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  1. Thermos aquaticus

    Is Aleprechaunism a Belief System?

    John: Invisible leprechauns run around trees and cause thunderstorms. Sue: I don't believe you. Sue is an Aleprechaunist. She dares to not believe in leprechauns. So is her disbelief in John's claim about leprechauns a belief system in itself? Does your own Aleprechanism inform your views...
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    Epigenetic Inheritance in Humans

    I recently came upon a website (via Jerry Coyne's blog) that reviews some of the most cited peer reviewed papers touting evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in humans. As the reviewer, Kevin Mitchell, discusses, there really isn't any evidence that epigenetics is inherited...
  3. Thermos aquaticus

    ERVs: Evidence for the Origin of Humans

    In this thread I will be presenting evidence that supports the origin of humans. That origin is descent through modification (i.e. evolution) from ape-like ancestors. The specific evidence I will be presenting is focused on endogenous retroviruses, or ERVs. Retroviruses are usually RNA based...
  4. Thermos aquaticus

    The Human Genome Is Still Mostly Junk

    Before we can delve too far into the debate about how much of the human genome is functional we first have to define what we mean by functional. The first question we have to ask is if there is a difference between doing something and being functional. For example, your heart does many things...
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    In What Way are Mutations Random?

    There seems to be a lot of confusion about the concept of random mutations. I think it may be helpful to explain what scientists mean by random mutations, and to describe some of the experiments that illustrate how mutations are random. So what do scientists mean when they say mutations are...
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    The Evidence for Random Mutations

    Why do scientists conclude that random mutations coupled with natural selection are responsible for the genetic differences between species? The answer is the evidence. One of those pieces of evidence is the bias found in the types of mutations that separate species, and a great rundown of...
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    ID/creationism can't explain exon and intron divergence

    Continuing the theme of the previous thread on the nested hierarchy, in this post I would like to discuss sequence divergence between exons and introns across species. ID/creationists try to claim that their ideas are better scientific explanations for the things we see in biology. In my...
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    ID can't explain the basic observations in Biology

    I have heard many ID/creationists claim that they are starting with the same evidence but are arriving at different conclusions. They also try to claim that what they are doing is scientific. Neither is true, as will be shown with multiple examples in this thread. One of the biggest and most...
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