{"id":41,"date":"2011-05-19T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T20:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-05-19T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T20:12:23","slug":"biology-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/biology-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Biology around the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>If you\u2019re new to Exploring Our Matrix, I should introduce my \u201cAround the Blogosphere\u201d posts \u2013 they are a round-up, sometimes of posts on a particular theme, other times just of anything I thought interesting and worth sharing \u2013 that has popped up on blogs that I read.<\/p>\n<p>At BioLogos, Dennis Vennema <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/evolution-and-the-origin-of-biological-information-part-5\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">continues his series arguing against the claims of Intelligent Design regarding biological information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere here at Patheos, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/On-the-Integrity-of-Science-Karl-Giberson-05-11-2011.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Giberson responds to William Dembski<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And at Jesus Creed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2011\/05\/19\/missing-links-rjs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Jesus+Creed%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">RJS discusses missing links<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentlewisdom.org.uk\/3457\/natural-selection-not-the-only-means-scientific-paper\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gentle Wisdom<\/a> points out news via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-13445951\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC<\/a> that structural flaws in proteins may have assisted the development of biological complexity.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re new to Exploring Our Matrix, I should introduce my \u201cAround the Blogosphere\u201d posts \u2013 they are a round-up, sometimes of posts on a particular theme, other times just of anything I thought interesting and worth sharing \u2013 that has popped up on blogs that I read. 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