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    — News Archive (November 2004)

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NOVEMBER 29

• Bryan Appleyard meets Richard Dawkins / November 28, 2004 / Times Online (UK) — two recent untrue news stories: we’ve found the genes that make people believe in God and that make women unfaithful
• Homing pigeons reveal true magnetism / 24 November 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — iron crystals in their beaks give birds a nose for north
• UN ditches cloning ban / 22 November 2004 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — delegates opt for compromise statement
• Discovery of the Ark / October 2004 / Andrew Man-Fai Yuen / The Media Evangelism (Hong Kong)
• Perspectives on Christianity and Science / 2003 / Robert J. Schneider / Berea College, Kentucky
• Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion / American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Finding Darwin's God: The New Battle Over Evolution / April 2000 / Kenneth R. Miller
• "The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields" / December 1984 / D. Russell Humphreys / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.21, n.3 — creationist predictions for the strengths of the magnetic fields for Uranus and Neptune were "right on," whereas the predictions of evolutionists were not

NOVEMBER 28

• "The 'Evolution' of Antibiotic Resistance" / December 2004 / Daniel Criswell / Impact, n.378 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "The Improbability of the Incarnation" / December 2004 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.192 (Institute for Creation Research)
• ASTRONOMY: The Case of the Pilfered Planet / December 2004 / William Sheehan, Nicholas Kollerstrom, and Craig B. Waff / Scientific American — Did the British steal Neptune?
• Are Viruses Alive? / December 2004 / Luis P. Villarreal / Scientific American — although viruses challenge our concept of what "living" means, they are vital members of the web of life
• The Dinosaurs of Arctic Alaska / December 2004 / Anthony R. Fiorillo / Scientific American — a group of hardy dinosaurs once thrived in the harsh climate of what is now northern Alaska
• Creator won't rest in bashing of Darwin / November 28, 2004 / Linda Valdez / Arizona Republic
• UCI Researchers Use Human Embryonic Stem Cells To Create New Nerve Insulation Tissue That Can Aid Spinal Cord Repair / November 26, 2004 / University of California, Irvine / ScienceDaily
• "Timing Complicates History of Horses" requires free registration / 26 November 2004 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.306, n.5701, p.1467
• "Head Games Show Whether Dinos Went on Two Legs or Four" requires free registration / 26 November 2004 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.306, n.5701, p.1466
• "Immune Cells Speed the Evolution of Novel Proteins" requires free registration / 26 November 2004 / Robert F. Service / Science, v.306, n.5701, p.1457
• "PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Skeptic to Take Possession of Flores Hominid Bones" requires free registration / 26 November 2004 / Michael Balter / Science, v.306, n.5701, p.1450
• "What Is Dark Matter Made Of?" requires free registration / 26 November 2004 / Konstantin Zioutas, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Konrad Dennerl, and Thomas Papaevangelou / Science, v.306, n.5701, p.1485-1488
• "Neanderthals and the modern human colonization of Europe" requires free registration / 25 November 2004 / Paul Mellars / Nature, v.432, p.461-465
• "Magnetoreception and its trigeminal mediation in the homing pigeon" requires free registration / 25 November 2004 / Cordula V. Mora, Michael Davison, J. Martin Wild, and Michael M. Walker / Nature, v.432, p.508-511
• Pigeons 'sense magnetic field' / 24 November 2004 / BBC News — homing pigeons use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate their way home over long distances
• If It's Supernatural It Isn't Science / November 24, 2004 / Edward J. Larson / Los Angeles Times
• Energetic cells may have boosted the brain / 23 November 2004 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — did rapid mutation of cell powerhouses guide neural evolution
• Were the Darwinists Wrong? / November 23, 2004 / Thomas Woodward / Christianity Today — National Geographic stacks the deck
• You Can’t Have It Both Ways / November 23, 2004 / Chuck Colson / BreakPoint — the Intelligent Design controversy heats up
• Poll: Creationism Trumps Evolution / November 22, 2004 / CBS News
• Langdon Gilkey Dies; Theologian, Author, Educator / November 22, 2004 / Adam Bernstein / Washington Post, p.B06
• Truth is, everyone lies / November 22, 2004 / Elaine D'Aurizio / Atlanta Journal-Constitution — professor delves into the world of deception
• "Ode to the Code" / November-December 2004 / Brian Hayes / American Scientist, v.92, n.6, p.494 — What's so special about the one DNA code that rules all life on Planet Earth?
• National Geographic Shoots Itself in the Foot--Again! / November 2004 / Bert Thompson and Brad Harrub / Apologetics Press
• Big Bang / October 2004 / Simon Singh / Fourth Estate — see also Amazon
  • review: These dark materials / October 30, 2004 / Gerry Gilmore / The Guardian (UK)
• Alien Species and Evolution: The Evolutionary Ecology of Exotic Plants, Animals, Microbes, and Interacting Native Species / June 2004 / George W. Cox / Island Press — see also Amazon
• Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World / May 2003 / Scott B. Noegel (editor) / Pennsylvania State University Press — see also Amazon
• Earth Impact Effects Program / Robert Marcus, H. Jay Melosh, and Gareth Collins / University of Arizona— an interactive web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on Earth
• Did a state legislature once pass a law saying pi equals 3? / Cecil Adams / The Straight Dope (Chicago Reader)

NOVEMBER 22

• Common Sense / December 2004 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American — surprising new research shows that crowds are often smarter than individuals
• Cosmic Conundrum / November 29 2004 / Michael D. Lemonick and J. Madeleine Nash / Time (Canada) — The universe seems uncannily well suited to the existence of life. Could that really be an accident?
• California Stem Cell Project Energizes Other States to Act / November 22, 2004 / Megan Garvey / Los Angeles Times — to keep researchers from being lured away, other funding efforts are in the works
• NASA Starts Hunt for Celestial Bursts / November 21, 2004 / New York Times
• School District Challenges Darwin's Theory / November 21, 2004 / New York Times (Reuters)
• New technique eyed in stem-cell debate / November 21, 2004 / Gareth Cook / Boston Globe
• U.S. Drops Effort for Treaty Banning Cloning / November 20, 2004 / Warren Hoge / New York Times
• Of Mice, Men and In-Between / November 20, 2004 / Rick Weiss / Washington Post, p.A01 — scientists debate blending of human and animal forms
• Third of Americans Say Evidence Has Supported Darwin's Evolution Theory / November 19, 2004 / Frank Newport / Gallup Organization — almost half of Americans believe God created humans 10,000 years ago
• Education: Teaching Evolution / November 19, 2004 / Kenneth Miller, Charles Haynes, David K. DeWolf, Nick Matkze, Jeff and Carol Brown / National Public Radio — A Pennsylvania school district mandates that a theory called "intelligent design" be taught along with evolution in public schools.
• The High Priests of Evolution / David J. Tyler / 19 November 2004 / Biblical Creation Society
• "VOLCANOLOGY: Iceland's Doomsday Scenario?" requires free registration / 19 November 2004 / Richard Stone / Science, v.306, n.5700, p.1278-1281
• "Comment on 'Small Bilaterian Fossils from 40 to 55 Million Years Before the Cambrian'" requires free registration / 19 November 2004 / Stefan Bengtson and Graham Budd / Science, v.306, n.5700, p.1291
• "Spanish Fossil Sheds New Light on the Oldest Great Apes" requires free registration / 19 November 2004 / Elizabeth Culotta / Science, v.306, n.5700, p.1273-1274
  • "Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a New Middle Miocene Great Ape from Spain" requires free registration / 19 November 2004 / Salvador Moyΰ-Solΰ, Meike Kφhler, David M. Alba, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, and Jordi Galindo / Science, v.306, n.5700, p.1339-1344
• Fossils Found in Spain Seen as Last Link to Great Apes / November 19, 2004 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Ancient ape gives clue to family origins / 18 November 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature)
• 'Original' great ape discovered / 18 November 2004 / Paul Rincon / BBC News
• New Evidence Puts Man in North America 50,000 Years Ago / November 18, 2004 / University of South Carolina / ScienceDaily.com
• Fire Pit Dated to Be Over 50,000 Years Old / November 18,2004 / Amy Geier Edgar / Yahoo! News (Associated Press)
• Evidence Hints at Earlier Humans in Americas / November 18, 2004 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Humans' arrival time gets another look / November 18, 2004 / Rob Stein / San Francisco Chronicle — North America inhabited earlier, some say
• Scientists get their own Google / 18 November 2004 / Declan Butler / Nature (news@nature) — new search engine ranks papers by importance and finds the free versions
• Distance running 'shaped human evolution' / 17 November 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature)
• German physicist disputes Atlantis discovery claim by American / November 16, 2004 / Yahoo! News
• Mars finally shows it has a wonder all its own / November 10, 2004 / Katy Human / Denver Post
• T.rex Fancied Ribs, Scientist Says / November 9, 2004 / Yahoo! News (Reuters)
• Antarctic Forests Reveal Ancient Trees / November 5, 2004 / Larry O'Hanlon / Discovery Channel News
• Earliest tracks of 4-legged stroll / 5 November 2004 / Ann Cairns / Geological Society of America (Denver, Colorado)
• Religion Today / November 4, 2004 / Richard N. Ostling / Miami Herald (Associated Press) — In a society where young adherents often face challenges to their beliefs, the top world authorities of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have reaffirmed the faith's insistence that fidelity to the Bible requires belief in "a literal, recent, six-day creation," no matter what conventional science says.
• "Strange Science" / November 2004 / Thomas Sieger Derr / First Things, n.147, p.5-7 — What is it that produces widespread agreement among both "experts" and the general public on a hypothesis which is quite likely wrong?
• astro bytes / November 2004 / Francis Reddy,  Ken Croswell, and Jeremy McGovern / Astronomy magazine — deep impact, extraterrestrial digs, weighing Beta Centauri, and more
• Day from hell may have killed off dinosaurs / October 27, 2004 / Alistair Bell / Yahoo! News (Reuters) — one minute you're a big T-Rex, the next you're toast
• Dinosaur Illustrations / David Goldman
• "Natural Selection as an Algorithm: Why Darwinian Processes Lack the Information Necessary to Evolve Complex Life" (pdf) / December 2002 / John Bracht / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.54, n.4, p.264-269

NOVEMBER 18

• ARN-Announce, n.43 / November 18, 2004 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• "Endurance running and the evolution of Homo" requires free registration / 18 November 2004 / Dennis M. Bramble and Daniel E. Lieberman / Nature, v.432, p.345-352
  • Running 'key to human evolution' / 18 November 2004 / BBC News — long-distance running may have been a driving force behind evolution of the modern human body, scientists say
  • Evolution made humans marathon runners / 17 November 2004 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• "Triassic marine reptiles gave birth to live young" requires free registration / 18 November 2004 / Yen-Nien Cheng, Xiao-Chun Wu, and Qiang Ji / Nature, v.432, p.383-386
  • Prehistoric reptile didn't lay eggs / 17 November 2004 / CBC News (Canada)
• Discovery Institute's ways need to evolve / November 17, 2004 / Danny Westneat / Seattle Times — attacks on the teaching of evolution will escalate to levels not seen in decades
• Evolution foes see opening to press fight in schools / November 16, 2004 / Raja Mishra / Boston Globe
• Biology and Purpose: Altruism, Morality, and Human Nature in Evolutionary Theory (conference) / November 7-9, 2004 / Calvin College (Michigan)
• "New Early Cambrian bilaterian embryos and larvae from China" / October 2004 / Michael Steiner, Maoyan Zhu, Guoxiang Li, Yi Qian, and Bernd-D. Erdtmann / Geology, v.32, n.10, p.833-836
• Patience and Absurdity: How to Deal with Intelligent Design Creationism / 2004 / Paul R. Gross / Butterflies and Wheels
• The Science Before Science: A Guide to Thinking in the 21st Century / June 2004 / Anthony Rizzi / Institute for Advanced Physics Press — see also Amazon
• Genesis Proclaimed
• Creation Research
• "A new cosmology: solution to the starlight travel time problem" / August 2003 / John G. Hartnett / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.17, n.2, p.98-102
• A Step Forward in Ohio / January-February 2003 / Phillip E. Johnson / Touchstone — the Ohio State School Board voted to adopt a new science teaching standard that allows teachers to inform students of evidence against the theory of evolution as well as for it
• $250,000 Evolution Challenge Accepted! / October 1, 2002 / John D. Callahan / Faith & Reason Ministries — open letter to Kent Hovind, Creation Science Evangelism

NOVEMBER 16

• Textbook Stickers Papering Over a Growing Controversy / November 16, 2004 / Denyse O'Leary / christianity.ca — it might be early to substitute the teaching of Intelligent Design for evolution in schools, but evolution must not be solely promoted with religious zeal
• Lost city of Atlantis found? / November 14, 2004 / CNN — an American researcher claims to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea
• Will academic freedom come to Georgia? / November 13, 2004 / Kelly Hollowell / WorldNetDaily.com
• "Genomic Databases and the Tree of Life" requires free registration / 12 November 2004 / Keith A. Crandall and Jennifer E. Buhay / Science, v.306, n.5699, p.1144-1145
• "Skeptics Question Whether Flores Hominid Is a New Species" requires free registration / 12 November 2004 / Michael Balter / Science, v.306, n.5699, p.1116
• Scientists Defend School Board's Use of Evolution Disclaimer Sticker / November 12, 2004 / R. Robin McDonald and Greg Bluestein / Yahoo!
• Ga. Evolution Dispute Embarrasses Some / November 11, 2004 / Kristen Wyatt / Guardian (UK)
• Hobbit Heresy / November 10, 2004 / Brad Harrub and Bert Thompson / Apologetics Press
• Evolution textbooks row goes to court / November 9, 2004 / Gary Younge / Guardian (UK)
• Stickers Put in Evolution Text Are the Subject of a Federal Trial / November 9, 2004 / Ariel Hart / New York Times, p.A15
• Student Finds New Species of Amphibian / November 9, 2004 / ABC News (Associated Press)
• Georgia Scientists File Legal Brief in Evolution Lawsuit, Defend Open-Minded Approach to Teaching Evolution / November 8, 2004 / PR Newswire
• Hobbling the Hobbit? / 8 November 2004 / Carl Wieland / Answers in Genesis — Indonesian scientists reject the hype about “Flores Man”
• National Geographic Ignores the Flaws in Darwin's Theory / November 8, 2004 / Jonathan Wells / Discovery Institute
• Paths of Discovery Are Always Paths Towards Truth / November 8, 2004 / John Paul II / Zenit — papal address to the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
• Second black hole found at the centre of our Galaxy / 8 November 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — seven stars orbiting the region identify the invisible object
• Wisconsin district to teach more than evolution / November 6, 2004 / CNN
• Theories other than evolution to be taught in Grantsburg / November 5, 2004 / Susanne Quick / Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) — some academics say move is an attempt to discount evolution, promote other ideas
• Cosmic doomsday delayed / 5 November 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — Universe won't end for 24 billion years... probably
• Awesome power of Iceland volcano / 4 November 2004 / BBC News — a spectacular volcanic eruption under an Iceland glacier has forced airlines to divert flights to avoid flying through gas emissions from the blast
• 130-year-old Chinese fire put out / 3 November 2004 / BBC News — a fire that broke out more than 100 years ago at a Chinese coalfield has finally been extinguished
• Fish with cleft lip solves evolution riddle / 3 November 2004 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — gap-toothed species shines light on nostril development
• Supernova debris found on Earth / 2 November 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — ancient explosion may have affected climate and possibly human evolution
• Spider webs untangle evolution / 1 November 2004 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — similarity of construction shows 'convergent evolution' applies to behavior
• Ancient nuclear power controlled by water / 1 November 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — Oklo geological reactor in Gabon might hold lessons for today's nuclear plants
• Irreducible Complexity Reduced: An Integrated Approach to the Complexity Space / November 2004 / Stephen Griffith / Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, v.3, n.1
• Irreducible Complexity Revisited / November 2004 / William Dembski / Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, v.3, n.1
• Using Intelligent Design Theory to Guide Scientific Research / November 2004 / Johathan Wells / Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, v.3, n.1
• Foot Shooting Season Begins Anew in Kansas / November 2004 / Jack Cashill / Between the Lines — at the table with me were the two founders of a group called the Intelligent Design (ID) Network and a Kansas state legislator who had been influential in passing the state's new bioscience legislation
• Wistar Study Demonstrates Heritability of Non-Genomic Information / October 31, 2004 / ScienceDaily.com
• Strange world of island species / October 31, 2004 / Robin McKie / Guardian (UK) — on the island of Flores in the Malay Archipelago, scientists have found remains of a race of three-foot high humans who hunted pony-sized elephants and rats as big as dogs
• The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution / October 2004 / Richard Dawkins / Houghton Mifflin
  • review: Our cousins the fungi / 5 October 2004 / Robert Hanks / Telegraph (UK)
• "Shape of Mesozoic dinosaur richness" / October 2004 / David E. Fastovsky, Yifan Huang, Jason Hsu, Jamie Martin-McNaughton, Peter M. Sheehan, and David B. Weishampel / Geology, v.32, n.10, p.877-880
• Hawking a Theory / October 2004 / Graham P. Collins / Scientific American — Is the black hole information paradox solved?
• Confronting Creation’s Complexities / September 2003 / Robin Bernhoft / This Rock (Catholic Answers) — Darwinism isn’t fit to survive
• Gene activity in human brain sets us apart from chimps / 29 April 2002 / CBC News (Canada)
• Researchers Uncover Brain Patterns that Differentiate Humans from Chimpanzees / April 11, 2002 / Sue Pondrom, Cynthia Butler, and Lisa Onaga / Dept. Veterans Affairs
• Evolutionists Battle New Theory on Creation / April 8, 2001 / James Glanz / New York Times
• "Which of Our Genes Make Us Human?" / September 4, 1998 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.281, p.1432-1434 — For decades scientists have known that at least 98% of human DNA is identical to that of chimpanzees. Now they have at last begun to explore which genes separate us from the apes.
• "Information, science and biology" / August 1996 / Werner Gitt / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.10, n.2, p.181-187

NOVEMBER 5

• "An Alternative to the Mud Crack Origin of Sand-filled Cracks at the Base of the Coconino Sandstone, Grand Canyon, Arizona" / November 7, 2004 (presentation date) / John H. Whitmore (Cedarville University, OH) / Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.36, n.5, p.55
• "Dinosaurs Under the Knife" requires free registration / 5 November 2004 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.306, n.5698, p.962-965
• "HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS: Hot on the Trail of Cosmic Rays" requires free registration / 5 November 2004 / Daniel Clery / Science, v.306, n.5698, p.956
• "High-energy particle acceleration in the shell of a supernova remnant" requires free registration / 4 November 2004 / F. A. Aharonian, et al. / Nature, v.432, p.75-77
• "Ecosystem remodelling among vertebrates at the Permian-Triassic boundary in Russia" requires free registration / 4 November 2004 / M. J. Benton, V. P. Tverdokhlebov, and M. V. Surkov / Nature, v.432, p.97-100
  • Ecosystem remodelling among vertebrates during the Permian-Triassic extinction / November 4, 2004 / University of Bristol / BrightSurf.com
• Fish fossil confirms origin of nostrils / 3 November 2004 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist
• I Drill; Therefore, I Am. Chimpanzees Seem to Agree / November 2, 2004 / James Gorman / New York Times — chimpanzees have been videotaped with tool kits -- three different kinds of sticks for different purposes
• Findings Challenge Darwinian Theory / November 2, 2004 / University of Alberta / ScienceDaily.com
• Spider webs untangle evolution / 1 November 2004 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — similarity of construction shows 'convergent evolution' applies to behaviour
• "Creation Versus Evolutionism: A Book Report" / November 2004 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.191 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "The Biblical Hebrew Creation Account: New Numbers Tell the Story" / November October 2004 / Steven W. Boyd / Impact, n.376 (Institute for Creation Research)
• On the Origins of the Mind / November 2004 / David Berlinski / Commentary — evolutionary psychology is a rhetorical tour de force, but something else as science
• Eton or the zoo? / 29 October 2004 / Desmond Morris / BBC News — the discovery of a new species of human poses exciting questions about who we are
• Dolphins' big brains evolved in spurts / 29 October 2004 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist
• Darwin's greatest challenge tackled: The mystery of eye evolution / 28 October 2004 / Detlev Arendt, Jochen Wittbrodt, Heidi Snyman, and Kristin Tessmar-Raible / European Molecular Biology Laboratory — researchers provide concrete evidence about how the human eye evolved
• Trigger found for Tycho Brahe's supernova / 27 October 2004 / Emma Marris / Nature (news@nature) — deadly dance of two suns led to blast 400 years ago
• Japanese quake took seismologists by surprise / 26 October 2004 / David Cyranoski / Nature (news@nature) — government authorizes effort to study new fault system
• On Intelligence / October 2004 / Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee / Times Books — on artificial intelligence, the human brain, memory, consciousness and creativity, and more; see also Amazon
• The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes / September 2004 / Dean H. Hamer / Doubleday — see also Amazon
  • review: In Search of the 'God Gene' / November 2, 2004 / John Langone / New York Times
• Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years / July 2004 / Charles Coulston Gillispie / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Noah's Flood - Where did the water come from? / 2004 / Answers in Genesis
• Quick Guide to Sequenced Genomes / Kate Ruder and Edward R. Winstead / GNN (Genome News Network) — the genomes of more than 180 organisms have been sequenced since 1995
• Faith & Reason Ministries (Sun Valley, California)
• Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? / October 2003 / C. John Collins / Crossway Books — see also Amazon

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