The first letter is one I wrote for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. They edited out a couple of lines, which I will keep in. The second letter is an excellent letter by a Stephen Ewbanks, of Kokomo, Indiana, published in their local newspaper. His letter deals with myths...
Some who argue against evolution bring up the First and Second laws of thermodynamics and entropy. Like Dracula in a bad movie, these arguments just won’t die. Basically the First law stated that energy level in a closed system is constant and the Second law states that in...
I constantly hear statements by people who dont believe in evolution, that show a complete lack of understanding of the subject. If someone wants to not believe in evolution, that is fine, but I would urge them to at least try to get a basic understanding of it first...
Is teaching children there is a hell where they will be tortured in a lake of fire, child abuse? Well, I would state, yes. Yes it is, at least mental and emotional child abuse. I was not raised in a church to believe that I will be tortured for all eternity if I don't...
Imagine this, you walk to the back of your farm and head over towards the chicken coops, you look inside; but instead of chickens you're presented with two tyrannosaur hatchlings. Sure this example is utterly ...
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Animal, human and environmental health are inexorably intertwined. Diseases are making the jump from animals to humans and vice-versa at an increasing pace. The emergence of animal borne diseases such as Avian flu,...
" Benoit Mandelbrot, who discovered mathematical shapes known as fractals, has died of cancer at the age of 85. Mandelbrot, who had joint French and US nationality, developed fractals as a mathematical way of understanding the infinite complexity of nature. The concept has...
" In a record-breaking journey, a female humpback whale has travelled across a quarter of the globe, a distance of at least 10,000km. The event, reported in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, is the longest documented movement by a mammal. Its voyage was also twice...
In Russia the keen eyesight of the pigeon is put to a very practical use for, at one factory in Moscow, they are used to sort ball-bearings. After four or five weeks special training, the birds inspect the ball-bearings as they pass on a conveyor. If any show the least...
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The largest plants in the world are the giant redwood trees of North America. Sequoias can grow up to 107 m (350 ft) or more in height and may be up to 7.5 m (26 ft) across. They can weight more than nine times as much as a blue whale, the heaviest animal that has ever...
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The dog is thought to be the most varied mammal on earth. Even Darwin marveled at the diversity of dog shape, size and colour.There are over 300 recognized domestic dog breeds across the world and they are all of...
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New delhi: Discovery of Pre Human Fossil is top 10 discovery breakthrough of the year 2009 says prestigious journal Science. They include developments in anthropology, astronomy, and biology. The breakthrough of...
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Dr. Qazi Rahman Queen Mary University of London's assistant professor in Cognitive Biology whose research interests include Cognitive Biology and the Psycho-biology of human sexual orientation, claims in Gay by...
This year is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Looking back at the developmental history of biological thinking over the 150 years since the publication of The Origin of Species, we noticed that...
The Body Worlds Exhibition returns 4 years after its first visit to Toronto and will be on exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre (OSC) until February 28, 2010. This second Body Worlds Exhibition features more than...