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To: Diamond
This bald, out-of-context, distortion and misrepresentation of Behe's testimony is belied by the transcript of the proceedings. It reminds me of the way "60 Minutes" operates.

Found the transcript here: http://www.aclupa.org/downloads/Day11PMSession.pdf

The relevant section starts on Page 34 and runs through Page 45 or so. However, there's nothing in Behe's statements here that contradict the Judge's decision. He DID say those things (TWICE!). He tries to weasel out of why it isn't a Theory NOW, but one wouldn't need to play games with semantics if he used the accepted definition of a theory instead of one that he wishes were actually the definition. There's the evidence, I'll let everyone decide their own opinion.

2,539 posted on 12/23/2005 10:31:35 AM PST by ThinkPlease (Fortune Favors the Bold!)
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To: ThinkPlease
He tries to weasel out of why it isn't a Theory NOW...

Thank you for posting a link to the transcript. I think any right-minded person can see from reading it that why astrology is generally considered falsified or refuted now is not a weaseling out; the history is the CONTEXT of Behe's perfectly accurate answers about scientific theories, and what is purposely left out of the sound-bite distortions. A text without a context is a pretext. Rothchild used these types of 'gotcha' pretexts repeatedly for the purpose of caricaturing Behe as a nut, and imo the judge dutifully echoed like a parrot.

Cordially,

2,760 posted on 12/27/2005 7:33:03 AM PST by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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