[Taxacom] "intelligent" design

[Peter Uetz]

One refutation of ID comes from Behe's own department at Lehigh University,
where ALL of his colleagues signed a statement that they reject his “theories”:
https://www.lehigh.edu/~inbios/News/evolution.html <https://www.lehigh.edu/~inbios/News/evolution.html>

Apart from that, we don’t have to explain here why ID is nonsense: there is no evidence for it.
Creationists, of course, claim that there is no evidence for evolution.
I usually point out to them that there are at least 5 million studies supporting evolution:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=evolution&btnG=&oq=evo <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=evolution&btnG=&oq=evo>
and they should read those first before they make that claim again :)



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> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 11:44:45 -0500
> From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb at istar.ca <mailto:bckcdb at istar.ca>>
> To: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu <mailto:taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu <mailto:taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>>
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> Taxacomers,
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> I've received this e-mail from a friend -
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> "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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Peter Uetz
Center for Biological Data Science (CeBiDaS)
(formerly Center for the Study of Biological Complexity)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284
USA

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