Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (October 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.
OCTOBER 29
-
Terrified by a Tyrannosaur / November 2004 / Richard Milner /
Scientific American
— and other insights into why people choose science
- "Worm's
Light-Sensing Proteins Suggest Eye's Single Origin"
requires free registration
/ 29 October 2004 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.306, n.5697,
p.796-797
- "The
Evolutionary Origin of Cooperators and Defectors"
requires free registration
/ 29 October 2004 / Michael Doebeli, Christoph Hauert, and Timothy Killingback
/ Science, v.306, n.5697, p.859-862
- Flores man
special /
Nature
(news@nature)
-
Scientists zero in on why time flows in one direction / October 28, 2004 /
University of Chicago / BrightSurf.com
-
"Unusual
activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000
years"
requires free registration
/ 28 October 2004 / S. K. Solanki, I. G. Usoskin, B. Kromer, M. Schüssler,
and J. Beer / Nature, v.431, p.1084-1087
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Day from Hell May Have Killed Off Dinosaurs / October 27, 2004 / Alistair
Bell / Reuters
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Duck-billed platypus boasts ten sex chromosomes / 25 October 2004 /
Roxanne Khamsi /
Nature (news@nature) — odd
mammal hints at evolutionary origin of sex determination
-
"A
Precocial Avian Embryo from the Lower Cretaceous of China"
requires free registration
/ 22 October 2004 / Zhonghe Zhou and Fucheng Zhang / Science, v.306,
n.5696, p.653
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Spinning
Earth twists space / 20 October 2004 / Mark Peplow /
Nature (news@nature) — laser
measurements confirm Einstein's general theory of relativity
-
Unseen
comets may raise impact risk for Earth / 18 October 2004 / Mark Peplow /
Nature (news@nature) — thousands
of dark objects could be hiding in our Solar System
-
"The
Evangelical Mind Today" / October 2004 / Mark Noll / First Things,
n.146, p.34-39
-
First among
equals / October 2004 / Peter Rodgers / Physics World
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Biblical
Archaeology: Garden of Eden / November 13, 2003 / Institute for Biblical &
Scientific Studies
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"Conflict
confusion" / June 2003 / Carl Wieland / Creation, v.25, n.3, p.6
(Answers in Genesis)
— battle sermon goes astray on
Genesis
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"Are
We Spiritual Machines?" / October 1999 / William A. Dembski / First
Things, n.96, p.25-31
-
"Phenotype
and Genetic Analysis of a Syndrome Caused by an Inactivating Mutation in the
Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Receptor: Dwarfism of Sindh" / 1998 /
Hiralal G. Maheshwari, Bernard L. Silverman, Josée Dupuis, and Gerhard Baumann
/ J. Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, v.83, n.11, p.4065-4074
OCTOBER 24
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Was
Darwin Wrong? / November 2004 / David Quammen / National Geographic
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Strong Quake Kills at Least 16 in Northern Japan / October 24, 2004 /
James Brook / New York Times
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Intelligent Design--A "Plot" to Kill Evolution? / October 22, 2004 / R.
Albert Mohler, Jr. / Christian Post
- New
DNA repair enzyme makes mistakes to save lives of cells / October 22, 2004
/ University of Pittsburgh Medical Center / BrightSurf
— its two-step handiwork
described as most efficient of any enzyme
- The
Whole World's in His Hands / October 21, 2004 / Matt Kaufman / Boundless
Webzine (Focus on the Family)
— Christians have something to say about everything in
the world -- because God made all of it
- Feathered embryo
found in China / 21 October 2004 / BBC News
— a baby arboreal bird,
fossilised while still curled in its egg, has been found in China
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Biologists come close to cloning primates / 21 October 2004 / Helen
Pearson /
Nature (news@nature) — cloned
monkey embryos transferred into mothers
- Mice
do fine without 'junk DNA' / 20 October 2004 / Roxanne Khamsi /
Nature (news@nature) — deleting
non-coding regions from the genome has no apparent effect
- Recount
slashes number of human genes / 20 October 2004 / Andy Coghlan / New
Scientist
- Dover curriculum move likely a
first / October 20, 2004 / Lauri Lebo and Joe Maldonado / Daily Record
(York, PA)
— even some supporters of intelligent design suggest
the board might have overstepped
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Paleontologist will discuss origins of life / October 19, 2004 /
Southwestern Illinois College
- Ancient fungus
'revived' in lab / 19 October 2004 / BBC News
— fungus from a deep-sea
sediment core that is hundreds of thousands of years old can grow when placed
in culture, scientists have discovered
-
Evolution and Religion Can Coexist, Scientists Say / October 18, 2004 /
Stefan Lovgren / National Geographic News
- How quantum
physicists 'review' the 'Bleep' movie / October 14, 2004 / Peter N. Spotts
/ Christian Science Monitor
- People
Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid / October 11, 2004 / Rowan Hooper / Wired
- The
Crusade Against Evolution / October 2004 / Evan Ratliff / Wired
— how the next generation of
"creation science" is invading America's classrooms
- "The
evolution of feathers: a major problem for Darwinism" / April 2003 / Jerry
Bergman / Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.17, n.1, p.33-41
- "The
great Copernican cliché" / October 2001 / Dennis R. Danielson
/ Amer. J. Phys., v.69, n.10, p.1029-1035
— the cliché about earth's "demotion" is unwarranted
and fit to be discarded
OCTOBER 20
- "A
Silurian sea spider"
requires free registration
/ 21 October 2004 / Derek J. Siveter, Mark D. Sutton, Derek E. G. Briggs, and
David J. Siveter / Nature, v.431, p.978-980
- "Palaeontology:
Leg feathers in an Early Cretaceous bird"
requires free registration
/ 21 October 2004 / Fucheng Zhang and Zhonghe Zhou / Nature, v.431,
p.925
- "Genome
duplication in the teleost fish Tetraodon nigroviridis reveals the
early vertebrate proto-karyotype"
requires free registration
/ 21 October 2004 / Olivier Jaillon, et al. / Nature, v.431,
p.946-957
- Bacteria
are genetically modified by lightning / 19 October 2004 / Andy Coghlan /
New Scientist
-
Scientists: New Planets May Take Longer / October 18, 2004 / EarthLink
(Associated Press)
— it may take much longer than
scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust
into new planets
- Gravity
constant called into question / 18 October 2004 / Maggie McKee / New
Scientist
- Far From
Being an Obstacle, Faith Seen as an Aid to Science / October 18, 2004 /
Cardinal Martino / ZENIT (The World Seen From Rome)
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Professors question intelligent design theory / October 15, 2004 / Lucas
Grundmeier / Iowa State Daily
— design can't be separated from
the designer
- UN to
debate human cloning / 14 October 2004 / Helen Pearson /
Nature (news@nature) — Bush-Kerry election race
adds heat to discussion
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Paralysed man sends e-mail by thought / 13 October 2004 / Roxanne Khamsi /
Nature (news@nature) — brain
chip reads mind by tapping straight into neurons
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You can see it in their eyes / 13 October 2004 / Andrew Parker /
Independent (UK)
— why scientists now believe that the arrival of
creatures with sight kick-started evolution's 'big bang'
- Park Service Sticks with
Biblical Explanation for Grand Canyon / October 13, 2004 / contact: Chas
Offutt / PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility)
— the Bush Administration has
decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand
Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces
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Molecular clock tied to fossil record / 11 October 2004 / Emma Marris /
Nature (news@nature) — evolutionary
trees may finally provide answers everyone can agree on
- Square
bacteria grown in lab for the first time / 11 October 2004 / Carina Dennis /
Nature (news@nature) — salt-loving
microbe will help study of life in extreme environments
- Teach the
controversy / October 4, 2004 / Peter and Helen Evans / Renew America
-
Red
Hot Hawaii / October 2004 / Jennifer S. Holland / National Geographic
— restless deities, lakes of
fire, the newest land on Earth: this park never sleeps
- “The
Gods Must Be Tidy!” / July-August 2004 / Jonathan Witt / Touchstone,
v.17, n.6
— Is the Cosmos a work of poor engineering or the gift
of an artistic designer?
-
Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing / June 2004 /
Nancy Forbes / MIT Press — see also
Amazon
- Peering into
Darwin's Black Box / Spring 2000 / Joseph W. Francis / Origins & Design,
v.20, n.1 — the cell division processes required for bacterial
life
- "Inverted
Human Eye a Poor Design?" / March 2000 / Jerry Bergman / Perspectives
on Science and Christian Faith, v.52, p.18-30
- "Plate
Tectonics: A Paradigm Under Threat" / 2000 / David Pratt / Journal of
Scientific Exploration, v.14, n.3, p.307-352 — the
fundamental tenets of plate tectonics might be wrong
-
Selected Excerpts: The Inverted Retina: Maladaptation or Pre-adaptation? /
Winter 1999 / Michael J. Denton / Origins & Design, v.19, n.2
- Is Our ‘Inverted’ Retina
Really ‘Bad Design’? / 1999 / Peter W. V. Gurney / Creation Ex Nihilo
Technical Journal, v.13, n.1 (Answers in Genesis)
- On the
Design of the Vertebrate Retina / Winter 1996 / George Ayoub / Origins
& Design, v.17, n.1
OCTOBER 15
-
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe /
February 2005 / Roger Penrose / Knopf — see also
Amazon
-
'Creationist' school blocked over fears of indoctrination / 15 October
2004 / Ian Herbert / Independent (UK)
- Giant
virus qualifies as 'living organism' / 14 October 2004 / Mark Peplow /
Nature (news@nature) — huge
genome allows mimivirus to make its own proteins
- "Hedgehog
signalling controls eye degeneration in blind cavefish"
requires free registration
/ 14 October 2004 / Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, David W. Stock, and William R. Jeffery / Nature, v.431, p.844-847
- "Adaptation
varies through space and time in a coevolving host-parasitoid interaction"
requires free registration
/ 14 October 2004 / Samantha E. Forde, John N. Thompson, and Brendan J. M.
Bohannan / Nature, v.431, p.841-844
- "A
new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture"
requires free registration
/ 14 October 2004 / Xing Xu and Mark A. Norell / Nature, v.431,
p.838-841
- Fossil
dinosaur slept like a bird / 13 October 2004 / Michael Hopkin /
Nature (news@nature) — 'sleeping dragon' may
have been trying to stay warm while it snoozed
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Intelligent design theory merits regard, speaker says / October 13, 2004 /
Lucas Grundmeier / Iowa State Daily
— Del Ratzsch, professor of philosophy at Calvin
College, gives a lecture on intelligent design theory
- On Being a
Christian Academic / October 2004 / William Lane Craig / The Real Issue,
n.3
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Grand Canyon Mystery Tour / May 2004 / Phillip E. Johnson / Touchstone,
v.17, n.4
— in 2003, privately managed
bookstores in Grand Canyon National Park sold about 300 copies of a book that
argued for the creationist “flood geology” position
OCTOBER 13
- At
Mount St. Helens, the Big Eruption Is of Data, Not Lava / October 12, 2004
/ Kenneth Chang / New York Times
-
A universal debate / October 12, 2004 / Lucas Grundmeier / Iowa State
Daily
— not everybody agrees how or
why the universe began
- Junk DNA controls
embryos / October 11, 2004 / Cathy Holding /
The Scientist
— very early embryonic
development may be controlled by random movements of repetitive elements
-
Sudden death of dinosaurs questioned / 11 October 2004 /
Massey University (New Zealand)
— evolutionary biologists are starting to question the
popular theory that an asteroid was responsible for the extinction of the
dinosaurs
- Novel riboswitch
measures glycine / October 8, 2004 / Cathy Holding /
The Scientist
— study finds RNA
self-regulation is as sophisticated and sensitive as protein regulation
- Did
volcanoes help create life? / 7 October 2004 / Michael Hopkin /
Nature (news@nature) — volcanic
gas has chemical credentials to spawn basic proteins
-
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution / October
2004 / Richard Dawkins / Houghton Mifflin — see also
Amazon
-
"Intelligent Design" Challenges Evolutionary Theory / September 29, 2004 /
Mark Ryland and Michael J. Behe / Discovery Institute — The
complexity of creation itself is evidence of a higher power at work. Darwin?
Not a chance.
-
A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination
/ September 2004 / Marek Kohn / Faber & Faber — see also
personal
homepage
- review:
Thinking big / September 18, 2004 / Andrew Brown / The Guardian
(UK) — study of the men behind Darwinism
- Stronger Stand Needed
on Evolution / June 2004 / Mary Lu Larsen / APS News (American
Physical Society)
-
Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction / June 2004 / Eugenie C.
Scott / Greenwood Press — see also
Amazon
-
Jimmy Carter on Evolution / January 30, 2004 / Sean Rowe / WXIA-TV
(Atlanta, GA)
-
Science vs. Religion: A False Dichotomy / November 17, 2003 / David
Klinghoffer / Publishers Weekly
- Genesis Veracity
- New
varying speed of light theories (pdf) / 15 October 2003 / João
Magueijo / arXiv:astro-ph/0305457 v3
- Glenn R. Morton’s Misuse
of Woodmorappe’s List of Discrepant Isotopic Dates / 4 April 2003 / John
Woodmorappe / TrueOrigin Archive
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Freedom Evolves / February 2003 / Daniel C. Dennett / Viking (Penguin)
— see also
Amazon
- Reappraising the “Crown
Jewel” / September-October 1998 / Ashby L. Camp / Creation Matters
(newsletter: Creation Research Society)
— the evidence for the alleged reptile-to-mammal
transition is much weaker than evolutionists would have one believe
- "Hemoglobins
from bacteria to man: evolution of different patterns of gene expression"
/ April 1998 / R. Hardison / J. Exp. Biol., v.201, n.8, p.1099-1117
OCTOBER 12
OCTOBER 10
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Can Prayers Heal? Critics Say Studies Go Past Science's Reach / October
10, 2004 / Benedict Carey / New York Times
- 'New' giant ape
found in DR Congo / 10 October 2004 / BBC News — scientists
believe they have discovered a new group of giant apes in the jungles of
central Africa
- Black
holes haunt ghost particle theory / 9 October 2004 / Eugenie Samuel Reich
/ New Scientist
-
The Man Who Grasped the Heavens' Gravitas / October 8, 2004 / John Noble
Wilford / New York Times
- New Breed
of Cat: Clones to Make Debut at Annual Show / October 8, 2004 / James
Barron / New York Times
- Still
Exploring After Martian Winter, Rovers Send Back More Signs of Water /
October 8, 2004 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
- Volcano gas, amino
acids make life / October 8, 2004 / Graciela Flores / The Scientist
— study in Science is important in understanding
transformation of monomers into polymers
- Fallout from fraud
/ October 8, 2004 / Xavier Bosch / The Scientist —
plagiarism rattles the paleontology world; researcher has suffered a fatal
heart attack
- How
to build the Universe / 8 October 2004 / Philip Ball /
Nature (news@nature) — including
cause-and-effect in equations produces 4-dimensional space-time
- "Morphological
Disparity of Ammonoids and the Mark of Permian Mass Extinctions"
requires free registration
/ 8 October 2004 / Loïc Villier and Dieter Korn / Science, v.306,
n.5694, p.264-266
- Flighty
Side of T. Rex, a New Link / October 7, 2004 / John Noble Wilford / New
York Times
-
Volcano Appears to Rest After Letting Off Steam / October 6, 2004 / Kenneth
Chang / New York Times
-
Science and the Savior: Faith on the Edge / January 2004 / Angus J. L.
Menuge / Concordia Publishing House — see also
Amazon
- "Multiverses
and physical cosmology" (pdf) / 20 June 2003 / G. F. R. Ellis, U.
Kirchner, and W. R. Stoeger / arXiv:astro-ph/0305292 v3
- The Big Bang Theory—A Scientific Critique:
Part I &
Part II /
May-June 2003 / Bert Thompson, Brad Harrub, and Branyon May / Reason &
Revelation (Apologetics Press)
- The Fixation of Belief
/ November 1877 / Charles S. Peirce / Popular Science Monthly, v.12,
p.1-15
OCTOBER 7
- Letting
Off Steam / October 7, 2004 / New York Times
— about Mt. St. Helens
- "Graduate
Journal: The science of religion"
requires free registration
/ 7 October 2004 / Tshaka Cunningham / Naturejobs, v.431, p.722
- "Pleistocene
to Holocene extinction dynamics in giant deer and woolly mammoth"
requires free registration
/ 7 October 2004 / A. J. Stuart, P. A. Kosintsev, T. F. G. Higham, and A. M.
Lister / Nature, v.431, p.684-689
- "Basal
tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids"
requires free registration
/ 7 October 2004 / Xing Xu, Mark A. Norell, Xuewen Kuang, Xiaolin Wang,
Qi Zhao, and Chengkai Jia / Nature, v.431, p.680-684
-
Feathered ancestor of T. rex unearthed / 6 October 2004 / Zeeya
Merali /
Nature (news@nature) — fossil
strengthens case for downy monsters
OCTOBER 6
-
Paleomagnetism and The Privileged Planet / October 5, 2004 /
Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards / Discovery Institute
-
Puffs of Steam From Volcano Continue to Delight Tourists / October 5, 2004
/ Sarah Kershaw / New York Times
-
Bigger Eruption Predicted at Mount St. Helens / October 3, 2004 / Sarah
Kershaw / New York Times
- Mount
St Helens growls again / 1 October 2004 / Philip Ball /
Nature (news@nature) — Could rumblings in
Washington State herald an eruption?
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Theory of evolution viewed as a faith / October 1, 2004 / Herman Goodden /
London Free Press
-
Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils
(updated and expanded) / October 2004 / Marvin L. Lubenow / Baker Books — see also
Amazon
-
The Crusade
Against Evolution / October 2004 / Evan Ratliff /
Wired — how the next generation of "creation science"
is invading America's classrooms
-
"The Days Do Matter"
/ October 2004 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.190 (Institute
for Creation Research)
-
"Radioisotope Dating of
Grand Canyon Rocks" / October 2004 / Andrew A. Snelling / Impact,
n.376 (Institute for Creation Research)
— another devastating failure
for long-age geology
-
We are all related to man who lived in Asia in 1,415BC / 30 September 2004
/ David Derbyshire / Telegraph (UK)
- Human
populations are tightly interwoven / 29 September 2004 / Michael Hopkin /
Nature (news@nature) — family
tree shows our common ancestor lived just 3,500 years ago
-
Planet with a
Purpose / September 28, 2004 / Robert Wright /
beliefnet,com — If Earth is an organism getting ever
more complex, doesn't that mean humans might have been made for a reason?
-
The plumage of birds is no mere flight of fancy / September 22, 2004 /
Scott LaFee / Union-Tribune (San Diego)
-
"DEVELOPMENTAL
BIOLOGY: Bonemaking Protein Shapes Beaks of Darwin's Finches"
requires free registration
/ 3 September 2004 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.305, n.5689, p.1383
-
Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
/ July 2004 / Matt Young and Taner Edis (editors) / Rutgers University Press —
additional information; see also
Amazon
-
Ice Core Gateway: EPICA Dome C Ice Core Data / National Geophysical Data
Center, Boulder, CO (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
-
Refuting the Wind: A Tolerant, Thoughtful Darwinist Who Misunderstands
Intelligent Design / Casey Luskin /
IDEA Center (Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness) —
a response to Larry Arnhart
-
The Cosmos in the Light of the Cross / December 2003 / George L.
Murphy / Trinity Press International — see also
Amazon
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