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Long Term Evolution Experiment

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New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information

William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target. Read More ›
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Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims

Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.” Read More ›
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From Chernobyl Disaster Site, a Boost for Intelligent Design 

The lesson from Chernobyl is this: radiation kills, but life comes prepared to defend itself.  Read More ›
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New Science Uprising Episode: Evolution, Mutations, and “Fooling the Laymen”

The idea that random genetic mutations lead to wondrous, creative innovations is so influential that it forms the premise of a movie franchise, X-Men, that has grossed $6 billion. Read More ›
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New Science Uprising Episode: Evolution, Mutations, and “Fooling the Laymen”

The idea that random genetic mutations lead to wondrous, creative innovations is so influential that it forms the premise of a movie franchise, X-Men, that has grossed $6 billion. 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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Behe on Joseph Thornton’s Work: “A Big Monkey Wrench that Even I Did Not Expect”

It was interesting to see fellow University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne casually shoehorn Thornton into a Washington Post review of Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
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Behe on Darwin’s Finches — A Really, Really Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Of course finches don’t multiply and cycle through generations as rapidly as bacteria. Still, these birds have been isolated on the iconic islands for some 2 million years. Read More ›
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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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Näsvall et al. Demonstrates the Effectiveness of Intelligent Design

The dispute started when a review in Science proposed the 2012 article by Näsvall et al. as evidence against Mike Behe’s book Darwin Devolves. Read More ›

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