©Copyright 2018 GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
11060 Campus Street • Loma Linda, California 92350 • 909-558-4548

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.
-
On Ethical Gray Zones
November 26, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
examples from World War II and the present illustrate that just because some people compromise ethics doesn’t mean ethics itself is a matter of opinion
-
Dinosaur Soft Tissue “Explained”
November 26, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the discoverer of soft tissue in dinosaur bone now has a new explanation for its preservation -- but does it really answer the obvious question?
-
Brightest cosmic burst has record-breaking stamina
November 27, 2013 New Scientist, n.2945, p.18
a gamma-ray burst that lasted for 20 hours cannot be explained by standard models of such events, opening up a fresh mystery about their nature
-
Waiting for pain can cause more dread than pain itself
November 27, 2013 New Scientist, n.2945, p.16
people choose to experience more pain if it means spending less time waiting for it, which suggests that anticipating pain is worse than experiencing it
-
Inbreeding shaped the course of human evolution
November 28, 2013 New Scientist, n.2945, p.8
Many early humans were highly inbred, according to a new genetic analysis. Their isolation may explain why modern behaviour took so long to arise.
-
Javelin Upsets Early Man Timeline
November 28, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a well-crafted spear point for a javelin is dated way too early for the current evolutionary timeline
-
Origin and age of the earliest Martian crust from meteorite NWA 7533
November 28, 2013 Nature, v.503, p.513-516
chemical analysis of the meteorite NWA 7533 indicates that it may be a Martian regolith breccia and, if so, that the crust of Mars may have formed in the first 100 million years of the planet’s history
-
Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization
November 29, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6162, p.1069-1073
a detailed study of a recent asteroid impact provides an opportunity to calibrate the damage caused by these rare events
-
The Life Force
November 29, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6162, p.1032-1034
step by grueling step, Jack Szostak is pushing through the barriers that keep him from his goal: making living cells from scratch in the lab
-
Fossil Forests
November 29, 2013
-
Evolution debate again engulfs Texas Board of Ed
November 22, 2013 U. S. News & World Report (Associated Press)
-
Twenty Intelligent Design Resources: A Christmas Shopping List
November 27, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
C.S. Lewis and the Advent of the Posthuman
November 29, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
Not Only Is Earth One Nice Planet Among Many, but Our Entire Universe Is Lost in a Crowd
December 2, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
Evolution could be part of 'intelligent design'
December 3, 2013 Victoria Advocate (Texas)
-
New Record Structure Defies Fundamental Tenet of Modern Cosmology
December 3, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a structure over twice as large as the previous record holder puts immense strain on theories of the universe
-
400,000-year-old human DNA adds new tangle to our origin story
December 4, 2013 NBC News
-
Ho-Hum; Paleoanthropologists Confused Again
December 4, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
upsets are so common in evolutionary studies of human ancestry, bystanders might well ask how often they find anything worth believing
-
Hummingbird Metabolism a “Marvel of Evolutionary Engineering”
December 5, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Unlike humans, hummingbirds are equally good at extracting energy from fructose as from glucose. They are marvels of evolutionary engineering. That makes perfect evolutionary sense.
-
News Update/Commentary
Discovery of Partial Skeleton Suggests Ruggedly Built, Tree-Climbing Human Ancestor
December 5, 2013 Science Daily
-
On the Origin of Snakes
December 6, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New studies of snakes and their genes are surprising scientists with stories of “rapid evolution.” Some findings offer potential for human health.
-
Carver Sanitized of Religion
December 7, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a short biography of George Washington Carver posted by a science news site omitted what was most important to the Father of Agricultural Chemistry: his faith
-
Awe, Shucks: Backwards Causation in Scientific Explanation
December 8, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Is it the emotion of awe that creates belief in the supernatural, or is it the other way around?
-
Science Reporter Says Scientists Are Like Cattle
December 9, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a science reporter lists several reasons why scientists are about as trustworthy as bankers
-
News Update/Commentary
Hard Rock Life: Collecting Census Data on Microbial Denizens of Hardened Rocks
December 9, 2013 Science Daily
-
News Update/Commentary
More Light Shed on Possibility of Life on Mars
December 9, 2013 Science Daily
-
Got Scientism? Champions of “Science” All Leftists
December 10, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the Union of Concerned Scientists’ list of champions only includes those who take far-left political stances on the issues
-
News Update/Commentary
Fossil Primate Shakes Up History of Tooth-Combed Primates
December 11, 2013 Science Daily
-
Join Us December 11 for the Michael Medved Show Live Broadcast from Discovery Institute
December 3, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
Hominin DNA baffles experts
December 4, 2013 Nature, p.504, p.16-17
analysis of oldest sequence from a human ancestor suggests link to mystery population
-
A Listener's Guide to the Meyer-Marshall Radio Debate: Focus on the Origin of Information Question
December 4, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
How the Moon Supports the Privileged Planet Hypothesis
December 5, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
Alien planet 11 times bigger than Jupiter found in bizarre, massive orbit
December 6, 2013 Fox News (space.com)
-
Do Admirers of John Scopes Embrace What Their Hero Actually Taught?
December 6, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
Evolution: How Fisheries Affect Evolution
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1176-1177
commercial fishing alters the genetic traits of fish stocks
-
Evolution of Vertebrate Transcriptional Regulator Binding
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1186
comparative evolutionary analysis of transcriptional regulator binding across several vertebrate species reveals intricate regulatory genome evolution
-
Genes for Extremes
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1160-1161
the first two snake genomes, published this week, reflect the amazing evolutionary tales of a prey-crushing python and a venomous cobra
-
Secrets of Snakes
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1159
exotic, elusive, and dangerous, snakes have fascinated humankind for millennia
-
Human Evolution: Elusive Denisovans Sighted in Oldest Human DNA
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1156
traces of DNA from the Denisovans, a shadowy species thought to have lived in Asia, turn up in a surprising place: in a proto-Neandertal from Spain
-
Animal Rights: Lawsuits Seek 'Personhood' for Chimpanzees
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1154-1155
animal rights group files series of lawsuits to turn chimpanzees into legal persons
-
The Multiverse: Where Everything Turns Out to Be True, Except Philosophy and Religion
December 9, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
Bullies-R-Us: How "Freethought Oasis" Threatened "Disruption" and Pressured a College into Cancelling Intelligent Design Course
December 10, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
Life possible in the early Universe
December 10, 2013 Nature, v.504, p.201
planets orbiting the first stars could have been habitable, challenging arguments for a multiverse
-
Ancient reptiles stuck to the air
December 12, 2013 Nature, v.504, p.191
-
"Darwin's Doubt" with Stephen Meyer
September 12, 2013 vimeo
Darwin, the scientific method, Danny DeVito, and Cher all manage to find a place in this mind-boggling and entertaining conversation between Eric Metaxas and Stephen Meyer at the Union League Club in New York City
-
From C. S. Lewis, Four Arguments Friendly to a Universe by Design
November 14, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
C. S. Lewis and the Argument from Reason
November 25, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
Book
Acts & Facts, v.42, n.12 (pdf)
December 1, 2013 Institute for Creation Research
-
Sign of the Times: Nobel Prize-Winning Biologist Refuses to Submit Papers to Top-Tier "Luxury" Science Journals
December 11, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
-
Mystery of the Flower’s Missing Pollen: A Paleobotanical Puzzle
December 12, 2013 Answers in Genesis