Sandwalk

A junk-filled genome Review of: What’s In Your Genome? 90% of Your Genome Is Junk, by Laurence A. Moran, 2023. University of Toronto Pre...

I know Stephen Meyer and I have discussed his views on creationism many times. Some of the issues he raises are quite interesting and they a...

The Zoonomia project aligned the genome sequences of 240 mammalian species and determined that only 10.7% of the human genome is conserved. ...

There are a million potential transcription regulatory sites in the human genome. How many of these function as true regulatory sites? ...

Most of the genes in eukaryotes contain introns that are removed by splicing during processing of the primary transcript. In some cases the ...

The latest summary of the number of genes in the human genome gets the number of protein-coding genes correct but their estimate of the numb...

Jonathan McLatchie is an Intelligent Design Creationist who now blogs frequently on the Discovery website Evolution News [ sic ]. His lates...

Evelyn Fox Keller died a few days ago (Sept. 22, 2023). She was a professor of History and Philosopher of Science at the Massachusetts Inst...

Here's an excerpt from his review. In his new book "What’s in Your Genome?", Laurence A. Moran shows that all the resear...

This is a video of a debate that took place in Kraków, Poland on June 2, 2023. The topic was "Intelligent design in nature—illusi...

This is a very slick video from the Discovery Institute. It shows you what we are up against. Anyone who thinks they can easily refute the c...

You know you're in for a treat when papers published in a (previously) reputable journal make frequent references to Dennis Noble and Ja...

John Mattick continues to promote the idea that he is leading a paradigm shift in molecular biology. He believes that he and his...

John Mattick is famous for arguing that there's a correlation between genome size and complexity; notably in a 2004 Scientific American ...

Paradigm shifts are rare but paradigm shafts are common. A paradigm shaft is when a scientist describes a false paradigm that supposedly rul...