Category: Science
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.
Mission Impossible: Trying to Explain the Feather Without Teleology
“It may seem strange to consider the fact that you, as a mammal, have all the known genes required to pattern a feather, and yet you do not look like Big Bird.”
In Search of Circumstellar Habitable Zones
Astrobiologists have used the term for many decades. This shell encompasses the distance at which a planet in a fairly circular orbit could maintain liquid water on its surface.
Media Are Indifferent to Euthanasia-Victimized Families
A Belgian chemist and self-described secular humanist describes his agony at the euthanasia killing of his depressed mother.
How Does Modern Medicine Depend on Darwinism?
The question is prompted by a review in the Washington Post of E.O. Wilson’s latest.