Podcast Episodes

Survival of the Most Cooperative

"Survival of the fittest" is an essential principle of evolution. This principle has not only been applied to animals, but also to human beings, as a…

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How Fast Do Stalactites Grow?

For generations cave guides have been telling cave visitors that the stalagmites and stalactites that they see around them grow at incredibly low rat…

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Wild Dogs of Australia

Most mammals in Australia are marsupials. That is one of the things that makes Australia so special to those of us elsewhere in the world who may nev…

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Isaac Newton – Historian

The significance of Newton’s historical writings is that he compared biblical timescales to those of other nations and peoples. He started with an im…

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Isaac Newton – Creationist or Heretic?

It is less well known that Newton wrote a lot about history and theology. He accepted a biblical timescale of events.

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The Science of the Lawgiver

An article in the New Scientist magazine suggests that the Reformation was a spur to scientific development. In their minds, Luther was a rebel, and …

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One Genesis Book

Genesis is one book. That might seem pretty obvious to many of you, and yet sometimes we have given the impression that it is two books. The first bo…

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No Final Conflict

There has been a tendency among some evangelicals to worry about scientific opinion. For example, there has been a drive to reinterpret Genesis in th…

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Seeking the Oort Cloud

Comets are fascinating objects. At their best, they can be spectacular objects in the sky, with beautiful tails pointing away from the Sun.

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Large Gray and Wrinkly

The old joke goes: “What’s gray and has a trunk? A mouse on vacation.” Of course, we know that this is really the description of the world’s favorite…

3 years, 5 months ago