Category: Evolution
New Research on Epistatic Interactions Shows “Overwhelmingly Negative” Fitness Costs and Limits to Evolution
According to new research, “even with the continual addition of new beneficial mutations,” negative interactions among mutations will cause fitness to decrease.
The First Law of Darwin Lobbying and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
After a Darwin activist blogger successfully got Granville Sewell’s article pulled from publication, it seems that the first rule of the Darwin lobby is to stifle scientific debate over evolution.
Journal Apologizes and Pays $10,000 After Censoring Article
After censoring a peer-reviewed article critical of Neo-Darwinism, the journal Applied Mathematics Letters has had to apologize and pay $10,000.
Inherit the Wind at Christianity Today
Inherit the Wind’s mythical treatment of the Scopes trial gets a boost from Christianity Today, while the new feature film Alleged tries to set the record straight.
Study Reports a Whopping “23% of Our Genome” Contradicts Standard Human-Ape Evolutionary Phylogeny
“For about 23% of our genome, we share no immediate genetic ancestry with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee.”