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Random genetic drift is a process that alters allele frequencies within a population. The change is due to "random" events. It di...

A theology student named Derrick has written a review of Jerry Coyne's book Faith vs. Fact . He didn't like it very much. (Duh!) You...

A recent issue of New Scientist (Sept. 3-9) is billed as "The Metaphysics Issue: How science answers philosophy's deepest question...

Does this video contribute to the general understanding and appreciation of science? Blond hair: PROBABLY FALSE ADAPTATION Lactose toleran...

Are you surprised to hear a religious person say that science and religion are not in conflict? Of course you aren't. That's just wh...

Michael Egnor doesn't like atheists. He got a bit upset about a recent post by PZ Myers so he responded on Evolution News & Views (...

Meet Bruce Buff . He's a big fan of the Discovery Institute as he explains in this video. Bruce Buff has written a novel (fiction) cal...

A large percentage of the human genome is transcribed at some time or another during development. The vast majority of those transcripts are...

Triose phosphate isomerase (TIM) is one of the enzymes in the gluconeogenesis pathway leading to the synthesis of glucose from simple precu...

It's been about twenty years since Intelligent Design Creationism rose to prominence. Just last week the Center for Science and Culture ...

I came across this paper while doing research on alternative splicing. The introduction annoyed me. It illustrates what to my mind are some ...

ScienceDebate.org is a group that wants a "science" debate between Presidential candidates in the upcoming American election. That...

Some of us have been debating Intelligent Design Creationists for many years. Some of us have even visited the creationist blogs like Uncomm...

Thanks to PZ Myers for digging up this speech by Mike Pence in the House of Representatives [ Mike Pence, creationist ]. I think Pence is tr...

Not all academics are bad writers but the exceptions are few and far between. Several recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education ...