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The Edge of Evolution

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Our Lush World: Considering the Problem of Beauty

“If, on the other hand, one views nature as ingenious artwork that cannot be reduced to the question of utility alone, these problems disappear.” Read More ›
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Fighting a Battle That’s Over, and ID Won, Designer Science Omits Key Portions of ID’s History

I want to be fair to Howell, but I also want to be fair to my colleagues who have worked hard developing and publishing new ID arguments over the past 20 years. Read More ›
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Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

Farina’s response to my previous series is characterized by misrepresentations, selective engagement, and reliance on insults and name-calling. Read More ›
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In Defense of The Edge of Evolution, a Response to Dave Farina

If evolution is capable of producing complex molecular interactions, the place where we would most expect to find them is in viruses like HIV. Read More ›
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The Dynamic Dance of Salmonella enterica Flagella A Swirling Symphony of Bacterial Locomotion
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Has Dave Farina Refuted Behe and Me on the Bacterial Flagellum?

The use of machine language to describe biological systems is standard in the scientific literature. Read More ›
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Answering Dave Farina on the Vpu Protein in HIV-1

Farina’s dismissal of this important point suggests that he does not understand the subject of population genetics very well. Read More ›
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Answering Dave Farina on the Lenski Experiment

Farina offers the Lenski experiment as a purported counterexample to irreducible complexity. Read More ›
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Let’s Educate “Professor” Dave Farina on Evolution and Design

Failing to acknowledge mistakes when they are pointed out to you is one of the surest signs of “soldier mindset.” Read More ›
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Highlighting central rod-shaped bacterium floating under microscope, with flagellum and pili
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On a Special Anniversary, the Biochemical Challenge to Darwin Stands Strong

By intelligent design, you might say, August 1996 was the same month that John West and Stephen Meyer founded the Center for Science and Culture. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Black Box at 30: The Evidence Wins!

Macrobiological features have been cited as irreducibly complex, including animal joints and the trap mechanisms of carnivorous plants, even the cell itself. Read More ›

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