First, a confession: I am no fan of Larry Moran. He’s an evangelist of old-school Darwinism, which is rapidly being obsoleted by larry_moranSystems Biology.

Moran’s strident promotion of the now-discredited “Junk DNA” theory alone should give all of us pause. The man is still trying to save Junk DNA from extinction. (The ENCODE project killed it dead three years ago.) PREDICTION: Ten years from now, when we understand twice as much about the genome as we do now, most scientists will be reluctant to admit they ever entertained such anti-scientific superstitions.

Well lately Moran is in a gladiator fight with Ann Gauger of the Discovery Institute. And he makes a valid point. Moran says:

“Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wondrous universe, including man with his capacity of looking backwards and far into futurity, as a…

Jerry Coyne, Biology Professor at the University of Chicago, reviewed my new book Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design. He said:
“Although I haven’t read it…

My brother Bryan (VERY smart) insisted that if you had billions of falcons over millions of years, nature was so prolific that all you would actually need was the occasional copying error. Not only would you get falcons…. you would get better and better falcons! Mutations would inevitably happen. Vision would improve. Wings would improve,…

Bryan was backing me into a corner and I didn’t like it. We were riding a bus in southwest Asia near Viet Nam. Bryan had moved there 4 years before. He was half English teacher, half missionary. A few months before he’d bailed on the missionary part. Not only was he no longer a missionary,…

Perry Marshall’s talk to high school students at One Day Enrichment for T.E.A.C.H. (The Evangelical Alliance of Christian Homeschoolers) in Oak Park Illinois, March 20, 2015. Perry is author of Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design published by BenBella.

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Recently I gave an evolution presentation to a conservative Christian home school group. The organizers were besieged beforehand with emails from concerned parents, wondering what I was about to teach their kids. But afterwards, nothing but gratitude. An eager group of parents and kids stayed for two hours after, peppering me with questions. * How…

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#Evolution in 140 characters or less: Genes switch on, switch off, rearrange and exchange. Hybrids double; viruses hijack; cells merge; winners emerge.

“Atheism too denies religion. It loves iconoclasm, the refutation of dogmas and moral emancipation. Its whole interest is in

One day at work my boss Fred pulled me aside. Fred was NOT a happy camper:

“Perry, what did you say to the customer yesterday?”

Oh-oh. Must’ve done something wrong.