Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

Telliamed Revisited

Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›
Richard Lenski
Darwin Devolves
Photo: Richard Lenski, by Zachary Blount [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Thanks, Professor Lenski, the LTEE Is Doing Great!

Lenski agrees that the beneficial mutations seen in his Long Term Evolution Experiment are overwhelmingly degradative or loss-of-function ones. Read More ›
Tiktaalik
Darwinian Evolution
Image: Boy with interactive sculpture of Tiktaalik, by Piero Gilardi, Rome; photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéravia Flickr(cropped).

For Dreams of Darwinian Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution Is an Insuperable Problem

Professor Lenski’s contrasting of the frequency versus importance of evolutionary changes is misconceived and his illustrations are inapt. Read More ›
polar bear
Richard Lenski
Photo credit: Annie Spratt via Unsplash.

Lessons from Polar Bear Studies

Computer methods of analyzing mutations are widely used because they are generally accurate. They do not suddenly lose their accuracy when I cite them. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute