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For the Paperback of Darwin's Doubt, Due Out on June 3, a Steep Discount that Won't Last Long Evolution News & Views May 22, 2014 Excerpt: Remember, only the paperback includes Dr. Meyer's new Epilogue, responding in detail to his critics. http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/05/for_the_paperba085891.html bornagain77

Hypothesis: Nick Matzke is a literature bluffing liar. (actually it is more of a proven theory rather than a mere hypothesis) Nick Matzke Admits His Quote Mining Accusation Was False; Instead of Apologizing Tries to Change the Definition of “Quote Mining” to “Refusing to Agree With Me” - Barry Arrington https://uncommondesc.wpengine.com/intelligent-design/nick-matzke-admits-his-quote-mining-accusation-was-false-instead-of-apologizing-tries-to-change-the-definition-of-quote-mining-to-refusing-to-agree-with-me/ Calling Nick Matzke's literature bluff on molecular machines - DonaldM UD blogger - April 2013 Excerpt: So now, 10 years later in 2006 Matzke and Pallen come along with this review article. The interesting thing about this article is that, despite all the hand waving claims about all these dozens if not hundreds of peer reviewed research studies showing how evolution built a flagellum, Matzke and Pallen didn’t have a single such reference in their bibliography. Nor did they reference any such study in the article. Rather, the article went into great lengths to explain how a researcher might go about conducting a study to show how evolution could have produced the system. Well, if all those articles and studies were already there, why not just point them all out? In shorty, the entire article was a tacit admission that Behe had been right all along. Fast forward to now and Andre’s question directed to Matzke. We’re now some 17 years after Behe’s book came out where he made that famous claim. And, no surprise, there still is not a single peer reviewed research study that provides the Darwinian explanation for a bacterial flagellum (or any of the other irreducibly complex biological systems Behe mentioned in the book). We’re almost 7 years after the Matzke & Pallen article. So where are all these research studies? There’s been ample time for someone to do something in this regard. Matzke will not answer the question because there is no answer he can give…no peer reviewed research study he can reference, other than the usual literature bluffing he’s done in the past. https://uncommondesc.wpengine.com/irreducible-complexity/andre-asks-an-excellent-question-regarding-dna-as-a-part-of-an-in-cell-irreducibly-complex-communication-system/#comment-453291 A Graduate Student (Nick Matzke) Writes – David Berlinski July 9, 2013 http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/07/a_graduate_stud074221.html A One-Man Clade – David Berlinski – July 18, 2013 http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/07/a_one_man_clade074601.html Hopeless Matzke -David Berlinski & Tyler Hampton August 18, 2013 http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/08/hopeless_matzke075631.html Here are more thorough looks at the major flaws in all the critical reviews of 'Darwin's Doubt': Darwin's Doubt - Reviews - Part 1 - by Paul Giem - video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW8SLKoSZqM Darwin's Doubt - Reviews - Part 2 - by Paul Giem - video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPqN0-YiJgg Darwin's Doubt - Reviews - Part 3 - by Paul Giem - video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mj1thPrSgc Darwin's Doubt - Reviews - Part 4 - by Paul Giem - video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfEfa6KaEXU bornagain77

Speaking of hypotheses what are the testable hypotheses for unguided/ blind watchmaker evolution producing a bacterial flagellum? Joe

Hypothesis: the sudden spate of "reviews" of Darwin's Doubt at Amazon are the "class projects" for this course: http://www.amazon.com/review/R108S00E18T12Y/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0062071475#wasThisHelpful NickMatzke_UD

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...random mutation is “like a bull in a china shop.”

That's quite an interesting analogy: it makes it easy to imagine the unpleasant mess :( Dionisio

podcast - On this episode of ID the Future, Michael Behe is on The Universe Next Door with Tom Woodward to discuss his work that presents a challenge to neo-Darwinian evolution, including his books Darwin's Black Box and The Edge of Evolution. Behe explains his "irreducible complexity" concept, and also gives an overview of research by Richard Lenski that shows that random mutation is "like a bull in a china shop." http://intelligentdesign.podomatic.com/entry/2014-04-25T16_06_16-07_00 bornagain77

Thanks News! Mung