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Michael Behe, Ever Patient, Meets Atheist YouTuber TJump

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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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

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 ›
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On Cambrian Explosion, Biology Journal’s Special Issue Betrays Cause for Darwin Doubts

The strength of a theory can be gauged by how well it stands up to attacks and how well it incorporates new evidence. Read More ›
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Photo: A country junction, by Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse

Does it really need to be pointed out that roads are designed? That where they go is designed? And that even badly laid out roads are laid out by design? Read More ›
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Origin of Life: Top Three Problems with Protocells

Protocells place origin-of-life researchers in an awkward position: relying upon an imaginary entity to sustain their belief that only matter and energy exist. Read More ›
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Photo: Basement of Cupples Hall, Washington University, by John West.

Biologist: It’s “Racist” to Invite Condemnation of Racism

Organizers of the St. Louis World’s Fair believed human zoos would “shed light on the theory evolved by Darwin as regards the evolution of the human race.” Read More ›
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Darwin’s Genie: Misapplied Natural Selection Continues

“Natural selection” is like a Swiss Army knife that researchers in widely different disciplines use to solve their problems. Read More ›
Richard Lenski
Photo: Richard Lenski, via Veritasium (screen shot).

Viral Video Overstates the Evidence About Bacterial Evolution

Richard Lenski claims that his experiment provides “one of the most direct demonstrations of Darwinian adaptations by natural selection you can imagine.” Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
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Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›
Tom Bethell
Tom Bethell
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Iconoclast: Farewell to Tom Bethell

I remember having an exchange with Tom about the meaning of his last name, which seems to correspond to the Biblical place name Beth El, meaning "House of God." Read More ›

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