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Once Again: Who Designed the Designer? 

“Some may ask, ‘What is the origin of the engineers? Therefore I don’t believe that this machine has been designed.’” Read More ›
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Photo: Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig in an interview for German TV on “Paleontology and Evolution” (screen shot).

Listen: Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig on Randomness in Natural Selection

As Lönnig points out, Richard Dawkins and others are at great pains to deny the connection. Why would that be? Read More ›
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Vindicated by Behe: Devolution Is Natural, Evolution Is Not

You do not need to study mutations for thirty years to predict that bombarding plant chromosomes with radiation will not lead to major agricultural advances. Read More ›
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Giraffe Weekend: Can Sexual Selection Save This Evolutionary Icon?

Geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig concludes that, “Sexual selection is not the cause of the long-necked giraffe.” Read More ›
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Giraffe Weekend: “You Cannot Simply Stretch out the Neck”

The giraffe is one of those all-star icons of evolution, familiar from textbook covers, that falls apart on closer inspection. Read More ›
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On German TV, an Interview with ID Proponent Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

The interview is very accessible to the non-scientist and, in my opinion, is one of the best discussions of the major issues in this debate I have ever heard. Read More ›
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Heretic Is Amazon’s #1 New Book on Evolution; Distinguished Scientists Endorse

What happens when an up-and-coming European bioscientist flips from Darwin disciple to Darwin defector, builds a highly successful scientific career, and then writes a book about it? Read More ›
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No, Your Dog Is Not a Barking Exemplar of Macroevolution

They are yet another evolutionary icon that Jonathan Wells, perhaps in his next book, could handily leash and take for a walk. Read More ›
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Zombie Science: “The Story’s Got to Be True, No Matter What”

Of all the new icons that Jonathan Wells discusses, including cancer, the appendix, and walking whales, my sentimental favorite must be the human tail. Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Article on Transposable Elements Cites “Irreducible Complexity” and Other “Teleologic” Factors

Plant geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard L�nnig argues that irreducibly complex structures may defy explanation by TEs or other Darwinian factors. Read More ›

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