For those of us who live in the northern hemisphere, December is a good time to remind everyone about the Sun. It is the month when the Sun spends… read more

At this time of year, people everywhere celebrate the wonder of God sending his son to Earth to live, die, and be raised in order to redeem humans.… read more

Floods and fires raged and boulders rained from the sky. Such a sci-fi-like scenario in Earth’s relatively recent past gave us, in part, the… read more

In last week’s blog1 I described how a careful reconstruction of temperature proxies at sites all over the world revealed that the climate… read more

One of the most outstanding and blessed features of Earth is that it has an ice age cycle where, for the past 9,000 years of that cycle, the planet… read more

Just a year ago, I had a regular attendee in my Paradoxes Sunday school class1 who was 101 years old. He was mentally sharp and, for his age,… read more

Stymied by attempts to find life-friendly conditions on surfaces of extraterrestrial planets and moons, astrobiologists have turned to increasingly… read more

During my graduate school days at the University of Toronto I had the privilege of taking a short course from Princeton University astronomer and… read more

Astronomers have detected and measured the mass and/or orbital features of 3,869 planets in 2,887 planetary systems beyond the solar system.1 This… read more

Our intestinal tracts are amazingly designed to withstand a high degree of stress. However, a new set of experiments establishes that there are… read more

Extraterrestrial iron dust delivery by means of exquisitely fine-tuned processes has made modern civilization possible. Scientists sought to discern… read more

About 800,000 years ago, a miraculous change took place on Earth. The ice age cycle transitioned from happening every 41,000 years to about every… read more

The following question was posted on my Facebook page several days ago: … read more

In part 1 of this three-part series, I wrote about how 800,000 years ago, a miraculous transition from a 41,000-year to an approximately 100,000-year… read more

This blog is the first of a three-part series on new scientific discoveries and research that reveal the hitherto unrecognized miraculous nature of a… read more

Nature is filled with examples of mutualistic symbiosis—a relationship in which dissimilar species benefit from the association. Obligatory… read more

Many people quickly identify oxygen and ozone as biologically produced molecules in Earth’s atmosphere. For that reason, exoplanet researchers… read more

In the past one hundred years astronomers have moved from knowing virtually nothing about the origin and history of the universe to possessing a… read more