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...debate between atheist biologist Richard Dawkins and Christian geneticist Francis Collins was gripping [Nov. 13]. Regarding the idea of a supernatural cause of the universe, Dawkins said, "If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed." What qualifies Dawkins to decide these matters? For someone who gets so exercised about the impossibility of God's existence, Dawkins seems to have a fairly clear conception of what God must be like...
...astronomer, geneticist, and chemist tackled the big question of how life originated before a crowd of around 100 at the Graduate School of Education yesterday afternoon. The discussion was the first in a series of annual symposia sponsored by the University’s Origins of Life Initiative...
...parents--Anne Reckling, a child psychologist, and David Gould, an administrator at a private school in Columbus, Ohio--were determined to get to the bottom of it. On the urging of someone on a myopathy e-mail discussion list, they went to see Dr. John Shoffner, a neurologist and geneticist at Horizon Molecular Medicine, a private group in Atlanta. A few weeks later, a fax arrived with Shoffner's diagnosis. Asher was suffering from a type of mitochondrial disease...
...would take a lot more research to tease out its true significance. Meanwhile, it's hard to say just what those correlations measure. "How do you know, for instance, that it's not mold or mildew in the counties that have a lot of rain?" says Vanderbilt University geneticist Pat Levitt. How do you know, for that matter, that as counties get more cable access, they don't also get more pediatricians scanning for autism? Easterbrook, although intrigued by the study, concedes that it could be indoor-air quality rather than television that exerts an influence. Moreover, says Drexel University...
...piece of statistical derring-do? It's not impossible, but it would take a lot more research to tease out its true significance. Meanwhile, it's hard to say just what these correlations measure. "You have to be very definitive about what you are looking at," says Vanderbilt University geneticist Pat Levitt. "How do you know, for instance, that it's not mold or mildew in the counties that have a lot of rain?" How do you know, for that matter, that as counties get more cable access, they don't also get more pediatricians scanning for autism? Easterbrook, though...