The opening post and video were posted by a young Christian who identifies as a fan of William Lane Craig on
Reasonable Faith. The OP quotes at some length from
Behe's post on Discovery Institute's website.
The video is also posted on
My Space.
My response to the video:
Where in Darwin's writing does Behe get the term "random mutation"? Can anyone give me the title, date, and publisher, please? Also page number, obviously. Behe says it at 5:01.
Behe gives the right answer for why science does not publish books on how life originates. Humans don't know how life originates, but they do know "how life changed over time" (9:45). This is one more piece of evidence to support my long-time argument that Christians agree with real science so long as it supports their religion; they twist science only where it needs to be twisted to fit into the Bible/their religion. But when it comes to that, they are heedless of truth.
You don't go from a finch to an ant-eater (33:23), McWhorter, the division happened eons before you had a discernible bird or animal.
McWhorter says none of the science we have today can explain how the "ugly shrewlike thing became all of today's mammals." It seems the guy is not reading too much real science or evolution (33:51). He's spent his time reading Behe and Behe's arguments are not real science. McWhorter suggests "we can't know" how it happened. That is simply not the case. He simply does not understand the science he has been looking at re why legs don't grow out of heads, etc. (much earlier in video).
Behe claims that if in fifty years someone comes along and proves that he is wrong...(40:16). The problem with that statement is that he hardly expects to be around in fifty years from now to have to deal with anyone proving him wrong. Just before that statement he gives his age; he is at the time of the taping in his mid-fifties. On top of that, he is at the moment (today in real life and science) being proven wrong and he refuses to admit it. So much for his boasting about how he would accept being proven wrong fifty years down the road when all of us know he won't be around...
McWhorter thinks Behe's "Edge of Evolution" was one of the most important books he has ever read in all of his life. That probably accounts for his ignorance on real science.
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I watched all of it now. The reason it was pulled off the site was hardly because McWhorter agreed with Behe but because it portrays bad science in a positive light. Bad science is costing human lives. Obviously, the way McWhorter handled things had a great deal to do with this, and the Christians then accused bloggerhead.tv with being biased so they put it back up. So it appears to me. But the real problem with that kind of video is the cost in human lives due to bad science.
Now tell me where in Darwin's writing does Behe get the term "random mutation"? I say Behe made it up that Darwin wrote that term but I could be wrong.