The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique. Source Read More Evolution News
Category: Science
Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science
What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting. Source Read More Evolution News
Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking
Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.” Source Read More Evolution News
The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes
RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Source Read More Evolution News
Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference
No wonder Alfred Russel Wallace called eugenics “the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.” Source Read More Evolution News
A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology
Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Source Read…
Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm
John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Source Read More…
Tomorrow: Webinar with Maverick Scientist Forrest Mims
Prepared to be entertained — and inspired — by the man who describes his life as “one continuous science fair project.” Source Read More Evolution News
Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute
In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Source Read More Evolution News
What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?
Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice. Source Read More Evolution News