The Elephants May Hold Key to Prevent Cancers in Humans
Elephants rarely get cancer. Here’s why this matters to humans Source: CNN By Michael Nedelman, CNN You’d think elephants would be getting cancer left and right: They are giants of […]
Why Dogs and Humans Love Each Other More Than Anyone Else
Source: Time This is excerpted from TIME How Dogs Think: Inside the Canine Mind, now available at retailers and on Amazon. You speak dog better than you think you do. You may […]
Body Hair Is Natural. Society Thinking Otherwise Is Dangerous
Source: Time By HEATHER WIDDOWS June 13, 2018 IDEAS Widdows is John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham and the author of Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical […]
The words that change what colors we see
Source: BBC News By Aina Casaponsa and Panos Athanasopoulos, Lancaster University From The Conversation 23 April 2018 The human eye can physically perceive millions of colours. But we don’t all recognise these colours in the same way. Some people can’t see differences in colours – so called colour blindness – due to a […]
Today is the Birthday of Darwin; How He Leads to Islam
Charles Darwin: An Epiphany for the Muslims, A Catastrophe for the Christians Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The National Museum of Natural […]
Modern fossil discovery rewrites human history
Source: CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN)Scientists have discovered the oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa, estimated to be between 177,000 and 194,000 years old, according to a new study in […]
Video: A closer look at ‘3.67m-year-old’ human skeleton
Source: BBC News It took 20 years to excavate, clean and put together Little Foot, whose skeleton was found in caves north of Johannesburg. Its exact age is debated, but […]
What Does the Quran Mean: O Mankind We Created You From a Male and a Female?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times For more than 1400 years, since the revelation of the Quran, all the Muslims have interpreted the verse, […]
Ted Talk: What separates us from chimpanzees? | Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall · Primatologist; environmentalist Jane Goodall, dubbed by her biographer “the woman who redefined man,” has changed our perceptions of primates, people, and the connection between the two. Over the past […]
Ted Talk: Beyond the “creation vs. evolution” debate
Ted Talk: Beyond the “creation vs. evolution” debate | Denis Lamoureux | Evolution & Creationism: Reframing the Controversy | Rafael Rivero | Decoding the missing link: Evidence for Evolution from […]
Uproar in Turkey over removing evolution from biology class
Source: Associated Press By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY ISTANBUL (AP) — Students in Turkey are returning to school Monday where they will be taught evolution for the last time in their biology […]
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi Joins the Long List of Scholars Who are Ignorant about Evolution
This is an Urdu video. Suggested Reading about Evolution and Religion Exposing Creationism of Zakir Naik, Tahir ul Qadari, Yusuf Estes and Harun Yahya Encyclopedia Britannica: Just How Old Is Homo sapiens? […]
CNN Video: 66-million-year-old dinosaur skull uncovered
Construction crews in Colorado uncovered a fossil. Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Joe Sertich says it’s a triceratops skeleton and skull that is at least 66 million years old. […]
Amazon study discovers 381 new species in two-year period
Source: BBC Researchers have discovered 381 new species during a two-year study in the Amazon region. The report by the WWF conservation body and Brazil’s Mamiraua Institute for Sustainable Development said that […]
In pictures: 2017 Galapagos photography competition
Source: BBC The winners have been announced for a photography competition capturing wildlife and scenery from across the Galapagos Islands. Please see the pictures in BBC Suggested Reading and Viewing […]
Discovery of 13 million-year-old ape skull shows what human ancestors may have looked like
Source: Washington Post By Amy B Wang To the untrained eye, the area west of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya appears to be barren of anything but rocky hills and […]
Can Buddhist Practices Help Us Overcome The Biological Pull Of Dissatisfaction?
Source: NPR BY TERRY GROSS Are human beings hard-wired to be perpetually dissatisfied? Author Robert Wright, who teaches about the interface of evolutionary biology and religion, thinks so. Wright points out that […]
Move over T-Rex, there’s a bigger fossil in town
Suggested Reading Encyclopedia Britannica: Just How Old Is Homo sapiens? The Single Quranic Verse that Can Convince You about Evolution Meeting the Quranic Adam with Charles Darwin TheQuran.Love: Surah Baqara (The Cow): Section […]
Gene editing: Gateway to Promised Land, or key to Pandora’s box?
Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron | August 3, 2017 (RNS) — News that scientists for the first time successfully edited genes in human embryos created a stir this week. In the […]
Human embryos edited to stop disease
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightOHSUImage captionPictures of the genetically modified embryos Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos […]