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Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too Before we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed vegetarians” and “strong ethical vegans,” we might consider that plants no more aspire to [...]

Why Stephen Hawking is Wrong About God Not Creating the Universe Stephen Hawking has garnered a lot of admiration and respect as a brilliant physicist and cosmologist. His book, A Brief History [...]

Atheists claims that mutations coupled with natural selection have evolved various immune systems existing in life today from simple to the very complex system in humans. However, the various [...]

Immune Systems, The Body’s Army Good neighborhoods provide families a lot of protection, but even the best of communities remain vulnerable to the threat of criminals invading their homes. [...]

Sea urchin spines May inspire new materials Many beach trips have been spoiled by stepping on the sharp and strong spines of sea urchins. The urchin uses those spines for moving around and [...]

The strength of the force of Gravity as an example of cosmic fine tuning The strength of the force of gravity is a specific example of cosmic fine-tuning. If gravity was much stronger than it is, [...]

The universe appears to be fine-tuned for life.  For example, seemingly infinitesimal adjustments to the dark-energy density or gravitational constant would render most conceivable forms of life [...]

Biomimetics: Design by Nature What has fins like a whale, skin like a lizard, and eyes like a moth? The future of engineering. By Tom Mueller Photograph by Robert Clark One cloudless midsummer [...]

The Remarkable Frogfish “And Hashem said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was [...]