Posted: Feb 05, 2018 1:35 pm
I've just bought this for my niece, as she's studying Biochemistry at uni, and Sean Carroll as author caught my eye.
Turns out that it's Sean B Carroll, not Sean M Carroll, the notable cosmologist who, I'm sure, is well-known here.
Anyway, his (unsurprisingly) somewhat caustic review of Michael Behe's "The Edge of Evolution - The Search for the Limits of Darwinism" was in the Wiki article references, so although many here may have seen it already, as it's quite old, I thought I'd offer it nonetheless:
God as Genetic Engineer
Turns out that it's Sean B Carroll, not Sean M Carroll, the notable cosmologist who, I'm sure, is well-known here.
Anyway, his (unsurprisingly) somewhat caustic review of Michael Behe's "The Edge of Evolution - The Search for the Limits of Darwinism" was in the Wiki article references, so although many here may have seen it already, as it's quite old, I thought I'd offer it nonetheless:
God as Genetic Engineer
“The Lord hath delivered him into mine hands.”
Those are the words that Thomas Huxley, Darwin's confidant and staunchest ally, purportedly murmured to a colleague as he rose to turn Bishop Samuel Wilberforce's own words to his advantage and rebut the bishop's critique of Darwin's theory at their legendary 1860 Oxford debate. They are also the first words that popped into my head as I read Michael J. Behe's The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism. In it, Behe makes a new set of explicit claims about the limits of Darwinian evolution, claims that are so poorly conceived and readily dispatched that he has unwittingly done his critics a great favor in stating them.
... continues.