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Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”

As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.” Read More ›
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Earth — The Mystery of Our Colorful Home

Certainly, there is no logical reason why life should be wedded to the transcendental value of beauty. Read More ›
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Meyer on “Nested Coding”: Another Successful Design Prediction

Overlapping genes, or “nested coding,” was anticipated by microbiologist Siegfried Scherer. Read More ›
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From FIRE, Good News on Campus Free Speech

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is out now with a new report. It’s their yearly analysis of speech codes. Read More ›
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Science Education and the Growth Mindset

Growth mindset is an idea popularized by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. Read More ›
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Astrophysicist Asks: Did God Create the Universe?

Natural theology is the science of God’s existence, and it’s a massive trove of evidence and reason of the first order. Read More ›
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Patterns of Design in Human Life

Dr. Simmons sees clues of design in the processes of reproduction, in development, and in the many complex events in the lungs and vascular system that make childbirth possible. Read More ›
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Himmelfarb and Her Haters

What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›
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Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”

Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject. Read More ›

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