I previously highlighted the work of Jean Claude Perez in my Vodka! essay. I had encountered Perez work in my google searches related to the 3-base periodicity pattern in DNA. The 3-base pattern seems widely acknowledged in the literature as On the origin of three base periodicity in genomes. Genomes of almost all organisms have Read More…
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Request for help verifying non-random 3mer pattern in Human Chromosome 1
3-base periodicity is a well-known non-random feature of the DNA. That is to say, a base will sometimes be repeated 3 nucleotides away. This should happen randomly at a frequency of about 25% if all the bases are equally represented, but I got something that was slightly away from random. 3-base periodicity is a well Read More…
Non Randomness of DNA as a whole
Stretches of DNA that code for proteins are considered non-random, but what about DNA as a whole? DNA Densely Packed without Knots “‘We’ve long known that on a small scale, DNA is a double helix…But if the double helix didn’t fold further, the genome in each cell would be two meters long. Scientists have not Read More…
Vodka! Jean Claude Perez, the golden ratio, dragon curve fractals and musical design in “junk DNA”
Jean Claude Perez is a self-organizational theorist, he is not a creationist. He has also published papers with an occasional visitor to UD, Andras Pellionisz. If the mathematical/musical patterns Perez has found in DNA are improbable relative to laws of physics and chemistry, then he may have found yet another design feature of DNA, and Read More…
Psychologists show how to brainwash kids into Darwinism
Psychologists Show How to “Suppress” Children’s Intuition of Design in Nature HT JoeCoder reddit.com/r/creation
Self-study science programs for IDists, organic chemistry
At the school where I received my Master of Science degree in Applied Physics, the basic undergraduate cost was $61,000 per year. Thankfully I wasn’t an undergrad there! I remember during commencement, I thought to myself as each undergrad crossed the stage to receive their diploma, “another quarter million dollars for academia.” I could go Read More…
Evolutionary convergence saves creationist hypothesis over GULO
When similarities cannot be explained by common descent, evolutionists will plead “convergence” (some mysterious coincidental occurrence to explain similarity). Well what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Creationists are now realizing if evolutionists can claim convergence, so can creationists! Evidence of Evolutionary Discontinuity and Genetic Entropy AbstractModern genomics provides the ability Read More…
Professor goes Ape at UConn over sign “Evolution is a Lie”, then preaches a pantheist revival
[youtube UpYDaCS0G94#t=136] Christian evangelist Don Karns of Hampton, Virginia, said Boster approached him as he was holding a sign about evolution, mocked him, and then became confrontational. “He asked me if I had accepted Darwin as my lord and savior,” Karns said. “He was very agitated, very demonstrative… it was very unbecoming of a professor.” Read More…
Can designs be functional but selectively neutral or deleterious?
Can designs be selectively neutral and even deleterious but still functional? Yes. As Allen Orr said: selection can wreck their exquisite engineering just as surely as it built it. An optic nerve with little or no eye is most assuredly not the sort of design one expects on an engineer’s blueprint, but we find it Read More…
BA77’s Off Topic Thread volume 5, Maltose and Isomaltose are such nice looking molecules
α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→4)-D-glucopyranose α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-D-glucopyranose This is your chance to talk Off Topic. Keep it civil please.
AP GfK poll, more non-Darwinists than Darwinists
Here are the numbers for extremely or very confident in the following positions from March 2014 poll by AP GfK Darwinism: 31% non-Darwinism: 42% Earth 4.5 billion: 27% Earth NOT 4.5 billion years old: 36% Anthropogenic global warming: 33% non-Anthropogenic global warming: 37% Big Bang: 21% non-Big Bang: 51% Universe so Complex there must be Read More…
If most molecular evolution is non-Darwinian, how can codon bias and duon codes evolve?
Most molecular evolution is neutral. Done. PZ Myers From wiki: Codon usage bias Codon usage bias refers to differences in the frequency of occurrence of synonymous codons in coding DNA. A codon is a series of three nucleotides (triplets) that encodes a specific amino acid residue in a polypeptide chain or for the termination of Read More…
Cost of maintenance and construction of design, neutral theory supports ID and/or creation
Most of biological ID literature is focused on Irreducible Complexity and Specified Complexity (Specified Improbability) and information theory, no free lunch, critique of OOL, the Cambrian explosion, etc, But there is another line of argument that is devastating to the claims of mindless evolution that has been underappreciated partly because it is highly technical, and Read More…
Why fixation in gigantic but widely separated human populations doesn’t happen
If there was any time the human population was very small, fixation was likely inevitable as discussed in Neutral Evolution for Newbies, Part 2. The time for required for fixation in a population according to standard population genetics is approximately 4 Ne, where Ne is the effective population size. For example, for an Ne of Read More…
A prediction I made in 2006 is coming to fruition
I wrote here in 2006 that the Designer of life has put steganography (hidden messages in DNA) to help scientists understand DNA. The steganography cannot have emerged via selection or neutral evolution, it is just there, it is a design feature. We typically call them “conserved” sequences, but I’ve argued that “conserved” is the wrong Read More…