In Response to Meyer-Dawkins Dispute, Misconceptions About My Research Resurface

Editor's note: As Paul Nelson pointed out yesterday, Richard Dawkins has responded to Stephen Meyer's use of Doug Axe's work on the rarity of functional proteins in sequence space. Dawkins's comments appear in a thread at Jerry Coyne's blog Why Evolution Is True. A reader there commented that, "Over on Panda's Thumb, Arthur Hunt has evaluated the Axe paper that Meyer cited, and shows where Axe went wrong." He was referring to a post by Hunt to which, however, Axe already responded back in 20...