I do not read the intelligent design blogs, but I do read the blogs of some people who read the intelligent design blogs. Today, Afarensis points to a series of “predictions” put forward by ID proponents at the behest of William Dembski on his blog Uncommon Descent for use in an upcoming interview or [...]
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The title “Doctor” and the abbreviated prefix “Dr.” come from the Latin for “teacher”, and are traditionally bestowed on those who have earned a doctoral degree, the highest academic degree attainable. The suffix Ph.D. is an abbreviation for Philosophiæ Doctor (L. “Teacher of philosophy”), with “philosophy” from the Greek for “love or pursuit of [...] Over at Pharyngula, PZ points to an interview with former Arkansas Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. As a Canadian, I have long been amused by Huckabee for reasons you can see here. The prospect of this guy becoming president is unnerving, but then so is the fact that our neighbours saw fit to [...] In keeping with my recent minimalist approach to the blog, here are some links to stories by others that I think you may find interesting. US ‘doomed’ if creationist president elected: scientists (PhysOrg) I think this is a great line: “The logic that convinces us that evolution is a fact is the same logic [...] To welcome you back from the holiday season, here are two recent publications of interest, both freely available: Science, Evolution, and Creationism (NAS) Evolution and Its Discontents: A Role for Scientists in Science EducationCoalition of Scientific Societies, FASEB Journal 22: 1-4. The seminar that I give most often when I am invited to speak at other universities begins with a brief introduction to genomes, sets up some comparisons between bacteria and eukaryotes, and then moves into a short overview of bacterial genome size evolution before spending the remainder of the time on genome size diversity [...] From the category of “I couldn’t have said it better myself” comes this post by ERV detailing her version of an Excellent flier on ID Creationism. Intelligent design proponents claim to base their views entirely on scientific data, and argue that the design perspective is more productive than an evolutionary approach. One area where this is particularly evident is in discussions of “junk DNA”. Indeed, with every new discovery (by evolutionary biologists) that some part of the genome shows signs [...] So, I have recently become aware that Genomicron is cited on an intelligent design wiki entry for “junk DNA“. They quote two paragraphs from my post A word about “junk DNA”. Specifically, a paragraph in which I critique the term “junk DNA” as unnecessarily implying non-function for all non-coding DNA, and a paragraph in [...] It is commonly suggested by anti-evolutionists that recent discoveries of function in non-coding DNA support intelligent design and refute “Darwinism”. This misrepresents both the history and the science of this issue. I would like to provide some clarification of both aspects. When people began estimating genome sizes (amounts of DNA per genome) in the [...] |
T. Ryan Gregory 
I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
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