Hard disks and iPods have won two scientists the Nobel Prize in Physics. Today's New York Times reports that Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg will share the $1.5 million prize. We assume that such technology did not just "happen." Did the universe?

The idea that my ancestors are descended from your ancestors goes back further than today's news, of course. You may remember that in 1987 a biochemist proposed that all living human beings had inherited part of their DNA from a single woman.

High atop any list of perennial questions about Christian faith is the subject of creation and evolution. Four facts are important. First: the Bible was not intended to be a science textbook. While Scripture speaks with authority and truth to every subject it addresses, it was not written to define the age of the earth. It tells us what we need to know to follow Jesus, not all we would like to know about the world he created.