20Aug 2025 by Post

Smithsonian Denigrates by Race, Including the Human Race

1 percent myth, American history, Casey Luskin, chimps, curator, delayed gratification, Dogs, genetics, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, Human Origins and Anthropology, human race, humans, humiliation, humility, National Museum of Natural History, National Zoo, Nature (journal), non-whites, pride, property, Protestant work ethic, rationality, Sean McDowell, self-hatred, self-reliance, Smithsonian Institution, The Golden Thread, Trump Administration, Wall Street Journal, whiteness, woke ideology
I have not yet heard that the Trump Administration is looking at what the NMNH says about human origins. But reforming the Smithsonian requites it. Source
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15Aug 2025 by Post

Why Dogmatic Materialism Is Bad for Science

Arshak Alexanian, dauer-modifications, DNA, DNA sequence, dogma, epigenetic change, epigenetics, Evolution, genetics, Green Fluorescent Protein, heredity, Intelligent Design, Kamal Nahas, Lamarckism, materialism, methyl groups, mRNA transcripts, noncoding RNA, offspring, Richard C. Lewontin, The New York Review of Books
Richard Lewontin addressed a controversy in evolution: Can life forms acquire characteristics during their lifespan that they pass on to their offspring? Source
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30Jun 2025 by Post

On Human-Chimp Genetic Differences, the Critics Misstate My Arguments 

1 percent myth, chimps, Chimps and Critics (series), common ancestry, common design, creationists, Discovery Institute, Evolution, evolutionary biology, genetic differences, genetic similarities, genetic variation, genetics, geologists, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, Institute for Creation Research, Intelligent Design, Jeff Tomkins, Joel Duff, Jonathan Wells, National Museum of Natural History, persistent scientific errors, PZ Myers, Smithsonian Institution, University of Akron, University of Minnesota, YouTube videos, Zachary Ardern, zombies
Evolution defenders generally accept the new evidence showing that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different but downplay the new number. Source
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26Jun 2025 by Post

Critics Change the Topic: Do Human-Human Genetic Differences Matter? 

1 percent myth, Amazon, chimps, Chimps and Critics (series), CHM13, common ancestry, DNA, Evolution, Financial Times, function, genetic difference, genetics, genomes, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Han Chinese, human exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, human-human genetic differences, humans, Jared Diamond, Joel Duff, Junk DNA, Nature Communications, non-alignable DNA, Nucleic Acids Research, nucleotides, objections, reactions, repetitive DNA, Science (journal), Smithsonian Institution, University of Chicago Press, Zachary Ardern
One of the common yet unexpected reactions from critics to the discovery that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different is to change the topic. Source
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20Jun 2025 by Post

Do Large Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent “Technical Failures”? 

1 percent myth, alignment failure, biological processes, chimps, Chimps and Critics (series), common ancestry, deletions, DNA, Evolution, gap divergence, genes, genetic differences, genetics, genome, haplotype, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, insertions, megabases, Nature (journal), repetitive elements, sequence alignment, Supplemental Data, technical problems
The insinuation is that something went wrong in the lab during the attempted alignment process. Source
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14Jun 2025 by Post

Challenged on the “1 Percent” Myth, Smithsonian Gives a Meaningless Non-Answer

1 percent myth, chimp genome, chimpanzees, chimps, common ancestry, common design, computer programmers, Discovery Institute, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Shenk, Evan Eichler, Evolution, Evolution News, geneticists, genetics, human genome, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), signage, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, taxpayers, University of Washington
Note to President Trump: I find this pretty disrespectful to the people who pay the bills at the Smithsonian. Source
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06Jun 2025 by Post

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

algorithms, Brian Miller, cognition, David Klinghoffer, decision-making, DNA, embryos, Evolution, genes, genetics, Harvard University, ID The Future, immaterial genome, information, Intelligent Design, life, Michael Levin, nucleotide alteration, physicalism, physicists, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Podcast, purpose, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, scientific revolution, software, splicing, teleonomy, Tufts University
Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Source
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30May 2025 by Post

The Paradox of Biological Reproduction 

Alexander Tsarias, automobiles, BioCosmos, cars, common sense, David Klinghoffer, duplication errors, genetics, grandchildren, information, Intelligent Design, Levinthal paradox, Life Sciences, materialism, mathematics, Model T, molecular biology, natural selection, Plato, Plato's Revenge, replication, reproduction, Richard Sternberg, Timaeus, unintelligent forces
Reproduction poses a difficult paradox for materialistic science despite the fact that we see it happen every day. Source
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