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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.
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Science still has expertise; what it’s lost is authority
September 24, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6818, p.1279
In the years since the pandemic and the political turmoil surrounding the American scientific establishment, much time has been spent discussing why science has lost influence on public policy in the United States.
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Do People Who Believe AI is Sentient Not Know They Are Panpsychists?
September 24, 2026 Mind Matters
A medic said to me that he would use the word ‘please’, as the AI might be sentient
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Fact-checking the pop science buzz that two brains evolved into one
September 24, 2026 Mind Matters
At ZME Science, Tudor Tarita tells us that our current brains may have started as two separate organs in different life forms five hundred million years ago
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Machines “Chose” to Defeat Hugging Face Security, Steal its Data
September 24, 2026 Mind Matters
Just the Facts: 1,200 swarming AIs don’t need consciousness to wreak havoc -- just network connectivity and goals
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If AI Cures a Disease or Enables Fusion, the Bubble Will Be Justified
September 24, 2026 Mind Matters
Scientists say that is unlikely, but the bubble lives on
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Scientific American Starts Sober, Quickly Relapses into Speculation
September 24, 2026 Science & Culture Today
On Origin of Life
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Physics Reveals Insane Evidence for a Creator Beyond Chance
September 23, 2026 ID the Future and Discovery Science
a scorecard for evaluating models of the origin of the universe
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Cosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our Universe
September 23, 2026 Gresham College
Our expanding Universe only makes sense if, early on, it expanded rapidly in a period of cosmic inflation. In this lecture, we consider the evidence for this apparently arbitrary idea,
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Response after Lee Cronin Debate
September 23, 2026 Piers Morgan Uncensored
review of debate with Professor Lee Cronin about how life began
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The Scientific Method is a Myth -- Sort of....
September 23, 2026 Is Genesis History?
challenging the familiar five-step formula and exploring how scientists actually use observation, experimentation, measurement, classification, inference, and prediction to understand the natural world
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Beat “Information" Arguments with This One Weird Trick
September 23, 2026 Creation Myths
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Philosophers of Physics Debate Fine-Tuning
September 23, 2026 Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil)
Is the universe fine-tuned for life -- and if so, does that provide evidence for God?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography
September 23, 2026 Nature
Bats are extraordinary among mammals, having uniquely evolved powered flight and laryngeal echolocation, along with disease resistance, extended healthspans and the ability to hibernate.
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Genome project opens the next chapter for studying bat evolution
September 23, 2026 Nature
A landmark collection of bat genomes reveals fresh clues about the evolution of one of the world’s most unusual groups of mammals.
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Gravitational forces inside Earth drag some decades out -- and make others fly by
September 23, 2026 Nature
Variations in day length that occur on multidecadal timescales are caused by gravitational coupling between Earth’s inner core and its solid mantle.
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Gravitational tug-of-war inside Earth is changing the length of our days
September 23, 2026 Nature
A battle of forces, driven by the motion of Earth’s core, can explain small variations in the planet’s rotation, study finds.
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Gravitational torque drives multidecadal variations in length of day
September 23, 2026 Nature, v.658, p.119-124
Fluctuations in the length of day (LOD) on decadal timescales are caused primarily by an exchange of angular momentum between the Earth’s mantle and core.
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Complexity First: Comb Jellies Upset Evolutionary Expectations
September 23, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The empirical trajectory across the rock record is the reverse of Darwinian expectation
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Do we live in a simulation?
September 23, 2026 New Scientist
If so, it could be a giant consciousness experiment ... Philosophers have pondered whether we live in a simulation for centuries. Now Astronomer Royal for Scotland Catherine Heymans suggests a rationale for why our reality might actually be synthetic
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Is Talking to Animals Really AI’s “Next Ethical Minefield”?
September 23, 2026 Mind Matters
Curiously, the Bloomberg article focuses not on the potential for new understanding of animals but the risks that that understanding is thought to pose
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So, You Say that No Cosmologists Have Ever Claimed the Universe Came from Nothing?
September 23, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Stairs on a Lake: Inference to Design?
September 23, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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“God of the Gaps,” and Other Old Friends
September 23, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Responding to Critics in The Telegraph
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Scoring the Universe: A Rubric for Cosmological Design
September 23, 2026 ID the Future
By now, you’re likely familiar with the multiverse hypothesis, which is actually just one of dozens of cosmological models proposed to explain away the significance of a beginning to the universe and the evidence for fine-tuning.
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A Chasm Between Paradigms
September 23, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Casey Luskin
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Can the Mind Be Explained by the Brain?
September 22, 2026 Discovery Science
Is the human mind fully explained by the physical brain? ... why there may be a lot more going on with our minds than we think
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This ‘fire amoeba' pushes the limit of what's possible for complex life
September 22, 2026 National Public Radio
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Briny “Death Pools” Hold Clues to Early Life
September 22, 2026 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
New evidence from the depths of the Red Sea supports the oxidation of manganese and iron as an engine for life in the earliest oceans.
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The Machine That Decides What You Know
September 22, 2026
When “AI Safety” Becomes Information Control
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Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype
September 22, 2026 Nature
We examine whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown.
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Genome Duplication: A Source of Evolutionary Novelty?
September 22, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary models struggle to explain why such a striking genetic overhaul occurs with striking regularity
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How ancient superbugs could help us fight antibiotic resistance
September 22, 2026 New Scientist
As the world warms, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are escaping from frozen sediments. But with new monitoring tools, we can identify problem genes and develop treatments before our pathogens acquire them
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Twenty Years Later, Debate with New Atheists Is Over
September 22, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Stephen Meyer
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Awe at the Wonders Overhead
September 22, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Birds on the Move
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How Molecular Machines in Plants Point to God
September 21, 2026 Discovery Science
the microscopic machinery driving photosynthesis and how its biological engineering points toward an intelligent origin
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Life, Machines, and a Foundation for Synthbiosis
September 21, 2026 Santa Fe Institute
talk given to the conference on “Symbiogenesis in the Age of Machine intelligence"
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Answering Objections to Fine-Tuning
September 21, 2026 ID the Future
Inscrutable Dice and Bean Jars
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Could AI Have Consciousness That Isn’t Human-Like?
September 21, 2026 nautil.us
Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith on AI consciousness and existential risk
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How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution
September 21, 2026 Quanta Magazine
Half of our genome is made of transposons -- snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk.
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Jumping Genes: Engineered to Move
September 21, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Fine-Tuning -- for the Universe or for Life?
September 21, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Physicist Exercises His Imagination
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Scholars’ Mag Offers Sympathetic Review of Non-Materialist Books
September 20, 2026 Mind Matters
The books are Antony Flew’s There is a God and Michael Egnor’s The Immortal Mind. Unusually for these times, NAS’s mag listens to both sides
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This tiny organism can shrink to one quarter its size in milliseconds
September 19, 2026 Science Daily
A single-celled organism can shrink using a remarkable calcium-powered protein “fishnet.” Scientists hope its unusual machinery could inspire artificial muscles capable of moving far faster than today’s designs.
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Isn’t the AI March of Dooms Getting a Bit Ridiculous Now?
September 19, 2026 Mind Matters
The recent military incident of concern stemmed from an analyst relying on a hallucinating chatbot -- surely an avoidable error
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Fishapod fossil shows early elbows came in a variety of forms
September 18, 2026 New Scientist
The fish that preceded the first four-legged land animals came in a wider variety of forms than we had thought, and fossils show that one had an elbow joint that moved in an oddly restrictive way
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Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged
September 18, 2026 New Scientist
The front and back parts of our brain come from different progenitor cells in embryos, which suggests they evolved as separate entities
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Tech Entrepreneur on People-First AI Innovation in Business
September 18, 2026 ID the Future
How can entrepreneurs incorporate the benefits of AI while maintaining their dedication to serving fellow human beings?
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Physicists are scrambling to make sense of possible dark matter signal
September 18, 2026 New Scientist
Following the possible recent detection of a dark matter particle, researchers have already come up with a veritable cornucopia of possible models for what sort of particle it might have been
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Agency as the Emerging Naturalist Paradigm
September 18, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Is Philosophy Dead?
September 17, 2026 Psychology Today
The fate of philosophy in a scientific age.