Becoming Human

Here’s a fascinating article describing some of the things that are being learned about what makes us human.

What Makes Us Human? Comparisons of the genomes of humans and chimpanzees are revealing those rare stretches of DNA that are ours alone. By Katherine S. Pollard (Scientific American, May 2009)

Analysis of the evolutionary genetic changes that produced [...]

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Wouldn’t it be great?

I suppose it would be nice to find conclusive scientific evidence that the earth was created in the space of six 24-hour days some 6,000-10,000 years ago, that there was an actual garden of Eden in which there lived the first man and woman named Adam and Eve who could have [...]