Tag: genetics
At Bridveil Fall — Michael Denton on the Wonder of Water
Thanks to a unique cluster of properties, water is able to fulfill many roles essential to our living planet.
Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair? Geneticist Richard Buggs Says No
One of the claims Dennis Venema makes in his book is that the effective population size of our last common ancestor with chimps has never been fewer than 10,000.
Darwin’s Point: No Evidence for Common Ancestry of Humans with Monkeys
The bump was originally discovered by the celebrated British sculptor Thomas Woolner, who informed Charles Darwin about it.
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.
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?
Zombie Science: Four-Winged Fruit Fly, Eighteen-Winged Dragonfly — Two Hardy Evolutionary Icons
In a new video conversation, Dr. Wells recounts the progress of a lab experiment and its transformation in the hands of Darwin apologists.
No, Your Dog Is Not a Barking Exemplar of Macroevolution
They are yet another evolutionary icon that Jonathan Wells, perhaps in his next book, could handily leash and take for a walk.
More on Octopus RNA Editing — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism
A friend asks if this phenomenon is an example of Lamarckism.
Geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig on Darwinism and Gregor Mendel’s “Sleeping Beauty”
In impeding the emergence of genetics, Darwinian evolution was a science stopper, and not for the first time.
No Mere Bike Messenger, RNA Code Surpassing DNA in Complexity
The concept of a “DNA Code” has a long pedigree in genetics. But what about the other nucleic acids?