1. Space Aliens: Red, Yellow, Black, Or White?
(Blogs/Science)

...m has been determined for it by its ancestors, all the way back to the first bacterium. For instance, bacteria had many members in the population with traits other than the those that eventually...

2. THINK: You Can Do It If You Try
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

...ction while witnessing the slaughter of millions during the Holocaust, or its “creation” of the bacterial strain that infected and killed millions during the Bubonic Plague? Even in...

3. Fossil Fuels: Fetishes of Our Times
(Blogs/Science and Society)

...allow seas and sank into the mud under anaerobic (without oxygen) conditions that prevented biodegradation. Bacteria converted the lipids (oil,fats,waxes) into a waxy substance called kerogen. As this...

4. Humans Walking With Dinosaurs?
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

...d you caught the football after kickoff on your own goal line when Earth was born, the simplest life forms, bacteria, would not appear until you had reached your 22 yard line. Dinosaurs and mammals wo...

5. Warning To Intelligent Designers
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

...very strong hydrochloric acid in the mouse’s stomach was intelligently designed to act in unison with bacteria that was also designed just for this purpose, to digest the mouse so the snake coul...

6. An Interview with the Author
(Interview with the Author/FAQs)

...nd animals that produce carbon dioxide and photosynthetic organisms such as plants, phytoplankton, and cyanobacteria that consume it. This battle has resulted in many warming and cooling cycles. Now...

7. The Big Question
(Blogs/Science and Society)

...humans? Is religion genetic? How and why did man begin to believe in supernatural spirits? How has bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and how can we prevent the spread of disease? Wh...

8. Bacteria for Fuel
(Blogs/Science)

...ur future. Scientists have recently reported that they have now determined the entire genome of a strain of bacteria that lives in the gut of a particular termite that is very efficient in converting ...