Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (December 2004)

DISCLAIMER:  The following links do not necessarily 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.

DECEMBER 30

• Tsunami Kills Few Animals in Sri Lanka / December 29, 2004 / Gemunu Amarasinghe / (Associated Press) — wildlife officials expressed surprise that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths in Yala National Park from the tsunamis, indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground
• Human brain result of 'extraordinarily fast' evolution / December 29, 2004 / Alok Jha / The Guardian (UK)
• Cows genetically altered to produce human antibodies / September 2, 2003 / Andrew Martin / Centre Daily Times (State College, PA)

DECEMBER 29

• South Asia Earthquake and Tsunami / New York Times
  • The Year the Earth Fought Back / December 29, 2004 / Simon Winchester
  • When Nature's Wrath Is History's Reminder / December 28, 2004 / Dennis Smith
• Quake rattled Earth orbit, changed map of Asia / December 28, 2004 / Yahoo! News
• Darwinists top the censorship food chain / December 27, 2004 / Phyllis Schlafly / townhall.com
• National Geographic's Bunk Science 2004 / December 27, 2004 / Alan Caruba / ChronWatch
• Problems of Evolution / Stephen E. Jones — contents page of a book being written on the major problems of evolution
• A Criticism of the ICR's Grand Canyon Dating Project / February 18, 2003 / Chris Stassen / TalkOrigins
• More Faulty Creation Science from The Institute for Creation Research / February 6, 2003 / J. G. Meert

DECEMBER 27

• Body Worlds / July 2, 2004 - January 23, 2005 / Gunther von Hagens (inventor of plastination) / California ScienCenter, Los Angeles — More than 200 real human specimens are displayed to reveal the complexity and elegance of the nature inside. Explore the wonders of the authentic brain that guides us, the organs and muscles that propel us, and the skeleton that supports us.
• Just How Old Can He Go? / December 27, 2004 / Steve Lohr / New York Times — Ray Kurzweil, an inventor fascinated with the connection between humans and computers, says that emerging trends in biotechnology are opening a realistic path to immortality.
• Why Darwinists Fear Democracy / December 27, 2004 / Gary North / LewRockwell.com
• A Day of Devastation / December 27, 2004 / New York Times — Searching for meaning in Sunday's earthquake in Southeast Asia, we find only the earth's overpowering, amoral mechanics.
• Magnitude 9.0 - Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra / December 26, 2004 (00:58:49 UTC) / World Data Center for Seismology, Denver / U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center — preliminary earthquake report
• Believe it or not, they're all the same species / 26 December 2004 / Robert Matthews / Telegraph (UK) — one of the best-known stories in science -- the evolution of mankind from ape-like creatures to modern humans -- has been blown apart by the first comprehensive study of all the fossils
• "GENETICS: A Ruff Theory of Evolution: Gene Stutters Drive Dog Shape" requires registration / 24 December 2004 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.306, n.5705, p.2172
• "EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS: Some Countries Are Betting That a Few Seconds Can Save Lives" requires registration / 24 December 2004 / Dennis Normile / Science, v.306, n.5705, p.2178-2179
• Dinosaur Swallows Human / December 24, 2004 / Bibleland Studios
• Modern Humans Did Not Admix with Neanderthals during Their Range Expansion into Europe / December 2004 / Mathias Currat and Laurent Excoffier / PLoS Biology (Public Library of Science), v.2, n.12
• National Geographic Ignores the Flaws in Darwin's Theory / November 8, 2004 / Jonathan Wells / Discovery Institute
• Aliens Cause Global Warming / January 17, 2003 / Michael Crichton / Caltech Michelin Lecture
• The Great Evolution Mystery / 1983 / Gordon Rattray Taylor / Harper & Row — the Darwinian theory that evolution took place by selection of random variations -- propounded as a dogma for more than a century -- is proving more and more inadequate; see also Amazon

DECEMBER 23

• Natural selection acts on the quantum world / 23 December 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — objective reality may owe its existence to a 'darwinian' process that advertises certain quantum states
• Some Mars volcanoes might still be active / December 23, 2004 / Matt Crenson / Detroit Free Press (Associated Press)
• Exposing the villains of environmental hysterics / December 23, 2004 / George F. Will / PittsburghLIVE.com
• The Face of Evolutionary Design / December 22, 2004 / Robert E. Meyer / American Daily — evolution as a religion
• Weizmann Insitute scientists show how proteins beat the evolutionary stakes / 21 December 2004 / contact: Yivsam Azgad / EurekAlert!
• Intelligent Design / December 21, 2004 / with: Nick Matzke / Michael Medved fans — any philosophical principle that is not purely reductionist and materialist is equal to "establishment of religion" and cannot be permitted ... intelligent design as a complementary theory for natural selection ... Darwinian selection is a dogmatic, fundamentalist belief; apostates and heretics are quickly dealt with
• Junk DNA / EvoWiki.org — an introduction
• Career move / Richard Milton / Alternative Science — censorship: it would be virtually impossible for any scientific paper that has anti-Darwinian implications to be published in Nature or in any serious peer-reviewed scientific journal, regardless of the scientific merits of its findings

DECEMBER 22

• Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions / January 2005/ Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Why It's Unconstitutional to Teach "Intelligent Design" in the Public Schools, as an Alternative to Evolution / December 22, 2004 / Michael C. Dorf / FindLaw's Writ - Legal Commentary
• Darwinism fails true tests / December 21, 2004 / Mark Landsbaum / Arizona Republic
• Mohler on MSNBC: Evolution an intellectual pacifier / December 17, 2004 / Jeff Robinson / Baptist Press (Southern Baptist Convention)
• Discover Dialogue: Geneticist Craig Venter / December 2004 / Jocelyn Selim and David Ewing Duncan / Discover, v.25, n.12 — we don’t have enough scientists on the planet, enough money, and enough time using traditional methods to understand the millions of genes we’re uncovering
• How to Survive the End of the Universe (In 7 Steps) / December 2004 / Michio Kaku / Discover, v.25, n.12 — the cold, dark end is coming; we need an escape plan
• Seeing the Unseen / December 2004 / E. L. Doctorow / Discover, v.25, n.12 — creative genius in both science and the arts is a heightened state of perception that transforms the very pulses of the air into revelations
• The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World / October 2004 / Brian M. Fagan (editor) / Thames & Hudson — see also Amazon
• Adaptive radiation & Endemic species on islands / 14 January 1999 / Martyn L. Gorman / University of Aberdeen (UK) — BI2001: biodiversity, predation, and biogeography
• Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist / 14 January 1996 / I. H. Hutchinson / MIT Independent Activities Period — the faith of great scientists

DECEMBER 20

• Get Your Own Dust! / October 13, 2004 / William Dembski / christianity.com — the doctrine of creation does not mean just that God arranged pre-existing materials, but that God originated those materials to begin with
• Interview with Michael Ruse / July 2003 / The Believer — "There is no ultimate truth about morality. It is an invention of the genes rather than of humans."

DECEMBER 19

• What is...'Intelligent Design?' / December 18, 2004 / Terence Kealey / London Times
• Intelligent design merits equal time with evolution / December 17, 2004 / Linda Whitlock / Roanoke Times (Virginia)
• Ice-age musicians fashioned ivory flute / 17 December 2004 / Achim Schneider / Nature (news@nature) — old instrument is uncovered in southern Germany
• Deriving Dimensions / 28 September 2004 / Adrian Cho / Physical Review Focus — why there are 3 time dimensions and 1 space dimension
• World's Biggest Dinosaurs / Cabazon, CA
• A Definitive Reply to Evolutionist Propaganda / Harun Yahya — tales of transformation from National Geographic television
• A Whale Fantasy from National Geographic / Harun Yahya

DECEMBER 17

• Should Intelligent Design be taught in schools? (audio: see 08:53) / 17 December 2004 / Steve Jones and Stephen Meyer / BBC
• "SEISMOLOGY: Eavesdropping on Faults to Anticipate Their Next Move" requires registration / 17 December 2004 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.306, n.5704, p.2022
• "ANTHROPOLOGY: The Astonishing Micropygmies" requires registration / 17 December 2004 / Jared Diamond / Science, v.306, n.5704, p.2047-2048
• "Breakthrough of the Year" requires registration / 17 December 2004 / Donald Kennedy / Science, v.306, n.5704, p.2001
  • "BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: On Mars, a Second Chance for Life" requires registration / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.306, n.5704, p.2010-2012
  • "BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: The Runners-Up" requires registration / Science, v.306, n.5704, p.2013-2017
• Faith and Flew / December 16, 2004 / William Schweiker / Sightings (Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago) — the certainty of scientific criticism now seems shaken by the critics themselves
• Philosopher Antony Flew Has Flown -- from Atheism! / December 15, 2004 / Denyse O'Leary / Christianity.ca — Flew's conversion to deism is of immense importance. Atheist websites are in a tizzy. Is this the beginning of mass flight?
• Leaps in the Dark: The Forging of Scientific Reputations / December 2004 / John Waller / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Eureka! / December 11, 2004 / P. D. Smith / The Guardian (UK) — an iconoclastic history of scientific endeavor
• International Journal of Astrobiology
• A Who's Who of Media Skeptics — skeptics or dogmatists?
• Michael J. Behe Responses to Critics / November 2001 / Access Research Network
• The Demise and Fall of the Water Vapor Canopy: A Fallen Creationist Idea / 2000 / Glenn R. Morton / DMD Publishing

DECEMBER 16

• ACLU Fights Plan to Teach Alternative to Evolution / December 14, 2004 / Barbara Bradley Hagerty / National Public Radio (All Things Considered) — American Civil Liberties Union files a lawsuit against Pennsylvania's Dover Area School District, which is requiring students to learn about an alternative to the theory of evolution
• Many in Dover say 'intelligent design' mandate reflects values / December 1, 2004 / Martha Raffaele / phillyburbs.com (Associated Press)
• When Earth Turned Bad / 30 November 2004 / contact: Ann Cairns / Geological Society of America, News Release 04-38 — new evidence supports terrestrial cause of end-Permian mass extinction
• Dover legal battle brews / November 18, 2004 / Lauri Lebo / York Daily Record (PA) — both sides of the intelligent design debate are in touch with lawyers
• School board OKs challenges to evolution / November 12, 2004 / Martha Raffaele / MSNBC (Associated Press) — while several states and school districts have debated how to teach evolution, Dover (Pennsylvania) is thought to be the only one in the nation to mandate the teaching of intelligent design
• "A New Example of Tyrannosaurus Bite Marks from the Hell Creek Formation" / November 9, 2004 / Daniel B. Hyslop and Clint A. Boyd / Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.36, n.5, p.381
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / November 2004 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• Pictures of Intermediate Evolutionary Forms / OlympicTrans — humor
• Meta Library — a shared collection of topics, definitions, audio, and video clips which cover the constructive interaction of science, ethics, philosophy and religion
• Understanding Evolution / Museum of Paleontology / University of California, Berkeley
• Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith — journal of the American Scientific Affiliation; recent articles added on-line
• Research Papers / August 2003 / International Conference on Creationism / Institute for Creation Research
• Genesis - Readings: A New Biblical Commentary / Laurence A. Turner / 2000 / Sheffield Academic Press — see also Amazon
• "Dinosaur Religion: On Interpreting and Misinterpreting the Creation Texts" / September 1984 / Conrad Hyers / Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, v.36, p.142-148
• Fr. Copleston vs. Bertrand Russell / 1948 / BBC — Father Frederick C. Copleston (Jesuit Catholic priest) and Bertrand Russell (agnostic philosopher) debate the existence of God on radio

DECEMBER 15

• Sharks respond to magnetic lines / 15 December 2004 / BBC News
• Embryonic stem cell therapy 'best route' / 15 December 2004 / Harry Moore / BBC News
• 'Intelligent design' mandate spurs lawsuit / December 14, 2004 / CNN (Associated Press) — Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - Eight families have filed a lawsuit against a school district that is requiring students to learn about alternatives to the theory of evolution, claiming the curriculum violates the separation of church and state.
• Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board FAQ – Intelligent Design and Evolution / December 14, 2004 / ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
• Shenanigans recently uncovered in Grand Canyon book controversy / December 14, 2004 / Mark Looy / Answers in Genesis
• Impacting the origin of life / November 2004 / Jay Chapman / Geotimes — impact events and meteorite strikes are often associated with mass extinctions and widespread devastation, but impact events may have played a role in the evolution of life
• Beneath the Bermuda Triangle / November 2004 / Megan Sever / Geotimes — giant gas bubbles could be rising from the deep and swallowing ships whole
• Mount St. Helens erupts in activity / November 2004 / Geotimes
• The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes / June 2004 / Richard Panek / Viking Books (Penguin) — see also Amazon
  • reviews: WNYC-Reading Room, Front List, Science News
• Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy / March 2004 / David Lindley / Joseph Henry Press (National Academies Press) — see also Amazon
• Volcanism / February 2004 / Hans-Ulrich Schmincke / Springer-Verlag — see also Amazon
• Editorial: The New Creationism and Its Threat to Science Literacy and Education / January 2004 / Joel Cracraft / Bioscience (American Institute of Biological Sciences)
• Important Primary Texts on Religion and Science in America / Edward B. Davis / Messiah College (Grantham, PA)
  • Benjamin Silliman
  • Edward Hitchcock and Charles H. Hitchcock
  • James Dwight Dana
  • George Frederick Wright
  • Asa Gray
  • Charles Hodge
• Featured Authors Page / Access Research Network
  • Michael Behe
  • Charles Darwin
  • William Dembski
  • Phillip Johnson
  • Stephen Meyer
  • Paul Nelson
  • Robert Newman
  • Nancy Pearcey
  • Charles Thaxton
  • Jonathan Wells
• The debate: Creationist versus Skeptic / 24 August 2003 / Carl Wieland and Paul Willis / Northside Christian Church, Brisbane, Australia — supplementary information from Answers in Genesis
• The Cambridge Companion to Darwin / June 2003 / Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick (editors) / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Chasing Lava: A Geologist's Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory / January 2003 / Wendell A. Duffield / Mountain Press Publishing Company — see also Amazon
• The Lost Day / 25 February 2000 / Barbara and David P. Mikkelson / Urban Legends Reference Pages — claim: NASA scientists discovered a "missing" day in time that corresponds to Biblical accounts of the sun's standing still in the sky

DECEMBER 14

• New language circuit discovered in humans / 13 December 2004 / Alison Motluk / New Scientist
• Six Enemies of Apologetic / Douglas Groothuis / Facing the Challenge
• (The Unofficial) Stephen Jay Gould Archive / Miguel Chavez / Yuba College (California)
• The Galileo Project / 1995 / Al Van Helden / Rice University

DECEMBER 13

• Teaching evolution as theory not fact / December 12, 2004 / Charles Burress / San Francisco Chronicle — intelligent design booster, Phillip Johnson, speaks out
• Birds of a feather not related to each other / 11 December 2004 / Anna Gosline / New Scientist
• "The Mentality of Crows: Convergent Evolution of Intelligence in Corvids and Apes" requires registration / 10 December 2004 / Nathan J. Emery and Nicola S. Clayton / Science, v.306, n.5703, p.1903-1907
• "Host-Parasite Coevolutionary Conflict Between Arabidopsis and Downy Mildew" requires registration / 10 December 2004 / Rebecca L. Allen, Peter D. Bittner-Eddy, Laura J. Grenville-Briggs, Julia C. Meitz, Anne P. Rehmany, Laura E. Rose, and Jim L. Beynon / Science, v.306, n.5703, p.1957-1960
• Controversy over life's origins / December 10, 2004 / Stephen C. Meyer and John Angus Campbell / San Francisco Chronicle — students should learn to assess competing theories
• Seeking Objectivity in Origins Science (pdf) / December 10, 2004 / contact: John Calvert / Intelligent Design network — Kansas: members of science standards committee urge objectivity in origins science
• World's Most Famous Atheist Accepts Existence of God, Cites Modern Science! / December 9, 2004 / Roy Abraham Varghese / Institute for Metascientific Research — the best-known atheist of the last 50 years, Professor Antony Flew, made the announcement in a symposium on science and religion, that the discoveries of modern science have led him to accept the existence of God
• Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator! / December 2004 / Richard G. Colling / Browning Press — see also Amazon
• Antony Flew Considers God...Sort Of / October 10, 2004 / Richard Carrier / The Secular Web
• The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body, Revealed / October 2004 / Alexander Tsiaras and Barry Werth / Doubleday — see also Amazon
• Don't Suppress Debate on Evolution (second letter) / October 2004 / Douglas L. Keil / APS News
• Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing / June 2004 / William A. Dembski (editor) / ISI Books — see also Amazon
  • review: Bruce S. Thornton / August 13, 2004 / CaliforniaRepublic.org
  • review: Chris Banescu / townhall.com
• High Energy Cosmic Rays / March 2004 / Todor Stanev / Springer-Verlag — see also Amazon
• Creation vs. Evolution Links: Origins / 2004 / Bible Quotes Science Info
• Science at the Beginning of the 21st Century / 3 December 2003 and 7 March 2004 / Wolf-Ekkehard Lφnnig — a few questions and comments concerning the article
  • "Designer Scientific Literature" / 8 May 2003 / Ulrich Kutschera / Nature, v.423, p.116
• Big List of Albert Einstein Quotations / Positive Atheism — see also infidels.org
• Dolan DNA Learning Center / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — the source for timely information about genes in education: see also Genetic Origins
• Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement / Dolan DNA Learning Center (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
• Noah's Ark
• The Wonder of the World: A Journey from Modern Science to the Mind of God / December 2003 / Roy Abraham Varghese / Tyr Publishing — see also Amazon

DECEMBER 10

• Atheist Becomes Theist / Winter 2005 / Gary Habermas (interviewer) / Philosophia Christi (journal of the Evangelical Philosophical Society) / Biola News & Communications — exclusive interview with former atheist Antony Flew
• ARN-Announce, n.44 / December 10, 2004 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network
• Wild Monkeys Resort to Use of Tools / December 10, 2004 / ABC News (Associated Press) — researchers cite rare use of tools by wild monkeys to gather food during Brazil's dry season
• Famous Atheist Now Believes in God / December 9, 2004 / ABC News (Associated Press) — one of world's leading atheists now believes in God, more or less, based on scientific evidence
• Volcanism possible on planet-like Quaoar / December 9, 2004 / Robert Roy Britt / CNN — a large planet-like object out in the outer solar system shows signs of either a relatively recent collision or perhaps volcanic activity
• Your right to say it / December 9, 2004 / Jay Bryant / townhall.com — the Grand Canyon National Park Service is selling a book suggesting the the mighty gorge came about as the result of Noah's Flood
• Darwin's Last Stand? / July-August 2004 / Touchstone Magazine
• Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory / May 2004 / Edward J. Larson / Modern Library (Random House) — see also Amazon
• The Integration of Faith and Learning: A Worldview Approach / April 2004 / Robert A. Harris / Cascade Books — see also Amazon
• Explaining the Universe: The New Age of Physics / March 2004 / John M. Charap / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• By Design or by Chance? / 2004 / Denyse O'Leary / Access Research Network — a study course in the Intelligent Design controversy
• Intelligent Design: The Scientific Alternative to Evolution / Autumn 2003 / William S. Harris and John H. Calvert / National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, v.3, n.3
• Everything's Relative: And Other Fables from Science and Technology / September 2003 / Tony Rothman / Wiley — see also Amazon
• The Best of the 8th European Creationist Congress (11 CD set) / August 2003 / Sweden — lecture videos
• Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth / March 2003 / Andrew H. Knoll / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• From Genesis to Genetics: The Case of Evolution and Creationism / January 2002 / John A. Moore / University of California Press — see also Amazon
• The Evolution of Reason: Logic as a Branch of Biology / January 2001 / William S. Cooper / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
  • review: "Why The Laws of Thought Are, After All, the Laws of (Evolutionary) Logic" / 15 May 2003 / William D. Casebeer / Human Nature Review, v.3, p.303-305

DECEMBER 9

• Chicken gives up genetic secrets / 9 December 2004 / BBC News — a detailed analysis of the chicken genome, the biochemical "code" in the bird's cells that makes the animal what it is
• The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture / December 2004 / Mordechai Feingold / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages / October 2004 / Doug Macdougall / University of California Press — see also Amazon
• Out of This World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics / July 2004 / Stephen Webb / Springer — see also Amazon
• The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama / March 2004 / Arthur Zajonc (editor) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• Disturbing the Solar System: Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions / February 2004 / Alan E. Rubin / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• A Century of Innovation: Twenty Engineering Achievements that Transformed our Lives / October 2003 / George Constable and Bob Somerville / National Academies Press — see also Amazon
• Darwinism and the Rise of Degenerate Science / May 2003 / Paul Back / Pleasant Word (Winepress Pub.) — see also Amazon
• Life in the Universe: An Assessment of U.S. and International Programs in Astrobiology / 2003 / Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life, National Research Council / National Academies Press
• Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time / September 2002 / Tom Siegfried / National Academies Press — see also Amazon
• Fighting for the Good Cause: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology / May 2001 / Gerald Sweeney / Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v.91, pt.2 — on eugenics; see also Amazon
  • review: October 2002 / Gavan Tredoux

DECEMBER 8

• How the Early Universe Got Dusty Remains a Mystery / December 8, 2004 / University of Arizona / ScienceDaily
• Snakes bite back at poison toads / 8 December 2004 / BBC News — snakes in Australia have evolved to counter the threat of invasive, poisonous cane toads introduced to Australia in 1935
• A who's who of players in the battle of biology class / December 7, 2004 / Randy Dotinga / Christian Science Monitor
• Darwin under fire (again): Intelligent design vs. evolution / December 5, 2004 / Charles C. Haynes / First Amendment Center
• The Descent of Dissent / December 5, 2004 / Colin B. Purrington and Felix Sockwell / New York Times — humor: variations on the disclaimer sticker which the Cobb County Board of Education in Georgia approved for use in science books in 2002; see more examples
• Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? / September 2004 / Michael Ruse / Harvard University Press — see also Amazon
• The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations / Spring 2004 / Mark L. Taper and Subhash R. Lele (editors) / University of Chicago Press — see also Amazon
• Surprising new research (regarding Israeli hares and other hares) shifts whole cud debate / December 2003 / TheologyWeb
• Debunking Robert Gentry's "New Redshift Interpretation" Cosmology / 1998 / Ryan Scranton / Talk Origins

DECEMBER 7

• The Scientist as Philosopher: Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries / January 2005 / Friedel Weinert / Springer — see also Amazon
• Wisconsin School Board Adopts Improved Policy Endorsing Fully Teaching Evolution, Not Creationism / December 7, 2004 / Discovery Institute
• Fresh Challenges in the Old Debate Over Evolution / December 7, 2004 / Valerie Strauss / Washington Post, p.A14
• When Bats and Humans Were One and the Same / December 7, 2004 / Carl Zimmer / New York Times
• Artificial cells take shape / 6 December 2004 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — bacterium-sized 'protein factories' are a step along the road to synthetic life
• Monkey embryos cloned for the first time / 6 December 2004 / Bob Holmes / New Scientist
• Hype, hoaxes, hacks . . . and science / December 5, 2004 / Paul Jacob / townhall.com
• The Christmas Miracle / December 5, 2004 / Newsweek (MSNBC) — most Americans believe the virgin birth is literally true
• Fossil Egg Finds Yield Clues to How Pterosaurs Lived / December 2, 2004 / John Roach / National Geographic News
• Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time / September 2004 / Peter Louis Galison / W.W. Norton — see also Amazon
  • review: Clockwork Science / November 6, 2003 / Freeman J. Dyson / New York Review of Books, v.50, n.17
• Biased Embryos and Evolution / June 2004 / Wallace Arthur / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don't Know) about Earthquakes / March 2004 / Susan Elizabeth Hough / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus / March 2004 / Owen Gingerich / Walker & Co — see also Amazon
  • review: Hot on the trail of Copernicus / December 2004 / Job Kozhamthadam / PhysicsWeb
• Prehistoric Planet
• Historic Figures: Michael Faraday / BBC (UK) — a scientist who made numerous important discoveries related to electricity (such as the battery) and a deeply religious man who belonged to a small, strictly literalist sect called the Sandemanians
• Stellar Alchemy: The Celestial Origin of Atoms / August 2003 / Michel Cassι / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature / June 2003 / Steven Pinker / Penguin — see also Amazon
  • review: Darwinian Storytelling / February 27, 2003 / H. Allen Orr / New York Review of Books, v.50, n.3
• The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity / April 2003 / Jack Repcheck / Perseus Publishing — see also Amazon
• Figuring the Odds in God's Casino: Pascal Revisited / May 24, 2002 / Clay Farris Naff / Center for the Advancement of Rational Solutions (Lincoln, Nebraska)
• A New Kind of Science / March 2002 / Stephen Wolfram / Wolfram Media — online; see also Amazon
• Legends of Paleontology: Robert T. Bakker / 2002 / David A. Board / Prehistoric Planet
• Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud / November 2001 / Robert L. Park / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood (7th edition) / April 2001 / Walt Brown / Center for Scientific Creation — see also Amazon
• Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man / 1992 / Bryan Appleyard / Doubleday — see also Amazon

DECEMBER 6

• Monster Farming: The creepy solution to the stem-cell debate / December 5, 2004 / William Saletan / slate.msn
• "Take a Chance: Scientists put randomness to work" / December 4, 2004 / Erica Klarreich / Science News, v.166, n.23, p.362
• Opportunity: First 90 days on Mars / 2 December 2004 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — the key moments of discovery as the rover's groundbreaking results are published
• Ancient mammal genes reconstructed / 1 December 2004 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — sequenced genomes provide key for tracing ancestral DNA
• If evolution is random, how can it account for the design seen in nature? / 24 November 2004 / Robert Matthews / Telegraph (UK)
• Smolin vs. Susskind: The Anthropic Principle / August 18, 2004 / Leonard Susskind and Lee Smolin / Edge, n.145
• Darwin Admits to Directly Opposite Conclusions / April 1, 2004 / The Evolving Times, v.1, n.1
• The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery / March 2004 / Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards / Regnery Publishing — see also Amazon
  • A Critique of the Privileged Planet Hypothesis / 2003 / Kyler Kuehn / American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting
  • A Response to Some Objections by Kyler Kuehn to The Privileged Planet / April 29, 2004 / Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards / Discovery Institute
• Time Machines / 30 January 2004 / Forrest M. Mims III / Seguin Gazette-Enterprise (Texas)
• "Simplifying the stratigraphy of time" / January 2004 / Jan Zalasiewicz, et al. / Geology, v.32, n.1, p.1-4
• Seven Years of Starlight and Time / 2004 / D. Russell Humphreys / Institute for Creation Research
• The Ark / Ship of Fools — internet reality game show where Big Brother meets the Bible
• Genesis Research
• Astrobiology Web
• Pascal's Wager / Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA / The Valley Library, Oregon State University
• Arguments we think creationists should NOT use / Answers in Genesis
• Methodological Naturalism? / Alvin Plantinga / Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame — perspective from a Christian philosopher
• "Intelligent Design and Young-Earth Creationism -- Investigating Nested Hierarchies of Philosophy and Belief" / November 5, 2003 / Marcus R. Ross / Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstracts with Programs, v.35, n.6, p.609
• General Relativity and the Zero Point Energy (pdf) / October 2003 / Barry Setterfield / Journal of Theoretics
• Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: The Physics Behind the Genesis Flood / August 2003 / John R. Baumgardner / Fifth International Conference on Creationism (Pittsburgh, PA)
• An Evaluation of Lineages and Trajectories as Baraminological Membership Criteria (pdf) / July 25, 2003 / Todd Charles Wood and David P. Cavanaugh / Occasional Papers of the Baraminology Study Group, n.2
• Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe / August 2003 / Simon Conway Morris / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
  • review: The Way Things Are is the Way Things Have to Be (pdf) / Marcus Ross
• Experts Gather to Discuss Nature of Scientific Evidence / 10 April 2003 / Johns Hopkins University — philosophers, historians and scientists discuss a frequently controversial question: What are the standards that qualify an observation as scientific evidence?
• Russell Humphreys answers Various Critics / 10 March 2002 / D. Russell Humphreys / trueorigin.org
• Justifying Methodological Naturalism / 2002 / Michael Martin / Internet Infidels
• The World's Greatest Creation Scientists: From Y1K to Y2K / 2000 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• The Peppered Moth - An Update / August 1999 / Ken Miller, Brown University
• When Public Understanding of Science Thwarts Standards-Based Science Education / 1999 / John R. Staver / Center for Science Education, Kansas State University
• "Locations and landscapes of paleolithic sites in the Semliki Rift, Zaire" / 6 December 1998 / David M. Helgren / Geoarchaeology, v.12, n.4, p.337-361
• Haeckel and his Embryos: A Note on Textbooks / December 1997 / Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University
• "Evolution as Fact and Theory"
  • p. 253-262 in: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History / 1994 / Stephen Jay Gould / W. W. Norton
• "Radiohalos in a Radiochronological and Cosmological Perspective" / April 5, 1974 / Robert V. Gentry / Science, v.184, p.62-66
  • review: "Polonium Haloes" Refuted / July 17, 2003 / Thomas A. Baillieul / talkorigins.org

DECEMBER 5

• Stem cell alternatives gain key support / December 4, 2004 / Gareth Cook / Boston Globe
• The meaning of Galileo in America's heartland / December 4, 2004 / Kathleen Parker / townhall.com
• The Science Guy's Latest Experiment / December 4, 2004 / Joel Achenbach / Washington Post, p.C01 — in TV Series, Bill Nye honors those who made it all possible
• Researcher Pulls His Name From Paper on Prayer and Fertility / December 4, 2004 / Benedict Carey / New York Times
• A link for unrelated viruses / December 3, 2004 / Charles Choi / The Scientist — viruses which infect all three domains of life could be descended from bacteriophage
• Kinsey, the man who deified data / December 1, 2004 / Jay Ambrose / Modesto Bee (California)
• The Man Behind the Meme / December 1, 2004 / Jim Holt / slate.msn.com — interview with Richard Dawkins
• Earth's Catastrophic Past and Future: A Scientific Analysis of Information Channeled by Edgar Cayce / August 2004 / William Hutton and Jonathan Eagle / Universal Publishers — see Hutton Commentaries; see also Amazon
• Jesus' Shroud? Recent Findings Renew Authenticity Debate / April 9, 2004 / Bijal P. Trivedi / National Geographic News
• Lignin and Vanillin on the C14 Shroud of Turin Samples / 2004 / Daniel R. Porter (Bronxville, New York) — sensitive microchemical tests prove that Shroud of Turin is older than carbon 14 dating suggests
• Alternative Science / 1994 / Richard Milton
  • Observed instances of speciation — none

DECEMBER 3

• Tough Assignment: Teaching Evolution to Fundamentalists / December 3, 2004 / Sharon Begley / Wall Street Journal, p.A15
• "PLANETARY SCIENCE: Proof for Water, Hints of Life?" requires registration / 3 December 2004 / Jeffrey S. Kargel / Science, v.306, n.5702, p.1689-1691
• Sexier Posterior Evolves Almost Overnight / November 30, 2004 / Carl Zimmer / New York Times
• Infidelity Gene: Sensational, but Science? / November 30, 2004 / Wendy McElroy / Fox News
• Scientists debate blending species / November 21, 2004 / Rick Weiss / Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, IN)
• "Evidence from Biochemical Pathways in Favor of Unfinished Evolution rather than Intelligent Design" / July 2004 / Edward J. Behrman, George A. Marzluf, and Ronald Bentley / J. Chem. Education, v.81, n.7, p.1051
• "Modern Day Book Banning?" (pdf) / 3 March 2004 / John D. Morris / Acts & Facts, v.33, n.3, p.1-2 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Why Did Sabertooth Tigers Need Such Big Teeth? / 9 January 2004 / SUNY, University at Buffalo
• Evolution Education Wiki — encyclopedia of evolution, biology, and origins
• Exploring the Works of Alvin Plantinga, Christian Philosopher / November 21, 2003 / Andy Rau / Internet for Christians
• "Why Gods Should Matter in Social Science" / June 6, 2003 / Rodney Stark / Chronicle of Higher Education, v.49, n.39, p.B7
• Irreducible Complexity Demystified / 26 April 2003 / Pete Dunkelberg / Talkdesign.org
• "Role of educational factors in college students’ creation worldview" (pdf) / 2003 / Steve Deckard, Chard Berndt, Mary Filakouridis, Tim Iverson, and David A. DeWitt / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.17, n.1, p.70-72
• "Impact of a young-Earth creationist apologetics course on student creation worldview" (pdf) / 2003 / Tom Henderson, Steve Deckard, and David A. DeWitt / Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.17, n.1, p.111-116
• Frequently Asked Questions about Intelligent Design / 2003 / Mark Hartwig / Access Research Network
• Icons of Evolution (video) (DVD) / May 2002 — many of the most famous "Icons of Evolution" -- including Darwin's "Tree of Life," finches from the Galapagos Islands, and embryos that look remarkably similar -- are based on outdated research and sloppy logic
• More Than Intelligent Design / 2002 / Hugh Ross / Facts for Faith, n.10

DECEMBER 2

• "Archaeology: Greater expectations" requires registration / 2 December 2004 / Peter W. Stahl / Nature, v.432, p.561 — evidence of unexpected complexity in an ancient community in Uruguay is a further blow to the conventional view of prehistoric development in marginal areas of lowland South America
• "Argentinian unhatched pterosaur fossil" requires free registration / 2 December 2004 / Luis M. Chiappe, Laura Codorniϊ, Gerald Grellet-Tinner, and David Rivarola / Nature, v.432, p.571-572
• "Palaeontology: Pterosaur egg with a leathery shell" requires free registration / 2 December 2004 / Qiang Ji, Shu-An Ji, Yen-Nien Cheng, Hai-Lu You, Jun-Chang Lό, Yong-Qing Liu, and Chong-Xi Yuan / Nature, v.432, p.572
• "Large fluctuations in speed on Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrζ glacier" requires free registration / 2 December 2004 / Ian Joughin, Waleed Abdalati, and Mark Fahnestock / Nature, v.432, p.608-610
• Zapped human eggs divide without sperm / 1 December 2004 / Andy Coghlan / New Scientist
• Ancestor's DNA code reconstructed / 1 December 2004 / BBC News — scientists have re-constructed part of the genetic code that would have existed in a common ancestor of placental mammals, including humans
• Anti-evolution teachings gain foothold in U.S. schools / November 30, 2004 / Anna Badkhen / San Francisco Chronicle — evangelicals see flaws in Darwinism
• Creationism's strange evolution / November 30, 2004 / Tony Norman / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Intelligent Design: A Reason to Get Wired? / November 30, 2004 / Denyse O'Leary / christianity.ca (Canada) — editors who support Darwinism apparently are worried about the increasing popularity of the Intelligent Design perspective
• The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science / October 2004 / Horace Freeland Judson / Harcourt — see also Amazon
• Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere / April 2004 / Tim Lewens / Bradford Books (MIT Press) — see also Amazon
• Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time / April 2004 / Michio Kaku / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
• Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience / April 2004 / Georges Charpak and Henri Broch / Johns Hopkins University Press — see also Amazon
• Einstein Defiant: Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution / March 2004 / Edmund Blair Bolles / Joseph Henry Press (National Academies Press) — see also Amazon
• Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning / March 2004 / Martin J. Rees / Basic Books — how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on Earth and beyond; see also Amazon
• Intelligent Design Network — seeking objectivity in origins science
• War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race / September 2003 / Edwin Black / Four Walls Eight Windows — see also Amazon
  • review: Johannes L. Jacobse / townhall.com
• Extreme Depositional Environments: Mega End Members in Geologic Time / September 2003 / Marjorie A. Chan and Allen W. Archer / Geological Society of America, Special Paper 370 — see also Amazon
• The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives / April 2003 / Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra (editors) / MIT Press — see also Amazon
• The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos / September 2002 / Robert P. Kirshner / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Is the Present the Key to the Past or the Past the Key to the Present? James Hutton and Adam Smith Versus Abraham Gottlob Werner and Karl Marx in Interpreting History / November 2001 / A. M. Celal Sengφr / Geological Society of America, Special Paper 355 — see also Amazon
• Heavenly Errors: Misconceptions About the Real Nature of the Universe / June 2001 / Neil F. Comins / Columbia University Press — see also Amazon
• Volcanic Hazards and Disasters in Human Antiquity / February 2000 / Floyd W. McCoy and Grant Heiken / Geological Society of America, Special Paper 345
• The Triumph of Design and the Demise of Darwin (video) / 1999 / featuring: Phillip Johnson / Creation Research Society Online Bookstore
• Physico-Theology: A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from His Works of Creation / 1713 / William Derham

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