Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
He addresses the Behe diavlog . Sort of. McWhorter states that he did not find the rebuttals to the arguments in Michael Behe's Edge of Evolution persuasive. Fair enough, but I would be curious as to what other books on evolution he has read (I think he mentioned Sean Carroll'). The math in something like John Maynard Smith's Evolutionary Genetics is really not that hard (mostly...
Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
We would like to remind our readers that Michael Behe has a sub-blog here at UD, which can be accessed at the sidebar under “Intelligent Design Links.” Last week Behe put up a four-part series replying to science writer Carl Zimmer’s comments about Behe’s response to Joseph Thornton’s recent work. The final paragraph is classic Behe:...
Question Darwin (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
http://www.questiondarwin.com/ As a light aside and 'compare and contrast', I post a review of a review of 'The Edge of Evolution' from Michael Behe's weblog from a couple of years back. BTW if 'anonymouse' is still reading, he could click on the link to Behe's blog on the right and take a look at Behe's responses to the misrepresentation from the Dover trial that I couldn't...
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
More than a thousand people attended the second day of the Legacy of Darwin ID Conference this weekend in Castle Rock, Colorado. Saturday morning started off with a strong talk by Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe, who synthesized the main points of his books Darwin’s Black Box and The Edge of Evolution. Behe, in his usual winsome and accessible style, drove home...
Respectful Insolence (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... fools of themselves to try to prove their pseudoscience. Indeed, creationists have Casey Luskin, Michael Behe, Dr. Michael Egnor, and any number of gnats nipping away at evolution. I have Mike Adams. There's a difference, though. As important as evolution is to biology, as big a threat that creationists are to science literacy and education, they don't have the immediate and...
Southern Fried Science (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Charlie is not impressed. Posted in 365 days of Darwin Tagged: Michael Behe
Question Darwin (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... design is NOT the same as creationism, it is ignorant or deliberately deceitful to say it is, and Michael Behe and others on sites to which this blog links have exposed the incorrectm, biased nature of the ruling and dishonest reporting of this trial. But the question was not even about intelligent design, let alone creationism, it was about a sound bite from the ruling of an activist...
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Both at the Dover trial and in his lectures and books (such as Only a Theory), one of Dr. Kenneth Miller’s primary responses to Michael Behe’s arguments for irreducible complexity is to cite evidence for common ancestry. This class of evidence does not refute Behe because at most, evidence of sequence similarity in DNA demonstrates common ancestry—not a Darwinian...
The Intersection (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
In my 2005 book The Republican War on Science, I wrote somewhat mockingly of ID proponents as follows: ID theorists, apparently, have a very high opinion of themselves, believing they are fueling a scientific revolution of Copernican proportions. ID proponent Michael Behe has even written that the alleged discovery of design in nature “rivals those of [...]
The Lippard Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... interesting similarities and differences to the current creation/evolution debate. He began with Michael Behe and a short description of his irreducibly complexity argument regarding the bacterial flagellum--that since it fails to function if any piece is removed, and it's too complex to have originated by evolution in a single step, it must have been intelligently designed and created....
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... clear that ID is not merely a negative argument against evolution, but a strong positive argument. Michael Behe refuted Miller’s testimony by stating: "This argument for design is an entirely positive argument. This is how we recognize design by the purposeful arrangement of parts." (Day 10 AM Testimony, p. 110.) Behe also made this clear in the afterward to Darwin’s Black...
Apologetics 315 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Darwin or Design (by Jason Rennie) is a collection of audio interviews with 25 people on both sides of the intelligent design question, including PZ Myers , Michael Behe , Guillermo Gonzales , Elliott Sober , Massimo Pigliucci , Henry Schaefer , and more. There are interviews on what evolutionary theory currently thinks, what is intelligent design, the philosophy of science, and others....
The Panda's Thumb (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... targeted. That list is reproduced below the fold. (I note that Lehigh is on the list; I wonder if Michael Behe will avail himself of the opportunity to learn some evolution.) I urge scientists and interested folks on the infected campuses to seek immunization from the NCSE page. Hat tip to Florida Citizens for Science. US (19 Nov) 1. Princeton University (NJ) 2. Harvard University...
Question Darwin (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
http://www.questiondarwin.com the following item is copied and pasted from Evolution News and Views to which this site links « Free Speech Prevails as Stephen Meyer Speaks on Intelligent Design to Huge Crowd at Colorado Conference Main More People Flock to Second Day of Colorado Conference to Hear Behe and Berlinski More than a thousand people attended the second day of the Legacy of Darwin...
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Castle Rock, Colorado—Despite the first major snowstorm of the season, and unrelenting efforts by malicious Darwinists to prevent people from registering, a huge crowd of around 1,000 people showed up Friday night to hear Dr. Stephen Meyer present the DNA evidence for intelligent design based on his new book Signature in the Cell. Meyer, Michael Behe, David Berlinski, and myself...
