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The Nobel Prize and Intelligent Evolution

The contrast between the evolutionary sterility of Lenski’s unintelligent Darwinian evolution and the evolutionary potency of Arnold, Smith, and Winter’s intelligent evolution is striking. Read More ›
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Photo: Nobel Prize, by Adam Baker, via Flickr (cropped).

It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes

In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function. Read More ›
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Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome: A Case Study in Cognitive Bias

In a previous article I described how scientific training can condition some scientists’ minds to resist the evidence in nature for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Adam and the Genome and Doug Axe’s Research on the Evolution of New Protein Folds

Douglas Axe is a protein scientist who has published work on the rarity of new protein folds by doing research on beta-lactamase enzymes. Read More ›
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Why Darwinism Can’t Accomplish Innovation or Explain Origins

When one wants to modify an enzyme for a new function, as Matti Leisola explains in his new book, there are two ways to go about it. Read More ›
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Purpose and Desire Meets Jerry Coyne: The Evolution of Homeostasis?

Consider one of the simplest kinds of homeostasis — just one part of the regulation of sugar metabolism in E coli. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Informatics: Marks, Dembski, and Ewert Demonstrate the Limits of Darwinism

As the authors rigorously show, producing anything of significant complexity requires that knowledge of the outcomes be programmed into the search routines. Read More ›

Richard Lenski and Citrate Hype — Now Deflated

For more than 25 years, Lenski's lab has grown a dozen lines of the bacterium E. coli in small culture flasks. Read More ›
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More From Jerry Coyne

We should not automatically assume that the occurrence of duplicated and diverged genes in nature happened by unguided, Darwinian processes. Read More ›

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