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                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Sunday, November 26, 2023

ChatGPT gets two-thirds of science textbook questions wrong: time to bring it into the classroom!

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The November 16th issue of Nature has an article about ChatGPT: ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education . It ...
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Monday, November 20, 2023

Two Heidelberg graduate students reject junk DNA

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Science in School is a magazine for European science teachers. Two graduate students 1 have just published an article in the November issu...
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Sunday, November 12, 2023

ChatGPT is still making up quotations from scientists

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I wondered whether ChatGPT had improved in the last six months so I asked it again about junk DNA. The answers reveal that ChatGPT is still ...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2023

The Purple Blog

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Raphaël Champeimont has a blog called The Purple Blog: Freedom and Technology . His latest post is called The great Pufferfish Genome and i...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Norman Johnson reviews my book in "Evolution" journal

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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...
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Monday, October 16, 2023

Stephen Meyer lies about scientists working on evolutionary theory

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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...
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Sunday, October 15, 2023

Only 10.7% of the human genome is conserved

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

On the conservation of regulatory sites in the human genome

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There are a million potential transcription regulatory sites in the human genome. How many of these function as true regulatory sites? ...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023

The number of splice variants in a species correlates inversely with the population size - what does that mean?

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Most of the genes in eukaryotes contain introns that are removed by splicing during processing of the primary transcript. In some cases the ...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

How many genes in the human genome (2023)?

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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...
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Monday, October 09, 2023

Intelligent Design Creationism and irreducible complexity

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Jonathan McLatchie is an Intelligent Design Creationist who now blogs frequently on the Discovery website Evolution News [ sic ]. His lates...
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Friday, September 29, 2023

Evelyn Fox Keller (1936 - 2023) and junk DNA

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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...
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Thursday, September 28, 2023

John Farrell reviews my book: "Junk DNA: Why human beings have inherited a 'sloppy genome.'"

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Here's an excerpt from his review. In his new book "What’s in Your Genome?", Laurence A. Moran shows that all the resear...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Richard Sternberg says ENCODE disproved junk DNA, therefore intelligent design

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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...
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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Discovery Institute's latest video: The Codes of Life

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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...
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