Tag: citrate
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.
Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution
Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State.
On Cambrian Explosion, Biology Journal’s Special Issue Betrays Cause for Darwin Doubts
The strength of a theory can be gauged by how well it stands up to attacks and how well it incorporates new evidence.
Viral Video Overstates the Evidence About Bacterial Evolution
Richard Lenski claims that his experiment provides “one of the most direct demonstrations of Darwinian adaptations by natural selection you can imagine.”
Listen: Michael Behe on a Citrate Death Spiral
Evolution is good at creating niche advantages by breaking things; it isn’t good at building fundamentally novel forms.