Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, March 23, 2014
IDiots respond to the evidence for evolution of chimpanzees and humans
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Last month I explained how the difference in DNA sequence between chimps and humans corresponds to what we would predict from evolutionary t...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
An Intelligent Design Creationist explains why chimpanzees and humans are so similar
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The genomes of chimpanzees and bonobos are remarkably similar to the human genome. In terms of sequence similarity, they are more than 98% i...
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Friday, March 21, 2014
John Wilkins writes about accommodationism
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John Wilkins has written a series of posts about the war between science and religion. Accommodating Science overview I find the argumen...
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ASBMB Core Concepts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Homeostasis
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Theme Better Biochemistry The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has decided that the best way to teach under...
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Science
still doesn't get it
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The latest issue of Science contains an article by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee about Dan Graur and his critique of the ENCODE publicity disaster...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
What do Intelligent Design Creationists really think about macroevolution?
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Intelligent Design Creationism is a huge tent that shelters all sorts of creationists ranging from Young Earth Creationists to those who cou...
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Monday, March 17, 2014
Cosmos presents evolution
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The second episode of the new Cosmos series is Some of the Things That Molecules Do . It's about evolution and it's not bad. I hav...
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Monday's Molecule #233
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Last week's molecules [ Monday's Molecule #232 ] were all- trans and 13- cis retinal. Retinal is the active protein donor/accepto...
Reading Books
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Yesterday we watched two episodes of House of Cards and two of our favorite TV shows; Amazing Race and The Good Wife . We also watched a s...
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On teaching creationism in American public universities
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I think that universities are places where diversity of opinion should be encouraged and where fringe ideas should be protected. I'm ver...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014
A chemist who doesn't understand evolution
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James Tour is an organic chemist. He is a Professor of Chemistry and Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science...
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Saturday, March 15, 2014
Philip Ball writes about molecular mechanisms of evolution
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It's been almost a year since I commented on an Nature article by Philip Ball [see DNA: Nature Celebrates Ignorance ]. Here's part ...
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How does molecular biology overthrow the Modern Synthesis?
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I think the hardened version of the Modern Synthesis is inadequate to describe 21st century evolutionary biology. I think that it didn't...
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Michael Egnor is an expert on cluelessness
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The war between science and religion is fought on many fronts. One of the most remarkable campaigns is the attempt by religious zealots to d...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
The "selfish gene" is not a good metaphor to describe evolution
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Last December David Dobbs wrote an article entitled " Die, selfish gene die! " in which he promoted some really stupid ideas about...
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