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David Coppedge: Brain neurons “comparable to a library”
Coca Cola? There’s also an interesting story re Nye and climate change
Is Christianity Today twisting the Bible to fit Darwinian evolution?
At Mind Matters News: How plants talk when we’re not around
Eye evolution as a series of miracles of the Darwinian religion
Did virtue signalling evolve via Darwinian evolution?
People who doubt “evolution” are more likely to be racist?
Has Bill Nye sold out to… Coca Cola?
New find might “upend the Standard Model” in physics? Really? Rob Sheldon has the story
Steve Meyer on the logic of design detection
More depths to the bacterial flagellum: Mysterious protein FliL now better understood
As the Babylon Bee still awaits rescue from Twitter jail…
What about the idea that cells were once much simpler? But how much simpler?
Introducing the third vid in the Long Story Short series (on cell membranes) Rob Stadler comments: First, scientists have been working for decades to simplify existing life, trying to arrive at a minimal viable life form by jettisoning anything that is not essential from the simplest extant cells. The success of Craig Venter’s group is well known. Building on their efforts to produce synthetic life (“Synthia” or “Mycoplasma labritorium”) in 2010,1,2 in 2016 they introduced the current record holder for the simplest autonomously reproducing cell (JVCI Syn3.0).3 With a genome of only 473 genes and 520,000 base pairs of DNA, JVCI Syn3.0 can reproduce autonomously, but it certainly isn’t robust. Keeping it alive requires a coddling environment — essentially a Read More ›