Tag: common ancestry
On the Swamidass Hypothesis — The Cheese Stands Alone
We have a lonely hypothesis standing by itself in the center of the room, which no one, including its author, will own as true.
Adam and Eve and “Mainstream Science”
“The category ‘mainstream science’ sounds plausibly neutral, capturing the sort of objective knowledge to which any well-educated adult should assent.”
In the NGSS, a Dogmatic Standard on Evolution
Inaccurate teaching about evolution is widespread, as Jonathan Wells’s review of textbooks shows.
An Icon Revisited: Flagellar Hook Shows Further Aspects of Design
If you tried to build a pipe that had to rotate on its long axis while maintaining its angular shape, could you do better than this?
Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”
A pair of new articles in Nature Genetics acknowledge just how widespread ERV and retrotransposon functionality is.