Migration can often be a long and difficult journey for animals.  For the bar-headed goose, migration often entails flights over the highest mountains in the world: the Himalayas. Bar-headed geese have been observed flying at altitudes as high as 30,000 feet.  At such a height, the thin air contains only a quarter of the oxygen…

In 1923, self-taught geologist and amateur scientist George McCready Price published his work The New Geology.  A vocal opponent of evolutionary theory and an advocate of young earth creationism, Price dedicated much of his book to bringing down the “geological column,” a strategy which he believed would undermine the support of evolutionary theory and make…

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.” – Walter M. Miller, Jr.A Canticle for Leibowitz What exactly is a soul? Is it a physical entity? Can it be separated from the body? Many different opinions about the meaning of the soul exist, and only one aspect of…

Source: mangtacio / Flickr / All Rights Reserved “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” – C.S. Lewis Professor Alister McGrath begins his second of six Gifford Lectures from 2009 with this quote, which he says…

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