DNA Type post Date March 31, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , centromeres, DNA, evolution, evolutionary processes, gene expression, Genome Research, human genome, intelligent design, Joe Felsenstein, John Avise, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nicholas Matzke, nucleic acids, repetitive elements, researchers, RNA, telomeres, transposable elements Researchers: What’s Evolutionary Debris to You Is Unexplored Territory to Us Science and Culture March 31, 2022 Evolution, Intelligent Design 3 From a new, open-access article, “Implications of the first complete human genome assembly.” Read More ›
Charles Darwin Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date January 13, 2020 CategoriesFaith & Science Tagged , __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of Theological Schools, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, Buddha, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, John Avise, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Paul, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic Robert Shedinger January 13, 2020 Faith & Science 30 As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›
textbook 2 Type post Date August 20, 2019 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionScience Education Tagged , __edited, Denis Alexander, Douglas Futuyma, education, evolution, Francis Collins, George Williams, God-talk, human nature, J.B.S. Haldane, Jerry Coyne, John Avise, Kenneth Miller, methodological naturalism, Neil Shubin, Niles Eldredge, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, textbooks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology Biology Textbooks and the “God-Talk” Problem Science and Culture August 20, 2019 Biology, Evolution, Science Education 7 A muddle emerges from textbooks’ unprincipled use of theology. Read More ›