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arachnophilia
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Message 18 of 25 (121028)
07-01-2004 10:40 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by RAZD
06-16-2004 2:25 PM


just a nit pick
Behe says the eye is "irreducibly complex" (IC) and defines IC as something that cannot have anything removed from it and still operate.
i don't have behe's book sitting around anymore, as i returned it to the library, but i'm certain that he does not claim the eye as an ic system.
i'm also reasonably certain that he in fact addresses the eye, and the fact that it is not ic, saying that both darwin and dawkins have sufficiently answered the claim, which was made by a contemporary of darwin's.
behe's book is called "Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution." pay attention to the second part of the title. he's talking about systems that are much smaller than gross anatomy: the systems things like the retina are made of, not the eye as a whole.
he's still wrong, but it makes johnpaul even more wrong if he's using behe to back up a claim even behe refutes. if johnpaul is indeed doing that, i haven't really been paying attention to this thread.

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Message 19 of 25 (121029)
07-01-2004 10:44 PM
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06-11-2004 2:09 PM


Re: Eye Design
The way you talked about Behe I had figured you read his stuff, my bad.
i have.
he's not credible. happy?
Gross anatomy means that the details are missing
"gross" means "large." gross anatomy talks about organs and bones and big features. behe states clearly in his book that he is not talking about gross anatomy.
What you or any other evolutionist can show is that random mutations culled by NS led to the development of any vision system.
pick up a copy of "on the origin of species by means of natural selection" by charles darwin, he covers it quite thorooughly. as does richard dawkins, in "the blind watchmaker"
and for that matter, so do michael j. behe in "darwin's black box: the biochemical challenge to evolution"

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Message 21 of 25 (121304)
07-02-2004 7:10 PM
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07-02-2004 7:05 PM


Re: just a nit pick
i don't think people read close enough, as the argument seems to get attributed to him quite a lot.
he does however argue that the light sensitive cells of the retina are ic systems.

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Message 25 of 25 (121381)
07-02-2004 11:48 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by RAZD
07-02-2004 8:23 PM


Re: god of gaps IC?
hmmm ... sounds like god of the gaps thinking ...
it certainly is.
i didn't mean to imply that i thought he was RIGHT, he certainly isn't. i was just pointing out what his argument actually was.

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