The idea that mutations are random is an important concept for evolutionary theory. Yet, multiple areas of research are telling us that mutation placement and type are not at all random. There is also no reason to believe that mutation rates have remained constant...
Location: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary and CREW Bird Rookery Swamp Trail, near Estero, Florida, USA We can only understand the size of DNA by comparing it to something else. If you, for example, scaled it up to the length of a major highway, how wide would it be? If you...
DNA can only withstand so much mutation and breakage before it breaks down. An amazing system of repair enzymes keeps decay in check, mostly. Yet, without the crazy complex system of DNA maintenance and repair, life cannot exist, which brings up questions of how we...
Notes and links: Journal of Creation subscription page The ATP synthase motor The ‘one gene–one enzyme’ hypothesis, Beadle and Tatum, 1941 What on earth is a ‘gene’? Slicing and dicing the genome, Biblical Genetics episode 6 The Genome is Even More...
There is a mysterious passage in Genesis chapter 6 about the “sons of God” having children with the “daughters of men”. Scholars argue about what this means, and you can find all sorts of views on the subject in the public area. Some say the...
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