Spiritual Genetics - Article
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Kenneth B. Cumming, Ph.D. - ... revelation of an inheritance pattern unknown to Mendelian genetics. Mendel, as an Austrian monk, worked out the basic principles by which natural seeds of pea plants cause inheritance of traits. The offspring of the plant crosses that he made...

Transposable Elements Are Key to Genome Regulation - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... Transcriptome" was just published in the journal PLoS Genetics.4 The transcriptome refers to the sum total of the protein coding and regulatory RNAs that are copied from various genes across the genome when they are activated in the...

Purpose, Progress, and Promise, Part 5 - Article
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Nathaniel T. Jeanson, Ph.D. - ... The intense focus the secular community has placed on human genetics has produced a rich database of DNA sequence information that we have been mining. Our discoveries have been so remarkable that the burden of proof has swung away from...

Does Modern Genetics Confirm a Historical Adam? - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... into Adam and Eve right from the start. Four amazing genetics discoveries powerfully confirm our biblical origins. First, evolution-minded geneticists assert that our ape-like ancestors lived around three million years ago and had...

Neanderthal DNA Muddles Evolutionary Story - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... again. Recently, another such story appeared in the journal Genetics.1 Why is this type of news so exciting, yet also so confusing to evolutionists? In the human evolution story, many scientists claim that anatomically modern humans did not...

Skin Color Research Confirms Biblical Narrative - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... now, most of what scientists understood about skin-color genetics came from research using European people groups. Researchers originally discovered that variations in a gene called SLC24A5 influenced skin cells to produce less pigment. This...

Gene Pleiotropy Roadblocks Evolution - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... the early days of genetics, genes were thought to be solitary entities. Now it's well understood that genes operate in complex networks and that gene mutations can have multiple detrimental effects. A new study reconfirms mutations are a...

Genetics Research Keeps Confirming a Recent Creation - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... Tomkins is Director of Life Sciences and earned his Ph.D. in genetics from Clemson...

Pervasive Genome Function Debunks Junk DNA - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - The Landscape of Long Noncoding RNA Classification. Trends in Genetics. 31 (5): 239-251. Morris, K. V. and J. S. Mattick. 2014. The rise of regulatory RNA. Nature Reviews Genetics. 15 (6): 423-437. Hon, C.-C. et al. 2017. An atlas of...

Is Mankind Getting Dumber? - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... so. He published a pair of essays in the journal Trends in Genetics, citing new discoveries that show why the human intellect is “surprisingly fragile.”1 This biblical creation-friendly notion didn’t sit well with the authors...