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Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart

The criticisms keep coming. It’s hard to keep up. Lents, in fact, just yesterday added additional commentary on Behe’s use of the chart. Read More ›
polar bear
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Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

The discrepancy in method is crucial to understanding this argument against Behe. Yet curiously, it is omitted from mention by Lents and Hunt. Why? Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: The APOB Gene and Damaging Mutations

Michael Behe correctly interpreted a paper by Liu et al. and followed its methodology, whereas his critics, Lents and Hunt, did not. Read More ›
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Behe
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Polar Bear Seminar: Why Behe Is Right

Starting today, you’re invited to sit back and enjoy a five-part series on polar bear genes in light of Behe’s thesis in Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
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Vindicated by Behe: Devolution Is Natural, Evolution Is Not

You do not need to study mutations for thirty years to predict that bombarding plant chromosomes with radiation will not lead to major agricultural advances. Read More ›
Richard Lenski
Darwin Devolves
Photo: 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 ›
Lehigh University
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A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 2

Lang and Rice cite a number of articles to show that loss-of-function mutations are just a small minority of those found in studies of organisms. Read More ›
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intelligent design
Photo: An aerial view of fairy circles in Western Australia, by Stephan Getzin/University of Göttingen, via EurkeAlert!

Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›
Luis de Molina
Image: Luis de Molina (1535-1600).

Claim: Evolution Proves Molinism, and Molinism Proves Evolution

Unfortunately, religion has infected science and the result is bad religion and bad science. Read More ›
Brian Miller
Education Day
Photo: Brian Miller teaches at ID Education Day in Seattle, by Daniel Reeves. 

In Seattle and Dallas, Education Days Will Offer Students the Latest In Intelligent Design Research

These opportunities are rare, to be sure, which is why you won’t want to miss out on these upcoming events. Read More ›

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