Darwin, Freud and the Pope Walk Into a Bar..

     On today's addition of Darwin, Freud, and the Pope Walk Into a Bar...We are going to discuss the all time big debate of evolution vs. religion.       Evolutionary biology has been and continues to be a cornerstone of modern science. Some of these major contributions come from the understanding of evolution, modern medicine, developing agricultural products, and creating industrial innovations. More broadly, evolution is a core concept in biology that is based both in the study of past life forms and in the study of the relatedness and diversity of present-day organisms. In my previous post I had touched on this relatedness among all living organisms and the controversy that is brought along with this evolutionary idea. It is well known that many people continue to have questions about our knowledge of biological evolution. Believing that scientific understanding of evolution is incomplete, incorrect, or in doubt. They may begin to wonder if it is ...

    On today's addition of Darwin, Freud, and the Pope Walk Into a Bar...We will be discussing Darwin's idea that there is interconnectedness between species as they descended from common ancestors.    Over time there has been an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence that supports the existence of the universal common ancestor of all extant life on Earth, it is still an open question whether the universal common ancestor existed or not. Most recently, Douglas Theobald, challenged this problem and came up with a few conservative assumptions to show that the probability that all living species descended from a universal common ancestor is infinitely higher than any other hypothesis, including those of multiple origins of the kingdoms (bacteria, eukarya, archaea) or of rampant horizontal gene transfer between species that would, by mixing genomes, make life look as though it had a single origin when it didn't. Douglas is able to provide evidence;...

       On today's addition of Darwin, Freud, and the Pope Walk Into a Bar...We will be discussing the idea of evolution, more specifically whether Darwin's idea falls into the category of "theory" or "fact?"       First and foremost, any good researcher or even scientist needs to define the given terms before speculating or hypothesizing. So, what exactly is evolution? To keep it short and sweet, biological evolution is the change in organisms over time. Now these changes can either be small or large depending on our ability to measure and detect these fluctuations. Small changes include alterations in genetic makeup from one generation to the next (also known as allele frequency change), whereas large changes can show how species gradually become increasingly different from their ancestors (also known as descent with modification).        With this idea of evolution in our head, we are now able to dive a bit deeper into o...