How is plagiarism detected? Let’s say a student claims to have written an original paper, but his teacher discovers that much of it appears to be identical, save for few words here and there, and a few paragraph modifications, to a paper she discovered on the internet. Would this not be excellent evidence that the…
By: Sean Pitman . Dr. Nicholas J. Matzke started out as geography grad student at the University of California in Santa Barbara who had obvious passions outside of geography. He then went on to become fairly well-known debating on Talk.Orgins.org, where I first ran into him myself and had several lengthy discussions. Since then, Nick has…
by Sean Pitman . Richard E. Lenski is an American evolutionary biologist, best known for his 25-year long-term E. coli evolution experiment and his work with digital organisms using Avida. What is impressive about Dr. Lenski is that he is trying to show how random mutations and natural selection (the Darwinian mechanism for evolution) can…