Tag: biological information
Can Random Mutations Create New Complex Features? A Response to TalkOrigins
Since posting our recent rebuttals to the TalkOrigins page on the Cambrian explosion, we’ve received some requests to respond to other pages on the TalkOrigins archive.
Critically Analyzing the Argument from Human/Chimpanzee Genetic Similarity
The problem of making premature claims that we don’t know are correct plagues Dennis Venema’s discussion of human and chimp genetic variation.
Confusing Evidence for Common Ancestry with Evidence for Random Mutation and Natural Selection
The debate over evolution and intelligent design can be confusing because some keys terms in the discussion are ambiguous.
Another Bogus Claim of “Novel Function Arising Through Mutation and Selection”
If by “novel function” Dennis Venema means “loss of function,” then perhaps he is correct.
Richard Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiments with E. coli and the Origin of New Biological Information (Updated)
Dennis Venema’s argument collapses into this: “if Darwinian evolution can do anything, then ID is wrong.” But this is not how we test ID, for ID readily allows that natural selection and random mutation can effect some changes in populations.