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April 25, 2004
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Religion in the News
America's
evangelicals: Survey analysis
It's impossible to measure religious experience, but it is possible to ask
people about their beliefs and practices, and we did that in our national
survey (Religion & Ethics Newsweekly).
Dobson
emphatically endorses pro-family Republican in Penn. Senate primary
Three-term congressman Toomey challenging 'moderate' incumbent Specter (Agape
Press).
The
Dick Staub Interview: Exegeting U2
Get Up Off Your Knees preaches U2 from Boy to All that
You Can't Leave Behind.
'Rapture'
rebuts end-time 'Left Behind' theology
Barbara R. Rossing's "The Rapture Exposed" convincingly debunks
the methodology of "end times" philosophy and shows why all this
is more than just a theological spat in our war-torn world (The Journal
Gazettte, Ft. Wayne, Ind.).
Signs
and wonders
In The Miracle Detective, a journalist goes on the trail of mystic apparitions
(The Washington Post).
Movie
Review: Bonhoeffer
This well-done documentary, with only a few minor blips, adequately captures
the life—and death—of German theologian and Nazi resister Dietrich
Bonhoeffer. Review by Collin Hansen.
Science in the News
Archaeology/Anthropology
Ancient
inscribed slab brought to light. Potsdam
A team of German and Egyptian archaeologists working in the Nile Delta has
unearthed "quite a remarkable" stele dating back 2 200 years
to Ptolemaic Egypt which bears an identical inscription in three written
languages - like the famed Rosetta Stone. t shows a royal decree, written
in ancient Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphs, that mentions King Ptolemy III
Euergetes I along with the date 238 BC.
Ancient
shell jewellery hints at language
Early humans strung shells together at least 75,000 years ago, suggesting
advanced concepts of symbolism already existed.
Italian Skeletons Reveal Old World Diseases.
Researchers
Find Important Mayan Remains
U.S. and Guatemalan Researchers Find Important Mayan Monuments Covered With
Texts.
Astronomy
Finding
God in the Heavens
Recent discoveries in space can be cause for praise. By Rob Moll
DELTA Mission
Heading To ISS With Dutch ESA Astronaut. Paris (ESA) Apr 19, 2004
The DELTA mission, with European Space Agency astronaut André Kuipers,
and the ISS Expedition 9 crew lifted off today in the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft
on flight 8S to the International Space Station. The launch took place from
the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 09.19 local time (05.19 Central
European Time).
Analysis:
'Bounce' rock's cosmic portent.
The main ingredient in Bounce is a volcanic mineral called pyroxene.
'Weird'
meteorite may be from Mars moon
The Kaidun meteorite is like no other, including minerals never seen before,
but the Red Planet's moon Phobos could provide an explanation.
Researcher Predicts Global Climate Change On Jupiter As Planet's Spots Disappear.
Cometlike
Body Vaporized By A Very Young Hot Star. University Park - Apr 21, 2004
Evidence that a cometlike object with a diameter of at least 100 kilometers
fell into a massive, very young star has been obtained by a team of astronomers
at Penn State using the 9.2-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the McDonald
Observatory in Texas.
Colliding
Stars May Form Intermediate Black Holes
Astronomers have positively identified two types of black holes: the very
big, with a mass of millions to billions times that of the sun, and--at
least in astronomical terms--the very little, with a mass of about two to
10 suns. But some recent findings point to the existence of intermediate-size
black holes equivalent to 100 to 10,000 stellar masses. New research provides
insight into how such holes might form.
Biology
Memory bottleneck
limits intelligence
Single spot in brain determines size of visual scratch pad. The number
of things you can hold in your mind at once has been traced to one penny-sized
part of the brain. The finding surprises researchers who assumed this aspect
of our intelligence would be distributed over many parts of the brain. Instead,
the area appears to form a bottleneck that might limit our cognitive abilities,
researchers say. 15 April 2004.
'Virgin
birth' mammal rewrites rules of biology
The mouse is the daughter of two female parents, but experts are sceptical
that the technique could help two women have a biological child.
Creation/Evolution
Survey: What do you believe?
- I believe in a young earth creation.
- I believe in an old earth creation.
- I believe in theistic evolution.
- I believe in evolution.
Vote at //www.bibleandscience.com/survey/
IRS Raids
Home and Business of Creationist (Kent Hovind)
Compiled by Ted Olsen. See also IRS
raids business, home of creationist.
Bible,
evolution at odds
You can't have it both ways (Brian Hemen, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.).
Two
candidates back study of creationism in schools
Republican gubernatorial candidates Tom Keating and Ken Miller believe creationism
should be taught in public schools, while the other four major political
party candidates for the office disagree (Billings Gazette, Mont.).
Discovery
Offers Clues To Origin Of Life
A new discovery of microbial activity in 3.5 billion-year-old volcanic rock
and one of earth's earliest signs of geological existence sheds new light
on the antiquity of life, says University of Alberta researchers who are
part of a team that made the groundbreaking finding.
Ken Ham and Dr Sarfati live webcast. Mark your calendar to listen to the LIVE webcast on Tuesday, April 27 @ 9 pm EDT!.
Earth Science
Moss Landing
Researchers Reveal Iron As Key To Climate Change. Moss Landing - Apr
20, 2004
A remarkable expedition to the waters of Antarctica reveals that iron supply
to the Southern Ocean may have controlled Earth's climate during past ice
ages. A multi-institutional group of scientists, led by Dr. Kenneth Coale
of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) and Dr. Ken Johnson of the Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), fertilized two key areas of the
Southern Ocean with trace amounts of iron.
Physics
Seeking
the Densest Matter
Physicists investigating heavy-particle collisions believe they are on the
track of a universal form of matter, one common to very high energy particles
ranging from protons to heavy nuclei such as uranium. Some think that this
matter, called a color glass condensate, may explain new nuclear properties
and the process of particle formation during collisions. Experimentalists
have recently reported intriguing data that suggest a color glass condensate
has actually formed in past work.
In Search
of Gravitomagnetism. Huntsville - Apr 21, 2004
NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft left Earth Tuesday in search of a force
of nature, long suspected but never proven: gravitomagnetism.