From ResearchID.org

Ralph Seelke received his B.S. from Clemson University in 1973 and his Ph.D. in microbiology in 1981 from the University of Minnesota. He is currently a professor in the Department of Biology and Earth Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Prof. Seelke is an experimentalist whose specialty is researching the capabilities and limitations of evolution. He discuses these limitations and origin theories in the context of intelligent design.

Research

Seelke is experimentally testing evolution of bacterial cultures, particularly the capability of a system to evolve two simultaneous necessary mutations.

I’m greatly privileged to be able to ask a monumental research question: What can evolution REALLY do?? Answering that question is one of my great passions in life.

We’ve checked approximately 1.1 trillion cells for evolution, when two changes are required; it hasn’t happened yet. We’ve allowed cultures to evolve for ~1300 generations; one culture devolved- lost the gene! Two other have yet to show the ability to make tryptophan.

External links

• Seelke's Home Page
• After Darwin’s Black Box:Where Does a Laboratory Scientist Go to Contribute?
• Why I am a doubter of Evolution. Nov. 13, 2006
• The Origin of Life: If you believe the facts, then the answers lie outside of science.
• Intelligent Design: What's the big deal?