Month: August 2013
Indiana Professors Question Ball State University’s Disregard For Rules on Academic Freedom
The slickest way for administrators to dodge the requirements of academic freedom is to dodge the faculty handbook, which is what BSU has done, as Kelly and Murphy point out.
In Biological Information: New Perspectives, Michael Behe finds Loss of Function Mutations Challenge the Darwinian Model
Behe begins by observing that at the molecular level, far more mutations will cause loss-of function (LOF) than will cause a gain-of-function (GOF).
Promote Free Speech on Evolution: Spread the Video about Darwin’s Doubt
The critics of intelligent design don’t want people to read Darwin’s Doubt. Here’s a new video you can use to counter their campaign to suppress interest in the book.
In Biological Information: New Perspectives, Jonathan Wells Explores Functions for Non-Gene-Coding Information
Is there functional information in DNA outside of the genes? And how about epigenetic information that exists outside of DNA entirely?
In BIO-Complexity and Biological Information: New Perspectives, Granville Sewell Defends his Arguments on the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Sewell’s recent articles address a rejoinder from Darwin-defenders and reframe the issue to show that the second law could potentially be a problem for Darwinian evolution.