John Archibald – Uncommon Descent

Culture Darwinism Evolution horizontal gene transfer Intelligent Design Origin Of Life

At Nature: New evolution book represents “radical” new perspective

Including things you didn’t know about Archaea discoverer, Carl Woese. From a review of The Tangled Tree:A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen (Simon & Schuster, 2018): In The Tangled Tree, celebrated science writer David Quammen tells perhaps the grandest tale in biology: how scientists used gene sequencing to elucidate the evolutionary relationships Read More…

martin_r Hickson, Enjoy your life Thank you for your advice, i enjoy things like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0kk37iFgWk – At Live Science: Why can't we...
jerry Here’s an interesting mental exercise. What would it have taken to convince Darwin that his idea of natural selection never... – At Live Science: Why can't we...
jerry It makes no difference where life originated. Denton has shown that there are specific conditions for complex life to thrive.... – Did Life Originate on Earth or...
kairosfocus F/N: Alexy continues, tellingly: Duly enacted lawlessness that is obviously in violation of the constituting basic principles of the law... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
kairosfocus F/N: On the OP, I found this from Haaretz: https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-03-24/ty-article/.premium/early-israelite-curse-inscription-found-on-mt-ebal/00000180-5b9b-dc66-a392-7fdbc7790000 Now an official curse has been found, engraved on a... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
bornagain77 At 60 Martin_r references Perry Marshall's website, where Marshall summarizes the fact that the genetic code is a literal code.... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
jerry The evidence is all around you All the evidence around precludes Evolution by Darwinian processes. Not only is there no... – At Live Science: Why can't we...
kairosfocus Folks, the genetic code for protein synthesis is a four state per base digital code, and three bases give sixty... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
kairosfocus We await the paper. It seems that something leaked and the discoverers were forced to do some sort of presser... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Marfin Fred H , Seriously thats your position , the evidence is all around , I must get you to defend... – At Live Science: Why can't we...
Paxx It's adorable when someone denies that a code is a code. Troll. No reason to feed the trolls. But, yeah,... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Fred Hickson The evidence is all around you. – At Live Science: Why can't we...
Marfin Fred H , Instead of just making a statement " the environment is the designer " please provide some evidence... – At Live Science: Why can't we...
Fred Hickson He [Jack Szostak] goes on the mention the roles mRNA, and rRNA, and tRNA … and never mentions the appearance... – How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?
Fred Hickson That there are two complementary strands of DNA is irrelevant to the fact that the sequence in one strand encodes... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Fred Hickson If you feel your suggestion that an aaRS need only be made of one single type of amino acid is... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Seversky Relatd/3 Don’t you know? EVERYONE is a racist. At last, we agree! Yes the potential for racism is in all... – Why Darwinism can be taught in...
Seversky Actually, I lean towards a large black monolith. It makes about as much sense as any other story and has... – Did Life Originate on Earth or...
AaronS1978 Correction on 75 I didn’t see, it is not IP I meant OS – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Mark M Question, can HGT be emperically proven or is it only inferred?. What is the best evidence for HGT? – How horizontal gene transfer has shaped...
AaronS1978 Ps on the topic of the thread the discovery was actually pretty cool – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...