Posted: Dec 21, 2010 4:35 pm
Weaver wrote:
And the review of the MB paper he cited:
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com ... s-to-behe/
Which includes the following:Behe’s implicit conclusion was that evolution in nature—and not just in bacteria and viruses, but all species—also occurred in this way; that is, brand-new genes or genetic elements (he calls them “FCTs”) could not originate de novo by mutation and natural selection, but had to be put there by the Intelligent Designer (aka God/Jebus).
Which is actually a testable hypothesis. Not the Designer/Jebus/God part, but the claim that "new genes" cannot arise thru evolutionary processes. Or, even less stringently, that "new genes" exist that cannot be related to evolutionary precursors, which is not quite the same thing. One way the IDers could have supported this position was suggested in this video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkED8cWRu4Q[/youtube]
The closest thing to a response from the DI I could find is this. Predictably, they don't actually acknowledge that they cannot answer the challenge, but instead just come up with excuses and non-sequitors:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009/05/do ... 20491.html