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Information and complexity go hand in hand.

Lee Spetner

Information and complexity go hand in hand.

Tags: biochemistry, biological complexity, biology, random evolution

Verbal arguments should always be suspect.

Lee Spetner

Verbal arguments should always be suspect.

Tags: biological variability, chance mutation, evolution, neo darwinism, random mutation

About Author
Lee M. Spetner is an American and Israeli creationist author, mechanical engineer, applied biophysicist, and physicist, known best for his disagreements with the modern synthesis. In spite of his opposition to neo-Darwinism, Spetner accepts a form of non-random evolution outlined in his 1996 book "Not By Chance! Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution".

To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name of the first is the theory of descent with modification. Some call...

Lee Spetner

To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name of the first is the theory of descent with modification. Some call...

Tags: darwin, evolution, intelligent design, neo darwinism, random mutation, select mutation

There is another kind of variation that does not involve the genome at all, and is therefore not heritable. Yet it can produce what looks like evolution. Indeed, the results look so much like evolutio...

Lee Spetner

There is another kind of variation that does not involve the genome at all, and is therefore not heritable. Yet it can produce what looks like evolution. Indeed, the results look so much like evolutio...

Tags: evolution, faux evolution, nonheritable variation

Life is so diversified that to any statement I could make about living organisms there are exceptions. Because of the many exceptions, I should qualify everything I say with hedging phrases such as 'g...

Lee Spetner

Life is so diversified that to any statement I could make about living organisms there are exceptions. Because of the many exceptions, I should qualify everything I say with hedging phrases such as 'g...

Tags: cell mutation, evolution, neo darwinism

I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent that evolution occurs, it occurs at the level of the organism. This s...

Lee Spetner

I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent that evolution occurs, it occurs at the level of the organism. This s...

Tags: adaptation, environmental evolution, evolution, genetic change, genome, neo darwinism, phenotypes