05Dec 2022 by Post

Springtails: Wingless Arthropods that Can Fly

abdomen, Adrian Smith, Antarctica, Arthropoda, arthropods, biology, Collembola, Darwinism, Entognatha, etymology, Evolution, furcula, Georgia Tech, Hexapod Gap, hexapods, imitation, insects, Intelligent Design, Isotomurus retardatus, just-so stories, Latin, Namib desert, non-insects, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, PNAS, popcorn, Sandra Schachat, Science Uprising, South Korea, springtails, Stanford University, unfolding, Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez
The fossil record shows a “Hexapod Gap.” Unfortunately for Darwin, the two leading theories to explain the gap can be ruled out. Source
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19Jul 2021 by Post

Don’t Forget Scientific Fraud

Anaesthesia (journal), China, Daniele Fanelli, Egypt, fraud, health, India, Iran, Japan, John Carlisle, London School of Economics, Medicine, Netherlands, Reason (magazine), relatives, Research, Richard Smith, science, Science and Engineering Ethics, scientists, South Korea, The BMJ, Turkey
“I’ve done the research. I have the facts.” Thus said two people to me on successive days over the weekend, in almost identical words. Source
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19Mar 2021 by Post

Joshua Swamidass and the Cancellation of Christian Colleges

atheists, blacklisting, Christian colleges, Christianity, computational biology, creation science, Darwinism, Darwinists, David Klinghoffer, Education, eugenics, evolutionary psychology, Joshua Swamidass, materialist neuroscience, multiverse theory, Nobel laureates, North Korea, Richard Feynman, SAT, scientific revolution, South Korea, Soviet Union, transgender pediatrics, United States, Wall Street Journal
The only way to truth in science is to permit and even encourage challenges to orthodoxy. Source
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01Jan 2021 by Post

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2020: Biology Journal Demands Government Censorship of ID

Andrew Moore, BioEssays, CDC, censorship, COVID-19, Dave Speijer, democracy, Dennis Prager, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Facebook, Federal Government, free speech, Intelligent Design, Internet, Iran, Italy, Karl Popper, Paul Nelson, regulation, schools, search engines, Social media, South Korea, Thomas Paine, University of Amsterdam, vaccine, White House
What if major technology companies shy from censorship? Then the government should take aggressive action: “Make them.” Source
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27Mar 2020 by Post

More Hints of Order in the Genome

Abo1, Amir Bitran, ATP, biochemistry, Biozentrum, Caulobacter crescentus, central dogma, Chelsea R. Bulock, chromosomes, cohesin, cotranslational folding, Darwinian mechanism, DNA, E. coli, error catastrophe, genome, GGC, GGU, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Lego blocks, misfolding, mRNA, Nature Communications, Patricia Clark, PNAS, polymerase, polypeptides, Polδ, proofreader, proteins, RNA, South Korea, strand breaks, UNIST, University of Basel, University of Notre Dame, University of Seville, William Paley
Genomics has come a long way since the central dogma (the notion that DNA is the master controller that calls all the shots) and junk DNA (the expectation that much of the genome is non-functional). If scientists ditch those old dogmas and approach the genome expecting to find reasons for things, they often do. Synonymous Mutations To-may-to or to-mah-to? The British write flavour; the Americans write flavor, but generally each understands the other without too much difficulty. Genomes, too, have alternate ways of spelling things: GGU and GGC in messenger RNA both spell glycine. No big deal, thought geneticists; these “silent” mutations cause no change in the resulting protein. At the University of Notre Dame, however, biochemists are finding that the differences in spelling are not just background noise; they…
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