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Added: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:00:00 UTC

Big thanks to Norm at OneGoodMove.org as always!

Reposted from:
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/08/behe.html

Stephen's guest Michael Behe author of The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism. I thought this was one of Stephen's better interviews. He raised some good questions while maintaining his fundamentalist persona.

Read Richard Dawkins' review of Behe's new book:
http://richarddawkins.net/article,1360,Inferior-Design-Richard-Dawkins-reviews-Behes-lastest-book,Richard-Dawkins

I had expected to be as irritated by Michael Behe's second book as by his first. I had not expected to feel sorry for him. The first — "Darwin's Black Box" (1996), which purported to make the scientific case for "intelligent design" — was enlivened by a spark of conviction, however misguided. The second is the book of a man who has given up. Trapped along a false path of his own rather unintelligent design, Behe has left himself no escape. Poster boy of creationists everywhere, he has cut himself adrift from the world of real science. And real science, in the shape of his own department of biological sciences at Lehigh University, has publicly disowned him, via a remarkable disclaimer on its Web site: "While we respect Prof. Behe's right to express his views, they are his alone and are in no way endorsed by the department. It is our collective position that intelligent design has no basis in science, has not been tested experimentally and should not be regarded as scientific."

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