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We Are Not Alone – a quick visit to the Planetarium

February 2, 2013 By Joanne Brokaw Leave a Comment

I had a meeting today and I was running early, so I made a completely spontaneous stop at the Strasenburgh Planetarium. I really can’t tell you why I stopped, just that spur of the moment decision when you’re driving one way and then suddenly find yourself sitting in the parking lot of some place you hadn’t intended to go. I [...]

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When science and faith meet – infinity

October 7, 2012 By Joanne Brokaw 1 Comment

I once had a conversation with a university biology student about the possibility that God created the universe. His premise was that science proved that God couldn’t have created the universe. Going back to the moment of creation, he contended, there was scientific proof of how everything happened. Amino acids and molecules and explosions of compounds and [...]

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Bring back the Wooly Mammoth? Have we learned nothing from the bunny rabbit?

December 9, 2011 By Joanne Brokaw 1 Comment

It came out this week that Japanese and Russian scientists have recovered viable bone marrow from the frozen thigh bone of a Wooly Mammoth, recovered in Siberian permafrost soil. They plan to use it to clone the prehistoric beast. You got it: they want to bring back the Wooly Mammoth. Obviously the first thing that [...]