Discovery Institute, primate limbs, and “junk DNA”

In his September 24, 2008 post entitled “Study Challenges Two Icons of Evolution: Functional Junk DNA Shows “Surprising” Genetic Differences Between Humans and Apes,” Casey Luskin shows us just how much he really is out of touch with molecular biology and modern evolutionary theory.  He refers to an interesting study that seems to have found [...]

Functions of endogenous retroviruses does nothing for intelligent design

On August 21, 2008, Casey Luskin wrote Large Scale Function for Endogenous Retroviruses: Intelligent Design Prediction Fulfilled While Another Darwinist Argument Bites the Dust. In this post, Luskin uses a recent article in Bioinformatics by Conley et al. to attack a piece of evidence brought up by Douglas Theobald in his 29+ Evidences for [...]

One step closer to a complete Tree of Life

The inability of scientists to create a complete Tree of Life (TOL) has been a talking point of ID proponents for some time. Indeed, a complete TOL based on DNA sequence alignments has yet to be completed. Instead of a single tree, usually ‘bushes’ of different clades are about as close as we have gotten. [...]

When its good to keep quiet

This post covers the May 27 and 28, 2008 posts entitled: “MSNBC’s Alan Boyle and Sean B. Carroll Argue Scientists Should Keep “Quiet” about Support for Intelligent Design”.  This post is broken down into two parts with the first Luskin’s answer to Carroll’s opinion and the second is Luskin attacking Carroll’s facts.  To be honest, [...]