Source: sweetcaroline / Flickr / All Rights Reserved Acts of altruism seem to pose a problem to the idea of a strict “survival of the fittest.”  After all, how does a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save others increase his chances of passing on his genes?  Why would a man risk everything to…

Source: http://library.thinkquest.org The Galileo affair, depicted above in a painting by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, is a favorite example of how science and religion are destined to be in perpetual conflict.  According to the popular retelling, the trial pitted Galileo, the champion of science, against the Catholic church, upholders of scripture and faith.  If these two sides…

Source: National Cancer Institute “We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system.” -Michael Behe, author of Darwin’s Black Box and Intelligent Design Proponent The image above shows…

Copyright: Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2) The image above is of Barnard 72, known as the “Snake Nebula” because of the dark snake-like pattern it forms.  The shape comes from a concentration of dust and dark matter that blocks escaping visible light.  Most likely, these mysterious dark clouds are the birth place for new stars. The…

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