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Month: February 2012
Horizontal gene transfer: Gene from bacteria lets beetle feed only on coffee beans
Non-Darwinian evolution: “Cases of ecologically significant HGT in eukaryotes are starting to pile up, …”
What sandblasted scorpions can teach aircraft engineers
If nature is unintelligently designed, how come it has so much to teach us?
Baby Steps to Science
I am a big fan of amateur involvement in science. As such, I am starting a new series called “Baby Steps to Science,” published at Classical Conversations. The goal is to provide simple things that people can do to get their feet wet in scientific thought. The first article in the series, Counting, is up Read More…
BioLogos claims not to be Darwinist after all … and it’s not April 1 either.
Big change in the wind? “BioLogos does not subscribe to Darwinism, but Dr. Dembski has chosen this title and we will respond to it.”
Best Schools: John Gray on the Cult of Unbelief
“It is not even clear he is really a friend of traditional theistic religion. But he is even more opposed to the religious pretensions of science.”
Bill Dembski on the problem of good
“Hitchens is not the only atheist who needed to explain away Mother Teresa’s acts of charity. E. O. Wilson has done the same.”
The First Gene: “Without formal control, no life would exist.”
“Life is an intersection of the physical sciences of chemistry and physics and the nonphysical formalism of information science.”
Michael Behe on the theory of constructive neutral evolution
“The first thing to note about the paper is that it contains absolutely no calculations to support the feasibility of the model. This is inexcusable. …”
The real Charles Darwin: Not what you heard on Darwin TV …
“When he worked out his first theory he was ignorant of most branches of natural history with the exception of geology and geographic distribution subjects which he had learned while on the Beagle voyage. “
Stephen Barr’s Own Private Idaho
Back in the early 90’s a movie came out with the peculiar title “My Own Private Idaho.” The movie has nothing to do with my topic, but I’ve always been amused by the notion of a “private Idaho.” In a comment to my previous post (Barr v. Arrington), Deuce captures perfectly the problem with Stephen Read More…
This year’s wishful thinking?: “Constructive neutral evolution” can create complex processes like splicing and RNA editing …
‘”constructive neutral evolution’ that invokes biased variation, epistatic interactions, and excess capacities to account for a complex series of steps giving rise to novel structures or operations.”
New Video: Evolution is a Natural Process Running Backward
embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt After 10 years of trying, it seemed to me that getting scientists to understand something this simple was almost impossible, so this video, created with the expertise of my brother Kirk, was designed for “general audiences;” they do seem to understand it. But this time, I have been pleasantly surprised Read More…
Consensus science fails because we are not in the fourth grade any more
By the time people have graduated from high school, they have usually noted that the winners and losers are not necessarily who the consensus said.
When humans reached Australia, it wasn’t far away …
” … the long-isolated Andaman islanders have genes that diverged from other Asians about 60,000 years ago fits this notion of sudden seaside peopling.”