Category: Evolution
Revisiting an Old Chestnut: Retroviruses and Common Descent (Updated)
One common argument for common descent which one hears very frequently in the evolutionary literature concerns the placement of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in orthologous loci in primate genomes.
Has Forbes.com Critic of The Myth of Junk DNA Read the Book?
Over at his Forbes.com blog, John Farrell has written a critique of Jonathan Wells’ new book The Myth of Junk DNA. The only problem is that many of the arguments Farrell critiques aren’t ones that Jonathan Wells makes in the book. Below is a comment I posted on Mr. Farrell’s blog in response: Dear Mr. Farrell, Have you read Jonathan wells’ book The Myth of Junk DNA? I don’t mean to be cheeky, but frankly, it doesn’t seem like you have. The Myth of Junk DNA either doesn’t make the arguments you claim it does about a perfect mutation-free or disease-free genome, or it refutes the arguments you make in your post. Regarding the latter problem, your post is logically Read More ›
Karl Giberson and Francis Collins Commit Berra’s Blunder While Arguing for Macroevolution
Presto chango–evolution sounds so easy! But according to Darwin, evolution requires more than just “enough generations.” Darwin acknowledged that evolution also requires a continuous evolutionary pathway.
Convergent Genetic Evolution in Lichen Species
Now what are the odds of this?
Junk DNA and the Darwinist Response so Far
Over the weekend, Jonathan Wells’s The Myth of Junk DNA broke into the top five on Amazon’s list of books dealing with genetics — a list normally dominated at its pinnacle by various editions of Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene.