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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A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 3
March 26, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Birds with Modern Traits Flew Over Dinosaurs
March 25, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Several aspects of the dinosaur-to-bird evolution don’t make sense in the light of evolution.
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A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 2
March 25, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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William Lane Craig contra The Genesis Account
March 26, 2019 Creation Ministries International
Did the Apostles believe “cleverly devised myths”?
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News Update/Commentary
Scientist constructs artificial photosynthetic cells
March 25, 2019 Science Daily
New system paves the way to construct energetically-independent artificial cells
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News Update/Commentary
Newly discovered Medusavirus give new insights on how organisms and viruses co-evolved
March 25, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers find a new giant virus in the hot springs of northern Japan. It's unique genetic makeup of histones and capsid proteins brings new insight into virus evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
Model learns how individual amino acids determine protein function
March 25, 2019 Science Daily
Technique could improve machine-learning tasks in protein design, drug testing, and other applications
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The Mismeasurements of Stephen Jay Gould
March 19, 2019 Quillette
Gould’s thesis is that throughout the history of science, prejudiced scientists studying human beings allowed their social beliefs to color their data collection and analysis.
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Magazine Article
Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind
March 25, 2019 Scientific American
So-called “information realism” has some surprising implications
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The ecology and evolution of microbial CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems
March 25, 2019 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
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Video
Intelligent Design Continues To Be Wrong | TPS #360
March 25, 2019 YouTube
Reviewing the Shapiro interview of Intelligent Design proponent Stephen C. Meyer.
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‘There Was a Beginning’: Famous Geophysicist Explains Why Christian Creation Theory Makes Sense
March 25, 2019 Faithwire
Stephen C. Meyer is a geophysicist and author of New York Times bestseller, “Darwin’s Doubt.” Despite not being a Christian himself, after years of scientific study, Meyer came to the conclusion that there simply must be an intelligent designer
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Researchers: Newly Discovered Frog Separated from Others by 50 Million Years
March 25, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Michael Behe’s Response to Lehigh Colleagues’ Criticism
March 25, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Two Views of Ben Shapiro’s Interview with Steve Meyer
March 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Logic and First Principles, 15
March 25, 2019 Uncommon Descent
On the Architecture of Being. Or, Are Certain Abstract Entities (“Abstracta”) Such As Numbers, Natures, Truth Etc Real? If So, How -- And Where?
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Are the Best Measurements to Date Deepening the “Cosmological Crisis”?
March 23, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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A Philosopher Explains Why Machines Are Not Creative
March 25, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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One Way Viruses Get Spread “Should Never Have Evolved”?
March 23, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Motor Nerves Turn Out to Need “Expert Guidance”
March 25, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Insectologists Swat Insects-Are-Doomed Paper
March 23, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinism’s Influence on Philosopher of Science Thomas Kuhn
March 24, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Does the Idea of a Blind, Undirected Cosmos Govern Our Ideas of Sexuality?
March 24, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Was Philosopher of Science Thomas Kuhn “Evil”
March 23, 2019 Uncommon Descent
So implies the filmmaker Errol Morris, who was once Kuhn’s grad student (and Kuhn threw an ashtray at him and tossed him from the program).
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Atheist Public Intellectual John Gray Separates the Atheist Wheat from the Chaff
March 24, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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New US Free Speech Policy for Universities Miffs Boffins at Nature
March 22, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Gaia Needs a Reboot and New Scientist Is Here to Explain
March 24, 2019 Uncommon Descent
You know, the eco-Earth religion. Why a reboot? A machine built from scavenged parts from Britain’s Royal Air Force started randomly but ended in equilibrium. Can it boost the Gaia cult?
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Creativity Does Not Follow Computational Rules
March 22, 2019 Mind Matters
A philosopher muses on why machines are not creative
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Please Pass the Blueprints
March 22, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Will AI Liberate or Enslave Developing Countries?
August 20, 2018 Mind Matters
Perhaps that depends on who gets there first with the technology
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A Mind Matters Review: AI Week at Dust, the Sci-Fi Short Films Channel
March 22, 2019 Mind Matters
Films you have time to see and think about
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Who Creates Information in a Market?
August 13, 2018 Mind Matters
Do exchange-traded funds (ETFs)' algorithms make personally gathering information obsolete?
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Magazine Article
Was Thomas Kuhn Evil?
March 19, 2019 Scientific American
Filmmaker Errol Morris, once Kuhn’s grad student, accuses him of being a bad philosopher and bad person.
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Magazine Article
What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"
May 23, 2012 Scientific American
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Best-Yet Measurements Deepen Cosmological Crisis
March 22, 2019 Scientific American
The latest disagreement over the universe’s expansion rate suggests researchers may be on the threshold of revolutionary discoveries
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Team discovers ‘incredibly' diverse microbial community high in Yellowstone
February 27, 2019 phys.org
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Computing the origin of life
December 14, 2018 phys.org
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Clues to Martian life found in Chilean desert
February 28, 2019 phys.org
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Allele Shows Pyrethroid Resistance’s Spread in African Mosquitos
March 22, 2019 The Scientist
Researchers can now track the expansion of a resistance mechanism that allows the malaria vector Anopholes funestus to detoxify a key insecticide used on bed nets.
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Modern Human Activities Muddle Analyses of Prehistoric Migrations
March 22, 2019 The Scientist
Agriculture and other land uses can distort the levels of an earth mineral marker used to map the origins and movements of ancient humans and animals, a new study finds.
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News Update/Commentary
Colourful male fish have genes to thank for their enduring looks
March 22, 2019 Science Daily
Striking colors that are seen only in the males of some species are partly explained by gene behavior, research into guppy fish suggests.
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News Update/Commentary
Half-a-billion-year-old fossil reveals the origins of comb jellies
March 21, 2019 Science Daily
One of the ocean's little known carnivores has been allocated a new place in the evolutionary tree of life after scientists discovered its unmistakable resemblance with other sea-floor dwelling creatures.
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Book
Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy, and Science
July 1, 2010 Baker Books
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Book
Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion
January 7, 2019 International Studies Institute
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Book
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
January 8, 2019 Simon & Schuster
One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter.
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Book
The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
April 17, 2018 Simon & Schuster
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Magazine Article
Water beetles mate themselves to an evolutionary standstill
March 25, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
Female adaptations to male harassment result in a barrier to speciation.
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After Two Decades, a Fishy Genetic Mystery Has Been Solved
March 20, 2019 The Atlantic
A scientist faced down the ultimate cold case: How did two groups of fish separately evolve genes for making antifreeze?
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Book
Charles Darwin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
December 15, 2018 Rowman & Littlefield
an important new compendium presenting a detailed chronology of all aspects of Darwin’s life
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Venus Flytrap: How an Excitable, Carnivorous Plant Works
March 1, 2019 Trends in Plant Science
Best known from the animal kingdom, carnivory in the green branch of the tree of life at a first glance seems to be a peculiar trait. Thanks to recent advances, we now know that plant carnivory evolved at least six times independently.
