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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
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, amino acids, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, camera eye, Dan-Eric Nilsson, engineer, evolution, François Jacob, indoctrination, intelligent design, mollusks, mutations, natural selection, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, vertebrates, Wistar Institute}

Squeezing Out the Mystery: Final Comments on Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The phenomenon of convergent evolution suggests that natural selection fits better with the analogy of the engineer than it does the tinkerer. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, Adam Shapiro, American Scientist, anti-evolution, anti-science, China, COVID-19, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, intelligent design, Judge John E. Jones, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, mutations, pandemic, public education, Science Education Policy, scientific evidence}

Darwinist: ID Could Have Redeemed Itself by Leaping to Prejudged Conclusion on COVID-19

_{David Klinghoffer
July 24, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Weighing the validity of ID, not by distorting its conclusions or imputing false intentions to it, is what evolutionary biology has largely refused to do. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 9, 2020

Categories
Medicine
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, Ann Reid, antibiotic resistance, bacteria, Darwinism, doctors, drugs, Eugenie Scott, health, medicine, mutations, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Nature (journal), pandemic, parasites, pathogens, public education, The Edge of Evolution, viruses}

Darwinism Would Fare Poorly Against Pandemics

_{Casey Luskin
July 9, 2020

Medicine

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When combatting disease-causing pathogens, we don’t use the idea that Darwinian evolution is of unlimited creativity. Just the opposite! Read More ›

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Date
July 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, bacteria, citrate, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic information, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, mutations, oxygen}

Listen: Michael Behe on a Citrate Death Spiral

_{Science & Culture
July 5, 2020

Evolution

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Evolution is good at creating niche advantages by breaking things; it isn’t good at building fundamentally novel forms. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
June 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, bacteria, citrate, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, devolution, E. coli, eLife, evolution, fatty acids, genes, genetic information, Long Term Evolution Experiment, metabolism, Michigan State University, mutations, oxygen, Richard Lenski}

Citrate Death Spiral

_{Michael Behe
June 17, 2020

Evolution

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Michigan State University biologist Richard Lenski and collaborators have just published a terrific new paper. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Dollo’s Law, Evolution (journal), evolutionary biologists, gene duplication, Harvard University, hemoglobin, humans, Jerry Coyne, Joseph Thornton, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, molecular evolution, molecular genetics, mutations, Pseudomonas fluorescens, red blood cells, Science (journal), Skeptic Magazine, Washington Post}

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

_{Casey Luskin
May 22, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Mainstream evolutionary biologists are independently arriving at very similar conclusions to Behe’s central thesis. Read More ›

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Date
May 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, cells, Darwinians, Darwinism, evolutionists, fitness, mutations, organisms, PNAS, protein evolution, proteins, pseudogenes, selection}

Collateral Damage: Mutations Decrease Fitness in More Ways than One

_{Science & Culture
May 20, 2020

Evolution

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If mutations are the raw material for evolution, they are like explosives with unpredictable effects. Read More ›

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Date
May 14, 2020

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Intelligent Design
Medicine
Philosophy
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, Andrew McDiarmid, Aristotle, coronavirus, COVID-19, Evolution News, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, mutations, neurosurgeon, podcast, purpose, viruses}

COVID-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

_{Science & Culture
May 14, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy

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Dr. Egnor draws upon Aristotle to argue that mutations and other random events only occur, and have their meaning, against a backdrop of purpose and design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, active information, BIO-Complexity, Darwinian evolution, E. coli, equilibrium, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness landscape, genetic algorithms, genome, Jonathan Bartlett, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mathematician, Michael Behe, mutations, Richard Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski}

New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information

_{Casey Luskin
May 13, 2020

Evolution

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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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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, caterpillar, intelligent design, love, mutations, natural selection, neutral evolution, pattern, population, proteins, sequence space}

Love, Chocolate, and Neutral Evolution

_{Ann Gauger
May 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Neutral evolution means mutations are occurring all the time, and most of the time they are neutral, or nearly neutral. Read More ›