American Dissident Voices broadcast of April 2, 2016
by Kevin Alfred Strom
AN ALL-WHITE team of scientists led by J. Craig Venter has just created a new form of life. (ILLUSTRATION: Clyde Hutchison, Hamilton Smith, J. Craig Venter, and Daniel Gibson)
They didn’t “create life from scratch” as some breathless headlines implied — that’s not possible yet, and may never be. We just don’t know. But what Venter and his team have done is awe-inspiring — and profoundly … Read the rest of this article
by Kevin Alfred Strom
A CREATIONIST MIGHT NOTÂ acknowledge that he is related to a chimp, but he probably would admit that he is related to his own mother. “After all,” he might say, “obviously I share 50 per cent. of my genes with her.”
But that estimate is wildly off the mark. Actually, he shares more than 99.9 per cent. of his genes with her — because, in addition to the obvious one-half direct ancestry, he shares almost all… Read the rest of this article
by Kevin Alfred Strom
(sent to the Economist last November 10th but not published)
SIR:Â THE AUTHOR of ‘The Nature of Nurture‘ deserves to be fired on the grounds of scientific illiteracy and an egregious lack of journalistic integrity.
He unjustifiably insults James Watson (pictured), the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, as ‘stupid’ for making the incontrovertibly true assertion that the average intelligence level of Africans differs from that of Europeans. Decades of scientific tests confirm that … Read the rest of this article