Tag: The Conversation
Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”
That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s.
2024 Nobel Prize Awarded for the Discovery of Function for a Type of “Junk DNA”
That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s.
Fossil Friday: Piltdown Lizard Was Too Good to Check
It was considered to be “one of the oldest fossil reptiles and one of the very few skeletal specimens with evidence of soft tissue preservation.”
Hidden, Now Revealed: Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers
The caption for one image of spiral galaxy NGC 628 notes: “The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell.”
Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized
An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation.