Adam and Eve Type post Author Casey Luskin Date November 23, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, Annual Review of Genetics, apes, BioEssays, BioLogos, chimpanzees, Christianity, common ancestry, CRISPR, Dennis Venema, Evangelicals, evolution, evolutionary theory, functionality, Genealogical Adam and Eve, gorillas, hominids, human origins, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), intelligent design, Jesus Christ, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, macaques, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), Nature Reviews Genetics, Ola Hössjer, Paul Nelson, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pseudogenes, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), RNA (journal), S. Joshua Swamidass, Science Signaling, Springer, Theist Evolution, theology, William Lane Craig Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve Casey Luskin November 23, 2021 Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology 37 To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve. Read More ›
junk Type post Author Casey Luskin Date September 9, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Annual Review of Genetics, DNA, evolution, hierarchy, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature Reviews Genetics, neo-Darwinian theory, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, RNA, RNA (journal), RNA Biology, RNA transcripts, Science Signaling, universal common ancestry Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design Casey Luskin September 9, 2021 Evolution, Intelligent Design 4 These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design. Read More ›
Xenopus_laevis_02 Type post Author Casey Luskin Date January 7, 2020 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionLife SciencesTechnology Tagged , __edited, Annual Review of Genetics, Cell (journal), CRISPR, DNA, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, functionality, gene duplication, HBBP1, junk DNA, MicroRNAs, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, proteins, pseudogenes, RNA, Seth W. Cheetham, terminology, Thomas Kuhn, transcription, Xenopus laevis Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed” Casey Luskin January 7, 2020 Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Technology 17 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 ›
chicken Type post Date January 24, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, Annual Review of Genetics, chicken, chimpanzees, chromatin, common ancestry, David Klinghoffer, Dennis Venema, ENCODE, genome, gorilla, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Molecular Biology and Evolution, nested hierarchy, phylogeny, pseudogenes, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, RNA Biology, theistic evolution, vitellogenin Adam and the Genome and “Nonfunctional” Pseudogenes Science and Culture January 24, 2018 Evolution, Faith & Science 11 Venema cites the vitellogenin pseudogene as supposedly demonstrating common ancestry between humans and birds, such as chickens. Read More ›