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Michael Behe Hasn’t Been Refuted on the Flagellum
The Defenders Darwin Wouldn’t Claim
Tennessee Academic Freedom Bill Backed by Scientists
Tennessee House Bill 368 will move to a vote by the House General Subcommittee of Education after expert testimony from scientists and educators who expressed their concern that students need to learn more about science and develop critical thinking skills.
Read More ›Coppedge Lawsuit Against NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Amended to Allege Wrongful Termination
In light of his being fired in January, David Coppedge’s discrimination lawsuit against Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been amended to allege wrongful termination.
Read More ›Behe’s Critics’ Scaffolding Falls Down
Michael Behe’s Critics Misunderstand Irreducible Complexity and Make Darwinian Evolution Unfalsifiable
Venter vs. Dawkins on the Tree of Life — and Another Dawkins Whopper
Behe’s Critics Use Faulty Logic to Allege Creationist Connections to the Origin of Irreducible Complexity
Quarterly Review of Biology (QRB) published an error-filled article attacking Michael Behe and intelligent design (ID) as penance for publishing Behe’s article. So much for the claim from critics that Behe’s QRB paper had nothing to do with ID. In any case, the critical article by Maarten Boudry, Stefaan Blancke, and Johan Braeckman uses fallacious logic to attempt to connect Michael Behe’s arguments from irreducible complexity to young earth creationism. There argument seems to be that if anyone anywhere who is a creationist has ever talked about an idea that sounds like irreducible complexity, then that was necessarily one of Behe’s sources for his ideas. Behe’s critics thus quote Henry Morris and other creationists talking about how some biological features Read More ›