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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 ›
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In Search of Self-Replicating Clocks

That Darwinism seems even superficially plausible depends completely on the ability of living things to reproduce themselves without significant degradation. Read More ›
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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 ›
Ronald Fisher
Photo: Ronald Fisher at age 23, via University of Adelaide [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Behe on Darwinism’s “Socially Inherited Dependence on Classical Yet Irrelevant Math”

Professor Behe traces the errant thinking to an outdated mathematical picture taken from Ronald Fisher and his 1930 book, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. Read More ›
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Photo: No glacier built this boreal chickadee; by David Mitchell [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Despite Dozens of Authors, PNAS Paper Fails to Explain Bird Evolution

They reason backwards: Birds evolved, therefore some poorly understood mindless processes must have driven them to evolve. Read More ›
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Image credit: Illustra Media.

Darwin Devolves, Again: Study Finds Bacteria Eject Their Flagella to Avoid Starvation

This finding fits Michael Behe’s book Darwin Devolves perfectly. It’s easier to throw cargo overboard than to create it. Read More ›
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Melissa Cain Travis
Photo: Morning aboard the International Space Station, via NASA.

Melissa Cain Travis: The Argument from the Existence of Science

Professor Travis is among the speakers at next month’s conference, co-sponsored by our Houston Chapter, Reasons 2019. Read More ›
Steven Bruckbauer
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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 ›
Rutgers School of Law
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Photo: Rutgers University School of Law, by Umdet [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Rutgers University Law Journal Advocates “Intelligence-Based Alternatives” to Darwinism

May a teacher let students know what evolutionary biologists had to say about their own field at the November 2016 Royal Society meeting? Read More ›
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Photo: A monkey wrench, by Andrew Plumb, via Flickr(cropped). 

Behe on Joseph Thornton’s Work: “A Big Monkey Wrench that Even I Did Not Expect”

It was interesting to see fellow University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne casually shoehorn Thornton into a Washington Post review of Darwin Devolves. Read More ›

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