It has been said that for every beneficial mutation, there is approximately a million harmful mutations. We are degeneration through mutations. Each generation is losing functional information, approximately 100 more mutations than their parents. The average 16 year old has approximately 6,000 mutations per cell. The average 60 year old will have 40,000 mutations per […]
9 Interesting Ways The Universe Points to the Biblical God
I really think that science points to God. To demonstrate my first reason, join me now, if you would, and think of an idea. Think of a fairy tale. Now consider the conception of a new life. How about the creation of an artistic masterpiece? All of things things came into being, whether mentally or physically. […]
Has Science Killed God? Four Reasons Why That Idea Does Not Make Sense.
Some atheists say things like “science has fired God” or “science killed God.” What about some who say “science is making belief in God obsolete and incoherent”? Or what about this, “we are getting smarter and we can now explain things without invoking God.” Just like a previous post, “Reason vs. Faith“, where I argue […]
Captain Nemo And His Sub Expose This One Silly Belief.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Verne’s fictitious whaler characters chased Captain Nemo’s stupendous submarine all over the ocean. Wild imaginations of a gigantic whale haunted them. You see, captain Nemo’s design for his vessel, Nautilus, was somewhat based upon marine creature’s hydrodynamic shapes. Ideological Framework The single most pervading intellectual ideology of our time […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Before the Universe and Why God is the Best Explanation
Near the end of his article, Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist who starred in the series “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”, talks about what was prior to the universe’s existences. After making some slightly disparaging remarks toward the theists view, he postulates a couple other “where the universe came from” ideas. The multiverse and it “just […]
Biomimicry’s Amazing Potential For New Designs in Technology
It was 1948, George was out walking his dog through the Swiss Alpines, when he was attacked by nature’s nemeses, the cocklebur. As he plucked these annoying structures off his clothes, inspiration flashed across his mind, inspiration from the common, annoying bur. Along with his friend, he created what he called “locking tape”, but that […]
The One View Some Christians and Some Atheists Agree On – And Why It is Wrong!
Interestingly, prominent agnostics, atheists [1] and Christians of various persuasions agree on at least one thing, philosophy is of little worth. Other Christians are afraid of the enterprise. Our Western culture downplays classical education – such as philosophy. Even so, philosophy is pivotal, yes pivotal. Especially for our days. We all have a philosophy and use it, […]
New Research Says Life Started Hot, But Here’s What They Won’t Tell You.
Up From a Hot Micropore We Arose – Did Life Start Hot? In a recent Nature Chemistry article, we are informed that some scientists feel they may have found a mechanism for the formation of life’s precursors, DNA replication in hot rock micropores [1]. An experiment was set up to mimic hot rock’s micropores in […]
The Gaps that Naturalism Fails To Answer (And What It Means For You)
Interesting conversation Recently, I had the opportunity to communicate with some people about origins. I pointed out that naturalism, as a world view, has many problems. Problems such as the lack of explanation for the formation of the laws of physics, the reason that there is something rather than nothing, the origin of life’s building […]
The Amazing Cell!
A couple of years ago, I came across a presentation given at one of the TED conferences by a Drew Berry. If I would have a guess, many non-biologists would be really bored with a talk on cell division, right? But no, not this one, it was most interesting, using computer animation, he exposed the […]