Followers of the The Great Mutator are never down for the count
Michael Behe has sold a lot of books. Jerry Coyne, in a review of Behe's new one for the New Republic notes:
"But IDers, like all creationists, are never down for the count, because they see themselves as fighting for the Lord. So Behe is back now, with a new book and a brand-new theory that puts the Intelligent Designer back into biology. What has Behe now found to resurrect his campaign for ID? It's rather pathetic, really. Basically, he now admits that almost the entire edifice of evolutionary theory is true: evolution, natural selection, common ancestry. His one novel claim is that the genetic variation that fuels natural selection--mutation--is produced not by random changes in DNA, as evolutionists maintain, but by an Intelligent Designer. That is, he sees God as the Great Mutator."
Seriously funny. If this is the sort of argument Behe is going to employ...
5 comments:
Uhhhh, why don't you try actually reading Behe's book to see if Coyne has represented it fairly?
Also, Behe is responding to his critics here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A3DGRQ0IO7KYQ2/ref=cm_blog_blog/002-0899767-5278418
Seeing what Behe has to say for himself would be of interest to the fair-minded.
Thanks. I am aware of Behe's defence on Amazon.
If I recall, Coyne has another piece responding to Behe on Amazon too. Have you read that?
I looked around and didn't find Coyne's response on Amazon. Do you have a link?
Here you go:
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Coyne.cfm
It was mentioned in one of the responses in Behe's Amazon page somewhere. Have fun!
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