A noxious racist, citing supposed genetic evidence of African racial inferiority, Watson’s work with DNA suggests that human beings can’t in fact be reduced to “genes.”
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We can learn a lot from fossil footprints — who went where, when, and why — that static artifacts don’t tell us by themselves.
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There seems less interest today in maintaining a “subhuman” status for our Neanderthal ancestors. It’s good if that sort of thing makes people uncomfortable.
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James Watson’s science legacy is for the ages. It would be fair if his ignoble thinking about faith and race faded into the background after some time.
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The dogmatic mindset is bad for science and the fact that the dogma is materialism may make it worse. It certainly doesn’t mitigate the damage in any way.
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15%? Whew. Genetics makes a difference in how life forms look and act… So Crick and Watson, Collins and Venter and all the rest were onto something after all…
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If the universe is the product of intelligence, in principle, insects could have access to it? But the question is, how, exactly?
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The Big Bang and its outcomes may explain the origin of matter and energy but do they really explain the origin of information?
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Perhaps an unwillingness or inability to even see this finding as evidence against Darwinian evolution, plays a vital role in quietly enabling further research.
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What is the origin of the “complexity and subtlety” the researchers cite? Do they not suggest a mind in or behind the universe?
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Sensitivity is a two-way street. Dogs study us but we also extensively study and catalogue our dogs’ facial and body expressions as well. Pigs not so much.
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