Tag: science
#4 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Fear of Intelligent Design Prevents Some Biologists from Accepting ENCODE
In Nature, Philip Ball acknowledges an “anxiety that admitting any uncertainty about the mechanisms of evolution will be exploited.”
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Paper Develops New Ways of Measuring Complex and Specified Information in Life
The “Game of Life” is a computer simulation that’s meant to mimic living systems.
#6 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Peer-Reviewed Paper Reveals Darwin’s Unavoidable Catch-22 Problem
Before evolving new features, organisms would be swamped by genetic junk.
Peer-Reviewed Article on Transposable Elements Cites “Irreducible Complexity” and Other “Teleologic” Factors
Plant geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard L�nnig argues that irreducibly complex structures may defy explanation by TEs or other Darwinian factors.
#9 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Octopus Genome Is a Big Problem for Darwinism
New genomes of different types of organisms are being sequenced and published on a regular basis.