You Know 747 Wings Have Designers, So Why Don’t Eagles’ Wings?

Let’s talk about airplane wings for a bit. Over the decades of aeronautical design and development since the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903, engineers have come up with multiple configurations for wings. There were originally biplanes with multiple stacks of forward wings, followed by monoplanes with just one level, but with some located in…

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LONG STORY SHORT: Is Homology Evidence for Evolution Without God?

Have you ever compared the structure of your foot with that of your dog’s paws? Probably not, but Charles Darwin did a lot of that kind of thinking, which is known among science nerds as “Homology.” That’s the study of “the similarity of the structure, physiology, or development of different species of organisms based upon…

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A Thanksgiving Remembrance and Meditation

Every Thanksgiving for decades, the Wall Street Journal has reprinted a page from William Bradford’s account of the last night of the Pilgrims in the Netherlands before their departure to cross the Atlantic on the Mayflower for the New World. Even without the Journal’s annual reprinting, however, Bradford’s account has been read countless times by…

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WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Definitions Matter a Great Deal

Imagine two people are talking about “rights,” “freedom” and “justice” and, even though they are using the same words, they keep coming to dramatically conflicting conclusions about what those words actually mean and how they are actualized. The problem very likely is that they are using the same words, but they each mean something quite…

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SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Truth Be Told’ by Matthew West

Everybody puts up that front that all is well, right? We put our “best foot forward” in the hope that the things we all struggle with on the inside aren’t seen by others on our outside. Rare indeed is the man or woman for whom it can honestly be said that what you see with…

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