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The December issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach has a review of two books on junk DNA. The reviewer is Georgi Marinov, a name that...

The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach contains a review of two books about evolution written by philosophers. The author of...

Nessa Carey's book about junk DNA is an embarrassment to the scientific community [ Nessa Carey doesn't understand junk DNA ] [ The ...

We've been having a discussion on another thread about ID proponents. Are some of them acting in good faith or are they all lying and de...

The Mysterious World of the Human Genome by Frank Ryan William Collins, an imprint of Harper Collins, London UK (2015) ISBN 978-0-00-7549...

Last night's debate between Lawrence Krauss, Stephen Meyer, and Denis Lamoureux was very entertaining. I finally got to meet Stephen Mey...

Today's the day we find out "What's Behind It All?" The decision will be announced at the University of Toronto (Toronto, ...

I'm not a fan of TED talks. Comedian Will Stephen has figured them out and he gives a perfect example of everything that's wrong wit...

I was reading up on non-coding RNAs and came across this recent paper. Bhartiya, D., and Scaria, V. (2016) Genomic variations in non-codin...

The University of Toronto publicity department is making a big deal of Rachel Harding. She's a post-doc in the Structural Genomics Conso...

The first drafts of the human genome sequence were published in 2001. There was still work to do on "finishing" the sequence but a...

Postgenomics is a compendium of twelve scholarly articles by philosophers and sociologists who write about the implication of the human gen...

One of the biggest problems with the Intelligent Design Creationist movement is their attempt to corral all creationist under the same big t...

Here's a video where Michael Denton describes his view of biology. The main point is that he cannot think of a way for evolution to prod...

Hosted by Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Religion and Society Series - God, Science and the Unive...