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Ben Stein Withdraws As UVM Commencement Speaker

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Salamantis2/04/2009 11:00:43 am PST

re: #484 Hhar

So Charles, show me that BEHE (not the people that he is with, but Behe himself) is a creationist. For years now he has been saying that common descent is a great idea. I agree fully that most IDers are nothing different than creationists.

But I’ve done a lot of parsing of ideas and following verbal rabbit trails. I don’t see Behe as a creationist, and I think its fair to say that even if you are right, there is room for reasonable doubt. Again, I’ll point you to Brig Klyce’s enthusiasm for ID and for Panspermia (which is antithetical to 99% of Biblical creationism).

Panspermia kicks the evolutionary can down the universal road, but not off of it. The aliens or the seeding material would still have had to evolve SOMEWHERE.