Bananas and Babies: Strange Bedfellows
Before anyone allows his or her imagination to run wild, the title of this piece is intended to illustrate a point. A point that should already be abundantly clear – that the basic building blocks of all living things, Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), are found in varying amounts in every living organism on planet Earth.
Almost a Miracle
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick were able to build upon the work of English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin. She made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. Because Dr. Franklin died of cancer at the age of 37 in 1958, she was not honored along with Watson, Crick and British physicist and molecular biologist Maurice Wilkins who all shared the Nobel Prize for their
The 31 New Gender Identities
I’m pretty sure you thought it could not get any sillier than the City of New York announcing there are 31 genders from which people can now describe themselves. That’s right, you can now use a minimum of 31 gender designations when making references to human beings. The city fathers assure us that any violation of such designations will not end in a fine or jail, yet. Facebook lists between 56 and 58 depending on when you asked them, while
Taking Gender Bending Mainstream
In the late 1960’s and into the 70’s, I witnessed countless examples of people who were pressing the boundaries of what was considered normal expressions of sexuality. Like all sin, this behavior continues to leaven with every subsequent generation as they cross boundaries and redefine what is considered normal and what is not.
Life Begets Life
Where does life come from? There are two basic answers to this question which descend from either the acceptance or denial of a Creator. The first is a stance that most Americans adopt: seeing God as the originator of life. The other alternative is the materialistic acceptance of evolution that is dogmatically promoted in our schools and public media.