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Message 108 of 147 (813502)
06-28-2017 7:13 AM


evolution, theistic evolution, intelligent design, and creationism
Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist and 1973 Nobel laureate discusses evolution, theistic evolution, intelligent design, and creationism
Evolution and God? | Closer to Truth

  
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Message 109 of 147 (816662)
08-09-2017 6:45 AM


God, Gods, and Fairies
God, Gods, and Fairies
One of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers of today’s popular atheism is that disbelief in God involves no particular positive philosophy of reality, much less any kind of religion or creed, but consists merely in neutral incredulity toward a certain kind of factual asseveration. This is not something the atheists of earlier ages would have been very likely to say, if only because they still lived in a culture whose every dimension (artistic, philosophical, ethical, social, cosmological) was shaped by a religious vision of the world. More to the point, it is an utterly nonsensical claimso nonsensical, in fact, that it is doubtful that those who make it can truly be considered atheists in any coherent sense.

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Message 118 of 147 (816710)
08-09-2017 6:26 PM


Re: God, Gods, and Fairies
Guys, NOT a debate thread. Propose it as a new topic if you want, there seems to be enough interest.

  
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Message 121 of 147 (817949)
08-22-2017 2:08 AM


Gene variant activity is surprisingly variable between tissues
Every gene in (almost) every cell of the body is present in two variants -- so called alleles: one is deriving from the mother, the other one from the father. In most cases both alleles are active and transcribed by the cells into an RNA message. However, for a few genes, only one allele is expressed, while the other one is silenced. The decision whether the maternal or the paternal version is shut down occurs early in embryonic development -- one reason, why for long it was thought that the pattern of active alleles is nearly homogeneous in the various tissues of the organism.
The new study (DOI:10.7554/eLife.25125), where CeMM PhD Student Daniel Andergassen is first author (now a PostDoc at Harvard University), uncovers a different picture. By performing the first comprehensive analysis of all active alleles in 23 different tissues and developmental stages of mice, the team of scientists revealed that each tissue showed a specific distribution of active alleles.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/...ses/2017/08/170818092138.htm

  
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Message 122 of 147 (818516)
08-29-2017 11:53 PM


Purpose and Desire
A forthcoming book by biologist J. Scott Turner, Purpose & Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, is a real shot across the bow of modern evolutionary biology.
Read an excerpt from Purpose & Desire here.

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