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The complexity of life extends even to the smallest of creatures, including bacteria.  In this TED lecture Bonnie Bassler, a molecular biologist from Princeton, discusses her discovery of quorum sensing — the chemical mechanism by which all bacteria are able to communicate with both among their own species and outside of it.  Through this system,…

Source: National DNA Day / Flickr / All Rights Reserved For 20 years, the question of how nucleotides, the building blocks of both RNA and DNA, could have spontaneously formed during the beginning of our planet has beguiled researchers.  The problem seemed so insurmountable, in fact, that in 1999 two leading researchers, Gerald Joyce and…

The computer animation above shows the replication of DNA.  Despite their undeniable beauty, to some, such images can be a fearful thing.  After all, if life can be broken down to a series of chemicals, messengers, and physical laws, doesn’t this lessen the power and divine mystery of God’s creation? Not at all, says Dr.…

If St. Augustine of Hippo were alive today to read Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, would he consider it the faith destroying work that many evangelical Christians accuse it of being?  In his article “Augustine’s Origin of Species,” Alister McGrath looks at Augustine’s theological writings, especially his work The Literal Meaning of Genesis, to…
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