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Pope Bashes Intelligent Design

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Mike O'Malley2/11/2009 6:37:57 pm PST

re: #431 Naso Tang

I don’t know if you are paraphrasing or not, but what is the point of saying “random mutation paired with natural selection”?

It’s a simplification, but in essense you could just as well have said “evolution”.

Behe doesn’t think many things are possible, and even you must be aware that he has been unable to prove anything of what he thinks, or claims to think. That is the essense of the argument; not responses to responses about books that express what he thinks, but can’t demonstrate.

You are just bullshitting.

Pray be civil, good sir ;-) An attitude of respect will facilitate the conversation ;-)

Actually I was all but quoting Dr. Behe. I find the many who diss and dismiss Dr. Behe bowdlerize and disfigure his arguments. You can find my source here

This too is stale. It was written a dozen years or so ago. However, Dr. Behe continues to take pains to point out

I want to be explicit about what I am, and am not, questioning. The word “evolution” carries many associations. Usually it means common descent — the idea that all organisms living and dead are related by common ancestry. I have no quarrel with the idea of common descent, and continue to think it explains similarities among species. By itself, however, common descent doesn’t explain the vast differences among specie

and frankly it seems to me that you too bowdlerized Dr. Behe’s argument rather than wrestle with it fairly.