Normally each Monday “Science and the Sacred” features an essay from one of The BioLogos Foundation’s leaders. However, this week we welcome a special entry from guest contributors Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum. It is one of the oldest conflicts, one of the hardest fought, one of the most destructive. It is also, sadly, among…

In this TED lecture, Nina Jablonski — scientist, primatologist, and author of Skin: A Natural History — discusses the evolution of human skin color in response to varying levels of UV exposure in different geographical environments.  Inhabitants of equatorial areas, where destructive UVB rays are more prevalent, have evolved darker pigmentation to filter out these…

Variation among a species plays an important part in their evolution. The appearance of beneficial physical traits through genetic mutation drives species to evolve over time, as the best suited traits are passed on to future generations. However, not every physical trait seems to have immediate benefits. For example, many species have numerous distinct visible…

Biologoist Ken Miller recalls first reading Darwin’s famous work The Origin of the Species during the summer after high school.  Despite it’s revolutionary ideas about biology, Miller found the book fascinating for a completely different reason: “The truth is during that summer I thought it was the most boring book I read the whole time,…

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