Tag: Jonathan Wells
Why the “Onion Test” Fails as an Argument for “Junk DNA”
The so-called onion test, or indeed the “C-value enigma,” is predicated on unsupportable assumptions about the physiological effects of — and/or requirements for — larger genomes, many of which are contradicted by the scientific evidence.
Junk-of-the-Gaps Argument Shrinks Again
Another prominent paper has continued this trend of pushing defenders of junk DNA into yet smaller gaps in the genome.
Darwinian Dogmatism Permeates Recent Biology Textbooks
Many textbooks surveyed contained what I would call “faux-critical thinking exercises,” where students are asked to investigate the evidence, but only in a one-sided fashion.
(Not) Making the Grade: An Evaluation of 22 Recent Biology Textbooks and Their Use of Selected Icons of Evolution
Unfortunately, as this review has made clear, biology textbooks have a long way to go. Parents, students and educators who seek accuracy and objectivity in evolution-education will have to continue to be a “royal pain in the fanny” of textbook publishers.
The English Translation of “New Work by Thornton’s Group”
Turning a protein shaped to do one particular job into a protein that does just a slightly different job (which most biologists, including myself, had thought would be as easy as pie) turned out to be much more difficult than expected.