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Can anyone provide a link to the Cook and Smith paper? While I'm fairly certain that I've read their paper, I would like to revisit it. Was their work published in Sunstone? I do remember a refutation of the longer scroll being published in Sunstone many years ago. Any how a link would be nice if a...

If this is a reference to Schryver's work, it is confusing, perhaps intentionally, because Will was not trying to publish on the scroll length. His work that he was trying to publish dealt with portraying the KEP as a Masonic cipher and had nothing to do with scroll length. He was trying to publish...

Has Gee ever attempted to respond to Cook's Article from 2012?? m The only response I'm aware of is Gee's assertion in the Gospel Topics essay: "It is likely futile to assess Joseph’s ability to translate papyri when we now have only a fraction of the papyri he had in his possession. Eyewitnes...

The evidence at the sequence level makes it pretty clear that Sdic is most likely a new gene cluster rather than a very old one. I find it interesting that this newly arisen Sdic gene cluster is producing a protein involved in sperm motility, which suggests an active role in speciation. I would thi...

Well, I did provide links that go to multiple examples of novel genes evolving through random mutation, including fairly detailed explanation of what mutations occurred. The link that you described as mostly pretentious bloviating over conventions contained this, for example: http://pandasthumb.org...

Great video Dan.
Why didn't you include Isaac Hale's affidavit?

Spanner wrote:And why do we get the odd throwback.

Like this one?

It's hard to read this as anything other than you thinking that genes are just getting ever more "functional" over time, as if evolution were some ladder of progression to perfection. That doesn't make sense. Genes code for proteins that perform functions. An ancestral gene can code for a...

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Genes typically have little or no useful function until all of the letters are in place. This is simply not true. If you are looking at the transition between ancestral gene A into gene B, it is simply not the case that all transitional forms inbetween would be nonfunctional until gene B's final fo...