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

...h a nucleus). If the environment had been different, a completely different set of traits might have been selected, due to adaptation, to form the eukaryotes—these would then have evolved into v...

2. Change The Creator's Rules?
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

... opinion, the rules should be changed to allow for the notion that human moral behavior exists by natural selection because it is good for us, not because performing good deeds will be rewarded by a C...

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

... Read Settled Science to learn how we got here by”chance” events pieced together by natural selection. ...

4. Religion: Desperate Quest For Salvation
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

...ial topics concerning religion vs science. Soon after humans began to form and join groups, leaders selected some of their group’s most popular myths, legends, and superstitions and sculpt...

5. Why We Lie-Is It Good For Us?
(Blogs/Science and Society)

Like spirituality, and all our other human tendencies that evolved before it, lying was naturally selected for us because better liars survived longer to have more offspring. Soon after early human

6. First Life and Death On Earth
(Blogs/Science and Society)

...required a billion years to form, in a matter of days began the evolutionary process of mutation, natural selection and genetic drift to build a vast population of diverse strains where the larger, mo...

7. High Prices, Weak Economy, and Good Books
(Blogs/Science and Society)

... course, depend on what emotional response the journalist wants to elicit. Wariness is an inherited trait selected for all of us by natural selection. Like all inherited traits, it exists in the popul...

8. Chicken and Egg Question Answered?
(Blogs/Science)

…Not! Maybe we will soon have the answer to the age-old question: what came first, the chicken or the egg? Scientists think they now have DNA proof that chickens and all other birds evolve

9. Evolution for the Rest of Us
(The Book/Reviews)

...nds to change that by taking readers slowly into the deep waters of the Big Bang Theory, DNA, and natural selection—starting at the shallow end. Nothing in the book is beyond the average reader....

10. Bird Singing and Human Speech Connected
(Blogs/Science)

...ed by these same FoxP2 genes. This is another example how master genes, in cooperation with natural selection, choose which genes to use whether they are building a tree, pinworm,bird, fish or a...

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

...here so many more genetic disorders of the brain than other organs in the human body, and why has natural selection not gotten rid of them? A. The reason there are so many human brain disorders is...

12. The Common Genome
(Blogs/Science)

...roup’s gene pool. In time, most members of each isolated group acquired these new traits by natural selection, and because they were the only ones available to be inherited. A race was born! Of ...

13. Sea Scorpion Found!
(Blogs/Science)

..., and was probably the ancestor of all living arachnids (spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks) today. Natural selection favored a large size because it evolved without any natural predators and because it...

14. New Dinosaur!
(Blogs/Science)

In another remarkable example of natural selection at work, scientists recently reported finding a new dinosaur species that lived 110 million years ago with a mouth shaped like a vacuum cleaner and

15. What is "Settled Science?"
(The Book/Overview)

... in real time alongside our natural world, both created and controlled by the same eternal spirit(s) that selectively dispenses favors to some and punishment to others, and other individuals that coul...