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Originally Posted by Jibninjas
lol, she doesn't seem to understand what a circular argument is, she also seems to not understand what "fittest" means. Of all of the things to attack, why on earth would she attack the one thing that absolutely everyone agrees on. Both creationist and evolutionist.
Does she talk about genetic mutation at all?
Not that I saw. I got to the part where she spent a couple paragraphs on irreducible complexity and then proclaimed that
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Michael Behe DISPROVED EVOLUTION!
and gave up. Not even because of how absurd it is that some arbitrary claim that something is irreducibly complex could disprove anything at all, but because she's grossly misrepresenting one of the only qualified scientists who has some common ground with her goal of re-working the scientific method.
I wonder if she even knows that Behe is an absolute proponent of the fact that humans share a common ancestor with the trees that were used to print her books.
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Despite some remaining puzzles,* there’s no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.
The bottom line is this. Common descent is true; yet the explanation of common descent—even the common descent of humans and chimps—although fascinating, is in a profound sense trivial. It says merely that commonalities were there from the start, present in a common ancestor. It does not even begin to explain where those commonalities came from, or how humans subsequently acquired remarkable differences. Something that is nonrandom must account for the common descent of life.
Emphasis Behe's, I think the 1st sentence is enough to make my point but I despise quote mining.
Now there are issues with his take on things (in fact I think he's being rather ridiculous in some of the arguments he makes in other parts of the book regarding scientific methodology), but at least Behe is honest and clearly he enters a debate with the willingness to accept evidence that contradicts his initial view.
Edit: For anyone who may be curious about evolution itself or it's interaction with religion I just went out and bought her some books that aren't written by zealots because she seems genuinely interested.
Why Evolution is True By Jerry Coyne
Finding Darwin's God and
Only a Theory By Kenneth Miller
Last edited by Claudius Galenus; 07-11-2009 at 02:48 AM.