June 18, 2018
Evolution 2.0: Highly Abridged – Ch#3 Confessions Of A Science Geek
My first business was building stereo equipment and I was selling my brand in a retail store when I was 17. Later I worked in manufacturing, acoustics, and digital networking. What does engineering tell us about evolution?
June 17, 2018
Evolution 2.0: Highly Abridged – Ch#4 Pity The Fruit Fly: Testing Randomness
100 years ago, biologists discovered they could generate DNA mutations with radiation, which was easy to do. They were excited because they believed they could now accelerate evolution. They tried experiments with fruit flies for decades. They learned a great deal about which genes perform certain functions… but as far...
June 16, 2018
Evolution 2.0: Highly Abridged – Ch#5 Eureka! Information. Theory!
I had a huge epiphany when I realized that everything I knew about 1s and 0s as a communication engineer applied to DNA. This sliced through a LOT of nonsense a lot of people were spouting about evolution. It also indicated who I could safely listen to and what I...
June 15, 2018
Evolution 2.0: Highly Abridged – Ch#8 Code First, Evolution Second
A friend accidentally meets the inventor of digital imaging in an Oregon coffee shop, and the world’s first digital photo is Russell Kirsch’s son Walden in 1957. This sparks insight into the early history of life.
June 14, 2018
Evolution 2.0: Highly Abridged – Ch#11 Blade#1: Transposition
Barbara McClintock discovered corn plants can re-program their own DNA in 1944. But her colleagues thought she was crazy so she took her work underground for 20 years. But she won the Nobel Prize in 1983. Turns out nearly every cell in existence can cut, splice, and re-arrange its DNA...
June 13, 2018
Evolution 2.0: Highly Abridged – Ch#16b The Five Blades of the Evolution 2.0 Swiss Army Knife
Creationists say evolution has never been observed and cannot create new species. But if you know what to do, you can make new species at will with hybrids. A major blade in the evolutionary Swiss army knife.
May 26, 2018
Lynn Margulis, Vindicated Rebel – James MacAllister & Ray Noble
Referred to as “Science’s Unruly Earth Mother”, a “vindicated heretic”and a “scientific rebel”, Lynn Margulis was an American evolutionary theorist, biologist, and science author. She was the primary modern proponent for symbiosis in evolution. Throughout her career, Margulis’ work aroused intense objection (one grant application elicited the response, “Your research...
May 25, 2018
Interview with J. Scott Turner, Author of Purpose and Desire
Purpose & Desire: What Makes Something “Alive” and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It is yet another in a line of PRO-evolution books by highly credible, mainstream biologists who are stepping forward and insisting that The Emperor really does have No Clothes. Turner is not in any way, shape...
April 20, 2018
Beowulf & Reaching the Bottom of the Evolution Swamp
How do you get to the bottom of an impossibly murky topic and find the truth? A 1300 year old story from Medieval English tells us how. In a private meeting with entrepreneurs from around the world, Perry marshall explains how the ancient story of Beowulf teaches us how to...