Ladybird Origami?
“Ladybird, Ladybird fly away home…” (English Nursery Rhyme) As one of the so-called ‘baby-boomer’ generation, one of the things I grew up with after World War II was Ladybird Books. This was a series of [...]
Earth’s twin?
Scientists at NASA have announced the discovery of a group of seven earth-sized planets travelling round a star much darker than our Sun. The planets closely circle a dwarf star named Trappist-1, which at 39 [...]
Better than fiction
You don’t often see them and you certainly don’t hear them as they fly over your head at night. And for some people, the thought of holding one sends a shiver down their spine! But, [...]
The Falling Sky
It seems that worries that “the sky might fall on your head tomorrow” are not confined to characters such as Vitalstatistix in the comic book Asterix and the Falling Sky! Which is one reason why [...]
Just a technical problem!
A recent editorial in the National Geographic magazine asserted: “If you can live a few years more, there is a real chance you will never die, since mortality may just be a technical problem we [...]
It’s not that simple!
Until recently nobody knew just how big a task faced a process of evolution if it was to produce even the simplest forms of life. Just how many ‘genes’ (genetic instructions) were necessary to make [...]
Information Enigma
Information drives the functioning and development of life. But what is the source of that information? Could it have been produced by an unguided Darwinian process? Or did it require intelligent design? The Information Enigma [...]
Intelligent aliens
Backed by a Russian philanthropist, two leading scientists recently launched a 100 million dollar project to hunt for intelligent aliens in space. By scanning a million of the stars closest to the Earth they hope [...]
Why I believe the Bible
The Law of Moses Dr John Hellawell explains how many of our supposedly modern hygiene practices actually date back thousands of years, as described in the early books of the Bible.
Going nowhere…fast!!
In a recent UK poll, 78% of those questioned in the UK could not say what Easter was all about. Which makes you ask, what other system of belief has collapsed at such a spectacular [...]