On Behe’ responses to Kitzmiller #5

In remark 11 Behe set a list of points.
I’ll start with number 2:
I was given no chance to read them [ fifty eight peer-reviewed publications, nine books, and several immunology textbook chapters about the evolution of the immune system], and at the time considered the dumping of a stack of papers and [...]

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On Behe’ responses to Kitzmiller #4

Nor do experiments exist that demonstrate the power of natural selection to make irreducibly complex biochemical systems, either directly or indirectly–proclamations of the National Academy notwithstanding.
He is perfectly right on this point. There is no experiment able to produce irreducible complex systems as those doesn’t exist
I suppose he wanted to say [...]

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On Behe’ responses to Kitzmiller #3

(5) ID proponents primarily argue for design through negative arguments against evolution, as illustrated by Professor Behe’s argument that “irreducibly complex” systems cannot be produced through Darwinian, or any natural, mechanisms. (5:38-41 (Pennock); 1:39, 2:15, 2:35-37, 3:96 (Miller); 16:72-73 (Padian); 10:148 (Forrest)).
In my remark here I will focus on the word “cannot.” [...]

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On Behe’ responses to Kitzmiller #2

(2) The argument of irreducible complexity, central to ID, employs the same flawed and illogical contrived dualism that doomed creation science in the 1980’s.
[...] However, if one simply contrasts intelligent causes with unintelligent causes, as ID does, then those two categories do constitute a mutually exclusive and exhaustive set of possible explanations. Thus evidence against [...]

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On Behe’ responses to Kitzmiller #1

(1) ID violates the centuries-old ground rules of science by invoking and permitting supernatural causation.
It does no such thing. The Court’s opinion ignores, both here and elsewhere, the distinction between an implication of a theory and the theory itself. As I testified, when it was first proposed the Big Bang theory struck [...]

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one more silly analogy

This one from Robin Collins, and coming from the future (his paper is dated “(February 27, 2006)” :

Consider this analogy: if prior to an investigation, a racist detective excludes all white people from being the murderer, then we would not expect his methodology to reliably determine the actual murderer. Along those lines, opponents [...]

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flagellum and secretory system III

When you want to compare and discuss evolutionary paths between two systems, say F and S, there are at least three main paths to consider:

F evolved from S
S evolved from F
F and S share a common ancestor, A’

And for the last case, one should also consider that at the separation point, A’ will give S’ [...]

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