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The bible begins with the creation of everything that exists (Genesis, chapter 1). How is this creating done? Does God overcome some primordial, recalcitrant demonic force? No, although such accounts are found in the book of psalms. No, in Genesis God creates simply by speaking: “God said ‘let there be light’, and there was light.” […]
A new series of studies looking at hospital admissions and reported deaths across England suggests that COVID-19 deaths are “incredibly rare” among children, and that the virus carries a lower risk of dying or requiring intensive care among children and young people than was previously understood. Nature reports that in a “series of preprints published on […]
The luddite environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion has declared that “nature is queer,” that “trees can be both male and female and change sex,” and that “the huge range of biodiversity is echoed in human diversity.” The statement was released following a rally in Helsinki by Extinction Rebellion Finland. That rally demanded “ecosocial justice” and the […]
What was the justification for exterminating a family of wild boar that was discovered in county Kerry? Well, the answer, as usual, is based on agriculture: The notion that if this “invasive species” was allowed to take hold in Ireland, it might pass diseases on to our poor domestic pigs, and, in the final analysis, […]
Bees are important. Very important. They are needed for the pollination of crops, trees, meadows, wild fruits and of course for producing honey.
A bolt of lightning that shoots upwards in space from thunderstorm clouds – named blue jet lightning by scientists – has been spotted by astronomers working at the European Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) in the Pacific Ocean. Publishing their observations in the science journal ‘Nature’, the astronomers describe reporting “spectral measurements from the International Space Station, which offers […]
A group of medical and biological professionals has strongly criticised the growing trend to deny the reality of biological sex, saying that the claim that sex is neither fixed nor binary is “entirely without scientific merit”. In recent times, asserting that there are two sexes – male and female – and that gender is fixed and […]
In an unexpected development, the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Nature has retracted a study published last year which claimed that oceans were warming faster than expected due to climate change, and that the rate at which warming was happening was accelerating. Campaigners had seized on the October 2018 study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution […]
The video is here, if you can stomach it. I confess I can not. Suffice to say, you’ll find yourself hoping that there’s another Lion watching from behind a bush, sharpening its claws and teeth. This is just the latest in a long line of recent atrocities involving westerners visiting Africa for the sole purpose […]
Nature is Amazing! The mesmerizing murmuring of birds…