Ever wanted to try your hand at establishing a viable evolutionary lineage?  If so, the Science Channel has the perfect opportunity.  The free game, “Who Wants to Live a Million Years?”, allows players to help a species survive a changing and harsh environment by choosing three variations to populate the landscape.  Just as in real…

“The God of my early religious training pulled off tricks that are not beyond the powers of any competent conjuror; Harry Houdini or David Copperfield could turn a stick into a serpent or water into wine without batting an eye.  But no Houdini or Copperfield can turn miscroscopic cells into a flock of birds and…

Every Monday, “Science and the Sacred” features an essay from one of The BioLogos Foundation’s leaders: Francis Collins, Karl Giberson and Darrel Falk. Today’s entry was written by Darrel Falk. We all love origins-stories — be it stories about our own family history, the formation of our nation, the early days of the motor car…

Are wisdom teeth good for anything other than a trip to the dentist’s office?  Why do we have an appendix anyway?  Why do we have a third eyelid?  Today, these body parts seem to serve no purpose.  But this doesn’t mean that they have always been that way.  In fact, some of the “useless” parts…

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