This weeks episode of That’s a Fact is called Useless Body Parts: Oh yes, and we’re back to embedding not working again. Give it a few days… [Edit: What did I tell you?]
Posts Tagged ‘Junk DNA’
10 Aug
Evilution
The other day I wrote a post called Watch Who You’re Calling “Anti-Science”, in response to an ICR article that accused a chronicle of the evolution “controversy” exactly that. Today’s Daily (pseudo)Science Update declares to the world: Evolution Delays Discovery of Dolphin Sensory Ability. The irony is strong in this one…
2 Jun
Genetic Stop Sign Halts Evolutionary Explanations (DpSU)
Soo… If you genetically modify the good ol’ fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to remove a presumed-redundant genetic ‘stop signal’ at one of the many places in the fly’s genome where there are double ups, you don’t get a very happy fly. Also, this disproves evolution. hmm… You may have noticed that Mr Thomas has two [...]
26 May
Quick DpSU’s #1
Here’re some quickies: Self-Cloning Lizards Fit for Survival So, some lizards can reproduce by a system akin to cloning - parthenogenesis – and this can be created in the lab. Also, “evolution has no useful explanation for the origin of sexual reproduction, let alone unisexual.” This isn’t useful in itself. Sure, the field is not settled, but what is? [...]
