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E. coli bacteria
Photo: E. coli bacteria, living a better life, by Eric Erbe, digital colorization by Christopher Pooley, both of USDA, ARS, EMU., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Nobel Prize and Intelligent Evolution

The contrast between the evolutionary sterility of Lenski’s unintelligent Darwinian evolution and the evolutionary potency of Arnold, Smith, and Winter’s intelligent evolution is striking. Read More ›
Frances Arnold
Photo: France Arnold, via Caltech (press release).

How the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Harnessed Intelligent Design

There is one point of confusion in descriptions of this year’s prize winners. It’s the talk of “directed evolution.” Read More ›
Badwater Ultramarathon
Photo: Participants in the Badwater Ultramarathon, Death Valley, California, by Seaman Michael Lindsey, USN [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Origin of Long-Distance Running — More Evolution by Breaking Things

A central problem for theories of unguided evolution has always been the challenge of building complex biological novelties. Read More ›
Joshua Swamidass
Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by permission of Dr. Swamidass.

Swamidass: Cancer “Can Innovate” 

Cancer proves evolution only insofar as one forgets, or pretends not to know, what evolution is supposed to explain. Read More ›
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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr.

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

Wallace was the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. He later broke with Darwin over the question of teleology. Read More ›
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Photo: Chrismooreia michaelbehei, by Günter Bechly, Biologic Institute, Redmond, WA.

New Species of Fossil Dragonfly Named for ID Proponent Michael Behe

The paradigm of cladistic classification based on assumed common ancestry should be reconsidered in favor of a traditional phenetic classification based on maximum similarity. Read More ›
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Evolution a Creative Trickster? Heretic Bioengineer Says No

Many of the oft-cited examples of evolution in action involve devolution. Read More ›
Louis Pasteur
Image: Louis Pasteur, by Sanjai B R 1840722, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Irreconcilable Differences: Can Darwinism Be Pasteurized?

An advocate for Darwinian medicine wants to bring two historical opponents in the design debate, Pasteur and Darwin, into a peace treaty for the good of public health. Read More ›
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evolution
Photo credit: Charlesjsharp (Own work, from Sharp Photography) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

#8 of Our Top Stories of 2017: Theorist Concedes, Evolution “Avoids” Questions

To maintain at this point that “All Is Well” with evolution you have to be in a state of serious denial. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Charlesjsharp (Own work, from Sharp Photography) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Theorist Concedes: Evolution “Largely Avoids” Biggest Questions of Biological Origins

To maintain at this point that “All Is Well” with evolution you have to be in a state of serious denial. Read More ›

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