New Year

New Year

Happy New Year! Congratulations for another successful trip around the Sun! Over the past year you’ve been traveling at 67,000 miles per hour while rotating on the Earth’s surface at 1,000 miles per hour covering a distance of 584 million miles around the Sun.  ...
The Nativity

The Nativity

Merry Christmas! Did you know during the Middle Ages many people did not know how to read? The church held plays to teach biblical truths and the plays performed at the Christmas time included Adam and Eve. So, what did Adam and Eve have to do with Christmas? Many...
Soft Tissue

Soft Tissue

  Imagine leaving your lunch meat sandwich along a trail in the Grand Canyon during a family vacation and finding the same undecayed sandwich 50 years later. A ridiculous fantasy? Now imagine finding a chicken drumstick left on a rock in England by King Arthur 1000...
Science: Test – Repeat – Observe

Science: Test – Repeat – Observe

Did you know there  is a classic test to determine if science is being properly applied?   It is called the “white swan test”. So suppose there was a  belief that “ALL swans are white.” In science this would be called my starting hypothesis. Could this prove to be...
Lightning

Lightning

  Are there any benefits to the power of a lightning storm? Most would agree that lightning only brings fear and sometimes destruction. On a positive note, plants require nitrogen to grow green and healthy, and our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. Plants cannot take the...
Snowflake Design

Snowflake Design

Have you considered the beauty of snowflakes?  A snowflake starts as a tiny crystal that forms around a speck of dust. As the water droplet freezes, the crystal starts to develop its six sides. As moisture is drawn into the crystal, the six branches begin to grow. As...