During the last few years, Ken Ham’s organization, AIG, has been spearing heading a project to build a full size replica of “Noah’s Ark.” One may not be interested in this project, agree with it, or even go to see it, but, it would seem to me, most would be like “great, if it brings […]
What Is The Difference Between Shannon Information and Specified Complex Information? And why it’s important.
Information is interesting, here I want to specifically discuss Shannon Information verses Specified Complex Information. I know, you may be saying “so what, it sounds boring to me.” Maybe so, it may even zip over your head, in that case duck so it will hit the person behind you! While being of an esoteric philosophical nature, I think it’s […]
FALSE: Adam Did Not have One Less Rib Than Eve
Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology, professor lecturing – I can still picture it even though it was back in the first year of the new millennium. “Men and women on average have 24 ribs” he said. And then he said: “no, men don’t have one less rib”, he want on “that was only Adam.” First […]
Why Insect Gears Point to God and Away from Darwinism
Covering the design company IDEO’s product design process, the host of the documentary called “IDEO Deep Dive” said something to the effect of “everything besides nature was designed.” The Gear Consider the lowly gear – classically an iconic element to indicate human technological progress and design. We all have seen them – mundane right? Actually […]
Mr. Kingfisher
Problem: Train needs to travel at 200 mph with very little noise-pollution. Solution: The Shinkansen Bullet Train and a bird-watching engineer. Excessive noise is generated when trains zip too fast, exiting tunnels. Thus a sonic boom. As it moves through a tunnel, pressure builds up in waves which causes this boom as it emerges. A […]
That thing that smells
A humans Nose (2) OK, you know that thing that at times looks ugly, sticking out from your face? Yes, that thing that is messy when you have a little cold and has those few annoying hairs that stick out? Good, we are talking about the same thing here, just to be sure. So let’s […]
Life’s New Language
Artistic DNA molecule. Flicker/Keith Ramsey For one who follows the world of biological news, one but can’t help but have seen the news flash of “alien DNA” being incorporated into bacteria. It seems that many are praising the scientists as if it were some great and humanitarian leap for our progeny. However, is the hype […]
Genetically Modified Tomatoes
Are genetically modified (GM) foods bad for you? This is a controversial topic and at this time I am not going to talk about that question entirely. Nor am I here right now to discuss the ethics of manipulating genes. However, recently there was a study that pointed out that there were no large unintended […]
“Superbugs” In Sewage
Image source: Iqbal Osman/Flickr. “Superbugs” have been found breeding well in Chinese sewage plants. Tests at two wastewater treatment plants in northern China revealed antibiotic-resistant bacteria were not only escaping purification but also breeding and spreading their dangerous cargo. Joint research by scientists from Rice, Nankai and Tianjin universities found “superbugs” carrying New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase […]
Throw Your Genome Away!
In a recent article by Dr. Tomkins, he writes the following: It was once believed that the regions in between the protein-coding genes of the genome were wastelands of alleged nonfunctional “junk DNA.” However, we now know that these previously misunderstood regions are teeming with functional activity—and a new study shows they are actually required […]