According to Nury Vittachi, real atheists might not exist. He says that Cognitive scientists are concluding from their research that “a metaphysical outlook may be so deeply ingrained in human thought processes that it cannot be expunged.” They believe that even people who reject the God of organized…

An international team of scientists is arguing in a new study that the world has entered the Anthropocene, or human epoch, marking the end of the Holocene which began some 12,000 years ago as the planet thawed from the ice age. The argument is that humans have made an impact on the world significant…

Speaking at a conference in Southern California, author and apologist Lee Strobel said there are scientists who think scientific evidence disproves the existence of a creator, but that is not true. He says three areas of science point to the existence of God and new discoveries continue to point in that…

Bill Gates is considered the richest man in the world, with an estimated wealth of 76$ billion. In 2000, he founded a foundation ranked as one of the most generous in the world, and he has since stepped down from his position as chairman of Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. When Gates was asked about…

When agricultural experts from the far away land of Israel arrived in Columbia and explained how the local farmers could make money growing potatoes, nobody believed them. Local farmers from Columbia’s northern desert region, La Guajira told the visitors the land would produce a lot of rocks, but not…

Stephen Hawking, the physicist who is renowned for his work on the most complex questions of astrophysics, admitted there is one topic he thinks about often that stumps him. “Women,” said Hawking. “They are a complete mystery.” --The Week, January 20, 2012, p. 6 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

Scientists have recently increased the estimation of the size of our universe. From the previously estimated 200 billion galaxies researchers at The University of Nottingham, believe the figure is likely 10 times that. In their research, published in the October issue of The Astrophysical Journal, the…

Do you remember Pig Pen, the character from the Peanuts comic strip that walked around with a cloud of dust surrounding him? Well it turns out; we all have such a cloud surrounding us. “Every human body is surrounded by an invisible cloud of millions of microbes that is as unique as our fingerprints.”…

A man whose actions changed the course of human history remained humble about his accomplishments until the day he died. Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first human to set foot on the moon in July 1969. His statement as he stepped onto the lunar surface has become one of the best known quotes in the…

A White Christmas for North Carolina in 2010 meant a little extra money in the wallets of customers of a Wilmington jewelry store. The owner of Perry’s Emporium, Alan Perry promised to refund the cost of jewelry purchased at his store between November 26 and December 11th, if Ashville got more than three…

A typical smartphone can make calls, send texts, and surf the Internet. Now, thanks to a Danish research team, phones can conduct brain scans. The team has developed an app that can monitor brain activity when coupled with a special headset. Presently the app only works with one smartphone model, using…

The Wonder of it All Standing above the tree line, I looked down upon God's creation with a sense of awe and wonder. Beneath my feet was the mountain tundra in full bloom. The clouds overhead swirled and darted from place to place as the chilling wind dared to push me from my observation post. While…

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests humans have good reasons to fear snakes, and ophidiophobia may rise from the experiences of our ancestors. In the research, scientists document the way frequent python attacks affected a tribe of preliterate, hunter-gathers…

From the beginning, humankind has sought ways to control the environment in which they live, including the weather. One of the miracles of Jesus reported by the gospel writers is his control over the wind and the storms. God, not humans, is in control of the winds, and our education and technology is…

SMALL THINGS Did you know that ordinary Scotch tape can emit X-rays? According to a report published in the journal, Nature, scientists discovered that when you peel off the adhesive tape from its roll in a vacuum, you produce X-rays. The action produces so much X-ray radiation that researchers were…

Through the years there have been many ideas to explain why starts twinkle. Aristotle said twinkling was caused by wavering vision of people stretching the limits of their eyesight. Later, scientists thought stars rotated and displayed facets like diamonds as they turned. Today, the accepted explanation…

A woman vacationing near a beach in Germany has found a message in a bottle that was set afloat more than 100 years ago. Marianne Winkler, a retired post office worker, was walking down a beach on the German North Sea island of Amrum when she found the bottle that had been sent out by British scientist…

Residents of a French town said their community became infested with moths. A videographer captured the insects on video which shows thousands of boxwood moths swarming a neighborhood in the town of Oyonnax. The moths are seen flying through the air, circling a tree, and perching on the window of a home.…

I wonder what our children think when they hear us singing the hymn, Power in the Blood? As it turns, there is literal power in the blood. Chemists built a biofuel cell that generates power from glucose sugar in snail’s blood. They drill a hole through the snail’s shell and then implant electrodes in…

As 2016 wound down, scientists announced that the year was going to a little longer than most, one second longer to be exact. To make up for slowing in the Earth’s rotation countries using Coordinated Universal Time added the leap second during the countdown to 2017. The timing for the rest of the world…

In the movie Mall Cop, Paul Blart is struggling with self-esteem issues. During the second scene, he is sitting around the dinner table with his mother and his daughter who are both encouraging him to begin dating again. Blart, a discouraged divorced parent, disguises his loneliness as his family is…

When the scientist Stephen Hawking was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease at the age of 21, he was told by the doctors that he would survive only a few years. But he could celebrate his 70th birthday on 8 January, 2012. Doctors remarked that Hawking is living today by the life sustaining power unknown…

Over 100 years ago, doctors first noticed that people, who could not speak after an injury to the speech center in the left side of their brains, could still sing. In the 1970s, researcher in Boston started using what they termed “singing therapy” to help stroke survivors regain the power to speak. The…