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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.”
Beyond The Genome: A Non-Reductionist Perspective On Development
There is still much that is not well understood about development and a wealth of information to be learned. But I think it is becoming increasingly clear that DNA cannot contain both the necessary and sufficient information for the morphogenesis of organismal form.
Life, Purpose, Mind: Where the Machine Metaphor Fails
Up until now, the materialist, reductionist method has been very successful, because cells can be measured and tested in a way that life forces or agency can’t. But now molecular, cellular, and developmental biologists are drowning in a flood of data that we don’t know how to interpret.
Contradictions, Irony, and Appeals to Authority Permeate The Language of Science and Faith
Giberson and Collins appeal to authority but admit the evidence is all that matters, claim that anti-Darwin literature uses “outdated” arguments when their own book uses outdated arguments for evolution, and Giberson lacks the same qualifications of those Darwin-doubting scientists whose qualifications he attacks. Why are they making these weak, non-scientific, and self-contradictory arguments?
New Book Sheds Light on the “Dark Age”: The Religion vs. Science Myth Exposed
The alleged “ignorance” of the medieval Church whose cherished dogmas included the belief in a flat earth, geocentric theory of the universe, and a hidebound biblical literalism is all challenged with insight and skill by this Oxford/Cambridge graduate and PhD in the history of science.