Reflectorites
Mike Behe's responses to various criticisms of his Irreducible Complexity
theory have been posted on the Discovery Institute website.
Here are the titles:
http://www.discovery.org/embeddedRecentArticles.php3?id=441
"A True Acid Test":
Response to Ken Miller
http://www.discovery.org/crsc/CRSCrecentArticles.php3?id=446
A Mousetrap Defended:
Response to Critics
http://www.discovery.org/embeddedRecentArticles.php3?id=442
In Defense of the Irreducibility of the Blood Clotting
Cascade: Response to Russell Doolittle, Ken Miller and Keith
Robison
http://www.discovery.org/embeddedRecentArticles.php3?id=443
Irreducible Complexity and the Evolutionary Literature:
Response to Critics
http://www.discovery.org/embeddedRecentArticles.php3?id=445
Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design:
Response to Critics
I haven't had time to read them all properly, and therefore comment on
them, but maybe someone would like to offer comments and/or criticisms
so we can discuss them?
Steve
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"But many biologists, looking at evolution over longer time intervals, have
noted that species are rarely modified consistently in one direction long
enough for significant evolutionary change to accumulate. Even the
Galapagos finches seem to oscillate, not really "going any where" in an
evolutionary sense. The reason is that short-term environmental change
tends to be cyclical, so natural selection is not likely to keep pushing a
species in any one particular direction long enough for new species or
major new adaptations to evolve. Furthermore, every species is broken up
into local populations, each of which belongs to a different local
ecosystem-making it even less likely that natural selection will modify the
entire species in any particular way as time rolls on." (Eldredge N.,
"Evolution and Environment: The two faces of biodiversity," Natural
History, June 1998, pp.54-55)
Stephen E. Jones | sejones@iinet.net.au | http://www.iinet.net.au/~sejones
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