In a message dated 10/3/2000 10:49:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
DNAunion@aol.com writes:
> DNAunion: So? IDists, including Behe, do not deny that evolution occurs.
> Behe's book is subtitled "The Biochemical CHALLENGE to Evolution", not "The
> Biochemical REFUTATION of Evolution". In addition, Behe states he finds
> the
> argument for commone descent convincing and accepts that Darwinian
> evolution
> accounts for much biological change.
>
> It is a straw man to present ID and evolution as being mutually exclusive.
>
It would be interesting to find out how ID took place. The lack of pathways
and IC systems does not make for good science.
Behe's mechanism
"During the Q & A, Simon Conway Morris was the moderator. When my hand
went up he called on me. [I took this as evidence supporting the
hypothesis that he liked my question during his talk :-) --grm] I
asked Behe that he has spent a lot of time talking about what wouldn't
work and asked him to tell us what would work--if not evolution, what,
then? Miracles? Behe stumbled around a bit and finally said that God
inputs information into living system all along the way."
[...]
"Ptashne pushed Meyer to define whether or not the DNA for each species was
individually designed by God and tell him where and when God did this.
Sokar asked "Can you make one empirical prediction from your model?" Meyer
replied that Dembski had made a prediction that he could find the missing
elements in the origin of life scenarios. Presumably this was the
information. "
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