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Purpose, Patterns, and the Facebook Feed
It was another quiet Monday when I saw this one, halfway down a Facebook thread that had already lost its sense of proportion. The group’s title promised a debate between Intelligent Design and naturalism, but the tone was less dialogue… Continue reading
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A corridor that never quite closes
The Sahara is often written like a barrier. A clean geographic severance. Sand as punctuation. But that reading feels wrong the moment you start tracing the movement of people across it. The crossings were constant, older than most states, older… Continue reading
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Specified Complexity and the Illusion of Measurement
How a Borrowed Vocabulary from Information Theory Masks Circular Reasoning in Arguments for Intelligent Design There is a familiar rotation in the arguments assembled against evolution and abiogenesis, a pattern that has repeated often enough over the last half century… Continue reading
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A Year on Deck Three
Modeling Noah’s Ark, Avoiding the Poop Math, and Other Questionable Decisions I’ll admit this one started the way most bad ideas do. Lost World Museum on Facebook says, “Instead of asking in skepticism “How did ALL the animals fit in… Continue reading
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The Antler That Remembers: Epigenetics and the Illusion of Inheritance – Part 5
This is a continuance of the essay from Part 4. A Recap Part four shifts the focus from mechanism to misuse, tracing how a precise biological concept gets stretched into something far less accurate in medicine, popular science, and even… Continue reading
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The Antler That Remembers: Epigenetics and the Illusion of Inheritance – Part 4
This is a continuance of the essay from Part 3. A Recap Part three draws a firm but uneasy boundary between two types of biological “memory” that earlier sections deliberately blurred: somatic persistence within a body and germline inheritance across… Continue reading
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The Antler That Remembers: Epigenetics and the Illusion of Inheritance – Part 3
This is a continuance of the essay from Part 2. A Recap Part two opens by confronting the pull of a misleadingly simple explanation: when a structure repeats, we instinctively call it inheritance. But here, that assumption breaks down. The… Continue reading
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The Antler That Remembers: Epigenetics and the Illusion of Inheritance – Part 2
This is a continuance of the essay from Part 1. A Recap Mark, a field biologist shaped by the rhythms of the Pacific Northwest, studies antlers not as static forms but as living records of variation, growth, and interruption. What… Continue reading
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The Antler That Remembers: Epigenetics and the Illusion of Inheritance – Part 1
The Illusion of Inheritance By late March, when thaw sits in the ground longer than it should and alder pollen powders the air, Mark starts looking at heads, not bodies. He is a field biologist by training and habit, which… Continue reading
