David Penny and co workers are out with another confirmation of evolution. In a Darwin’s God exclusive, Penny assures us that there is no question about the fact of evolution, but from his Popperian perspective, it is always important to put forward testable models. And the result, as usual, is that evolution wins yet again. One result, from Column 7 of Table 2 of the paper, shows that the probability that the proteins in question could have arisen by chance is 1.94 x 10^-19. And that is just one of their many tests. In other words, evolution is pretty much a done deal. As they conclude: “The analyses establish that some form of ancestral convergence is occurring.” There’s only one problem: Read More ›

There are three main approaches to current origin-of-life studies – metabolism-first, replication-first, and membrane-first. The problem with each of these approaches is that they ignore the reality of irreducible complexity in self-replicating system.
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Diatom shells have been found in the Earth’s stratosphere at a height of 27 kilometers. Since there have not been any violent volcanic eruptions in the last three years, the presumption is that they came from space, and probably from inside a comet, according to Professor Milton Wainwright (University of Sheffield, England), who is the lead author of a new paper titled, Isolation of a Diatom Frustule Fragment From the Lower Stratosphere (22-27 km) – Evidence For A Cosmic Origin (Journal of Cosmology, 2013, Vol. 22, pp. 10183-10188). Here’s how the report’s Abstract summarizes the discovery: Sampling of the stratosphere at heights between 22 and 27 km was carried out in the UK on 31st July 2013 using balloon-borne equipment Read More ›