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Make the Climate Alarmists Happy: Plant a Tree

July 6, 2019

Maybe everyone can calm down the climate alarmists without draconian political measures. But who really knows? Scientists at ETH Zurich are saying that if people could plant a trillion trees, they would save the climate for at least 50 years. Their press release, “How trees could save the climate,” presents a startling alternative to the […]

Botany

Photosynthesis: Darwin’s Great Mystery Is Still a Mystery

May 2, 2019

Darwin’s Great Mystery, Photosynthesis, Is Still a Mystery by Jerry Bergman, PhD The origin of photosynthesis has always been a profound problem for evolution. A 2019 study by one of the leading researchers in this area, Tanai Cardona, from the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London, has confirmed the fact that after decades […]

Darwin and Evolution

Natural Selection: Darwin’s All-Purpose Magic Wand

April 30, 2019

If it exists, it evolved. How? By natural selection. How does that work? It makes things evolve. That's all you need to know.

Education

Words of Wisdom from Wildflowers

April 12, 2019

Springtime is here and the wildflowers are blooming. What lessons can nature lovers learn from these beauties?

Fossils

Misinterpreting Fossil Graveyards

March 30, 2019

Fossils are real, but the stories concocted to explain how mixed-up animals became buried together involve assumptions.

Botany

Carnivorous Plants Show Attention to Detail

March 26, 2019

Two plants that baffled Darwin are best admired for their design than for their evolution. Most people have seen the hinged snap-shut cages of the Venus flytrap. Some know that the insides of the leaves have three trigger hairs each, which must be touched twice in succession at a minimum interval of time for the […]

Fossils