Snake leg loss genetics reported in ScienceDaily 6 February 2019 and Nature Communications 9 Nov 2018, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07122-z. An international team of scientists have been searching for genetic changes involved in loss of limbs in snakes. They suggested the differences may be in stretches of DNA known as cis-regulatory elements (CREs). These are not genes […]
“The earliest case of systematic naming occurred about 6,000 years ago when God brought all his newly fashioned creatures to Adam to see what he would call them (Genesis 2:19).” J. L. Heilbron, “Coming to Terms”, Nature, vol. 415, p585, 7 Feb 2002. Heilbron is from Worcester College, Oxford UK. Editorial Comment: The intriguing thing […]
A sceptic’s testimony reported in New Scientist 4 Feb 2006, p54. Physics professor Bob Park writes an Internet column named “What’s New” where he criticises such topics as “cold fusion, intelligent design and alien abduction” and gives advice on how to tell real science from pseudoscience. In an interview for New Scientist he was asked, […]
A 2003 debate against geologist and Anglican vicar, Michael Roberts, brought to light the force with which liberal theologians claim Genesis is a “Whodunit” and not about what was done, or how. Only science tells us that, therefore Genesis must be only symbolic, they say. However, they forget to mention that any liberal theologian who […]