The list below is for blogs NOT on my big list of history of science blogs and Twitter feeds.
Aardvarchaeology
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Afarensis
Angry by Choice
Anthropology in Practice
Bad Astronomy
Bad Science
Beagle Project Blog, The HMS
BibliOdyssey
BioBlog
The Biology Files
Blag Hag
A Blog Around the Clock
The British Society for Literature and Science
Boundary Vision
Bug Girl’s Blog
Butterflies and Wheels
Catalogue of Organisms
Charles Robert Darwin
Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary
Class: M
Code for Life
Coffee and Sci(ence)
The Contemplative Mammoth
Context and variation
Cosmic Variance
Cosmos and Culture
Culture of Science
Culturing Science
DarwinWatch
Deep Sea News
Deep Thoughts and Silliness
Denim and Tweed
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Dr. Carin Bondar
Endless Forms
EvoEcoLab (and The Other 95%)
Evolution Blog
Evolutionary Transitions
The Evolving Scientist
Evolving Thoughts
EvoS Consortium
Exploring Our Matrix
Exquisite With Love/Miranda Celeste
The Floating Academy: a Victorian Studies blog
The Flying Trilobite
Footnotes on Epicycles
the freethinker
Gene Expression
Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
Greg Laden’s Blog (and The X Blog)
Homologous Legs
Isebrand.com
It’s Only A Theory
john hawks weblog
Laelaps
The Loom
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs
A Natural History of Runswick Bay
A Natural Selection: Natural History, Environment and Education
Neuron Culture
Neurotic Physiology
Not Exactly Rocket Science
OSQUALITUDE
Palaeoblog
The Panda’s Thumb
Pharyngula (or here)
Popperfont
The Primate Diaries
Punctuated Equilibrium
Rationally Speaking
The Red Notebook (and Life’s Grandeur)
RichardDawkins.net
Sandwalk
The Scicurious Brain
Science After Sunclipse
Science Sushi
The Sensuous Curmudgeon
The Skeptical Teacher
Tangled Up in Blue Guy
Tetrapod Zoology
The Thoughtful Animal
Thoughts in a Haystack
Thoughts in Kansas
Token Skeptic
Why Evolution Is True
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Intelligent mutation
Darwin made a profound observation, but it still contains a huge flaw that he could not explain. Darwin proposed that life has made ever so slight changes in the genome over billions of years that has accounted for all of the variety of life. This theory makes sense but explains the changes as random, acts of random mutations that when found beneficial flourishes and procreates to develop more of the same mutation. And when occurring enough, create an entirely different species. The question is how does randomality explain stick bugs, perfect replicas of their environment, and how is the sophistication of the eye produced at random? There must be an insight of the environment and genetics that make up for these mutations. In other words, there must be some type of inner “processor” of the environment that receives the information of what the organism is or isn’t dealing with well in its environment, and makes intelligent changes to resolve the problem for the next generation. We can look at reproductive genes as an intelligent gambling scheme. The host makes up billions of different types of variations in its DNA based on what the processor thinks might solve the problems its host faced. It’s a gamble and go, at improving the life of its offspring. Therefore when scientist explain a disease as inherently genetic, but environment also takes a role they are leaving out the middle factor that there is a type of “processor” in the body (most likely in the reproductive organs) that is a combination of the two, one that uses its insight on the environment to change the genetic code of its gametes. This theory is a combination of both Lamark and Darwin’s theories, because the main flaw behind Lamark’s theory is that it’s not tied to the genetic code, it’s solely rests upon the individual, so it doesn’t make a good argument for long term generational changes in organisms. Finding and understanding this “processor” is extremely important in our next steps of understanding and curing genetic diseases and mapping their likelihood of occurring.