Category: Science
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Believe in God in 5 Minutes
Youtube suggested to me a video entitled “Believe in God in 5 minutes (Scientific Proof)”. Of course my sceptical mind had to go and check it out. I watched the video which does indeed take up about 5 minutes of your time. The long and short of it: I still don’t believe in God.
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A great day for science
Today has been a great day for science on both the scale of the very small as the very large. Not only did the NASA New Horizons spacecraft pass by Pluto, CERN today announced the discovery of a whole new particle: the pentaquark.
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Discovery: Fish live beneath Antarctica
Scientists find translucent fish in a wedge of water hidden under 740 meters of ice, 850 kilometers from sunlight Source: Discovery: Fish Live beneath Antarctica An absolutely astonishing find from the web edition of Scientific American. In what has to be one of the most remote and extreme locations on Earth, scientists have not only…
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Watch “BBC Documentary – What Happened Before The Big Bang” on YouTube
Absolutely mind-boggling stuff. What happened before the Big Bang…if there was one at all…
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Now We Know How Many Craters Earth Has
And it’s a surprisingly low number! Have scientists found all of Earth’s impact craters? A surprising new study suggests that, indeed, that’s the case — at least for the big ones. Source: Now We Know How Many Craters Earth Has
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Don’t Believe In Evolution? Try Thinking Harder
An interesting research paper with findings that could be quite significant. If psychologist Will Gervais is on to something, it might help explain why debates concerning evolution between the scientifically minded and the religiously minded, tend not to get resolved. It’s not just that people are stubborn and it is hard to get them to…