Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Green T4 Bacteriophage Earrings
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Ms. Sandwalk's birthday is coming up in a few weeks and I'm getting nervous. I always seem to choose the wrong present. Turns out th...
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A Question for Anthropologists
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This year's special issue of Scientific American is "Beyond the Limits of Science." One of the articles is about human evolut...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Atheists Have to Address the Social and Emotional Needs of People (or the Church Wins)
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I stole this title from the Friendly Atheist , Hemant Mehta [ Atheists Have to Address the Social and Emotional Needs of People (or the Chur...
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Friday, August 17, 2012
What Would Disprove Jerry Coyne's Version of Evolution?
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Jerry Coyne has a particular view of evolution—one that conflates fact, theory, and history [ What would disprove evolution? ]. Based on h...
Disproving Evolution
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Elsewhere on the internet there's a discussion about whether evolution can be disproved by simply finding a fossil out of order. Here&...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
R. Elsiabeth Cornwell Talks About Social Networks
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R. Elisabeth Cornwell is Executive Director of the Richard Dawkins Foundation (US) . She has a Ph.D. in psychology and her day job is Profes...
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Stipends for Graduate Students
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Here's what we pay our slaves graduate students while they are working toward their degrees. How does it compare with other biochemistr...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Donald E. Nicholson (1916 - 2012)
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Donald Nicholson died last May. He was 96 years old. Nicholson was a professor of biochemistry at the University of Leeds in the United Ki...
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A Sophisticated Theologian Explains Why You Should Believe in God
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Modern atheists are often accused of being ignorant of the most up-to-date arguments for the existence of god(s). 1 We are told that there&...
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Monday, August 13, 2012
Monday's Molecule #181
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Last week's molecule was an intermediate in some amino acid biosynthesis pathways and the enzyme that makes it is the target of Roundup®...
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An Example of "Directed" Mutation and an Idiotic "Gotcha"
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There's nothing in modern evolutionary theory that allows for mutations that arise specifically because they will produce a future benef...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Humanities Aren't Science? More's the Pity
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Science is a way of knowing that is evidence based and requires rational thinking and healthy skepticism. It's the only successful way o...
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Science and Christianity—Different Ways of Finding Truth?
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Chris Mulherin is an Anglican Minister who studies the relationship of science and religion. In this video he claims that science and religi...
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Is "Unguided" Part of Modern Evolutionary Theory?
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Creationists are unhappy with the claim that the evolution of life on Earth appears unguided and purposeless. Casey Luskin would like to thi...
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Friday, August 10, 2012
Only Young Scientists Overthrow Old Concepts?
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Max Planck once said ... A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather beca...
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