Miller’s book is an attack on Creationism, but not creation. He believes in God, butnot a God of the gaps or an Intelligent Designer (qua Behe/Irreducible Complexity).…Indeed, Miller gives several examples of claimed irreducibly complex organisms,the kind Intelligent Design advocates…
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Andrew Herr is a man with a passion, a microbiologist on a personal crusade to morph the military into “biomods.” What’s a biomod? The unfettered definition is: a human biologically modified to accomplish specific tasks in almost superhuman ways. Think…
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Are humans doomed to remain marooned on a world orbiting a third-generation star while all the universe tantalizingly beckons just out of grasp? A new study seems to suggest that depressing scenario. While it’s true much of the human race…
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I really get rather disgusted with this Zombie Apocalypse meme. It is so commonplace now that it is practically an invasion unto itself. Even the Canadian government has found itself affected by the joke, as Parliament member Pat Martin recently…
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Make no mistake that all things evolve. Whether or not they manage to hang onto their cognitive skills is another story altogether. I think Mrs. Gump said it best when she said that stupid is as stupid does. You see,…
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Because the technological advances characteristic of these times have made our lives easier in many ways, we have encumbered science. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a tremendous reminder that the imprudent use of the power granted by scientific innovation can become…
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All living things are interconnected in nature. Within an ecosystem, one or more species depend on one another for survival, and at the bottom of individual ecosystems, there is an organism which functions as the base of other species. This…
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A macromolecule is a large molecule made up of smaller units called monomers. These monomers can be combined in thousands of different ways to create a multitude of macromolecules. There are four basic types of macromolecules: proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates…
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Trying to figure out what makes one person more attractive than the next is like trying to explain why the stars are beautiful. One thing for certain is that an individual’s little imperfections can make them attractive in the eyes…
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There is so much diversity among living organisms, and those that are similar in their structures and behaviors are grouped together into a hierarchy of Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and species. Diversity occurs due to evolution of species…
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