“But ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” – Acts 1:8 As a college professor concerned with the broadening of my students’ compassionate understanding of […]
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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Introduction As recently as the 2018 Gallup poll, climate change ranked near the bottom of Americans’ environmental concerns. But that has changed. A Google search on the question “What are the largest problems facing the 21st century?” on May 15, 2023, generated a substantial number of links, including to various
Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash In Europe, at the turn of the twentieth century, great advances were being made in atomic theory. In 1904, the British physicist and Nobel laureate Sir Joseph John Thomson, who had discovered the electron, proposed his “Plum Pudding Model” of the atom, characterizing it as a smear of positive and
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“The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.” – Proverbs 14:15 ESV “Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.” – Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV In one of the laboratory classes I teach,
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(Editor’s Note: The Cornwall Alliance does not take a position on the age of the earth but thinks this is a worthy discussion of the issue.—E. Calvin Beisner) “And God said, ‘Let there be light’: And there was light” (Genesis 1:3 KJV) As a professor teaching at a Christ-first university, it comes as no surprise
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Editor’s Note: Whether war, famine, or pestilence, or smaller-scale troubles like an individual injury or illness or a business failure, people have, throughout history, suffered. “In the world, you have tribulation,” Jesus told His disciples. In our day, whether people fear climate change, or the “solutions” to climate change, the “Great Reset,” or inflation, we
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“And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.” –Genesis 2:7 (ASV) Back in the 70s when I was in college, pop culture had co-opted a quote from Carl Sagan1 that “we are stardust.” Joni Mitchel echoed this theme and Crosby,
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The August 9, 2021 edition of Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) featured a story in the field of structural biology entitled “How Transcription Gets Its Start.” Transcription is the biochemical process that occurs in every cell in the human body when protein synthesis is initiated. It is a complex series of steps that begin in the nucleus when a gene—a section
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When I was a teenager, I remember hearing the question “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? – and thinking what a stupid question – of course it makes a sound. But the longer I teach science, and the more I learn about our
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Whenever I hear someone praising solar energy or electric cars to the exclusion of fossil fuels, the pragmatist in me cringes. Aside from the fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear power plants and possibly the formation of methane deep in the earth’s core from “non-biological processes … creating stable reserves of fuel within the much
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