Today’s Guest Writer is: Mark A. Korodan Is carbon dioxide a potentially dangerous pollutant or just a harmless compound found in animal breath and vehicle exhaust? If one exhales in ambient temperatures below 40oF, what is visible is a combination of water vapor and CO2. The conversion of hydrocarbon fuels, coal, or sugar into energy […]
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Today’s Guest Writer is: Mark A. Korodan To my knowledge, there have been no relevant institutions of higher learning that were founded by atheists or agnostics. The historic record cannot be denied. Religion played a significant role in the founding of not only the above-mentioned institutions, but also many of the great universities of the
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Today’s Guest Writer is: Mark A. Korodan Has religion been a hindrance or a help in the various fields of science? Or, in the pursuit of knowledge and truth, are science and religion mutually exclusive? There are some, e.g. Andrew Dickson White (co-founder of Cornell University along with Ezra Cornell) who were of the opinion
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Why University Fraternities and Sororities use Greek letters, the back story, and why you should care Today’s Guest Writer is: Mark A. Korodan While the answer is not complicated or mysterious, it does take some thought and background information to arrive at the correct answer. I know there are many in academia who know the
Today’s Guest Writer is: Mark A. Korodan Charles Darwin was unable to fully grasp or accept to what extent gene variation existed in the parent stock. He believed that the variety of phenotypes exhibited in dogs could only come about from more than one parent stock (species), and that several wild species had to be
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Today’s Guest Writer is: Mark A. Korodan The Origin of Species (OOS) by Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) published in 1859, is considered by many in the scientific community to be one of the most important books ever written. The sixth edition (1872) is still regarded as one of the best defenses of gradualism (Darwinian Evolution).
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Today’s Guest Writer is: Mark A. Korodan The science of developmental biology has recognized four basic stages of development in human reproduction prior to birth. The first stage involves the formation of male (sperm) and female (egg) gametes. When the sperm and egg come together to form a single cell it is called a zygote;