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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
That, I think, displays Behe’s objectivity when he mathematically dissects evolution.

Are you ever going to tell us what you think Behe's best argument is?

1,108 posted on 09/18/2008 1:15:32 PM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
You'll have to ask Behe what his best argument is, but here's what's in Ann Coulter’s book, Godless:

Behe produced various “irreducibly complex” mechanisms, of which there are thousands— complex cellular structures, blood-clotting mechanisms, and the eye, among others. A bacterial motor, called a flagellum, depends on the coordinated interaction of 30-40 complex protein parts. The absence of almost any one of the parts would render the flagellum useless. An animal cell's whiplike oar, called a cilium, is composed of about 200 protein parts. Behe compared these cell parts to a simple mousetrap, with far fewer necessary components than a cilium or flagellum. Though there are only a few parts to a mousetrap, all of them have to be working together at one time for the contraption to serve any function whatsoever.[snip] [page 204]

1,112 posted on 09/18/2008 1:32:01 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW! NO STRINGS! You guys are great! FReep on!)
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