Tag: DNA
Textbooks Refuted — Three Case Studies
If textbooks evolve, then what we thought we knew yesterday is no longer true today.
Eric Metaxas on Canaanite DNA and “Fake News”
When ideologies reign, one of the first victims, invariably, is truth. The narrative is supreme, and it deforms how information is interpreted.
Philosopher in NY Times: The Universe Has No Purpose, But We Can Pretend…
As I noted yesterday, Joseph Carter wrote a fatuous essay in which he denies purpose in the universe and does an amusing dance around the implications that follow.
Canaanite DNA Episode Reveals Limits of Science and of Science Reporting
For science reporters, misinformation on a hot story was “Too good to check.”
For Culturally Illiterate Science Reporters, Canaanite DNA Yields Occasion to Slap Bible Around
The science story itself is fascinating and to all appearances solid. How will they spin it?
Human Genetic Engineering Begins
It may start with curing disease. But it won’t stay there. Many are drooling to engage in eugenic genetic enhancements.
On Human Origins, the Need for Theory Evaluation
There are conflicting evidences, a lack of details, opposing hypotheses held with great confidence, and a wide range of explanatory mechanisms that are routinely used as needed.
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
On Independence Day, it’s appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens.
Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths
A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy.
The Origin of Life, Self-Organization, and Information
In an article here yesterday, I described the thermodynamic challenges to any purely materialistic theory for the origin of life.