Darwin Devolves
Michael Behe: New paper supports my “Darwin Devolves” thesis
Behe vindicated by goldfish? But of course!
Mike Behe’s book party for Darwin Devolves live-streamed from Seattle tonight
Michael Behe responds to the critics at his university, Parts 2 and 3
Michael Behe’s response to Lehigh colleagues’ criticism
Michael Behe responds to the hit pre-publication review at Science
Some thoughts on the hatchet review of Behe’s Darwin Devolves in Science
Swamidass et al’s hit review at Science on Behe’s forthcoming Darwin Devolves “borders on fraud”
Science Mag’s hit on Michael Behe’s new book Darwin Devolves avoids his main point
In American Association for the Advancement of Science’s magazine, Science, we read, In the grand scheme of evolution, mutations serve only to break structures and degrade functions, Behe argues. He allows that mutation and natural selection can explain species- and genus-level diversification, but only through the degradation of genes. Something else, he insists, is required for meaningful innovation. Here, Behe invokes a “purposeful design” by an “intelligent agent.” There are indeed many examples of loss-of-function mutations that are advantageous, but Behe is selective in his examples. He dedicates the better part of chapter 7 to discussing a 65,000-generation Escherichia coli experiment, emphasizing the many mutations that arose that degraded function—an expected mode of adaptation to a simple laboratory environment, by the Read More ›
Mike Behe’s new book, Darwin Devolves: “Absolutely convincing” or “omits contrary examples”
A peek at Mike Behe’s new book Darwin Devolves
Here: While Stephen Colbert has called Michael J. Behe the “Father of Intelligent Design,” Behe’s arguments have been called, “close to heretical” by the New York Times Book Review, and Richard Dawkins has publicly taken him to task for his “maverick” views. Wherever he goes, Behe makes waves, but has remained singularly focused on doing rigorous scientific analysis that points to controversial but incredible results that other scientists won’t touch. Twenty years after publishing his seminal work, Darwin’s Black Box, Behe shows that new scientific discoveries point to a stunning fact: Darwin’s mechanism works by a process of devolution, not evolution. On the surface, evolution can help make something look and act different, but it doesn’t have the ability to Read More ›