Geoscience Research Institute
    — News Archive (March 2002)

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MARCH 29

• ARN-Announce / March 29, 2002 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.22 — new documentary video on Intelligent Design: Unlocking the Mystery of Life
• "Determinants of extinction in the fossil record" requires free registration / 28 March 2002 / Shanan E. Peters and Michael Foote / Nature, v.416, p.420-424
• "Evolutionary biology: Lamprey Hox genes and the origin of jaws" requires free registration / 28 March 2002 / Martin J. Cohn / Nature, v.416, p.386-387 — The development of jaws was a critical event in vertebrate evolution because it ushered in a transition to a predatory lifestyle, but how this innovation came about has been a mystery.
• "Racemic amino acids from the ultraviolet photolysis of interstellar ice analogues" requires free registration / 28 March 2002 / Max P. Bernstein, Jason P. Dworkin, Scott A. Sandford, George W. Cooper, and Louis J. Allamandola / Nature, v.416, p.401-403
• "Amino acids from ultraviolet irradiation of interstellar ice analogues" requires free registration / 28 March 2002 / G. M. Muρoz Caro, U. J. Meierhenrich, W. A. Schutte, B. Barbier, A. Arcones Segovia, H. Rosenbauer, W. H.-P. Thiemann, A. Brack, and J. M. Greenberg / Nature, v.416, p.403-406
• Building blocks of life – in outer space / March 28, 2002 / Peter N. Spotts / Christian Science Monitor
• Written Testimony / March 12, 2002 / John H. Calvert / Education Committee, Ohio House of Representatives — in support of HB 481, which encourages the teaching of origins science objectively and without religious, naturalistic or philosophic bias or assumption
• Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution / January 2002 / Randal Keynes / Riverhead Books (Penguin Putnam) — see also Amazon
• Science, Truth, and Democracy / November 2001 / Philip Kitcher / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science / November 1999 / David M. Raup / W. W. Norton — see also Amazon
• Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? / November 1992 / David M. Raup / W.W. Norton
• Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany / 1615 / Galileo Galilei / Modern History Sourcebook

MARCH 27

• United Kingdom: Schools Attacked for Teaching Creationism / March 26, 2002 / John Surridge / Adventist News Network
• ADL Explains Creationism Controversy With Online Guide For Parents, Educators / 26 March 2002 / U.S. Newswire 
• Scientists sound alarm over advance of creationists / March 25, 2002 / Tania Branigan / Guardian (UK)
• Historical Seismicity: Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan / March 25, 2002 / United States Geological Survey
• Japanese Scientist Makes Frog Eyes / March 24, 2002 / Scott Stoddard / Los Angeles Times
• The Truth about the "Santorum Amendment" Language on Evolution / Kenneth R. Miller, Professor of Biology / Brown University, Providence, RI — the "No Child Left Behind" Education Act does not call for the teaching of "Intelligent Design"
• Religion in the Science Class? Why Creationism and Intelligent Design Don't Belong / Anti-Defamation League
• Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts / October 2001 / John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed / Harper Collins — see also Amazon
• The Theory of Creation: A Scientific and Translational Analysis of the Biblical Creation Story / October 2001 / Jim Schicatano / Writers Club Ltd. — see also Amazon
• Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses / March 2001 / Bruce Feiler / Harper Collins — see also Amazon

MARCH 26

• Discussing the Nature of Reality, Between Buffets / March 26, 2002 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times — March 15 symposium titled "Science and Ultimate Reality"
• The Most Seductive Equation in Science: Beauty Equals Truth / March 26, 2002 / Dennis Overbye / New York Times — on Einstein's general theory of relativity
• What the Penguins Left / March 26, 2002 / Henry Fountain / New York Times — mitochondrial mutations occurring at a relatively fast clip
• The evolving Darwin debate: Scientists urge 'academic freedom' to teach both sides of issue / March 24, 2002 / Julie Foster / WorldNetDaily.com 
• 'Intelligent Design ': 52 Ohio Scientists Back Teaching Disputed Idea / March 23, 2002 / David Lore / Columbus Dispatch, p.1B
• Wrestling With the Origins of the Torah / March 23, 2002 / Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times — Jewish leaders from Orthodox to Reconstructionist gather to debate the roots of their faith
• Columnist sows confusion on evolution / March 22, 2002 / Deborah Owens-Fink / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• LETTER #3: Science that sounds more like faith / March 22, 2002 / Thomas Kryst / Washington Times
• Horny old dinosaur found / 21 March 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — knee-high relative of Triceratops unearthed
• Danger in the air / 20 March 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — scientists hope to sniff out impending volcanic eruptions
• Origins Evidence / American Scientific Affiliation — design, ...
• Three Modern Discoveries and the Creation of the Universe / Edwin L. Kerr
• Creation vs. Evolution discussion forum / Baptist Board
• "A Time and a Place for Noah" / March 2001 / Carol A. Hill / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.53, n.1, p.24-40
• Correspondence with Science Journals / 2000 / Michael Behe / Discovery Institute — response to critics concerning peer-review
• "Creation Science Takes Psalm 104:6-9 Out of Context" / September 1999 / Paul H. Seely / Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.51, p.170-174
• "Ignorant Armies" / April 1993 / Mark A. Noll / First Things, n.32, p.45-48 — book review: The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism / 1993 / Ronald L. Numbers / Knopf

MARCH 22

• Matters of faith don't belong in public-school science classes / March 22, 2002 / David A. Van Dyke / Columbus Dispatch
• Biology class isn't designed for philosophy / March 21, 2002 / Andrew Oldenquist / Columbus Dispatch
• Dino mite grew into mighty Triceratops / March 21, 2002 / William Mullen / Chicago Tribune — fossils of 7-pound creature that evolved into 10-ton monster unearthed
• Science Education / American Scientific Affiliation — a site to help teachers teach more effectively, motivate students, improve their knowledge and thinking skills, and provide Christian perspectives on science and nature
• Design Forum / Access Research Network — an open posting general discussion forum dealing with the theory of intelligent design (ID) and other topics relative to origins
• Place of Science in a World of Values and Facts / May 2001 / Loucas G. Christophorou / Plenum Publ. Corp. (Kluwer) — see also Amazon
• The Future of the Universe: Chance, Chaos, God? / May 2000 / Arnold O. Benz / Continuum Publ. Group — see also Amazon
• OPEN LETTER: Smithsonian decries National Geographic’s ‘editorial propagandizing’ of dinosaur-to-bird ‘evolution’ / November 1999 / Storrs L. Olson / National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
• Creationism & the Early Church / 1999 / Robert I. Bradshaw — an examination of the early church's interpretations of Genesis 1-11 from the time of the close of the New Testament until the death of Augustine of Hippo (430 AD)
• "The Interpretation of Nature and the Bible" / August 1997 / Robert I. Bradshaw / Origins [Biblical Creation Society], n.23, p.7-13
• "Barrow and Tipler on the Anthropic Principle vs. Divine Design" / 1988 / William Lane Craig / Brit. J. Phil. Sci., v.38, p.389-395

MARCH 21

• LETTER: Evolution is designed for science classes / March 21, 2002 / Edward M. Kennedy / Washington Times
• Scientist-turned-cleric wins Templeton Prize in religion / March 21, 2002 / Lynette Wilson / Christian Science Monitor
• "A ceratopsian dinosaur from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia" requires free registration / 21 March 2002 / Xing Xu, Peter J. Makovicky, Xiao-Lin Wang, Mark A. Norell, and Hai-Lu You / Nature, v.416, p.314-317
• "Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia" requires free registration / 21 March 2002 / Berhane Asfaw, et al. / Nature, v.416, p.317-320
• Fossil skull fuels debate over human origin / March 21, 2002 / CNN
• Skull thwarts species-splitters / 20 March 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — Ethiopian fossil suggests early humans were one big family
• View from the lab: creationists spread pure poison / 20 March 2002 / Steve Jones / Telegraph (UK)
• Ripples in Ohio From Ad on the Big Bang / March 19, 2002 / James Glanz / New York Times
• Creationism in schools 'leads to more bigotry' / 19 March 2002 / Sarah Cassidy / Independent (UK)
• Whose Commandments? / March 19, 2002 / E. J. Dionne, Jr. / Washington Post
• Astronomers see the most distant galaxy yet / 15 March 2002 / Katie Pennicott / PhysicsWeb (Institute of Physics)
• The galaxy at the start of the universe / 15 March 2002 / CBC (Canada)
• BELIEFS: An Enduring Academic Study of Religion / March 9, 2002 / Peter Steinfels / New York Times
• God & Evolution: Why Intelligent Design Theory Isn't Science / March 2, 2002 / Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) — questions submitted by the audience at the forum
• "The emerging conceptual framework of evolutionary developmental biology" requires free registration / 14 February 2002 / Wallace Arthur / Nature, v.415, p.757-764
• A Recycled Universe / February 11, 2002 / J. R. Minkel / Scientific American — crashing branes and cosmic acceleration may power an infinite cycle in which our universe is but a phase
• DFW Creation Net / Wayne Spencer
• The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science / October 2001 / Robert Marc Friedman / W. H. Freeman — the personal, scientific and cultural self-interest behind the selection of the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry; see also Amazon
• "Because It Had Not Rained" / 1958 / Meredith G. Kline / Westminster Theological Journal, v.20, p.146-157

MARCH 20

• Creationism row reaches the UK / 14 March 2002 / Will Knight / New Scientist
• FIRST-PERSON: Hubble's new cosmic eyes / March 12, 2002 / Hal Ostrander / Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist Press
• "The Problematic Rise of Archean Oxygen" requires free registration / 22 February 2002 / Kenneth M. Towe / Science, v.295, p.1419
• "MASS EXTINCTIONS: No 'Darkness at Noon' to Do In the Dinosaurs?" requires free registration / 22 February 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.295, p.1445-1447
• "PALEOCLIMATE: Cycles, Cycles Everywhere" requires free registration / 22 February 2002 / Thomas J. Crowley / Science, v. 295, p.1473-1474 — on Milankovitch cycles
• "BECOMING HUMAN: What Made Humans Modern?" requires free registration / 15 February 2002 / Michael Balter / Science, v.295, p.1219-1225 — Could our species have been born in a rapid burst of change?
• "PALEONTOLOGY: Tug-of-War Over Mystery Fossil" requires free registration / 15 February 2002 / Sabine Steghaus-Kovac / Science, v.295, p.1212-1213
• "PALEONTOLOGY: Earliest Animal Tracks or Just Mud Cracks?" requires free registration / 15 February 2002 / Richard A. Kerr / Science, v.295, p.1209
• "Evolution and Biogeography of Deep-Sea Vent and Seep Invertebrates" requires free registration / 15 February 2002 / C. L. Van Dover, C. R. German, K. G. Speer, L. M. Parson, R. C. Vrijenhoek / Science, v.295, p.1253-1257
• "ASTRONOMY: Demotion Looms for Gamma-Ray Bursts" requires free registration / 8 February 2002 / Tsvi Piran / Science, v.295, p.986-987
• "PALEONTOLOGY: Polar Dinosaurs" requires free registration / 8 February 2002 / Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, and Roland A. Gangloff / Science, v.295, p.979-980
• How to Build a Time Machine / March 2002 / Paul Davies / Viking Press — see also Amazon
• Mount Etna Ignites / February 2002 / Marco Pinna / National Geographic — Europe’s tallest active volcano erupts in grandeur, enthralling Sicilians and intriguing scientists
• "Jupiter's Migration Miracle" (.pdf) / Winter 2002 / Hugh Ross / Connections, v.4, n.1 (Reasons to Believe) — new evidences for design
• Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950 / 2002 / Charles H. Smith / Western Kentucky University
• Archaeology and the Bible / ChristianAnswers.net
• Associates for Biblical Research — biblical archaeology: demonstrating through field work the historical reliability of the Scriptures
• Dive and Discover / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — expeditions to the seafloor
• The Boggy Creek Collection of Meteorite Finds / S. Ray DeRusse / Fort Worth, Texas — weathered stony meteorites from central Texas
• Out of the Crater: Chronicles of a Volcanologist / November 2000 / Richard V. Fisher / Princeton University Press — see also Amazon
• On the Alleged Dinosaurian Ancestry of Birds / April 2000 / Ashby L. Camp / Origins (British Creation Society)
• Romancing the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Science / April 1999 / Jeffrey G. Sobosan / Wm. B. Eerdmans
• "Did Moses really write Genesis?" / September-November 1998 / Russell Grigg / Creation Ex Nihilo, v.20, n.4, p.43–46
• Did Birds Evolve From Dinosaurs? / February 1998 / David Buckna / Revolution Against Evolution
• "Genesis means what it says according to great Church Father, Basil of Caesarea (AD 329–379)" / September-November 1994 / Don Batten / Creation, v.16, n.4, p.23

MARCH 19

• State's Battle Over Science Still Is Evolving (editorial) / March 18, 2002 / Lee Leonard / Columbus Dispatch, p.9A
• Darwinian Struggle in Ohio / March 17, 2002 / New York Times
• Evolution Debate Raises Issue: What's 'Science'? / March 17, 2002 / David Lore / Columbus Dispatch, p.5G
• Don't Compromise (editorial) / March 17, 2002 / Columbus Dispatch, p.2G — science mixed with religion isn't science 
• Nature's diversity beyond evolution / March 17, 2002 / Carl T. Hall / San Francisco Chronicle — debate over 'intelligent design'
• More 'creationist' schools revealed / 17 March 2002 / Nicholas Pyke / Independent News (UK) — fundamentalism » state-funded Christian, Muslim and Jewish schools are disputing the theory of evolution
• Teach Intelligent Design As Part of Philosophy, Which Kids Need (letter) / March 16, 2002 / Rick Neighbarger / Columbus Dispatch, p.15A
• Creationists 'harm religion' / March 16, 2002 / Tania Branigan / The Guardian (UK) — bishop attacks school's 'extraordinary' approach
• Revising the Book of Life / March 15, 2002 / Richard Monastersky / Chronicle of Higher Education, v.48, p.14 — Only Stephen Jay Gould would dare to rewrite Darwin. But will America's best-known scientist leave much of an imprint?
• Bishop calls for new check on Creation school / 15 March 2002 / Telegraph (UK)
• Design Flaws in People Go Against Intelligence (letter) / March 15, 2002 / John Moosmiller / Columbus Dispatch, p.18A
• Cambridge priest wins Templeton Prize / March 15, 2002 / Larry Witham / Washington Times
• Priest-Physicist Polkinghorne Wins Templeton Religion Prize / March 15, 2002 / Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times
• "A Jurassic mammal from South America" requires free registration / 14 March 2002 / Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Thomas Martin, Edgardo Ortiz-Jaureguizar, and Pablo Puerta / Nature, v.416, p.165-168
• Religion Tooday / March 14, 2002 / Richard N. Ostling / Washington Post — Ohio Board of Education panel discussed whether high school biology students should be told about potential problems with Darwinism and evidence that life on Earth was planned
• School attacked over evolution teaching / 14 March 2002 / BBC
• The creation of a row / 14 March 2002 / Nick Assinder / BBC — Blair ducks creation questions
• Illiberal education in Ohio schools / March 14, 2002 / Rick Santorum / Washington Times
• Intelligent-Design proponents Want Schools to Have Choice / March 13, 2002 / Catherine Candisky / Columbus Dispatch, p.3B
• Evolution debate back in Ohio schools / March 12, 2002 / CNN — The state school board, struggling to come up with new science standards, heard during a packed hearing from backers of evolution and from those who believe life must have been designed by a higher power.
• Evolution challenged in US schools / 11 March 2002 / Mark Duff / BBC — a new theory says the world had a "designer"
• Ohio State Board of Education Standards Committee Meeting / March 11, 2002 — discussion of Intelligent Design
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory / March 2002 / Stephen Jay Gould / Belknap Press (Harvard University Press) — see also Amazon
• No Knockouts in Martian Meteorite Showdown / March 17, 2001 / David L. Chandler / Sky & Telescope — prospects dim for fossils in Martian meteorites
• Catastrophes in 2001: man-made losses take on a new dimension / Swiss Re (the global reinsurer)
• Burgess Shale: Evolution's Big Bang (traveling exhibition) / National Museum of Natural History
• Thinking Christianly about Natural Science / November 1994 / Terry M. Gray / American Scientific Affiliation

MARCH 13

• Presidents of state universities to oppose intelligent design / March 13, 2002 / Liz Sidoti / Plain Dealer (Associated Press)
• State board studying theories on start of life / March 12, 2002 / John Mangels / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Ohio Board Hears Debate on an Alternative to Darwinism / March 12, 2002 / Francis X. Clines / New York Times
• Is the Earth ‘Young’? / March 12, 2002 / Bryn Nelson / Newsday.com — on Larry Vardiman and the radiometric dating initiative of Institute for Creation Research
• 6 Days of Creation: The Search of Evidence / March 12, 2002 / Bryn Nelson / Newsday.com — a widening movement against evolutionary theory seeks scientific support
• Ohioans Air Views on Science Standards / March 12, 2002 / Catherine Candisky / Columbus Dispatch, p.5A
• 'Intelligent Design' Backers Relent / March 12, 2002 / Catherine Candisky and David Lore / Columbus Dispatch, p.1A — education debate may shift to local level
• Origin of Life Stirs Debate in Other Classes / March 12, 2002 / Donna Glenn and David Lore / Columbus Dispatch, p.5A
• Faith as fact? / March 11, 2002 / Mark Easton / Channel 4 News (London) — The Bible firmly declares that God created earth and all the animals upon it, including Man. But of course scientists have long disputed that.
• As Rabbis Face Facts, Bible Tales Are Wilting / March 9, 2002 / Michael Massing / New York Times
• A scientist's view / March 9, 2002 / Richard Dawkins / Guardian (UK)
• Earth could hold more water / 8 March 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — five times as much water as in all the world's oceans may lurk deep below its surface
• Earliest life or rare dirt? / 7 March 2002 / Tom Clarke / Nature science update — gloves are coming off in ancient bacteria bust-up
• "Chameleon radiation by oceanic dispersal" requires free registration / 14 February 2002 / C. J. Raxworthy, M. R. J. Forstner, and R. A. Nussbaum / Nature, v.415, p.784-787
• "Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation" requires free registration / 24 January 2002 / Bradley J. Cardinale, Margaret A. Palmer, and Scott L. Collins / Nature, v.415, p.426-429
• "PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY: CO₂ and the end-Triassic mass extinction" requires free registration / 24 January 2002 / David Beerling / Nature, v.415, p.386-387
• "PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY: Triassic–Jurassic atmospheric CO₂ spike" requires free registration / 24 January 2002 / Gregory J. Retallack / Nature, v.415, p.387-388

MARCH 11

• A science showdown / March 10, 2002 / Mary Bridgman and Donna Glenn / Columbus Dispatch — Many central Ohio teachers worry about the prospect of teaching "intelligent design," but some students say they'd welcome learning about the alternative concept.
• Evolution spat: Battle between faith, science unnecessary / March 10, 2002 / Columbus Dispatch
• Top school's creationists preach value of biblical story over evolution / March 9, 2002 / Tania Branigan / Guardian (UK) — state-funded secondary teachers do not accept findings of Darwin 
• Design vs. Evolution Discussion Monday / March 8, 2002 / Catherine Candisky / Columbus Dispatch, p.1A
• The Ultimate Hoax: Archaeopteryx Lithographica / Ian Taylor / Twin Cities Creation Science Association
• The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human / November 2001 / Ian Tattersall / Harcourt Brace — see review: The skeleton key / March 3, 2002 / Robin McKie / Guardian (UK); see also Amazon

MARCH 8

• Ohio—first US state to teach ‘intelligent design’? / 8 March 2002 / Answers in Genesis
• Scientists Discover a Dinosaur Clad in Flightless Feathers / March 8, 2002 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Should Intelligent Design Be Taught in Science Class? / March 8, 2002 / Paul Lauritzen / Columbus Dispatch (editorial), p.13A — No: It isn't even good theology
• "Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils" requires free registration / 7 March 2002 / Martin D. Brasier, et al. / Nature, v.416, p.76-81
• "Palaeontology: 'Modern' feathers on a non-avian dinosaur" requires free registration / 7 March 2002 / Mark Norell, Qiang Ji, Keqin Gao, Chongxi Yuan, Yibin Zhao, and Lixia Wang / Nature, v.416, p.36-37
• "Out of Africa again and again" requires free registration / 7 March 2002 / Alan Templeton / Nature, v.416, p.45-51
• Man left Africa three times / 7 March 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — early humans came out of Africa again and again
• A Different Take on Human Origins / March 7, 2002 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• Animal or mineral debate rocks fossil world / March 6, 2002 / Patricia Reaney / Independant OnLine (South Africa)
• First Test of the Biotech Age: Human Cloning / March 6, 2002 / William Kristol and Jeremy Rifkin / Los Angeles Times
• Dozens of human embryos cloned in China / 6 March 2002 / Philip Cohen / New Scientist
• Time gives rays a break / 6 March 2002 / Philip Ball / Nature science update — jumps in space-time might explain the curious survival of energetic particles
• Burying intelligence in name of progress / March 5, 2002 / Tom Feran / The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Fine-Tuning and Comparison Range / March 5, 2002 / Robin Collins / Messiah College — an answer to McGrew, Vestrup, and Manson 
• Old plant smells record / 4 March 2002 / Maggie Shiels / BBC — carbon-dating tests are expected to show that southern California creosote bushes are oldest living plants on earth
• Teaching religion / March 4, 2002 / Christian Toto / Washington Times
• OPINION: Not-So-Intelligent Design / March 4, 2002 / Neil S. Greenspan / The Scientist, v.16, n.5, p.12
• Darwinian Struggle / March 3, 2002 / Robert Wright / Time Magazine — Is there a place in evolutionary theory for the hand of God? Maybe in Ohio. Hearings start this month.
• Scientists lay out arguments against design theory / March 3, 2002 / John Mangels / The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Dodo flew to its grave / 1 March 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — ancestors of the flightless figurehead of extinction island-hopped
• "The Terror of Anthrax in a Degrading Creation" / March 2002 / Todd C. Wood / Impact, n.345 (Institute for Creation Research)
• Tyrannosaurus couldn't run / 28 February 2002 / John Whitfield / Nature science update — but its huge legs would power a worryingly fast walk
• ARN-Announce / February 28, 2002 / Dennis Wagner / Access Research Network, n.21 — Ohio science standards update; responding to Icons of Evolution critics; bundled video deal
• Understanding the Concepts / February 24, 2002 / The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) — with courts opposed to allowing the teaching of creationism in public schools, another concept called "intelligent design" has emerged to challenge evolution's dominance
• Unintelligible Redesign / February 13, 2002 / William Saletan / Slate (MSN) — This is the way creationism ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
• Intelligent Design Debate (index) / The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• Focus on Origins (6 Video Set) / Dean Kenyon, James Valentine, Charles
  Thaxton, Walter Bradley, Bruce Tiffney, Jeffrey Schloss, Allan Wallace, Robert Newman / Access Research Network
• The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics / November 2001 / Julian B. Barbour / Oxford University Press — see also Amazon
• "Genome Decay in the Mycoplasmas" / October 2001 / Todd C. Wood / Impact, n.340 (Institute for Creation Research) — created kinds and the curse
• "Did God Make Pathogenic Viruses?" / 1999 / Jerry Bergman / Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, v.13, n.1
• "What Would Newton Do?" / November 1998 / Phillip E. Johnson / First Things, n.87, p.25-31

MARCH 1

• Home Alone in the Universe? / March 2002 / Fred Heeren / First Things, n.121
• Down with Evolution! / March 2002 / Rodger Doyle / Scientific American — creationists are changing state educational standards
• Brainstorms (discussion forum) / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design — This forum is to discuss work in progress about complex systems. It is the place to get preliminary thoughts about complex systems into circulation so that they can receive critical scrutiny and be more fully developed.
• Science and Faith, Creation (doctrinal discussions) / Adventist of Tomorrow
• Human and fly studies tally good and bad mutations / February 27, 2002 / John Easton / The University of Chicago Hospitals & Health System — ongoing role of natural selection
• Scholars get religion / February 26, 2002 / Mark Clayton / Christian Science Monitor — more academics are starting to see the 'religion factor' as key to understanding forces in economics, politics, and society
• Debate Is Fueled on When Humans Became Human / February 26, 2002 / John Noble Wilford / New York Times
• The Missing Link / February 26, 2002 / PBS — the search for the ancestor of all four-limbed animals, including humans
• Monkey Trial Airs on PBS / February 25, 2002 / Phillip Johnson / Weekly Wedge Update (Access Research Network)
• Science Holds a Meeting / February 25, 2002 / John Wilson / Christianity Today — report from the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Scientists-professors to back evolution vs. intelligent design / February 25, 2002 / John Mangels / Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
• US schools ban Darwin from class / February 24, 2002 / Robin McKie / The Observer (United Kingdom)
• Deconstructing Darwin / February 24, 2002 / John Heys / Digital Missourian — a new theory of evolution challenges conventional thought
• Gene Mappers May Have Missed Half The Genes / February 20, 2002 / Matthew Herper / Forbes
• The Dinosaur that Fooled the World / 21 February 2002 / BBC
• They know we're here / 19 February 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — evolved space civilizations will be eyeing Earth
• Duck croc found / 19 February 2002 / Sara Abdulla / Nature science update — ancient dwarf crocodilian swam with giants
• Early humans dressed for dinner / 18 February 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — sophisticated jewellery appeared with social events
• Students and Intellectual Freedom: Challenges to Naturalistic Evolution / February 14, 2002 / Chuck Colson / BreakPoint Online
• Chameleons walk on water / 14 February 2002 / Helen Pearson / Nature science update — reptile history reveals daring escape from Madagascar
• Darwin's God: Theology at the Roots of Evolutionary Theory / February 13, 2002 / Chuck Colson / BreakPoint Online
• Umraveling the DNA Myth / February 2002 / Barry Commoner / Harper's Magazine — the spurious foundation of genetic engineering
• Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix / January 2002 / James D. Watson / Knopf — see book review: 'Genes, Girls, and Gamow': Double Helix, Single Guy / February 24, 2002 / Barbara Ehrenreich / New York Times; 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
• Russell Humphreys answers Various Critics / 7 October 2001 / D. Russell Humphreys / TrueOrigin — a response by Humphreys (and others) to challenges advanced against his position
• The Chance of the Gaps / Fall 2001 / William A. Dembski / International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design — paper presented at a philosophy conference in Boulder, Colorado
• The Great Gene Debate / February 21, 2001 / Matthew Herper / Forbes
• The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium / February 2001 / Joseph L. Graves, Jr. / Rutgers University Press — see also Amazon

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