Evidence for God from Science

This is a very tentative list of vertebrate transitional fossils. Since all species are supposed to be in transition due to natural selection, the very term "transitional fossil" is essentially a misconception. But the fossils listed represent significant steps in the evolution of major fe...

The reaon NASA doesn't have many projects into space is because it is so difficult and expensive. The lack of gravity causes extreme muscle atrophy. The damaging radiation that is filtered out by earth's atmosphere would most probably kill astronauts. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Plan...

Silvertusk: "Isn't this a blow to evolution?"

DB: no

Swamper: "I wonder what this will mean for people looking for cures to genetic diseases?"

DB: Advances in knowledge are ongoing and welcomed. Research will continue business as usual.

I just looked up Dead Sea Scrolls in Wikipedia - they give a lot more credence to new theories, including the one introducing this thread. Of course, The contributors to the Dead Sea Scrolls section on Wikipedia may be more persistent. The truth of an issue is not necessarily proportional to the num...

There have been in the last decade many studies done with fMRI - that is MRI studies done with dye or other markers - to measure differential blood flow in people when they are doing certain activities which elicit certain emotions. Certain religious activities are known to increase blood flow/activ...

There's a 16 page chapter in my "Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls" book (by VanderKam and Flint) titled "Identifying the Group Associated With Qumran." Excerpts from the chapter: "There are several possibilities. 1. The scrolls were associated with a Jewish group known to us ...

BGood says: Oooh has the mud slinging started?

DB: It was only silly putty

From a blub in "New Scientist" magazine: WIKI'S little sister hits the 'shelves' Have you ever wondered whether contributors to Wikipeia really know what they are talking about? People who prefer to know writers' credentials will welcome the pilot launch of Citizendium last week. This &quo...

A good, short reference:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/hea ... lls/dn9982

>>One one hand, the amendments bans cloning... (1) No person may clone or attempt to clone a human being. One the other hand, it makes somatic cell nuclear transfer research a constitutional right. (5) “Human embryonic stem cell research,” also referred to as “early stem cell research,”means any s...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5842298/site/newsweek/

I found another entry about that DSS issue. I also had a third, but now I can't find it.

Great article, Sandy - I recently read selected chapters (and skimmed the rest) in "The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls" by VanderKam and Peter Flint, 2002. I heard Flint speak about the DSS's a couple of years ago at the annual main Biblical Archaeology Society meeting. Hershel Shanks was...

Canuckster: Mild as it may be, please let's keep this on the higher ground.

DB: Sorry - duly noted

Sandy mcd says: So what we are contrasting here are statements published in scientific magazines (which have apparently elicited no mass outcry from their members which include major industrial companies) vs grass roots petitions or individuals. DB: I checked out all those sources and more. I found ...

Sandy mcd asks: Anybody read Paul Davies' "The Goldilocks Enigma"? DB: I haven't, Sandy - I tried to find it on Amazon, but it has an "unavailable" tag on it. I do have an uninformed opinion, however - that being that this concept is more philosophical than anything else. I belie...