Connections

iDNA: The Next Generation of iPods?

July 1, 2008

A couple of years ago I bought a 30GB iPod classic for Christmas. At that time I couldn’t imagine what I would do with...

Biochemistry

by Fazale Rana Read

Earth’s Deep, Life-Sustaining Oxygen Reservoir

July 1, 2008

Southern California, home to RTB, requires a huge quantity of water to maintain its large population and diverse economic and industrial activity. The region’s...

Geology & Earth

by Jeff Zweerink Read

How Can Yahweh Be Perfectly Good and Just and Yet Command Extermination?

July 1, 2008

Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous atheist, asserts that the God of the Old Testament is “a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser.”1

Philosophy & Ethics

by Kenneth Samples Read

Humpback Whale Fins: Fresh Evidence for Design

July 1, 2008

I remember being taught as a child that the humpback whale must be an accident of nature. The weird bumps along the leading edge...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read

A New Telescope “Almost” in Space

July 1, 2008

At 16,000 feet and in the rain shadow of the Andes Mountains, northern Chile's virtually cloudless, extremely arid Atacama Desert1 provides an ideal location...

by Dave Rogstad Read

Location! Location! Location!

May 23, 2008

Either a beachfront home or a secluded mountain ranch costs far more than a house in suburbia. A secluded mountain ranch with a beachfront...

Astronomy

by Jeff Zweerink Read

Functional DNA amid Piles of Junk

April 1, 2008

Sometimes my daughters' bedrooms are unbelievably messy. Junk everywhere. It often looks like a clothes bomb detonated. I have no idea how they can...

Biochemistry

by Fazale Rana Read

Explaining a Great Cosmic Coincidence

April 1, 2008

During graduate school I used a telescope in southern Arizona. The long, winding mountain road to the ridge where this telescope sat passed a...

Astronomy

by Jeff Zweerink Read

Is Faith in God Merely Wishful Thinking?

April 1, 2008

Sigmund Freud (1859-1939), the father of psychoanalysis, formally developed the psychological theory that human beings invented God out of desire to find security in...

Worldviews

by Kenneth Samples Read

Angling for Better Measurements

April 1, 2008

Triangulation1 may sound like a horrible way to die (on par with the rack), but in fact the term refers to a method for...

by Dave Rogstad Read

Do Infinite Universes Explain the Fine-Tuning?

January 1, 2008

A monkey randomly hitting keys on a keyboard will eventually produce the entire collection of Shakespeare's works–at least if the monkey types for an...

Physics & Mathematics

by Jeff Zweerink Read

Pairing Up on the Dance Floor

January 1, 2008

Imagine jostling and bumping your way around a crowded dance floor. The lights are low and the music is loud. You are trying to...

Biochemistry

by Fazale Rana Read