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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, APOB, Cell (journal), cholesterol, 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
, __cedited, APOB, Arthur Hunt, blubber, brown bears, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, devolution, evolution, 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
Casey Luskin

Date
April 9, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, 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
, __cedited, 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
, __cedited, APOB, Arthur Hunt, Cell (journal), chloroquine resistance, cholesterol, Darwin Day, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, Evolution News, genome, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, pigmentation, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, 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
February 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, APOB, Cell (journal), Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, gene regulation, genes, humans, Jerry Coyne, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mice, Nathan Lents, polar bears, Response to Criticism, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), Shiping Liu}

Coyne and Polar Bears: Why You Should Never Rely on Incompetent Reviewers

_{Michael Behe
February 14, 2019

Biology, Evolution

5}

A very common way to try to discredit an argument is to exaggerate it, ignore distinctions an author makes, and/or change carefully qualified claims into bizarre absolutes. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptive mutations, ants, bacteria, bacteriophages, BioEssays, Cell (journal), cetaceans, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, deletions, Eugene Koonin, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, geneticists, horizontal gene transfer, insertions, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bears, The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology, viruses}

Bacteriophages, Budding Yeast, and Behe’s Vindication

_{Ann Gauger
November 26, 2018

Evolution

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 3, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, Africans, Broad Institute, Cell (journal), Darwinism, FOXP2, Francis Collins, gene, genome, Harvard University, humans, Michael Denton, MIT, natural selection, Nature (journal), non-Africans, Research, Robin Williams, The Biology of the Baroque, The Language of God}

Update: Still No Evolutionary Explanation for Human Language

_{David Klinghoffer
August 3, 2018

Evolution, Linguistics

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“The case that human language develops step by step through natural selection is weakened by the fact that no single language gene has ever been discovered.” Read More ›

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Date
July 10, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Arabidopsis, Barbara McClintock, Cell (journal), coding, David Klinghoffer, ENCODE, epigenetics, genes, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Kevin Laland, proteins, pseudogenes, RNA, Science (journal), The Myth of Junk DNA, transposons}

As Research Advances, Debunking “Junk DNA” Is Almost Trendy

_{Science & Culture
July 10, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Why not treat the whole genome as functional? This is a radical concept, but perhaps the focus on genes distorts our understanding. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 6, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Bruce Alberts, Cell (journal), cells, intelligent design, machines, molecular biology, National Academy of Sciences, organisms, protein folding, protein machines, proteins, Stony Brook University}

Biophysicist Ken Dill: Protein Machines Are “Real Machines. That’s Not a Metaphor”

_{Casey Luskin
June 6, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Technology

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The implication of design, while no doubt unintended, is so powerful it almost doesn’t need to be spelled out. Read More ›