Today's Creation Moment

The Moon is covered with craters. Other bodies in the Solar System are also covered with craters. If you look at an unlabeled photograph of Mercury, it is likely that you would simply assume it was …

 What makes a hero? Is it a particular character trait? Are some personalities better suited to being heroes than others? Or could anyone be a hero, given the right circumstances?

Image: Kigali Gen…

“The toolmaking techniques mastered by prehistoric humans there were more sophisticated than previously thought,”

Image: Public Domain.

Could the Icelandic epic poem, the Vǫluspá, which told of the eruption of Eldgjá, in the south of the island, in 939,  been the reminder that encourage the viking people to turn from their worship …

How could a 1,000-year-old lens is equal in quality with modern lenses?

Notes: Discovering Archaeology Online, 3-4/00, "Medieval Craftsmen Rivaled Descartes." Painting: Portrait of Rene Descartes b…

Like burning embers removed from the fire, when believers fail to be a regular part of their faith community, believers' faith, too, cools to the temperature around it.

Notes: Science News, 6/3/00…

The shell of the giant pink queen conch is made of such remarkable material that scientists speak of its design, even while they say that it is a product of evolutionary chance.

Photo: Shell of the…

What are "homeless" planets?

Photo: Orion Nebula. Courtesy of NASA. (PD)

Genes carry the biological information to make specific living things. Evolution says that simpler living things evolved first, and more complex life evolved later. This would lead us to believe tha…

We take the sky for granted. It is just there. Yet, whether it is covered with cloud, or clear, we do not consider the fact that, during the daytime, all of the sky is somewhat light. In particular,…

Curiously, the bones of the famous "Lucy"  are always mounted in such a way as to give the impression of a creature looking much like a human being. However, this presentation is extremely deceptive…

What is an exoplanet? An exoplanet is a planet orbiting a star other than our own sun. You might suppose that they were discovered by peering through a telescope in the same way that planets like Ur…

The oldest radio-carbon dates, of between 50,000 and 100,000 years, are notoriously problematic, even by evolutionary standards.

Image: Derby Museum Viking Display, Creative Commons Attribution-Shar…

Unlike other animals, octopi use a variety of strategies to solve the same problem. They can use their eight powerful arms to open clams, or they can drill through the shell and inject a fast-acting…

People often worry about the fat in nuts. However, most of that fat is the good kind that protects hearts, while at the same time satisfying the body's need for fat.

Photo: Pixabay.com (PD)

John Stevens Henslow was a highly respected scientist of the 19th century. He taught both botany and mineralogy at England's Cambridge University. In addition to being a scientist and professor, he …

All the textbooks inform us that the speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second. This is the absolute speed limit of the universe, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, we have always …

When bees are threatened by some diseases or predators, they act like sick children - they get a fever. More specifically, they give their nest a fever, sometimes raising its temperature to levels n…

There are some pastors and teachers who tell me that it does not matter what we believe about Genesis. It does not matter if there were really six 24-hour days, or millions of years. It does not mat…