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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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Book
A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
November, 2016 Cambridge University Press
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Video
Big Questions in Free Will
November 4, 2016 YouTube
Do we have free will? After so many centuries of debate by so many great thinkers, can we still make progress in answering this question? That’s the goal of the Big Questions in Free Will Project.
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The real problem
November 2, 2016 Aeon
It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be
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Darwin's Corrosive Idea
November, 2016 Discovery Institute
The Impact of Evolution on Attitudes about Faith, Ethics, and Human Uniqueness
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Book
Divine Action and the Laws of Nature: An Approach Based on the Concept of Causality Consonant with Contemporary Science
November 1, 2016 Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia
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Book
Searching for Adam: Genesis and the Truth about Man’s Origin
October, 2016 Master Books
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Book
Chance in Evolution
October, 2016 University of Chicago Press
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The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
October, 2016 Princeton University Press
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Geological strata: they’re everywhere
October 1, 2016 Creation Ministries International
Evidence for the global flood
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Book
Searching for Adam: Genesis & the Truth About Man's Origin
October, 2016 Master Books
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Tracking Dinosaurs in BLM Canyon Country, Utah
October, 2016 Geology of the Intermountain West, v. 3, p. 67-100
Field Guide Prepared for Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, October 26-29, 2016 -- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Bill Nye to Dress Up As Real Scientist for Halloween
September 28, 2016 The Babylon Bee
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99.9999999% of Your Body Is Empty Space
September 23, 2016 Science Alert
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Atheists Still Waiting for the Origin-of-Life Messiah
September 23, 2016 algemeiner.com
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures
September 22, 2016 Nature, v.537
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Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious
September 21, 2016 Aeon
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Book
A Theology of Nonsense
September, 2016 Pickwick Publications
few theologians are willing to discuss that consent to the Christian doctrine often requires a faith that goes beyond reason or does not exclusively identify with it
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God’s rest -- A problem for theistic evolution
August 25, 2016 Creation Ministries International
While the Bible says God finished His work of creation, theistic evolutionists say the world is still under construction.
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Origins of pathogenic microbes: part 1 -- bacteria
August, 2016 Creation Ministries International
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The genetic effects of the population bottleneck associated with the Genesis Flood (pdf)
August 1, 2016 Journal of Creation, v.30, n.2, p.102-111
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The overthrusting paradox: a challenge to uniformitarian geology and evolution (pdf)
August 1, 2016 Journal of Creation, v.30, n.2, p.83-91
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Flood processes into the late Cenozoic: part 2 -- sedimentary rock evidence (pdf)
August 1, 2016 Journal of Creation, v.30, n.2
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The Ice Age as a mechanism for post-Flood dispersal (pdf)
August 1, 2016 Journal of Creation, v.30, n.2, p.54-59
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Catastrophic plate tectonics and plate tectonics -- a comparison of two theories (pdf)
August 1, 2016 Journal of Creation, v.30, n.2, p.46-48
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The uniformitarian puzzle of mountaintop planation surfaces
August 1, 2016 Journal of Creation, v.30, n.2, p.9-10
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How may the presence of mantle water be interpreted? (pdf)
August 1, 2016 Journal of Creation, v.30, n.2, p.3-4
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Video
The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
July 20, 2016 YouTube
Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper I with responsibility for cuneiform in the Department of the Middle East, British Museum.
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The Ancient Universe and the Cosmic Temple
July 19, 2016
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Book
Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism
July, 2016 Mosaica Press
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Las Vegas, the Lottery, and the Origin of Life
July 14, 2016 Answers in Genesis
How Many Genes Are Required to Make a Single-Celled Organism?
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Video
Western logic has held contradictions as false for centuries. Is that wrong?
July 6, 2016 Aeon
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Quantifying the origins of life on a planetary scale
July 5, 2016 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Is God a silverback?
July 4, 2016 Aeon
Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial. The monotheistic God is modelled on a harem-keeping alpha male
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Intelligent Design: Should We Teach It?
July 1, 2016 Dialogue & Nexus
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Cultural Evolution and Social Epistemology: A Darwinian Alternative to Steve Fuller’s Theodicy of Science
July 1, 2016 William T. Lynch
Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, v.31, n.2, p.224-234
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Design Hypotheses Behave Like Skeptical Hypotheses
July 1, 2016 International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, v.7, n.2, p.69-90
or: Why We Can’t Know the Falsity of Design Hypotheses
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Should Catholic Church Endorse Intelligent Design?
July 1, 2016 Lumen: A Journal of Catholic Studies, v.5, n.1
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Four Kinds of Perspectival Truth
June 10, 2016 Philosophy and Phenomenological Truth
In this paper, I assess recent claims in philosophy of science about scientific perspectivism being compatible with realism.
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World-Famous Scientist: God Created the Universe
June 8, 2016 Intellectual Takeout
Michio Kaku has made a name for himself as a world-leading theoretical physicist unafraid to speak his mind.
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Book
The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere
June, 2016 Cambridge University Press
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The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element
June 2, 2016 Nature, v.534, n.7605, p.102-105
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This Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved
June 1, 2016 The Atlantic
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Don’t freak out, but Earth’s core is two years younger than the crust
May 30, 2016 Metro (UK)
New research suggests Earth’s core is two whole years younger than the crust.
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Earth's core is younger than its
crustsurfaceMay 30, 2016 The Register (UK)
Time is ‘bigger on the inside'
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Video
Origins -- The Secret Code of Creation
May 16, 2016 YouTube
Join Origins host Donn Chapman as he welcomes Jason Lisle
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The God of the Gaps, Natural Theology and Intelligent Design
May, 2016 Journal of Analytic Theology, v.4
the critique of the God of the gaps is substantially weaker than is commonly assumed, and dismissing ID's biological arguments should rather be based on criticizing the premises of these arguments
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The young centre of the Earth
May, 2016 European Journal of Physics, v.37, n.3
We treat, as an illustrative example of gravitational time dilation in relativity, the observation that the centre of the Earth is younger than the surface by an appreciable amount.
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Reading God’s Two Books
April 28, 2016 BioLogos
Early American perspectives on religion and science
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Video
Icons of Evolution -- Full Movie
April 27, 2016 YouTube
Some of these icons of evolution present assumptions or hypotheses as though they were observed facts; in Stephen Jay Gould's words, they are “incarnations of concepts masquerading as neutral descriptions of nature."
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‘Lost’ Sighting of Brightest Supernova Found in Ancient Text
April 27, 2016 National Geographic
Newly translated writings from Arab scholars offer intriguing details about SN 1006, the brightest star explosion in recorded history.