Tag: Science and God

THE GOD-BOSON

THE GOD-BOSON

In July of this year scientists from Europe’s CERN research centre, along with researchers in the U.S., presented evidence for a particle named the “Higgs Boson”, a particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It has been nick-named the “God particle”, which is apparently a not-too popular name among physicists. I am totally … Continue reading THE GOD-BOSON

DID DINOSAURS HAVE FEATHERS?

DID DINOSAURS HAVE FEATHERS?

I’m cheating here, summarizing an article published in the June 2012 issue of “Acts and Facts”, which is a free publication of the “Institute for Creation Research”, or “ICR”. The article, written by Frank Sherwin and Brian Thomas, was prompted by a recent fossil find in China which is said to be “another” specimen of a fossilized dinosaur … Continue reading DID DINOSAURS HAVE FEATHERS?

HOW THE WASP GOT ITS STINGER

HOW THE WASP GOT ITS STINGER

My son and I had a rather unpleasant confrontation with the inhabitants of a wasps nest yesterday, who must have decided we were trespassing on their territory. In the ensuing battle my nine-year old son received ten stings and I got just two. The event got me wondering how the wasp may have “evolved” its own stinger, … Continue reading HOW THE WASP GOT ITS STINGER

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE FROM SOUP

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE FROM SOUP

THE THEORY Most of us have been told for decades that the Miller experiments proved how life originated in that primordial soup (you know –Darwin’s favorite food). In the 1950s Stanley Miller, Harold Urey and a team experimented on the elements that "must have" existed in abundance on the early earth, (Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Hydrogen, … Continue reading THE ORIGIN OF LIFE FROM SOUP

IF THERE IS NO GOD…

IF THERE IS NO GOD…

If there is no God there's no lasting meaning to life. We live, we quickly get sick and die, and beyond our transient, ephemeral pleasures (which many never get the chance to enjoy) there's no satisfaction, no future and no hope.