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Does T-urf13 Refute Irreducible Complexity? A Response to Arthur Hunt

Since 2007, Hunt has been claiming to have refuted Michael Behe’s thesis that irreducible complexity cannot arise by mindless evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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Biologist Nathan Lents: Beauty in Error

He has a different take on imperfection, one more optimistic than one might expect from someone who writes about what’s wrong with us. Read More ›
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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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How the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Harnessed Intelligent Design

There is one point of confusion in descriptions of this year’s prize winners. It’s the talk of “directed evolution.” Read More ›
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Origin of Long-Distance Running — More Evolution by Breaking Things

A central problem for theories of unguided evolution has always been the challenge of building complex biological novelties. Read More ›
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Update: Still No Evolutionary Explanation for Human Language

“The case that human language develops step by step through natural selection is weakened by the fact that no single language gene has ever been discovered.” Read More ›
Junk DNA

Princeton Researchers Watch “Junk DNA” at Work

In “real time” they show the function of an enhancer in switching a gene from off to on. Read More ›
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We Need the Grim Good of Animal Research

Scientists researching gene therapy as a potential future therapy have succeeded in restoring feeling to paralyzed rats. Read More ›
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Out of One Cell, Many Tissues — But How?

Scientists are delving into the remarkable way a zygote grows through its embryonic stages to an adult. Read More ›

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