Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

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Farina’s response to my previous series is characterized by misrepresentations, selective engagement, and reliance on insults and name-calling. Source
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In Defense of The Edge of Evolution, a Response to Dave Farina

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If evolution is capable of producing complex molecular interactions, the place where we would most expect to find them is in viruses like HIV. Source
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Answering Dave Farina on the Lenski Experiment

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Farina offers the Lenski experiment as a purported counterexample to irreducible complexity. Source
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