26Jun 2023 by Post

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

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The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Source
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25Dec 2022 by Post

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2022: “Non-Random” Mutations

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The study was able to directly measure mutations after they occurred in the plant but before mutations could have been affected by natural selection. Source
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28Feb 2022 by Post

Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance

A Mousetrap for Darwin, biological systems, Casey Luskin, CCC, chloroquine complexity cluster, chloroquine resistance, coordinated mutations, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Laurence Moran, Michael Behe, mutation rate, mutations, PfCRT, Plasmodium falciparum, PNAS, proteins, Robert L. Summers, Sandwalk, The Edge of Evolution
The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process. Source
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18Feb 2022 by Post

New Study in Nature Showing “Non-Random” Mutation Spells Trouble for Neo-Darwinism

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The study was able to directly measure mutations after they occurred in the plant but before mutations could have been affected by natural selection. Source
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14Oct 2021 by Post

Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

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Cichlid variation do not primarily originate from random mutations but from engineered systems. Source
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