What Inspires Your Belief in God? February 13, 2014 In the late 1990s, skeptic Michael Shermer and sociologist Frank Sulloway surveyed a number of people about their religious belief. When asked why they... Creation Model by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Scientific Upset: More Functions for Pseudogenes February 10, 2014 Long-held scientific consensus that pseudogenes are functionless genetic junk has been further discredited by the discovery that some pseudogenes code for proteins. Does this... Biology by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
No Bad Flare Days for the Sun February 6, 2014 Solar flares, if energetic enough, can spell bad news for advanced life. But ongoing research has revealed the unique stability of our own Sun,... Geology & Earth by Hugh Ross Read
Does Retroviral DNA Insert Randomly into Genomes? January 31, 2014 For many people (not only atheists, but even Christians who embrace evolutionary creationism), shared features in genomes of humans and great apes reflect common... Biology by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Is Evolution Making Us Less Intelligent? January 28, 2014 A Stanford University biology professor, writing in a peer-reviewed journal, suggests neo-Darwinian evolution is causing humankind to lose mental capacity—at least for the last... Biochemistry by Hugh Henry Read
Did Einstein Believe in an Expanding Universe? January 24, 2014 Einstein believed in a static universe and that the only way to overcome the known gravitational effects (that cause the universe to collapse) was... Astronomy by Jeff Zweerink Read
New Type of Star System to Test General Relativity January 21, 2014 General relativity (GR) forms the backbone of big bang cosmology and provides a remarkably accurate description of the dynamics of the universe. Yet scientists... Physics & Mathematics by Jeff Zweerink Read
Old DNA Causes New Problems for Human Evolution January 17, 2014 Recently, anthropologists set a world record when they isolated mitochondrial DNA from the 400,000-year-old femur of a Homo heidelbergensis specimen. The sequence of this... Human Origins & Anthropology by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Bacteria Found in NASA Clean Rooms Likely Traveled to Mars January 14, 2014 Recently, two separate research teams discovered Tersicoccus phoenicis in NASA and ESA clean rooms, where engineers assemble spacecraft. This microbe’s ability to survive in... Astronomy by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Thank God for the Solar System’s Asteroid Belts January 10, 2014 Both observations and theoretical models now establish that the solar system’s five belts of asteroids and comets are very rare for planetary systems. In... Astronomy by Hugh Ross Read
Jumping Jupiter Scenario Reveals More Evidence for Design January 7, 2014 It is becoming increasingly evident that, unlike the 797 known extrasolar planetary systems, the Sun’s array of planets is exquisitely fine-tuned for the existence... Astronomy by Hugh Ross Read
How Young-Earth Creationism Became a Core Tenet of American Fundamentalism, Part 2 January 3, 2014 Most Christians assume that young-earth creationism has always been a core tenet of American fundamentalist Christianity—but this linkage is more tenuous than is often... by Jefrey Breshears Read