Month: January 2025
Magical Thinking: Can Pterosaurs Be Darwinized?
Neil Thomas has written about “Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking” and there is no shortage of examples in the literature on fossils.
Why Cell Division Challenges Darwinism
The eukaryotic cell cycle is just one of the many biological systems and processes that could not have arisen by numerous, successive, slight modifications.
Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem
Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature.
Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code
This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA).
Dark Proteome Information Content Skyrockets
There could be a five-fold increase in the number of proteins coded in what was formerly called non-protein-coding DNA.