Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (June 2005)

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JUNE 29

• "Evidence for possible precursor events of megathrust earthquakes on the west coast of North America" / July 2005 / Andrea D. Hawkes, David B. Scott, Jere H. Lipps, and Rod Combellick / Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.117, n.7, p.996-1008
• Killer asteroid: Too close for comfort / 25 June 2005 / David Chandler / New Scientist, n.2505 — we are heading for the closest-ever near miss by a speeding asteroid and when it comes around again we might not be so lucky
• Fossil mammal had a sting in the tooth / 25 June 2005 / Kurt Kleiner / New Scientist, n.2505 — grooves in the fangs of a fossilized mammal suggest that it injected venom to paralyze its prey
• "First evidence of a venom delivery apparatus in extinct mammals" / 23 June 2005 / Richard C. Fox and Craig S. Scott / Nature, v.435, p.1091-1093
• Junk DNA keeps a vole devoted / 18 June 2005 / New Scientist, n.2504, p.21
• No paradox for time travellers / 18 June 2005 / Mark Buchanan / New Scientist, n.2504, p.15
• Discovering the true nature of reality / 18 June 2005 / Mark Buchanan / New Scientist, n.2504 — if Einstein was right, we must sacrifice either free will or reality itself; but there may be an even more extraordinary way out
• "A Better Atmosphere for Life" / 17 June 2005 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.308, n.5729, p.1732
• MACROEVOLUTION: "Seeds of Diversity" / 17 June 2005 / Douglas H. Erwin / Science, v.308, n.5729, p.1752-1753
• Scientists confess their experimental sins / 11 June 2005 / New Scientist, n.2503, p.4
• Smithsonian commits creationism gaffe / 11 June 2005 / New Scientist, n.2503, p.4
• "Smithsonian Gives Grudging OK to Film Backing ID Argument" / 10 June 2005 / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / Science, v.308, n.5728, p.1526
• "Observations by the International Tsunami Survey Team in Sri Lanka" / 10 June 2005 / Philip L.-F. Liu, Patrick Lynett, Harindra Fernando, Bruce E. Jaffe, Hermann Fritz, Bretwood Higman, Robert Morton, James Goff, and Costas Synolakis / Science, v.308, n.5728, p.1595
• "Scientists behaving badly" / 9 June 2005 / Brian C. Martinson, Melissa S. Anderson, and Raymond de Vries / Nature, v.435, n.7043, p.737 — to protect the integrity of science, we must look beyond falsification, fabrication and plagiarism, to a wider range of questionable research practices
  • "One in three scientists confesses to having sinned" / 9 June 2005 / Meredith Wadman / Nature, v.435, n.7043, p.718 — misconduct ranges from faking results outright to dropping suspect data points
  • Own up — editor's summary
• Wormhole travel -- a risky proposition / 4 June 2005 / New Scientist, n.2502 — if you want to time-travel through wormholes, be prepared to choose between not knowing where you will arrive or not arriving at all
• Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision / 2004 / David Lebrun / First Run-Icarus Films
  • review: "Nature's Beauty and Haeckel's Talents" / 17 June 2005 / Manfred Laubichler / Science, v.308, n.5729, p.1746

JUNE 28

• The “Nature” of Belief: Evolutionary Explanation, Biological Function, and Divine Purpose (Seminars in Christian Scholarship) / November 3-5, 2005 / hosts: Alvin Plantinga and Jeffrey P. Schloss / Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
• Creation: Once Upon All Time / June-September 2005 / Crystal Cathedral (Garden Grove, California) — spectacular live stage production integrating spirituality and science, while taking the audience to the beginning of time
• The Woodstock of Evolution / June 27, 2005 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American — The World Summit on Evolution, held in the Galapagos Islands, revealed a science rich in history and tradition, data and theory, as well as controversy and debate
• Textbook Explanation of mRNA Translation May Need Rethinking / June 27, 2005 / BioMed Central / Science Daily
• Boffins create zombie dogs / June 27, 2005 / Nick Buchan / NEWS.com (Australia) — scientists have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans
• "New Geochemical Benchmark Changes Everything on Earth" / 17 June 2005 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.308, n.5729, p.1723-1724
• Creationist Film at the Smithsonian: Scientists Must Speak Up for Science / 13 June 2005 / contact: Harvey Leifert / American Geophysical Union
• "Geomagnetic dipole strength and reversal rate over the past two million years" / 9 June 2005 / Jean-Pierre Valet, Laure Meynadier, and Yohan Guyodo / Nature, v.435, p.802-805
• "Gender-Specific Reproductive Tissue in Ratites and Tyrannosaurus rex" / 3 June 2005 / Mary H. Schweitzer, Jennifer L. Wittmeyer, and John R. Horner / Science, v.308, n.5727, p.1456-1460
• EVOLUTION POLITICS: "Is Holland Becoming the Kansas of Europe?" / 3 June 2005 / Martin Enserink / Science, v.308, n.5727, p.1394
• "Discovery of a short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of Patagonia" / 2 June 2005 / Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Kristian Remes, Regina Fechner, Gerardo Cladera, and Pablo Puerta / Nature, v.435, p.670-672 — editor's summary
• "Evidence for pervasive petroleum generation and migration in 3.2 and 2.63 Ga shales" / June 2005 / Birger Rasmussen / Geology, v.33, n.6, p.497-500
  • There's Life in That Oil! / 9 June 2005 / Betsy Mason / Science Now
• "Sr isotope disequilibrium in Columbia River flood basalts: Evidence for rapid shallow-level open-system processes" / June 2005 / Frank C. Ramos, John A. Wolff, and Darren L. Tollstrup / Geology, v.33, n.6, p.457-460
• If an Electron Can Be in Two Places at Once, Why Can’t You? / June 2005 / Tim Folger / Discover, v.26, n.6 — Electrons do it. Photons do it. Physics legend Roger Penrose thinks he finally knows why you and I can’t do it too.
• "Direct Radiometric Dating of Hydrocarbon Deposits Using Rhenium-Osmium Isotopes" / 27 May 2005 / David Selby and Robert A. Creaser / Science, v.308, n.5726, p.1293-1295
  • GEOCHEMISTRY: "When Do Rocks Become Oil?" / 27 May 2005 / Bruce F. Schaefer / Science, v.308, n.5726, p.1267-1268
• The Ethical Brain / April 2005 / Michael S. Gazzaniga / Dana Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Brain-Based Values / July-August 2005 / Patricia S. Churchland / American Scientist
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Genetics / March 2005 / Adrian Woolfson / Overlook Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Of Genes and Genomes / June 13, 2005 / Christine Rosen / Weekly Standard, v.10, n.37 — Where is the science of life taking us?
• "Humans as geologic agents: A deep-time perspective" / March 2005 / Bruce H. Wilkinson / Geology, v.33, n.3, p.161-164 — human activity (agricultural and construction) now erodes rock, soil, and sediment at about 15 times the rate of natural processes
• Teleological Argument for God's Existence / 2005 / Del Ratzsch / Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Biblical Geology / Tas Walker / Australia
• Points of Origins Ministries / G. C. Jackson / Staunton, Virginia
• "Transitional Vertebrate Fossils" / Richard Milton / Alternative Science — "a genuinely objective observer says there is not a single transition known"
• Can a Smart Person Believe in God? / September 2004 / Michael Guillen / Nelson Books — see also Amazon
  • review: Christian Book Previews
• Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality / August 2004 / John Polkinghorne / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
  • review: Theology for Physicists / May 2005 / Stephen M. Barr / First Things, n.153, p.39-42

JUNE 27

• A Debate That Does Not End / July 4, 2005 / George F. Will / Newsweek — the Scopes Trial, the most widely publicized misdemeanor case in American history, went to trial 80 years ago this month in Dayton, Tenn
• False science / June 26, 2005 / Boston Globe
• Hummingbirds get in a unique flap / 22 June 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — aerodynamics are midway between insects and other birds
• Opting Out in the Debate on Evolution / June 21, 2005 / Cornelia Dean / New York Times
• Pa. Bill May Put Intelligent Design in Schools / June 21, 2005 / Fox News
• God is in the Details / June 15, 2005 / William Tucker / American Enterprise — “The Privileged Planet,” the movie that supports Intelligent Design, showing at the Smithsonian
• Group Creates Pro-Evolution Site / June 10, 2005 / Amit Asaravala / Wired — seeking to quell a growing movement to teach creationism in U.S. schools, the National Academies has unveiled a new section of its website dedicated to teachers' resources on evolution
  • Evolution Resources From the National Academies
• Are We A Privileged Planet? / June 9, 2005 / William Tucker / American Enterprise — for a few moments there, “Intelligent Design” seemed to be making headway
• LETTERS: Intelligent Decision on 'The Privileged Planet'? / June 8, 2005 / Jonathan Witt, Edd Doerr, Duncan M. Porter, and Daniel Archer / Washington Post, p.A20
• The Dragons of Liaoning / June 2005 / Mark Norell / Discover, v.26, n.6 — a trove of feathered dinosaurs and other astounding fossil finds in northern China shakes the roots of paleontology
• Style over function for stegosaur spikes / May 27, 2005 / Laura Stafford / Geotimes
• Meteor Crater’s slow impact / May 2005 / Megan Sever / Geotimes
• Darwin-only challenger claims libel / April 23, 2005 / WorldNetDaily.com — parent says 'evolution spokeswoman' trying to discredit effort

JUNE 21

    Origins, n.58 / 2005

• EDITORIAL: How to Write an Unpublishable Paper • Timothy G. Standish • p.3-6 | pdf |
• A Note on the Pre-Flood/Flood Boundary in the Grand Canyon • Kurt P. Wise and Andrew A. Snelling • p.7-29 | pdf |
• ANNOTATIONS FROM THE LITERATURE: • p.30-36 | pdf | — genetics, geology, origin of life, paleontology, radiocarbon dating, radiohaloes
• LITERATURE REVIEW: Can Science Refute Design • Cornelius G. Hunter • p.37-39 | pdf |
• LITERATURE REVIEW: Philosophical Weeding • Ashby L. Camp • p.39-41 | pdf |
• LITERATURE REVIEW: Spreading Out the Heavens • Robert H. Brown • p.42-44 | pdf |
• The Rainbow Is All in Your Head • Leonard Brand and Ernest Schwab • p.45-56 | pdf |

JUNE 20

• The Living Cell / July-August 2005 / Felice Frankel / American Scientist, v.93, n.4, p.354 — Textbooks, magazines and journal articles had been failing to tell the whole truth in their depictions of cellular structure; more important, they were sending out wrong visual messages in the form of edited-down diagrams that failed to communicate the cell's complexity.
• Mechanism behind intelligent design uncovered? / June 18, 2005 / Kelly Hollowell / World Net Daily
• Neutrino ripples spotted in space / 17 June 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — universal lumpiness is imprinted in mysterious particles
• Science retracts highly cited paper / June 17, 2005 / Graciela Flores / The Scientist — study on the causes of childhood illness retracted after author found guilty of falsifying data
• Nobel Prize winner Charles Townes on evolution, intelligent design, and the meaning of life / 17 June 2005 / Bonnie Azab Powell / UC Berkeley News — 'Explore as much as we can'
• Evolution debate gets personal in Kansas / June 15, 2005 / MSNBC (Associated Press) — school board members hurl insults at each other
  • Evolution debate in Kan. prompts attacks / June 15, 2005 / John Hanna / Associated Press
• Rocky planet found outside Solar System / 13 June 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — extrasolar discovery is like Earth's 'bigger cousin'
• Earth's “Bigger Cousin” Detected / 13 June 2005 / Michael Schirber / CNN (space.com)
• Not So Intelligently Designed Ph.D. Panel / June 10, 2005 / Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed News — Ohio State University called off a dissertation defense scheduled for this week amid faculty concerns that it was set up to favor a Ph.D. candidate’s controversial views that question evolution
• Bristol teacher taught creationism / June 10, 2005 / Bob Lowry / Richmond Times-Dispatch (Associated Press) — after officials discover homemade textbook, he's told to end lessons
  • Teacher told to revise creationism lesson plan / June 10, 2005 / MSNBC (Associated Press) — for 15 years Virginia teacher had offered bonus work on creationism
• Scientists study scientists behaving badly / June 8, 2005 / MSNBC (Associated Press) — bad practices pose threat to integrity of profession
• Local scientists, doctors and professors talk about 'intelligent design' / June 8, 2005 / Scott LaFee / Union-Tribune (San Diego)
• Evolution battle to flare up in Utah / June 6, 2005 / Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune — backers of 'divine design' theory want equal time in schools
• Closing the window keeps volcanoes at bay / 6 June 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — studies of Pompeii and Montserrat enlighten emergency plans for Naples
• Dolphin mothers pass tool use to daughters / 6 June 2005 / Andreas von Bubnoff / Nature (news@nature) — Australian dolphins learn to hunt with sponges stuck to their noses
• Journey to the centre of Earth / June 4, 2005 / David Adam / The Guardian (UK) — using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below
• DNA of ancient bears successfully sequenced / 3 June 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• Cave bear DNA laid bare / 2 June 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — sequencing technique could also work for Neanderthals
• Smithsonian Distances Itself From Controversial Film / June 2, 2005 / Tommy Nguyen / Washington Post, p.C01 — controversy over the decision to allow a documentary based on "intelligent design" to be played at one of its theaters ended in compromise
• Earth microbes may survive on Mars / 2 June 2005 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist
• Martian methane could come from rocks / 2 June 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — olivine is enough to explain 'whiff of life'
• Girlish frame reveals sex of tyrannosaur / 2 June 2005 / Michael Hopkin / Nature (news@nature) — similarity between birds and dinosaurs provides a clue to a skeleton's gender
• Bird bones offer insights to dinosaur sexing / 2 June 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• We Are Living in a Material World... / June 1, 2005 / Robert McHenry / Tech Central Station
• Fertilizer from the stars / 31 May 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — Could a gamma-ray burst have provided nutrients for early plants?
• Galactic neighbour gets supersized / 31 May 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — Andromeda galaxy is three times larger than was thought
• Scientists Trace Corn Ancestry from Ancient Grass to Modern Crop / May 27, 2005 / National Science Foundation — indigenous farmers bred the plant for hardiness and better food quality
• Why the giant waves were acts of a benevolent God / 15 January 2005 / Paul Johnson / The Spectator

JUNE 1

• Fossil hunters tell a short story / 1 June 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) — dinosaur with a stubby neck bucks the Diplodocus trend
• Teaching students to be 'competent jurors' on evolution / May 31, 2005 / Doug Cowan / Christian Science Monitor
• Alternate cell-death program identified / May 31, 2005 / Melissa Lee Phillips / The Scientist — researchers find chemical inhibitor of nonapoptotic programmed cell-death process called 'necroptosis'
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / May 2005 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature / May 2005 / Keith Thomson / Yale University Press — see also Amazon
• Clergy Letter Project / March 2005 / Michael Zimmerman (University of Wisconsin) — the misperception that science and religion are inevitably in conflict has created unnecessary division and confusion
• H. G. Wells: Darwin’s disciple and eugenicist extraordinaire / December 2004 / Jerry Bergman / TJ [Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal], v.18, n.3, p.116-120
• "Some Evidence of a Recent Gigantic Flood on the Lower Colorado River at Grand Wash Cliffs and Hualapai Plateau, Arizona" (abstract) / December 2004 / Allen Roy / Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.41, n.3

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