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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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Blog Post
Can morals be grounded as objective knowledge (and are some moral principles self-evident)?
December 27, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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Grand evolution theory for complex animals in ruins; fossil is, in fact, a jellyfish
December 27, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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Fisher’s proof of Darwinian evolution has been flipped?
December 27, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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American Council for Science and Health’s 10 biggest junk stories for 2017 include…
December 28, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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Clues Found That Earth May Have a Thermostat Set to “Habitable”
September 5, 2017 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
weathering of rocks can control Earth’s temperature over geologic timescales, new geochemical data suggest
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Magic vs. Science in the Historiography of Science: The Social-Historical Construction of Rationality
December 1, 2017 Carlos Alvarez Maia
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, v.3, p.3-25
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Discrepancy Between Cerebral Structure and Cognitive Functioning: A Review (pdf)
December 1, 2017 Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, v.205, n.12, p.967-972
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient DNA Shakes Up Horse Family Tree
December 3, 2017 sci-news.com
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Molecular clocks rewriting the story of human evolution
December 14, 2017 Genetic Literacy Project
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Study prompts new ideas on cancers’ origins
December 15, 2017 Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
mouse study shows mature cells can create precancerous lesions
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What differentiates humans from chimps
December 15, 2017 Genetic Literacy Project
differing DNA or different expression of similar genes
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News Update/Commentary
60-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Zone Discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye
December 15, 2017 sci-news.com
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Commentary: Many Mormons have forgotten that evolution isn’t a Satanic heresy
December 16, 2017 Salt Lake Tribune
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It’s Over: Dark Energy Was Fake Science
December 16, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s being called the Worst Theoretical Prediction in the History of Physics. Dark energy, and its cousin dark matter, are not showing up in any empirical tests.
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The Evolution of Religion, or the Religion of Evolution?
December 17, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines
evolutionists presume to explain how the rest of humanity got religion, but for their ideas to be consistent, they need to look in the mirror
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A planet that doesn’t play by the rules
December 18, 2017 Nature
an exoplanet’s unusual moves demand explanation
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Why Is M-Theory the Leading Candidate for Theory of Everything?
December 18, 2017 Quanta Magazine
the mother of all string theories passes a litmus test that, so far, no other candidate theory of quantum gravity has been able to match
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Mathematician set to publish ABC proof almost no one understands
December 18, 2017 New Scientist
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Big Science Has Prostituted Its Core Mission
December 18, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines
while individual scientists do pristine work, the major institutions of science and media have become propaganda arms for leftist causes
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Editors-in-chief of math journal resign over controversial paper
December 19, 2017 Retraction Watch
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10 Biggest Junk Science Stories of 2017
December 19, 2017 American Council on Science and Health
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Should Scientists Publish Their Personal Biases?
December 19, 2017 nautil.us
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Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news
December 19, 2017 New Scientist
patriotic fervour gripped Paris with proof that Isaac Newton had stolen his theory of gravity from a Frenchman -- but the details looked distinctly fishy
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The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world
December 19, 2017 New Scientist
Will the machines rise up and enslave us? The history of incompetent robots, from klutzy cleaners to sense-mangling chatbots, suggests we can sleep easy.
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The Cosmological Argument and an Eternal Big Bang Universe
December 20, 2017 Bible Science Forum
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Religion may alter your psychology, even if you’re a non-believer
December 20, 2017 The Conversation
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Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017
December 21, 2017 sapiens.org
for the field that studies everything human, the past year has been one of great upheaval and radical revelations
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Earth was smashed by a rock the size of Mars to make the moon
December 21, 2017 New Scientist
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Evaluating Claims of Oldest Fossil Microbes
December 21, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Are these fossils 3.465 billion years old? Are they even fossils? Serious questions need to be asked when the news gets excited about world records for oldest life on Earth.
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Mathematician and Geneticist Team Up to Correct Fisher’s Theorem
December 22, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new paper corrects errors in Fisher’s Theorem, a mathematical “proof” of Darwinism. Rather than supporting evolution, the corrected theorem inverts it.
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Religious People Live Healthier, Longer Lives -- While Atheists Collect Mutant Genes
December 23, 2017 Newsweek
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H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their Debate Whether Science Is Humanity's Best Hope Continues Today
December 25, 2017 Scientific American
though Wells and Orwell were debating in the era of Nazism, many of their arguments reverberate today in contemporary debates over science and policy ... see also
What the New York Times UFO Report Actually Reveals
December 26, 2017 nymag.com
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Fossils suggest a universe filled with life
December 26, 2017 earthsky.org
Evidence of life processes found in fossils in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks. Scientists say this work suggests life in our universe is widespread.
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Scientists Are Designing Artisanal Proteins for Your Body
December 26, 2017 New York Times
The human body makes tens of thousands of cellular proteins, each for a particular task. Now researchers have learned to create custom versions not found in nature.
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Video
Ways of Knowing: Science vs Everything Else
December 27, 2017 YouTube
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Bacteria acquire resistance from competitors
December 27, 2017 University of Basel
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Rare Intersex Shark the First of Its Kind
December 27, 2017 Hakai Magazine
the shark, discovered in Taiwan, has a complete set of male and female sexual organs
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Can Bayes Save Modern Science?
December 27, 2017 Real Clear Science
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What We Mean When We Say Evidence-Based Medicine
December 27, 2017 New York Times
people understand different things by this term, and the arguments don’t divide along predictable partisan lines, either
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Can Bose-Einstein condensates simulate cosmic inflation?
December 28, 2017 Physics World
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Fossils of earliest organisms that had sex are a billion years old
December 28, 2017 CBC News (Canada)
more precise date for red algae fossils in Nunavut allows scientists to estimate when first plant arose
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William Lane Craig and the Origin of the Universe
December 28, 2017 Answers in Genesis
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Blog Post
A top anthropology finding of year show humans cognitively closer to dogs than chimps
December 28, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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Millennial classic edition
December 29, 2017 Uncommon Descent
science writer Michael Shermer makes Scientific American’s Top Ten stories list
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Live-bearing lizards switched back to egg-laying in recent eons, violating Dollo’s Law
December 29, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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Evolution is a Fact; So is Climate Change
December 29, 2017
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The (Ultimate) Top Ten Science Stories of 2017
December 30, 2017 Real Clear Science
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Cosmos Magazine’s Top Ten includes
December 30, 2017 Uncommon Descent
Universe’s underlying symmetry still baffling and human evolution timeline drastically stretched
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Researchers: Plants can choose how to respond to competitors. Do they think?
December 30, 2017 Uncommon Descent