Much Ado About Lactase Persistence

adulthood, Bethlehem, cattle, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, devolution, elephants, eukaryotic cells, Evolution, genetic code, human mind, Isaac Newton, lactase, lactase persistence, lactose, loss-of-FCT, loss-of-functional-coded-element, metabolism, milk, molecular machines, mutations, nucleotides, Pennsylvania, physics, science, sugar, weaning, weather, worms
Nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as breathless stories about brand new results. This week the topic was “lactase persistence.” Source
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Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

anti-malaria drugs, constructive evolution, Current Biology, devolution, Eric Anderson, Evolution, evolutionary tree, functionality, genetic information, ID The Future, introns, malaria, Medicine, Michael Behe, mutations, niche advantage, Plasmodium falciparum, Podcast, selective advantage, technical papers, Tree of Life, yeast
Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Source
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Vindicated But Not Cited: Paper in Nature Heredity Supports Michael Behe’s Devolution Hypothesis

adaptation, Andrew Murray, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, devolution, Evolution, function, gene loss, genes, Intelligent Design, John Maynard Smith, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, Nature Heredity, phenotypes, The Quarterly Review of Biology
The literature is looking at the same data that intelligent design proponents are looking at, making similar observations, and asking similar questions. Source
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