On a new episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute’s Andrew McDiarmid chats with Stephen Meyer and clarifies two interesting points raised during Meyer’s recent discussion on the Michael Medved Show with Alex Berezow of Real Clear Science. Berezow pointed to developmental hox genes and the research of Richard Lenski as examples of the creative power of the Darwinian mutation/selection mechanism.
Here, Meyer observes that although hox genes can produce changes in an organism during development, the changes are usually deleterious and are expressed after body plan formation has already been established. Meyer also clarifies the results of Lenski’s E. coli long-term evolution experiment, noting that even the modest change in function reported by the experiment does not diminish the problem of the origin of information as detailed in Dr. Meyer’s book Darwin’s Doubt.
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