[Lurking Libertarian]

Please crank up the Ping list (that is, if Darwin Central deems this article worthy).

[samtheman]

Does Darwin get to testify?

[VOA]

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[narby]

is unfazed by criticism but glad he has tenure.

So is Noam Chomsky.

[connectthedots]

In a nationally watched trial that could determine whether intelligent design can be taught in a public school, the soft-spoken professor had bucked decades of established scientific thought.

The trial is about whether there can even be a mention of any alternative to evolution.

[connectthedots]

Isn't it true, an attorney asked, that Behe's critique of Darwin and support for intelligent design, a rival belief about the origins of life, have little scientific support?

Yes, Behe conceded.

That is not what Behe said. ID may not have the suppost of most scientists, but Behe did not say ID did not have significant evidence supporting it.

[ml1954]

"I'm the kind of guy who would rather be at home cutting the grass and drinking a beer," he said. "Or grading papers at the university. Anything but this."

Now I know he's also a disingenuous, misspeaking, 'kind of guy'.

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He argued that living organisms are so highly complex that an unseen, intelligent designer must have created them. That designer, he said, is God.

So he's changed his mind again.