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    Attitude: What to do when others say “BS” to you.

    I found this a fascinating piece about scientists who confront controversy when dealing with the public (and even colleagues):- 

Outreach: Speak up for science It begins thus:-

 


 The last lines of the article sound a warning for those who...
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    Self organization - a new paradigm?

    I’ve come across a series of fascinating articles which to an extent looks at evolution in a different way, and most certainly looks at the cell and cellular processes in a new way.

 The articles deal with a process familiar to physicists, called...
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    The evolution of leaf mimicry.

    This essay is a brief description of a piece of research published just prior to Christmas, showing how butterfly leaf mimicry may have evolved. The relevant research is the following article:- 

Gradual and contingent evolutionary emergence of leaf mimicry in butterfly wing...
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    Experimental evolution. Testing Darwin regarding the origin of multicellularity.

    Hi All,
 Recently, an interesting bit of research dealing with experimental evolution was published in Nature. 

 As sometimes happens, it caught my eye, and so I began reading with a hope to understanding it tolerably well, enough so that I could write up a series of...
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    Possibly another problem solved for the RNA world.

    Science is a problem solving process. In this case, the problem to be solved is one dealing with a natural origin of life, specifically the RNA world hypothesis. This is interesting:-

 A cross-chiral RNA polymerase ribozyme 

The reason why it is important is...
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    Progress in abiogenesis research

    Another problem associated with an understanding of a natural origin of life is the existence of enzymes. These massive proteins come in zillions of different shapes, only a very few of which are important to living organisms. So a question has been as to just how there was enough time for the...
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    The naughty things creationists at AiG accept.

    Hi All, We get a lot of handwaving from YECs over the reality of such things as random mutation, natural selection, speciation, gene duplication, microevolution and the rest. The latest has been over microevolution. It does not happen, but it does, but it does not. I think part of the...
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    How scientists test assumptions - an example.

    The paper behind this article looks as if it would be a fascinating read (including a long slog of looking up and trying to understand definitions):- Confirmed: Oldest Fragment of Early Earth is 4.4 Billion Years Old | LiveScience In essence, it seems as if, using new technology...
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    Lions are not cat kind.

    Lions are lion kind, just like humans are human kind. All cats are cat kind, it's just that lions are not cat kind. They are different. You never see a lion give birth to a lynx. <yec> This is just like humans are not ape kind. All apes are ape kind, but humans are different. You never see a...
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    Certain similarities do prove things. Other similarities don't.

    I get an impression that some creationists are trying to tell us that similarities don't mean a thing. However, that makes no sense. If all similarities meant nothing, then scientists could not use DNA to relate you to various members of your family, including distantly related members. So...
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    So can the Genesis be infallible and inerrant history?

    Well no, based on my experiences with many creationists across several different forums. Two concepts are linked which show why Genesis is not necessarily the infallible and inerrant word of God:- 1) What the Bible claims for itself, and 2) The fruit many devout believers bear while under...
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    Convergent evolution: This paper looks to be open access.

    Genome-wide signatures of convergent evolution in echolocating mammals Here is the abstract:- A layperson's write up:- Bats and Dolphins Evolved Echolocation in Same Way
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    The evolution of increasing complexity in a molecular machine.

    This paper:- Evolution of increased complexity in a molecular machine - is online. Hence you can click on the link above, open the paper and see in more detail, what I am describing. In the paper the authors describe a set of experiments they undertook to demonstrate how, hundreds...
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    A theory is not a guess.

    For those who think a theory is a guess then consider that:- 1) The germ theory of disease is also a guess. 2) The atomic theory of matter is a guess. In actuality these "guesses" are called theories because they have a lot of evidence in support of them, so much so, that scientists...
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    Science explains aspects of how things originate. YEC/IDers have nothing comparable.

    I was going to title this "Science explains aspects of how things originate. YEC/IDers have nothing comparable to offer.", but that longer title would not fit in the title bar. "Aspects" is important because science never explains anything fully. Science is always an ongoing exploration of...
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    The evolution of adaptive behaviour in robots.

    Hi All, Here is a fascinating paper (1) about the evolution of adaptive behavior in robots. The paper, titled “Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection” is online and can be found at:- PLoS Biology: Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of...
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    Understanding tetrapod evolution. It looks as if we screwed up.

    Hi All, This one is a real beauty and is rattling lots of cages and creating a lot of excitement. It's HOT. It shows how, just when we think we are getting a grip on something, along comes new evidence to undo so much of what we thought. And it demonstrates why testing, confirmation...
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    Proof of mammoths and horses alive 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

    Hi one and all, A really interesting one posted by SteveF at TR. It looks as if, rather than relying on bones to track down among the last survivors of mammoths and ancient horses, researchers looked for signs of these animals by searching for their DNA in frozen soil. From:-...
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    Did these authors observe the last 160 years?

    While I am not commenting on whether this paper:- No rise of airborne fraction of carbon dioxide in past 150 years, new research finds mentioned at this link:- http://www.christianforums.com/t7429693/ is correct or not, I am curious in that if Darwinists have to observe evolution for it to...
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    It looks as if even prions (lifeless proteins) can evolve.

    Hey folks, Take a look at this link:- BBC News - 'Lifeless' prion proteins are 'capable of evolution' From the opening paragraphs:- Weissman went on to say:- If you don’t know what a prion is, then have a read here:- Prion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia If I...
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