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To: MRMEAN
"Some scientists with first-rate credentials, namely Michael J. Behe..."
Second-rate professor from a second-rate institution [which still had enough sense to distance itself from him] is barely a first rate credential.
2 posted on 01/07/2006 7:52:31 PM PST by GSlob
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To: GSlob
Second-rate professor from a second-rate institution [which still had enough sense to distance itself from him] is barely a first rate credential.

Just for fun, let's see what what sort of comments were elicited from the judge's ruling in the Dover case by Michael Behe's "persuasive" testimony:

On cross-examination, Professor Behe admitted that: "There are no peer reviewed articles by anyone advocating for intelligent design supported by pertinent experiments or calculations which provide detailed rigorous accounts of how intelligent design of any biological system occurred"(22:22-23 (Behe)). Additionally, Professor Behe conceded that there are no peer-reviewed papers supporting his claims that complex molecular systems, like the bacterial flagellum, the blood-clotting cascade, and the immune system, were intelligently designed. (21:61-62 (complex molecular systems), 23:4-5 (immune system), and 22:124-25 (blood-clotting cascade) (Behe)). In that regard, there are no peer-reviewed articles supporting Professor Behe's argument that certain complex molecular structures are "irreducibly complex."17 (21:62, 22:124-25 (Behe)). In addition to failing to produce papers in peer-reviewed journals, ID also features no scientific research or testing. (28:114-15 (Fuller); 18:22-23, 105-06 (Behe)).
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In view of Behe's stunning performance on the witness stand, one is moved to opine that a wooden dummy couldn't have done any worse.

34 posted on 01/07/2006 9:00:19 PM PST by longshadow (FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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To: GSlob
Some scientists with first-rate credentials, namely Michael J. Behe..." Second-rate professor from a second-rate institution [which still had enough sense to distance itself from him] is barely a first rate credential.

"God doesn't play dice with the Universe."-Albert Einstien

Real second-rate guy there. Oh, I know, you'll claim that's not what he meant or he was taken out of context, etc., etc., etc.... But seeing as how you didn't even get the main point of the article and just used the Behe thing as a strawman...

Well, just like Dawkins, it must be nice to sit in an ivory tower and claim infallibility. Unlike some of us who still believe that evolution has not disproved God and still are waiting for the agressive scientific pontificators to give us ALL the answers...

91 posted on 01/08/2006 11:38:21 AM PST by 101st-Eagle
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To: GSlob

Yeah, it's really hard to be a professor in a first-rate university when you're considered a "heretic" for speaking out against the religion of Darwinism. The evolution mafia makes sure you are exiled to the hinterland. Behe has more courage than all of your Darwinists put together, and is not less of a scientist just because his character is constantly being assassinated.


119 posted on 01/08/2006 5:37:45 PM PST by Rocky (Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
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