irreducible complexity

Have any of you seen the research journals that are citing the Bible in their papers?

I'm at the campus bookstore right now, and one of the shortcuts in Firefox happened to be www.answersingenesis.org. I was thinking, oh, it might be a play on words, scientists poking fun at religion once again.

Have any of you seen the documentary Expelled featuring Ben Stein? Is it worth watching? I've always remembered him as that pseudo-funny guy on Win Ben Stein's Money, not someone who thinks science leads people to murder.

Animal physiology was finally interesting for a change. Lecture today went over photoreception and mechanoreception. There was a short segment on taste receptors, and how the umami/Glutamate receptor was the most recent one discovered. The professor was also arguing how people who claim they get headaches from eating Chinese food because of the MSG should stop complaining. He said that tomatoes and cheese contain even more glutamate than MSG, and that headaches from Chinese food probably result from dehydration due to the high sodium content.

And in some invertebrates, they have taste receptors in their vagina.

It's problematic enough having to deal with the general pollution in the air. I don't have issues with homeless people, but when one guy sits near you, and the wind is blowing from his direction towards you, it's near impossible to sit still with a neutral face when the smell wafting your way is putrid, to say the least.

So they say testicles are another source of stem cells. A quote from the BBC news article regarding the stem cells from your balls: "An answer to how these testis-derived pluripotent cells can be used will have to be left dangling a little longer." Oh BBC and their puns. SO CLEVER.