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New Science Uprising Episode: Evolution, Mutations, and “Fooling the Laymen”

The idea that random genetic mutations lead to wondrous, creative innovations is so influential that it forms the premise of a movie franchise, X-Men, that has grossed $6 billion. Read More ›
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New Science Uprising Episode: Evolution, Mutations, and “Fooling the Laymen”

The idea that random genetic mutations lead to wondrous, creative innovations is so influential that it forms the premise of a movie franchise, X-Men, that has grossed $6 billion. Read More ›
genes out of nothing
Photo: DNA researchers at work, by Fred W. Baker III via U.S. Department of Defense.

“Genes Out of Nothing”? Two Studies Demonstrate the Power of Mind

Researchers at Uppsala University describe the challenge they face — and that standard Darwinian processes had to face. Read More ›
bacteria
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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
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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 ›
Richard Lenski
Darwin Devolves
Photo: Richard Lenski, by Zachary Blount [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Thanks, Professor Lenski, the LTEE Is Doing Great!

Lenski agrees that the beneficial mutations seen in his Long Term Evolution Experiment are overwhelmingly degradative or loss-of-function ones. Read More ›
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Lehigh
Photo: Lehigh University campus, by Joseph Giansante '76 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 3

Perhaps the evidence for the vast scope of Darwin’s theory really isn’t as strong as biologists over the years have been telling each other. Read More ›

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