Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, June 19, 2015
The science behind Intelligent Design Creationism
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I do not agree with those who dismiss Intelligent Design Creationism because it is not science. I prefer to think of it as an approach that ...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015
Sunday, June 18, 1815
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Today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo . The diagram on the right shows the initial disposition of the Anglo-Dutch army...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Creationists discover that human and chimp genomes are only about 70% similar!!!
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Watch Jeffrey Tomkins of The Institute for Creation Science teach us about the very latest (not!) research in genomics. I haven't bothe...
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Saturday, June 17, 1815
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After the defeat at Ligny, the Prussians retreated in good order to Wavre and by Saturday, June 17th a large part of the Prussian army had r...
Evolutionary algorithms are really adaptation algorithms
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A recent article in Nature reminded me of the importance of definitions. The article discusses evolution and evolutionary algorithms in a s...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
The Discovery Institute's myths and misconceptions about evolution
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If students are going to learn critical thinking about evolution, they need to be exposed to controversial views and challenges concerning e...
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Friday, June 16, 1815
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Napoleon's Army of the North had crossed the Belgian frontier and was advancing toward Brussels. Napoleon had surprised the allied armie...
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Monday, June 15, 2015
The meaning of "irreducible complexity"
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Michael Behe first proposed the idea of "irreducible complexity" in Darwin's Black Box back in 1996. He defines it as ... By...
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Thursday, June 15, 1815
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It was 200 years ago today that Napoleon's army crossed the Belgian border at Charleroi and advanced on Quatre-Bras in order to split th...
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Debunking misinformation
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This is an excellent summary of how to correct scientific misinformation [ Busting myths: a practical guide to countering science denial ]. ...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015
Café Scientifique: Replaying the tape of life
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Come and join the Halton-Peel Humanist Community at Café Scientifique on June 21st . I'll be talking about Replaying the Tape of Life: &...
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Friday, June 12, 2015
Rain on the Darwin sunshine
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Here's a YouTube video of a talk by Michael Lynch from February 2015. He was talking at Darwin Week at the National Institute for Mathem...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Biochemists can be astronauts!
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The latest issue of ASBMS Today has an article about the American astronaut Paggy Whitson [see A lab with a view ]. Peggy Whitson is a b...
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Saturday, June 06, 2015
Who's an authority on evolutionary theory?
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There's an interesting discussion going on at Uncommon Descent . Barry Arrington is wondering who to believe when it comes to evolutiona...
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Friday, June 05, 2015
Dinner at Vij's in Vancouver
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Everybody loves Vij's . We were lucky. We arrived late at 5:20 for the first sitting when the restaurant opens at 5:30. The lineup was n...
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