First of all: not every two ideas are equal. Flat earth and spherical earth are not equal, geocentricism and heliocentrism are not equal, the germ theory of disease and disease being caused by demon possession are not equal, psychology and thatens possession are not equal and intelligent design and the theory of evolution are not [...]

A GENE variant that ups your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in old age may not be all bad. It seems that young people with the variant tend to be smarter, more educated and have better memories than their peers. The discovery may improve the variant's negative image (see "Yes or no"). It also suggests [...]

There are 2 stupid arguments when it comes to information. 1. Mutations can not increase information. This is completely false. We know how information can be added to DNA: gene duplication and mutation. 2. The genetic code contains information. This information could not assemble it self. First of all information isn't a thing, it's a [...]

A mutation is a change nucleotide sequence of DNA, these nucleotide sequences are what code the genes and genes are what determines you height, eye color how many finger you have whether you have 2 arms and 2 legs and so on. Mutations can have positive negative or no effects. Most mutations are neutral (have [...]

Doctors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied patient records for more than 30,000 children and found that rates of autism rose substantially if parents had suffered schizophrenia, depression or a range of other personality and psychiatric disorders. The risk of autism went up 70% if 1 parent has a psychiatric disorder [...]

Blue-eyed Humans Have A Single, Common Ancestor New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet [...]

Redefining Genes Within these helices, so we are told, lie all the instructions for making an organism, passed from one generation to the next by copying the DNA blueprint. But over the past year or so, it has begun to look increasingly as though biologists may need to reconsider the role of their favorite molecule. [...]