Genetics
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
The Receding Myth of “Junk DNA”
Wheel of Fortune: New Work by Thornton’s Group Supports Time-Symmetric Dollo’s Law
Do Shared ERVs Support Common Ancestry?
New Peer-Reviewed Paper Challenges Darwinian Evolution
Over recent months, papers challenging key elements of Darwinian theory — the kind of papers which are supposed not to exist — have increasingly been slipping through the net and finding their way into the peer-reviewed literature. One such paper, “Is gene duplication a viable explanation for the origination of biological information and complexity?,” authored by Joseph Esfandier Hannon Bozorgmeh and published online last week in the journal, Complexity, challenges the standard gene duplication/divergence model regarding the origin of evolutionary novelty. The abstract reports, All life depends on the biological information encoded in DNA with which to synthesize and regulate various peptide sequences required by an organism’s cells. Hence, an evolutionary model accounting for the diversity of life needs to Read More ›
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AAUP Responds on Academic Freedom
Gary Rhoades at AAUP responded to my original post. My own response is below the fold.
Dear Mr. Crowther,
Apparently patience is not one of your stronger virtues, at least not in this case. If you were really interested in my response, or in the position of the AAUP, you might have had the courtesy to give me a reasonable amount of time to respond to your letter below (which came to me at 3:33p.m. EST today, whereas your posting below was 1:24 p.m today, though the time zone is not posted).
Upon returning to my emails late this afternoon, after addressing some other pressing matters earlier in the afternoon, I come to find that you have already posted the following on your organization’s website:
He pastes in this blog post.
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