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To: gao seng who wrote (573)	5/11/2001 10:19:15 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Respond to of 1112

But faced with discussing the topic with either an evolutionist or a ufo-ologist, I prefer the latter. Much friendlier folk who argue the case against evolution quite well. I agree that they are very friendly. It's just when they try to drag you back to the mother ship for a probe that I begin to feel uncomfortable.

To: gao seng who wrote (573)	5/11/2001 1:01:19 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

As I said in my previous post, I like Behe (although I don't agree with him). Demski is another story. Any nut with an axe to grind and a keyboard can create a "mathematical explanatory filter" that gives whatever results are desired. Behe's argument is a new version of the "irreducible complexity" argument. Stated in its original question form: "What good is half an eye?", means that an eye could not have gradually evolved because half an eye would not be adaptive, and is too complex to have simply jumped into existence, therefore... blah, blah. What we have found is that prototypical eyes are indeed very adaptive (compared to no eye) and it is therefore likely that eye-like features will develop in living things. I am confident that as we learn more, it will become apparent that the same incremental improvements can be found to lead to the complex biochemical structures we see today, and we can then answer Behe's question of "What good is half a <insert_favorite_biochemical_structure>?"