Tag: Richard Lenski

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, agency, algorithmic logic units, avida, Brain Potter, Brian Arthur, circuits, combinations, comparators, complex circuits, components, computer simulation, decoders, digital logic circuits, economists, encoders, evolution, functionality, functions, multiplexers, Nature (journal), needs, population counters, Richard Lenski, Robert Pennock, stepping stones, technology}

Technological Evolution: Accidentally Demonstrating the Limits of Evolution

_{Winston Ewert
July 16, 2026

Evolution, Technology

4}

While economist Brian Arthur models the development of technology, he refers to it as the “evolution” of technology. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, citrate, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, DNA, DNA replication, DNA replisome, Escherichia coli, evolution, generation turnover time, genome duplication, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, lizards, Michael Behe, multicellularity, mutation rates, mutations, natural selection, neutral mutations, Paramecium tetraurelia, placenta, population size, retrovirus, Richard Lenski, Rutgers University, Scott Minnich, tetherin, tetherin antagonism, type III secretion system, viruses, YouTube channels}

Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 6, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metascience
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, a priori, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, failed predictions, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientists, variation}

How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

_{Kirk Durston
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Life Sciences, Metascience, Scientific Reasoning

24}

To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 6, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Andreas Wagner, creationism, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, evolution, evolutionary biology, foresight, fossils, intelligent design, Lake Malawi, Michael Behe, Richard Lenski, stickleback fish, University of Zurich}

The Enchanted Sleep of Andreas Wagner

_{Daniel Witt
June 6, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

Apparently, Darwinian evolution doesn’t actually explain life. This may come as news to some people. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Bijan Nemati, culture, Darwinian evolution, DNA, E. coli, engineers, Eric Anderson, evolution, extinction, Idaho, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, mutations, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich}

Hitting the Brakes on “Rapid Evolution”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 13, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski hopes to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in action. But one humble scientist from Northern Idaho says not so fast! Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptive mutations, Africa, Darwin Devolves, Dave Farina, de novo genes, evolution, evolutionary change, evolutionary theory, François Jacob, genes, hemoglobin, intelligent design, Long Term Evolution Experiment, malaria, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, New York City, non-coding DNA, Professor Dave Explains, Richard Lenski, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Despite Mr. Farina’s smug condescension and patronizing demeanor, he fails to mount a credible critique of Dr. Behe’s thesis. Read More ›

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Date
June 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, bacteria, Carolyn Hovde, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dustin Van Hofwegen, E. coli, evolution, ID the Future, Journal of Bacteriology, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Neo-Darwinism, podcast, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho}

Engineering and Evolution in the Microbial World

_{Science & Culture
June 2, 2023

Biology, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

This year’s Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS) is going on right now, exploring design principles at work in living things. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Marshall, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, feathers, homology, information, intelligent design, mammals, marine reptiles, PragerU, Professor Dave, proteins, Richard Buggs, Richard Lenski, Royal Society, scales, Stephen Meyer, Twitter, Wikipedia}

Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics

_{Günter Bechly
December 8, 2022

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

16}

Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 16, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, bacteria, evolution, intelligent design, Jews, Long Term Evolution Experiment, marijuana, Michael Behe, polar bears, Professor Dave, Richard Lenski, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

Michael Behe, Ever Patient, Meets Atheist YouTuber TJump

_{David Klinghoffer
November 16, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

As Behe and TJump discuss Lenski’s experiment, polar bears, and other matters, the commenters are floating in their own strange parallel reality. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beta-lactamase, Darwinism, Darwinists, debates, Douglas Axe, E. coli, evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jason Rosenhouse, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, probabilistic resources, Richard Lenski, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), Sisyphus, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

_{William A. Dembski
August 30, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

8}

Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›