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DISCLAIMER: The following links do not necessarily represent endorsement by the Geoscience Research Institute, but are meant to provide information from a wide range of viewpoints and expertise on scientific issues, religious issues, and the interface between the two, particularly in the area of creation and evolution.

  • Earth’s magnetic dipole collapses, and life explodes

    April, 2025 John A. Tarduno Physics Today, v.78, n.4, p.26-33

    The present-day magnetic field protects life, but an ancient phase when it nearly collapsed corresponded with a key step in evolution. Changes in the planet’s deep interior may have started it all.

  • The animals revealing why human culture isn't as special as we thought

    April 1, 2025 Colin Barras New Scientist

    Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique

  • Darwinists Animalize Humans

    April 1, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

    We share many physical traits with primates, but our minds are exceptional.

  • We Can Learn About the Mind from Damaged Brains

    April 1, 2025 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today

  • Life Is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

    April 1, 2025 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

  • Peer-reviewed Paper

    The Evolution of Atmospheric Composition and Climate

    April, 2025 James F. Kasting Geochemical Perspectives, v.14, n.1

    Why Earth is a Habitable Planet

  • AI Will Seem to Be Alive

    April, 2025 Brian J. A. Boyd The New Atlantis

    How to judge prudently what kinds of beings they will be

  • The design of bacterial flagella--part 3

    April 1, 2025 David Thomas Creation Ministries International

    motility behaviour and gear change mechanisms ... Flagella are more than just propellers -- see what else they can do.

  • The Rivers That Science Says Shouldn’t Exist

    April 1, 2025 Rebecca Dzombak Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

    At first glance, these waterways make no sense. A new review article details why they are the way they are.

  • Do Tree Rings Prove an Old Earth?

    April 1, 2025 Jeff Miller Apologetics Press

    Tree ring analysis of the oldest known living trees on the planet is said to disprove the Flood and biblical Creation. Upon deeper examination of the evidence, however, the alleged ages of the bristlecone pine trees are likely much younger

  • How Evolutionary Theory Confuses the Study of Human History

    April 1, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

    Case of the Stone Spheres

  • Book

    The grossly falsified Scopes Monkey Trial -- modern implications

    April 1, 2025 John Woodmorappe Creation Ministries International

    REVIEW: The Other Side of the Scopes Monkey Trial: At its heart the trial was about racism by Jerry Bergman (Wipf and Stock, 2023) | See Also Wipf and Stock

  • Beetle beats the drought

    April, 2025 Lucien Tuinstra Creation Ministries International

    Living in a desert is not a walk in the park. It takes some special designs to cope with high temperatures and hot sand -- for example, getting sufficient nourishment and water.

  • Video

    Questions About Consciousness

    April 1, 2025 Annaka Harris Closer To Truth

    Is consciousness fundamental? What is required for consciousness? What things are conscious? Can AI ever be conscious? ... Annaka Harris is the New York Times bestselling author of “Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind"

  • Book

    Adam obscured by novel interpretations

    April, 2025 Keaton Halley Journal of Creation, v.39, n.1, p.22-26

    BOOK REVIEW: Perspectives on the Historical Adam and Eve: Four views by Kenneth D. Keathley, ed. (B&H Academic, 2024) | See Also Amazon

  • Book

    Substance dualism arguments

    April, 2025 Peter Line Journal of Creation, v.39, n.1, p.32-37

    BOOK REVIEW: The Substance of Consciousness: A comprehensive defense of contemporary substance dualism by Brandon Rickabaugh and J. P. Moreland (Wiley, 2024) | See Also Amazon

  • The design of bacterial flagella, part 3

    April, 2025 David Thomas Journal of Creation, v.39, n.1, p.88-97

    motility behaviour and gear change mechanisms

  • Enantiomeric amplification of L-amino acids

    April, 2025 Royal Truman Creation Ministries International

    using aspartic acid on an achiral Cu surface ... a possible natural solution for the origin of L-only amino acids in proteins

  • Science journals report on limited tests with paid peer review

    April 1, 2025 Mind Matters

    Recently, we reported that a new science journal, Journal of the Academy of Public Health, is in the works, trying to break the mold. One new idea they are trying out is paying for the time-consuming task of peer review.

  • Are Colleges Beyond Saving?

    April 1, 2025 Peter Biles Mind Matters

    They need to rediscover the purpose of higher education

  • Human brains differ more from chimps’ than once thought

    April 1, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

    It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 per cent of our DNA with chimps!” without stopping to consider something rather obvious

  • Video

    Does Fine-Tuning Point to God?

    April 1, 2025 Brian Greene YouTube

    Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and director of its centre for theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book “The Elegant Universe”

  • Scientists discover major differences in how humans and AI ‘think'

    March 31, 2025 Drew Turney Live Science

    Study finds that AI fundamentally lacks the human capability to make creative mental connections, raising warning signs for how we deploy AI tools.

  • Video

    Evaluating Theories of Consciousness

    March 31, 2025 Edi Bilimoria Closer To Truth

    What criteria should we use to compare and contrast diverse theories? Evaluating Materialism theories, like seeking neural correlates of consciousness, use the scientific method. But what about theories that are not Materialism?

  • The Enduring Self and the Case for Substance Dualism

    March 31, 2025 Mind Matters

    On our most recent podcast, philosophers make the case that if mind is illusion, so too is the scientific enterprise

  • Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

    March 31, 2025 Colin Barras New Scientist

    Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how it did so

  • Human Evolution and the Inner Ear

    March 31, 2025 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

  • Video

    The 2022 Nobel prize was a nail in the coffin for materialism

    March 31, 2025 Simon Mundie YouTube

    Donald Hoffman explains why material scientists will soon be left behind, as the understanding that matter cannot be fundamental spreads. Professor Hoffman says the 2022 Nobel Prize was a crucial moment in dispensing with physicalism

  • “Make America Healthy Again”: The new Lysenkoism

    March 31, 2025 David Gorski Science-Based Medicine

    Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial. Will his results be as disastrous?

  • Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not

    March 31, 2025 Sara Imari Walker The Long Now Foundation

    Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future.

  • Eating ‘Family Style’ May Have Set the Stage for Life as We Know It

    March 31, 2025 Jack Tamisiea New York Times

    Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

  • News Update/Commentary

    Physical forces encouraged evolution of multicellular life

    March 31, 2025 Marine Biological Laboratory Science Daily

    a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is based on the fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding by Stentor, a relatively giant unicellular organism.

  • The stagnation of physics

    March 31, 2025 Adrien De Sutter Aeon

    Physicists today need to jettison the all-too-attractive myth that they are uncovering the hidden reality of our Universe

  • How Everything Became “Evolution”

    March 31, 2025 Calvin Smith Answers in Genesis

    evolutionists are faced with the reality that none of their other stories can be demonstrated scientifically, so they are desperate to show “evolution in action” to the world to validate their worldview

  • There's more to evolution than genes

    March 31, 2025 James A. Shapiro The Institute of Art and Ideas

    Life's complexity cannot be explained by random mutations alone

  • Much Ado About Microevolution

    March 31, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

    A bragging scientist fools himself about finding natural selection in lizards

  • Earth’s Lost Timeline

    March 30, 2025 Utah State University Sci Tech Daily

    Rusty Rocks Reveal Billion-Year-Old Secrets

  • How a Neurosurgeon Showed That Abstract Thought Is Immaterial

    March 30, 2025 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

    Wilder Penfield, one of the first neurosurgeons to split human brains in half to relieve epilepsy, found much more than a treatment

  • Video

    Metaphysics vs. Materialism?

    March 29, 2025 Eric Schwitzgebel Closer To Truth

    Metaphysics asks the most profound questions, then uses sophisticated philosophical analysis to seek the deepest truths. What happens when metaphysics trains its analytical guns on ‘materialism’, the claim that only the physical is real?

  • What Damaged Brains Tell Us About the Mind

    March 29, 2025 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

    They often provide mute evidence that the human mind is not simply the output of the brain

  • Why Was the Earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand So Devastating?

    March 28, 2025 Robin George Andrews Scientific American

    A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar caused widespread shaking and likely considerable damage because of a lack of buildings built to withstand temblors

  • Mysterious Giants May Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists

    March 28, 2025 Mike McRae Science Alert

    Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize.

  • Dinosaur Fuzz Is Not Protofeathers

    March 28, 2025 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

    Trying to prove some dinosaurs evolved into birds still doesn’t fly

  • AI Peer Review Called “Inevitable” by Some, “Disaster” by Others

    March 28, 2025 Mind Matters

    The whole debate raises a question: How much original thought goes into peer review anyway? And what purpose does it ultimately serve?

  • Video

    Cosmology Crises Are Only Getting Worse

    March 28, 2025 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

    The branch of physics that deals with the universe, is facing a crisis right now. Four crises, actually. Let’s take a look at the biggest problems with our current understanding of the universe and how we got here to begin with.

  • Video

    John Lennox on AI and the Fate of Humanity

    March 28, 2025 Sean McDowell YouTube

    What does the future hold for humanity? How should we think about the rise of virtual reality and the metaverse? What worldviews are behind AI? Does AI point to the existence of an Intelligent Designer?

  • Why Did Our Very Ancient Ancestors Collect Ball-Shaped Stones?

    March 28, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

    Over a million years ago, it seems that some of our ancestors hiked through valleys in East Africa, searching for volcanic spheres

  • Why the cat wags her tail

    March 28, 2025 Mathilde Tahar-Malaussena Aeon

    Here’s a puzzle: how could evolution favour such a costly, frivolous and fun activity as animal play?

  • The Standard Cosmology Model May Be Breaking

    March 28, 2025 David Ehrenstein Physics, v.18

    Measurements of millions of galaxies suggest that dark energy changes over time and is more complicated than previously thought.

  • Nobelist Thomas Cech on “Junk RNA”

    March 28, 2025 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today