I can’t really understand what their theory actually is, but I’m skeptical that it

presents a challenge to our understanding of the role of randomness is evolution.

Randomness is just supposed to describe some of the ways DNA changes over time,

not the way the organism works. – j1m

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I had asked Jonathan Eisen about this http://phylogenomics.blogspot…., who pointed me

to the discussion at Pharyngula http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn… The consensus appears

to be that it’s unsupported hype. – Ruchira S. Datta

This key sentence seems nonsensical to me: “The discovery answers an age-old

questionthat has puzzled biologists since the time of Darwin: How can organisms be

so exquisitely complex, if evolution is completely random.” Evolution is anything but

random. Mutation is random, but evolution is directed by differential fitness, which is

definitely not random.- Benjy Weinberger

Yeah, that’s the basic mistake as I understand it. – j1m

I would assume the creationism vs. evolution debate is not either/or. For those who

have some religion, it can be safely assumed that evolution could be directed -

essentiallyas a tool of creation. – Louis Gray

I suspect that PZ Meyers (in the second piece referenced by Ruchira) is correct in

saying; “The other problem that often occurs is that one of the investigators opens his

mouth and reveals that he is completely out of his depth, and that the team has absolutely

no conception of how evolution actually works. This time, there is no exception.” – You