Has evolutionism become a leading religion?

[coadie]

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I never gave evolution a second thought, and certainly saw no
conflict with Church teaching," said Behe, who attends St. Therese
of the Child Jesus Parish near Bethlehem with his wife, Celeste,
and their six children. (They're expecting number seven.)

A cantor who is also active in the parish's Holy Name Society,
Behe still sees no conflict between faith and evolution, but is
nonetheless giving Darwinism more than just a second thought. He
is making waves with a newbook and a fresh attack on the notion
that mere accidents of nature can explain how human beings
evolved.

One of those Catholic Christians Sprinkled and all. He has all the church teaching even.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by coadie

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One of those Catholic Christians Sprinkled and all. He has all the church teaching even.

You should have thought of that BEFORE you brought him out and threw a clip of Behe's writings into jfrog's face as "evidence" AGAINST evolution.

Your scorn of Behe just makes you look even sillier.

How long before you find some reason to hold your newest hero Arlo Moehlenpah in contempt?

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by pelathais

You should have thought of that BEFORE you brought him out and threw a clip of Behe's writings into jfrog's face as "evidence" AGAINST evolution.

Your scorn of Behe just makes you look even sillier.

How long before you find some reason to hold your newest hero Arlo Moehlenpah in contempt?

This is just one reason why I seriously doubt your far-fetched claims about "post graduate" education and doing "renal transplants," even in animals.

You consistently demonstrate a startling inability to keep track of even your own claims. You have not demonstrated the competency to write or even to think at an undergraduate level.

Your miserable plea that your were "provided secretaries while still young" is a galling hallucination on your part. Quit posing.

[coadie]

Originally Posted by pelathais

You should have thought of that BEFORE you brought him out and threw a clip of Behe's writings into jfrog's face as "evidence" AGAINST evolution.

Your scorn of Behe just makes you look even sillier.

How long before you find some reason to hold your newest hero Arlo Moehlenpah in contempt?

Apparently you haven't read THE EDGE OF EVOLUTION

The crucial passage in “The Edge of Evolution” is this: “By far the most critical aspect of Darwin’s multifaceted theory is the role of random mutation. Almost all of what is novel and important in Darwinian thought is concentrated in this third concept.”

What a bizarre thing to say! Leave aside the history: unacquainted with genetics, Darwin set no store by randomness. New variants might arise at random, or they might be acquired characteristics induced by food, for all Darwin knew. Far more important for Darwin was the nonrandom process whereby some survived but others perished

according to Dawkins review

Behe: Once I read Denton's book I was amazed that people believed in evolution when there was this clear argument against it.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by coadie

Apparently you haven't read THE EDGE OF EVOLUTION



according to Dawkins review

Apparently you haven't read "Darwin's Black Box" or anything that Behe has written at all. See that last post of mine where Behe EMPHATICALLY AFFIRMS both "common decent" and the accuracy of the scientific view of the fossil record. He is EMPHATIC.

Indeed, Behe has made his views clear that he believes in an ancient earth and even accepts common descent. Consider what Behe said in an online letter-to-the-editor with the journal Science just a few years ago:

"[Eugenie] Scott refers to me as an intelligent design "creationist," even though I clearly write in my book "Darwin's Black Box" (which Scott cites) that I am not a creationist and have no reason to doubt common descent. In fact, my own views fit quite comfortably with the 40% of scientists that Scott acknowledges think evolution occurred, but was guided by God." (Intelligent Design Is Not Creationism by Michael Behe)
And consider what Behe said in Darwin's Black Box:

"As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very popular. For the record, I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it." (Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box, pg 5)

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/05...the002259.html