The history of our universe has been a fruitful one indeed, one that has given rise to numerous complicated system and organisms.  What is more astonishing is the precisely tuned physical constants and properties that have allowed such flourishing to occur.  If these constants had differed even slightly, our universe’s history may have instead been…

Source: National DNA Day / Flickr / All Rights Reserved We have known for sometime that parents pass physical and behavioral traits through their genes to their children, but the exact physical explanation for why certain genes are chosen over others has remained unclear.  However, researchers from the University of Leeds have discovered a protein…

God has provided us with two books: the book of God’s Word and the book of God’s works.  While we can learn much from studying God’s Word, we must remember that we can also learn from God’s works.  In this TED video, biologist Robert Full shows how the gecko’s feet and tail have evolved to…

While the process of evolution has taken billions of years to unfold, this video shows its basic principles can be explained in about two minutes.  In those two minutes, the video outlines the three basic mechanisms of evolution — mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift — as well as the unifying power of evolution for…

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