Conferences Books

Theo Vennemann: Andromeda and the Apples of the Hesperides, Vycheslav Ivanov: Indo-European Expressions of Totality and the Invitation to the Feast of All the Gods, Miriam Robbins Dexter: Queen Medb, Female Autonomy in Ancient Ireland, and Irish Matrilineal Traditions, Anna M. Ranero: An Old Indo-European Motif Revisited--The Mortal Combat between Father and Son, Christopher Wilhelm: Prometheans and the Caucasus--The Origins of the Prometheus Myth, Andrew Minard: Of Horses and Humans--The Divine Twins in Celtic Mythology and Folklore, Dean Miller: The King, The Hero and the Gods--An Exploratory Note on the Functions and the Supernatural, Martin E. Huld--Albanian Evidence for the Sigmatic Aorist, Kazuhiko Yoshida: Assibilation in Hittite.

Introduction; Language Abbreviations; Stephanie Jamison: On Translating the Rig Veda-Three questions; Jorma Koivulehto: Finno-Ugric Reflexes of North-West Indo-European and Early Stages of Indo-Iranian; Olga Petrova: Grimm's Law in Optimality Theory; Joshua T. Katz: Evening Dress-The Metaphorical Background of Latin uesper and Greek ê______; Martin E. Huld: Reinventing the Wheel-the Technology of Transport and Indo-European Expansions; Kristin M. Reichardt: Curse Formulae in Hittite and Hieroglyphic Luwian; Ilya Yakubovich: Laryngeals from Velars in Hittite-A Triple-Headed Argument; David Atkins: An Alternative Principle of Succession in the Hittite Monarchy; Christopher Wilhelm: On the Possible Origins of the Philistines; Sandra Olsen: Reflections of Ritual Behavior at Botai, Kazakhstan; John Leavitt: The Cow of Plenty in Indo-Iranian and Celtic Myth; Betsy McCall: Metathesis, Deletion, Dissimilallon and Consonant Ordering in Proto-Greek; Jens Elmegård Rasmussen: The Growth of IE Ablaut-Contrastive Accent and V®ddhi; Harold Koch: Order and Disorder in the Reconstruction of the Ablaut Pattern of Athematic Verbs in Proto-Indo-Europ-ean; Carol F. Justus: The Age of Indo-European Present -R Person Endings; Alexander Nicholaev: PIE Ergativity and the Genitive in *-osyo; Anatoly Liberman: Pseudolaryngeals (Glottal Stops) and the Twilight of Distinctive Voice in Germanic; Vycheslav V. Ivanov: Early Slavic/Indo-Iranian Lexical Contacts; Index

This book is a collection of papers given at the 2003 Creation conference. One question many ask is, why do so many scientists respond to creationism (and intelligent design as well) so vehemently (and, I might add, irrationally)? This book responds to the many common, but demonstratively false, ideas and conclusions about creation research and arguments. The authors note that several reasons exist for this state of affairs. A major one is the critics have not done their homework by objectively looking at both sides The more important question is, why are so many scientists hostile to the evidence that creation requires an intelligent creator? At least three separate (though related) sources of resistance to Intelligent Design research exist. First, the vast majority of scientists work (or at least were trained) in an academic environment where naturalism (actually often atheism) is widely assumed and I.D. research threatens their worldview. Some scientists are passionate atheists and react with hostility to I.D. because they see that it opens the door to theism. Second, many scientists who are not hostile to theism are repelled by what they think I.D. is because they obtain most (or all) of their information from the popular news media (and not books such as this one) that, almost without exception, grossly misrepresents what they are doing and why. They have naïvely bought into the propaganda and equate science with anti-ID. They assume that everything that is pro-ID, is ipso facto anti-science. Finally, a surprisingly large number of practicing scientists are close-minded about new ways of looking at the world, and this includes especially to those ideas that have philosophical or religious implications. They have their prejudices like everyone else. Yet, fortunately, many supporters exist among scientists but, unfortunately, many feel that they must stay in the closet (for now at least). The authors of this work have risked their careers and have come out of the closet.

Introduction, Abbreviations, I. FORM AND MEANING IN INDO-EUROPEAN: Helmut Rix: Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Italic: the Verbal System, Joseph F. Eska: The Distribution of the Old Irish Personal Object Affixes and Forward Reconstruction, Annamaria Bartolotta: Towards a Reconstruction of Indo-European Culture: Semantic Functions of IE *men- , Nicoletta Puddu: Reflecting on *se-/s(e)we-: From Typology to Indo-European and Back, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen: The Marker of the Animate Dual in Indo-European, Brian D. Joseph: Evidentiality in Proto-Indo-European? Building a Case, Karl Praust: A Missing Link of PIE Reconstruction: The Injunctive of *HIes- 'to be', II. STYLE, SENSE, AND SOUND: Craig Melchert: PIE "thorn" in Cuneiform Luvian?, Martin E. Huld: An Indo-European Term for 'harvested grain', Giovanna Rocca: Ideology and Lexis: Umbrian uhtur, Latin auctor, Angelo O. Mercado: A New Approach to Old Latin and Umbrian Poetic Meter, III. UNMASKING PREHISTORY: Jon Christian Billigmeier: Crete, the Dorians, and the Sea Peoples, Gregory E. Areshian: The Zoomorphic Code of the Proto-Indo-European Myth Cycle of "Birth-Death-Resurrection": A Linguistic-Archaeological Reconstruction, Karlene Jones-Bley: Basal Motifs and Indo-European Ritual, IV. MOLDING AND MODELLING THE PAST: Paul-Louis van Berg: Arts, Languages, and Reality in the Mesopotamian and Indo-European Worlds, Marc Vander Linden: The Band vs. the Cord, or Can Indo-European Reconstructed Institutions Be Tested against Archaeological Data?, Index

Theo Vennemann: Andromeda and the Apples of the Hesperides, Vycheslav Ivanov: Indo-European Expressions of Totality and the Invitation to the Feast of All the Gods, Miriam Robbins Dexter: Queen Medb, Female Autonomy in Ancient Ireland, and Irish Matrilineal Traditions, Anna M. Ranero: An Old Indo-European Motif Revisited--The Mortal Combat between Father and Son, Christopher Wilhelm: Prometheans and the Caucasus--The Origins of the Prometheus Myth, Andrew Minard: Of Horses and Humans--The Divine Twins in Celtic Mythology and Folklore, Dean Miller: The King, The Hero and the Gods--An Exploratory Note on the Functions and the Supernatural, Martin E. Huld--Albanian Evidence for the Sigmatic Aorist, Kazuhiko Yoshida: Assibilation in Hittite.

Henning Andersen: A Glimpse of the Homeland of the Slavs--Ecological and Cultural Change in Prehistory, Jeannine Davis-Kimball: Burial Practices Among the Iranian Sarmatians, Angelique Gulermovich Epstein: Divine Devouring--Further Notes on the Morrigan and the Valkyries, John D. Frauzel: Impersonal Absolutes in Indo-Iranian, Greek, Latin and Baltic and the Origin of the Indo-European Absolute Construction, Gayané Hagopian: The Classical Armenian Term Skndik, Yelena Izbitser: Wheeled Vehicles and the Homeland of the Indo-Europeans, Anatoly Liberman: English Girl under the Asterisked Sky of the Indo-Europeans, Dean A. Miller: Destroyer or Builder and other Bifurcations--Notes on Indo-European Sovereignty, Marianna Nikolaidou: Religious Symbols in Minoan Scripts and Iconography--Elements of Formulaic Expression, Yevgeniy Novitskiy: Semantic Analysis of the Early Metal Period Sculpture of the Northern Black Sea Region, Christopher M. Stevens: The Consonants of German and Germanic.

Victor H. Mair: Recent Physical Anthropological Studies of the Tarim Basin Mummies and Related Populations, Paul-Louis van Berg: Spit in My Mouth, Glaukos: A Greek Indo-European Tale about Ill-gotten Knowledge, Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair: Apotropaia and Fecundity in Eurasian Myth and Iconography: Erotic Female Display Figures, Stephanie W. Jamison: Linguistic Aspects of the Persona of the "Gatha Poet", Jared Klein: Notes on Categories and Subtypes of Phonological Repetition in the Rig Veda, Hans Henrich Hock: The Insular Celtic Absolute: Conjunct Distinction Once Again A Prosodic Proposal, George E. Dunkel: Latin -pte, -pe, -per, -pse, IE Limiting *-pó-te, *-pe-r, and *póti- `master', Yaroslav Gorbachov: The Origin of the Phrygian Aorist of the Type edaes, Valentina Cambi: The Hittite Adverb `formerly, earlier, already', Olga Thomason: Location, Direction, and Source in Biblical Greek, Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, and Classical Armenian, Hyejoon Yoon: The Substantive Present Participles in -nd- in Gothic: With the Survey of Other Old Germanic Languages, Joshua T. Katz: To Turn a Blind Eel.

Introduction; LINGUISTIC INVESTIGATIONS: Calvert Watkins: A Celtic Miscellany; Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov: Palatalization and Labiovelars in Luwian; Darya Kavitskaya: Vowel Epenthesis and Syllable Structure in Hittite; Ilya Yakubovich: "Stative" Suffix /ái-a/ in the Verbal System of old Indic; Carol F. Justus: The Arrival of Italic and Germanic `have' in Late Indo-European; Apostolos N. Athanassakis: õkeanos Mythic and Linguistic Origins; Martin E. Huld: IE `bear' Ursus arctos, Ursa Major, and Ursa minor. STUDIES IN POETIC DICTION: Dean Miller: Kings Communicating - Royal Speech and the Fourth Function; Thomas R. Walsh: Towards the Poetics of Potions - Helen's Cup and Indo-European Comparanda; Ralph Gallucci: Studies in Homeric Epic Tradition; Edwin D. Floyd: Cometas, On Lazarus--A Resurrection of Indo-European Poetics? INDO-EUROPEAN EXPANSION: Edwin F. Bryant: The Indo-Aryan Invasion Debate--The Logic of the Response; Jeannine Davis-Kimball: Priestesses, Enarees, and Other Statuses among Indo-Iranian Peoples; Andrew Sherratt: Echoes of the Big Bang--The Historical Context of Language Dispersal.

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