Geoscience Research Institute

06/16/2026

What do a biologist, a chemist, a paleontologist, and a high school science teacher have in common? They're all helping bring Creation Lens to life! We've been recording some fascinating conversations with experts who are passionate about their research and we can't wait to share these episodes with you!

06/10/2026

🌎🔬 Every two years, Educación Adventista en Sudamérica organizes a Faith and Science conference for leaders, professors, pastors, and students.
This year, the event will take place at Universidad Adventista del Plata (oficial) in Argentina 🇦🇷 from September 1–5, with a special emphasis on paleontology 🦖, geology 🪨, and astronomy 🌌.
Learn more about the event here:

6º Congresso Sul-Americano de Fé e Ciência - Universidad Adventista del Plata - martes, 1 de septiembre de 2026

05/28/2026

In early May, Dr. Evgeny Zaitsev, Director of the Biblical Research Institute at ESD, and Dr. Aleksei Popov, Director of the GRI Branch Office at ESD, held a conference in the Republic of Moldova entitled “Science and Creation: A Dialogue of Reason and Faith.” 📖✨ The event brought together pastors, teachers, and numerous participants interested in important questions related to the origin of life, humanity, and the universe. 🌍🔬

05/22/2026

A paper funded through the Geoscience Research Institute and published in May 2026 describes a new method for computing the rate for cooling an underground magma chamber, as it interacts with hydrothermal fluids and crystallizes to form a granitic rock body. Read the article here👉

Magmatic–hydrothermal systems transport heat through coupled conduction and buoyancy-driven fluid flow in porous rock, behavior conventionally modeled with grid-based finite-difference simulators such as HYDROTHERM. We demonstrate that a physics-informed neural network (PINN), built on the NVIDIA ...

05/19/2026

Ronny Nalin, GRI Director, participated in the Open Days organized by Universitatea Adventus (Romania), presenting several talks on faith and science and taking part in radio and TV interviews on the topic. Noemi Duran, Director of the EUD GRI Branch Office, also contributed to the event with a booth and interactive experiments that captivated the audience. On the final day of the trip, Dr Nalin visited several sites of geologic interest in the Prahova Valley and Bucegi Plateau in the Southern Carpathians, exploring the possibility of organizing a future field trip.

05/07/2026

Young people this is for you! Ready to explore science through the lens of Faith?

Join us in Sagunto, Spain, August 10–13, 2026, for a powerful Faith & Science conference hosted by the European Branch Office of the Geoscience Research Institute.

The beautiful Sagunto Adventist Campus, is set directly in the path of the upcoming solar eclipse and conference attendees will have the opportunity to witness it together.

https://campusadventista.es/faith-and-science-conference/

04/30/2026

Lance and Mogi Pompe represented GRI and Loma Linda University at the Earth Summit in Ottawa, Canada, hosted by the Ontario Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, on April 26. They presented a talk titled “Earth: Our Special Planet”. They spoke about planetary habitability and several features special to the Earth that make life possible. This was interspersed with the relevant Bible passages that refer to God’s creation of our home planet. Then, they transitioned to present an overview of research projects we are working on at GRI and LLU. Dr Luciano Gonzalez, from the IAD GRI Branch Office, also gave a talk titled “God the Mathematician and Universal Designer.”

04/28/2026

We officially recorded our very first episode of the Creation Lens Podcast, kicking things off with Dr. Raul Esperante, and an incredible conversation you won’t want to miss.
Stay tuned for more!

04/27/2026

This past week in California, members of the Faith & Science Council visited the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles.

This is one of the world’s most remarkable urban fossil sites, where a massive accumulation of animals were preserved in tar. Among the most iconic are saber tooth cats, dire wolves, mammoths, and giant ground sloths.

The group had an opportunity to discuss this site and the evidence for an Ice Age in the context of the biblical timeline.

04/14/2026

📢🌍 Registration is now open!
Join the 38th Geology Conference organized by Wort und Wissen, taking place September 8–13, 2026, in Wuppertal, Germany.
🪨✨ This year’s theme: “The Flood and the Geological Record”
🔎 Learn more and register here: �https://veranstaltungen.wort-und-wissen.org/wp-content/uploads/Geofachtagung-2026_EN_WEB-1.pdf