Tag: PolyPhen-2

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, APOB, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), medical literature, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bear, Polar Bear Seminar, PolyPhen-2, Shiping Liu}

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Polar Bear Seminar

_{Casey Luskin
December 27, 2019

Evolution

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Barring startling new revelations from the research community, nothing more needs to be said. The evidence comes down decisively on Behe’s side. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, APOB, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), medical literature, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bear, Polar Bear Seminar, PolyPhen-2, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: This Is the End

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2019

Evolution

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Barring startling new revelations from the research community, nothing more needs to be said. The evidence comes down decisively on Behe’s side. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, APOB, Arthur Hunt, blubber, brown bears, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, devolution, evolution, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), mice, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Nature Reviews Genetics, New Scientist, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: New Evidence That Michael Behe Is Right

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Many studies show that degradative mutations in APOB cause decreased cholesterol. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 2, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, amino acids, APOB, cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, diet, disease, evolution, function, genes, genome, genotype, mice, Michael Behe, mutations, phenotype, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Shiping Liu}

Remind Me Again Why We Picked Polar Bears?

_{Ann Gauger
May 2, 2019

Evolution

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The core difficulty for some scientists who read Michael Behe’s book is also the key idea at its heart. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 10, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Arthur Hunt, Darwin Devolves, data, degradative mutations, devolution, function, genes, Jerry Coyne, Liu et al. (2014), Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Shiping Liu, webinar}

Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart

_{Casey Luskin
April 10, 2019

Evolution

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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 ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 9, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, APOB, Arthur Hunt, Cell (journal), Darwin Devolves, genes, Liu et al. (2014), methodology, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

_{Casey Luskin
April 9, 2019

Evolution

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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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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, APOB, Arthur Hunt, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, degradative mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: The APOB Gene and Damaging Mutations

_{Casey Luskin
April 8, 2019

Evolution

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Michael Behe correctly interpreted a paper by Liu et al. and followed its methodology, whereas his critics, Lents and Hunt, did not. Read More ›