Category: Science
Codes Within Codes: How Dual-Use Codons Challenge Statistical Methods for Inferring Natural Selection
It boggles the mind to think about how such “codes within codes” could evolve by random mutation and natural selection. But that’s not all.
Monkeying with the Monkey Trial
Jerry Coyne has been in a�tizzy�about�David Klinghoffer’s�and�my�posts�on his�bizarre photo�taken while he was hugging the grave of John Scopes.
Finally, Here It Is: Watch Stephen Meyer and Eric Metaxas at the Union League Club
In the introduction, Eric makes a fuss that Tom Wolfe — yes, that Tom Wolfe — came out to hear Steve Meyer talk about Darwin’s Doubt.
UC Berkeley Mathematician Edward Frenkel on the Transcendent World of Math
I wrote about Frenkel in a different context recently when he participated in the expression of some dangerous reservations about Darwinian theory.
Nose to Nose: Combinatorial Rules for Building a Complex System
Both vertebrates and invertebrates use binary codes and combinatorial rules to build astonishing arrays of olfactory neurons from a small pool of precursor cells.