Posted: Jan 16, 2012 9:01 am
In his testimony in the Dover case, Behe also dishonestly quotemines professor David DeRosier and even Richard Dawkins, to make them say they support his claim about design being present in nature.
In the Nova documentary about the Dover case, DeRosier is interviewed about these comments by Behe. He explains that while the bacterial flagellum motor resembles a machine designed by a human, ofcourse that doesn't mean that it actually was designed.
The lengths these people go to, to lie for their religion.
Q. Have other scientists acknowledged these design features of the flagellum?
A. Yes, they have. And if you advance to the next slide. In 1998, a man named David DeRosier wrote an article in the journal Cell, which is a very prestegious scientific journal entitled The Turn of the Screw, The Bacterial Flagellar Motor. David DeRosier is a professor of biology at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and has worked on the bacterial flagellar motor for most of his career. In that article, he makes the statement, quote, More so than other motors, the flagellum resembles a machine designed by a human, close quote. So David DeRosier also recognizes that the structure of the flagellum appears designed.
In the Nova documentary about the Dover case, DeRosier is interviewed about these comments by Behe. He explains that while the bacterial flagellum motor resembles a machine designed by a human, ofcourse that doesn't mean that it actually was designed.
Q. Do sciences recognize evidence of design in nature?
A. Yes, they do.
Q. And do you have some examples to demonstrate that point?
A. Yes, I do. On the next slide is the cover of a book written by a man named Richard Dawkins, who is a professor of biology at Oxford University and a very strong proponent of Darwinian evolution. In 1986, he wrote a book entitled The Blind Watchmaker, why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design.
Nonetheless, even though he is, in fact, a strong Darwinist, on the first page of the first chapter of his book, he writes the following. Quote, Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose, close quote. So let me just emphasize that here's Richard Dawkins saying, this is the very definition of biology, the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.
Q. Does he explain why they appear design, how it is that we can detect design?
A. Yes, he does. And that is shown on the next slide. It is not because of some emotional reaction. It is not due to some fuzzy thinking. It's due to the application of an engineering point of view. He writes on page 21 of the first chapter, quote, We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose, such as flying, swimming, seeing. Any engineer can recognize an object that has been designed, even poorly designed, for a purpose, and he can usually work out what that purpose is just by looking at the structure of the object, close quote.
So let me just emphasize that he, in other words, is stating that we recognize design by the purposeful arrangement of parts. When we see parts arranged to achieve some sensible purpose, such as flying, swimming, and seeing, we perceive design.
The lengths these people go to, to lie for their religion.