What Makes Earth Special Compared to Other Planets By Clara Moskowitz July 08, 2008 This image, taken while MESSENGER was 34,692 miles (55,831 kilometers) above Earth, shows the Galapagos Islands as tiny specks peeking through clouds. The line dividing day and night cuts through South America, with night about to fall on the western half of the [...]
There is nothing paranormal about near-death experiences: how neuroscience can explain seeing bright lights, meeting the dead, or being convinced you are one of them Dean Mobbs Caroline Watt Published:August 18, 2011DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2011.07.010 Approximately 3% of Americans declare to have had a near-death experience [1]. These experiences classically involve the feeling that one's soul has left [...]
Can the Origin of the Genetic Code Be Explained by Direct RNA Templating? Stephen C. Meyer, Paul A. Nelson Abstract Motivated by the RNA world hypothesis, Michael Yarus and colleagues have proposed a model for the origin of the ‘universal’ genetic code, in which RNA aptamers directly template amino acids for protein assembly. Yarus et [...]
Persistent Problems Confronting Bible Translators. Bruce M. Metzger Bibliotheca Sacra 150: 599 (1993): 273-284. [Reproduced by permission] [Bruce M. Metzger is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey.] [This is article three in the four-part series, "Translating the Bible: An Ongoing Task," delivered by the author as the [...]
A reducibly complex mousetrap John H. McDonald Department of Biological Sciences University of Delaware Creationist Michael Behe attracted a lot of attention with his advocacy of the "intelligent design" argument. He makes the claim that certain biochemical processes are "irreducibly complex": they involve multiple proteins, and removing any one of them would destroy the function [...]
The Walter Arndt Lecture: The Autonomy of Biology. Ernst Mayr Science as we know it is the product of developments in the 17th and 18th centuries. What was conceived as science is indicated by the names Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Descartes, and Leibniz. It was the glorious rise of the physical sciences advancing from triumph to triumph. [...]
Absurdities in Modern Physics: A Solution. by Paul Marmet 1 - Promulgation of Absurdities 1-1 The Copenhagen Interpretation. All humans are continuously surrounded, every day of their life, by real facts of nature. We believe in the existence of galaxies, stars, the sun and the moon and the earth. Nobody denies the real existence [...]
A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection. Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life. By Shayla Love In the summer of 1837, Charles Darwin drew a rudimentary sketch in his notebook, lines of ink that [...]
Billions and Billions of Demons RICHARD LEWONTIN January 9, 1997 New York Review of Books The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 457 pages, $25.95 (hardcover) published by Random House "But the Solar System!" I protested. "What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that [...]
The Weather on All 8 Planets of Our Solar System. Ever wondered how the weather differs on Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune? Professor Stephen Lewis investigates... Seven of the eight planets in the Solar System are surrounded by atmospheres. Atmospheres also surround some of the larger moons, such as Saturn’s moon [...]
