Brief BioI was born and raised in Kalamazoo MI. I earned my bachelors of science in biology from Western Michigan University. I met and fell in love with a big goof of a man named Cliff. I have a fat lazy cat named Kerby and a dog named Bear. |
So FL has accepted science standards that require teaching about evolution. And a hero of mine has recently said that evolution shouldn’t be taught until collage because it’s so complex. With the resent discovery, the heat shock regulator involved with folding proteins, specifically those involved with growth., Dr. Woese has a point. Just teaching the basics, the transitional fossils, the genetic similarities, etc, has been problematic.
It has been 20 years since I graduated. And I have been following the news about my alma mater. So this gets me thinking that just twenty years ago, this play would not have been even considered. It also gets me thinking about the openly gay friend of mine. Although I don’t know how much of a friend I was, since I don’t say anything about the hateful things people were saying about him. It leaves me feeling like I didn’t do enough. I hope he has a life partner and is happy.
It also reminds me, when I asked why being gay was bad(I don’t quite remember the exact question). And the answer was the Bible says so. End of discussion. Of course being a closeted atheist, that wasn’t good enough. But I didn’t pursue it.
From Physorg.com, so the American Academy of Microbiology has a report outlining the need for increased research into what microbes are out there. Since we only know an infinitesimal number of microbes and know a even smaller amount very well(having mapped their genomes or have been using them in the lab), this seems like a no brainer. NASA is looking for microbes in the lakes of the Antarctic.
