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

Critic Josh Swamidass Meets Michael Behe Tonight at Texas A&M

Someone had a clever idea: stage a debate between biologist Michael Behe and his critic Joshua Swamidass on “God and/or Evolution?” Read More ›
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BioLogos and the Search for Truth

Exactly how have the viewpoints at BioLogos been amended? Like a summer’s day in Seattle, it’s a bit cloudy — at least on the most interesting points. Read More ›
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Image: Adam and Eve, by Tintoretto [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

More Backstory on Our First-Couple Paper: Why Wasn’t This Done Before?

For the last forty years, population geneticists have repeatedly said that our population was never smaller than several thousand. Read More ›
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A First Couple? Here’s the Backstory

Could humanity have had its origin in a first pair, or did it have to come from a population of at least several thousand? Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: New Evidence That Michael Behe Is Right

Many studies show that degradative mutations in APOB cause decreased cholesterol. Read More ›
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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 ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors 

It was Nathan Lents himself who wrote, “I’ve made mistakes, some I caught, others someone else caught. I always correct it the best I can. That’s what honest people do.” Read More ›
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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 ›
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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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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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