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Darwin Devolves

Lehigh-University
Photo: Lehigh University campus, by Joseph Giansante '76 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1

Their review pretty much completely misses the mark. Nonetheless, it is a good illustration of how sincere-yet-perplexed professional evolutionary biologists view the data. Read More ›
Michael Behe
critics
Image source: Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, via Discovery Institute.

Michael Behe: A Man and His Critics

Behe is not in a defensive posture, despite his critics. He continues to advance. Read More ›
Westminster Conference
Michael Behe

No Triangulation as Michael Behe Headlines 2019 Westminster Conference

As I’m writing this I’ve been reacquainting myself with physicist Marcelo Gleiser, who just won the year’s prestigious, $1.5 million Templeton Prize. Read More ›
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Kepler
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Kepler Versus Religion as a Football

Evolutionists play a game, and it’s a shallow one. So what’s the truth about science, and religion, and how they do or do not fit together? Read More ›
Froghopper
insect
Photo: A froghopper, by Kaldari [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Small Wonders: Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Amazing Little Insects and Crustaceans

It often seems that the closer you need to look, the greater the wonder. It’s as if someone set it there to hide, waiting for us. Read More ›
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Kenneth Miller
Image source: Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, via Discovery Institute.

With Kenneth Miller, Behe’s Would-Be Nemesis, History Repeats Itself

The Brown University biologist is still out there, reassuring the world that unguided “evolutionary mechanisms” comfortably explain the wonders of biology. Read More ›
Michael Behe
Darwinism
Photo: Michael Behe, a scene from Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, via Discovery Institute.

Behe Exposes Darwinism’s “Pretense of Knowledge”

Evolution’s deficits had been masked, he realized, by a combination of groupthink and the haziness of what biology could say about the molecular basis of life. Read More ›
Tiktaalik
Darwinian Evolution
Image: Boy with interactive sculpture of Tiktaalik, by Piero Gilardi, Rome; photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéravia Flickr(cropped).

For Dreams of Darwinian Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution Is an Insuperable Problem

Professor Lenski’s contrasting of the frequency versus importance of evolutionary changes is misconceived and his illustrations are inapt. Read More ›
dog
animals
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Why Animals Don’t Speak

If what separates us from other animals were material in nature, material alone, then perhaps we could look to a material process for an explanation. Read More ›
Jerry Coyne
Jerry Coyne
Photo: Jerry Coyne on The Dave Rubin Show, via YouTube (screenshot).

Bullet Points for Jerry Coyne

Alas, Coyne’s review of Darwin Devolves has too little intellectual content to sustain any real engagement. Read More ›

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