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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #000000; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#000000"><b><a href="/wiki/Goddidit" class="mw-redirect" title="Goddidit"><font color="white">The divine comedy</font></a></b><br /><a href="/wiki/Creationism" title="Creationism"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Creationism</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#F2F2F2;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Creationism" title="Category:Creationism"><img alt="Icon creationism.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/a/a8/Icon_creationism.svg/100px-Icon_creationism.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/a/a8/Icon_creationism.svg/150px-Icon_creationism.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/a/a8/Icon_creationism.svg/200px-Icon_creationism.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="195" data-file-height="195" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#000000; text-align:center;"><b>Running gags</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F2F2F2;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Biblical</a> <a href="/wiki/Biblical_literalism" title="Biblical literalism">literalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism" title="Young Earth creationism">Young</a>/<a href="/wiki/Old_Earth_creationism" title="Old Earth creationism">Old Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design">Intelligent design</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_creationist_scientists" title="Lists of creationist scientists">Creation scientists</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#000000; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Evidence_against_a_recent_creation" title="Evidence against a recent creation"><font color="white">Jokes aside</font></a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F2F2F2;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_transitional_forms" title="List of transitional forms">List of transitional forms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium" title="Punctuated equilibrium">Punctuated equilibrium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">Evolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yellowstone" title="Yellowstone">Yellowstone</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#000000; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Creationism" title="Category:Creationism"><font color="white">Blooper reel</font></a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F2F2F2;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Creationist_mathematics" title="Creationist mathematics">Creationist mathematics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rotation_of_the_Earth" title="Rotation of the Earth">Rotation of the Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appel_%C3%A0_la_beaut%C3%A9" title="Appel à la beauté">Appel à la beauté</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torah_Philosophy" title="Torah Philosophy">Torah Philosophy</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#000000; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Evolutionism" title="Evolutionism"><font color="white">Evolutionism</font></a> <font color="white">debunkers</font></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F2F2F2;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Berlinski" title="David Berlinski">David Berlinski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Craig" title="Larry Craig">Larry Craig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Paisley" title="Ian Paisley">Ian Paisley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zachary_K._Hubbard" title="Zachary K. Hubbard">Zachary K. Hubbard</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Crenav" title="Template:Crenav">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Crenav" title="Template talk:Crenav">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Crenav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div role="note" class="hatnote">For our article on Dr. Behe himself, see <a href="/wiki/Michael_Behe" title="Michael Behe">Michael Behe</a>.</div> <p>Dr. Michael Behe is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University and a prominent fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Discovery_Institute" title="Discovery Institute">Discovery Institute</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> He is a high-profile advocate of <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_Design" class="mw-redirect" title="Intelligent Design">Intelligent Design</a>, and his work is mentioned in the Discovery Institute's <a href="/wiki/Wedge_Document" class="mw-redirect" title="Wedge Document">wedge document</a>. </p><p>His second book, <i><b>The Edge of Evolution</b></i> (2007), formulates an idea of the intelligent designer as the "great mutator," driving the mutations which drive evolution. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Questions_.26_RationalWiki_response"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Questions & RationalWiki response</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#What_do_you_believe_Darwinian_evolutionary_processes_can_actually_do.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">What do you believe Darwinian evolutionary processes can actually do?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#The_book.E2.80.99s_subtitle_speaks_of_the_.E2.80.9Climits_of_Darwinism..E2.80.9D_Are_you_saying_that_Darwin.E2.80.99s_theory_is_completely_wrong.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">The book’s subtitle speaks of the “limits of Darwinism.” Are you saying that Darwin’s theory is completely wrong?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#How_does_the_book_evolve_from_the_failure_of_randomness_to_the_conclusion_of_intelligent_design.3F_Aren.E2.80.99t_there_possible_unintelligent_evolutionary_explanations_other_than_Darwinism.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">How does the book evolve from the failure of randomness to the conclusion of intelligent design? Aren’t there possible unintelligent evolutionary explanations other than Darwinism?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#What_evidence_speaks_most_clearly_to_the_role_of_intelligent_design_in_biology.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">What evidence speaks most clearly to the role of intelligent design in biology?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#How_does_intelligent_design_differ_from_the_prevailing_Darwinist_view_of_evolution.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">How does intelligent design differ from the prevailing Darwinist view of evolution?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#How_does_intelligent_design_differ_from_creationism.3F_What_do_you_say_to_critics_who_charge_that_it_is_merely_.E2.80.9Ccreationism_in_disguise.E2.80.9D.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.6</span> <span class="toctext">How does intelligent design differ from creationism? What do you say to critics who charge that it is merely “creationism in disguise”?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Do_you_see_intelligent_design_as_a_concept_that_provides_a_resolution_to_the_creation_vs._evolution_debate.3F_Is_there_ever_a_point_where_science_and_religion_might_meet_in_some_form_of_compromise_.E2.80.93_and_does_intelligent_design_help_to_provide_that_answer.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.7</span> <span class="toctext">Do you see intelligent design as a concept that provides a resolution to the creation vs. evolution debate? Is there ever a point where science and religion might meet in some form of compromise – and does intelligent design help to provide that answer?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#In_Edge_of_Evolution_you_indicate_that_some_of_the_evidence_supporting_common_ancestry_is_pretty_persuasive._Yet_a_number_of_scientists_have_questioned_some_of_the_evidence_for_common_ancestry._Do_you_think_it_is_beyond_the_pale_for_them_to_do_so.3F_In_your_mind_is_it_scientific_to_question_common_ancestry.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.8</span> <span class="toctext">In Edge of Evolution you indicate that some of the evidence supporting common ancestry is pretty persuasive. Yet a number of scientists have questioned some of the evidence for common ancestry. Do you think it is beyond the pale for them to do so? In your mind is it scientific to question common ancestry?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#How_does_your_view_of_intelligent_design_in_biology_fit_with_the_findings_and_theories_of_cosmology_and_physics.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.9</span> <span class="toctext">How does your view of intelligent design in biology fit with the findings and theories of cosmology and physics?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#.27Is_it_necessary_to_conclude_that_the_designer_is_God.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.10</span> <span class="toctext">'Is it necessary to conclude that the designer is God?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Why_do_you_think_there_is_such_resistance_within_the_scientific_community_to_the_idea_of_intelligent_design.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.11</span> <span class="toctext">Why do you think there is such resistance within the scientific community to the idea of intelligent design?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#One_criticism_of_ID_has_been_that_it_makes_no_predictions.2C_and_thus_is_unscientific._Does_The_Edge_of_Evolution_address_this.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.12</span> <span class="toctext">One criticism of ID has been that it makes no predictions, and thus is unscientific. Does The Edge of Evolution address this?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Are_there_lessons_we_can_learn_from_the_study_of_malaria_and_HIV_to_help_us.2C_as_a_species.2C_protect_ourselves_from_viral_and_parasitical_threats.3F_How_might_other_fields.2C_such_as_medicine.2C_be_affected_by_intelligent_design.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1.13</span> <span class="toctext">Are there lessons we can learn from the study of malaria and HIV to help us, as a species, protect ourselves from viral and parasitical threats? How might other fields, such as medicine, be affected by intelligent design?</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Afterthoughts"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Afterthoughts</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:#f9f9f9;font-size:135%;font-weight:bold;border:thin solid #CCC;text-align:center;color:#000000;width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://behe.uncommondescent.com/2007/06/questions-about-my-new-book/">Questions about my new book?</a></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="background-color:#f9f9f9;font-size:135%;font-weight:bold;border:thin solid #CCC;text-align:center;color:#000000;width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Yes!</td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">"If you have any questions about my new book, Edge of Evolution, you might enjoy taking a look at this brief interview I just gave." Question & Answer With Michael J. Behe, author of <i>The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism</i></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Yes, we have a few questions! Many of Behe's arguments are <a href="/wiki/PRATT" class="mw-redirect" title="PRATT">points refuted a thousand times</a>, whereas others appear to stem from him jumping to a conclusion when the <a href="/wiki/Evidence" title="Evidence">evidence</a> is neither conclusive nor convincing.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h2><span id="Questions_&_RationalWiki_response"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Questions_.26_RationalWiki_response">Questions & RationalWiki response</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Questions & RationalWiki response">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <h3><span id="What_do_you_believe_Darwinian_evolutionary_processes_can_actually_do?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="What_do_you_believe_Darwinian_evolutionary_processes_can_actually_do.3F">What do you believe Darwinian evolutionary processes can actually do?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: What do you believe Darwinian evolutionary processes can actually do?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">THE EDGE OF EVOLUTION asks the sober question, what is it reasonable to think Darwinian evolutionary processes can actually do? Unprecedented genetic data on humans and our microbial parasites (<a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">malaria</a>, HIV, E. coli) now allow us to answer that question with some precision. The astonishing result is that, even under intense selective pressure, and given an astronomical number of opportunities, random mutation and natural selection yield only trivial, mostly degenerating changes. The bottom line: the major events that produced life on earth were not driven by random mutations.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Behe gets this "astonishing result" by ignoring the majority of ways mutations can happen,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> leaving out key information about the one species he discusses,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> and inventing bad numbers<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> to support a faulty model<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> of natural selection. It is, most emphatically, <i>not</i> a valid conclusion and certainly no threat to established science. <p>This is, in fact, rather fortunate since, by Behe's own admission,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> his "astonishing result" would imply that the Intelligent Designer — tacitly acknowledged to be the Christian God — is directly responsible for the creation of all diseases. </p><p>Throughout this interview, his books, and public appearances, Dr. Behe wields his "scientific credentials" to impress the reader with his allegedly deep knowledge of cellular and genetic mechanisms. However, there are neither intensive discussions of these claims nor references to his publications in the scientific literature. </p><p>His argument amounts to "I have studied this, and this is what I say" — and what he says is what he set out to argue for anyway. "Intelligent Design" is simply a way to make an end run around the prohibition in the United States of teaching religion via "Creation Science" in schools — by giving it a new name and reducing the emphasis on "God" by name. </p> Additionally, <i>Escherichia coli</i> in humans is certainly not a parasite. When it's not causing food poisoning (which only certain serotypes can do; most are quite harmless), its relationship with human hosts ranges from commensal (harmlessly occupying space in the intestines) to mutualistic (synthesizing vitamin K and preventing many bacterial pathogens from colonizing its environment). Behe, a Ph.D. biologist, has no excuse for not knowing better than to describe it as a parasite.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="The_book’s_subtitle_speaks_of_the_“limits_of_Darwinism.”_Are_you_saying_that_Darwin’s_theory_is_completely_wrong?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="The_book.E2.80.99s_subtitle_speaks_of_the_.E2.80.9Climits_of_Darwinism..E2.80.9D_Are_you_saying_that_Darwin.E2.80.99s_theory_is_completely_wrong.3F">The book’s subtitle speaks of the “limits of Darwinism.” Are you saying that Darwin’s theory is completely wrong?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The book’s subtitle speaks of the “limits of Darwinism.” Are you saying that Darwin’s theory is completely wrong?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Not at all. It is an excellent explanation for some features of life, but it has sharp limits. Darwin’s theory is an amalgam of several concepts: 1) random mutation, 2) natural selection, and 3) common descent. Common descent and natural selection are very well-supported. Random mutation isn’t. Random mutation is severely constrained. So the process which produced the elegant structures of life could not have been random.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">He does not say on what basis he believes mutation to be constrained. <p>"Random" is the straw man Behe repeatedly attacks in his defense of ID. If he is intelligent enough to understand evolutionary theory, one can only conclude that he has made the intellectually dishonest decision to represent evolution as an entirely random process, which could not be further from the truth. While the billions of mutations that evolution has to work with are random, spreading a beneficial mutation through a population because it confers an adaptive advantage is not in any sense "random". </p> While Behe can't be blamed for not knowing it, years later, we have strong evidence that random mutation is the sole source of genetic variation between species.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="How_does_the_book_evolve_from_the_failure_of_randomness_to_the_conclusion_of_intelligent_design?_Aren’t_there_possible_unintelligent_evolutionary_explanations_other_than_Darwinism?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="How_does_the_book_evolve_from_the_failure_of_randomness_to_the_conclusion_of_intelligent_design.3F_Aren.E2.80.99t_there_possible_unintelligent_evolutionary_explanations_other_than_Darwinism.3F">How does the book evolve from the failure of randomness to the conclusion of intelligent design? Aren’t there possible unintelligent evolutionary explanations other than Darwinism?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: How does the book evolve from the failure of randomness to the conclusion of intelligent design? Aren’t there possible unintelligent evolutionary explanations other than Darwinism?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">The new genetic results on humans and our parasites tell against not only Darwin’s theory, but against any unintelligent process. In their reciprocal evolutionary struggle, human and parasitic genomes could have been altered in nature by whatever unintelligent mechanism had the ability to help. Yet virtually nothing did. Because the categories of “intelligent” and “unintelligent” processes are mutually exclusive and exhaustive, ruling out unintelligent processes necessarily implicates intelligence.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Here Behe claims that humans do not have apparent mechanisms for preventing parasitism and that those methods we do have are the extent of "unintelligent" processes. Ergo ID is proved. <p>What Behe fails to notice is that parasitism is not the biggest problem that a species faces. Gradual change makes changing the nature of the organism's internal environment difficult, as any such change could easily cause tissue damage and thus be selected against. Despite this, highly varied anti-parasitic adaptations exist. Many plants produce toxic chemicals; vertebrates have retained a complex immune system despite its cost and problems. Fungi, lacking immune systems, are known to produce a variety of antibiotics and anti-(other)-fungal drugs, many of which, like penicillin, have found applications in medicine. </p> More fundamentally, Behe fails to distinguish between parasites now and parasites in the past. The latter are now extinct precisely because their host species became sufficiently resistant to them. We don't know what systems were altered to achieve this or whether these systems were further altered after the removal of parasites and are now differently functional or even non-functional.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="What_evidence_speaks_most_clearly_to_the_role_of_intelligent_design_in_biology?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="What_evidence_speaks_most_clearly_to_the_role_of_intelligent_design_in_biology.3F">What evidence speaks most clearly to the role of intelligent design in biology?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: What evidence speaks most clearly to the role of intelligent design in biology?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">The elegance of the foundation of life — the cell. Charles Darwin and his contemporaries supposed the cell was a “simple globule of protoplasm,” a microscopic piece of Jell-O. They were wrong. Modern science reveals the cell is a sophisticated, automated, nano-scale factory. For example, the journal Nature marvels, “The cell’s macromolecular machines contain dozens or even hundreds of components. But unlike man made machines, which are built on assembly lines, these cellular machines assemble spontaneously from their ... components. It is as though cars could be manufactured by merely tumbling their parts onto the factory floor.”</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Darwin wrote a paper on cellular structures, as did some of his contemporaries. That said, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://evolutionnews.org/2013/06/did_scientists_/">Scientists in Darwin’s Day Did Not Grasp the Complexity of the Cell; Not Even Close</a> <p>Today we know that the amount of information contained within a cell is phenomenal. Behe states that the cell is too complex for evolution to have been achieved randomly according to the traditional Darwinian view. Behe posits that the process must have been directed. So too did Darwin's father, Erasmus Darwin,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> Herschel, whose Introduction to Natural Philosophy deeply impressed Darwin, and Ava Grey, Darwin's chief supporter, believed the process was being directed.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> </p> Note that the very next sentence<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> in the <i>Nature</i> column he cites (actually a "News and Views" piece summarizing several papers presented in that issue) reads, "Knowing how cellular complexes organize themselves is crucial for understanding molecular evolution and for engineering materials that can mimic their properties."</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="How_does_intelligent_design_differ_from_the_prevailing_Darwinist_view_of_evolution?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="How_does_intelligent_design_differ_from_the_prevailing_Darwinist_view_of_evolution.3F">How does intelligent design differ from the prevailing Darwinist view of evolution?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: How does intelligent design differ from the prevailing Darwinist view of evolution?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">To a surprising extent prevailing evolutionary theory and intelligent design are harmonious. Both agree that the universe and life unfolded over vast ages; both agree that species could follow species in the common descent of life. They differ solely in the overriding role Darwinism ascribes to randomness. Intelligent design says that, while randomness does exist, its role in explaining the unfolding of life is quite limited.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">"Darwinism" is not the name of the current state of the theory of evolution. The year is no longer 1859, and scientists have advanced beyond Charles Darwin's discoveries, finding a few places where he was wrong yet demonstrating how often he was right and how his piercing insights apply to places he had not imagined. The anachronism of the word "Darwinism" is astonishing, so it might be humorous if the creationists who employ it were not determined to destroy science education. <p>One might as well call all modern music "Beethovenism." </p><p>Behe makes two errors here. The first is that he assumes all change over time is random. It is not. Natural selection tests every mutation over time in the real world, and those that confer an advantage to a population have a greater chance of spreading through the population. The second mistake is that something random cannot be significant. This ignores, for example, the fact that there is a random factor in the recombination of genes passed on to every offspring from the two parents who participate in sexual reproduction. </p> ID says that <i>"while randomness does exist, its role in explaining the unfolding of life is quite limited."</i> What it does not do is prove it.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="How_does_intelligent_design_differ_from_creationism?_What_do_you_say_to_critics_who_charge_that_it_is_merely_“creationism_in_disguise”?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="How_does_intelligent_design_differ_from_creationism.3F_What_do_you_say_to_critics_who_charge_that_it_is_merely_.E2.80.9Ccreationism_in_disguise.E2.80.9D.3F">How does intelligent design differ from creationism? What do you say to critics who charge that it is merely “creationism in disguise”?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: How does intelligent design differ from creationism? What do you say to critics who charge that it is merely “creationism in disguise”?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Intelligent design theory is to creationism as the Big Bang theory is to the book of Genesis. Although both intelligent design and the Big Bang may be reminiscent of some religious ideas about the universe and life, they are both grounded on the empirical study of nature, not on holy books. The phrase “Let there be light” may be evocative of the Big Bang, but the Big Bang is science, not scripture. Intelligent design may be compatible with some religious concepts, but the astounding intricacy of cellular molecular machinery is hard scientific data.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Evolution and modern geology are to creationism as the Big Bang theory is to Genesis. They completely overturn the concepts laid down thousands of years ago by wandering tribal storytellers. <p>Intelligent Design may claim to be based on "empirical study", but it <a href="/wiki/God_of_the_gaps" title="God of the gaps">falls back on</a> an unobserved, invented character to explain life. Furthermore, "astounding intricacy" is not hard scientific data; it's just an appeal from incredulity. </p><p>Intelligent design is, of course, as we all know, based on scripture (it is creationism without the word) and an attempt to sneak the Bible story of creation into science classes. The Discovery Institute's <a href="/wiki/Wedge_Document" class="mw-redirect" title="Wedge Document">Wedge Document</a> makes this explicit. </p> And where does Behe get off claiming that the Big Bang theory is reminiscent of religious ideas? No description in the Bible is in any way similar to the Big Bang as described by science. This conflation of Intelligent Design and the Big Bang theory appears to be a ploy to persuade the gullible reader that ID is somehow scientific in the same way the Big Bang theory is.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="Do_you_see_intelligent_design_as_a_concept_that_provides_a_resolution_to_the_creation_vs._evolution_debate?_Is_there_ever_a_point_where_science_and_religion_might_meet_in_some_form_of_compromise_–_and_does_intelligent_design_help_to_provide_that_answer?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Do_you_see_intelligent_design_as_a_concept_that_provides_a_resolution_to_the_creation_vs._evolution_debate.3F_Is_there_ever_a_point_where_science_and_religion_might_meet_in_some_form_of_compromise_.E2.80.93_and_does_intelligent_design_help_to_provide_that_answer.3F">Do you see intelligent design as a concept that provides a resolution to the creation vs. evolution debate? Is there ever a point where science and religion might meet in some form of compromise – and does intelligent design help to provide that answer?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Do you see intelligent design as a concept that provides a resolution to the creation vs. evolution debate? Is there ever a point where science and religion might meet in some form of compromise – and does intelligent design help to provide that answer?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">In some ways intelligent design is the perfect middle ground between the scientistic atheism exemplified by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a> and the dogmatic religious creation stories he rails against. Like the Big Bang theory and the discovery of the “fine-tuning” of the universe for life, intelligent design recognizes that empirical results from science point insistently to a reality greater than is dreamt of in Dawkins’ philosophy. Yet, rather than relying on some holy text, ID comes to that conclusion through science — from our own human intellect and the struggle to understand nature.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Science does not need to use a "middle ground". Science pursues the truth, wherever that may lead. Evolution is not atheism — Behe introduces a straw man to shoot at here. The universe is not "fine-tuned" for life — if it were different, any life that could arise might, and the universe would seem fine-tuned for <i>that</i> life. Furthermore, features of the universe exist — such as the number of "generations" of elementary particles — apparently <i>irrelevant</i> to life on Earth. On top of that, as Carl Sagan once noted, the same physical laws and constants of nature "required" for life are also "required" to make rocks, so why couldn't the universe have been "fine-tuned" so that rocks could arise? <p>Behe bastardizes Shakespeare to denigrate <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a>, but in doing so, he wallows in irony. "Our own human intellect," which Behe praises so fulsomely, has indeed struggled to understand nature and has met with considerable success. The world our discoveries reveal to us is staggeringly ancient, astonishingly vast, and exquisitely interrelated, and it is <i>this</i> reality, <i>our</i> reality which Intelligent Design so persistently denies. Behe insists upon a small God, a trivial God who can somehow "fine-tune" the natural laws of the Cosmos but must then intervene on one small planet and micromanage every feature of the development of life. This is nothing more than an insult to the human spirit. </p> None of the tribes of creationism, including Intelligent Design, have any scientific basis.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="In_Edge_of_Evolution_you_indicate_that_some_of_the_evidence_supporting_common_ancestry_is_pretty_persuasive._Yet_a_number_of_scientists_have_questioned_some_of_the_evidence_for_common_ancestry._Do_you_think_it_is_beyond_the_pale_for_them_to_do_so?_In_your_mind_is_it_scientific_to_question_common_ancestry?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="In_Edge_of_Evolution_you_indicate_that_some_of_the_evidence_supporting_common_ancestry_is_pretty_persuasive._Yet_a_number_of_scientists_have_questioned_some_of_the_evidence_for_common_ancestry._Do_you_think_it_is_beyond_the_pale_for_them_to_do_so.3F_In_your_mind_is_it_scientific_to_question_common_ancestry.3F">In Edge of Evolution you indicate that some of the evidence supporting common ancestry is pretty persuasive. Yet a number of scientists have questioned some of the evidence for common ancestry. Do you think it is beyond the pale for them to do so? In your mind is it scientific to question common ancestry?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: In Edge of Evolution you indicate that some of the evidence supporting common ancestry is pretty persuasive. Yet a number of scientists have questioned some of the evidence for common ancestry. Do you think it is beyond the pale for them to do so? In your mind is it scientific to question common ancestry?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">In my view it is certainly not “beyond the pale” for a scientist to question anything. Questioning and skepticism are healthy for science. I have no solutions to the difficult problems pointed to by scientists who are skeptical of universal common descent: ORFan genes, nonstandard genetic codes, different routes of embryogenesis by similar organisms, and so on. Nonetheless, as I see it, if, rather than Darwinian evolution, one is talking about "intelligently designed" descent, then those problems, while still there, seem much less insuperable. I certainly agree that random, unintelligent processes could not account for them, but an intelligent agent may have ways around apparent difficulties. So in judging the likelihood of common descent, I discount problems that could be classified as "how did that get here?" Instead, I give much more weight to the "mistakes" or "useless features" arguments. If some peculiar feature is shared between two species which, as far as we can tell, has no particular function, and which in other contexts we would likely call a genetic accident, then I count that as rather strong evidence for common descent. So, if one looks at the data in the way that I do, then one can say simultaneously that: 1) CD is very well supported; 2) grand Darwinian claims are falsified; 3) ID is confirmed; 4) design extends very deeply into biology.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Behe apparently accepts <a href="/wiki/Common_descent" title="Common descent">common descent</a> but understands that Intelligent Design is a "big tent" and needs to encompass everything from <a href="/wiki/Young_Earth_Creationism" class="mw-redirect" title="Young Earth Creationism">Young Earth Creationism</a> to fans of alien tinkering with earth life. So he qualifies his acceptance of common descent by saying he "understands" how someone can be <a href="/wiki/Skepticism" title="Skepticism">skeptical</a> of it. Note how "skeptical" ID advocates can be about things like the incontrovertible evidence of <a href="/wiki/Common_descent" title="Common descent">common descent</a>, yet if real scientists express skepticism about their logically incoherent, religiously motivated, <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscientific</a> ideas, they are suddenly closed-minded and evil. <p>However, this part is sensible: </p><p><i>If some peculiar feature is shared between two species which, as far as we can tell, has no particular function, and which in other contexts we would likely call a genetic accident, then I count that as rather strong evidence for common descent.</i> </p><p>But how does he get from that to: </p><p><i>So, if one looks at the data in the way that I do, then one can say simultaneously that: 1) CD is very well supported; 2) <b>grand Darwinian claims are falsified;</b> 3) <b>ID is confirmed; 4) design extends very deeply into biology.</b></i> </p><p>What "grand Darwinian claims"? How on earth does this confirm ID? And why should this mean "design extends very deeply into biology?" </p> The bottom line is that Behe admits "an intelligent agent" is required by the ID view, but he makes no attempt to scientifically pursue this "theory" by finding or proposing a way to uncover the identity and actions of this "agent". What scientist would be so uninterested in following up their "theory" that an intelligent agent exists that tampers with genes, speciation, and who knows what else?</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="How_does_your_view_of_intelligent_design_in_biology_fit_with_the_findings_and_theories_of_cosmology_and_physics?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="How_does_your_view_of_intelligent_design_in_biology_fit_with_the_findings_and_theories_of_cosmology_and_physics.3F">How does your view of intelligent design in biology fit with the findings and theories of cosmology and physics?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: How does your view of intelligent design in biology fit with the findings and theories of cosmology and physics?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">The conclusion of intelligent design in biology fits very well with unexpected results in the past few decades from physics and astronomy, which show that the universe, its laws, physical constants, and many details, are “fine-tuned” for life on earth. For example, if the charge on the electron or the properties of water were much different, life as we know it would be precluded. Biology has now discovered that the fine tuning of the universe for life actually extends into life. The term “consilience” denotes the situation where results from several scientific areas point in the same direction, reinforcing our confidence that the conclusion is correct. Biology has attained consilience with results from cosmology and physics.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">As said above, the universe is not "fine-tuned" for life — if it were different, any life that could arise might, and the universe would seem fine-tuned for that life. The empirical demonstration of natural selection falsifies this teleological notion - the life that survives in this universe is plastic to the conditions of this universe, not the other way around. <p>This "theory" is called the "<a href="/wiki/Anthropic_principle" title="Anthropic principle">anthropic principle</a>". </p><p>Of course, if the universe were different, we could not live. Even the elements as we know them might not exist. But whatever that different universe was like, there is probably a Behe in it exclaiming, "the universe, its laws, physical constants, and many details, are “fine-tuned” for life on zlogzct"! </p> He also ignores that <a href="/wiki/Exobiology" class="mw-redirect" title="Exobiology">life elsewhere</a> may be incredibly alien to <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">anything we have ever known</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="'Is_it_necessary_to_conclude_that_the_designer_is_God?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".27Is_it_necessary_to_conclude_that_the_designer_is_God.3F">'Is it necessary to conclude that the designer is God?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 'Is it necessary to conclude that the designer is God?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">“Necessary” is a strong word. It is not “necessary” in a compulsory sense. The scientific study of nature in the past century and especially the last few decades, however, points strongly to the conclusion that there exists an intelligent being who set up our universe for life: its physical laws, many of its properties and details, as well as many necessary details reaching deeply into life. In the teeth of that evidence a person such as Richard Dawkins is still free to think it was all one huge cosmic accident. Most people will decide God — or some remarkable being — is the most likely explanation.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">This, of course, prompts the question of whether Behe's "god" was also intelligently designed or came into being by a huge cosmic accident. <p>In addition, he dismisses the billions of years and the countless mutations and offspring with which evolution has worked with the blithe (and purposefully misleading) "one huge...accident." It was neither one event nor entirely random. </p> Behe, of course, has to watch his words here since supporters are still deluded enough to believe that Intelligent Design may someday be taught in public schools (even though much of that was shot down by <a href="/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District" title="Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District">Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District</a>). It has been made clear that this is merely an approach to force the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> religion across the wall of separation. As fellow <a href="/wiki/Discovery_Institute" title="Discovery Institute">Discovery Institute</a> fellow <a href="/wiki/William_Dembski" title="William Dembski">William Dembski</a> has said, "Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="Why_do_you_think_there_is_such_resistance_within_the_scientific_community_to_the_idea_of_intelligent_design?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Why_do_you_think_there_is_such_resistance_within_the_scientific_community_to_the_idea_of_intelligent_design.3F">Why do you think there is such resistance within the scientific community to the idea of intelligent design?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Why do you think there is such resistance within the scientific community to the idea of intelligent design?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Scientists are trained to think of the universe as a self-contained, self-explanatory system. Unexpected findings that go against that supposition can be disconcerting. When it was first proposed, the idea that the universe had a beginning in a big bang was strongly resisted by some scientists, because it pointed to a reality outside of the universe. Intelligent design of biology evokes even stronger reactions, perhaps because it challenges the supposition of a self-contained universe even more strongly.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">To a certain extent, he is right in this. There is certainly strong <a href="/wiki/Scientific_skepticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific skepticism">scientific skepticism</a> toward the idea of God micromanaging the whole process of evolution on a daily or, possibly, hourly basis. However, if God (or Behe's Intelligent Designer) could change things on a whim whenever he liked, then science would have zero purpose. Nothing would be predictable, so trying to model the universe through empirical study would be meaningless. Conversely, if God operated in an entirely predictable way, why assume intelligent agency instead of natural causes? Science ignores the supernatural because otherwise, it would descend into <a href="/wiki/Last_Thursdayism" title="Last Thursdayism">Last Thursdayism</a>. <p>Skepticism of new ideas, however, is a vital element in the scientific process, ensuring that no new idea will be accepted until sufficient evidence is provided that it is valid. This is exactly how an idea such as "cold fusion" is examined, tested, and rejected when the experiment that allegedly produced the reported result proves to be irreproducible. </p> The big bang theory did not become widely accepted until enough evidence accumulated. If actual evidence is gathered for ID, it will get a fair hearing. However, <b>no one</b> has offered empirical evidence for ID — only criticisms of evolution and philosophical thought experiments about <a href="/wiki/Irreducible_complexity" title="Irreducible complexity">irreducible complexity</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="One_criticism_of_ID_has_been_that_it_makes_no_predictions,_and_thus_is_unscientific._Does_The_Edge_of_Evolution_address_this?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="One_criticism_of_ID_has_been_that_it_makes_no_predictions.2C_and_thus_is_unscientific._Does_The_Edge_of_Evolution_address_this.3F">One criticism of ID has been that it makes no predictions, and thus is unscientific. Does The Edge of Evolution address this?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: One criticism of ID has been that it makes no predictions, and thus is unscientific. Does The Edge of Evolution address this?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">The Edge of Evolution is almost entirely concerned with the major, opposing predictions of Darwinism and ID. The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity of those found in the cell. ID specifically denies this, predicting that in the absence of intelligent input no such systems would develop. So Darwinism and ID make clear, opposite predictions of what we should find when we examine genetic results from a stupendous number of organisms that are under relentless pressure from natural selection. The recent genetic results are a stringent test. The results: 1) Darwinism’s prediction is falsified; 2) Design’s prediction is confirmed.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Since this is an enticement that basically says "buy my book", we can't be sure what these new "genetic results" are. But it is most likely his discussion that drug resistance in malaria had failed to evolve and would need God to intervene (man, She must have been having a bad day when She decided to do <i>that</i>); therefore, everything else needs God. Behe has this to say: <dl><dd>If all of these huge numbers make your head spin, think of it this way. The likelihood that <i>Homo sapiens</i> achieved any single mutation of the kind required for malaria to become resistant to chloroquine--not the easiest mutation, to be sure, but still only a shift of two amino acids--the likelihood that such a mutation could arise just once in the entire course of the human lineage in the past ten million years, is minuscule--of the same order as, say, the likelihood of you personally winning the Powerball lottery by buying a single ticket.</dd></dl> <p>And we all know that the Powerball can't be won by buying a single ticket — except it can because <a href="/wiki/Improbable_things_happen" title="Improbable things happen">improbable things happen</a>. Of course, even the statistics Behe creates for how "unlikely" something is to occur are poorly based on reality, and the justification for applying mutation rates in malaria to humans is not given. </p> Lastly, Behe shoots himself in the foot when he describes the predictions of ID. If the prediction of ID is that "in the absence of intelligent input, no such systems would develop", then an appropriate test would be to attempt to find a complex biological system that developed without intelligent input. But Behe claims <i>all</i> life had intelligent input and sees in it everything from flagellums to cats. So, where on Earth (or elsewhere) would one start to look? <i>Has</i> he even bothered trying to look for one? Given the size of our universe, Behe would have to do a lot of searching before he could confidently say his prediction had been confirmed. He would have to scour every atmosphere-bearing rock in the entire universe and probably double-check before he could say that <i>no</i> system has developed without intelligent input.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h3><span id="Are_there_lessons_we_can_learn_from_the_study_of_malaria_and_HIV_to_help_us,_as_a_species,_protect_ourselves_from_viral_and_parasitical_threats?_How_might_other_fields,_such_as_medicine,_be_affected_by_intelligent_design?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Are_there_lessons_we_can_learn_from_the_study_of_malaria_and_HIV_to_help_us.2C_as_a_species.2C_protect_ourselves_from_viral_and_parasitical_threats.3F_How_might_other_fields.2C_such_as_medicine.2C_be_affected_by_intelligent_design.3F">Are there lessons we can learn from the study of malaria and HIV to help us, as a species, protect ourselves from viral and parasitical threats? How might other fields, such as medicine, be affected by intelligent design?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Are there lessons we can learn from the study of malaria and HIV to help us, as a species, protect ourselves from viral and parasitical threats? How might other fields, such as medicine, be affected by intelligent design?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">One heartening conclusion of intelligent design is that Darwinian evolution is not the relentless, Borg-like process we had thought. Random evolution is clumsy and limited. That means that, even when fighting pathogens such as malaria that occur in enormous numbers, if science can find the right monkey wrench to throw in its molecular machinery, random mutation and natural selection will be helpless to circumvent it.</td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">Who cares if it is "relentless and Borg-like?" It is not relevant what one's opinion of a natural process is like, as far as its truth or falsity is concerned. And while malaria has in the past succumbed to our "monkeywrenching", it is starting to develop immunity to many of our drugs, as have other pathogens which have proven quite adept at circumventing our efforts to keep them at bay — through random mutation and selection pressures (See <a href="/wiki/Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria" title="Antibiotic-resistant bacteria">antibiotic-resistant bacteria</a>). In fact, Intelligent design has contributed nothing to medicine nor our ability to fight disease. No single study, drug, or procedure owes its creation to Behe's ideas. Evolution, of course, is the cornerstone of much of modern medicine.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup><br /><br /> Behe has a long way to go before his ideas should even merit mentioning in the same breath as evolution. What is frightening about this statement is his application of ID to medicine — if applied widely, this fundamental misunderstanding would prevent proper research into the ever-evolving genomes of pathogens. Natural selection is never "helpless to circumvent" medical interventions, which is partly why we haven't yet wiped out infectious diseases.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Afterthoughts">Afterthoughts</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Afterthoughts">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">NOTE: I heard him speak today, and he cites evidence, for example, intense artificial selective pressures on Malaria, and yet no significant or useful mutations. He may be misrepresenting the number of generations and opportunities for evolution with Malaria, and the intensity of the selective pressures, but he does in fact state a basis for asserting constrained mutations. <p>NOTE2: Wouldn't it be lovely if malaria went extinct? </p> <dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>— <i>one RW editor</i></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></td><td style="width:1px;background:#606060;"></td><td style="width:50%;padding:0.2em 0.4em;vertical-align:text-top;">NOTE: I have never heard him speak. It's amazing just how excited malaria gets him. One bug out of millions didn't manage to adapt to an artificial change in its environment created by an intelligent species? Intense selective pressures alone don't drive evolution of needed traits — a useful mutation has to occur. Otherwise, intense selective pressure causes ... extinction. <p>NOTE2: Yes, quite lovely. Smallpox is more likely, though. </p> <dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>— <i>another RW editor</i></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> Behe fails to address why many modern strains of malaria are, in fact, becoming resistant to older anti-malarial drugs. His statement transcends an error of omission--it is a flat out lie.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> </p><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wedge_Document" class="mw-redirect" title="Wedge Document">Wedge Document</a> (Showing how the Intelligent Design movement is being used by Christian fundamentalists.)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5007508">Intelligent Design and Academic Freedom</a> by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, NPR</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talk:Behe:The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview/Vandalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Talk:Behe:The Edge of Evolution, Interview/Vandalism">Vandalism to this page</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Behe:_The_Edge_of_Evolution,_Interview&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=31&isFellow=true">Discovery Institute biography</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mark C. Chu-Carroll, May 31, 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.ph/ZRHlV">Behe's Dreadful New Book: A Review of "The Edge of Evolution"</a>. <i>Good math, bad math.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Nick Matzke, June 5, 2007. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070914042614/https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2007/06/of_cilia_and_si.html">Of cilia and silliness (more on Behe).</a>" <i>Panda's thumb.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070614044527/https://www.sunclipse.org/?p=133">Behe’s Bad Arithmetic and Worse Science</a> (Blake Stacey, <i>Science After Sunclipse</i> blog, 2007-06-06</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sean B. Carroll. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/316/5830/1427">"God as Genetic Engineer."</a> <i>Science</i> 8 June 2007: <b>316</b> 5830, pp. 1427-1428. DOI: 10.1126/science.1145104</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070607222711/https://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/06/behes_edge_of_evolution_part_i_1.php">Behe's <i>Edge of Evolution</i>, part Ia</a> (<a href="/wiki/PZ_Myers" title="PZ Myers">PZ Myers</a>, <i>Pharyngula</i> blog, 2007-06-05)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Stephen Schaffner, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biologos.org/articles/testing-common-ancestry-its-all-about-the-mutations">Testing Common Ancestry: It’s All About the Mutations</a>. biologos.org, 7 September 2017.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Harrison, J. (1971) <i>Journal of the History of Ideas 32</i>(2), p. 254. DOI: 10.2307/2708279</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thorvaldse, S. & Ohrstrom, P. (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Ohrstrom/publication/237084312_Darwin%27s_Perplexing_Paradox_Intelligent_Design_in_Nature/links/56e59f8808ae65dd4cc0c3cb/Darwins-Perplexing-Paradox-Intelligent-Design-in-Nature.pdf">Darwin's perplexing paradox: intelligent design in nature</a>. <i>Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 56</i>(1), p. 85.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sarah A. Woodson. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7068/full/438566a.html">"Biophysics: Assembly line inspection."</a> <i>Nature</i> <b>438</b>, 566-567 (1 December 2005). doi:10.1038/438566a</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://touchstonemag.com/archives/issue.php?id=49">Touchstone Magazine. Volume 12, Issue4: July/August, 1999</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070313214257/https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2007/03/egnorance_combo_arrogance.html">Egnorance: The Egotistical Combination of Ignorance and Arrogance</a> (Burt Humburg, <i>Panda's Thumb</i> blog, 2007-03-09)</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div role="navigation" aria-labelledby="creationism-navbox" style="clear:both;"> <table class="toccolours collapsible collapsed autocollapse innercollapse outercollapse navbox nowraplinks" style="width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center;"><div style="float:left;" class="navbar"><div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Crebox" title="Template:Crebox"><span style="color:white">v</span></a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Crebox" title="Template talk:Crebox"><span style="color:white">t</span></a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Crebox&action=edit"><span style="color:white">e</span></a></div></div><span style="color:white; font-size:120%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Creationism" title="Category:Creationism"><span style="color:white">Articles</span></a> about <a href="/wiki/Creationism" title="Creationism"><span id="creationism-navbox" style="color:white">creationism</span></a></span> </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#000000; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Types_of_creationism" title="Category:Types of creationism"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Types of creationism:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Gap_creationism" title="Gap creationism">Gap creationism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Day-age_creationism" title="Day-age creationism">Day-age creationism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Old_Earth_creationism" title="Old Earth creationism">Old Earth creationism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Progressive_creation" title="Progressive creation">Progressive creation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hare_Krishna_creationism" title="Hare Krishna creationism">Hare Krishna creationism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism" title="Young Earth creationism">Young Earth creationism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design">Intelligent design</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#000000; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Evidence_against_a_recent_creation" title="Category:Evidence against a recent creation"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Evidence against a recent creation:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Creationism_and_social_history" title="Creationism and social history">Creationism and social history</a> • <a href="/wiki/Geomagnetism" title="Geomagnetism">Geomagnetism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Petrified_forest" title="Petrified forest">Petrified forest</a> • <a href="/wiki/Radiometric_dating" title="Radiometric dating">Radiometric dating</a> • <a href="/wiki/Carbon_dating" title="Carbon dating">Carbon dating</a> • <a href="/wiki/Dendrochronology" title="Dendrochronology">Dendrochronology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam" title="Y-chromosomal Adam">Y-chromosomal Adam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve" title="Mitochondrial Eve">Mitochondrial Eve</a> • <a href="/wiki/Starlight_problem" title="Starlight problem">Starlight problem</a> • <a href="/wiki/Plate_tectonics" title="Plate tectonics">Plate tectonics</a> • <a href="/wiki/Rotation_of_the_Earth" title="Rotation of the Earth">Rotation of the Earth</a> • <a href="/wiki/Atmosphere_of_the_Moon" title="Atmosphere of the Moon">Atmosphere of the Moon</a> • <a href="/wiki/Biogeography" title="Biogeography">Biogeography</a> • <a href="/wiki/K-Pg_extinction_event" title="K-Pg extinction event">K-Pg extinction event</a> • <a href="/wiki/Geologic_timeline" title="Geologic timeline">Geologic timeline</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fossil" title="Fossil">Fossil</a> • <a href="/wiki/Transitional_fossil" title="Transitional fossil">Transitional fossil</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fossil_record" title="Fossil record">Fossil record</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lake_Agassiz" title="Lake Agassiz">Lake Agassiz</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_transitional_forms" title="List of transitional forms">List of transitional forms</a> • <a href="/wiki/Recent_African_Origin_hypothesis" title="Recent African Origin hypothesis">Recent African Origin hypothesis</a> • <a href="/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium" title="Punctuated equilibrium">Punctuated equilibrium</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bird_evolution" title="Bird evolution">Bird evolution</a> • <a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">Geology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon" title="Grand Canyon">Grand Canyon</a> • <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">Evolution</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel" title="Fossil fuel">Fossil fuel</a> • <a href="/wiki/Paleontology" title="Paleontology">Paleontology</a> • <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Earth" title="History of the Earth">History of the Earth</a> • <a href="/wiki/Evidence_against_a_recent_creation" title="Evidence against a recent creation">Evidence against a recent creation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Yellowstone" title="Yellowstone">Yellowstone</a> • <a href="/wiki/Diamond" title="Diamond">Diamond</a> • <a href="/wiki/Iron" title="Iron">Iron</a> • <a href="/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth" title="Age of the Earth">Age of the Earth</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#000000; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Creationist_claims" title="Category:Creationist claims"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Creationist claims:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Geomagnetism" title="Geomagnetism">Geomagnetism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Do_you_want_to_be_descended_from_a_monkey%3F" title="Do you want to be descended from a monkey?">Do you want to be descended from a monkey?</a> • <a href="/wiki/Evolution_and_religion" title="Evolution and religion">Evolution and religion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Evolution_and_morality" title="Evolution and morality">Evolution and morality</a> • <a href="/wiki/C-decay" title="C-decay">C-decay</a> • <a href="/wiki/Peanut_butter_argument" title="Peanut butter argument">Peanut butter argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_design_and_academic_freedom" title="Intelligent design and academic freedom">Intelligent design and academic freedom</a> • <a href="/wiki/Science_was_wrong_before" title="Science was wrong before">Science was wrong before</a> • <a href="/wiki/Science_doesn%27t_know_everything" title="Science doesn't know everything">Science doesn't know everything</a> • <a href="/wiki/Catastrophic_plate_tectonics" title="Catastrophic plate tectonics">Catastrophic plate tectonics</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hydroplate_theory" title="Hydroplate theory">Hydroplate theory</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lunar_bukkake_hypothesis" title="Lunar bukkake hypothesis">Lunar bukkake hypothesis</a> • <a href="/wiki/Creationist_mathematics" title="Creationist mathematics">Creationist mathematics</a> • <a href="/wiki/Biblical_literalism" title="Biblical literalism">Biblical literalism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bumblebee_argument" title="Bumblebee argument">Bumblebee argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Orchidaceae" title="Orchidaceae">Orchidaceae</a> • <a href="/wiki/Irreducible_complexity" title="Irreducible complexity">Irreducible complexity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Leap_second" title="Leap second">Leap second</a> • <a href="/wiki/Wedge_Strategy" title="Wedge Strategy">Wedge Strategy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark" title="Noah's Ark">Noah's Ark</a> • <a href="/wiki/101_evidences_for_a_young_age_of_the_Earth_and_the_universe" title="101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe">101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe</a> • <a href="/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark_sightings" title="Noah's Ark sightings">Noah's Ark sightings</a> • <a href="/wiki/Evolution_conspiracy" title="Evolution conspiracy">Evolution conspiracy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Recession_of_the_Moon" title="Recession of the Moon">Recession of the Moon</a> • <a href="/wiki/Rotation_of_the_Earth" title="Rotation of the Earth">Rotation of the Earth</a> • <a href="/wiki/Atmosphere_of_the_Moon" title="Atmosphere of the Moon">Atmosphere of the Moon</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lunar_dust" title="Lunar dust">Lunar dust</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lunar_radioactivity" title="Lunar radioactivity">Lunar radioactivity</a> • <a href="/wiki/White_hole_cosmology" title="White hole cosmology">White hole cosmology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Firmament" title="Firmament">Firmament</a> • <a href="/wiki/Evolutionism" title="Evolutionism">Evolutionism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Haji_Yearam" title="Haji Yearam">Haji Yearam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Galactocentricity" title="Galactocentricity">Galactocentricity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hanzi_of_Genesis" title="Hanzi of Genesis">Hanzi of Genesis</a> • <a href="/wiki/Historical_and_operational_science" title="Historical and operational science">Historical and operational science</a> • <a href="/wiki/Proof_of_the_inconsistency_of_arithmetic" title="Proof of the inconsistency of arithmetic">Proof of the inconsistency of arithmetic</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_creationist_claims" title="List of creationist claims">List of creationist claims</a> • <a href="/wiki/Global_flood" title="Global flood">Global flood</a> • <a href="/wiki/De-evolution" title="De-evolution">De-evolution</a> • <a href="/wiki/Microevolution_and_macroevolution" title="Microevolution and macroevolution">Microevolution and macroevolution</a> • <a href="/wiki/In_the_Beginning:_Compelling_Evidence_for_Creation_and_the_Flood" title="In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood">In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood</a> • <a href="/wiki/Borel%27s_Law" title="Borel's Law">Borel's Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Dinosaur_denialism" title="Dinosaur denialism">Dinosaur denialism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Baraminology" title="Baraminology">Baraminology</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#000000; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Global_flood" title="Category:Global flood"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Global flood:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Flood_geology" title="Flood geology">Flood geology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark" title="Noah's Ark">Noah's Ark</a> • <a href="/wiki/Noah" title="Noah">Noah</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lunar_bukkake_hypothesis" title="Lunar bukkake hypothesis">Lunar bukkake hypothesis</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fossil_sorting_by_the_global_flood" title="Fossil sorting by the global flood">Fossil sorting by the global flood</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hydroplate_theory" title="Hydroplate theory">Hydroplate theory</a> • <a href="/wiki/Global_flood" title="Global flood">Global flood</a> • <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon" title="Grand Canyon">Grand Canyon</a> • <a href="/wiki/Noah_(film)" title="Noah (film)">Noah (film)</a> • <a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh" title="Epic of Gilgamesh">Epic of Gilgamesh</a> • <a href="/wiki/Didit_fallacy" title="Didit fallacy">Didit fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fun:God%27s_Love" title="Fun:God's Love">God's Love</a> • <a href="/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark_sightings" title="Noah's Ark sightings">Noah's Ark sightings</a> • <a href="/wiki/Haji_Yearam" title="Haji Yearam">Haji Yearam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lake_Agassiz" title="Lake Agassiz">Lake Agassiz</a> • <a href="/wiki/Parasites_during_the_global_flood" title="Parasites during the global flood">Parasites during the global flood</a> • <a href="/wiki/Life_and_the_global_flood" title="Life and the global flood">Life and the global flood</a> • <a href="/wiki/Global_flood_chronology" title="Global flood chronology">Global flood chronology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Yellowstone" title="Yellowstone">Yellowstone</a> • <a href="/wiki/Petrified_forest" title="Petrified forest">Petrified forest</a> • <a href="/wiki/Baraminology" title="Baraminology">Baraminology</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#000000; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Intelligent_design_creationism" title="Category:Intelligent design creationism"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Intelligent design creationism:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Falsifiability_of_creationism" title="Falsifiability of creationism">Falsifiability of creationism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Irreducible_complexity" title="Irreducible complexity">Irreducible complexity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Cdesign_proponentsists" title="Cdesign proponentsists">Cdesign proponentsists</a> • <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_design_and_academic_freedom" title="Intelligent design and academic freedom">Intelligent design and academic freedom</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_design" title="Argument from design">Argument from design</a> • <a href="/wiki/The_Wonders_of_Creation_Reveal_God%27s_Glory" title="The Wonders of Creation Reveal God's Glory">The Wonders of Creation Reveal God's Glory</a> • <a href="/wiki/Biological_Information:_New_Perspectives" title="Biological Information: New Perspectives">Biological Information: New Perspectives</a> • <a href="/wiki/Seeking_God_in_Science:_An_Atheist_Defends_Intelligent_Design" title="Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design">Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design</a> • <a href="/wiki/John_A._Davison" title="John A. Davison">John A. Davison</a> • <a href="/wiki/Evolution_Under_the_Microscope:_A_Scientific_Critique_of_the_Theory_of_Evolution" title="Evolution Under the Microscope: A Scientific Critique of the Theory of Evolution">Evolution Under the Microscope: A Scientific Critique of the Theory of Evolution</a> • <a href="/wiki/Rethinking_Darwin:_A_Vedic_Study_of_Darwinism_and_Intelligent_Design" title="Rethinking Darwin: A Vedic Study of Darwinism and Intelligent Design">Rethinking Darwin: A Vedic Study of Darwinism and Intelligent Design</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mind_and_Cosmos:_Why_the_Materialist_Neo-Darwinian_Conception_of_Nature_Is_Almost_Certainly_False" title="Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False">Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False</a> • <a href="/wiki/Providence_Lost:_A_Critique_of_Darwinism" title="Providence Lost: A Critique of Darwinism">Providence Lost: A Critique of Darwinism</a> • <a href="/wiki/The_Darwin_Myth:_The_Life_and_Lies_of_Charles_Darwin" title="The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin">The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin</a> • <a href="/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Life%27s_Origin:_Reassessing_Current_Theories" title="The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories">The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories</a> • <a href="/wiki/The_Origin_of_Human_Nature:_A_Zen_Buddhist_Looks_at_Evolution" title="The Origin of Human Nature: A Zen Buddhist Looks at Evolution">The Origin of Human Nature: A Zen Buddhist Looks at Evolution</a> • <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nagel" title="Thomas Nagel">Thomas Nagel</a> • <a href="/wiki/Darwinism_Under_The_Microscope:_How_Recent_Scientific_Evidence_Points_To_Divine_Design" title="Darwinism Under The Microscope: How Recent Scientific Evidence Points To Divine Design">Darwinism Under The Microscope: How Recent Scientific Evidence Points To Divine Design</a> • <a href="/wiki/The_End_of_Darwinism" title="The End of Darwinism">The End of Darwinism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ask_Darwinists" title="Ask Darwinists">Ask Darwinists</a> • <a href="/wiki/Polonium_halos" title="Polonium halos">Polonium halos</a> • <a href="/wiki/Explanatory_Filter" title="Explanatory Filter">Explanatory Filter</a> • <a href="/wiki/Flowers_of_asexually-reproducing_plants" title="Flowers of asexually-reproducing plants">Flowers of asexually-reproducing plants</a> • <a href="/wiki/Eye" title="Eye">Eye</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_fine_tuning" title="Argument from fine tuning">Argument from fine tuning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_beauty" title="Argument from beauty">Argument from beauty</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_first_cause" title="Argument from first cause">Argument from first cause</a> • <a href="/wiki/Flagellum" title="Flagellum">Flagellum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moody_Institute_of_Science" title="Moody Institute of Science">Moody Institute of Science</a> • <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design">Intelligent design</a> • <a href="/wiki/Laryngeal_nerve" title="Laryngeal nerve">Laryngeal nerve</a> • <a href="/wiki/Suboptimal_design" title="Suboptimal design">Suboptimal design</a> • <a href="/wiki/Adam_and_Evolution:_A_Scientific_Critique_of_Neo-Darwinism" title="Adam and Evolution: A Scientific Critique of Neo-Darwinism">Adam and Evolution: A Scientific Critique of Neo-Darwinism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Expelled:_Leader%27s_Guide" title="Expelled: Leader's Guide">Expelled: Leader's Guide</a> • <a href="/wiki/Banana_argument" title="Banana argument">Banana argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Vault-Co" title="Vault-Co">Vault-Co</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#000000; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Intelligent_alternatives" title="Category:Intelligent alternatives"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">"Intelligent" alternatives:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_falling" title="Intelligent falling">Intelligent falling</a> • <a href="/wiki/Scientific_storkism" title="Scientific storkism">Scientific storkism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pastafarianism" title="Pastafarianism">Pastafarianism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fun:Scientific_Geoterrapinism" title="Fun:Scientific Geoterrapinism">Scientific Geoterrapinism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fun:Wedgie_strategy" title="Fun:Wedgie strategy">Wedgie strategy</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#000000; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Teach_the_controversy" title="Category:Teach the controversy"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Teach the controversy:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Santorum_Amendment" title="Santorum Amendment">Santorum Amendment</a> • <a href="/wiki/Missouri_House_Bill_1227" title="Missouri House Bill 1227">Missouri House Bill 1227</a> • <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Senate_Bill_89" title="Indiana Senate Bill 89">Indiana Senate Bill 89</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District" title="Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District">Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District</a> • <a href="/wiki/Academic_Freedom_Act" title="Academic Freedom Act">Academic Freedom Act</a> • <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Academic_Freedom_Act" title="Louisiana Academic Freedom Act">Louisiana Academic Freedom Act</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_monkey_bill" title="Tennessee monkey bill">Tennessee monkey bill</a> • <a href="/wiki/Edwards_v._Aguillard" title="Edwards v. Aguillard">Edwards v. Aguillard</a> • <a href="/wiki/Thomas_More_Law_Center" title="Thomas More Law Center">Thomas More Law Center</a> • <a href="/wiki/School_vouchers" title="School vouchers">School vouchers</a> • <a href="/wiki/Eugenie_Scott" title="Eugenie Scott">Eugenie Scott</a> • <a href="/wiki/Teach_the_controversy" title="Teach the controversy">Teach the controversy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Truth_in_Science" title="Truth in Science">Truth in Science</a> • <a href="/wiki/McLean_v._Arkansas_Board_of_Education" title="McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education">McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#000000; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Creationists" title="Category:Creationists"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Creationists:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Ben_Stein" title="Ben Stein">Ben Stein</a> • <a href="/wiki/Barry_Setterfield" title="Barry Setterfield">Barry Setterfield</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Sarfati" title="Jonathan Sarfati">Jonathan Sarfati</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ray_Comfort" title="Ray Comfort">Ray Comfort</a> • <a href="/wiki/B.H._Shadduck" title="B.H. Shadduck">B.H. Shadduck</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kirk_Cameron" title="Kirk Cameron">Kirk Cameron</a> • <a href="/wiki/Harun_Yahya" title="Harun Yahya">Harun Yahya</a> • <a href="/wiki/Wendy_Wright" title="Wendy Wright">Wendy Wright</a> • <a href="/wiki/Carl_Wieland" title="Carl Wieland">Carl Wieland</a> • <a href="/wiki/John_Ankerberg" title="John Ankerberg">John Ankerberg</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jack_Cuozzo" title="Jack Cuozzo">Jack Cuozzo</a> • <a href="/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan" title="William Jennings Bryan">William Jennings Bryan</a> • <a href="/wiki/Russ_Miller" title="Russ Miller">Russ Miller</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lee_Strobel" title="Lee Strobel">Lee Strobel</a> • <a href="/wiki/Brother_Stair" title="Brother Stair">Brother Stair</a> • <a href="/wiki/Paul_Nelson" title="Paul Nelson">Paul Nelson</a> • <a href="/wiki/James_Nienhuis" title="James Nienhuis">James Nienhuis</a> • <a href="/wiki/Art_Robinson" title="Art Robinson">Art Robinson</a> • <a href="/wiki/Alan_O%27Reilly" title="Alan O'Reilly">Alan O'Reilly</a> • <a href="/wiki/PPSIMMONS" title="PPSIMMONS">PPSIMMONS</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hank_Hanegraaff" title="Hank Hanegraaff">Hank Hanegraaff</a> • <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Wagner" title="Charlie Wagner">Charlie Wagner</a> • <a href="/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh" title="Rush Limbaugh">Rush Limbaugh</a> • <a href="/wiki/Roy_Spencer" title="Roy Spencer">Roy Spencer</a> • <a href="/wiki/Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist">Grover Norquist</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ann_Coulter" title="Ann Coulter">Ann Coulter</a> • <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Booker" title="Christopher Booker">Christopher Booker</a> • <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Minichiello_Williams" title="Andrea Minichiello Williams">Andrea Minichiello Williams</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tom_Bethell" title="Tom Bethell">Tom Bethell</a> • <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Baldwin" title="Chuck Baldwin">Chuck Baldwin</a> • <a href="/wiki/Rick_Perry" title="Rick Perry">Rick Perry</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bradley_Monton" title="Bradley Monton">Bradley Monton</a> • <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Langan" title="Christopher Langan">Christopher Langan</a> • <a href="/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson" title="Aimee Semple McPherson">Aimee Semple McPherson</a> • <a href="/wiki/Richard_Kent" title="Richard Kent">Richard Kent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ljiljana_%C4%8Coli%C4%87" title="Ljiljana Čolić">Ljiljana Čolić</a> • <a href="/wiki/Abuz_Zubair" title="Abuz Zubair">Abuz Zubair</a> • <a href="/wiki/Scott_Huse" title="Scott Huse">Scott Huse</a> • <a href="/wiki/Barry_Arrington" title="Barry Arrington">Barry Arrington</a> • <a href="/wiki/Grant_Jeffrey" title="Grant Jeffrey">Grant Jeffrey</a> • <a href="/wiki/Janet_Porter" title="Janet Porter">Janet Porter</a> • <a href="/wiki/Alan_Clifford" title="Alan Clifford">Alan Clifford</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Wise" title="Kurt Wise">Kurt Wise</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_McKilliam" title="Kenneth McKilliam">Kenneth McKilliam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bradlee_Dean" title="Bradlee Dean">Bradlee Dean</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Ross" title="Hugh Ross">Hugh Ross</a> • <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Simmons" title="Geoffrey Simmons">Geoffrey Simmons</a> • <a href="/wiki/James_Le_Fanu" title="James Le Fanu">James Le Fanu</a> • <a href="/wiki/Norman_Nevin" title="Norman Nevin">Norman Nevin</a> • <a href="/wiki/Shaun_Johnston" title="Shaun Johnston">Shaun Johnston</a> • <a href="/wiki/Issac_Bourne" title="Issac Bourne">Issac Bourne</a> • <a href="/wiki/John_C._Sanford" title="John C. Sanford">John C. Sanford</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fazale_Rana" title="Fazale Rana">Fazale Rana</a> • <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Wiker" title="Benjamin Wiker">Benjamin Wiker</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Dower" title="Hugh Dower">Hugh Dower</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lee_Spetner" title="Lee Spetner">Lee Spetner</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mark_Ludwig" title="Mark Ludwig">Mark Ludwig</a> • <a href="/wiki/Alan_Hayward" title="Alan Hayward">Alan Hayward</a> • <a href="/wiki/Werner_Gitt" title="Werner Gitt">Werner Gitt</a> • <a href="/wiki/William_Fix" title="William Fix">William Fix</a> • <a href="/wiki/Maciej_Giertych" title="Maciej Giertych">Maciej Giertych</a> • <a href="/wiki/John_C._Landon" title="John C. Landon">John C. Landon</a> • <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Cargill" title="Barbara Cargill">Barbara Cargill</a> • <a href="/wiki/Philip_Snow" title="Philip Snow">Philip Snow</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ken_Jopp" title="Ken Jopp">Ken Jopp</a> • <a href="/wiki/Frank_Tipler" title="Frank Tipler">Frank Tipler</a> • <a href="/wiki/Richard_William_Nelson" title="Richard William Nelson">Richard William Nelson</a> • <a href="/wiki/Todd_Friel" title="Todd Friel">Todd Friel</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bob_Sorensen" title="Bob Sorensen">Bob Sorensen</a> • <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Windchy" title="Eugene Windchy">Eugene Windchy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Berit_Kjos" title="Berit Kjos">Berit Kjos</a> • <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck">Glenn Beck</a> • <a href="/wiki/Robert_McLuhan" title="Robert McLuhan">Robert McLuhan</a> • <a href="/wiki/George_C._Deutsch" title="George C. Deutsch">George C. Deutsch</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ross_McKitrick" title="Ross McKitrick">Ross McKitrick</a> • <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Neiman" title="Daniel Neiman">Daniel Neiman</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ron_Wyatt" title="Ron Wyatt">Ron Wyatt</a> • <a href="/wiki/Desmond_Paul_Allen" title="Desmond Paul Allen">Desmond Paul Allen</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jay_Wile" title="Jay Wile">Jay Wile</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jack_Chick" title="Jack Chick">Jack Chick</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ian_Juby" title="Ian Juby">Ian Juby</a> • <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Peake" title="Anthony Peake">Anthony Peake</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tim_Ball" title="Tim Ball">Tim Ball</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sheik_Feiz_Muhammad" title="Sheik Feiz Muhammad">Sheik Feiz Muhammad</a> • <a href="/wiki/J._P._Holding" title="J. P. Holding">J. P. Holding</a> • <a href="/wiki/Michael_Cremo" title="Michael Cremo">Michael Cremo</a> • <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Norris" title="Chuck Norris">Chuck Norris</a> • <a href="/wiki/Steve_Milloy" title="Steve Milloy">Steve Milloy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Rick_Santorum" title="Rick Santorum">Rick Santorum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Christine_O%27Donnell" title="Christine O'Donnell">Christine O'Donnell</a> • <a href="/wiki/Larry_Craig" title="Larry Craig">Larry Craig</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mike_Bara" title="Mike Bara">Mike Bara</a> • <a href="/wiki/John_Hawkins" title="John Hawkins">John Hawkins</a> • <a href="/wiki/Alan_Keyes" title="Alan Keyes">Alan Keyes</a> • <a href="/wiki/Chris_Carter" title="Chris Carter">Chris Carter</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz">Ted Cruz</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Jindal" title="Bobby Jindal">Bobby Jindal</a> • <a href="/wiki/James_Ussher" title="James Ussher">James Ussher</a> • <a href="/wiki/Larry_Pratt" title="Larry Pratt">Larry Pratt</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dutko" title="Bob Dutko">Bob Dutko</a> • <a href="/wiki/Steve_Fuller" title="Steve Fuller">Steve Fuller</a> • <a href="/wiki/Denyse_O%27Leary" title="Denyse O'Leary">Denyse O'Leary</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mike_Huckabee" title="Mike Huckabee">Mike Huckabee</a> • <a href="/wiki/Babu_G._Ranganathan" title="Babu G. Ranganathan">Babu G. Ranganathan</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ben_Hobrink" title="Ben Hobrink">Ben Hobrink</a> • <a href="/wiki/Carl_Baugh" title="Carl Baugh">Carl Baugh</a> • <a href="/wiki/Humans_Are_Free" title="Humans Are Free">Humans Are Free</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mary_Lou_Bruner" title="Mary Lou Bruner">Mary Lou Bruner</a> • <a href="/wiki/Educate-yourself.org" title="Educate-yourself.org">Educate-yourself.org</a> • <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Schlafly" title="Andrew Schlafly">Andrew Schlafly</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ian_Paisley" title="Ian Paisley">Ian Paisley</a> • <a href="/wiki/VenomFangX" title="VenomFangX">VenomFangX</a> • <a href="/wiki/Todd_Akin" title="Todd Akin">Todd Akin</a> • <a href="/wiki/Paul_Broun" title="Paul Broun">Paul Broun</a> • <a href="/wiki/James_Manning" title="James Manning">James Manning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Mike Pence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Shockofgod" title="Shockofgod">Shockofgod</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sye_Ten_Bruggencate" title="Sye Ten Bruggencate">Sye Ten Bruggencate</a> • <a href="/wiki/Brad_Stine" title="Brad Stine">Brad Stine</a> • <a href="/wiki/Charlton_Heston" title="Charlton Heston">Charlton Heston</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pat_Toomey" title="Pat Toomey">Pat Toomey</a> • <a href="/wiki/Josh_Axe" title="Josh Axe">Josh Axe</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ben_Carson" title="Ben Carson">Ben Carson</a> • <a href="/wiki/William_Dembski" title="William Dembski">William Dembski</a> • <a href="/wiki/Presents_Of_God_Ministry" title="Presents Of God Ministry">Presents Of God Ministry</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jim_Allister" title="Jim Allister">Jim Allister</a> • <a href="/wiki/Whale.to" title="Whale.to">Whale.to</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Otto" title="Jonathan Otto">Jonathan Otto</a> • <a href="/wiki/Becky_Fischer" title="Becky Fischer">Becky Fischer</a> • <a href="/wiki/Roy_Moore" title="Roy Moore">Roy Moore</a> • <a href="/wiki/David_Wilcock" title="David Wilcock">David Wilcock</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Falwell_Sr." title="Jerry Falwell Sr.">Jerry Falwell Sr.</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mark_Dice" title="Mark Dice">Mark Dice</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ron_Paul" title="Ron Paul">Ron Paul</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sam_Brownback" title="Sam Brownback">Sam Brownback</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan">Pat Buchanan</a> • <a href="/wiki/Don_McLeroy" title="Don McLeroy">Don McLeroy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio">Marco Rubio</a> • <a href="/wiki/Michele_Bachmann" title="Michele Bachmann">Michele Bachmann</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pat_Robertson" title="Pat Robertson">Pat Robertson</a> • <a href="/wiki/John_Hagee" title="John Hagee">John Hagee</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mary_Fallin" title="Mary Fallin">Mary Fallin</a> • <a href="/wiki/The_Vigilant_Christian" title="The Vigilant Christian">The Vigilant Christian</a> • <a href="/wiki/Betsy_DeVos" title="Betsy DeVos">Betsy DeVos</a> • <a href="/wiki/WND" title="WND">WND</a> • <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Farah" title="Joseph Farah">Joseph Farah</a> • <a href="/wiki/Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a> • <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Beale" title="Theodore Beale">Theodore Beale</a> • <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_American_Loons" title="Encyclopedia of American Loons">Encyclopedia of American Loons</a> • <a href="/wiki/Got_Questions" title="Got Questions">Got Questions</a> • <a href="/wiki/R._L._Wysong" title="R. L. Wysong">R. L. Wysong</a> • <a href="/wiki/ProphecyFilm.com" title="ProphecyFilm.com">ProphecyFilm.com</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kent_Hovind" title="Kent Hovind">Kent Hovind</a> • <a href="/wiki/Steven_Anderson" title="Steven Anderson">Steven Anderson</a> • <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Prager" title="Dennis Prager">Dennis Prager</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bernard_d%27Abrera" title="Bernard d'Abrera">Bernard d'Abrera</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Tawhidi" title="Mohammad Tawhidi">Mohammad Tawhidi</a> • <a href="/wiki/CJ_Pearson" title="CJ Pearson">CJ Pearson</a> • <a href="/wiki/Christian_Apologetics_and_Research_Ministry" title="Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry">Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry</a> • <a href="/wiki/Eric_Hovind" title="Eric Hovind">Eric Hovind</a> • <a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Van_Til" title="Cornelius Van Til">Cornelius Van Til</a> • <a href="/wiki/Frank_Turek" title="Frank Turek">Frank Turek</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Sarah Palin</a> • <a href="/wiki/William_Lane_Craig" title="William Lane Craig">William Lane Craig</a> • <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones_(slovensky)" title="Alex Jones (slovensky)">Alex Jones (slovensky)</a> • <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kirk" title="Charlie Kirk">Charlie Kirk</a> • <a href="/wiki/Owen_Benjamin" title="Owen Benjamin">Owen Benjamin</a> • <a href="/wiki/Steven_Crowder" title="Steven Crowder">Steven Crowder</a> • <a href="/wiki/Rick_Warren" title="Rick Warren">Rick Warren</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Falwell_Jr." title="Jerry Falwell Jr.">Jerry Falwell Jr.</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ted_Holden" title="Ted Holden">Ted Holden</a> • <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a> • <a href="/wiki/E._Calvin_Beisner" title="E. Calvin Beisner">E. Calvin Beisner</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kate_Tieje" title="Kate Tieje">Kate Tieje</a> • <a href="/wiki/Michael_Denton" title="Michael Denton">Michael Denton</a> • <a href="/wiki/New_Independent_Fundamentalist_Baptist_Movement" title="New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Movement">New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Movement</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mark_Cahill" title="Mark Cahill">Mark Cahill</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jim_Inhofe" title="Jim Inhofe">Jim Inhofe</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gary_Birdsong" title="Gary Birdsong">Gary Birdsong</a> • <a href="/wiki/R._J._Rushdoony" title="R. J. Rushdoony">R. J. Rushdoony</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pat_Boone" title="Pat Boone">Pat Boone</a> • <a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Times" title="The Washington Times">The Washington Times</a> • <a href="/wiki/Canada_Free_Press" title="Canada Free Press">Canada Free Press</a> • <a href="/wiki/NewsBusters" title="NewsBusters">NewsBusters</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart" title="Jimmy Swaggart">Jimmy Swaggart</a> • <a href="/wiki/Miroljub_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Miroljub Petrović">Miroljub Petrović</a> • <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene" title="Marjorie Taylor Greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> • <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Colson" title="Chuck Colson">Chuck Colson</a> • <a href="/wiki/Stephen_E._Jones" title="Stephen E. Jones">Stephen E. Jones</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lew_Rockwell" title="Lew Rockwell">Lew Rockwell</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tom_Tancredo" title="Tom Tancredo">Tom Tancredo</a> • <a href="/wiki/John_Kasich" title="John Kasich">John Kasich</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gary_North" title="Gary North">Gary North</a> • <a href="/wiki/E._W._Jackson" title="E. W. Jackson">E. W. Jackson</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Stitt" title="Kevin Stitt">Kevin Stitt</a> • <a href="/wiki/Steve_Turley" title="Steve Turley">Steve Turley</a> • <a href="/wiki/Zachary_K._Hubbard" title="Zachary K. Hubbard">Zachary K. Hubbard</a> • <a href="/wiki/Conservapedia" title="Conservapedia">Conservapedia</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mike_Johnson" title="Mike Johnson">Mike Johnson</a> • <a href="/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association">National Rifle Association</a> • <a href="/wiki/Butch_Hartman" title="Butch Hartman">Butch Hartman</a> • <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Feuerstein" title="Joshua Feuerstein">Joshua Feuerstein</a> • <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Rufo" title="Christopher Rufo">Christopher Rufo</a> • <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sweden" title="Peter Sweden">Peter Sweden</a> • <a href="/wiki/Alvin_Plantinga" title="Alvin Plantinga">Alvin Plantinga</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tucker_Carlson" title="Tucker Carlson">Tucker Carlson</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mission:_America" title="Mission: America">Mission: America</a> • <a href="/wiki/American_Thinker" title="American Thinker">American Thinker</a> • <a href="/wiki/Brandon_Tatum" title="Brandon Tatum">Brandon Tatum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nick_Fuentes" title="Nick Fuentes">Nick Fuentes</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#000000; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Fundie_schools" title="Category:Fundie schools"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Fundie schools:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young_University" title="Brigham Young University">Brigham Young University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bryan_College" title="Bryan College">Bryan College</a> • <a href="/wiki/Cedarville_University" title="Cedarville University">Cedarville University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Henry_College" title="Patrick Henry College">Patrick Henry College</a> • <a href="/wiki/Regent_University" title="Regent University">Regent University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Patriot_Bible_University" title="Patriot Bible University">Patriot Bible University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fundie_school" title="Fundie school">Fundie school</a> • <a href="/wiki/The_Master%27s_University" title="The Master's University">The Master's University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Boston_Baptist_College" title="Boston Baptist College">Boston Baptist College</a> • <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Christian_College" title="San Diego Christian College">San Diego Christian College</a> • <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pacific_University" title="Columbia Pacific University">Columbia Pacific University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Transnational_Association_of_Christian_Colleges_and_Schools" title="Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools">Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools</a> • <a href="/wiki/Cornerstone_University" title="Cornerstone University">Cornerstone University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pensacola_Christian_College" title="Pensacola Christian College">Pensacola Christian College</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bob_Jones_University" title="Bob Jones University">Bob Jones University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hyles-Anderson_College" title="Hyles-Anderson College">Hyles-Anderson College</a> • <a href="/wiki/University_of_South_Los_Angeles" title="University of South Los Angeles">University of South Los Angeles</a> • <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Theological_Seminary" title="Cambridge Theological Seminary">Cambridge Theological Seminary</a> • <a href="/wiki/Haven_University" title="Haven University">Haven University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Liberty_University" title="Liberty University">Liberty University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Baptist_University_and_Seminary" title="Louisiana Baptist University and Seminary">Louisiana Baptist University and Seminary</a> • <a href="/wiki/New_Eden_School_of_Natural_Health" title="New Eden School of Natural Health">New Eden School of Natural Health</a> • <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Central_University" title="Georgia Central University">Georgia Central University</a> • <a href="/wiki/Andersonville_Theological_Seminary" title="Andersonville Theological Seminary">Andersonville Theological Seminary</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ambassador_Baptist_College" title="Ambassador Baptist College">Ambassador Baptist College</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hillsdale_College" title="Hillsdale College">Hillsdale College</a> • <a href="/wiki/Illegal_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Illegal schools in the United Kingdom">Illegal schools in the United Kingdom</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#000000; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Discovery_Institute" title="Category:Discovery Institute"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Discovery Institute:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#F2F2F2;"> <a href="/wiki/Teach_the_controversy" title="Teach the controversy">Teach the controversy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Of_Pandas_and_People" title="Of Pandas and People">Of Pandas and People</a> • <a href="/wiki/Wedge_Strategy" title="Wedge Strategy">Wedge Strategy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Text_of_The_Wedge_Strategy" title="Text of The Wedge Strategy">Text of The Wedge Strategy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Explore_Evolution" title="Explore Evolution">Explore Evolution</a> • <a href="/wiki/David_Berlinski" title="David Berlinski">David Berlinski</a> • <a href="/wiki/Biologic_Institute" title="Biologic Institute">Biologic Institute</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Wells" title="Jonathan Wells">Jonathan Wells</a> • <a href="/wiki/Expelled:_No_Intelligence_Allowed" title="Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed">Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed</a> • <a href="/wiki/Michael_Egnor" title="Michael Egnor">Michael Egnor</a> • <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Axe" title="Douglas Axe">Douglas Axe</a> • <a href="/wiki/Academic_Freedom_Day" title="Academic Freedom Day">Academic Freedom Day</a> • <a href="/wiki/Casey_Luskin" title="Casey Luskin">Casey Luskin</a> • <a href="/wiki/What_is_intelligent_design%3F" title="What is intelligent design?">What is intelligent design?</a> • <a href="/wiki/Science_and_Human_Origins" title="Science and Human Origins">Science and Human Origins</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fun:Wedgie_strategy" title="Fun:Wedgie strategy">Wedgie strategy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Project_Steve" title="Project Steve">Project Steve</a> • <a href="/wiki/BIO-Complexity" title="BIO-Complexity">BIO-Complexity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Texas_Board_of_Education" title="Texas Board of Education">Texas Board of Education</a> • <a href="/wiki/Richard_Weikart" title="Richard Weikart">Richard Weikart</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District" title="Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District">Kitzmiller v. 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Research Journal volume 4</a> • <a href="/wiki/Answers_Research_Journal" title="Answers Research Journal">Answers Research Journal</a> • <a href="/wiki/Answers_Research_Journal_volume_7" title="Answers Research Journal volume 7">Answers Research Journal volume 7</a> • <a href="/wiki/Answers_Research_Journal_volume_8" title="Answers Research Journal volume 8">Answers Research Journal volume 8</a> • <a href="/wiki/Answers_Research_Journal_volume_9" title="Answers Research Journal volume 9">Answers Research Journal volume 9</a> • <a href="/wiki/Answers_Research_Journal_volume_10" title="Answers Research Journal volume 10">Answers Research Journal volume 10</a> • <a href="/wiki/Answers_Research_Journal_volume_11" title="Answers Research Journal volume 11">Answers Research Journal volume 11</a> • <a href="/wiki/Answers_Research_Journal_volume_12" title="Answers Research Journal volume 12">Answers Research Journal volume 12</a> • <a href="/wiki/Answers_Research_Journal_volume_13" 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