Author: Paul Nelson
More on Avi Loeb’s Approach to Design Inferences
Loeb’s argument represents the most salient example of risky intelligent design reasoning in mainstream science.
A Beautifully Illustrated Open Access Review Article on DNA Topoisomerases
Crick and Watson realized, very early on, that the winding double helix of DNA would cause all kinds of nasty tangles.
Ixnay on the Ambriancay Plosionexhay
Shhh — don’t say it. The geological event, well, not “event,” as in something that happened about 541 million years ago…we don’t talk that way anymore.
“Our 20th- and 21st-Century Ptolemaic Epicycles”?
I am fascinated by the philosophy of science parallels to similar moves in molecular phylogenetics and systematics.
Design Triangulation: My Thanksgiving Gift to All
Hey — wanna see a talk that combines the following. Black swallowtail butterflies, William Harvey, snarky robotic aliens from Alpha Centauri, and more.