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Has science forced God into the margins, or has it merely caused us to reconsider the “God question” in new ways?  Can faith survive the challenge of science, or even find harmony with it?  Test of Faith, an award winning three-part documentary from the Faraday Institute, seeks to shed light on issues at the very…

While the fact that life on Earth has emerged and flourished is abundantly clear, the mechanisms behind the origin of life still evade scientists.  Where did the proteins and genetic information that have given rise to life originate?  Which came first: the proteins or the genetic information?  How did a self-replicating chemical system — the…

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…

The popular organization Answers in Genesis, led by Ken Ham, warns that BioLogos and like-minded organizations are “destructive to biblical authority and are leading so many people astray.” I believe, rather, that anti-evolution arguments like these from Ham and other young-earth creationists force many thoughtful Christians to lose their faith. Organizations like BioLogos, however, protect…

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…

“In a system, a process that occurs will tend to increase the total entropy of the universe.” How, then, can evolution claim that the complexity of species is increasing?  Doesn’t this movement towards order violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Such an argument is actually based on a misunderstanding of the law.  The Second Law…

“Darwin’s idea eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake a revolutionized worldview,”  writes philosopher Daniel Dennett on the potentially faith-shattering power of evolution.  Athiests claims that accepting the theory of evolution destroys the idea that God could have created the universe, including human beings. Is this true?  Certainly, evolution has…

Source: san.stephens2 / Flickr / All Rights Reserved Descent from common ancestral species is a cardinal principal of biological evolution, but where do we find the evidence to support such a claim?  In his book Coming to Peace with Science, Darrel Falk explains several genetic clues that point to common ancestry, including duplicate genes and…
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