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Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart

The criticisms keep coming. It’s hard to keep up. Lents, in fact, just yesterday added additional commentary on Behe’s use of the chart. Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

The discrepancy in method is crucial to understanding this argument against Behe. Yet curiously, it is omitted from mention by Lents and Hunt. Why? Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe and Eric Metaxas (screen shot), via YouTube/Socrates in the City.

Watch: Behe and Metaxas Talk Evolution, Design, Implications, and Academic Freedom

Metaxas is hilarious, and Behe has a fine sense of humor himself. They make the science in Professor Behe’s already accessible new book even more accessible. 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 ›
Lehigh University
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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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Photo: Lehigh University campus, by Joseph Giansante '76 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ›
Christina Cheng
proteins
Photo: Christina Cheng, University of Illinois, by L. Brian Stauffer, via EurekAlert!

Jerry Coyne, Ken Miller Revive a “Fishy Story”

Coyne is sure this is going to come as a rude shock, to our colleague and contributor Dr. Behe in particular, “a slap in the face of IDers like Michael Behe — a fish slap like the one below.” Read More ›
Tiktaalik
Darwinian Evolution
Image: Boy with interactive sculpture of Tiktaalik, by Piero Gilardi, Rome; photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéravia Flickr(cropped).

For Dreams of Darwinian Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution Is an Insuperable Problem

Professor Lenski’s contrasting of the frequency versus importance of evolutionary changes is misconceived and his illustrations are inapt. Read More ›
Measles “Hacking” the Body?
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Measles “Hacking” the Body?

In previous articles I have discussed how biological organisms exhibit patterns that are highly analogous to computer programs written by humans. Read More ›

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