Posted: Jun 24, 2010 1:21 pm
Hotshoe:
he is saying that it cannot occur step by step in successive slight improvements such as we know are within the power of natural evolution to produce.
charlieM:
Unsubstantiated belief.
Hotshoe:
IF any two of those three parts together has some function, any function whatsoever, they can be selected for and maintained in the cell, up to some time when the third part (whichever third part) is introduced/co-opted into the new structure. No matter how kludgy, if it provides any selective advantage it has a chance to reproduce and be refined from that point by ordinary evolution.
CharlieM:
More unsubstantiated belief.
Hotshoe:
But the heart of Behe's argument is the untrue assertion that evolution can't account for how it arose to begin with, and since evolution cannot describe a process leading to the current state, ergo it must have been implemented by an outside designer.
That's a stupid argument.
CharlieM:
It may be a stupid argument but its not Behe's argument. Behe is arguing from what we know evolution can do and what we know about designed objects.