Today, for the birthday of Charles Darwin, celebrated around the world as Darwin Day, Discovery Institute is proud to launch a new, five-part video series. It’s Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe. You can see Episode 1 here
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Enjoyed the introductory episode. Well done for a general audience. That’s a very difficult task.
Looking forward to watching the next episodes.
Dr. Behe is fine example of the Christian virtue of turning the other cheek. Over the years, I have seen Dr. Behe slandered time and time again by Darwinists. But I have never seen him respond in kind. The angriest that I’ve ever seen Dr. Behe get to this relentless slander by Darwinists is when he suggested Abbie Smith “can go soak her head” after she sent him a particularly hostile ‘open letter’.
Compared to the level of vitriol that Abby Smith has spewed towards Dr. Behe, that was an extremely mild mannered response on his part:
Admittedly, most of the slander by Darwinists has not been as hateful as Abby Smith’s slander, but has been along the lines, as wikipedia does, of calling him an “advocate of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design”.
Rather than respond in kind to the slander by Darwinists, Dr. Behe has steadfastly focused on the science at hand. And Dr. Behe has been vindicated time and time again by the science at hand.
Particularly, in his 2008 book, “The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism”, Dr. Behe, after analysis of several lines of evidence, particularly analysis of evidence from HIV and malaria, Dr. Behe noted that the ability of the malaria parasite to develop resistance to chloroquine is a two mutation event with a probability of occurring of 1 in 10^20. He then notes that ‘for humans to achieve a mutation like this by chance, we would have to wait 100 million times 10 million years’ (or 10^15, 1 quadrillion years)
Michael Behe then put what he has dubbed ‘the edge of evolution’ to be at 10^20 times 10^20, which is 10^40. ,,, Behe puts the edge of evolution at 10^40 since, as he states, ‘there have likely been fewer than 10^40 cells in the world in the last 4 billion years,’.
And Dr. Behe’s 10^20 figure was “derived from public health statistical data,”,,,
Of course, Darwinists never did accept this empirical evidence, and, as mentioned previously, have in large part responded by slandering Dr. Behe.
Regardless of the disingenuous nature in which Darwinists responded to Dr. Behe, Dr. Behe’s 10^20 figure has now, as of 2014, achieved empirical confirmation in the laboratory.
Moreover, as hard as it is for Darwinian processes to account for chloroquine resistance in the malaria parasite, (and to add insult to injury), the supposedly beneficial adaptation came at a loss of function for the parasite, not a gain.
In fact, the vast majority of ‘beneficial’ adaptations come about because of loss of function mutations. This is an issue that clearly is at odds with the claims of Darwinists, and is an issue that Dr. Behe has explored in much greater detail in his latest book “Darwin Devolves”. Here is a recent video by Dr. Behe on the topic
Thus in conclusion, although Darwinists have, over the years, slandered Dr. Behe time and time again, Dr. Behe never responded in kind and has instead chosen to let the evidence speak for itself. And the empirical evidence itself has vindicated Dr. Behe.
Dr. Behe is a shining example of what science is suppose to be about. i.e. following the evidence where it leads in an unbiased, non-personal, manner. Darwinists, as well as everyone else who considers themselves to be a scientist, would do very well to follow Dr. Behe’s example!
This darw’s day, let’s celebrate:
How Science is Killing Darwinism
Enter Gerd B. Müller (no, he is not an ID proponent):
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.christianpost.com/amp/fingerprints-in-the-cell-how-science-is-killing-darwinism.html
And now, let’s celebrate this day with some laughs thanks to our darwinian friends:
Observation : “Babies are shaped like footballs and have more bendable bones than adults”.
Darwinian “explanation”:
1.”This is because primitive man would have wanted to spread his genes as far as possible”.
2. “We believe this was accomplised by punting the child from village to village until it arrived in a different population”.
3.”This also explains why babies have ample fat, which protected their organs during punting. It explains why babies must be burped often, because in nature that gas would been expelled by the dropkick”.
“AND it explains their smooth skin and hairlesness, which made for good aerodinamics”.
Now the story-teller receives his/her prize.
Credit where credit is due:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/scienceoveracuppa.com/2016/05/22/the-absurdity-of-just-so-stories-in-explaining-evolution/amp/