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Darwin Devolves

Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ›
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Photo credit: Andy Brunner on Unsplash.

Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors 

It was Nathan Lents himself who wrote, “I’ve made mistakes, some I caught, others someone else caught. I always correct it the best I can. That’s what honest people do.” Read More ›
The School of Athens
philosophers
Image: Detail from The School of Athens, by Raphael [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 

Philosophers Want Back into Science

One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›
polar bear
chart
Photo credit: Annie Spratt on Unsplash.

Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart

The criticisms keep coming. It’s hard to keep up. Lents, in fact, just yesterday added additional commentary on Behe’s use of the chart. Read More ›
polar bear
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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 ›
polar bear
Behe
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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 ›
forest for the trees
Nathan Lents
Photo credit: Matt B., via Flickr (cropped).

In His Latest Review of Behe’s Darwin Devolves, Nathan Lents Misses the Forest for the Trees

Evolutionists now increasingly believe that major adaptations are driven by neutral mutations. Read More ›
Darwin's finches
Behe
Photo credit: Geospiza fuliginosa, one of Darwin’s finches, by Cayambe [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Behe on Darwin’s Finches — A Really, Really Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Of course finches don’t multiply and cycle through generations as rapidly as bacteria. Still, these birds have been isolated on the iconic islands for some 2 million years. Read More ›
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irreducible complexity
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Does T-urf13 Refute Irreducible Complexity? A Response to Arthur Hunt

Since 2007, Hunt has been claiming to have refuted Michael Behe’s thesis that irreducible complexity cannot arise by mindless evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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