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Michael Behe

University of Kenya
Photo: Casey Luskin and Brian Miller at the University of Kenya, courtesy of Casey Luskin.

Luskin and Miller on the State of ID in Africa

The response was inspiring. At the University of Eldoret in Kenya, Luskin and Miller were greeted with no less than a band and a red carpet! Read More ›
Brian Miller in Africa
All photos courtesy of Casey Luskin.

Discovery Institute Speakers Get a Hearty Reception in Africa

At the University of Eldoret, in Kenya, we were greeted with — no joke — a band and a red carpet. Read More ›
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How NOT to Argue Against Irreducible Complexity

This roundworm produces non-flagellated sperm, though these sperm cells are amoeboid, meaning that they move by extending and retracting protrusions. Read More ›
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COVID-19
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Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19. Read More ›
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Try to Write Instructions for a Femur; Go On, Just Try

Professor Behe invites us to join him for a sobering thought experiment: attempting to build an instruction manual for a human femur bone. Read More ›
Ariel toucan
Photo: Ariel toucan, by Ana_Cotta, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How I “Discovered” Alfred Russel Wallace

I certainly wouldn’t have recognized his full significance if I had not already been introduced to ID by reading Johnson, Behe, and Dembski. Read More ›
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Engineering Prowess of the Blood Clotting Cascade

“Evolution doesn’t perform particularly well when you need to make multiple co-dependent mutations,” says Dr. McLatchie. Read More ›
Smok wawelski
Photo: Smok wawelski, by Panek, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Moran: Sternberg and Behe “Appear to Know More About Evolution than Their Opponents”

The whole point of selection was to bias or direct the deliverances of chance variation, so that “luck” didn’t have to do all the work. Read More ›
Smok wawelski
Photo: Smok wawelski, by Panek, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Debate on Intelligent Design, Critic Cites Dragon Legend to Justify Evolution’s Failures

It is, as Professor Behe acknowledges, a charming tale, but not very relevant as far as the details of the scientific debate go. Read More ›
E. coli bacteria
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An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Read More ›

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