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The Edge of Evolution

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

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity

The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate. Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
Photo: Plasmodium falciparum, by Dr Graham Beards, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
Photo: Plasmodium falciparum, by Dr Graham Beards, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance

The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process. Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
Photo: Plasmodium falciparum, by Lukas.S at English Wikipedia(Original text: Lukas 05:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Much Can Evolution Really Accomplish?

Unsatisfied with circular evolutionary arguments and lazy reasoning, Michael Behe decided to pose his question to the real-world data. Read More ›
Plasmodium vivax
Photo: Plasmodium vivax, by Dr Osaro Erhabor, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

If Malaria Is Evolving, It’s Not Doing It Darwin’s Way

Are scientists in Texas catching malaria in the act of evolving, or is something else going on? Read More ›
Bronchiolar_epithelium_3_-_SEM
Photo credit: Charles Daghlian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed

The once seemingly humble cilium is actually even more irreducibly complex than Dr. Behe suggested in his first book. Read More ›
Bronchiolar_epithelium_3_-_SEM
Photo credit: Charles Daghlian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cilium and Intraflagellar Transport: More Irreducibly Complex than Ever

Another of Michael Behe’s molecular machines gets an update. The details are even more fascinating than originally described. Read More ›
MIchael Behe

“Compelling,” “Thorough”: Biochemist Russell Carlson on Behe’s Mousetrap

"Over the years Behe has received a mountain of criticism, all of which has been answered by him in letters to the editors of journals, newspapers, and blogs." Read More ›
Michael Behe
Photo: Michael Behe discusses “Biological Truth & Myth: Insights from the Foundation of Life" (screenshot).

Does Behe Ignore Critics? Find Out in a Live Webinar Saturday

One of the weirdly persistent themes in attacks on him by other biologists is that he "waves away" opposing interpretations. Read More ›
Behe and Mousetrap
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Tomorrow: Behe Springs a Mousetrap on Darwin

Biochemist Michael Behe has been conducting a decades-long independent scientific audit of the evidence for unguided Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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