Wilderness survival handbooks often warn readers not to eat colorful bugs. Many insects are fine survival food, apparently, but not all. The colorful ones are more likely to be unwholesome. Evidently, it is not enough for an insect or spider…
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Perhaps you consider yourself refined. You are well dressed and a model of perfect personal hygiene. Yet, no matter how hard humans try to be civilized, there is no getting around the fact that some aspects of our body, and…
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Microscopes are great educational toys that allow children to explore the world while having fun developing their science skills. But there are several types of scopes, with varying levels of quality and cost, each suited to a different need. Here’s…
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Half a Cup of Liquid Nitrogen, Please Excuse me, young man, an elderly lady asks the grocer, you don’t happen to know what aisle the liquid nitrogen would be, do you? I want to spice up and give a new…
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Shriek-Shriek, Briiinng, Squawk, Cochi-Cochi, Knock-Knock-Knock-Knock. “Honey I’m going to call the manager, I can’t take the noise from the fans, air conditioner and the water pipes” “But I turned off the fan and the air conditioner to enjoy the night,…
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In the last twenty years, the lineage of modern humans has been widely accepted as complete. Several genus of Homo are recognized beginning with Homo habilis around 2.4 million years ago (Jones et. al 242) and ending with anatomically modern…
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The problem here is the question. Evolution has two meanings in our current society: Evolution natural selection, and Evolution theory of “molecules to man” (to steal a phrase from Ken Ham). People use both interchangeably without really understanding the fundamental…
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Of course evolution is not an outdated theory! We continuously get more and more confirmation of the validity of the hypothesis that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor. Evolution is supported by evidence from the sciences of genetics,…
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If you read the answers people give to the question of what flaws are present in the theory of evolution, those answers generally reflect perceived flaws in the fact of evolution instead. Evolution, after all, is both a fact as…
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Many organisms that have successfully survived and evolved have not become more complex. There are many examples, but I will describe only a few… The lowly sponge has lived in the oceans little changed for many centuries. Similarly there are…
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