Sunday, May 03, 2009

Darwin's Black Box - by Michael J. Behe

Darwin's Black Box was not well received by the scientific community, which overwhelmingly rejected Behe's premises and arguments.

In 2005, while testifying for the defense in the Dover trial, Behe claimed under oath that the book had received a more thorough peer review than a scholarly article in a refereed journal,[12] a claim which appears to conflict the facts of the book's peer review.[13] Four of the book's five reviewers (Michael Atchison, Robert Shapiro, K. John Morrow, and Russell Doolittle) have made statements that contradict or otherwise do not support Behe's claim of the book passing a rigorous peer review.

In the same trial, Behe eventually testified under oath that "There are no peer reviewed articles by anyone advocating for intelligent design supported by pertinent experiments or calculations which provide detailed rigorous accounts of how intelligent design of any biological system occurred".[19] The result of the trial was the ruling that intelligent design is not science and is essentially religious in nature.

Behe is a fraud.

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