Around the Blogosphere 6/30/07

http://telicthoughts.com/the-bafflement-continues/

The bafflement centers around life's origins and Mike Gene writes this in his blog entry:

"Koonin recently authored a paper entitled, The cosmological model of eternal inflation and the transition from chance to biological evolution in the history of life."


http://telicthoughts.com/again-there-is-absolutely-no-teleology-involved/

An excellent post that highlights both the problems and metaphysical concerns surrounding the matter of life's origins. It also featured a stellar comment in response to it by David Heddle:

http://telicthoughts.com/again-there-is-absolutely-no-teleology-involved/#comment-116897


http://telicthoughts.com/microtubule-dynamics/

A You Tube wow moment.


http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/senators-clinton-and-boxer-learn-from-darwin-zealots/

A post on efforts to legislatively gag conservative radio talk shows. Freedom of speech is a basic and paramount issue that impacts science as well as discussions of evolution and intelligent design. Politicians need to respect the First Amendment.


http://www.uncommondescent.com/creationism/zuck-is-out-of-luck-marsupial-findings-vindicate-behe-denton-hoyle/

The molecular clock...


http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/how-much-information-is-needed-to-construct-a-human/

The design of complex systems.


http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2007/06/newly-discovered-life-forms-raise-old.html

Gradualism, fossils and stasis.


http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2007/06/is-earth-special-found-twenty-light.html

The search for earth like planets.


http://www.newcreationism.org/2007/06/exploring-dark-matter-of-genome.html

Heterochromatin and its many essential functions.


http://fluorescentflicker.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/thought-for-the-day-crick-style/

History and biological validity: when Darwinian thinking leads to foolish conclusions.