Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Another successful prediction of Intelligent Design Creationism?
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The genetic code is redundant. Many amino acids have multiple codons ranging from two to six. The different codons for the same amino acid a...
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Quantifying the "central dogma"
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There was a short article in a recent issue of Science that caught my eye. The title was " Statistics requantitates the central dogma ...
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Mary Lyon (1925 - 2014)
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Mary Lyon died on Christmas day last December. She was 89 years old. She was a famous mouse geneticist who spend most of her working care...
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
On the handedness of DNA
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Double-stranded DNA forms a helical structure where the two strands are twisted into a helical shape. If you think of the base pairs forming...
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
Conrad Black attacks the shabby, shallow world of the militant, atheist
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Conrad Black , also known as Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG, was stimulated by a conversation with Christian apologist, and physicist, Joh...
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How the genome lost its junk according to John Parrington
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I really hate it when publishers start to hype a book several months before we can read it, especially when the topic is controversial. In t...
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Junk DNA comments in the
New York Times Magazine
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It's always fun to be quoted in The New York Times Magazine but there's a more serious issue to discuss. I'm referring to a bri...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Richard Lenski answers questions about the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE)
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Richard Lenski has a blog called Telliamed Revisited . He's been answering questions about his long-term evolution experiment and the la...
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Economist Stephen Moore explains why we should mistrust science.
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Stephen Moore is an conservative economist who writes for the Wall Street Journal . Here's a quote from the Wikipedia article ... In a...
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Are gods a delusion?
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John Lennox is a mathematician from Oxford (UK). He likes to attack the so-called "new atheists" and defend the idea that Christia...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Apparently it really is impossible to teach Intelligent Design Creationists about evolutionary theory
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Last week I asked an important question, " Is it impossible to educate Intelligent Design Creationists on evolutionary theory? . The ...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Do offensive pictures justify violence?
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This video raises many complicated issues. It's a confrontation between students and anti-abortion protestors on the University of Orego...
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How do Intelligent Design Creationists interpret "extraordinary evidence"?
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Marcello Truzzi was one of the founding members of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). Back...
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Casey Luskin agrees with Lawrence Krauss ... teach the controversy
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Casey Luskin suggests that we should teach science properly [ How Should We Teach Evolution? ]. Science education theorists agree that stud...
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Lawrence Krauss advocates "teaching doubt"
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There's a robust pedagogical literature on misconceptions and how difficult it is for educators overcome them in the classroom. The curr...
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