Author: Evolution News
Protracted Unrest Between ENCODE Researchers and Junk-DNA Advocates Goes On
The ENCODE Consortium has launched a new data volley, now drawing on the mouse genome.
Our Early Christmas Gift to You: 12 Days, 12 Ways to Save
What a pleasure to settle into a holiday with a good book to read. Better than one book, of course, is two. Why not twelve?
Loeb, Johanson, Wilson: Leading Scientists Bloviate on What Nobody Knows
Everyone is welcome to an opinion. But when it comes to subjects with no data, does a famous scientist’s opinion count for more than John Q. Public’s?
Don’t Try This in the Laundry Room: Materialists Seek to Outsmart Thermodynamics
Mathematician Granville Sewell has argued in these pages that evolutionary theory is at crosscurrents with the second law of thermodynamics (the law of entropy), dooming it to failure.
Arrival of the Fittest: Natural Selection as an Incantation
In 1904, genetics pioneer Hugo de Vries quipped that “natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.”