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Many of us are familiar with the glow of fireflies that fills the air during the summer months.  However, those pulses are more than just a pretty light show.  They are the product of a complex pattern of natural selection, one that involves both attracting a mate and avoiding predators. In the NY Times article…

As we continue to study the fossil record, we find a correlation between the age of rock layers and the types of organisms we expect to find.  There is a clear pattern of change in organisms throughout the fossil record – a progression that starts with simple, basic organisms and slowly evolves towards the complex…

Source: National Science Foundation Every Monday, “Science and the Sacred” features an essay from one of The BioLogos Foundation’s leaders: Francis Collins, Karl Giberson and Darrel Falk. Today’s entry was written by Darrel Falk. I am a fan of the blog “Jesus Creed.” Recently it published an interesting post about the transition from fins to…

While this year marks the 400th anniversary of telescope astronomy, humanity has been drawn to gaze upon the vast expanses of the heavens long before we could see to the farthest reaches of our galaxy. For the writer of the Psalms, the wonder of the sprawling skies was humbling When I consider your heavens,       …

Source: Hubble Heriage Team/AURA/STScl/NASA and The Hand of God When we refer to the vastness of the cosmos, exactly how large of a space are we describing? The picture above shows the galaxy NGC 4214, located about 13 million light years from Earth. Currently, the farthest observed galaxy is A1689-zD1, located almost 13 billion light…

  Source: AURA/NOAO/NSF and The Hand of God This week we have been looking at the beauty of the stars and galaxies of our vast universe, brought to us through the efforts of modern astronomy. However, while the vastness of the universe can certainly be a source of wonder and amazement, it can also raise…

Atlas Image courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF. Christopher J. Corbally holds a doctorate in astronomy from the University of Toronto and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the American Astronomical Society.  He is also a Jesuit priest. Corbally is vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group, which has its observatory…

The image above, provided by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula.  The nebula is located about 166,000 light years away from us.  At its center (upper right in the picture) is a starburst region consisting of hundreds of the brightest, most active, and most massive stars in the…

Source: Library of Congress Each Monday, “Science and the Sacred” features an essay from one of the BioLogos leaders: Francis Collins, Karl Giberson and Darrel Falk. Today’s was written by Dr. Francis Collins. I recently read some published sermons by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The depth and breadth of his eloquent defense of…

“Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge? Job 37:15-16 Science has shown us that clouds are visible masses of water vapor, which are condensed into either droplets or frozen crystals.  Their formation…
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