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09Jun 2021 by Post

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

ARF, Audrey Hepburn, bioethics, Center for Genetics and Society, China, Culture & Ethics, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, Intelligent Design, ISSCR, Jin-Soo Kim, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Medicine, Nature (journal), scientists, Seoul National University, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Source

17Apr 2021 by Post

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

babies, bioethicists, China, Culture & Ethics, embryos, fertilization, genetic engineering, government funding, humans, hybrids, International Society of Stem Cell Research, monkeys, Nature (journal), scientists, Stanford University, William Hurlbut

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Source

02Jan 2021 by Post

Frontiers of ID: Microscopic Ecologies

agriculture, Amish, asteroids, biology, Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less, Cyanobacteria, Darwinists, ecosystems, Elizabeth Pennisi, fungi, Hayabusa-2, human health, Intelligent Design, James Hamblin, lichen, Mars, Medicine, Michael Eisenstein, microbes, microbiome, mites, Mt. St. Helens, Nature (journal), nematode, pathogens, protists, Ryugu, skin, soap, soil, springtails, tardigrades, Yale University

Public health lecturer James Hamblin at Yale decided to go without showers — for five years! Source

18Nov 2020 by Post

Darwin Is on the Roof — New Book from Michael Behe, Out Today

A Mousetrap for Darwin, biochemistry, biology textbooks, cat, Charles Darwin, chloroquine resistance, complexity theory, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, facilitated variation, Intelligent Design, jokes, Joshua Swamidass, mainstream media, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Nature (journal), operating table, popular media, Richard Lenski, roof, Science (journal), self-organization, symbiosis, veterinary anesthesia

The public is being prepared very slowly for the demise of Darwinian evolutionary theory. It wasn’t planned this way, but it is how things are playing out. Source

12Nov 2020 by Post

Animals Set World Records

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, chameleon, cockroaches, Colorado, Darwinism, Duke University, Florida Museum of Natural History, froghopper, Gerris latiabdominis, Intelligent Design, leg jitter, Mexican free-tailed bats, Mexico, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Pipistrellus nathusii, planthopper, slingshot spider, Spiderman, Theridiosomatidae, water strider

Some of the most unexpected animals, many of them tiny, are capable of world-record feats. Source

04Nov 2020 by Post

Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells

Aleksandr Oparin, Alexander Marras, Ann Gauger, Argonne National Laboratory, bubbles, Charles Thaxton, Chemistry, coacervates, Darwinian theory, Dean Matthew Tirrell, Elena dos Santos, Encyclopedia Britannica, Evolution, Frankenstein, Geppetto, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design, Marxists, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, origin of life, Penn State, Pinocchio, replication, RNA, RNA world, Sam Sholtis, Sidney Fox, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Basel, University of Chicago

Oparin is back. Some origin-of-life researchers are using his coacervate theory without giving him credit or realizing they are retreading dead-end ideas. Source

14Oct 2020 by Post

When “Science” Becomes a Cult

abortion, Bill Nye, biology, cult, dogma, double-talk, Douglas Axe, embryology, empirical science, Environmentalism, experimentation, Faith & Science, falsification, human rights, humanities, ideology, John Zmirak, Jonathan Wells, Marquis de Sade, materialistic philosophy, materialistic science, Moses, Nature (journal), nature rights, New Atheism, Pharaoh, political science, Politics, religion, sex, Simone de Beauvoir, The Stream, trust, Twitter, Wesley Smith

The problem comes when, in order to win our acceptance, double-talk is used to pretend that a cult is something other than what it is. Source

16Sep 2020 by Post

Design on Time — Paley’s Watch Was Inside Him

biological clock, blood pressure, chronotype variation, circadian clock, clocks, Cyanobacteria, Harvard Medical School, imaging tools, Intelligent Design, Japan, jet lag, KaiC, mammalian locomotor activity, Nagoya University, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, neurons, PLOS ONE, PNAS, rats, sleep, suprachiasmatic nucleus, Synechococcus elongatus, University of Illinois, University of Rochester, William Paley

Watches are everywhere on the heath. Look up, look down, look inside; biology runs on time. Source

07Aug 2020 by Post

“Living Fossil”? Maybe. Tuatara Genome Is Now Sequenced and Published

amniotes, Evolution, genome, Intelligent Design, living fossils, Nature (journal), New Zealand, senior discount, vertebrates

The tuatara genome is 5GB, making it enormous relative to other vertebrates — and full of surprises. Source

21Jul 2020 by Post

Censors Claim Teachers “Advocate Evolution” More Now Than in 2007 — Don’t Believe It

biology teachers, career suicide, censorship, Center for Science & Culture, critical thinking, Discovery Institute, Education, evolutionary theory, ID The Future, National Center for Science Education, Nature (journal), Podcast, Robert Crowther, Sarah Chaffee, Science Education Policy, strengths and weaknesses, survey

How likely are biology teachers with doubts about Darwinism to participate in a survey by an organization instrumental in attacking Darwin-doubting teachers? Source