[Thatcherite]

It seems that Simmons has been a practicing MD (in a smalltown family practice?) for his working life. That obviously makes him well placed to overturn the whole of modern biology.

Reading through the 5000 word summary of his article it is replete with wilful misunderstandings, canards, straw men, non-sequiturs, and arguments from personal incredulity. To name but a few that he wheels out:

Darwin knew nothing of modern genetics.

Evolution cannot account for human genius.

Darwin's doubts about the fossil record.

Lack of fossil evidence for whales

Evolution characterised as "random" and "coincidence"

Here is a direct quote from the article which gives you an impression of the level of scholarship involved, I don't know about Dembski, but surely Behe must be embarassed by the company he is keeping:

Then again, is surviving a matter of survival of the fittest- or of the luckiest? Questions such as these cloud evolutionary thought. Even the most ardent supporters of the theory of evolution still call it a theory-with very good reason: no knowledgeable scientist has ever called it the "facts of evolution."

[shubi]

Whatsits-"Then again, is surviving a matter of survival of the fittest- or of the luckiest?"

In his case it MUST have been the luckiest. LOL

[Jehu]

I see you are impressed by degrees, pretensions and the Peacock like preening of so many of our psuedo intellectuals, an not truth. Same thing could be said of the Pharisees. If I'm ever sick I would first pick a small town doctor (not that Simmons is one) before some Ivory Tower jerk that could not diagnose a pregnancy in the 3rd trimester.