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Helicase
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The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design

One can hardly appeal to natural selection to account for the origins of DNA replication without assuming the existence of the thing one seeks to explain. Read More ›
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Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria

The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal. Read More ›
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Photo: Scene from the Behe-Swamidass debate on intelligent design and evolution, a slide by Dr. Behe (bacteriophage); by Forrest Mims.

Bacteriophage Is the New Poster Child for Darwin’s Doom

Through no fault of Darwin’s, neither he nor anyone else in his day had a clue about the nature of cellular life and biological information. Read More ›
Clifton Suspension Bridge
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Tricks of the Cell Trade

Cell processes are quick and efficient. They can even solve geometry problems in the dark without eyes or brains. Read More ›
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CELS 2021 — A Report from the Trenches

In this workshop-like setting, a group of 60 biologists, engineers, medical practitioners, and researchers from related disciplines assembled for three days. Read More ›
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Viruses: An Intelligent Design Perspective

Certainly, in a context of global anxiety, this is a subject that needs to be approached with sensitivity and humility. Read More ›
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Behe and Swamidass Debate Evolution and Intelligent Design at Texas A&M

When Michael Behe’s slide show flashed to a close up of the gears, a murmur of astonishment rolled through the audience. Read More ›
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Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›
budding-yeast

Bacteriophages, Budding Yeast, and Behe’s Vindication

It’s been known for some time that bacteria evade antibiotics by mutating the target of the antibiotic, often at a cost to themselves. Read More ›
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3d rendered medically accurate illustration of a bacteriophage on a bacteria
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More From Jerry Coyne

We should not automatically assume that the occurrence of duplicated and diverged genes in nature happened by unguided, Darwinian processes. Read More ›

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