It all just swished into place among unthinking cells billions of yours ago. Otherwise we wouldn’t be here. Go tell it on the mountain.
Researchers: Plants protect stem cells via diverse backup plans
Steady on here. “Evolution” randomly evolved a number of complex and specified strategies that hit the same target? And we can achieve “intelligent crop design” by co-operating with it? Better take your Darwin pills before you talk about this with colleagues.
Researcher: Running marathons made us human
Add this one into the (by now, surely) thousands of little things that are said to have made us human. All that tinkering sure sounds like a plan.
Genome-wide associations hammered in recent studies
At Quanta: Though it was always understood to be a problem, “no one realized how big of a problem it was,” said Shamil Sunyaev a computational geneticist at Harvard Medical School who performed one of the new eLife analyses.
Michael Egnor: Apes are NOT spiritual beings
Never mind what Jane Goodall thinks: In an otherwise silly article about the “evolution” of religion, journalist Brandon Ambrosino quotes primatologist Jane Goodall on the topic of… religious belief among apes: “The chimpanzee’s brain is so like ours: they have emotions that are clearly similar to or the same as those that we call happiness, […]
Megacarnivore found in drawer
The cat came back. so to speak. Actually, extinct Simbakubwa kutokaafrika was not a cat but a hyaenodont, larger than a polar bear, with three rows of shearing teeth. Found between 1978 and 1981, the jawbone had to be stored on special shelving due to its size.
Can a non-physical mechanism be measured?
Bartlett: It turns out that humans don’t just go from “incompetent” to “competent” at a given task. We develop new ways of doing things that didn’t exist before.
Researchers: Lizards on islands slow down evolution – the opposite of the usual claim
It would have been simpler to say that there is no consistent “island rule” but that would imply that current Darwinian theory does not have an answer for everything. Perhaps many island life forms don’t evolve very much or very fast but the ones that do attract attention.
Protein turns jumping genes, once considered “junk DNA,” from “foes into friends”
What? It turns out it is not junk. It needs managing but it isn’t junk. “Our results reveal how a family of proteins that was long considered an oddity of nature, turns foes into friends,” says Didier Trono. And almost nothing the Darwinians told us is true.
“Honey, I ate the kids” cited as evidence of Darwinism at work
They created a mathematical model that, they say, demonstrates: Live fast, die young, be prepared to abort.
Another look at the call to abandon statistical significance
In an era where even medical journals are urged to get woke, abandoning statistical significance could mean abandoning a refuge against Correct nonsense. As Brookshire writes, “Unfortunately, there is no single alternative that everyone agrees would be better for all experiments.” But that might just be what some factions want and need.
Drone finds Hawaiian plant, believed extinct
The plant, Hibiscadelphus woodii, was formally discovered in 1991 and had been declared extinct in 2016: In 2016, the same year the plant was listed extinct, the National Tropical Botanical Garden teamed up with drone operator Ben Nyberg to supplement the work of intrepid scientists like Wood, who rappel down cliffs and trudge through rainforests […]
Is evolutionary ethics compatible with Christian ethics?
Richard Weikart: In this [Darwinian ] view ethics is merely a tool—some evolutionists even say an illusion—that helps humans survive and reproduce. It is neither objective nor universal nor immutable.
Beetles freeloaded off ants 100 million years ago
So what, you say? Well, consider: We have no evidence that the relationship “evolved.” We are informed that we ought to see it as evolution but—as so often—we find the same patterns prevailing in the past, without any evolution.
Healthcare analyst: Religion is good for health but its effects are hard to study
Overall, one suspects that many researchers would rather explain the facts away than research them. That said, Fisher offers much interesting data.