Evidence record
Approved source registry
Sources enter EarthSun’s approved corpus only after review. Each record states the claim it supports; none is treated as an endorsement of EarthSun by the institution.
Sun: Facts
NASA Science · 2025. Supports: The Sun’s light and energy make life on Earth possible. Type: Government science agency. Status: Reviewed. https://science.nasa.gov/sun/facts/
Open sourceSolar Irradiance
NASA Goddard · 2026. Supports: Solar radiation drives major Earth-system processes. Type: Government science agency. Status: Reviewed. https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/climate/projects/solar-irradiance
Open sourceHuman Evolution Evidence
Smithsonian Human Origins Program · Current reference. Supports: Fossils, genetics, artefacts and dating methods support human evolution. Type: Scientific institution. Status: Reviewed. https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence
Open sourceEvolution Resources
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine · Current reference. Supports: Evolution is supported by extensive, converging evidence and remains scientifically testable. Type: Scientific academy. Status: Reviewed. https://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution-resources
Open sourceClimate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · 2022. Supports: Human societies and ecosystems are interdependent and face documented climate risks. Type: International scientific assessment. Status: Reviewed. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/
Open sourceReligion and Culture
OpenStax Introduction to Anthropology · 2022. Supports: Religion is a sociocultural institution of shared beliefs, practices and organisation that develops across time and cultures. Type: Open anthropology textbook. Status: Reviewed. https://openstax.org/books/introduction-anthropology/pages/13-1-what-is-religion
Open sourceCollective ritual and social support networks in rural South India
Evolution and Human Behavior · 2018. Supports: In one South Indian village, co-participation in collective religious rituals was associated with denser supportive relationships. Type: Peer-reviewed research. Status: Reviewed. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5998092/
Open sourceSynchrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohesion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups
Scientific Reports · 2018. Supports: A large-group study tested how synchrony and shared arousal relate to cohesion and cooperation. Type: Peer-reviewed research. Status: Reviewed. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5760525/
Open sourceThe cultural evolutionary trade-off of ritualistic synchrony
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B · 2020. Supports: A review describes both prosocial effects and possible costs of ritual synchrony, including stronger group boundaries and harmful obedience. Type: Peer-reviewed review. Status: Reviewed. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7423264/
Open sourceAwe, the small self, and prosocial behavior
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2015. Supports: Across five studies, awe was associated with or experimentally linked to several forms of prosocial behaviour, partly through a reduced focus on the individual self. Type: Peer-reviewed research. Status: Reviewed. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25984788/
Open sourceAwe promotes moral expansiveness via the small-self
Frontiers in Psychology · 6 March 2023. Supports: Across five correlational and experimental studies, reported awe and a sense of connection to something larger were linked to broader moral concern. Type: Peer-reviewed research. Status: Reviewed. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1097627/full
Open sourceWhy Does Awe Have Prosocial Effects? New Perspectives on Awe and the Small Self
Perspectives on Psychological Science · 2020. Supports: A scholarly review argues that the small-self explanation remains incomplete and may involve several layers of selfhood. Type: Peer-reviewed review. Status: Reviewed. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31930954/
Open sourceOverview
NASA Science · 2026. Supports: NASA’s current overview describes the universe’s expansion from a hot, dense early state, the cosmic microwave background and major remaining unknowns. Type: Government science agency. Status: Reviewed. https://science.nasa.gov/universe/overview/
Open sourceThe early universe
CERN · Current reference. Supports: CERN explains that Big Bang theory describes the earliest moments after expansion but not conditions at the very beginning. Type: International scientific laboratory. Status: Reviewed. https://home.cern/science/physics/early-universe/
Open sourcePhilosophy of Cosmology
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · 2017. Supports: The reference distinguishes successful physical accounts of cosmic evolution from unresolved questions about initial conditions and why anything exists. Type: Scholarly reference. Status: Reviewed. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology/
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