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First Rule of Adaptive Evolution

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Devolution Watch: Malaria Gnaws Off a Leg

The most frequently used diagnostic test kit checks for the presence in the patient’s blood of either of two similar malarial proteins, called pfhrp2 or pfhrp3. Read More ›
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New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information

William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target. Read More ›
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Judge Michael Behe’s Case for Intelligent Design Yourself

“Darwin’s mechanism is dominated by ‘Poison-Pill’ mutations: positively-selected, loss-of-function mutation.” It “squanders genetic information for short-term gain.” Read More ›
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Fake Darwinism in an International Test of Experimental Evolution 

It’s fine to search through random results for an outcome you’re aiming for. Just don’t call it Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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Darwin Devolves, Again: Study Finds Bacteria Eject Their Flagella to Avoid Starvation

This finding fits Michael Behe’s book Darwin Devolves perfectly. It’s easier to throw cargo overboard than to create it. Read More ›
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Science and Its Consequences: Kevin Williamson Versus Intelligent Design, Again

The question before us was whether anyone but journalists and other amateurs take the science of ID, “daft rube-bait” according to Kevin, seriously. Read More ›
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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 ›
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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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A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 2

Lang and Rice cite a number of articles to show that loss-of-function mutations are just a small minority of those found in studies of organisms. Read More ›
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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 ›

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