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Photo: Daphnia pulex, by Yale Peabody Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

No. 7 Story of 2024: Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Evolution

After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›
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Photo: Daphnia pulex, by Эрг, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Covering for Darwin, Science Reporter Massages a Study

Genetically, the model organism for studying evolution was just one water flea after another. Read More ›
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Photo: Daphnia pulex, by Yale Peabody Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Decade-Long Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Darwinian Evolution

After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›
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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 ›
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Reform It Altogether — More on the Naturalistic Parabola

I’ve fussed about this point for a long time. And Discovery Institute colleagues have occasionally chided me for my obsession. Read More ›
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Blasphemy Against Darwin in New York State! Atheist Group Intimidates School District

First, it is definitely NOT against either federal law or Supreme Court precedent to teach about scientific criticisms of Darwin’s theory. Read More ›
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Photo: Charles Darwin, enthroned, by Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Game of Thrones: As Darwinism Dissolves, Top Evolutionists Scramble for a Successor

A meeting at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, sought to encourage novel thinking about evolution. Read More ›
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For Dreams of Darwinian Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution Is an Insuperable Problem

Professor Lenski’s contrasting of the frequency versus importance of evolutionary changes is misconceived and his illustrations are inapt. 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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