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Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative reference content with headlines and videos, learners see how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity. Users can explore millions of full-text articles from national and global publications, 200+ experiments and projects, and top reference content.
1) The Cosmos
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Its origin shrouded in mystery, operating according to its own laws, described with the precision of mathematics, there is nothing as impressive as the cosmos. Life on earth is supported by forces finely tuned to an astonishing degree. So is it all luck? Or does the evidence suggest something more behind our ordered universe? In this episode, atheism and theism are on a collision course. Where does the truth lie?
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More than half a century has passed since the Scopes trial created deep divisions between the religious and scientific communities centering on arguments over evolution. In the intervening years, the two severely divided camps found areas on which they could agree; the "big bang" theory, for example, was no longer considered to be in conflict with the biblical story of creation. Recently, however, a movement toward more conservative religious views...
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Belief in miracles has for centuries been relegated to lunatics and religious fanatics. But not so very long ago, that all began to change. In 1991, Life Magazine ran a cover story about miracles and became one of the first mainstream news sources in the United States to acknowledge the thousands of mysterious, "miraculous" phenomena that had been happening around the world.