I had the opportunity to be in Dallas, TX a few weeks ago to witness the total solar eclipse. Though heavy cloud coverage threatened to obscure the whole thing, thankfully, the clouds parted about an hour before first contact and the sky remained clear throughout the eclipse event. And it was even more incredible than […]
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According to Darwin’s theory of evolution, every complex organism, feature, and biological mechanism must be explained as the incremental build up from something simple. Darwin explains the existence of all things as having come from a simple, common ancestor. Through the natural process of random genetic mutations, that simple common ancestor must increase in complexity
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I recently had the opportunity to take my family, along with some close family friends, to visit Washington, D.C. And interestingly, the same question was posed in two different places that we visited: What makes us human? One place was the Museum of Natural History and the other was the Museum of the Bible. Though
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When Charles Darwin first published his theory of macroevolution (descent with modification from one common ancestor) in 1859, he outlined three main processes that would be the driving force of evolutionary change. To him, macroevolution was the inevitable result of random, genetic mutations that produce a change in the species that is preserved by natural
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In our world today where it seems change is the only constant thing or maybe where it seems things are spinning out of control, there is still the constancy and order of the universe. While it’s probably not something that is given much thought, no matter what craziness happens in the world, gravity is still
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Since 2021, Greek letters are not just for identifying college fraternities or sororities but for identifying variants of COVD-19. Alpha, Beta, Delta, and now Omicron variants are studied and compared on the severity of symptoms, how quickly each variant may spread, and its resistance to treatments. Quite often when these variants are being discussed, the
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When my children were little, it was always entertaining when they wanted to show me how high they could jump. As toddlers, they would each bend down and swing their arms super high and grunt even – but then never got off the ground. Until I observed this hilarious attempt at jumping, I didn’t realize
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Every spring, my boys and I order a small cup of five tiny caterpillars to watch as they eventually become butterflies. The caterpillars are contained in a cup with some resin-like food for them to munch on for about two weeks. Then they crawl to the lid of the cup, hang upside down, and form
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For centuries there has appeared at first glance to be a conflict between science and religion. Do the planets revolve around the earth or the sun? Is the earth flat or is it a sphere? Do animals reproduce according to their kind or can they evolve into different kinds? However, when we take a closer
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One of my least favorite doctor’s visits each year is to the optometrist. I would much prefer to have my teeth cleaned at the dentist (actually I love having my teeth cleaned at the dentist) than go to the eye doctor. And I’m not entirely sure why, other than my eye sight is always getting
