# Rich Lenski takes down Michael Behe and his ID creationism: Part IV

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**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/rich-lenski-takes-down-michael-behe-and-his-id-creationism-part-iv/5208 "2019-03-07T21:27:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/rich-lenski-takes-down-michael-behe-and-his-id-creationism-part-iv/5208/3 "2019-03-07T22:07:51Z")

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The example of the evolved viral protein Lenski describes in the article fulfills that challenge. The new function of the final viral protein required the irreducibly complex interaction of 4 different mutations, and Lenski was able to show how it evolved step by step.

The article is definitely worth a read.

> **[Evolution goes viral! (And how real science works)](https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2019/03/06/evolution-goes-viral-and-how-real-science-works/)**
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> This is the fourth in a series of posts about a new book by Michael Behe, Darwin Devolves. Behe is a leading proponent of intelligent-design creationism (IDC), which asserts that known processes ca…

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