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Matti Leisola: Michael Behe “Opened My Eyes”

To say that a writer "opened your eyes," and to something as profound as the design of life, is a fantastic tribute. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe discusses “Biological Truth & Myth: Insights from the Foundation of Life" (screenshot).

Does Behe Ignore Critics? Find Out in a Live Webinar Saturday

One of the weirdly persistent themes in attacks on him by other biologists is that he "waves away" opposing interpretations. Read More ›
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Richard Lenski, by Zachary Blount [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons

Citrate Death Spiral

Michigan State University biologist Richard Lenski and collaborators have just published a terrific new paper. Read More ›
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Image credit: Caulobacter crescentus, by University of Basel, Swiss Nanoscience Institute/Biozentrum, via EurekAlert!

More Hints of Order in the Genome

Genomics has come a long way since the central dogma and junk DNA. If you expect to find reasons for things, you often do find them. Read More ›
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Molecular Motor Threads a Spiral Staircase

Get acquainted with another irreducibly complex molecular motor. This one is a master at unfolding proteins. Its method is ingenious. Read More ›
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Why Human Reason Didn’t “Evolve”

Egnor: “Think of the irony: a professor of philosophy, who is paid only to reason, uses reason to argue against reason. Welcome to the bowels of atheist metaphysics.” 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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Richard Lenski
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Lessons from Polar Bear Studies

Computer methods of analyzing mutations are widely used because they are generally accurate. They do not suddenly lose their accuracy when I cite them. Read More ›
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Photo: Salmonella enterica, by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Näsvall et al. Demonstrates the Effectiveness of Intelligent Design

The dispute started when a review in Science proposed the 2012 article by Näsvall et al. as evidence against Mike Behe’s book Darwin Devolves. Read More ›

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