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                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Waiting for multiple mutations: Michael Lynch v. Michael Behe

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Casey Luskin is trying to help out a university student by describing some important ID contributions to science [ No ID Research? Let's...
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Waiting for multiple mutations: Intelligent Design Creationism v. population genetics

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Casey Luskin is worried about university students. Apparently, they aren't getting enough correct information about intelligent design. ...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Here's why Alain Beaudet, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, should resign

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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the main source of research funding for Canadian health researchers, including those do...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Joe Hanson tells us about evolution

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Joe Hanson Ph.D. (Biology) of It's Okay To Be Smart is posting a series of videos on evolution. They're called The 12 Days of Evolu...
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Strolling around slopes and valleys in the adaptive landscape

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Another article about evolution and the attainment of perfection has appeared. This one was published by Nathaniel Scharping on the Discover...
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Intelligent design explanations and speculations have all been refuted, discredited, or shown to be unnecessary

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Intelligent Design Creationism is a movement based on bad science. Every single one of their positive, science-like, claims about ID have be...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

How many different proteins are made in a typical human cell?

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There are about 20,000 protein-coding genes in the human genome. Protein products for about 18,000 of these genes have been detected in at l...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Did Michael Behe say that astrology was scientific in Kitzmiller v. Dover?

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Yes he did. But it doesn't mean what you think it means according to Casey Luskin [ Ten Myths About Dover: #8, "Michael Behe Admitt...
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Did Kitzmiller v. Dover kill Intelligent Design Creationism?

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The 10th anniversary of Judge Jone's decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover is coming up on Dec. 20, 2015. See the post at Panda's Thumb :...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

A "synthetic" view of the Modern Synthesis

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I just re-read a 1997 paper by Francis Ayala and Walter Fitch (Ayala and Fitch, 1997). The opening two paragraphs describe the Modern Synthe...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

How many human protein-coding genes are essential for cell survival?

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The human genome contains about 20,000 protein-coding genes and about 5,000 genes that specify functional RNAs. We would like to know how ma...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Why doesn't natural selection reduce the mutation rate to zero?

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All living organisms have developed highly accurate DNA replication complexes and sophisticated mechanisms for repairing DNA damage. The com...
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Thursday, December 03, 2015

Facts and theories of evolution according to Dawkins and Coyne

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Sometime back in the pre-Cambrian (before blogs) there was a newsgroup called talk.origins—it still exists. In 1993 I wrote a little essay t...
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Monday, November 30, 2015

Celebrating Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Today Google celebrates the birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942). She is the author of Anne of Green Gable...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Motoo Kimura calculates a biochemical mutation rate in 1968

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I recently had occasion to re-read a paper by Motoo Kimura from 1968. (Kimura, 1968). I noticed, for the first time, that he estimates a mut...
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