Junk DNA: Just because information is never used, doesn’t mean it is junk
You knew this was coming — prayer is the latest addiction
Religion as child abuse—missing the point of the claim
Why the Christian Darwinism of BioLogos is, well, just incomprehensible
Evolutionist: We do not promote any “spiritual ideologies.”
After our recent reporting on new research out of John Mattick’s lab on how RNA structure conservation suggests that, even according to evolution, yet more of the mammalian genome is functional, lead author Martin Smith informed us that we had it all wrong: read more
Complex social behavior in worms?
Flying Spaghetti Monster chronicles: Pastafarianism, born to ridicule ID, now taken seriously as religion in Europe?
Deleting Darwinism by defining it out of existence.
If the human race really split into three distinct groups in 150 years, as New Scientist claims …
ID guys’ lasting fame: Their Erdos–Bacon number!
More Functions For “Junk” DNA
In the aftermath of Dan Graur’s claim that either our genome is mostly junk or evolution is false, new research is finding yet more ways that the so-called junk DNA is, in fact, functional. This time it is the introns which have been found to help with regulation of gene expression. As one of the researchers explained: read more
Game Theory denies Darwinism
It’s all over the news. Evolution promotes altruism, evolution rejects selfishness. I suppose other than this being a slow-news summer, this falls into the category of “man bites dog.” Weren’t we all taught that Darwinism was all about my survival, my selfishness? So what is this paper talking about? About game theory. Variations on the “prisoner’s dilemma” game where two or more players are facing a hostile interviewer. If they rat on the other they get $10 (and the other guy none), but if they keep mum, both of them split $30. One can do this with people, or with computers, and many games are played to find the “cost” of keeping mum, etc. Various strategies are tried against each Read More ›