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Photo: A mouse embryo, by National Institutes of Health (NIH) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Inside the Cell: The Closer You Look, the More Remarkable It Is

According to Dr. Ann Gauger, this order may point beyond neo-Darwinian processes. Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: This Is the End

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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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: 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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Photo: A Norwegian road sign by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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

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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Photo: Budding yeast, by Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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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Photo credit: Screen shot from The Biology of the Baroque, courtesy of Discovery Institute. 

Update: Still No Evolutionary Explanation for Human Language

“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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Photo credit: Ramalho-Santos lab, via University of California, San Francisco.

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

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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