On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence

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In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Source
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Decade-Long Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Darwinian Evolution

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After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Source
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Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

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Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Source
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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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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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Biologist Jonathan Wells Gives “Top Scientific Problems with Evolution”

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Darwin anticipated “innumerable transitions” in the fossil record, but such a rainbow of transitional forms has never been found. Source
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Book Excerpt: A Factory That Builds Factories That Build Factories That…

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Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the the new book from Discovery Institute Press, Evolution & Intelligent Design in a Nutshell. Eric H. Anderson is a lawyer, software engineering executive, and writer on intelligent design. Nobel Prize recipient and Harvard origin-of-life researcher Jack Szostak once remarked, “In my lab, we’re interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth…. You want something that can grow and divide and, most importantly, exhibit Darwinian evolution.”1 Another noted origin-of-life researcher, Gerald F. Joyce, says much the same thing. When asked about the idea that chemicals might have come together on the early Earth to form something that could copy itself, Joyce responded, “That’s what we and others are interested in because that’s sort of, you know, the…
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