Author: Michael Behe
Website: https://evolutionnews.org/author/mbehe
The English Translation of “New Work by Thornton’s Group”
Turning a protein shaped to do one particular job into a protein that does just a slightly different job (which most biologists, including myself, had thought would be as easy as pie) turned out to be much more difficult than expected.
Wheel of Fortune: New Work by Thornton’s Group Supports Time-Symmetric Dollo’s Law
Let us count the ways in which “fortune” favored the evolution of the modern protein.
“Irremediable Complexity”
The authors think that over evolutionary time, neutral processes would tend to “complexify” the cell.
Richard Lenski, “Evolvability,” and Tortuous Darwinian Pathways
The more that is learned about Darwin’s mechanism at the molecular level, the more ineffectual it is seen to be.
Even More From Jerry Coyne
In my last post I reported that University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, who had critiqued my recent Quarterly Review of Biology article concerning laboratory evolution studies of the last four decades and what they show us about evolution, had asked several other prominent scientists for comments. I replied to those of experimental evolutionary biologist John Bull. In a subsequent post Coyne discussed a recent paper by the group of fellow University of Chicago biologist Manyuan Long on gene duplication in fruitflies. After a bit of delay due to the holidays, I will comment on that here. Try as one might to keep Darwinists focused on the data, some can’t help reverting to their favorite trope: questioning Darwinism simply Read More ›