Darwinism and Altruism, Is There A Problem?
In Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest, those individuals best adapted to their environments are most…
Theory
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Crime in the Mind of Dostoyevsky
The theoretical study of crime, due to its potential to provide us with a way to understand the…
Understanding Today’s Schools with Chaos Theory
Today’s schools are more complex systems than the one-room schools of the past. However, most of the beliefs…
Quantum Entanglement: Illusion or Reality?
Science has always influenced philosophy. Trivial and not instantaneous effects of change in scientific thought eventually result in…
Physics of the Unseen
“Ever since the beginnings of modern science, four or five hundred years ago, scientific thoughts seem to have…
Eye for an “Eye”
It’s been a long and tough life. The days of the earth when it was still so hot,…
Expansion of the Universe
AND THE HEAVEN, WE HAVE CONSTRUCTED IT MIGHTILY, AND IT IS SURELY WE WHO HAVE VAST POWER, AND…
Science in Search of Its Soul
In the concepts of today, we can define science as the human effort to understand the physical world…
Darwin’s Black Box
Over since the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin in 1859, his theory of…
Fields of Certainty as a Unifying Paradigm for Science and Religion
A superficial understanding of science and religion perceives these two fields as being disciplines of different realms. Such…
Service-Learning: An Alternative Teaching and Pedagogy
Civic commitment has been a major emphasis of education around the world since ancient times. Public education was…
Celestial Reflections
In cosmic jargon, a planet is said to be at “opposition” when the Sun is on one side…
A Mathematician’s View of Darwinian Evolution: How Natural Selection Fails to Design
The theory of evolution, originally based on the ideas of Darwin, proposes an explanation for life on earth.…
Six Degrees of Separation or Small World
Introduction In his Models of My Life, social scientist Herbert Simon stated that science’s purpose is to find…
Understanding String Theory
Cosmology is the study of the universe’s birth and evolution. The Standard Model of Cosmology, a widely accepted…