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To the editor: The Feb. 19, 2021 ‘Amazing science starts on Mars’ stated that scientists believe that if life ever flourished on Mars, it would have happened 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, when water still flowed on the planet. Two assumptions are made: 1. Life just starts up from a few dead chemicals, which amazingly produce self-assembling molecular machinery, ever growing in complexity as it proceeds up the intelligence ladder from microbes to animals and finally humans. 2. Our planet earth and the others have been around for billions of years. After many years of studying thes...

Mar 17, 2021 Clyde Peeling’s excellent response (March 10) to a previous letter to the editor attacking evolution deserves to be supplemented. Peeling observed that Michael Behe and William Dembski, offered in the previous letter as examples of scientists who do not accept evolution, are not representative of the scientific community. He might have added that both Behe and Dembski were scheduled to testify as expert witnesses for the defendants in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the 2005 federal trial over whether a public school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, could require students to be taught about ...

Current Biology. That paper stated: In laboratory-based experimental evolution of novel phenotypes and the human domestication of crops, the majority of the mutations that lead to adaptation are loss-of-function mutations that impair or eliminate the function of genes rather than gain-of-function mutations that increase or qualitatively alter the function of proteins. Murray's paper vindicated Behe's thesis which also argued tha t "random mutation and natural selection are in fact fiercely devolutionary." That is since "mutation easily breaks or degrades genes, which, counterintuitively, ...

10 Books that Screwed Up The World Books are one of our greatest resources, but many times in history books have been written which are misleading or untrue. In some cases this has lead to wide-scale death and destruction and evil governmental regimes. This is a list of 10 of the worst books of this type; books that have done more harm than good. The common thread in all of these books is deception, invariably not intentional, but the consequences are the same regardless. I have intentionally left off some of the more obvious choices as they will almost certainly come up in the comments.

“Fine-tuning” can be applied to biology, not just physics Thorvaldsen and Hössjer approached the subject by looking at the concept of fine-tuning. In physics, this is the process in which parameters of a model must be adjusted very precisely in order to fit with certain observations. The use of fine-tuning in physics has led to the discovery that the fundamental constants and quantities fall into an extraordinarily precise range. Had these not fallen into this range, then the origin and evolution of the universe as it exists today would not have happened. “Fine-tuning has received m...