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Photo: Purple sea urchin, by David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer’s Extensive Treatment of Evo-Devo 

"On arriving at Caltech in 1971, Eric Davidson chose the purple sea urchin as his experimental model system." Read More ›
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Reflections on Casey Luskin’s Debate with “Dr. Dan”

I commend Dr. Dan for being an amicable dialogue partner and for his good faith attempt to engage substantively with the relevant scientific issues. Read More ›
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New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU

Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection. Read More ›
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Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, by Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit 

I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle. Read More ›
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Did the Origin of Animals Require New Genes?

Materialists who purport to explain the origin of nature's complexity by smuggling in information unwittingly demonstrate the need for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Train Wreck of a Review: A Response to Lenski et al. in Science

Richard Lenski has spent decades overseeing the most extensive, most acclaimed laboratory evolution experiment conducted to date. Read More ›
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First Review of Darwin Devolves Relies Heavily on Circular Reasoning

This line of argumentation only appears compelling to those who assume from that start that the core assumptions of the standard evolutionary model are true. Read More ›

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