2011
Steven Weinberg: The universe’s symmetry may be an accident
Correction of an Error in a Previous Post
It has been brought to my attention that a previous entry of mine cited / linked to the wrong paper regarding the hybridization of twenty-one different chromosome-specific human alpha satellite DNA probes. This has now been corrected.
If a Harvard physicist is right, there is no one for the Large Hadron Collider to explain anything TO …
Junk DNA: The original ‘onion test’ is a biological non-sequitur
South American bird sailed the Atlantic on jetsam? Well, lotta jetsam out there.
When the student speech code enforcer rises to a mid-level government job in 2020 …
Cash awards available for research or essays on the uses and abuses of biology
Competitive fitness studies on plants: Both existing gene differences and mutations help plant adapt to climate change
Few opponents will debate atheist neuroscientist Raymond Tallis, who is tired of neurotrash
Tom Bethell on why evolutionary psychology is not a science
Christopher Hitchens an atheist in the foxhole?
Neuroscientists’ protest letter against neurotrash published in New York Times
Thoughts on the “C-Value Enigma”, the “Onion Test” and “Junk DNA”
This morning I was observing some of the recent comment thread activity on Uncommon Descent, and my attention was drawn to this comment by Nick Matzke on the subject of the “onion test” argument for junk DNA: I have [The Myth of Junk DNA], and all [Jonathan] Wells does is gloss past T. Ryan Gregory’s onion argument; Wells gives the more important point, the huge variability in genome size as a widespread pattern, much attention at all. Considering Wells’s book is the definitive ID treatment of the junk DNA issue, and us ID critics have been bashing ID for its complete failure on the genome-size variability issue for years, this was a huge omission on Wells’s part. Here, I offer Read More ›