Interview with Scott Minnich regarding Lenski LTEE

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Reference 18 is this one:

Real-Time Evolution of New Genes by Innovation, Amplification, and Divergence

We had several threads on this forum devoted to explaining the damage control and panic-spawned lies output by the Discovery Institute in response to that paper, since it so directly refuted so many of their claims. It’s also, incidentally, a demonstration of what @colewed claimed in the other thread is just speculation: the real-time evolution of a gene with a novel function through duplication and divergence.

Leisola: Cited to Attack Darwin Devolves, Study Devolves on Close Inspection

And continuing with the discussion. Are we building a wall, a fence, a barrier with slats or a bridge to common understanding? https://evolutionnews.org/2019/02/cited-to-attack-darwin-devolves-study-devolves-on-close-inspection/ @moderators: See this note posted on the OP due to our discussion: Editor’s Note: Because some thought that the Gauger study cited below was being offered as a refutation of the 2012 Näsvall paper (it wasn’t, and it’s not), we have updated the post to make this clear. A much fuller discussion of both papers is now provided here.

Gauger: Answering Art Hunt on Real Time Evolution

It is my pleasure to welcome back @Agauger to Peaceful Science, after her brief absence. She wanted to respond in detail to @Art Hunt’s explanation of an important paper that directly demonstrates an important evolutionary mechanism in the laboratory. This paper was quoted in our science review of Darwin Devolves (Darwin Devolves: The End of Evolution?). Behe and Gauger’s Response to This Study Our discussion of Behe’s response is here: Behe's Trainwreck Response to Science Our discussion of @Agauger’s response is here: https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/gauger-realtime-evolution-by-innovation-amplification-and-diversification/4828 Regarding this reference, Behe writes: Let me emphasize: in reviewing a book expressly advocating intelligent design, Lenski et al. can’t seem to distinguish between experiments where investigators keep their hands off and those where investigators actively manipulate a system. Perhaps they can’t see the difference. At this point four pe…

I remember those threads well because I had to go into the methods of the papers and explain to Ann Gauger how she got several simple facts about those experiments completely wrong. Funny.