22May 2026 by Post

Not Out of Context: Comments on Hawks et al. (2000)

anthropology, Aosis, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, autosomes, body plan, body size, bottleneck, brain size, cladogenesis, Evolution, faces, fossil record, Grok, hominids, Homo, Homo erectus, Homo ergaster, Homo sapiens, Human Origins, Human Origins and Anthropology, John Hawks, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Biology and Evolution, mtDNA, nuchal areas, nuclear DNA, paleoanthropology, paleontology, population, population size, Religions (journal), Science and Faith in Dialogue, sex chromosomes, skeleton, speciation, Stephen Barr, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The lead author is John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has a popular blog on paleoanthropology. Source
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06Feb 2026 by Post

Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

Center for Science and Culture, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, citrate, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, DNA, DNA replication, DNA replisome, Escherichia coli, Evolution, generation turnover time, genome duplication, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, lizards, Michael Behe, multicellularity, mutation rates, mutations, natural selection, neutral mutations, Paramecium tetraurelia, placenta, population size, retrovirus, Richard Lenski, Rutgers University, Scott Minnich, tetherin, tetherin antagonism, type III secretion system, viruses, YouTube channels, __featured1
I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Source
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24Dec 2024 by Post

No. 9 Story of 2024: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

"Out of Africa", Africans, bioRxiv, Current Biology, evolutionary genetics, evolutionary rate, Fossil Friday (series), heterozygous sites, Human Origins, Intelligent Design, introgression, Kafkaesque, Nature (journal), Nature Genetics, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Nobel laureates, non-Africans, paleontology, Philip Magness, PLOS, PNAS, population size, Science (journal), Scientific community, Svante Pääbo, Sydney Brenner, University of Cambridge
The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community. Source
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26Jun 2023 by Post

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

bacterial flagellum, braking system, bushing, bushings, cell membrane, clutch, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, Evolution, flagellar synthesis, FleQ, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, machine, machinery, Michael Behe, microorganisms, mutation rate, natural selection, nitrogen metabolism, NtrC, outboard motor, point mutations, population size, Professor Dave, protein science, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, terminology, The Scientist, Theoretical Population Biology, twitching motility, type IV pilis, universal joint, YouTubers
The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Source
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21Dec 2021 by Post

Human Genetic Variation — A Tale that Keeps on Telling

1000 Genomes Project, Adam and Eve, alleles, BioLogos, bottleneck, Broad Institute, chims, chromosomes, DNA, Evolution, genetics, genomes, heterozygosity, Human Origins, humans, Moon, mutations, nucleotide differences, population size, primordial diversity, Steve Schaffner, target practice
If the pockmarks on the moon showed this kind of specific array surrounding each crater, we would think someone was using the moon for target practice. Source
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