Category: Evolution
Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths
A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy.
Evolution Out of the Curriculum? If So, a Bad Idea from Turkey
The fact that evolution is both important and “controversial” is one reason we strongly favor teaching it thoroughly in high school biology classes.
Escape from Randomness: Can Foldons Explain Protein Functional Shapes?
Faced with impossible odds, materialists struggle to find natural laws that can fold a protein correctly the way life does.
Dan Graur, Darwin’s Reactionary
To call him this is an irony, I realize, since the University of Houston evolutionary biologist and Junk DNA diehard is a flaming left-winger.
Jonathan Wells: Zombie Science Keeps Pushing Junk DNA Myth
How evidence is interpreted is wrenched into line with the ideology. And this is what we mean by “zombie science.”
“Life Is a Discontinuity in the Universe”
There are 37 trillion cells in the human body, some 200 cell types, and 12,000+ specialized proteins. How does it all come together?
Fear Factor: Scientists Rush to Assure Colleagues They’re Not “Darwin-Bashers”
Here’s an article from the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution with an eye-catching title.
Zombie Science: Jonathan Wells on Overselling Darwin’s Tree of Life
With his own sly humor, Dr. Wells points out some scientific problems with regarding Darwin’s Tree as unassailable fact.
For the Public School Biology Teacher, Zombie Science Makes an Outstanding Resource
Where do you turn for a reliable, responsible resource to help you clarify the issues for your students?
Evolutionary Biologist Backs Off from Computer Simulations
PZ Myers is an atheist activist and evolutionary biologist whose blog is more about promoting his left-wing politics than it is about evolution.