in Genesis
• Irreducible Complexity Reduced: An Integrated Approach to the Complexity Space (pdf) / March 31, 2004 / Eric Anderson / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design — the concepts of irreducible complexity and specified complexity can be fortified and focused in order to bring the full weight of these arguments to bear on evolutionary claims
• Paleoenvironmental science - archives / NSF and NOAA — tree rings, lakes, ice cores, corals, tephra, peat
• The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750 (pdf) / September 2003 / Rienk Vermij / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
• "Synchronous Radiocarbon and Climate Shifts During the Last Deglaciation" / 8 December 2000 / Konrad A. Hughen, John R. Southon, Scott Lehman, and Jonathan Overpeck / Science, v.290, p.1951-1954
• This Died How Long Ago? / Kenneth Chang / February 23, 1998 / ABC News — bottom of lake refines carbon dating technique
• Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein / 1998 / Richard Weikart / International Scholars Publishers, Bethesda, MD — see also Amazon
  • review: Robert William Goodrich / March 2001 / H-Net Reviews

SEPTEMBER 24

• The Case for a Creator / September 26, 2004 / Lee Strobel, Mark Mittelberg, and Stephen C. Meyer / Church Communication Network
  • The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God / April 2004 / Lee Strobel / Zondervan — see also Amazon
• "PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Oldest Human Femur Wades Into Controversy" requires free registration / 24 September 2004 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.305, n.5692, p.1885
• "China Clamps Down on Mining to Preserve Cambrian Site" requires free registration / 24 September 2004 / Dennis Normile and Xiong Lei / Science, v.305, n.5692, p.1893-1894
• "Silent Heralds of Megathrust Earthquakes?" requires free registration / 24 September 2004 / Alfred Hirn and Mireille Laigle / Science, v.305, n.5692, p.1917-1918
• "Self-Organized Patchiness and Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems" requires free registration / 24 September 2004 / Max Rietkerk, Stefan C. Dekker, Peter C. de Ruiter, and Johan van de Koppel / Science, v.305, n.5692, p.1926-1929
• Facts and values at odds / September 23, 2004 / Amy Doolittle / Washington Times
• Darwinism - An Intellectual Scandal in Science? / September 21, 2004 / Denyse O'Leary / christianity.ca (Canada) — here's what happens when scientists, honest about their work, publish articles that contradict Darwinism in respected scientific journals
• "Caveful of Clues About Early Humans" requires free registration / September 20, 2004 / Fredric Heeren / Washington Post, p.A06  — interbreeding with Neanderthals among theories being explored
• Flies with inner ears? / September 13, 2004 / David Secko / The Scientist — Drosophila Hmx gene directs development of mouse inner ear, an organ flies don't possess
• Earthquake Theory Shaken / 3 September 2004 / Betsy Mason / ScienceNOW (Geological Society of America
• Intelligent design study appears / September 3, 2004 / Trevor Stokes / The Scientist — publication of paper in peer-reviewed journal sparks controversy
  • readers respond: September 22, 2004 / Alan J. Robinson, David L. Bump, and David P. Vernon / The Scientist — story on intelligent design study highlights debate on creationism and evolution
• Geobiologists create novel method for studying ancient life forms / August 22, 2004 / contact: Robert Tindol / Caltech Media Relations
• Burrowing K/T survivors / August 2004 / Sara Pratt / Geotimes
  • "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
• Was Spinoza Right About Miracles? / Spring 2004 / David R. Larson / Spectrum
• Georgia Schools Should Teach More About Evolution Not Less / January 29, 2004 / Discovery Institute
• International Tsunami Information Center / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — vivid descriptions of tsunamis from the past 60 years and the gallery of devastation
• Ageing the Earth / 20 November 2003 / Melvyn Bragg with Richard Corfield, Hazel Rymer, and Henry Gee / BBC radio program
• Chance and Design / 13 February 2003 / Melvyn Bragg with Simon Conway Morris, Sandy Knapp, and John Brooke / BBC radio program

SEPTEMBER 21

• Evolution & God (conference) / October 15-17, 2004 / Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
• "Generation of methane in the Earth’s mantle: In situ high pressure-temperature measurements
  of carbonate reduction" (pdf) / September 28, 2004 / Henry P. Scott, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao, Dudley R. Herschbach, Laurence E. Fried, W. Michael Howard, and Sorin Bastea / Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., v.101, n.39, p.14023-14026
  • Methane in the Mantle? / September 18, 2004 / Betsy Mason / Biological Research Information Center ... AAAS
  • Petroleum under pressure / 14 September 2004 / Belle Dumι / Physics Web (Institute of Physics) — hydrocarbons could be formed inside the Earth via simple inorganic reactions and not just from the decomposition of living organisms as conventionally assumed
  • Earth's mantle can generate methane / 14 September 2004 / Zeeya Merali / Nature (news@nature) — untapped fossil-fuel reserves could be hidden deep within our planet
  • research: Henry P. Scott / Indiana University, South Bend
• Gas link on Mars offers clues in search for life / 20 September 2004 / CBC News (Canada) — water vapour and methane are concentrated in the same areas of the Martian atmosphere, a finding that hints at new ways to hunt for life on the planet
• Genetic analysis rewrites salamander family tree / 10 September 2004 / Robert Sanders / UC Berkeley News
• Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time / September 2004 / Peter Louis Galison / W.W. Norton & Company — see also Amazon
• Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy / April 2003 / Trevor Weekes / Institute of Physics Publishing — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 20

• Radioactivity gets fast-forward / 17 September 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — a radioactive element's rate of decay has been speeded up
• Empedocles, Plato, et al. offer insight into a question of moment / 16 September 2004 / Cathy Cockrell / UC Berkeley News — Sather Lectures will trace the creationist debate back to ancient Greece
• Tibetans show 'evolution in action' / 16 September 2004 / Emma Marris / Nature (news@nature) — a gene for well oxygenated blood is spreading in the Himalayas
• Testing, testing... / September 4, 2004 / Umberto Eco / The Guardian — the scientific method as a suitable counterbalance to fundamentalism
• Brains and the Beast / May 2004 / Frans B. M. de Waal / Natural History Magazine — Can the behaviorist's insistence on distinguishing animal from human cognition be reconciled with evolutionary continuity? ... reviews of:
  • Do Animals Think? / March 2004 / Clive D. L. Wynne / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
  • Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings / July 2003 / Duane M. Rumbaugh and David A. Washburn / Yale University Press — 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
  • review: Brains, Minds, and Unicorns / May 31, 2004 / Kyler Kuehn / Modern Apologetics
• Genesis Unbound: A Provocative New Look at the Creation Account / April 1996 / John H. Sailhamer / Multnomah Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Unbinding the rules / December 2000 / Andrew Kulikovsky / Technical Journal, v.14, n.3, p.35-38

SEPTEMBER 17

• Discussion Forum: The Role of Impacts on Evolution / November 9, 2004 / Geological Society of America, Denver
• Third International Conference on Creation / October 15-17, 2004 / Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia — theme: Genesis Myth or History? ... sponsored by The Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation, defending Genesis from a traditional Catholic perspective
• Earth Science Week: Living on a Restless Earth / October 10-16, 2004 / American Geological Institute — earth scientists study hazards in order to understand their causes and minimize their impact on society
• Darwin, Design and Democracy / September 24-25, 2004 / University of New Mexico, Albuquerque / Intelligent Design network — science converges on design from cosmology to paleontology to biology
• Seminary appoints Dembski to lead new Center for Science and Theology / September 16, 2004 / Jeff Robinson / Towers Online (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
• "RNA interference" requires free registration / 16 September 2004 / Alex Eccleston and Angela K. Eggleston  / Nature, v.431, p.337
  • "Revealing the world of RNA interference" requires free registration / 16 September 2004 / Craig C. Mello and Darryl Conte, Jr./ Nature, v.431, p.338-342
  • "Mechanisms of gene silencing by double-stranded RNA" requires free registration / 16 September 2004 / Gunter Meister and Thomas Tuschl / Nature, v.431, p.343-349
• Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public / 15 September 2004 / Contact: David Gilbert / EurekAlert! — disease genes, important regulatory elements populate vast terrain
• Human genome hits halfway mark / 15 September 2004 / BBC News — four years after publishing a draft of the human genetic sequence, researchers have hit the halfway mark in producing the "gold standard" version
• Frog 'pirates' find sneaky way to fertilize eggs / 15 September 2004 / CBC News Online (Canada)
• "The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories" / August 4, 2004 / Stephen C. Meyer / Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, v.117, n.2, p.213-239
  • Home Page: Richard M. v. Sternberg / September 16, 2004 — regarding the controversy and confusion surround the recent publication of the paper "The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories"
  • BSW repudiates Meyer / September 7, 2004 / National Center for Science Education — a new development in the controversy about the publication of "intelligent design" advocate Stephen C. Meyer
  • Meyer's Hopeless Monster / August 24, 2004 / Alan Gishlick, Nick Matzke, and Wesley R. Elsberry / The Panda's Thumb
• "Ammonoid taxonomic and morphologic recovery patterns after the Permian-Triassic" / August 2004 / Alistair J. McGowan / Geology, v.32, n.8, p.665-668
• Evolutionary Methods in Biotechnology: Clever Tricks for Directed Evolution / August 2004 / Susanne Brakmann and Andreas Schwienhorst (editors) / Wiley Interscience — see also Amazon
• "Coherent French Range blueschist: Subduction to exhumation in <2.5 m.y.?" / July 2004 / M. G. Mihalynuk, P. Erdmer, E. D. Ghent, F. Cordey, D. A. Archibald, R. M. Friedman, and G. G. Johannson / Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., v.116, n.7, p.910-922
• Creationism: The Bible Says No! / July 2004 / Eric J. Hildeman / AuthorHouse — see also Amazon
• "Why Were Dangerous Animals Created?" (pdf) / June 2004 / David Snoke / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.56, n.2, p.1-9
• "Changes in geyser eruption behavior and remotely triggered seismicity in Yellowstone National Park produced by the 2002 M 7.9 Denali fault earthquake, Alaska" / June 2004 / S. Husen, R. Taylor, R. B. Smith, and H. Healser / Geology, v.32, n.6, p.537-540
  • Distant Earthquake Rattles Yellowstone / June 10, 2004 / Larry O'Hanlon / Discovery Channel — faraway earthquakes may be influencing the geysers at one of America's premiere national parks
  • Alaska quake altered eruption patterns of several Yellowstone geysers / May 30, 2004 / Becky Bohrer / Juneau Empire (Associated Press) — 2002 quake is believed to be the first in U.S. in modern times to cause such large-scale changes
• The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth / April 2004 / Alan Cutler / Dutton Books (Penguin) — see also Amazon
• Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars / March 2004 / James Robert Brown / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter / March 2004 / Roger G. Newton / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History / January 2004 / Peter Douglas Ward / Viking Books (Penguin) — see also Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Powell's Books
• Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion? / Muzaffar Iqbal, Nancey Murphy, and Michael Shermer / PBS
• Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science / Messiah College
• Modern Cosmology / March 2003 / Scott Dodelson / Academic Press (Elsevier) — see also Amazon
• Puyallup man leading long quest for Noah's Ark / July 7, 2002 / Bill Hutchens / News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)

SEPTEMBER 14

• "Ecological Zonation: Theory, Problems and Perspectives" (pdf) / Fall 2004 / Elaine Kennedy / Geoscience Reports, n.38, p.1-4
• Method to Turn Off Bad Genes Is Set for Tests on Human Eyes / September 14, 2004 / Andrew Pollack / New York Times
• Rival teams race to snap alien planet / 13 September 2004 / Mark Peplow / news@nature — conclusive proof of first direct image remains elusive
• Medical journals tackle biased reporting of results / 9 September 2004 / Erika Check / news@nature — editors say trials must be registered if researchers plan to publish
• Ice core reveals gentle start to last ice age / 8 September 2004 / Mark Peplow / news@nature — traces of ancient life found beneath Greenland's ice sheet
• North Pole once enjoyed Mediterranean climate / 7 September 2004 / Quirin Schiermeier / news@nature — Arctic ocean drilling reveals bygone greenhouse world
• The Evolution of a Naturalist / September-October 2004 / Oren Solomon Harman / American Scientist
  • The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace / June 2004 / Ross A. Slotten / Columbia University Press — see also Amazon
  • An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace / December 2003 / Martin Fichman / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
  • In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History / August 2002 / Michael Shermer / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA / September 2004 / William Dembski and Michael Ruse (editors) / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• In the Likeness of God / August 2004 / Philip Yancey and Paul Brand / Zondervan — see also Amazon
• Reading God's World: The Vocation of Scientist / July 2004 / Angus J. L. Menuge (editor) / Concordia Publishing House — see also Amazon
• A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy / June 2004 / Hugh Ross / NavPress — see also Amazon
• On the Origin of Phyla / June 2004 / James W. Valentine / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
• The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World / June 2004 / Alister McGrath / Doubleday — see also Amazon
  • review: A funny thing happened on way to disbelief / August 3, 2004 / Jane Lampman / Christian Science Monitor — a theologian at Oxford University explains why atheism's appeal has faded
• Speciation / May 2004 / Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr / Sinauer Associates — see also Amazon
• In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Sparked the Big Bang of Evolution / March 2004 / Andrew Parker / Perseus Publishing — see also Amazon
• Great Feuds in Technology: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever / January 2004 / Hal Hellman / John Wiley & Sons — see also Amazon
• The Newton Project / 2004 / Imperial College London — all of Newton's theological, alchemical, and administrative writings, as well as his scientific writings and his correspondence
• Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know? / October 2003 / E. Brian Davies / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Natural Philosophy: A Survey of Physics and Western Thought / September 2003 / David W. Snoke / Access Research Network — see also Amazon
• Modern Physics and Ancient Faith / March 2003 / Stephen M. Barr / University of Notre Dame Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Manifesto of a Revolutionary / June 7, 2004 / Mark Ryland / Crisis Magazine
• The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science / August 2001 / Peter Harrison / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 10

• Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Future of Biology (seminar series) / 22-23 October 2004 / Anto Leikola, Petter Portin, Paul Nelson, and Richard Sternberg / University of Helsinki, Finland
• Signs of Creation & Collapse of Darwinism (conference) / September 4-14, 2004 / Omer Cenker Ilicali and Ali Sadun Engin (Harun Yahya Research Foundation) / South Africa
• Our substitute biology teacher / September 10, 2004 / Mike S. Adams / townhall.com
• The Duel Between Body and Soul / September 10, 2004 / Paul Bloom / New York Times
• Darwin goes back to school in Serbian U-turn / September 10, 2004 / Douglas Hamilton / Yahoo! News
• Serbs in Dispute Over Darwin Vs. Divine / September 9, 2004 / ABC News (Associated Press) — scientists, opposition parties and liberals outraged by Serb decision to teach creationism
• Fossil site points to devoted dinosaur parents / 9 September 2004 / CBC (Canada)
• "Parental care in an ornithischian dinosaur" requires free registration / 9 September 2004 / Qingjin Meng, Jinyuan Liu, David J. Varricchio, Timothy Huang, and Chunling Gao / Nature, v.431, p.145-146
• The Search for Livable Worlds / September 8, 2004 / New York Times
• My new single-question IQ test / September 7, 2004 / Mike S. Adams / townhall.com
• Where the expressed genes are / September 6, 2004 / Cathy Holding / The Scientist — study of chromatin distribution overturns theory that accessibility governs expression
• "EXTRASOLAR PLANETS: Planet Hunting Gets Rocky As Teams Clash Over Small Worlds" requires free registration / 3 September 2004 / Robert Irion / Science, v.305, n.5689, p.1382
• "PALEONTOLOGY: 400-Million-Year-Old Wounds Reveal a Time When Predators Romped" requires free registration / 3 September 2004 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.305, n.5689, p.1386
• SETI@home Signal Story Sees Much More Than Meets the Eye / 3 September 2004 / Seth Shostak / SETI Institute
• "Animal behaviour: Use of dung as a tool by burrowing owls" requires free registration / 2 September 2004 / Douglas J. Levey, R. Scot Duncan, and Carrie F. Levins / Nature, v.431, p.39
• Human ancestors quickly found their feet / 2 September 2004 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• Could Space Signal Be Alien Contact? / September 2, 2004 / Reuters
• Mysterious signals from light years away / 1 September 2004 / Eugenie Samuel Reich / New Scientist
• Unintelligent Debate / September 2004 / John Wilson / Christianity Today — it's time to cool the rhetoric in the Intelligent Design dispute
  • Christianity Today writer says it's time to attack creationist views! / 1 September 2004 / Michael Matthews / Answers in Genesis
• Fact, Fable, and Darwin / September 2004 / Rodney Stark / One America (The American Enterprise)
• "Science, Education, and the Subject of Origins" / September 2004 / Duane T. Gish / Impact, n.375 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Doctor Luke" / September August 2004 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.189 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Simulating evolution by gene duplication of protein features that require multiple amino acid residues / August 31, 2004 / Michael J. Behe and David W. Snoke / Protein Science
• ARN-Announce, n.41 / August 31, 2004 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• "Search for Low-Mass Exoplanets by Gravitational Microlensing at High Magnification" requires free registration / 27 August 2004 / F. Abe, et al. / Science, v.305, n.5688, p.1264-1266
• "What Caused the Great Lisbon Earthquake?" requires free registration / 27 August 2004 / Marc-Andrι Gutscher / Science, v.305, n.5688, p.1247-1248
• 'Super Earth-like' planet discovered / 26 August 2004 / CBC News (Canada)
• "Modular Construction of Early Ediacaran Complex Life Forms" requires free registration / 20 August 2004 / Guy M. Narbonne / Science, v.305, n.5687, p.1141-1144
• "PALEOBIOLOGY: Decoding the Ediacaran Enigma" requires free registration / 20 August 2004 / Martin Brasier and Jonathan Antcliffe / Science, v.305, n.5687, p.1115-1117
• Evolution's 'Dictatorship' -- Student Struggles to Get Opposite Viewpoint Heard / August 16, 2004 / Ed Vitagliano / Agape Press
• Prions speed evolution / 16 August 2004 / Helen Pearson / news@nature — sloppy proteins may help organisms adapt
• "PALEONTOLOGY: Bone Study Shows T. rex Bulked Up With Massive Growth Spurt" requires free registration / 13 August 2004 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.305, n.5686, p.930-931
• "Eocene evolution of whale hearing" requires free registration / 12 August 2004 / Sirpa Nummela, J. G. M. Thewissen, Sunil Bajpai, S. Taseer Hussain, and Kishor Kumar / Nature, v.430, p.776-778
• "Gigantism and comparative life-history parameters of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs" requires free registration / 12 August 2004 / Gregory M. Erickson, Peter J. Makovicky, Philip J. Currie, Mark A. Norell, Scott A. Yerby, and Christopher A. Brochu / Nature, v.430, p.772-775
• The evolution of everyday life / August 12, 2004 / The Economist — co-operation has brought the human race a long way in a staggeringly short time
• Tyrannosaurs had teenage growth spurt / 11 August 2004 / Helen Pilcher / news@nature — bone analysis sheds light on dinosaur development
• "Climatic Control of Riverine and Seawater Uranium-Isotope Ratios" requires free registration / 6 August 2004 / Laura F. Robinson, Gideon M. Henderson, Lisa Hall, and Iain Matthews / Science, v.305, n.5685, p.851-854
• "ASTROPHYSICS: Dark-Matter Sighting Ends in Shock" requires free registration / 6 August 2004 / Robert Irion / Science, v.305, n.5685, p.763
• "X-ray Scan Shows Oldest Known Bird Had a Bird Brain" requires free registration / 6 August 2004 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.305, n.5685, p.764
• "High mutation rate and predominance of insertions in the Caenorhabditis elegans nuclear genome" requires free registration / 5 August 2004 / Dee R. Denver, Krystalynne Morris, Michael Lynch, and W. Kelley Thomas / Nature, v.430, p.679-682
• The Origin of Breathing / August 4, 2004 / Zach Zorich / Discover
• Flying dinosaur needed a bird's brain / 4 August 2004 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• Dinosaur Fossil Reportedly Found in Japan / August 4, 2004 / ABC News (Associated Press) — scientist says dinosaur bones found by hiker in Japan; thought to be from Lambeosaurus
• Early fish hit land to be better predators / 3 August 2004 / James Randerson / New Scientist
• Research Reveals Gains or Losses of Large Segments of DNA in Healthy People / August 2, 2002 / University of Toronto / ScienceDaily
• Evolution-design debate rages on / August 1, 2004 / Michael Strand / Salina Journal (Kansas) — most people aren’t scientists but nonetheless accept scientific orthodoxy, such as evolution
• "Evolution Hopes You Don't Know Chemistry: The Problem of Control" / August 2004 / Charles McCombs / Impact, n.374 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "Immortality" / August 2004 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.188 (Institute for Creation Research)
• COSMOLOGY: Questions That Plague Physics: A Conversation with Lawrence M. Krauss / August 2004 / Scientific American
• Universal Truths: Distant quasars reveal content, age of universe / July 31, 2004 / Ron Cowen / Science News, v.166, n.5, p.69
• Science and religion / July 31, 2004 / Stephen J. Lee / Grand Forks Herald (North Dakota) — noted author Ian Barbour talks about these often warring worlds
• "KENNEWICK MAN: Court Battle Ends, Bones Still Off-Limits" requires free registration / 30 July 2004 / Constance Holden / Science, v.305, n.5684, p.591
• Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusions / July 30, 2004 / ABC News (Associated Press) — despite $5 million expedition, Black Sea trip yields no conclusions on Noah Flood question
• Study Reveals Surprising 'Remodeling' Property of Gene Regulation Process / July 30, 2004 / University of North Carolina, School of Medicine / ScienceDaily
• ARN-Announce, n.40 / July 29, 2004 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Obituary: Francis Crick / 29 July 2004 / BBC News Online — Francis Crick, who helped discover the structure of DNA, has died in San Diego, aged 88
• "Cambrian origins and affinities of an enigmatic fossil group of arthropods" requires free registration / 29 July 2004 / N. E. Vaccari, G. D. Edgecombe, and C. Escudero / Nature, v.430, p.554-557
• Theory links dark energy and neutrinos / 28 July 2004 / Hazel Muir / New Scientist
• Conservatives help finance State Board of Education races / July 27, 2004 / John Milburn / Associated Press
• "Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life?" / Spring 2004 / Richard Weikart / The Human Life Review, v.30, n.2, p.29-37
• Forces of Nature (giant-screen film) / National Geographic — volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes

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