Website review: Behe vs Lampreys: A modest proposal...
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SensibleMoon rated 8 weeks ago- From the page: "Intelligent Design advocates regularly claim that Intelligent Design is science. However, a recent paper on the lamprey genome demonstrates the sharp gulf between science and ID." Brilliant.
- Kaempfer05 rated 8 weeks ago
- Very nice - but hardly surprising or new. ID is far from the first time someone has stupidily tried to say "that's all she wrote" about the current state of a given body of knowledge, and it is guaranteed not to be the last. There will always be people like Behe, and likewise there will always be people like Doolittle, who view the book that the former is trying to close in the same manner that a climber sees the daunting heights of Mount Everest.
- commerican rated 8 weeks ago
- Name one disease or ailment cured, repaired, or hindered as a result of ID "science".
- Scolex rated 8 weeks ago
- Dr. Mother Fucking Doolittle.
- sceptic rated 8 weeks ago
- The real problem is that IDers work by shouting "science smells of poo poo!". They play the false dichotomy card and claim that some hypothesis is broken; or some theory is flawed; or some law is plain wrong so therefore god created the world.
That's all they can do of course, because their own worldview is based upon blind faith and they have nothing of their own to show, apart from an old book and a rousing chorus of "nyah nyah my dad's bigger than your dad!".
Let's face it, most IDers wouldn't understand half the words in that article, never mind be able to critically evaluate evidence (and that's not an ad hominem attack, it's a simple fact. Jesus told me.) - The real problem is that IDers work by shouting "science smells of poo poo!". They play the false dichotomy card and claim that some hypothesis is broken; or some theory is flawed; or some law is plain wrong so therefore god created the world.
- mraei rated 8 weeks ago
- Someone should produce a compendium of all the instances that ID has been debunked.
- IW84NO1 rated 8 weeks ago
- Intelligent Design advocates regularly claim that Intelligent Design is science. However, a recent paper on the lamprey genome demonstrates the sharp gulf between science and ID. One of the key icons of ID is Michael Behe's "irreducibly complex" clotting system. In 1996 he claimed that the clotting system was unevolvable, and no simpler clotting system could exist. In contrast, in 1987 evolutionary biologist Russell Doolittle hypothesised that the clotting system had been built up by co-option of duplicated genes. Doolittle specifically predicted that fish would lack key elements of the Mammalian clotting system (elements of the intrinsic or contact clotting system).
- airewalker rated 8 weeks ago
- A zoologist named 'Doolittle'. Awesome.
- markchenjd rated 8 weeks ago
- The problem with this is that ID/Creationists have simple arguments (admittedly, with little to no evidence) that are easy to understand. "Why are there monkeys still around?" "It's like a tornado assembling a 747!"
Scientists, who feel obligated to support their claims, have to do the research before making a statement that will be more difficult to comprehend because scientists are more concerned about being accurate and truthful. - The problem with this is that ID/Creationists have simple arguments (admittedly, with little to no evidence) that are easy to understand. "Why are there monkeys still around?" "It's like a tornado assembling a 747!"
