It’s counterproductive to just wave your hands and say “He’s a creationist, so he must be wrong.” A lot of people out there don’t know enough about either side to have an informed opinion. For their benefit, it is worthwhile taking creationist claims at face value and examining them to see that they have no validity.

The thing about Behe, is he isn’t a crank like Ken Ham (who thinks T. rex ate coconuts before Adam and Eve got kicked out of the Garden of Eden) or Ray Comfort (who thinks that crocoducks must exist for evolution to be true).

Behe believes evolution accounts for much of natural history. He just thinks God sticks his magic finger in us every now and then. That’s a comforting fiction for a lot of people. It gives them a story they can tell themselves to quiet the cognitive dissonance they get from knowing that evolution is true but wanting God to be true as well. That’s why it’s worth the time to rationally deconstruct his claims.

Get my point? The clock maker argument has become 100 times, if not a 1000 times more reasonable since it was first asked.

I have never met an atheist/evolutionist who was at least reasonable enough to agree that they are asking an aweful lot from me to simply nod my head that EVERYTHING just happened. You may hate behe.. but please… the systems in the human body, if described thoroughly, out loud, to a group of people forced to listen to it.. would leave them dying of old age but i would think ENRAPTURED in the HUGE COMPLEXITY OF THE SYSTEMS WALKING THIS PLANET. And any scientist worth anything better admit that they two are occasionally found SLACK jawed when the enormity of it hits them.

It is like a tornado blowing through the universe and creating fREAKING EVERYTHING…. you are out of your minds… my goodness.. you evolutoinsists are wack jobs.. and you manage to pull of making us…. doubters (i am a doubter in evolution.. not a BELIEVER in something else..fyi) sound crazy.

yeah.. i am crazy.. but i am right.

screw you evolutionists unreasonable fcks.

Genesius, your critique is totally uncalled for. In the context of Edward Kerr’s post, single cell viruses are obviously meant to be understood as the opposite of multiple-cell viruses, which are bigger.

Must be tough to type with your tongue that deep in your cheek. . .

This is on another topic entirely, but it’s sort of worth noting, if you need a quick fundie outrage minute. They changed the Texas Pledge from “I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible” to “I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.”

No word yet on why, but it certainly lost its ring.