Month: August 2012
Intelligent Design Conference on Saturday, September 15, in San Diego
Join Discovery Institute scientists and scholars at an Intelligent Design Conference Saturday September 15th in San Diego titled, “Science and Faith: Friends or Foes?”
Paper Rebuffs Assumption that Pseudogenes Are Genetic “Junk,” Claims Function Is “Widespread”
“[D]iscoveries in the ancient protist T. brucei, as well as in some metazoan, indicate that pseudogene regulation is widespread in eukaryotes. Accordingly, the moniker ‘pseudogene’ has been challenged.”
Here Comes McBride (Again): The Debate on Junk DNA Continues
While it is certainly true that function has not yet been identified for the majority of the genome, there is no reason to think the current trend — of finding new, previously unsuspected functionality — will not continue.
A Big Bang Theory of Homo
If human beings evolved from ape-like creatures, what were the transitional species between ape-like hominins and the truly human-like members of the genus Homo found in the fossil record?
Homework Avoidance: A Major Reason for Resistance to Intelligent Design
Intelligent design’s toughest challenge at the moment, in a debate of such consequence for the culture, may be to make our ideas readily comprehensible to a wide public.