December 2006 Post Of The Month Nominations

It's the last portion that's significant: "...apparently diverged by gene duplication more than two billion years ago."Many creationists and IDists don't realize that Behe fully accepts descent with modification and natural selection. He fully accepts common descent of all life today from one or a few organisms a few billion years ago. He fully accepts the geologic column, the 4.56 billion year age of the earth, and the 13.7 billion year old universe. Where he differs with other biologists is in his belief that certain microbiological structures are irreducibly complex and could only have come about by purposeful design and not by the process of evolution that he otherwise accepts for all else in life.In other words, and just to be absolutely clear, Behe accepts that the process of evolution produced most of what we see in life on earth today. It's just that he also believes some aspects of that life could only have been designed.