Anjeanette Roberts

A Challenge to Put God First

November 15, 2016

As I packed up my car in exodus of Oklahoma for the promised land of graduate studies in Pennsylvania, a dear Christian friend challenged...

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Microscopic Superheroes Challenge Inferences in Science

October 20, 2016

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! . . . It’s a...

Biology

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What Species Problem?

October 6, 2016

Most of us know what a species is. Or we think we do. So why is the scientific literature replete with papers trying to...

Evolution

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More Viruses Than Stars? No Way!

September 22, 2016

When others learn I’m a virologist, they often respond with questions such as, “Are viruses alive?” When they learn that I’m a Christian, they...

Biology

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Why All the Buzz about Mosquitoes?

September 1, 2016

Mosquitoes are the deadliest creature on Earth, killing over 2 million people annually and sickening hundreds of millions more.1 So why on earth would...

Biology

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Demystifying Evolution and the Species Problem

August 18, 2016

Evolution is a word that refers to many different processes (chemical evolution, microevolution, microbial evolution, speciation, and macroevolution) with different underlying mechanisms. And as...

Evolution

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Why Is That Goat Staring at Me?

August 11, 2016

As God-ordained stewards of creation, we have an ability not only to care for animals and pets but also to form relational bonds with...

Biology

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Failures to Philosophize

August 4, 2016

I’ve been thinking a lot about the failure to philosophize over the past couple of years. As a molecular biologist, it has come as...

Logic & Reason

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Christ Calls All Christians to Unity

July 29, 2016

The other day, I heard a couple of my colleagues discussing the similarities and differences in the major Abrahamic religions’ views of God. How...

Theology

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Needed: Good Stewards of Genome Editing

July 22, 2016

Recent scientific discoveries have opened up a whole new world where mere humans may be able to alter the genetic makeup of any organism...

Biology

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A Bacterial Protein (CRISPR/Cas9) Will Change Life on Earth

July 15, 2016

Recent scientific discoveries have opened an era where humans can alter the genetic make-up of any organism at will. Is this type of power...

Design

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Pigs Thinking like Humans: Reality or Hogwash?

July 8, 2016

If we took human cells and introduced them into an embryonic pig, should we expect the birth of a philosophizing pig? That's what worries...

Human Origins & Anthropology

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