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Dr. Samuel Wilkinson was in his first year of medical school at Johns Hopkins University when the question that was percolating in his mind came to a head: Was his belief in God compatible with the theory of evolution? This question stirred up a kind of existential debate in Wilkinson, who at the time had just graduated from Brigham Young University, gotten married and moved to Baltimore. “The theory of evolution has been a stumbling block — more than a stumbling block — f...

How can we reconcile evolution and faith? Does evolution point to a purpose of life? What is Samuel Wilkinson's book "Purpose" about?

New questions emerge almost a decade after researchers began tracking firefly sightings in Utah.

Close A research team led by Simon Fraser University reveals how fossil dragonfly relatives have been misidentified due to their bizarre similarity.  For over 150 years, researchers have been wrongly classifying a group of fossil insects to be damselflies, who are the familiar cousins of dragonflies that bat around wetlands feeding on mosquitoes. While they are strikingly identical, these fossils have strangely shaped heads, which scientists have always assigned to distortion arising as a resu...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Wing of the new species Okanagrion hobani, from the McAbee fossil site in British Columbia, a damselfly-like insect of the new suborder Cephalozygoptera. view more  Credit: Copyright Zootaxa, used by permission. For more than 150 years, scientists have been incorrectly classifying a group of fossil insects as damselflies, the familiar cousins of dragonflies that flit around wetlands eating mosquitoes. While they are strikingly similar, these fossils have oddly shaped head...