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    — News Archive (October 2004)

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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
  • Marine worm sports two kinds of 'eyes' / 28 October 2004 / Emma Marris / Nature (news@nature) — vertebrate and insect vision may have evolved from the same precursor
• "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)
  • "New Species of Small Human Found in Indonesia" requires free registration / 29 October 2004 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.306, n.5697, p.789
  • Homo TomThumbus / October 29, 2004 / New York Times — the discovery of the skeletal remains of hobbit-size humans on a remote island in Indonesia has set anthropologists atwitter
  • "Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia" requires free registration / 28 October 2004 / M. J. Morwood, et al. / Nature, v.431, p.1087-1091
  • Scientists Find Ancient Hobbit-Sized People / October 27, 2004 / Amanda Onion / ABC News — skeletal remains reveal human species that measured 3 feet tall
• 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
• Day from Hell May Have Killed Off Dinosaurs / October 27, 2004 / Alistair Bell / Reuters
• Duck-billed platypus boasts ten sex chromosomes / 25 October 2004 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — odd mammal hints at evolutionary origin of sex determination
  • Platypus sex is XXXXX-rated / 24 October 2004 / Rachel Nowak / New Scientist
• "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
• 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
  • The greatest equations ever / October 2004 / Robert P. Crease / Physics World — the 20 greatest equations
• Biblical Archaeology: Garden of Eden / November 13, 2003 / Institute for Biblical & Scientific Studies
• "Conflict confusion" / June 2003 / Carl Wieland / Creation, v.25, n.3, p.6 (Answers in Genesis) — battle sermon goes astray on Genesis
• "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

• Was Darwin Wrong? / November 2004 / David Quammen / National Geographic
• Strong Quake Kills at Least 16 in Northern Japan / October 24, 2004 / James Brook / New York Times
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• Paralysed man sends e-mail by thought / 13 October 2004 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — brain chip reads mind by tapping straight into neurons
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
  • review: A roadmap to the primeval slime / 4 October 2004 / Anthony Daniels / Telegraph (UK)
• "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
• Freedom Evolves / February 2003 / Daniel C. Dennett / Viking (Penguin) — see also Amazon
  • review: Inevitable Except for the Writing / April 1, 2003 / Michael Ruse / Washington Post, p.C02
• 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

• The Stricture of Scientific Resolutions / October 12, 2004 / Mark Hartwig / The Wedge Update (Access Research Network)
• 7-Foot Robot Used in Black Sea Expedition / October 11, 2004 / National Geographic Society / ABC News — four years ago, scientists thought they had found the perfect place to settle the Noah flood debate
• Cracked rock points to more martian water / 8 October 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — Mars rovers map out their next moves on the Red Planet
• The Hidden Genetic Program of Complex Organisms / October 2004 / John S. Mattick / Scientific American — an overlooked regulatory system based on RNA may hold the keys to development and evolution
• "The Earth’s Magnetic Field is Still Losing Energy" / June 2002 / D. Russell Humphreys / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.39, n.1, p.1-11
• "Science and Reality" (pdf) / November 1967 / Michael Polanyi / Brit. J. Phil. Sci., v.18, n.3, p.177-196

OCTOBER 10

• 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?
• 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
  • "Bmp4 and Morphological Variation of Beaks in Darwin's Finches" requires free registration / 3 September 2004 / Arhat Abzhanov, Meredith Protas, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant, and Clifford J. Tabin / Science, v.305, n.5689, p.1462-1465
• 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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