Re: IDunno discussed yesterday on PRI's "To The Point"

They interview Behe, and it's Behe's Greatest Hits!

"When we see little engines, little trucks and buses and the like in
cells, we're rational in assuming that they were designed, just like
when we see cars and buses in real life."

"My religious beliefs play no part in my conclusions."

"I do think that Darwinian evolution can account for some things, but
how much is an open-ended question. I'm a biochemist, I stick with
molecules and cells and so on."

"Most of Darwinian evolution, like the little story you [referring to
the interviewer, Warren Olney - E.] just told about the giraffe's neck,
that every schoolchild knows, is ridiculed in meetings with evolutionary
biologists as 'just-so-stories,' evidence-challenged stories about h"

Ouch. The follow-up interview with Lynn Caparelli is too technical, and she's
too full of uhms and aahs. Olney even warns her that her talk is "going
over the heads of most of the audience." Damn.

Behe says that "You can't demonstrate design by experiment, just as you
can't demonstrate the big bang by experiment. We infer that the big
bang happened by the evidence. We do the same thing for design."

Fortunately, Caparelli nails Behe by getting him to say that "When to
give up and call it design is a judgement call."

Elf

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