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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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The world is a mirror representing the divine life… Intelligent design readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
William Dembski
Category: Genetics
I've been guilty of teaching bean-bag genetics this semester. Bean-bag genetics treats individuals as a bag of irrelevant shape containing a collection of alleles (the "beans") that are sorted and disseminated by the rules of Mendel, and at its worst,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:15 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Molecular Biology
So you read that cool summary of how to build a molecular biology lab for $500. But wait, you don't know what you'd do with the mobio toys! Here's how to correct that: go to a workshop. THE MICHAEL SMITH...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating science
The future is arriving fast. Here are the instructions for assembling a $500 home molecular biology laboratory — you can do it! And it's getting cheaper all the time! The widespread and increasing availability of second-hand professional laboratory equipment or...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:20 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Molecular Biology
Yeah, I gave a talk at Skepticon like several other rascals here at Freethoughtblogs. Now, even if you didn't make the pilgrimage to Springfield, Missouri, you can watch it too. It's a straight science talk with several swipes at creationism,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:12 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
This is an article about cephalopods and eye evolution, but I have to confess at the beginning that the paper it describes isn't all that interesting. I don't want you to have excessive expectations! I wanted to say a few...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:48 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
In my previous post, I described the misguided approach Gauger and Axe have taken to criticizing evolution, and one of the peculiarities of their criticism is that they cited another paper by a paper by Carroll, Ortlund, and Thornton which...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:00 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
Jerry Coyne is mildly incensed — once again, there's a lot of recent hype about epigenetics, and he doesn't believe it's at all revolutionary. Well, I've written about epigenetics before, I think it's an extremely important subject central to our...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:25 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods
That's not hyperbole. I really mean it. How else could I react when I open up the latest issue of Bioessays, and see this: Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules. Just from...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:10 PM • 85 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
I found a recent paper in Nature fascinating, but why is hard to describe — you need to understand a fair amount of general molecular biology and development to see what's interesting about it. So those of you who already...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:42 AM • 56 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
So you're tantalized by this strange obsession creationists have with junk DNA. It offends them mightily, I think because they find comfort in the idea that everything in the universe must have a purpose, because if it doesn't, maybe that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:37 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
