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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Dr. Azor Betts vs Smallpox and George Washington
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Dr. Azor Betts (1740-1809) is a distant cousin of mine. His mother was Mary Beldon and I descend from another Mary Beldon who is a cousin of...
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Teaching Biochemistry from an Intelligent Design Creationist Perspective
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There are many ways to teach biochemistry. You can focus on the chemistry or emphasize biology. You can teach from a fuel metabolism perspec...
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Saturday, October 05, 2013
It's Really Just That Simple
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Some of us spend a lifetime trying to understand evolution. We read books, go to meetings, study the scientific literature, and consult expe...
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Jerry Coyne and Richard Dawkins
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A few nights ago, Jerry Coyne and Richard Dawkins had an intimate conversation in front of one thousand people at Northwestern University. I...
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Barry Arrington, Junk DNA, and Why We Call Them Idiots
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You're really not going to believe what's going on over at Uncommon Descent . Not only are we witnessing the meltdown of Barry Arrin...
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I Can't Wait to See "Genesis" the Next Great Science Fiction Movie
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Friday, October 04, 2013
David Klinghoffer Wants Clear Definitions
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A few days ago I mentioned that definitions were important and I asked my students to look at twenty definitions of "evolution" [ ...
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Christian de Duve (1917-2013)
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Christian de Duve died last May. He was the man who discovered peroxisomes and he did important work on other cell compartments such as lyso...
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Intelligent Design Creationists Make a Prediction: How Did It Work Out?
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Intelligent Design Creationism is often criticized for not making testable predictions. But as it turns out the movement HAS made a number o...
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Welcome Trust Sanger Institute Misleads Public About Junk DNA
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Khurana er al. (2013) have just published a nice paper in Science where they analyzed 1009 human genomes in order to detect variants that m...
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Thursday, October 03, 2013
Science Doesn't Have All the Answers but Does It Have All the Questions?
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Jerry Coyne has been following the debate between Steven Pinker and Leon Wieseltier on the topic of scientism [see The final round: Pinker v...
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What Do You Do When All the Reviews Are Bad?
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Charles Marshall has reviewed Darwin's Doubt in last week's issue of Science . The title says it all: When Prior Belief Trumps Scho...
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Stephen Meyer Says that "Homology" Is a Problem in Molecular Evolution
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Stephen Meyer argues (in Darwin's Doubt ) that the Cambrian explosion cannot be explained by evolution but it can be explained by Intell...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013
The Many Definitions of Evolution
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I have a favorite definition of evolution [ What Is Evolution? ]. It's a definition based on population genetics and it helps us to deci...
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Biologist Sean Carroll in Toronto
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Biologist Sean Carroll of evo-devo fame was in Toronto last Friday as part of the 2013 Science Festival. I had a chance to talk to him in th...
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