While flipping through the channels to find some ‘background noise’ while I worked, I stumbled upon a History Channel show “How the Earth was Made.” Curious, I left it on.
Chaotic lava claimed to come from extraterrestrial planets, years of water creating an earth made up of water. Beautiful scenes but the commentary wasn’t very engaging. I [...]
Category Archive for 'Science'
A proposed bill in Senate that is.
Two members of the U.S. Senate who have been behind unsuccessful efforts to ban all forms of human cloning have introduced new legislation with a new approach. They want to ban the use of human cloning to make human-animal hybrids, the kind of research taking place currently in England.
Stephen [...]
Steps of humanity
Posted in Culture, Entertainment, Science on Jul 20th, 2009
Today we remember Neil Armstrong’s first step on a moon. Forty years ago we took, ”One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” But does mankind still marvel at the giant leaps being made in science? And what will inspire today’s generation?
Questions posed in this morning’s paper by Christopher M. Hearte and Scott Gillespie, publisher [...]
The ‘provocative’ truth about embryonic stem cell research
Posted in Bioethics, Culture, Faith, Government, Health Care, Science on Apr 6th, 2009
Oprah hosted Dr. Oz and Michael J. Fox on her show recently. In their discussion, Dr. Oz explained stem cell reasearch and how it works to cure diseases. In his explanation he said he believed tembryonic stem cell is dead and adult stem cell research will make significant progress in the next few years.
The three [...]
At the White House today
Posted in Faith, Government, Politics, Science, Society on Mar 9th, 2009
Following in his trend of attempting to hide his pro-choice decisions on slow news days, President Obama announced Friday afternoon that he would overturn Bush’s executive order to halt federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Today President Obama signed an executive order stating that federal funds can now be used for embryonic stem cell research. [...]
The story of Creation and Evolution
Posted in Culture, Education, Faith, Science, Society on Feb 10th, 2009
Not Creation vs. Evolution. Creation and Evolution.
For years the two have been falsely set opposed to each other. It’s time to clear up the confusion and set the record straight on the relationship between faith and science.
Sheila Liaugminas highlights…
This is the year of Darwin, the bicentennial of his birth and sesquicentennial of the publication [...]