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Rare Sun

March 31, 2002

How often have you heard that “the Sun is just an average star?” If you’ve watched many TV documentaries or read introductory astronomy books,...

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Anthropic Principle: A Precise Plan for Humanity

January 1, 2002

Human beings climb. Always have, always will. First hills, then mountains, then pinnacles so high they're called "death zones." That's as high as legs...

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by Read

Telltale Rocks

January 1, 2002

Research conducted by scientists from Denmark and Australia has uncovered new evidence for the metabolic complexity of early life on Earth.1 This team studying...

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by Read

Unmasking Misconceptions: Book reviews of The Hidden Face of God and Darwin’s God

January 1, 2002

An underlying wisdom and unity pervade the universe, life, and the human mind. Scientists exposed this discovery in their quest to uncover the ultimate...

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by Read

Jupiter’s Migration Miracle

January 1, 2002

A few years ago, a probe sent on a self-destruct mission into the interior of Jupiter revealed that Jupiter’s atmosphere grew dark and dry...

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by Hugh Ross Read

A Comment on Humility Theology

January 1, 2002

The anthropic principle faces serious challenges from outside the disciplines of astronomy and physics. Many scholars in the humanities and social sciences fear that...

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by Hugh Ross Read

Biodiversity Peaked Early

October 1, 2001

In 2001 an international “dream team” of twenty-five leading paleontologists representing more than fifteen institutions completed the first stage in assembling a massive database...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

The Sun’s Stable Diameter

October 1, 2001

The Sun has the reputation of being the most stable burning star that astronomers observe. Its extreme stability allows humans to exist on Earth....

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by Hugh Ross Read

Book Reviews: Speculations on Origins

October 1, 2001

Why, in spite of entropy, nature’s imperative to overall disorder, does life on Earth become so much more complex and biochemically diverse as time...

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by Read

Dietary Differences Separate Neanderthals from Humans

October 1, 2001

You are what you eat. Paleoanthropologists from the United Kingdom and the United States recently used this principle to study the dietary habits of...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Exotic Life Sites: The Feasibility of Far-Out Habitats

October 1, 2001

People often joke about the certainty of death and taxes. Astronomers can add another certainty to that short list: Sooner or later someone will...

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by Hugh Ross Read

Biospheres Deemed Failures

July 1, 2001

Two tests of space travelers’ ability to support themselves independent of Earth have taken place in the Arizona desert (see www.bio2.edu). In 1991 a...

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by Hugh Ross Read