Reasonable Faith

Panspermia

In an 2018 article published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 33 coauthors from both the physical and biological sciences present a case for why life we…

Jonathan Wheeler

Mitochondrial Bottlenecking

In every eukaryotic cell, there’s prokaryotic mitochondria that has it’s own DNA separate from the DNA of the eukaryotic cell host. The eukaryotic cell has DNA from both mom…

Jonathan Wheeler

Human Mitochondrial Mutation Rates

In a May 1997 paper in Nature Genetics entitled A high observed substitution rate in the human mitochondrial DNA control region, Parsons et al. compared the rate of…

Jonathan Wheeler

Mathematical Platonism Points to God

Here’s a bookmark to a video that I stumbled on earlier this year. In a nutshell:

Brandon McGuire

Why we sleep

Several years ago, a friend of mine recommended Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep. My friend pointed out a very curious set of paragraphs in the first chapter that I want to…