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.
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Science Uprising, Episode 2: Mind Denial
June 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Case of SUE, the Woke Dinosaur
June 9, 2019 arcdigital.media
How Chicago’s Field Museum involved a 67 million year old reptile in culture war activism that harms science and degrades the gender non-binary
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Will Space Aliens Become a New Majority Religion?
June 9, 2019 Mind Matters
Nearly as many young Americans believe in ET as in God, says religion prof
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Blog Post
Spiritual Science: Anything But God
June 9, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Materialists would rather escape into mysticism than consider a personal Creator.
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Atheists Suffer Apocalypse Anxiety Too, It Seems
June 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Continuing Efforts to Erase the Beginning of Time
June 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Fine-Tuning of the Universe: Pro and Con
June 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Educator Proposes a More Humane Way to Teach Evolution
June 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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William Lane Craig vs. Ronald DeSousa: Difference Between Humans and Orangutans
June 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Lizards' grip became ten times stronger after hurricane Maria
June 8, 2019 New Scientist
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Evolution Cannot Do Justice to Morality
June 8, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Jargon-rich theories to explain altruism in Darwinian terms melt in the light of justice.
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Supposed Junk DNA Serves as Microlens for Condensing Light
June 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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If There IS a Ninth Planet Out There…
June 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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New Ordovician Fossils (470 to 459 Million Years Ago) Show Survival of “Extinct” Life Forms
June 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Yet Another Thing That Made Us Human: Dancing
June 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Worm Parents Pass on Behaviors Epigenetically to Offspring
June 7, 2019 The Scientist
Two research groups demonstrate that in Caenorhabditis elegans, behavioral traits can be passed down through the germline to future generations, even though they aren’t hard-wired.
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Did Time Have a Beginning?
June 7, 2019 Forbes
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‘Drunken Monkey’ Hypothesis: Was Booze an Advantage for Our Ancestors?
June 7, 2019 Discover magazine
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How Do You Explain That Machines Won't Really Think Like People?
June 7, 2019 Mind Matters
Computation cannot become non-computational thought but it is difficult to prove that something can’t happen.
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Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning Is Still Alive, on Life Support
June 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Something Like Human Beings Had to Eventually Come Along
June 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Clusters of Human Body Cells Have Different Genomes
June 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers’ New Find: Liver, Pancreas Cells Are Generally As Old As the Brain
June 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Watch: Stephen Meyer Expertly Punctures the Rule of Methodological Naturalism
June 7, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolution: as a religious professor of science education, we need to rethink how we teach it
June 6, 2019 The Conversation
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Why humans (or something very similar) may have been destined to walk the Earth
June 6, 2019 The Conversation
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The human body is a mosaic of different genomes
June 6, 2019 Nature
Survey finds that ‘normal’ human tissues are riddled with mutations.
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The mystery of cosmic cold spots just got even weirder
June 6, 2019 Astronomy magazine
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Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning
June 6, 2019 Quanta Magazine
A recent challenge to Stephen Hawking’s biggest idea -- about how the universe might have come from nothing -- has cosmologists choosing sides.
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Answering Objections to the Fine-Tuning Argument with Dr. Robin Collins and Dr. Josh Rasmussen
June 6, 2019 YouTube
Dr. Robin Collins, Dr. Josh Rasmussen, and Cameron Bertuzzi have a casual conversation about the fine-tuning argument. We discuss the strongest versions, strongest objections, and take questions from viewers.
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Powerful CRISPR upgrade uses ‘jumping genes' to directly insert DNA
June 6, 2019 New Scientist
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Autism: Another Example of Evolution Misleading Science with Tragic Results
June 6, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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News Update/Commentary
Is sex primarily a strategy against transmissible cancer?
June 6, 2019 Science Daily
New research suggests that sexual reproduction is favored by selection because, unlike asexual reproduction, it not only provides important evolutionary advantages, but also prevents the invasion of transmissible cancer cells
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News Update/Commentary
Mathematics of plant leaves
June 6, 2019 Science Daily
Unusual Japanese plant inspires recalculation of equation used to model leaf arrangement patterns
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Nuclear architecture: What organizes the genome in a cell's nucleus?
June 6, 2019 Science Daily
New research uncovers leading mechanisms of separation of active from inactive fractions of the genome in the cell nucleus and turns our picture of the nucleus upside down.
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The mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter
June 6, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have clarified one of the mysteries of 2018 in the field of extragalactic astrophysics: the supposed existence of a galaxy without dark matter.
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News Update/Commentary
How cells regulate division
June 6, 2019 Science Daily
Combining tissue imaging and pioneering artificial intelligence, researchers have probed deeper into how cell division cycles are regulated in a new study.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists get a grip on sloth family tree
June 6, 2019 Science Daily
A new study challenges decades of scientific opinion concerning the evolutionary relationships of tree sloths and their extinct kin.
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Translation of genes more complex than expected
June 6, 2019 Science Daily
This discovery was made by developing a type of advanced microscopy that directly visualizes the translation of the genetic code in a living cell.
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New study identifies molecular aging ‘midlife crisis'
June 6, 2019 Science Daily
Research provides a possible new reason why human disease burden increases so sharply from the sixth decade of life onward as health-protective mechanisms disappear.
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Ultimate destiny: How undifferentiated cells commit to their biological fate
June 6, 2019 Science Daily
The findings help explain how some neural crest cells become craniofacial cells, while others end up as nervous system cells. The research can help pinpoint where cells may ‘take the wrong turn' and become malignant.
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Birds and Bats: How Bright Is Evolutionary Light?
June 6, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers: Chimps Eating Shellfish Help Explain Human Evolution
June 6, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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A 1980 N.Y.Times Article
June 6, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Declining Neanderthal Fertility Caused Extinction, Not Violence
June 6, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Knuckle Study Might Shed Light on Whether Ancient Humans Walked or Swung from Trees
June 6, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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We've seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own
June 5, 2019 New Scientist
New experiments are revealing hints of a world and a reality that are complete reflections of ours. This mirrorverse may be able to solve the mystery of the universe's missing dark matter
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Jay Richards: The Many Dilemmas of Materialism
June 5, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Feathers Arose 100 Million Years Before Birds
June 5, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Tools from 2.6 Million Years Ago Have Been Found
June 5, 2019 Uncommon Descent
