I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Source Read…
Category: Science
Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths and Butterflies
The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
The Genetic Code: Two More Levels of Optimization
We have surveyed multiple levels at which the genetic code, far from a “frozen accident,” appears highly optimized across multiple independent constraints. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Story of Everything Is Held Over in Theaters, and Gets Fabulous Washington, DC, Premiere
The Rotten Tomatoes site is giving it a 95 percent approval rating on the Popcornmeter. Do be sure to see it on the big screen while you have the opportunity.…
Meyer, Kestenbaum: An Interfaith Conversation
At one point, Shabbos Kestenbaum recounts an observation about personalities in the Bible who fall asleep and wake up. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Stop Signals in Disguise: How the Genetic Code Guards Against Frameshifts
A frameshift mutation occurs as the result of indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides that is non-divisible by three. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Incoming Irony: Hawking’s “Own Work Pointed to Need for a Transcendent Mind”
“Hawking’s own work in every way pointed to a creation event, and he spent a lot of the rest of his life trying to find a way around that.” Source…
Meyer: Who Created God? “That’s an Easy One.”
The question is which underlying reality better explains the scientific evidence? Now memorize this for the next time your kids ask. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Introducing the Remarkable Genetic Code
The optimization of the genetic code for error minimization is made possible by the redundancy of the code. What is meant by redundancy? Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Do Brain-Jolts Really Explain Near-Death Experiences?
One change I have noticed recently is that science writers seem a bit more careful with the topic than they used to be. Source Read More Science and Culture Today