Darwin Devolves News Today

The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate.

The world — indeed, the universe — is charged with grandeur. Everything speaks of its beauty, power, and purpose — of its exquisite and intelligent design.

The lesson from woolly mammoth studies, and many other ones, is that it is much faster and easier to break or blunt a gene than to improve or make a new one.

Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State.

The mechanism of Darwinian evolution absolutely works — by breaking genes, when that provides a selective advantage, or turning them off.

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA.

Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin.

In Africa, having the devolutionary mutation that leaves an elephant tuskless renders the creature of no interest to elephant-slaying ivory poachers.

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA.

Nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as breathless stories about brand new results. This week the topic was “lactase persistence.”