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wind
mutation
Photo: “The course which the wind blows,” by Dawid Zawiła via Unsplash.

PLOS Genetics Asks: “What Is a Mutation?”

What if there is genuine directionality in mutation? An important paper addresses the subject. Read More ›
Foresight Eberlin
intelligent design
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How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight

He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.” Read More ›
Kalamunggay_(Moringa_oleifera),_Philippines

Try This Tree of Life Instead of Darwin’s

Take a look at a plant that takes nothing but gives everything. Why should it deliver so much good to so many? Read More ›
Antibiotic Resistance
Photo credit: Dr Graham Beards at en.wikipedia [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

ID Inquiry: What About Antibiotic Resistance?

It’s a perennial challenge to proponents of intelligent design. Biologist Ann Gauger responds. Read More ›
nacre
design
Photo: Nacre, aka mother-of-pearl, by J. Adam Fenster via University of Rochester.

Human Designers Struggle to Match Biological Designs

Mother-of-pearl, or nacre, is not only a beautiful substance for jewelry and ceramics; it is a remarkable material. Read More ›
orca
rights
Photo credit: Steve Halama via Unsplash.

What Do Orcas Want? Rights! When Do They Want Them? Now!

Apparently orcas are threatened in an area of Canadian waters. The government has suggested voluntary sanctuaries. Read More ›
bacteria
bacteria
Photo: A petri dish, by U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolution and Bacteria — In the Classroom

Instead of relying on their textbooks, students are learning about evolution by watching bacteria grow and change. Read More ›
Foresight Eberlin
intelligent design
Graphic courtesy of Discovery Institute

With Three Nobel Endorsements, Chemist Marcos Eberlin Advances Case for Intelligent Design

This is the refrain of the book: “It is all or death!” “All or nothing!” Half-solutions are no solutions at all. Read More ›
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Darwinism
Photo: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer’s yeast), by A doubt [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Fake Darwinism in an International Test of Experimental Evolution 

It’s fine to search through random results for an outcome you’re aiming for. Just don’t call it Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
Steven Bruckbauer
Behe
Photo credit: Did these three undergrads, working with postdoc Steven Bruckbauer, watch “evolution happen in real time”? By Robin Davies, via University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Testing Behe’s Principle that Darwin Devolves

We looked at some papers claiming to see evolution happening in real time, to see if natural selection has actually invented a new function, or just broke an existing function. Read More ›

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