Biblical Genetics

Biblical Genetics

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Biblical Genetics episodes

  • Most Viruses are Good

     

    Show Notes:

    For additional details, see my article Coronaviruses in creation on Creation.com and the video titled Coronavirus I did with Gary Bates. Here’s an audio-only version of that same video.

    Specific references are as follows:

    1. Francis JW, Ingle M, Wood TC. 2018. Bacteriophages as beneficial regulators of the mammalian microbiome, Proc Int Conf Creationism 8:152–157.
    2. More viruses than bacteria in the gut: www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/human-virome
    3. Barber MR et al. 2010. Association of RIG-I with innate immunity of ducks to influenza, PNAS 107(13):5913–5918.
    4. Terborg P. 2013. The ‘VIGE-first hypothesis–how easy it is to swap cause and effect, J Creation 27(3):105–112
    5. Carter RW, Sanford JC. 2012. A new look at an old virus: mutation accumulation in the human H1N1 influenza virus since 1918, Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 9:42
    6. Brewer W, Smith FD, Sanford JC. 2013 Information loss: potential for accelerating natural genetic attenuation of RNA viruses. In: Marks II RJ, Behe MJ, Dembski WA, Gordon B, Sanford JC (Eds.), Biological Information—New Perspectives, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 369–384.

      7. Intro Music by Xihcsr

      Intro Graphics by MattWalkerVideo

      14 min
    7. The Mystery of Personal Ancestry

      The things we can now learn about ourselves, and our recent history, through ancestry testing are simply amazing. Revisiting the SNP chip used by Ancestry.com and 23andMe.com, 4-grandparent test, amazing geographic specificity, no you do not have thousands of relatives on those ancestry sites, population-level ancestry reduces to statistics, horrors of slavery, the amazing story of Hans Jonathan and the African DNA of Iceland, recreating genetic history of people across the world.

      Intro Music by Xihcsr

      Intro Graphics by MattWalkerVideo

      Thumbnail: Alexander Krivitskiy via Unsplash.com

      13 min
    8. The Mystery of DNA Sequencing

      Dr C explains how to sequence DNA, how to build a genome, and how Ancestry and 23andMe work their magic. Bacterial polymerases do all the work for us, PCR and DNA sequencing, the genome, shotgun sequencing, example: shotgunning the Bible, size of the genome vs a book like the Bible, disaster of the first chimpanzee genome, millions of genomes equals an amazing ability to test ideas of history, Ancestry.com and the SNP chip, ancestry informative markers.

      Location: Tiers of Zion, Golden, Colorado

      Intro Music by Xihcsr

      Intro Graphics by MattWalkerVideo

      15 min
    9. The Mystery of Human Ancestry

       

      Old ideas about where babies come from, blending ancestry, Mendel and the neo-Darwinian synthesis, “Darwinism”, maybe proteins confer ancestry, DNA did not look like anything important, discovery that DNA is the source of ancestry in 1952 via the Hershey-Chase experiment, Watson and Crick figure out the double helix structure of DNA which led to our modern genetics and genetic engineering, Shakespeare’s claim about Edward IV, death of King Carlos II and the end of the Spanish Hapsburg, DNA and history.

      My gear: DJI OSMO Pocket, but you will need a memory card because you do not want to stream the video to your cell phone. Trust me. So maybe try a bundle. I also have a selfie stick that transforms into a short tripod that can hold my phone AND the camera. You don’t want to stick the camera in your phone’s power jack and let it wiggle around. (BTW, these are Amazon affiliate links. If you chose to get one after shopping around, please come back here are click through these links!)

      10 min

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    Biblical Genetics is a vlog/podcast by Dr. Robert Carter. His posts explore modern genetics through the lens of biblical history, and vice versa.