Tagged: genetics

DNA: an unfeasible coding system

DNA: an unfeasible coding system

The idea that the sequence of base pairs in DNA represents any sort of blueprint for life is nonsensical from an informational theoretical point of view. The sequences are meaningless by themselves and require...

The no-virus debate: Clare Craig

The no-virus debate: Clare Craig

This is a response to Clare Craig’s essay in the Daily Sceptic titled: The Unsolved Mystery of How Viruses Spread – and Why Germ Theory Isn’t the Whole Answer which asks why the epidemiology...

The decline in disease

The decline in disease

The chart below is from the Dissolving Illusions website and shows the decline of most so called ‘infectious’ diseases from 1840 to 1976. All diseases shown were almost extinct before the mass production of...

The cosmic origins of Life

The cosmic origins of Life

The necessary conditions for the development of complex organisms from the basic ‘stuff’ of the universe are provided for by a complex electromagnetic field structure that has its origins far from the Earth and...

Sheldrake’s TED talk

Sheldrake’s TED talk

Rupert Sheldrake’s TED talk , “The Science Delusion”, listed ten points of contention concerning ‘accepted’ tenets of modern science. The presentation caused quite a stir and was “taken out of circulation by TED, relegated...

The HART group

The HART group

The HART group gives some interesting arguments as to why they are rejecting the idea that viruses do not exist. One is a flawed statistical argument and others are observations of genome sequences. None...

Evolution and entropy

Evolution and entropy

One of the mysteries of life is the question of how organic forms seem to absorb energy and information from the environment and sequester it permanently in an orderly fashion. This is seemingly in...

The ‘Hill effect’

The ‘Hill effect’

Miroslav Hill (1929-2018) performed an experiment whereby cellular cultures were subjected to toxins and were seen to develop resistance to these toxins over several generations. To his surprise he found that sibling cells in...

The DNA delusion

The DNA delusion

The DNA delusion is the idea that a string of nucleic acids is responsible for almost all inherited features of an organism and moreover, that this is an established scientific theory supported by experimental...

Telegony

Telegony

“Telegony is a scientific theory of heredity holding that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent; thus the child of a woman might partake of traits of a...