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Harvard Molecular Geneticist Vindicates Michael Behe’s Main Argument in Darwin Devolves

Mainstream evolutionary biologists are independently arriving at very similar conclusions to Behe’s central thesis. Read More ›
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“Genes Out of Nothing”? Two Studies Demonstrate the Power of Mind

Researchers at Uppsala University describe the challenge they face — and that standard Darwinian processes had to face. Read More ›
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From Swamidass on Chloroquine Resistance, a Response that Doesn’t Respond

Swamidass’s response doesn’t address our main arguments, but he indicates he is impressed by what Darwinian mechanisms accomplished in generating chloroquine resistance. Read More ›
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Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry

It is important, in evaluating these arguments, that one consider all the evidence: not just the evidence that is consistent. It seems to me that when this is done, the arguments for common descent -- certainly in its universal sense -- are, at best, inconclusive. Read More ›

The English Translation of “New Work by Thornton’s Group”

Turning a protein shaped to do one particular job into a protein that does just a slightly different job (which most biologists, including myself, had thought would be as easy as pie) turned out to be much more difficult than expected. Read More ›

The Receding Myth of “Junk DNA”

Since I published The Myth of Junk DNA in May, there has been no response from the pro-Darwin authors I criticized in it. On September 23, 2011, however, John Farrell reviewed it for the Huffington Post. Read More ›

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