Tag: Michigan State University
Darwin on Trial — As Fresh and Relevant as Ever
Because of Phillip Johnson’s leadership no informed person will ever again honestly say that Darwin’s theory flows straight from the data.
Behe on Joseph Thornton’s Work: “A Big Monkey Wrench that Even I Did Not Expect”
It was interesting to see fellow University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne casually shoehorn Thornton into a Washington Post review of Darwin Devolves.
Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?
Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012.
Thanks, Professor Lenski, the LTEE Is Doing Great!
Lenski agrees that the beneficial mutations seen in his Long Term Evolution Experiment are overwhelmingly degradative or loss-of-function ones.
For Dreams of Darwinian Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution Is an Insuperable Problem
Professor Lenski’s contrasting of the frequency versus importance of evolutionary changes is misconceived and his illustrations are inapt.