Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (March 2005)

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MARCH 31

• Physics & the God of Abraham V (3-part lecture series) / April 4-6, 2005 / Gonzaga University and Whitworth College, Spokane, WA
  • "Truth in Science: Proof, Persuasion, and the Galileo Affair" / Owen Gingerich
  • "The Roots of Kepler’s New Astronomy" / Owen Gingerich
  • "Great Priest-Scientists Through the Ages" / Stephen Barr
• "B.F. Skinner, Revisited" / April 1, 2005 / David P. Barash / Chronicle of Higher Education, v.51, n.30, p.B10 — "Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Dreaming meat! The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
• "Do Tsunamis Come in Super-size?" / April 2005 / William A. Hoesch and Steven A. Austin / Impact, n.382 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Evo Devo Is the New Buzzword ... / April 2005 / Brian K. Hall / Scientific American — ... for the 200-year search for links between embryos and evolution
• The Alternative Genome / April 2005 / Gil Ast / Scientific American — The old axiom "one gene, one protein" no longer holds true. The more complex an organism, the more likely it became that way by extracting multiple protein meanings from individual genes.
• Verdict that Demands Evidence / April 2005 / Charles Colson with Anne Morse / Christianity Today — it is Darwinists, not Christians, who are stonewalling the facts
• Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations / April 2005 / W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (editors) / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• "Seismology: Speed and size of the Sumatra earthquake" requires registration / 31 March 2005 / Seth Stein and Emile A. Okal / Nature, v.434, p.581-582
• "Structural and temporal requirements for geomagnetic field reversal deduced from lava flows" requires registration / 31 March 2005 / Brad S. Singer, Kenneth A. Hoffman, Robert S. Coe, Laurie L. Brown, Brian R. Jicha, Malcolm S. Pringles, and Annick Chauvin / Nature, v.434, p.633-636
• Sex Speeds Up Evolution, Study Finds / March 30, 2005 / Stefan Lovgren / National Geographic News
• Not Intelligent, and Surely Not Science / March 30, 2005 / Michael Shermer / Los Angeles Times — intelligent-design theorists argue that because design can be inferred through the methods of science, intelligent design theory should be given equal time alongside evolutionary theory in public school science classes
• New battle over evolution erupts in nation's schools / March 30, 2005 / Alexandra Witze / Kansas City Star
• Quake Damage Limited to Small Area; Hundreds Dead / March 30, 2005 / Seth Mydans / New York Times (International Herald Tribune)
• Second giant quake rocks Indonesia / 29 March 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — seismologists puzzle over absence of tsunamis
• Powerful Quake Jolts the Seabed Off the West Coast of Indonesia / March 29, 2005 / Somini Sengupta / New York Times
• Creation Conflict in Schools / March 28, 2005 / Jeffrey Brown / PBS — how some biology teachers are handling the hot button debate over the theory of evolution, creationism and intelligent design
• Eda controls stickleback armor / March 28, 2005 / Sarah Lovinger / The Scientist — small genetic changes control widespread and major evolution
• Protein Packages Found to Activate Genes; May Be What Regulates Development and Disease / March 28, 2005 / Harvard University / Science Daily
• Censorship in the Science Museums / March 28, 2005 / New York Times — a dozen or so Imax theaters, mostly in the South, have been shying away from science documentaries that might offend Christian fundamentalists
• Tyrannosaurus rex soft tissue
  • An Unexpected Softness / March 28, 2005 / New York Times — a dinosaur bone upset everyone's expectations in ways that may ripple outward for a long time
  • ‘Ostrich-osaurus’ discovery? / March 28, 2005 / David N. Menton / Answers in Genesis — shedding more light on the new startling find of soft tissue in a T. rex bone
  • Still soft and stretchy / 25 March 2005 / Carl Wieland / Answers in Genesis — dinosaur soft tissue find -- a stunning rebuttal of “millions of years”
  • Soft Tissue Discovered in Bone of a Dinosaur / March 25, 2005 / Robert Lee Hotz / Los Angeles Times — intact after 70 million years, bits of a T. rex's hind leg startle and intrigue researchers
  • Soft tissue found in T-rex fossil / March 24, 2005 / CNN — researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex
  • Picking over the bones / March 15, 2005 / sources: Peggy Ostrom, Matthew Collins, and Christina Nielsen-Marsh / wellcome trust (UK) — ancient proteins stuck to fossil bones may be able to tell us about evolution and the tree of life in the distant past
  • Ancient DNA Comes of Age / February 15, 2005 / Henry Nicholls / PLoS Biology, v.3, n.2
  • "Biomolecules in fossil remains" (pdf) / June 2002./ Christina Nielsen-Marsh / The Biochemist
• Teaching Darwin splits Pennsylvania town / March 27, 2005 / Yahoo! News
• The evolutionary revolutionary / March 27, 2005 / Drake Bennett / Boston Globe — in the 1970s Robert Trivers wrote a series of papers that transformed evolutionary biology
• Sticker Wars: Intelligent design foes fight evolution sticker / March 24, 2005 / Charles Colson / Florida Baptist Witness, v.122, n.11 — January 27, 2005 / BreakPoint
• UF science discovery raises questions about origin of African mammals / 24 March 2005 / contact: Jonathan Bloch (University of Florida) / EurekAlert!
• Survey Indicates Science Teachers Feel Pressure to Teach Nonscientific Alternatives to Evolution / March 24, 2005 / Cindy Workosky / National Science Teachers Association
• Protestant philosopher at Notre Dame carves out intellectual room for God and miracles / March 23, 2005 / Richard N. Ostling / Associated Press
• Light from alien planets confirmed / 23 March 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — orbiting telescope records the fiery glow of hot worlds
• A Mix of Mice and Men / March 23, 2005 / Gregory M. Lamb / Christian Science Monitor — scientists hope that by mixing genes of different animals they can better understand human biology and eventually test new drugs more safely and accurately, harvest organs for transplant into humans, and find new cures for human diseases
• 'Call to arms' on evolution / March 23, 2005 / Dan Vergano and Greg Toppo / USA Today
• Religion and Natural History Clash Among the Ultra-Orthodox / March 22, 2005 / Alex Mindlin / New York Times
• Vision of scientist-priest Teilhard de Chardin to guide April 8-9 environmental talks / March 14, 2005 / United Nations, Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine — Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai among speakers
• Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight / March 12 - September 5, 2005 / Royal Ontario Museum
• Beyond the Brain / March 2005 / James Shreeve / National Geographic — what goes on within the human skull is more complex and fantastic than anyone imagined
• Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy / January 25, 2005 / Maryann Mott / National Geographic News
• Proposed Revisions to Kansas Science Standards / 2005 / Kansas State Board of Education — draft 2, with explanations
• Dinosaurs on Alaska's North Slope / U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Land Management
• God and Evolution: A Faith-Based Understanding / October 2004 / David L. Wilcox / Judson Press — see also Amazon
• Coming to Peace With Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology / April 2004 / Darrel R. Falk / InterVarsity Press — see also Amazon
• Evolution from Creation to New Creation: Conflict, Conversation, and Convergence / November 2003 / Ted Peters and Martinez Hewlett / Abingdon Press — see also Amazon
• NanoEffect.com — potential effects of nanotechnology on society and nature
  • Prince warns of science 'risks' / 11 July 2004 / BBC News — the Prince of Wales has warned of the possible risks of nanotechnology and called for the cutting edge science to be used "wisely and appropriately"
  • Bill Joy's Hi-Tech Warning / 2001 / Jason Specht / Center for the Study of Technology and Society
  • Why the future doesn't need us / April 2000 / Bill Joy / Wired, issue 8.04 — our most powerful 21st-century technologies -- robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech -- are threatening to make humans an endangered species
• Summary of Testable Creation Model / February 7, 2000 / Hugh Ross / Reasons To Believe

MARCH 24

• The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless / August 2005 / John D. Barrow / Pantheon (Random House) — see also Amazon
• Evolution on Trial / April 2005 / Steve Kemper / Smithsonian Magazine — eighty years after a Dayton, Tennessee, jury found John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, the citizens of "Monkeytown" still say Darwin's for the birds
• Dances with fruit flies / March 28, 2005 / Thomas Hayden / U.S. News & World Report
• "Alien Planets Glimmer in the Heat" requires registration / 25 March 2005 / Robert Irion / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1853
• "SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT: Researcher Faces Prison for Fraud in NIH Grant Applications and Papers" requires registration / 25 March 2005 / Eli Kintisch / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1851
• "PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Discoverers Charge Damage to 'Hobbit' Specimens" requires registration / 25 March 2005 / Elizabeth Culotta / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1848
• "A New Population of Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sources in the Milky Way" requires registration / 25 March 2005 / F. Aharonian, et al. / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1938-1942
• "Tyrannosaurus rex Soft Tissue Raises Tantalizing Prospects" requires registration / 25 March 2005 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1852
  • "Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex" requires registration / 25 March 2005 / Mary H. Schweitzer, Jennifer L. Wittmeyer, John R. Horner, and Jan K. Toporski / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1952-1955
• Blood vessels recovered from T. rex bone / 24 March 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• T. rex fossil has 'soft tissues' / 24 March 2005 / BBC News — dinosaur experts have extracted samples of what appear to be soft tissues from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil bone
• Flexible fossil shows tyrannosaur's softer side / 24 March 2005 / Deirdre Lockwood / Nature (news@nature) — preserved soft tissue could reveal inner workings of dinosaur bones
• IMAX theaters reject film over evolution / March 24, 2005 / CNN (Associated Press) — theaters in several Southern cities have decided not to show a film on volcanoes out of concern that its references to evolution might offend those with fundamental religious beliefs
• "Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis" requires registration / 24 March 2005 / Susan J. Lolle, Jennifer L. Victor, Jessica M. Young, and Robert E. Pruitt / Nature, v.434, p.505-509
• College professors should be made to teach, not preach / March 23, 2005 / David Horowitz / USA Today
• Flores fossil passes unique species test / 12 March 2005 / Will Knight / New Scientist, n.2490, p.12
• The bubble that ate the universe / 12 March 2005 / Stuart Clark / New Scientist, n.2490 — space-time fizzes with bubbles popping in and out of existence all across the cosmos -- they could destroy the universe and everything in it
• Evidence of dark energy missed 30 years ago / 12 March 2005 / Stuart Clark / New Scientist, n.2490, p.14
• 'Missing' dark matter was there all along / 5 March 2005 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist, n.2489 — astronomers were stumped when some invisible dark matter "went missing" two years ago -- it has now turned up again, much to their relief
• Powerful radio pulses puzzle astronomers / 5 March 2005 / New Scientist, n.2489, p.21
• Ancient bacteria woken from deep Alaskan sleep / 5 March 2005 / Kelly Young / New Scientist, n.2489 — a previously unknown bacterium that lay dormant in the Alaskan permafrost for 32,000 years has been revived from suspended animation
• Higher laws and the mind-boggling complexity of life / 5 March 2005 / Paul Davies / New Scientist, n.2489 — Add the limits of computation to the age of the universe and what do you get? A radical take on the emergence of life.
• 25 Years of Mass Extinctions and Impacts / February 2005 / Spencer G. Lucas / Geotimes
• Passion for Paleo: Amateur Fossil Collectors / February 2005 / Lisa M. Pinsker / Geotimes
• Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure / January 2005 / Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo / Columbia University Press — see also Amazon
• Science and Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology, and Complexity / April 2004 / John D. Barrow, Paul C. W. Davies, and Charles L. Harper, Jr. (editors) / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon

MARCH 23

• Who's Afraid of Intelligent Design? / March 23, 2005 / Jay Mathews / Washington Post, p.A15
• Alien Planets Show Themselves for First Time / March 23, 2005 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times
• Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene / March 23, 2005 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times — some organisms may contain a cryptic backup copy of their genome that bypasses the usual mechanisms of heredity
• Cress overturns textbook genetics / 23 March 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — surprise finding shows that plants rewrite genetic code
• Rogue weeds defy rules of genetics / 23 March 2005 / Andy Coghlan / New Scientist
• Two skeptics lead charge against evolution / March 22, 2005 / Josh Funk / Wichita Eagle (Kansas)
• Researcher admits faking data / March 21, 2005 / Doug Payne / The Scientist — 'egregiousness' of conduct over almost 15 years leads to first-ever lifetime ban on US grants
• The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes / June 2004 / Richard Panek / Viking Books (Penguin) — see also Amazon
  • review: Marek Kohn / New Statesman

MARCH 22

• LETTERS: Darwinism and Its Discontents / March 21, 2005 / Andy Anderson, Howard Morland, Ralph Hitchens, Allan B. Lefcowitz, Natalia Rice, and Mark Eckenwiler / Washington Post, p.A18
  • Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens / March 14, 2005 / Peter Slevin / Washington Post, p.A01
• A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano / March 19, 2005 / Cornelia Dean / New York Times
• New Theory of How Planets Form Finds Havens of Stability Amid Turbulence / March 19, 2005 / Indiana University / Science Daily
• Giant space-time ripples may cause cosmic expansion / 18 March 2005 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist
• Evangelical environmentalism: We (include) the people / March 18, 2005 / John R. Christy / townhall.com
• Evolution at Work (and creationism nowhere in sight) / March 18, 2005 / Carl Zimmer / Corante
• No Stopping Global Warming, Studies Predict / March 17, 2005 / Maggie Fox / Yahoo! News (Reuters)
• What is Evangelical Environmentalism? / March 16, 2005 / Gerald Zandstra / Action Institute (for the study of religion and liberty)
• DNA gets a fake fifth base / 16 March 2005 / Emma Marris / Nature (news@nature) — artificial sequences could one day answer questions about evolution
• Quake threat rises after tsunami slip / 16 March 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — nearby faults are under increased strain after December's catastrophe
• Species list reaches half-million mark / 15 March 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — researchers claim 'spectacular progress' towards logging all Earth's life
• The Nature of Normal Human Variety / talk with Armand Leroi / Edge (The Third Culture) —even if this is a revival of racial science, we should engage in it for it does not follow that it is a revival of racist science
• In Search of History: The Piltdown Man (VHS) — explore astonishing theories about who may be responsible for the most famous and successful scientific con job in history
• How Did Life Begin? / Andy Knoll (interview) / Nova (PBS) — more on Origins page

MARCH 18

• "EVOLUTION: Special Hemoglobin Helped Swim Bladders Give Fish Diversity a Lift" requires registration / 18 March 2005 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.307, n.5716, p.1705
• "EVOLUTION: Fossil Horses--Evidence for Evolution" requires registration / 18 March 2005 / Bruce J. MacFadden / Science, v.307, n.5716, p.1728-1730
• How to prepare a planet for global warming / March 18, 2005 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor — convinced the phenomenon is inevitable, some scientists now focus on coping with it
• Researcher admits fraud in grant data / March 18, 2005 / Carey Goldberg and Scott Allen / Boston Globe — ex-Vermont scientist won nearly $3m from US
• Evolution is much more than just a scientific 'hunch' / March 17, 2005 / Samuel Kounaves / Winchester Star (Massachusetts)
• Scopes Snoops / March 17, 2005 / told to Tony Ortega / The Pitch (Kansas City) — watching one arm of Kansas’ vast right-wing conspiracy
• Where Does Intelligent Life Come From? / March 8, 2005 / Jeff Barbour / Universe Today
• Crux Magazine — where truth meets fiction ... about
• Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds / April 2004 / Philip J. Currie, Eva B. Koppelhus, Martin A. Shugar, and Joanna L. Wright (editors) / Indiana University Press — see also Amazon
• Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence? / July 2003 / Henry F. Shaefer III / The Apollos Trust (University of Georgia) — see also Amazon
  • review: Jim Wenger / March 2005 / The Real Issue

MARCH 16

• "Indonesian earthquake: Earthquake risk from co-seismic stress" requires registration / 17 March 2005 / John McCloskey, Suleyman S. Nalbant, and Sandy Steacy / Nature, v.434, p.291
• Genes contribute to religious inclination / 16 March 2005 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist
• Criticisms of evolution aren't based on science / March 15, 2005 / Michael J. Everhart / Wichita Eagle (Kansas)
• Fight to recall the wonder / March 11, 2005 / Simon Conway Morris / Church Times — it is telling that the apparent disagreements between science and religion are so often treated with a bluntness that in any normal discourse would be dismissed as juvenile
• A Naturalist’s Paradise / March 2005 / Jocelyn Selim / Discover, v.26, n.3 — in a wonderland called Madagascar, a modern-day Darwin discovers hundreds of new species
• Drilling San Andreas / March 2005 / Brad Lemley / Discover, v.26, n.3 — a two-mile-deep tunnel boring into America’s most infamous fault may help explain why earthquakes happen and when
• UN fudges decision on human embryo cloning ban / 26 February 2005 / New Scientist, n.2488, p.5
• Earth's gamma rays more powerful than realised / 26 February 2005 / New Scientist, n.2488, p.20
• Neutrinos to spy on planet's core / 26 February 2005 / New Scientist, n.2488, p.21
• Room for seven on trip to the heavens / 26 February 2005 / New Scientist, n.2488, p.26
• Astronomers claim first 'dark galaxy' find / 26 February 2005 / Stuart Clark / New Scientist, n.2488 — It contains enough matter to give birth to tens of millions of stars, so why are all the lights staying off?
• Mars: Not dead but very much alive / 26 February 2005 / Jenny Hogan and Kelly Young / New Scientist, n.2488 — a frozen sea, glaciers on its tallest volcano and young lava fields all suggest the planet is geologically active
• "Catastrophic meltwater discharge down the Hudson Valley: A potential trigger for the Intra-Allerψd cold period" / February 2005 / Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Neal W. Driscoll, Elazar Uchupi, Lloyd D. Keigwin, William C. Schwab, E. Robert Thieler, and Stephen A. Swift / Geology, v.33, n.2, p.89-92
• "New model of reef-island evolution: Maldives, Indian Ocean" / February 2005 / P. S. Kench, R. F. McLean, and S. L. Nichol / Geology, v.33, n.2, p.145-148
• The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits / January 2005 / Gordon M. Burghardt / MIT Press — see also Amazon
• Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos / December 2004 / Michio Kaku / Doubleday — see also Amazon
• Readers respond: Story on intelligent design study highlights debate on creationism and evolution / September 22, 2004 / Alan J. Robinson, David L. Bump, and David P. Vernon / The Scientist
• 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

MARCH 15

• Are you a man or a mouse? / March 15, 2005 / Jeremy Rifkin / The Guardian (UK) — Chimeric experimentation is producing animal-human hybrids. This time, science really has gone too far.
• Intelligent design vs. evolution in the public schools / March 14, 2005 / religionlink.org — definitions and resources
• Unintelligent Designs and the Responsibility of Educators / March 14, 2005 / Robert Holub (Dean of the Undergraduate Division) / University of California, Berkeley
• Youth drinking may hasten heart trouble / 10 March 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — even a little alcohol triggers early signs of disease
• Hans Bethe / 8 March 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — nuclear physicist dies at 98
• The earth moves most for humans / 7 March 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — agriculture and excavations shape the landscape more than rivers and glaciers
• Ultra-long period seismic moment of the great December 26, 2004 Sumatra earthquake and implications for the slip process / March 5, 2005 / Seth Stein and Emile Okal / Dept. of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
• An Earth-Shaking Experience / January 30, 2005 / Joel Achenbach / Washington Post, p.W13 — the shocking truth about scientists
• Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time / November 2004 / Stephen Baxter / Forge Books — see also Amazon
• Our Improbable Universe: A Physicist Considers How We Got Here / August 2004 / Michael Mallary / Thunder's Mouth Press — see also Amazon
• The World's 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems / July 2004 / John R. Vacca / Prentice Hall — see also Amazon
• The Ontology of Time (Studies in Analytic Philosophy) / July 2004 / L. Nathan Oaklander / Prometheus Books — see also Amazon
• Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science / April 2004 / A. K. Dewdney / Wiley — see also Amazon
• Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother / March 2004 / James A. Connor / Harper, San Francisco — see also Amazon

MARCH 14

• A Family Tree in Every Gene / March 14, 2005 / Armand Marie Leroi / New York Times
• Furor breathes new life into aging ‘Pandas’ / March 13, 2005 / Lauri Lebo / York Daily Record (Pennsylvania) — book used in Dover a dated look at intelligent design concept
• Teach the controversy / March 11, 2005 / Stephen C. Meyer and John Angus Campbell / Baltimore Sun
• Hominid Fever / 11 March 2005 / Peter Line / Answers in Genesis — yet another alleged early human ancestor unearthed
• UC physicist honored for bridging science, religion / March 10, 2005 / Keay Davidson / San Francisco Chronicle — Templeton Prize given to man who paved way for laser
  • A life where science and faith coexist / March 10, 2005 / Robert Tuttle / Christian Science Monitor — regarding Charles Towns winning Templeton Prize; see also USA Today
  • Charles Townes Wins 2005 Templeton Prize / March 9, 2005 / Templeton Prize, Canyon Institute for Advanced Studies (Phoenix, AZ)
  • UC Berkeley Nobelist Charles Townes to receive $1.5 million Templeton Prize for linking religion and science / 9 March 2005 / Robert Sanders / Media Relations, University of California, Berkeley
  • Charles Townes wins 2005 Templeton Prize / March 9, 2005 / PhysOrg (latest physics and technology news)
  • Articles and books by Charles Townes / March 9, 2005 / Greenville News (South Carolina)
  • 'Convergence of Science and Religion' / March-April 1966 / Charles Townes / Think (by IBM)
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / February 2005 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• The Raging Sea: The Powerful Account of the Worst Tsunami in U.S. History / February 2005 / Dennis M. Powers / Citadel Press — see also Amazon

MARCH 11

• The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City / July 2005 / Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello, and Donatella de Rita / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Life in Ancient Ice / May 2005 / John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers (editors) / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Echo of the Big Bang / May 2005 / Michael D. Lemonick / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance / May 2005 / David Park / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• "Skeleton of Upright Human Ancestor Discovered in Ethiopia" requires registration / 11 March 2005 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.307, n.5715, p.1545
• "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Patents on Human Genes: An Analysis of Scope and Claims" requires registration / 11 March 2005 / Jordan Paradise, Lori Andrews, and Timothy Holbrook / Science, v.307, n.5715, p.1566-1567
• NYU's Dvali Says Change in Laws of Gravity, Not 'Dark Energy,' Source of Cosmic Acceleration / March 10, 2005 / New York University / Science Daily
• Teens & creation/evolution: Most see God's handiwork / March 9, 2005 / Michael Foust / Baptist Press News (Southern Baptist Convention)
• Laser co-inventor wins $1.5 million prize / March 9, 2005 / Richard N. Ostling / Kansas City Star (Associated Press) — Charles Townes, co-inventor of the laser and a Nobel Prize-winner in physics, was named as the recipient of a religion award billed as the world's richest annual prize
• The Fossil Fallacy / March 2005 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American — creationists' demand for fossils that represent "missing links" reveals a deep misunderstanding of science
• Misconceptions about the Big Bang / March 2005 / Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis / Scientific American — Baffled by the expansion of the universe? You're not alone. Even astronomers frequently get it wrong.
• Chernobyl: Catastrophe, Consequences and Solutions / March 2005 / Jim Smith / Springer Praxis — see also Amazon
• Sneaking a Look at God's Cards: Unraveling the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics / February 2005 / Giancarlo Ghirardi / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite / November 2004 / Rudy Rucker / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and Consequences / November 2004 / Joseph P. Stoltman, John Lidstone, and Lisa M. DeChano (editors) / Springer — see also Amazon
• Explaining the Universe: The New Age of Physics / March 2004 / John M. Charap / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science / February 2000 / Charles Coulston Gillispie / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas / 1966 / Charles Coulston Gillispie / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon

MARCH 10

• Remembering Francis Crick / March 24, 2005 / Oliver Sacks / New York Review of Books, v.52, n.5
• Charles Townes Wins 2005 Templeton Prize / March 9, 2005 / contact: Donald Lehr / Metanexus Institute — Nobel laureate who invented the laser and advocates the convergence of science and religion won the $1.5 million Templeton Prize
• Mystery Undersea Extinction Cycle Discovered / March 9, 2005 / John Roach / National Geographic News
• Retrovirus Struck Ancestors of Chimps and Gorillas Millions of Years Ago, But Not Ancestral Humans / March 9, 2005 / University of Washington / Science Daily
• The Metaphysics of Evolution / March 9, 2005 / Fred Reed / LewRockwell.com
• What the Stations Say / John L. Daly / NASA Goddard Institute (GISS) and Climatic Research Unit (CRU) — historical temperature graphs from a large selection of mostly non-urban weather stations in both hemispheres
  • "Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos" / 2004 / J. Hansen and L. Nazarenko / Proceedings National Academy of Science, v.101, p.423-428
  • As Pure as Snow / December 2003 / James E. Hansen / NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies — the typical snowflake contains thousands of fine particles, including soil dust, various chemicals, and "soot"
• Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA / September 2004 / William Dembski and Michael Ruse (editors) / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
  • review: March 4, 2005 / Dan D. Crawford (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) / Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
• What Genes Can't Do / August 2002 / Lenny Moss / MIT Press — basic bioethics; see also Amazon
  • review: August 11, 2003 / Jonathan Michael Kaplan (Oregon State University) / Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

MARCH 9

• "Cycles in fossil diversity" requires registration / 10 March 2005 / Robert A. Rohde and Richard A. Muller / Nature, v.434, p.208-210
• "An upper limit to the masses of stars" requires registration / 10 March 2005 / Donald F. Figer / Nature, v.434, p.192-194
• There are valid criticisms of evolution / March 9, 2005 / David Berlinksi / Wichita Eagle
  • original full article: All Those Darwinian Doubts / March 9, 2005 / David Berlinksi / Discovery Institute
• Bay Area Christian College to Host ''Origin of Life'' Seminar / March 8, 2005 / Kenneth Chan / The Christian Post — the senior research specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute will speak from the perspective of Intelligent Design
• Oldest fossil human protein ever sequenced / 8 March 2005 / contact: Neil Schoenherr (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) / EurekAlert!
• Why science and religion should be like oil and water / March 5, 2005 / Gil Smart / Lancaster Newspapers (Pennsylvania)
• Remember Then, Now / March 3, 2005 / Christine Rosen / National Review Online — what the eugenics movement can teach us about today’s stem-cell debates
• How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate? / March 2005 / William F. Ruddiman / Scientific American

MARCH 8

• Evolution hearings advance in Kansas requires registration / March 8, 2005 / David Klepper / Kansas City Star
• Local View: Evolving sequel to Bryan's last campaign / March 7, 2005 / Charles F. Austerberry / Lincoln Journal Star
  • Nebraska Religious Coalition for Science Education / Chuck Austerberry / Creighton University, Omaha, NE
• LETTER: Evidence isn't inconsistent with a creator of life / March 5, 2005 / Paul L. Canner / Baltimore Sun
• Searching Large Spaces: Displacement and the No Free Lunch Regress (pdf) / 4 March 2005 / William A. Dembski / Conceptual Foundations of Science, Baylor University
• Time Bandits / February 28, 2005 / Jim Holt / New Yorker — What were Einstein and Gφdel talking about?
• Tests of faith / February 24, 2005 / Ian Sample / The Guardian (UK) — Religion may be a survival mechanism. So are we born to believe?
• Fossil Fuel / 2005 / Ben & Jerry's — sweet cream ice cream with chocolate cookie pieces, fudge dinosaurs, and a fudge swirl
• Piltdown Man: Britain's Greatest Hoax / 14 November 2003 / Kate Bartlett / BBC — Piltdown Man fooled the scientific community for some forty years before the hoax was finally discovered
  • Fossil fools: Return to Piltdown / 13 November 2003 / Paul Rincon / BBC — see also: The Unmasking of Piltdown Man
  • Piltdown: The Man that Never Was / 1996 / Lee Krystek / Museum of Unnatural Mystery

MARCH 7

• Scientists unearth early skeleton / 7 March 2005 / BBC News — US and Ethiopian scientists say they have discovered the fossilised remains of one of the earliest human ancestors
• US scientists battle over challenge to Darwinism / March 6, 2005 / ABC News
• Critics silenced by scans of hobbit skull / 3 March 2005 / Rex Dalton / Nature (news@nature) — comparisons with pygmies and chimps bolster new species claim
• 'Detectives' differ sharply in 'intelligent design' debate / March 2, 2005 / Daniel Burke / Lancaster New Era (Pennsylvania)
• The Search for “God” Ends March 14 / February 24, 2005 / PRWeb (Press Release Newswire) — new book integrates science and religion once and for all
  • Absolute Intelligence / March 2005 / Ilexa Yardley / Opposite Approach Publications — see also Amazon

MARCH 4

• "PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: "Hobbit" Bones Go Home to Jakarta" requires registration / 4 March 2005 / Michael Balter / Science, v.307, n.5714, p.1386
  • "PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Small but Smart? Flores Hominid Shows Signs of Advanced Brain" requires registration / 4 March 2005 / Michael Balter / Science, v.307, n.5714, p.1386-1389
  • No microcephaly for Hobbit / March 4, 2005 / Tabitha M. Powledge / The Scientist — endocast studies suggest that overall brain shape of Homo floresiensis resembles Homo erectus
  • Hopping mad over 'hobbit' / March 4, 2005 / David Perlman / San Francisco Chronicle — scientists fight over fossil skull and bones of humanlike creature
  • Extinct and With Tiny Brain, but a Clever Little Relative? / March 4, 2005 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Fraud accusations hit prize / March 4, 2005 / Ned Stafford / The Scientist — winner of prestigious German scientific award under scrutiny after anonymous allegation
• Sticker Shock: In the beginning was the cautionary advisory / February 2005 / Steve Mirsky / Scientific American — brushfires are raging all across America over the teaching of evolution
• "The evolutionary origin of complex features" (pdf) / 8 May 2003 / Richard E. Lenski, Charles Ofria, Robert T. Pennock, and Christoph Adami / Nature, v.423, p.139-144 — supplementary information

MARCH 3

• A Talk with Richard Dawkins / March 20, 2005 / United Universists
• Evidence for organelle origin / March 3, 2005 / Charles Q. Choi / The Scientist — genetic clues point to 'missing links' between hydrogenosomes and mitochondria
• Hobbit was 'not a diseased human' / 3 March 2005 / Paul Rincon / BBC News — the famous skeleton from Indonesia nicknamed the "Hobbit" does not belong to a modern human pygmy with a brain disease
• CSI to Go Digging for Dinosaurs / March 2005 / Creation Studies Institute / Impact (Coral Ridge Ministries)

MARCH 2

• "A modest proposal..." requires registration / 3 March 2005 / Vonda N. McIntyre / Nature, v.434, p.122 — ...for the perfection of nature
• "A powerful bursting radio source towards the Galactic Centre" requires registration / 3 March 2005 / Scott D. Hyman, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Namir E. Kassim, Paul S. Ray, Craig B. Markwardt, and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh / Nature, v.434, p.50-52
• Surprise discovery of highly developed structure in the young universe / 2 March 2005 / R. West (European Southern Observatory) / EurekAlert!
• Is the Smithsonian promoting religion? / March 2, 2005 / Terence Jeffrey / townhall.com
• Old Bones and Stones Never Lie … / March 2, 2005 / Denyse O'Leary / Christianity.ca — ... but what about some of the people who dig them? Recent major frauds in archaeology stem from an apparent need to make our race appear older than it is.
• Vital organs gave snakes their venom / 1 March 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — specific toxins evolved from tweaks to key proteins
• Creationism, pluralism and the compromising of science / 1 March 2005 / Joe Kaplinsky / spiked — the trouble with 'teaching the controversy'
• EPIGENETICS: It's not all in the DNA / March 2005 / Tanita Casci / Nature Reviews Genetics, v.6, n.3, p.165 — genetic parallels between organisms are often described by the similarity of their genome sequences, but this view might not be the full story
• Atheism worldwide in decline / February 28, 2005 / Uwe Siemon-Netto / Insight (United Press International)
• The mystery of disappearing gravity / 19 February 2005 / Bruce Schechter / New Scientist, n.2487
• Can 'feather foot' knock oldest bird off its perch? / 19 February 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology / Noveber 2004 / W. C. McGrew / Cambridge University Press — see also Amazon
• "The Tenets of Creationism" / July 1980 / Henry M. Morris / Impact, n.85 (Institute for Creation Research)

MARCH 1

• Surprising Footprints in Old Sand / March 1, 2005 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times — "The finding suggests that animals adapted to a new life on land more quickly, at least on evolutionary time scales, than was thought."
• Flores hominid bones returned / February 28, 2005 / Tabitha M. Powledge / The Scientist — handover is unlikely to resolve scientific and ethical issues over Homo floriensis
• Formaldehyde claim inflames martian debate / 25 February 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — top scientist defends data that he says point strongly to life on Mars
• Martian pole reveals ice age cycles / 24 February 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — climate record seen in Red Planet's exposed ice cliffs
• Astronomers spot invisible galaxy / 23 February 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — discovery supports most recent theories about exotic dark matter
• Bacteria thrive at stunning depths / 23 February 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — genetic molecule reveals that cells in ancient ocean sediments are alive
• Quark soup may cause cosmic flashes / 23 February 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — gamma-ray bursts could be the signature of ultradense stars
• Mars may have a frozen sea / 22 February 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — images of Elysium plains seem to show ice floes
• To know science is to love it / 22 February 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) — bolstering support for the field remains a thorny problem
• Titanic complexity pleases planet scientists / 21 February 2005 / Jo Marchant / Nature (news@nature) — Cassini beams back data on ammoniac lava and 'cat scratch' formations
• Seminary site to explore cosmic designer concept / February 20, 2005 / Peter Smith / Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) — scholar contends Darwin was wrong
  • letters: February 27, 2005 — an affront to the truth ... scientifically illiterate ... faith-based theory ... schism instead of faith
• Religious right fights science for the heart of America / February 7, 2005 / Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian (UK) — creationists take their challenge to evolution theory into the classroom
• Sea Sediments as Telescopes / November 2004 / Brian Fields / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — radioactive evidence for a near-Earth supernova explosion
• A Natural Nuclear Reactor in Gabon / October 27, 2004 / Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein / Physics News, n.706 (American Institute of Physics)

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