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

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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Polar Bear Seminar: This Is the End

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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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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Remind Me Again Why We Picked Polar Bears?

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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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: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

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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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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Coyne and Polar Bears: Why You Should Never Rely on Incompetent Reviewers

A very common way to try to discredit an argument is to exaggerate it, ignore distinctions an author makes, and/or change carefully qualified claims into bizarre absolutes. Read More ›

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