The Triune God Is Love
In traditional monotheism (classical Judaism, Islam, and Unitarianism), God is one being and one person. Or, philosophically, God is one What (essence) and one...
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Origin of Complex Cells: A Big Event for Evolution or Creation?
Graduation, marriage, the birth of a child: these are all climactic events in a person’s life. Likewise, there have been a number of highlights...
Contrasting Buddhist and Christian Cosmologies
Can science put religion on the spot? In other words, can the empirical observations of science be used to test the truth-claims of the...
Dollo’s Law at Home with a Creation Model
In 1940 Thomas Wolfe’s posthumous novel, You Can’t Go Back Home, explored how brutally unfair the passage of time can be. In the finale,...
Where to Look for Earth’s First Life
There’s a down side to earthquakes and mudslides far beyond what most people are aware of. Plate tectonics and erosion are responsible for...
Cars and Cells: How Trade-offs Make Good Designs
I have spent the last few days shopping for a car: decisions, decisions! And of course one of the questions I have to answer...
Song of the Intestine: So Kill Me, Maybe
Human digestive systems perform a stunning array of tasks to break down food and absorb nutrients. Digestion is spatially and temporally coordinated across many...
Arsenic Alert: The Danger of Tampering with a Fine-Tuned Poison
I had just finished high school and was grateful for a summer job as a janitor at the Vancouver Sun newspaper. A major part...
Religious Faces in the Crowd: The Sage and the Savior
Among the world’s great religious leaders, two became far-reaching moral instructors of humanity. Confucius (the Sage) laid down the ethical foundation for much of...
Choosing a Christian College
Sending a student to a Christian college involves a maze of decisions. Not all colleges that bear the title of “Christian” require students and...
Biochemical Turing Machines “Reboot” the Watchmaker Argument
Who’s the father of computer science? Although not a household name, Alan Turing (1912–1954) and his work have impacted nearly every facet of human...
Islamic Jihadists Clash Over 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Why is it that two people can look at the same world event and come to fundamentally different conclusions about it? Sometimes the difference...