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The Portent Portending: Synthetic Genomes Are Just a Click Away

by drmsheiser | Sep 13, 2017 | Science & Theology

Readers of my fiction know that synthetic biology was a sub-plot element in The Portent. Well, we're moving down the road toward creating humans from scratch (or some sort of human derivative). This article describes a new process for creating a functioning gene. What...

DNA, Canaanites, and the Biblically-Illiterate Media

by drmsheiser | Aug 2, 2017 | Science & Theology

By now I've probably received a heads up on the story about Canaanite DNA disproving the biblical conquest narrative a dozen times. Here's my own heads-up: If you see some "news" about the Bible in mass media, you can presume it's click-bait archaeoporn that will...

This is What Encourages “Truth by Anomaly and Outlier” Thinking

by drmsheiser | Mar 26, 2017 | Science & Theology

I've blogged about the problem of how the peer review process in the sciences has been compromised by laziness and money. Here we go again: "Sting Operation Reveals Science's Insane Fake News Problem." As the article's author notes by way of explaining his title: This...

Serious Science and Christian Faith Incompatible?

by drmsheiser | Oct 30, 2016 | Science & Theology

Go ahead, tell me that old wives tale again. Question: What do you get when you cross a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, an associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, and a young man who grew up in rural Africa who had a...

Sub-Plot from The Portent in the News: Secret Meeting Held at Harvard about Creating a Synthetic Human Genome

by drmsheiser | May 21, 2016 | Science & Theology

This happened at least a half dozen times with The Facade -- something in the book becomes news after the fact. Here we go again with The Portent: From the Christian Science Monitor: Why did Harvard Scientists Hold a 'Secret' Synthetic Genome Meeting? This is why you...

DNA CRISPR Critters: We Shall Be as Gods

by drmsheiser | May 16, 2016 | Science & Theology

Have you read my novel, The Portent? If so, the subject matter of the link below will sound familiar: Gene Drives – Will Conqueror Biomolecular Bots Dictate a New Book of Life? One of the sub-plots to The Portent is the use of genetic alteration and synthetic biology...

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