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Photo: Medium tree finch, by Jody O'Connor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Darwin’s Finches”: Galápagos Islands as an Evolutionary Model

Taking the facts and arguments presented together, it appears to be clear that no macroevolution is happening in “Darwin’s finches.” Read More ›
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Photo: Galápagos finch, by Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Galápagos Finches — Some Contradictions Solved

The authors offer a selectionist explanation, which is nevertheless uncertain. Note the repeated use of the subjunctive. Read More ›
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Photo: Galápagos finch, by kuhnmi, via Flickr.

Galápagos Finches — An “Exceptionally Strong Natural-Selection Event”?

This is by no means an all-or-nothing selection (as the impression is sometimes given). Rather, the alleles are retained. Read More ›
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Photo: Geospiza fortis, by putneymark via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).

Galápagos Finches — A Paradigm of the Limits of Natural Selection?

They are not, per the National Academy of Sciences, a “particularly convincing example for speciation.” Read More ›
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Photo: Geospiza fuliginosa, by Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Galápagos Finches and a Surprising Deletion

How could the authors suddenly do this? Some of the following points may be considered. Read More ›
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Image: Darwin's finches, via Wikimedia Commons.

Are Galápagos Finches “Evolution in Action”?

In a series of posts starting today, I offer some notes on the question of whether macroevolution is happening on the Galápagos Islands. 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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Behe’s New Video Course — No Spoilers Here

Let’s just say that Michael Behe’s latest work has further refined his edge of evolution, in a highly significant way. Intrigued? Read More ›
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Zombie Watch: Debunked Finches Re-Emerge to Validate Darwin

Another paper regurgitates a myth that was thoroughly debunked by Jonathan Wells in Zombie Science. Read More ›
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A.N. Wilson in The Times – Against Darwinist Absolutism

Wilson's forthcoming biography appears to be part of a larger rethink of evolution that is bubbling away in a variety of areas. Read More ›

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