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In Critiquing Dembski, Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality

Rosenhouse’s belief in the creative power of evolutionary processes is based not on hard data but on his faith in the philosophy of scientific materialism. Read More ›
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Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Read More ›
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Fact Check: Hawaiian Silverswords Fail the Species Pair Challenge

Even though the differences appear superficially striking, they do not involve any novel body plans (i.e., no new proteins, new tissues, or new organs). Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: New Evidence That Michael Behe Is Right

Many studies show that degradative mutations in APOB cause decreased cholesterol. Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors 

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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Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart

The criticisms keep coming. It’s hard to keep up. Lents, in fact, just yesterday added additional commentary on Behe’s use of the chart. Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

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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Polar Bear Seminar: The APOB Gene and Damaging Mutations

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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Polar Bear Seminar: Why Behe Is Right

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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Does T-urf13 Refute Irreducible Complexity? A Response to Arthur Hunt

Since 2007, Hunt has been claiming to have refuted Michael Behe’s thesis that irreducible complexity cannot arise by mindless evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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