What has been the response of the Evolutionary Establishment to Behes evidence (for irreducible complexity)?
The responses have been basically irrational. “Behe does not understand science.” (IOW, Science = Atheism. And if Behe doesnt recognize this, Behe is a bad man and we shouldn’t listen to him. 🙂 “Behe has a religious agenda” (IOW, Behe believes in God, and so that makes him automatically mentally incompetent and so we shouldnt listen to him. 🙂 “Behe suffers from a failure of the imagination.” (IOW, Behe subscribes to the concept that experimental validation is a good way to do science. And because he does not use the Darwinian method of just imagining a series of intermediates and being content to accept that rather than looking for experimental validation, Behe is a bad man and we should not listen to him. 🙂 Atheist Evolutionary Zoologist Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) denounced Behe as cowardly for believing in God, but admitted that he could not answer Behe’s argument.
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