Tag: APOB

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, APOB, Cell (journal), cholesterol, computer analysis, Darwin Devolves, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), medical literature, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bear, Polar Bear Seminar, PolyPhen-2, Shiping Liu}

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Polar Bear Seminar

_{Casey Luskin
December 27, 2019

Evolution

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Barring startling new revelations from the research community, nothing more needs to be said. The evidence comes down decisively on Behe’s side. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, APOB, bloodstream, Cell (journal), cholesterol, computer analysis, Darwin Devolves, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), medical literature, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bear, Polar Bear Seminar, PolyPhen-2, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: This Is the End

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2019

Evolution

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Barring startling new revelations from the research community, nothing more needs to be said. The evidence comes down decisively on Behe’s side. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, APOB, Arthur Hunt, atherosclerosis, blubber, brown bears, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, devolution, evolution, fat metabolism, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), mice, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Nature Reviews Genetics, New Scientist, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: New Evidence That Michael Behe Is Right

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Many studies show that degradative mutations in APOB cause decreased cholesterol. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 2, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, amino acids, APOB, cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, diet, disease, evolution, function, genes, genome, genotype, mice, Michael Behe, mutations, phenotype, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Shiping Liu, SNPs}

Remind Me Again Why We Picked Polar Bears?

_{Ann Gauger
May 2, 2019

Evolution

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The core difficulty for some scientists who read Michael Behe’s book is also the key idea at its heart. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", Adventures in Poor Taste, APOB, Arthur Hunt, chloroquine resistance, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, errors, Evolution News, Human Errors, John Harshman, John Jay College, Liu et al. (2014), Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nathan Lents, paranasal sinuses, Peaceful Science, PNAS, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Retraction Crisis, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), Shiping Liu, sinuses, The Edge of Evolution}

Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors

_{Casey Luskin
April 11, 2019

Biology, Evolution

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It was Nathan Lents himself who wrote, “I’ve made mistakes, some I caught, others someone else caught. I always correct it the best I can. That’s what honest people do.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 9, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, APOB, Arthur Hunt, Cell (journal), Darwin Devolves, genes, Liu et al. (2014), methodology, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

_{Casey Luskin
April 9, 2019

Evolution

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The discrepancy in method is crucial to understanding this argument against Behe. Yet curiously, it is omitted from mention by Lents and Hunt. Why? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, APOB, Arthur Hunt, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, degradative mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: The APOB Gene and Damaging Mutations

_{Casey Luskin
April 8, 2019

Evolution

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Michael Behe correctly interpreted a paper by Liu et al. and followed its methodology, whereas his critics, Lents and Hunt, did not. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Adventures in Poor Taste, APOB, Arthur Hunt, Cell (journal), chloroquine resistance, cholesterol, Darwin Day, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, Evolution News, fat metabolism, genome, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, pigmentation, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, seal blubber, Shiping Liu, The Edge of Evolution}

Polar Bear Seminar: Why Behe Is Right

_{Casey Luskin
April 5, 2019

Evolution

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Starting today, you’re invited to sit back and enjoy a five-part series on polar bear genes in light of Behe’s thesis in Darwin Devolves. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 29, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, APOB, bacteria, citrate, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, flexibility, Functional-Coded-elemenT, gain of function, genes, genetic information, hemoglobin, high fat diet, Long Term Evolution Experiment, loss of function, LTEE, MacArthur Fellow, mice, Michigan State University, mutations, National Academy of Sciences, polar bears, proteins, ribose operon, Richard Lenski, Telliamed Revisited, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Yersinia pestis}

Thanks, Professor Lenski, the LTEE Is Doing Great!

_{Michael Behe
March 29, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Lenski agrees that the beneficial mutations seen in his Long Term Evolution Experiment are overwhelmingly degradative or loss-of-function ones. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __k-review, APOB, blubber, cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, DNA, evolution, fat metabolism, genes, MacArthur Fellow, mice, Michigan State University, polar bears, proteins, Response to Criticism, Richard Lenski, Science (journal), Telliamed Revisited, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Lessons from Polar Bear Studies

_{Michael Behe
March 6, 2019

Evolution, History of Science, Philosophy of Science

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Computer methods of analyzing mutations are widely used because they are generally accurate. They do not suddenly lose their accuracy when I cite them. Read More ›