Romantics of the nineteenth century believed that not all sciences are beneficial to man; when one strays from morality and scientific method, the effects are damaging. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein exemplified this belief: science, though not inherently deleterious, becomes injurious when ethica...

Many things have been said about life, and many explanations have been made to try and explain this \"life\" and how it came into existence. About 150 years ago a man by the name of Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in an attempt to explain the world from a scientific perspective. Cha...

Coming Back: The Science of Reincarnation A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Coming from a Western background, all the logistics of reincarnation were unclear to me. Does the human soul only reincarnate into other humans or does it spread into animals as well? Where did the soul originally ...

Living in this time of the world whereby we constantly seek solutions in Science and its technology for our daily living, no less should it be understood that the answers they provide are not permanent as Science and hence its technology never will remain stagnant. Science is questioning. Its inve...

I. Description A. Nature of Work Marine Biology also refers to Biological Sciences or Biological Oceanography. Marine Science is the general term for research conducted in oceans and coastal or inland waters connected to the sea. This particular field is probably the best known to the public. Marine...

Carl Linnaeus was a scientific mastermind, still driven by his religious beliefs but intelligent enough not to let them stand in the way of what his findings were showing. Linnaeus was a botanist, a physician, and most importantly the founder of taxonomy. Throughout the course of his life he would ...

In his article "The Columbian Voyages, the Columbian Exchange, and Their Historians", Alfred W. Crosby seems to think that much of the Columbian voyages and what came out of them was detrimental to many cultures, most of all the Native Americans. Crosby brings up many institutions and ide...

The Living World How often is the soul of man, especially that of the child, deprived because one does not put him in contact with nature. There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all the life to be found around them, in a real fore...

Marine BiologyI. Description A. Nature of Work Marine Biology also refers to Biological Sciences or Biological Oceanography. Marine Science is the general term for research conducted in oceans and coastal or inland waters connected to the sea. This particular field is probably the ...

Marine BiologyI. Description A. Nature of Work Marine Biology also refers to Biological Sciences or Biological Oceanography. Marine Science is the general term for research conducted in oceans and coastal or inland waters connected to the sea. This particular field is probably the ...

Marine BiologyI. Description A. Nature of Work Marine Biology also refers to Biological Sciences or Biological Oceanography. Marine Science is the general term for research conducted in oceans and coastal or inland waters connected to the sea. This particular field is probably the ...

Marine BiologyI. Description A. Nature of Work Marine Biology also refers to Biological Sciences or Biological Oceanography. Marine Science is the general term for research conducted in oceans and coastal or inland waters connected to the sea. This particular field is probably the ...

Marine BiologyI. Description A. Nature of Work Marine Biology also refers to Biological Sciences or Biological Oceanography. Marine Science is the general term for research conducted in oceans and coastal or inland waters connected to the sea. This particular field is probably the ...

Marine BiologyI. Description A. Nature of Work Marine Biology also refers to Biological Sciences or Biological Oceanography. Marine Science is the general term for research conducted in oceans and coastal or inland waters connected to the sea. This particular field is probably the ...

Evolution is described as a gradual change. That is what many scientists believe about the earth, it evolved over many years to the earth we know today. All things were just formed through this very complicated ever changing process. The word evolution also refers to the formation and development o...

Evolutionary ThinkingMany science teachers in Kansas are disappointed in how the state voted at the beginning of the school year. They are upset because they must now cut out part of their curriculum that has been present for decades; the teaching of evolution. Members of the board feel that teachi...

For some unknown reason, the belief that human beings came from monkeys has been a translation of the theory of evolution. This is one of the biggest misconceptions in the many myths regarding evolution. Evolution is a process that explains why life on Earth looks the way it does today. It provides ...

LIFE The greater mankind's knowledge becomes, the harder it is to define the idea of life. This difficulty is curious since almost all human beings fell that they know, without any ambiguity, the difference between something alive and something dead. However, our advancing knowledge tells ...

Creation or Evolution? Where did we come from? Did God create our incredible world in six days, and do we all descend from Adam and Eve? Or was the universe created billions of years ago, possibly by a "Big Bang", with all living things evolving from a single organism? These questions hav...

The conservation of our environment has been a long standing debate between two extremes. On the one hand, some may argue for biodiversity, claiming that it has value for science amongst other things, on the other hand, there are those who may argue that putting a limit on the utilization of resour...

One of the characteristics of the Romantic Movement was exploring nature and natural phenomena. This can be observed in two works of the era, \"The Birthmark\" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and \"Frankenstein\" by Mary Shelley. Both works followed a script common in the Romantic Era, there is a brooding p...

I have read two books, "Forever Free," by Joe Haldeman and "Speaker For the Dead," by Orson Scott Card. These two books, while differing in many ways have similar aspects of the plot. The writers with similar spontaneous writing styles depict life in the future in similar ways. Both books illustrate...

Higher BeingsMillions of sunrises ago, before the invention of the telephone, before the fall of the Roman Empire, long before the first civilization emerged, humans were able to survive because they had the instinct to hunt, like all other animals that could eat meat. Later on, humans would develop...

Euthanasia Overview The term Euthanasia has become well known throughout the country. The word is derived from ancient Greek eu thantos, meaning "easy death." Today, euthanasia is referred to as mercy killing. There is much controversy over whether or not the practice is just. Euthanasia ...

The book "Gaia: A new look at life on earth", written by J.E. Lovelock, introduces a new- age religion represented by the Gaia hypothesis. According to the Gaia hypothesis, the physical and chemical state of the terrestrial surface is not a set of accidental conditions, but a dynamic equ...