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Secular Root Origins Appear Groundless - Oct 9, 2018
/article/secular-root-origins-appear-groundlessFrank Sherwin, M.A. - The biblical model of origins maintains the first forms of life created by God were the land plants complete with root systems on Day 3 of creation week. The first life did not evolve from inorganic non-life in some unknown primal ocean some...
Newly-Discovered Brain Cell - Sep 13, 2018
/article/newly-discovered-brain-cellFrank Sherwin, M.A. - Someone said the three-pound human brain is the most complex and least-understood biological structure in the known universe. Scientific research regarding this incredibly intricate organ will never end. In fact, a fascinating new...
Massive Megashark Teeth Discovered - Aug 30, 2018
/article/massive-megashark-teeth-discoveredFrank Sherwin, M.A. - In 2015, schoolteacher and amateur fossil hunter Philip Mullaly discovered a number of three-inch teeth of what would later be classified as the large Great Jagged Narrow-Toothed shark (Carcharocles angustidens).1 The teeth were found along a beach...
More Exceptional Preservation of Organic Material - Aug 23, 2018
/article/more-exceptional-preservation-of-organic-materialFrank Sherwin, M.A. - The scientific community continues to reel and exhibit bewilderment that well-preserved carbon-based (organic) fossil material regularly appears in sediments supposedly many millions of years old. One recent discovery of organic matrix...
Are the Galápagos Islands a Laboratory of Evolution? - Aug 14, 2018
/article/galapagos-islands-laboratory-of-evolutionFrank Sherwin, M.A. - A recent Livescience article1 is entitled “The Galápagos Islands: Laboratory of Evolution.” It addresses, among other things, “unique examples of plant and animal life.” The islands contain a variety of biota (the...
Phenomenally Designed Hemoglobin - Jul 31, 2018
/article/phenomenally-designed-hemoglobinFrank Sherwin, M.A. - Hemoglobin is an iron-containing respiratory protein in red blood cells that binds oxygen and then transports and releases it to cells that need oxygen. It’s designed as four subunits (two alpha and two beta chains), each with an...
Coffee Drinkers Take Heart! - Jul 31, 2018
/article/coffee-drinkers-take-heartFrank Sherwin, M.A. - Coffee has nutritional benefits! Scientists in Duesseldorf, Germany, report, Caffeine consumption has been associated with lower risks for multiple diseases, including type II diabetes, heart disease, and stroke...1 Coffee has...
How Bacteria Help Our Bodies Survive - Jul 26, 2018
/article/bacteria-help-us-surviveFrank Sherwin, M.A. - Within the past 20 years or so, dozens of papers have been written regarding the human microbiome. Microbiota inhabit a variety of niches in the human body, with the gut being the primary location. Remarkably, “The human gut has the highest...
DNA Paramedics Repair Chromosomes - Jul 24, 2018
/article/dna-paramedics-repair-chromosomesFrank Sherwin, M.A. - In the mid-1800s, a mild Augustinian friar named Gregor Mendel crossbred pea plants and pioneered the beginnings of understanding inherited traits. Genetics has come a long way since then. Neither Mendel nor Charles Darwin knew anything about...
Bees Are Actually Really, Really Smart - Jul 19, 2018
/article/bees-really-smartFrank Sherwin, M.A. - “These are, high, high, highly intelligent creatures,” said conservation biologist Reese Halter.1 Halter was speaking of the fascinating bee. Bees are already famous regarding their ability to communicate with other bees...