Posted: Dec 07, 2014 5:32 pm
Shrunk wrote:It's worth mentioning that Behe's chloroquine resistance argument rests almost entirely on a figure given in a paper by Prof. Nicholas White. I was curious as to whether White was aware of the misuse to which he research was being put, so I sent him an email about it. Turns out he had never even heard of Behe (which is funny and revealing in itself), and his comment on Behe's claim was "Sounds nuts". I haven't seen any other response from him, but he's probably otherwise engaged in stuff like trying to save the world from malaria.
Which, BTW, Behe admits to believing was specially designed by God to kill us.
Oh, the comparison sounds entirely typical. Behe as one of those Somali pirate boats, taking inconsequential snipes at the nuclear supercarrier that is Professor White.
Indeed, this is one of the points I press myself when the opportunity arises, the fact that whilst assorted professional liars for doctrine are busy throwing their turds around, in the hope that some of the shit sticks, the people they're abusing in this manner are busy rolling back the tide of misery, suffering and death. As a corollary, every time creationists act as a drag anchor on progress, and cause time to be wasted dealing with their lies and bullshit, instead of being devoted to research, those creationists hamper work such as Professor White's, and as another corollary, those creationists, by doing so, have blood on their hands.