The bacterium Bacillus cereus likes to live in soil that would kill most other bacteria. It’s bothered neither by lethal concentrations of metal nor natural antibiotics.

How can cereus survive under conditions that would kill any other known bacteria?

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It is often forgotten how much energy a plant uses, in producing flowers and blossoms. Though cherry blossoms are small, there are a lot of them. The colors they reflect, and the aromas released, are attractive to the insects necessary for pollination.

Photo: Cherry Blossom by Chiem Seherin_Pixabay.com

“What is the place of art in the Christian life?”, asked Francis Schaeffer. Many people have pondered the same question.

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One study has suggested that caffeine production must have evolved independently at least three times. Not only that, but plants contain at least two different biosynthetic routes for its production. Yet evolutionists claim that caffeine production fulfills just one main evolutionary purpose – to modify the behavior of other organisms.

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While Bach wrote theological notes in the margins of his manuscripts, and his well-thumbed Bible also contained comments, Beethoven’s music is honest in its skepticism. There is power and passion in it, as well as a great deal of anger.

Image: Josef Karl Steiler, 1820 – Public Domain, due to age.

Is there life on other ocean covered worlds?

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Could the stuff of science fiction be a reality in the outer reaches of our Solar System?

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Technology is looking at  the way nature folds things to copy the  natural designs, to produce better robotic algorithms, for packaging fragile objects.

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Wisdom is demonstrably not the same as intelligence. It is possible – and, I would submit, common – for a highly intelligent scientist to be foolish.

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Haeckel’s famous embryos drawings of 1874, were deliberately shaped, to support his recapitulation theory, even though  actual  embryos do not show such similarities. The drawings were debunked in 1965 and  yet some science curriculum still included this false concept.

Image: G.J. Romanes (1892), Public Domain (due to age).