Re: [asa] historical versus experimental sciences

From: Dave Wallace <wmdavid.wallace@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 15:01:01 EDT

Cameron Wybrow wrote:
>
> If I'm wrong, you should be able to show me how a Darwinian biologist,
> say Coyne, would predict a different protein structure than Michael
> Behe would, based on the same fruit fly DNA sequence. If they would
> predict different protein structures, then I would concede the
> relevance of evolutionary theory to the application you are
> suggesting. But if they would predict the same protein structure,
> then obviously they believe that the protein structure is governed by
> the DNA sequence itself, not by the evolutionary pathway which
> allegedly generated the DNA sequence.
Cameron
As I read Behe he accepts common descent and small scale evolutionary
changes. Maybe I am missing something but it seems to me that Behe
accepts enough of the evolutionary paradigm to predict the same protein
structure.

I am also having trouble understanding the point of this thread as your
main point is related to evolution of complex biological changes?

Dave W

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