Polar Bear Seminar: Why Behe Is Right

[evograd (Blogging Graduate Student)]

And Behe really relies on these results to make his case in his book:

Behe's response to his Lehigh Colleagues

It’s nice of Behe to distill the best examples from his book into a single paragraph though: One big fly in their argument, however, is that they overlook the results from non-laboratory evolution that I give in the book. Every species that has been examined in sufficient detail so far shows the same pattern as seen in lab results. For example, I open the book with a discussion of polar bear evolution. About two-thirds to three-quarters of the most highly selected genes that separated the polar bear from the brown bear are estimated by computer methods to have experienced mutations that were functionally damaging. (Some other reviewers questioned this. I showed why they are mistaken here .) Similar results were seen for the woolly mammoth. Neither of those species evolved in the laboratory. Except for the sickle mutation (which itself is a desperate remedy), all mutations selected in the wild in humans for resistance to malaria are degradative. Dog breed evolution, which has been tou…