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02Mar 2023 by Post

Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?

African Savannah, art, behavior, cathedrals, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian evolution, David Barash, environment of evolutionary adaptedness, evo psych, Evolution, evolutionary psychologists, evolutionary psychology, genes, Henry Schlinger, Human Origins, humans, Intelligent Design, Judith Eve Lipton, just-so stories, Marc Hauser, Moon, museums, music, Oskar Schindler, Philip Skell, Pleistocene, Richard Dawkins, Subrena Smith, survival machines, The Descent of Man, Victorian England

“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Source

08Feb 2023 by Post

Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

Alison Abbott, Biomimetics, California two-spot octopus, cephalopods, convergence, cuttlefish, Darwin's Doubt, David Klinghoffer, Dennis Normile, distributed networks, Evolution, genes, giant squid, hydrothermal vents, Intelligent Design, Living Waters, mimic octopus, molecular clock, Mollusca, narrative gloss, Nature (journal), Nautilus, neo-Darwinian processes, Octopus bimaculoides, Paul Nelson, propulsion, reflectins, Richard Sternberg, soft robots, Stephen Meyer, triumphalism, University of Chicago

“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from? Source

26Dec 2022 by Post

#7 Story of 2022: Mammoth Support for Devolution

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The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Source

23Dec 2022 by Post

#10 Story of 2022: Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution

AlphaFold, alternative genetic codes, biology, Brian Miller, convergent evolution, devolution, discoveries, DNA, Douglas Axe, ENCODE, encoding, Endogenous retroviruses, epigenetics, Evolution, Evolution News, frameshifting, genes, genetics, genomes, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Michael Behe, mutations, neutral evolution, Paul Nelson, predictions, protein folding, protein rarity, RNAs, Scott Minnich, supercoiling, topoisomerase

Some discoveries might be surprising from an evolutionary perspective, but not necessarily from a perspective of intelligent design. Source

15Nov 2022 by Post

Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution

AlphaFold, alternative genetic codes, biology, Brian Miller, convergent evolution, devolution, discoveries, DNA, Douglas Axe, ENCODE, encoding, Endogenous retroviruses, epigenetics, Evolution, Evolution News, frameshifting, genes, genetics, genomes, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Michael Behe, mutations, neutral evolution, Paul Nelson, predictions, protein folding, protein rarity, RNAs, Scott Minnich, supercoiling, topoisomerase

Some discoveries might be surprising from an evolutionary perspective, but not necessarily from a perspective of intelligent design. Source

21Oct 2022 by Post

Beneficial Borgs Have Landed

Aliyah Kovner, archaea, Borgs, Colorado, Crested Butte, CRISPR-Cas9, Darwinian theory, DNA, East River, Evolution, gene splicing, genes, genetic information, greenhouse gases, heavy metals, Intelligent Design, Jennifer Doudna, Jillian Banfield, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, methane, Methanoperedens, microbes, Nature (journal), Star Trek, storage lockers, toxins

Borg theory represents a major paradigm shift about how genetic information is stored and shared. Source

20Oct 2022 by Post

Noncoding RNA Research Gaining Ground Over “Junk” Label

biology, Caltech, Christie Wilcox, chromosomes, Debra Silver, Duke University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, ENCODE, Evolution, GENCODE, Gene Yao, genes, Intelligent Design, John Mattick, Junk DNA, lncRNA, miRNA, Mitch Guttman, mRNAs, Nature Methods, ncRNAs, noncoding RNAs, Research, RNA, The Scientist, UC San Diego, University of New South Wales, Vivien Marx

Perhaps it won’t be long before everyone, critics included, looks at the “junk DNA” concept in the rear-view mirror. Source

15Aug 2022 by Post

Mammoth Support for Devolution

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The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Source

24Feb 2022 by Post

Origin of Life Is Not Reducible to Physics

Anthropic Principle, biology, can opener, entropy, Eugene V. Koonin, Evolution, genes, handwaving, Intelligent Design, learning, natural selection, Neural Networks, origin of life, physics, second law of learning, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Theodosius Dobzhansky, thermodynamics, Thomas Malthus, universe, vitalism, Vitaly Vanchurin

This continues an evaluation of a proposal that treats natural selection as a law of physics that is applicable to the entire universe. Source

14Feb 2022 by Post

Khan Academy Misleads with Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity Argument for Common Ancestry

biology, cats, chimps, common design, DNA, DNA polymerases, DNAPs, embryos, Emily Reeves, Evolution, evolutionary transitions, fossil record, genes, genomes, homology, horses, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, Life Sciences, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, phylogenetic trees, proteins, Richard Dawkins, students, teachers, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Tree of Life, Zombie Science

The video compares humans and chimps, saying the latter’s behaviors and facial expressions are “eerily human.” I could say the same thing about my cat. Source