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Michael Behe
Photo: Michael Behe, a scene from Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines.

Muller Two-Step Model: A Refutation of Behe on Irreducible Complexity?

Our responses to the Muller two-step have been around for a long time; it would be nice if ID critics would recognize and perhaps answer them. Read More ›
wrench
Photo: A monkey wrench, by Andrew Plumb, via Flickr(cropped). 

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 ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›
Kevin Williamson
Photo: Kevin Williamson, via Upstream Ideas/YouTube.

Science and Its Consequences: Kevin Williamson Versus Intelligent Design, Again

The question before us was whether anyone but journalists and other amateurs take the science of ID, “daft rube-bait” according to Kevin, seriously. 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 ›
Westminster Conference
Michael Behe

No Triangulation as Michael Behe Headlines 2019 Westminster Conference

As I’m writing this I’ve been reacquainting myself with physicist Marcelo Gleiser, who just won the year’s prestigious, $1.5 million Templeton Prize. Read More ›
trilobite
Photo credit: Mike Peel [CC BY-SA 2.0 uk], via Wikimedia Commons.

New Paper Confirms the Trilobite Explosion

It’s important to note that the “true tempo of early animal evolution” exists in evolutionists’ imaginations, not in the rocks. Read More ›
Xenopus laevis
Swamidass
Photo: Xenopus laevis, by Brian Gratwicke [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ›
Darwin Devolves
pre-order
Photo credit: Robert Crowther.

Darwin Devolves Rides a Wave; One Week Left to Pre-order and Get the Perks!

I’m trying to think of a book that provoked as much discussion and debate — before it is even published. Read More ›
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Darwin Devolves
Photo: Snowstorm, by Al Jazeera English [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Early Science Review of Darwin Devolves — A Panic Attack?

Today in Seattle people were panicking about a big oncoming snowstorm, promised for tomorrow afternoon. Read More ›

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