[Taxacom] "intelligent" design

[John Grehan]

Sorry = that should be 'Fred'. Fingers getting arthritic.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:59 AM John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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