[Taxacom] "intelligent" design

[John Grehan]

Dred - why look for refutation? Evolutionary biology is rife with explicit
teleology, and if purpose is not intelligent design I don't know what is.
And dispersal biogeography often invokes mysteries and miracles.

John Grehan

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:44 AM Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Taxacomers,
>
> I've received this e-mail from a friend -
>
> "Just finished a new Christmas present book by Michael Behe. It is a
> review of recent results about the molecular level in how evolution
> proceeds. Behe is a firm supporter of intelligent design and his book
> provides strong evidence from the recent  experimental results that our
> conventional Darwinian assumptions do not work. I recommend the book.
> Having done some thinking about the Cambrian 'explosion' in biological
> forms there seems to be evidence for the 'angels...'”
>
> I wonder if I could be pointed at a serious, non-mocking, refutation of
> the supposed population genetics arguments of intelligent designers?
>
> fred.
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