Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (September 2005)

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SEPTEMBER 20

• The Incomplete Gφdel / September-October 2005 / Gregory H. Moore / American Scientist — reviews of
  • Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gφdel / February 2005 / Rebecca Goldstein / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
  • A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein / December 2004 / Palle Yourgrau / Basic Books — see also Amazon
• Challenged by Creationists, Museums Answer Back / September 20, 2005 / Cornelia Dean / New York Times
• Darwin stars in a historical thriller / September 20, 2005 / Marjorie Kehe / Christian Science Monitor — a graduate student seeks to uncover a dark secret about the origin of Darwin's theories
• Intelligent Design / September 19, 2005 / Paul Rudnick / New Yorker
• 'Better' DNA out of fossil bones / 19 September 2005 / Alison Ross / BBC News — improved technologies for extracting genetic material from fossils may help us find out more about our ancient ancestors
• Intelligent Design or Mindless Evolution / September 16, 2005 / Bishop Donald Wuerl / Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
• Intelligent Design Case Goes to Trial / September 16, 2005 / guest: Nicholas Matske / NPR — the case of Kitzmiller et al v. Dover Area School Board pits "intelligent design" proponents against those who want to keep the idea out of science classes
• Nobel Prize Winners Speak Up to Support Evolution / 16 September 2005 / Live Science (Associated Press)
  • TO: Kansas State Board of Education (pdf) / September 9, 2005 / Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity — Nobel laureates initiative
• "Ornithologists stunned by bird collector’s deceit" (pdf) / 15 September 2005 / Rex Dalton / Nature, v.437, p.302 — catalogue of fraud has taken years to uncover
• Storms get fewer but fiercer / 15 September 2005 / Quirin Schiermeier / Nature (news@nature) — satellite images agree with study of hurricane costs
• "Recognizing predator-prey interactions in the fossil record" / September 2005 / Elizabeth M. Harper / Geology Today, v.21, n.5, p.191
•  "The Battle Over Evolution: How Geoscientists Can Help" (pdf) / September 2005 / Glenn Branch / The Sedimentary Record, v.3, n.3, p.4-8
• Darwin: The Indelible Stamp / August 2005 / James D. Watson (editor) / Running Press — four of Darwin's books with commentary; see also Amazon
  • excerpt: Why Darwin's still a scientific hotshot / September 18, 2005 / James D. Watson / Los Angeles Times
• "Who Believes What? Clearing up Confusion over Intelligent Design and Young-Earth Creationism" (pdf) / May 2005 / Marcus R. Ross / Journal of Geoscience Education, v.53, n.3, p.319-323

SEPTEMBER 16

• The world's 10 biggest ideas / 17 September 2005 / New Scientist, n.2517, p.31
  • The big bang / Martin Rees — the question of the universe's origins has fascinated us for millennia, and ours is the first generation of humans to have an answer
  • Evolution / Richard Dawkins — the path to complex life is one of the greatest human insights in history
  • Quantum mechanics / David Deutsch — it's not just about atoms; it's about free will and human identity
  • The theory of everything / Lisa Randall — How does the universe work? Finding out is the ultimate challenge.
  • Risk / John Adams— we mustn't miss the rewarding experiences that are waiting to be gained
  • Chaos / James Yorke — we had no idea the world could be so packed with possibilities
  • Relativity / Giovanni Amelino-Camelia — if you want to make sense of the world, don't trust your intuition
  • Climate change / R. K. Pachauri — It's here. If we don't react then war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind.
  • Tectonics / Richard Fortey — human history has been shaped by the shifting mosaic beneath our feet
  • Science / Simon Blackburn — it's a powerful force for good, but beware: it's not the answer to everything
• "TEACHING EVOLUTION: ID Goes on Trial This Month in Pennsylvania School Case" / 16 September 2005 / Constance Holden / Science, v.309, n.5742, p.1796
• "Parallel Patterns of Evolution in the Genomes and Transcriptomes of Humans and Chimpanzees" / 16 September 2005 / Philipp Khaitovich, Ines Hellmann, Wolfgang Enard, Katja Nowick, Marcus Leinweber, Henriette Franz, Gunter Weiss, Michael Lachmann, and Svante Pδδbo / Science, v.309, n.5742, p.1850-1854
• Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Study Says / September 15, 2005 / John Roach / National Geographic News
• Giant Earthquake Predictions Aided by Historical Data / September 15, 2005 / Stefan Lovgren / National Geographic News
• Amazing fossil puts Scotland's dinosaurs on the map / 14 September 2005 / Diane MacLean / Scotsman
• Intelligent design: Students ponder faith and science / September 14, 2005 / Lisa Livermore / Des Moines Register — the controversial idea of intelligent design has become a hot topic on the Iowa State University campus
• Bug commits suicide to save its buddies / 10 September 2005 / New Scientist, n.2516, p.19
• Reports tallies the true fallout from Chernobyl / 10 September 2005 / Rob Edwards / New Scientist, n.2516 — twenty years on, and UN scientists are at last beginning to understand the aftermath of the world's worst-ever nuclear accident
• Siberian blast led to mass extinction / 10 September 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist, n.2516 — huge volcanic eruptions that covered much of Siberia with lava were probably responsible for the worst mass extinction in the last half-billion years
• Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle / April 2005 / James Lawrence Powell / Pi Press — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 15

• Event: "Design by Evolution or Evolution by Design?" / September 15, 2005 / Paul Nelson and Michael Ruse / University of Miami
• Patterns and Rates of Species Evolution / retrieved: September 15, 2005 / Michael J. Benton / Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) — in Biological Systematics ... developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford
• "Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors" / 15 September 2005 / Marcel Margulies, et al. / Nature, v.437, p.376-380
  • Speed sequencing / Editor's Summary
  • "Genomics: Massively parallel sequencing" / 15 September 2005 / Yu-Hui Rogers and J. Craig Venter / Nature, v.437, p.326 — A sequencing system has been developed that can read 25 million bases of genetic code the entire genome of some fungi within four hours. The technique may provide an alternative approach to DNA sequencing.
• "Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake" / 15 September 2005 / Marco Cisternas, et al. / Nature, v.437, p.404-407
  • Earthquake succession / Editor's Summary
  • "Earthquakes: Giant returns in time" / 15 September 2005 / Sergio Barrientos / Nature, v.437, p.329 — The behaviour of a seismic fault in Chile seemed to confound predictions of how often giant earthquakes should recur. Examination of a 2,000-year record of tsunami deposits in the region clarifies matters.
• "Discovery of a bright quasar without a massive host galaxy" / 15 September 2005 / Pierre Magain, Gιraldine Letawe, Frιdιric Courbin, Pascale Jablonka, Knud Jahnke, Georges Meylan, and Lutz Wisotzki / Nature, v.437, p.381-384 — Editor's Summary
  • Orphaned quasar seeks galaxy to call home / 14 September 2005 / Kelly Young / New Scientist
• Secrets of the Whale Riders: Crablike 'Whale Lice' Show How Endangered Cetaceans Evolved / September 14, 2005 / University of Utah / Science Daily
• Why Do We Invoke Darwin? / September 10, 2005 / Philip S. Skell / Discovery Institute
• Comics: Non Sequitur / September 13, 2005 / Yahoo! News — the evolution of intelligent design
• Faith does breed charity / September 12, 2005 / Roy Hattersley / Guardian (UK) — we atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings
• Speculation About Design Falls Short of Science / September 12, 2005 / McAllister Hull / Albuquerque Journal
• Clash in Cambridge / September 12, 2005 / John Horgan / Scientific American — science and religion seem as antagonistic as ever
• Global Dust Spikes, Paleoclimate Indicators, and Collapse of Civilizations All Correlate to Date of Noah's Flood / Christian Geology Ministry
• The Biblical Flood / Genesis Research
• The Modeling of Nature: The Philosophy of Science and the Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis / 1997 / William A. Wallace / Catholic University of America Press — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 13

• For Fossil Hunters, Gobi Is No Desert / September 13, 2005 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Intelligent design old news to Darwin / September 13, 2005 / Tom Hundley / Chicago Tribune — Origin of Species author would shy away from today's debate because he was too shy to face it
• Author says GOP is waging war on scientific inquiry / September 13, 2005 / Tom Paulson / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Blazing gamma-ray burst is most distant ever / 13 September 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New Scientist
• Astronomers Observe the Most Distant Explosion in the Universe / September 13, 2005 / Sarah Graham / Scientific American
• Most distant cosmic blast sighted / 12 September 2005 / BBC News — astronomers have witnessed the most distant cosmic explosion on record: a gamma-ray burst that has come from the edge of the visible Universe
• A design for life / September 12, 2005 / John Sutherland / The Guardian (UK) — discussion with Michael Behe, a leading proponent of intelligent design, the controversial theory that evolution alone cannot explain life's complexity
• Genetic Analysis Suggests Human Brain Is a Work-in-Progress / September 12, 2005 / Sarah Graham / Scientific American
• Cosmic 'cigar' spins at astonishing pace / 9 September 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) — Pluto's neighbour has a very unexpected shape
• Study Suggests Human Brains Still Evolving / 8 September 2005 / Live Science (Associated Press)
• Mystery Bulge in Oregon Still Growing / 6 September 2005 / Live Science (Associated Press) — a bulge covering about 100 square miles indicates the area is growing, suggesting it could be another volcano in the making or a major shift of molten rock under the center of the Cascade Range
• Initial Sequence of Chimp Genome Reported / September 2005 / Brad Harrub / Apologetics Press
• The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex / April 2004 / Harold J. Morowitz / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 12

• Fossils show flying reptiles 'much bigger' / September 9, 2005 / CNN (Reuters) — giant reptiles could have grown to twice the size originally thought with wingspans of at least 18 meters
• 'Virgin conception' first for UK / 9 September 2005 / Jonathan Amos / BBC News — human embryos created using a so-called "virgin conception" technique
• Monkey business / September 9, 2005 / Stephen Pincock / Financial Times — "I’m not convinced by the arguments in favour of intelligent design"
• Suit Claims Anti-Religious Bias in Calif. System / September 7, 2005 / Sean Cavanagh / Education Week, v.25, n.2, p.14-15 — the battle over what schools should teach about life’s origins has shifted to another front: the world of college admissions
• Poll: Public Divided on Evolution / 1 September 2005 / Will Lester / Live Science (Associated Press)
• Christian schools sue UC over bias against religious courses / August 31, 2005 / Michelle Maitre / Oakland Tribune — legal action contends policies violate rights of free speech and religion
• "Ice cores vs the Flood" / August 2004 / Michael J. Oard / TJ (Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal), v.18, n.2, p.58-61
• God Exists: An Engineer Explains Why / September 2003 / Peter Soszek / Publish America — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 9

• "Darwin's Rottweiler" -- Richard Dawkins Speaks His Mind / September 9, 2005 / Albert Mohler
• "HURRICANE KATRINA: Scientists' Fears Come True as Hurricane Floods New Orleans" / 9 September 2005 / John Travis / Science, v.309, n.5741, p.1656-1659
• "Are Human Brains Still Evolving? Brain Genes Show Signs of Selection" / 9 September 2005 / Michael Balter / Science, v.309, n.5741, p.1662-1663
• "Panel Puts Eventual Chornobyl Death Toll in Thousands" / 9 September 2005 / John Bohannon / Science, v.309, n.5741, p.1663
• Chernobyl's Reduced Impact / September 8, 2005 / New York Times
• Genes Show Signs Brain Still Evolving / September 8, 2005 / Lauran Neergaard / Yahoo! News
• Flying reptiles just got bigger / 8 September 2005 / Jonathan Amos / BBC News — scientists are only now starting to recognise the astonishing size reached by pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs
• Christian reluctance to jump on global warming bandwagon attributed to skepticism of evolution / September 8, 2005 / Michael Oard / Answers in Genesis
• How comets may have 'seeded' life on Earth / September 8, 2005 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor — a new look at a comet's core could reveal its role in our planet's early history
• Comets May Not Have Solid Cores, "Impact" Shows / September 8, 2005 / Brian Handwerk / National Geographic News
• Intelligent Design: It's Not Even Wrong / September 8, 2005 / Rush Holt / TPM Cafe — Though I respect and consistently protect the rights of persons of faith and the curricula of religious schools, public school science classes are not the place to teach concepts that cannot be backed up by evidence and tested experimentally.
• Evolution and the suppression of truth / September 8, 2005 / Don Walton / Baptist Press (Southern Baptist Convention)
• Evolution of a 'Theory' / September 7, 2005 / Lloyd Garver/ CBS News — why is there a bunch of people today who actually want to call intelligent design "science"
• Huge Response to Samizdat Article the Darwinists Tried to Suppress / September 7, 2005 / Bruce Chapman / Discovery Institute
• Chimps to People: Apes show contrasts in genetic makeup / September 3, 2005 / Bruce Bower / Science News, v.168, n.10, p.147
• Chimp Genome--and First Fossils--Unveiled / September 1, 2005 / Sarah Graham and Kate Wong / Scientific American
• Suicide Grasshoppers Brainwashed by Parasite Worms / September 1, 2005 / James Owen / National Geographic News
• "No joy for junkies" / April 2005 / Don Batten / TJ (Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal), v.19, n.1, p.3 — bit by bit, the idea of ‘junk’ DNA has been unraveling
• "The Grand Banks landslide-generated tsunami of November 18, 1929: preliminary analysis and numerical modeling" (pdf) / 2005 / I. V. Fine, A. B. Rabinovich, B. D. Bornhold, R. E. Thomson, and E. A. Kulikov / Marine Geology, v.215, p.45-57
• Francis Galton — Victorian polymath: meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin and best-selling author

SEPTEMBER 7

• Deep Impact collision ejected the stuff of life / 7 September 2005 / Maggie McKee / New Scientist
• Chimp genome: Lessons from our closest cousin / 3 September 2005 / Robin Orwant / New Scientist, n.2515 — it looks like the work of a bored chimpanzee on a broken typewriter, but the newly released genome sequence will help reveal what makes us human
• Looking for LUCA -- the mother of all life / 3 September 2005 / Garry Hamilton / New Scientist, n.2515 — she is the ancestor of every living thing on the planet, yet we know so little about her
• "Karoo large igneous province: Brevity, origin, and relation to mass extinction questioned by new ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age data" / September 2005 / Fred Jourdan, Gilbert Fιraud, Hervι Bertrand, Ali Bashira Kampunzu, Gomotsang Tshoso, Michael K. Watkeys, and Bernard Le Gall / Geology, v.33, n.9, p.745-748
• Thousands ... Not Billions / September 2005 / Donald DeYoung / Master Books — see also Amazon
• Creation-Evolution Headlines / August 2005 / David F. Coppedge / Master Plan Productions
• The Naked Emperor: Darwinism Exposed / June 2005 / Antony Latham / Janus Pub Co — see also Amazon
• Refuting Compromise: A Biblical and Scientific Refutation of "Progressive Creationism" (Billions of Years), as Popularized by Astronomer Hugh Ross / April 2004 / Jonathan Sarfati / Master Books — see also Amazon

SEPTEMBER 6

• Experts Find Reduced Effects of Chernobyl / September 6, 2005 / Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times
• Chimp genome sequence very different from man / September 5, 2005 / David A. DeWitt / Answers in Genesis
• Australian cardinal comfortable with Intelligent Design / September 5, 2005 / Catholic World News
• Dinosaurs may have been a fluffy lot / September 4, 2005 / Jonathan Leake / Times Online (UK)
• Science Classes Should Educate, Not Indoctrinate / September 3, 2005 / Rebecca Keller / Albuquerque Journal
• Dark matter highlights extra dimensions / 2 September 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) — three new 'directions' could explain astronomical puzzle
• "Editorial: The Last Great Apes?" / 2 September 2005 / Alison Jolly / Science, v.309, n.5740, p.1457
  • "GENOMICS: Chimp Genome Catalogs Differences With Humans" / 2 September 2005 / Elizabeth Culotta / Science, v.309, n.5740, p.1468-1469
  • "GENOMICS: Thoughts on the Future of Great Ape Research" / 2 September 2005 / Edwin H. McConkey and Ajit Varki / Science, v.309, n.5740, p.1499-1501
• Chimp papers by the barrel / September 1, 2005 / Ishani Ganguli / The Scientist — sequence comparisons give most detailed look to date of chimpanzee-human differences
• Clash in Cambridge / September 2005 / John Horgan / Scientific American — science and religion seem as antagonistic as ever
• The Climax of Humanity / September 2005 / George Musser / Scientific American — Demographically and economically, our era is unique in human history. Depending on how we manage the next few decades, we could usher in environmental sustainability--or collapse.
• Most scientific papers are probably wrong / 30 August 2005 / Kurt Kleiner / New Scientist
  • Most scientific papers are probably wrong / 31 August 2005 / Kurt Kleiner / Free Republic
  • Why Most Published Research Findings Are False / August 30, 2005 / John P. A. Ioannidis / PLoS Med., v.2, n.8
• 'Intelligent design' may enter classrooms / 30 August 2005 / Geoff Hutchison / Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Rules of Attraction: Men, women and Darwin / August 29, 2005 / Julia M. Klein / Los Angeles Times — Can evolutionary psychology take the mystery out of how we meet and mate?
• Come out, come out, wherever you are / August 25, 2005 / Tim Radford / The Guardian (UK) — you never write, you never call ...  on the puzzle of the absent alien: inspiration for art and astronomers and soon to star in a Science Museum exhibition
• The Watch on the Heath: Science and Religion Before Darwin / March 2005 / Keith Thomson / Harper Collins — see also Amazon
  • review: 14 May 2005 / Roy Herbert / New Scientist, n.2499, p.53

SEPTEMBER 1

• In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome's Evolution / September 1, 2005 / Nicholas Wade / New York Times
• WEB FOCUS: "The Chimpanzee Genome" / 1 September 2005 / Chris Gunter and Ritu Dhand / Nature, v.437, p.47
  • Editor's Summary
• "Molecular insights into human brain evolution" / 1 September 2005 / Robert Sean Hill and Christopher A. Walsh / Nature, v.437, p.64-67
• "The axial skeleton of the Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega" / 1 September 2005 / Per Erik Ahlberg, Jennifer A. Clack, and Henning Blom / Nature, v.437, p.137-140
  • "Palaeontology: Between water and land" / Robert L. Carroll — The most informative examples of large-scale evolution are provided by major transitions between environments. Fresh research on an ancient amphibian shows how it adapted to locomotion both in water and on land.
  • Like a fish out of water / Editor's Summary
• One side can be wrong / September 1, 2005 / Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne / The Guardian (UK) — accepting 'intelligent design' in science classrooms would have disastrous consequences
• "ICR Conference to Confront an Icon of Evolution!" (pdf) / September 2005 / Mark Rasche / Acts & Facts, v.34, n.9, p.1-2
• "Irrational Naturalism" / September 2005 / Henry M. Morris / Back to Genesis, n.201 (Institute for Creation Research)
• "What Comes after Rate?" / September 2005 / Larry Vardiman / Impact, n.387 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Chimp Genome / 31 August 2005 / Nature (news@nature)
  • Apeing our language / Helen Pilcher — chimp genome may shed light on surprising command of vocabulary
  • First chimp fossil unearthed / Michael Hopkin — 500,000-year-old teeth shed light on evolutionary split between humans and chimps
• A universal debate / August 31, 2005 / Reid Forgrave / Des Moines Register (Iowa) — an Iowa State University astronomy professor finds himself at the center of a controversy over science and religion
• Chimp and human DNA is 96% identical / August 31, 2005 / Clive Cookson / Financial Times
• Chimp genetic code opens human frontiers / August 31, 2005 / Alan Boyle / MSNBC — genome comparison reveals many similarities -- and crucial differences
• Religion a Strength and Weakness for Both Parties / August 30, 2005 / Pew Research Center — public divided on origins of life
• Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much / August 30, 2005 / Cornelia Dean / New York Times
• Einstein and Darwin: A tale of two theories / May 2, 2005 / Alan Boyle / MSNBC — Q&A with ‘Origins’ astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson

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