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Michael Behe

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 17, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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At Nature Heredity Mike Behe vindicated but not cited

Denyse O'Leary
February 17, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
At Nature Heredity: Discoveries during the subsequent two decades have continued to support the idea that loss of function contributes to adaptation (Murray 2020), with cases of adaptive or beneficial loss of function being discovered across diverse organisms, genes, traits, and environments.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 5, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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This amazing Rube Goldberg device happened just by accident in a mindless universe, you know

Denyse O'Leary
February 5, 2021
Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
Sean Pitman: After all, anyone who has watched cartoons as a child knows what a Rube Goldberg machine is and that this machine will not work if any one part is removed. So, how can something evolve in a stepwise way where each step is functionally beneficial if there is no function until all the parts are in place? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2020
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'Junk DNA', Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Letter from Michael Behe that a chemistry journal wouldn’t publish in 2004

Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2020
'Junk DNA', Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review
Behe: The authors imply that since no reason is known why, say, DNA should be synthesized discontinuously on the lagging strand, then no good reason in fact exists. Yet not long ago the same sort of fallacious argument from ignorance was made concerning “junk DNA.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 6, 2020
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Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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How one medic moved from theistic evolution to intelligent design

Denyse O'Leary
December 6, 2020
Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Strandness: Richard Dawkins famously said that Charles Darwin made it possible for him to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist, but I found that ID made it possible for me to be an intellectually fulfilled Christian. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 21, 2020
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Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Mike Behe on Genetic and Biological Truth & Myth

Denyse O'Leary
November 21, 2020
Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
This is in connection, of course, with his new book, A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics which, by the way, is: Best Sellers Rank: #7,155 in Kindle Store 2 in Biochemistry Science 4 in Biochemistry (Books) 4 in Evolution (Kindle Store)It’s nice to see that, in a world largely deformed by Cancel Culture, some people still love a good debate. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 18, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, science education
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Preparing the public for the slow demise of Darwinian evolution theory

Denyse O'Leary
November 18, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, science education
Mike Behe’s new A Mousetrap for Darwin is available today and that’s the position he takes. That’s our sense too. What about New Scientist’s thirteen reasons for moving past Darwin and the doubts about speciation? Whatever else maybe said of these folk, they are not currently suffering from Darwinbrain. We need to distinguish between rubbish dropkicked from one edition to the next of a public school textbook and what alert minds are really thinking. And they're really thinking that it's time to move on. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 11, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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Karsten Pultz on the recent Behe-Swamidass debate

Denyse O'Leary
November 11, 2020
Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
Pultz: In my view, Swamidass excels as an expert in smokescreens; he can talk endlessly without nailing down tangible and memorable points. Although pressured more than once by Behe to deliver at least a single counter argument to IC, he did not come up with anything containing even a whiff of substance. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 30, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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Darwin Devolves: Darwinists see evolution as bottom up; Michael Behe sees it as top down

Denyse O'Leary
July 30, 2020
Intelligent Design
Scambray: "the polar bear, Behe writes, “adjusted to its harsh environment mainly by degrading its genes that its ancestors already possessed. Despite its impressive abilities, rather than evolving, it has adapted predominately by devolving.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 17, 2020
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Michael Behe on how the new Lenski paper demonstrates a key problem with Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
June 17, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Behe: Let me emphasize: the only result from the decades-long, 50,000-plus generation E. coli evolution experiment that even seemed at first blush like it had a bit of potential to yield a novel pathway in the bacterium has resulted instead in spectacular devolution. Read More ›