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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.

• Good-bye Anthropocene

  March 8, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Science cannot rid itself of human nature and politics

• Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?

  March 8, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Wrestling with AI: Making More and Better Disciples

  March 8, 2024 Joseph Miller Mind Matters

  AI may have “knowledge," but it lacks wisdom.

• The Singularity -- When We Merge with AI -- Won't Happen

  March 8, 2024 Mind Matters

  Futurist predictions depend on the assumption that the human brain is like a machine, says, computer scientist Erik Larson. But it isn’t

• Neuroscientist: How the Brain-As-Computer Myth Led Science Astray

  March 8, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Michael Merzenich explains neuroplasticity -- how the brain organizes itself in detail -- to Robert Lawrence Kuhn at Closer to Truth

• Video

  Dawkins/O'Connor Interview | In-Depth Analysis

  March 8, 2024 Mike Licona and William Lane Craig YouTube

  Richard Dawkins levels his critique at William Lane Craig ... once again. A deep-dive into the fascinating interview by Alex O'Connor.

• ‘World’s oldest bread’ discovered in Turkey

  March 8, 2024 Amarachi Orie and Gul Tuysuz CNN

  dating back 8,600 years

• ‘Strange bird’ specimen might have looked like any other bird 120 million years ago

  March 8, 2024 Ashley Strickland CNN

  until it opened its mouth

• News Update/Commentary

  Researchers develop artificial building blocks of life

  March 8, 2024 University of Cologne Science Daily

  For the first time, scientists have developed artificial nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, with several additional properties in the laboratory.

• News Update/Commentary

  New study discovers how altered protein folding drives multicellular evolution

  March 8, 2024 University of Helsinki Science Daily

  Researchers have discovered a mechanism steering the evolution of multicellular life. They identified how altered protein folding drives multicellular evolution.

• Stepping Into the Unknome

  March 8, 2024 Danielle Gerhard The Scientist

  A database of neglected genes may help unlock the mysteries hiding in the overlooked regions of the proteome.

• Paul M. Sutter Thinks We’re Doing Science (and Journalism) Wrong

  March 8, 2024 Dan Falk Undark

  In a new book, an astrophysicist has much to say about the public’s lack of trust in science, and how it can be fixed.

• This Could Be How the Earth’s First Cells Formed

  March 8, 2024 Darren Orf Popular Mechanics

  The answer may have been hiding in our own bodies all along.

• Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark

  March 8, 2024 David Read Fulcrum7

• Brain Waves Travel in One Direction When Memories Are Made and the Opposite When Recalled

  March 8, 2024 Grant Currin Columbia University

  These wide-ranging waves quickly link the specific constellations of brain regions that work in harmony to perform a task.

• Quantum physics and the end of naturalism

  March 8, 2024 Bruce L. Gordon iai News

  The need for transcendent reality

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolutionary nature of animal friendships

  March 8, 2024 Stockholm University Science Daily

  Biologists present groundbreaking research shedding new light on the evolution of social bonds and cooperation among group-living animals.

• Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me

  March 7, 2024 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

  Up from Dawkins

• Video

  New Rumours that AI Has Become Sentient

  March 7, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  A brief comment on this week's news about Claude 3 supposedly showing self-awareness.

• Video

  What's the Stuff of Mind and Brain?

  March 7, 2024 Keith Ward YouTube

  Mind stuff consists of perceptions, cognitions, emotions. Brain stuff consists of electrical sparks and circuits and chemical concentrations and flows. These are not similar categories. How do the two relate?

• Climate change is an important predictor of extinction risk on macroevolutionary timescales

  March 7, 2024 Cooper M. Malanoski, et al. Science, v.383, n.6687, p.1130-1134

  investigating what factors explain which species went extinct across the Phanerozoic using data on marine invertebrates from the Paleobiology Database.

• The “blind spot” in science that’s fueling a crisis of meaning

  March 7, 2024 Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson Big Think

  Here's the case for why science can't keep ignoring human experience.

• Got milk? Meet the weird amphibian that nurses its young

  March 7, 2024 Freda Kreier Nature

  Some caecilians feed their young on a combination of their own skin and a nutrient-rich milk-like liquid.

• Wonders Under the Sea

  March 7, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Big animals both living and extinct showcase exquisite detail in bulk

• Walking Cells and Other Surprises Among Protists

  March 7, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

  An Evolutionary Challenge

• A Misguided Critique of Irreducible Complexity

  March 7, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Study suggests that first humans came to Europe 1.4 million years ago

  March 7, 2024 Mark Milligan Heritage Daily

  a new study led by the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Institute of Archaeology of the CAS

• Skull, tooth, and claw

  March 7, 2024 Caroline Ash Science, v.383, n.6687, p.1069-1070

  these birds exhibited a surprising range of trophic levels, from being plant and fish eaters to ambush predators and raptors. It is likely that the capacity to fly allowed access to more niches and fueled diversification.

• News Update/Commentary

  Earth's earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils

  March 7, 2024 University of Cambridge Science Daily

  The oldest fossilized forest known on Earth -- dating from 390 million years ago -- has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England.

• News Update/Commentary

  How the brain coordinates speaking and breathing

  March 7, 2024 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Science Daily

  Neuroscientists have discovered a circuit that controls vocalization and makes sure that breathing is prioritized over speaking

• News Update/Commentary

  Cracking epigenetic inheritance

  March 7, 2024 University of Hong Kong Science Daily

  A research team has recently made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the DNA copying machine helps pass on epigenetic information to maintain gene traits at each cell division.

• Museums' vertebrate collections go online -- in 3D

  March 7, 2024 Robert Sanders Berkeley News

  CT scans of animal skeletons are now available to anyone, including those with 3D printers

• Sora: Life Is Not a Multiple-Choice Test

  March 6, 2024 Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith Mind Matters

  With Sora, as with other generative AI developments, some are quick to proclaim that artificial general intelligence has arrived. Not so fast.

• Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles

  March 6, 2024 Sofia Quaglia New Scientist

  Puzzles that bumblebees cannot solve on their own can be cracked with help from another bee, adding to research on the transmission of culture among insects

• Have You Thanked God for Bacteria Today?

  March 6, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  More research documents that bacteria are essential for good health

• Thermodynamics and its Relation to Creation/Evolution

  March 6, 2024 Danny R. Faulkner Answers Research Journal

  An Introduction

• Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

  March 6, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Geologists reject the Anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch -- after 15 years of debate

  March 6, 2024 Alexandra Witze Nature

  But some are now challenging the vote, saying there were ‘procedural irregularities’.

• Why scientists trust AI too much -- and what to do about it

  March 6, 2024 Nature

  Some researchers see superhuman qualities in artificial intelligence. All scientists need to be alert to the risks this creates.

• Video

  Cracking Chirality: The Mystery of Mirror Molecules

  March 6, 2024 YouTube

  how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake, may have set the stage for life as we know it

• Producing more but understanding less: The risks of AI for scientific research

  March 6, 2024 Jennifer Ouellette ars technica

  A psychologist and an anthropologist ponder the epistemic risks AI could pose for science.

• Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why?

  March 6, 2024 Veronique Greenwood Quanta Magazine

  How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, first arose billions of years ago in bacteria with a primitive sociality.

• Astronomers spot oldest ‘dead’ galaxy yet observed

  March 6, 2024 University of Cambridge

  A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers.

• Ancient stone tools found in Ukraine date to over 1 million years ago, and may be oldest in Europe

  March 6, 2024 Christina Larson Associated Press

• News Update/Commentary

  Revealing the evolutionary origin of genomic imprinting

  March 6, 2024 Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences Science Daily

  Some genes can be expressed or silenced depending on whether we inherited them from our mother or our father. The mechanism behind this is determined by DNA modifications during egg and sperm production.

• Company Trying to Resurrect a Mammoth Makes a Stem Cell Breakthrough

  March 6, 2024 Isaac Schultz Gizmodo

  The ‘de-extinction’ company Colossal Biosciences has taken a step toward its hairy elephant -- erm, mammoth

• Plagiarizing God: “Biomimicry” Assumes Intelligent Design

  March 6, 2024 John Stonestreet Breakpoint Colson Center

  Scientists who mimic creation’s design unknowingly glorify the Creator.

• World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast

  March 6, 2024 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  The fossilised Calamophyton remains show how early trees helped shape landscapes and stabilise riverbanks millions of years ago

• Genomes of modern Indian people include wide range of Neanderthal DNA

  March 6, 2024 James Woodford New Scientist

  A genetic study of nearly 2700 individuals has revealed the ancestry of Indian people, and gets scientists closer to reconstructing the genomes of ancient Neanderthals

• Will these reprogrammed elephant cells ever make a mammoth?

  March 6, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  The de-extinction company Colossal is the first to convert elephant cells to an embryonic state, but using them to make mammoths won’t be easy