Behe was also asked at Dover about the time required to produce a particular adaptation, and he started out giving an astronomical number of years. He was led through the calculations, using the numbers and assumptions he supplied, and the answer was several thousand years.
This highlights two things about intelligent design. It is rather unrealistic to expect complex objects to evolve while you wait — the human time scale is too limited. However, in the geological time scale, thousands of years is too short a time to be distinguished in the fossil record.
[[This highlights two things about intelligent design. It is rather unrealistic to expect complex objects to evolve while you wait — the human time scale is too limited. However, in the geological time scale, thousands of years is too short a time to be distinguished in the fossil record.]]
What has this got to do with IC? As well, ‘tens of 1000’s of years is too short to establish a fossil record’? Since when? You do realize that the shifting evolution hypothesis is now talking about rapid evolutionary events now, right? Once again, they are changing their view to fit the evidences- there is now not just one explosion of species (the cambrian explosion) but now there is another (The PreCambrian explosion) in which fully formed fully functional species show up all at once in layers labelled as ‘early’ and ‘earlier’ (given dates of millions of years old- using of course faulty dating methods, and ‘visual cues’ to come up with those numbers)
[[Behe was also asked at Dover about the time required to produce a particular adaptation, and he started out giving an astronomical number of years. He was led through the calculations, using the numbers and assumptions he supplied, and the answer was several thousand years.]]
This brings up an im,portant ID point- IF it would take astronomical times to ‘create’ ‘adaptations’ (And I’m assuming by adaptation you are talking about NEW parts not specific to a species) then the fact that ALL the parts were present and assembled and fully fuinctional in ALL the examples of ecoli in the records, then it goes to show that the parts NEVER ‘evolved’ over long periods- there is no evidence that any of the parts were present in other areas of ecoli and that htey had other functions- to suggest they had, is pure speculation which evidently the Dover trial fully allowed the evos to do, but not the ID folks.