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“Beyond Mendel”: Leading Investigators Appeal for a New Genetics

Top-down causation makes a lot more sense from a design perspective than from any reductionist, lower-levels-first approach. Read More ›
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On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence

In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Read More ›
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The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design. Read More ›
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Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it? Read More ›
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution

I wonder whether Farina has in fact read Behe’s book for himself, or whether he is relying upon others, such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›
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For Beauty, Pleasure, and More, Intelligent Design Expects Non-Essential Genes

In past years, papers have tried to identify the subset of all genes in a genome that are essential for viability. Read More ›
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No More Confusion: Three Categories of Biological Redundancy, Simplified

Rewriting the categories of biological redundancy in terms of function clarifies their purpose and contribution. Read More ›
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Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Read More ›
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“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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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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