Two Peer-Reviewed Papers Apply Behe’s “Darwin Devolves” Thesis to Cancer 

Ann Gauger, BRAF, cancer, cancer genomics, cell growth, cell types, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, Denis Noble, driver mutations, EGFR, Evolution, genes, IDH1/2, Intelligent Design, JAK2, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Kras, Medicine, metazoans, Michael Behe, Molecular Cancer Research, mutations, National Cancer Institute, Perry Marshall, PIK3CA, reproduction, survival, tumor, tumor promoter proteins, tumor suppressor proteins, Vanderbilt University
One day in the mid 2010s, Ann Gauger and I received a message that an ID-friendly scientist was in town and wanted to meet us. Source
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Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

bilaterians, body plans, Bryozoa, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous strata, chordates, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday, fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, inkblots, invertebrates, lophophore, Lower Cambrian, Lower Ordovician, metazoans, microCT, Middle Pennsylvanian, molecular clock studies, moss animals, Nevada, Ohio, paleontology, phosphatic fossils, Pywackia baileyi, South China, tentacles
This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Source
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