Month: September 2012
How Does a Flagellum Know How Long to Grow?
How does a flagellum know when to stop growing? The short answer is, we don’t know. The clues so far available point to sophisticated feedback controls for these outboard motors and other organelles in the cell.
Already Outdated: Will Carl Zimmer Update His New Evolution Textbook on Junk DNA?
This summer, we saw how Discover Magazine blogger Carl Zimmer tried to manufacture a controversy and score some points for the Darwin side in the evolution debate.
Has Dawkins Changed His View on the Darwin Lobby?
Back in 2008, Richard Dawkins was scathing in his estimation of groups like the National Center for Science Education, which he plainly charged with dishonesty.
What a Darwin Advocate’s Response to the ENCODE Project Tells Us about the Darwin Debate
The consensus of molecular biologists — people who actually study how the genome works — now believe that the idea of “junk DNA” is essentially wrong.
On the Origin of Protein Folds
A common objection to the theory of intelligent design is that it makes no testable predictions.