A study1, published in the June issue of Child Development, offers new insight into how supernatural and scientific explanations are assimilated and merged in people’s minds. “The findings show supernatural explanations for topics of core concern to humans are pervasive across cultures in both industrialized and developing countries. The standard assumption that scientific and religious […]
A Look from Both Sides: Finding Center, by Grady Harp HALL OF FAME/TOP 50 REVIEWER Amazon
How things started has been a hot topic since Darwin’s theory of evolution and the subsequent discoveries of physicists and scientists throughout the subsequent centuries . Usually a book appears as a rant, descrying the ‘other side’ of the debate from the vantage of the writer’s opinion: either the universe was created billions of years […]
Humans – evolved or created?
When the Human Genome Project, a 13-year endeavor, completed in 2003, mapped out the chemical composition of human DNA, they determined that only a few percent of the whole chain was really important in determining the structure of the human body and how it worked. What was the rest of the DNA for? They concluded […]
Advancing the truth, Rabbi Andrew Rosenblatt
As a Rav who was once a bio-organic chemist, the issues of creation science and biblical narrative have been an area of particular interest. The subject matter is one which requires a dual loyalty: one to accurate reading of the Torah and another to valid empirical and theoretical science. Daniel Friedmann is an individual thoroughly […]