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My copy of Junk DNA by Nessa Carey has arrived and I'm working my way through it. It really is as bad as we imagined. Here's an e...

With the publication of Jerry Coyne's new book, Fact vs Faith , you can expect a vigorous response from people of faith and from atheist...

Vincent Torely writes at: Bad math: Why Larry Moran’s “I’m not a Darwinian” isn’t a valid reply to Meyer’s argument . Now, it’s no skin off...

Here's an excerpt from the latest post about junk DNA on Uncommon Descent [ Tossing Out the Junk ]. The author is Eric Anderson 1 . It...

I'm reading Eternal Ephemera by Niles Eldredge and learning about the early history of evolution and geology. Eldredge describes the wo...

Vincent Torley was reading Darwin's Doubt when he came across a passage "that struck me as the best case I’ve ever seen for Intell...

Here's the May 13, 2015 version of Jesus and Mo . The barmaid is correct. There are lots of studies showing that you can't dispel ma...

The journal Genomics is a journal devoted to the study of genomes. It describes itself like this ... Genomics is a forum for describing t...

Here's more from the interview with Ford Doolittle [ The Philosophical Approach: An Interview with Ford Doolittle ]. Gitschier: I want...

There's an interview with Ford Doolittle in PLoS Genetics [ The Philosophical Approach: An Interview with Ford Doolittle ]. Ford has l...

I'm gradually starting to work on my book about evolution by accident. The first chapter is "Darwin Died in 1882." The point I...

Save this date: June 10, 20015. Jerry Coyne is coming to Toronto to talk about his book. He'll be arriving from Vancouver and Imagine ...

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has recommended that biochemistry courses concentrate on core concepts r...

Here's the final exam in my course. Students have to answer the first two questions and three of the next five questions. How would you ...

Read it at" Genetics: We are the 98% . Here's the important bit ... Finally, Junk DNA , like the genome, is crammed with repetitio...