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What is Just War Theory?
May. 22, 2007By Kenneth Richard Samples
Through the centuries Christian thinkers have taken different positions on the controversial subject of war. Three broad theories concerning the morality of war for the Christian can be identified: activism, pacifism, and selectivism. Activism asserts that it is virtually always right to participate in war.
Read more »Looking for a Firefly in the Face of a Searchlight
May. 18, 20075/18/2007
by Dr. David Rogstad
New and exciting spaced-based optical instruments are continually being proposed and built to advance our understanding of the universe and its contents. In the wake of past discoveries that
Read more »Pig Organs May One Day Save Human Lives
May. 17, 2007Posted by Fazale 'Fuz' Rana, Ph.D.
Xenotransplantation: Another Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Read more »Precise and Accurate
May. 16, 2007Jeff Zweerink, Ph.D.
Recent measurements using the Hubble Space Telescope help to resolve a scientific dispute that impacts how old the universe appears. Most readers will recall that the initial WMAP results gave an age for the universe of 13.7 ±0.2 billion years. After more data accumulation, the quoted date changed to 13.73 ±0.15 billion years.
Read more »Jesus' Personal Conversation with Pontius Pilate
May. 15, 2007By Kenneth Richard Samples
Skeptical Objection: How could the Gospel writers possibly know the content of Jesus’ “private” conversation with Pontius Pilate that took place just before his crucifixion (e.g., John 18:28-40)?
Read more »Multifaceted Design of the Strong Nuclear Force
May. 14, 2007By Hugh Ross
Protons and neutrons are like people. There is a just-right separation distance between them to foster the best possible chemistry. Put them either too close or too far apart and their capacity to interact with one another will sharply diminish. To get the just-right interactions between protons and neutrons so that stable atoms, molecules, and chemistry are possible, it is critical that the strong nuclear force be exquisitely fine-tuned in several different ways.
Read more »New Study Raises More Questions about Evolution
May. 10, 2007Posted by Fazale 'Fuz' Rana, Ph.D.
Elephant Sharks Closer to Humans than Teleost Fish?
Read more »Narrowing the Constraints on Dark Energy
May. 9, 2007Jeff Zweerink, Ph.D.
Scientists almost universally acknowledge the enormous “problem” represented by the extreme fine-tuning inherent in dark energy (a.k.a. space-energy density or vacuum density). It even has its own name—the “cosmological constant problem.”
Read more »A Worldview Thought Experiment
May. 8, 2007By Kenneth Richard Samples
By Kenneth Richard Samples
In the simplest terms, a worldview may be defined as how one sees life and the world at large. How a person makes sense of the world depends upon that person’s vision, so to speak.
Read more »Big Bacteria Help Resolve Big Creation/Evolution Debates
May. 7, 2007By Hugh Ross
For most jobs the size of the applicant does not matter. But, there are exceptions: basketball centers must be tall, offensive tackles in professional football must be heavy, and World War II submarine sailors had to be both short and lean.
In biology size did not become a significant factor until the Cambrian explosion some 542 million years ago. At this event most of today’s main groups of animals, or animal phyla, suddenly appeared.
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