Tag: exaptation
Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? Consider the Bacterial Flagellum
I hope it’s clear that Kojonen’s effort to harmonize evolution and design (as he envisions it) is not so easy in the case of the bacterial flagellum.
Näsvall et al. Demonstrates the Effectiveness of Intelligent Design
The dispute started when a review in Science proposed the 2012 article by Näsvall et al. as evidence against Mike Behe’s book Darwin Devolves.
Perplexing: Michael Behe’s Critics Falsely Claim He Ignores Exaptation
Writing in the journal Science, reviewers Lents, Swamidass, and Lenski make a very specific, clear, strong, and unambiguous claim.
Train Wreck of a Review: A Response to Lenski et al. in Science
Richard Lenski has spent decades overseeing the most extensive, most acclaimed laboratory evolution experiment conducted to date.
First Review of Darwin Devolves Relies Heavily on Circular Reasoning
This line of argumentation only appears compelling to those who assume from that start that the core assumptions of the standard evolutionary model are true.