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Expanding the genetic alphabet
By Gert Korthof. “It is a very, very hard problem. Getting all the pieces to work means re-engineering 3.5 billion years of evolution. It’s so ambitious.” These are the words of a scientist 14 years ago [1]. He was talking about the project of inventing new bases to include in DNA and let the new DNA function in a living cell. Now an important milestone has been reached towards that goal. Scientists have succeeded in...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Doug Ell: Finding Faith Through Science, pt. 2
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin continues his interview of Doug Ell on his new book, Counting to God: A Personal Journey Through Science to Belief. Ell discusses the scientific evidence that led him...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Jonathan Wells: Is There Biological Information Outside of the DNA?, pt. 3
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, hear more from Dr. Jonathan Wells on his recently published paper, "Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA." Dr. Wells explains how information is carried in...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Reviewing Cosmos: The Materialistic Message
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, hear the first in a series of podcasts that takes a critical look at the new Cosmos TV series. Listen in as Casey Luskin examines the stated agenda of Cosmos...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Doug Ell: Finding Faith Through Science
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with Doug Ell about his book, titled Counting to God: A Personal Journey Through Science to Belief. Ell discusses his personal story about how he lost his...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Jonathan Wells: Is There Biological Information Outside of the DNA?, pt. 2
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Jonathan Wells continues his conversation with Casey Luskin about his most recently published peer-reviewed article, "Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA." Listen in as Dr....
Categories: Anti-Science News
Women and the Great Darwinian Divide
Kimberly Hamlin's book, From Eve to Evolution, is history as partisan polemic.
Michael Flannery
http://www.discovery.org/p/471
Categories: Anti-Science News
Apoptosis Is Unchanged from Cambrian Corals to Humans
From the earliest multicellular animals of the Cambrian explosion till today, programmed cell death has not evolved at all.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
On the Origin of the Term "Intelligent Design"
Critics of ID often allege that the term was invented by lawyers to get around the 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Edwards v. Aguillard.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Selective Critical Thinking at the National Center for Science Education
Should students be allowed to critically analyze the findings of science or assess the strengths and weaknesses of scientific hypotheses and theories?
Donald McLaughlin
http://www.discovery.org/p/611
Categories: Anti-Science News
Think About This Next Time You Enjoy a Burrito: Why You Don't Often Bite Your Tongue
Without specialized neurons, you'd bite more tongue than burrito.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
It Was the Philosophical Message, Not the Science, that Moved the Creators of Cosmos
We have written a lot about the revived Cosmos series that concluded on Sunday, but one thing I still find curious.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Kinesin: Fast, Efficient, Essential, and Mysterious
So we have yet another complex system necessary for eukaryotic cellular function that seems to have appeared out of nowhere.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
"A Computer Just Passed the Turing Test in Landmark Trial" -- Or Did It? The Hype on That One Lasted About a Day
What Discovery Institute's Wesley Smith calls "human exceptionalism" remains the best science that we have.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Cosmos Finale Takes One Last Shot at the "Delusion that We Have Some Privileged Position in the Universe"
It was a fitting end, in keeping with what we've seen already in the series.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwin's Finches Show Rule-Constrained Variation in Beak Shape
When does a beak remain a beak? When developmental rules keep it from becoming something else.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Video: Stephen Meyer on Responding to Critics of Darwin's Doubt
The duration of the Cambrian explosion, Charles Marshall's review in Science, the challenge from cladistics -- Dr. Meyer considers all the most frequently promoted challenges.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Counting to God: New Book by Douglas Ell Introduces the Evidence for Intelligent Design
A lot of books -- many of them very good -- have been written about the debate over intelligent design.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Mob Rule: The Final Installment of Cosmos Is Thick with Irony
The episode opened with Tyson giving a tour of a beautifully computer-generated model of the great Library of Alexandria in Egypt.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Which Is the Real PZ Myers?
PZ Myers spoke at Town Hall in Seattle last Thursday night and I attended with a couple of friends and co-workers from Discovery Institute.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
