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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.6 min read

The Value of Science in the Age of CRISPR

Among advances in medicine and technology is the capability of “gene editing” via a technique known as CRISPR; bu what are the bioethical considerations?
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.4 min read

The Truth. How do we know it when we see it?

Two blog posts cannot exhaust the complex issues of how the human mind “knows” and how we make judgments about what is “true.”
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Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D.7 min read

St. Augustine: Patron Saint of Geeks?

As a science and math geek, I need a patron saint. I choose St. Augustine of Hippo, whose insights into science and math were centuries ahead of his time.
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.6 min read

Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin: Two Men and a Theory

Scientists Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were contemporaries. Mendel certainly knew of Charles Darwin, but did Darwin ignore Gregor Mendel's work?
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John Lennox: 'Exposing My Faith to Questioning Has Only Made it Stronger'

In the video below, Professor John Lennox shares that he found exposing his faith in God to questioning from others has only made it stronger.
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Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D.9 min read

What is Time? Part V: Quantum Time

This is the fifth in a series of articles addressing the question “What is time?” Here I’ll examine how time in quantum mechanics is strange.
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Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D.11 min read

What is Time? Part IV: Relativity and Time

In this piece, I’ll explain why relativity changes our view of time from an absolute dimension to one that depends on how we’re moving and where we are.
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.4 min read

Made in His Image: the Social Synapse and the Neurobiology of Connection

The data is in: we are hardwired for connection and social interactions. Not a surprise—for God is a community of love, and we are made in His image.
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.5 min read

Made in God’s Image; or Are We?

Should the idea of our being “made in the image of God” should be set aside since it has been disproved by science? Dr. Marie George answers.
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.5 min read

Challenging Heliocentrism: The 'Great Debate' of 1920

At the turn of the last century, a little remembered but dramatic debate took place between prominent astronomers Harlow Shapely and Heber Curtis.
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.5 min read

Leader of the Human Genome Project Receives 2020 Templeton Prize

This year's Templeton Prize was awarded to the scientist who led Human Genome Project and whose work testifies to the haromony between faith and science.
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Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D.12 min read

What is Time? Part III—Entropy, Time’s Arrow

This post discusses entropy—how change from order to disorder is measured as an increase in entropy and thus, how entropy is shown as "the arrow of time."
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