Category: Biology
760 million year old animal found in South Africa
| February 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Biology, Evolution, News |
“a 150 million years earlier than when other animals emerged in the fossil record.” more
Latest issue of Synthese: Should scientists even try to define life?
| February 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Biology, Intelligent Design, News |
“I conclude that scientists, philosophers, and ethicists should discard the project of defining life.” more
ID Foundations, 15(a): A Testable ID Hypothesis — Front-Loading, part A (a guest-post by Genomicus)
| January 20, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Biology, Design inference, Genetics, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design |
(Series on Front-loading continues, here) As we continue the ID Foundations series, it will be necessary to reflect on a fairly wide range of topics, more than any one person can cover. So, when the opportunity came up to put Front-Loading on the table from a knowledgeable advocate of it, Genomicus, I asked him if… more
Another biologist steps out of line …
| December 12, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Darwinism, News |
Most biological students think that adaptive radiations and Darwinism go together, and that the mechanisms of genetic mutation and natural selection explain all the data. … However more
New biology journal to be researcher-run, not editor-run
| December 4, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, News |
“The top tier publications are often run by professional editors who do not work in a lab, and who do not moderate the peer-review process.” more
Researchers hope butterfly genome sequence explains migration – but their approach raises a critical question
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Intelligent Design, News |
It will be most interesting if the mechanism indeed turns out to be fundamentally the same for butterflies, birds, and turtles. What would such a finding imply? more
Vid: Yes, these ARE birds …
| November 16, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, News |
And you have never seen anything like it. more
Great TED Talks vid: Human life from conception to birth
| November 15, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, News, Video |
Top life sciences micro photo: The rotifer, filtering water for food, like a vacuum cleaner
| November 14, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, News |
You can see a brick of the shelter the rotifer builds around it, ready to be added, in the winning photo. more
Ten best microscopic pictures from the life sciences 2011
| November 14, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, News |
Here. more
Irrational reasons for refusing to consider design …
| November 12, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Design inference, Intelligent Design, News |
From our moral and intellectual superiors, no less. more
Paul Nelson to speak in Toronto, Saturday, November 5, 2011
| November 2, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Intelligent Design, News |
Plus the Ontario premiere of Metamorphosis – the film on why butterflies make nonsense of Darwinism. more
Cell biology: A “spindle checkpoint” mechanism prevents cancer cells in a variety of life forms, humans to yeast
| November 2, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Intelligent Design, News |
“Amazingly” crops up as often in cell biology these days as “groovy” used to among hippies. more
An interesting way of visualizing cell design
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, News |
“The algorithms organize the intertwined 3D surface-contour data into simplified orthogonal cell abstractions and the components can be sorted to emphasize particular comparisons with proximity. ” more
Cash awards available for research or essays on the uses and abuses of biology
| October 10, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Culture, News |
Preliminary application form deadline October 31, 2011 more
Wanted: Developmental biology postdoc. Your mission: produce a chicken-a-saurus
| October 8, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Evolution, News |
From Thomas Hayden, “How to Hatch a Dinosaur” (Wired September 26, 2011): Human beings are almost indistinguishable, genetically speaking, from chimpanzees, but at that scale we’re also pretty hard to tell apart from, say, bats. Yeah, it figures. Batman. Hints of long-extinct creatures, echoes of evolution past, occasionally emerge in real life—they’re called atavisms, rare… more
Retroviruses and Common Descent: And Why I Don’t Buy It
| September 15, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan M under 'Junk DNA', Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Genomics, Human evolution |
Those of you who have been following this blog, as well as Evolution News & Views, for some time, will be aware that I have previously discussed, across multiple articles, the phenomenon of endogenous retroviral inserts into the genomes of primates. Those familiar with the debate over origins will also be familiar with the various… more
ID guys greeted at biology meeting with “friendly, open-ended questions, curiosity, and meaningful exchanges”?
| July 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Intelligent Design |
ID guys greeted at biology meeting with “friendly, open-ended questions, curiosity, and meaningful exchanges”? more
Another Mars Mystery – Design, Natural or Hoax?
| June 6, 2011 | Posted by DonaldM under Biology, Design inference, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Science fiction |
Fox news reports that an armchair astronomer, David Martine, claims that he’s discovered evidence of intelligent life on Mars. In this YouTube video Martine speculates that it could be a bio lab, or a dwelling or garage (he hope’s its not a weapon. NASA is investigating. So, is this evidence of intelligent design? Is it… more
Another windy day in the junkyard …
| May 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Darwinism |
From Jason Palmer at BBC News (19 May 2011), we learn, “Protein flaws responsible for complex life, study says.” This time mistakes produce more functional proteins: Tiny structural errors in proteins may have been responsible for changes that sparked complex life, researchers say.A comparison of proteins across 36 modern species suggests that protein flaws called… more