Encode rejected (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 24, 2013, 18:24 (4267 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:These fields are now indeed being opened up. Interestingly for you, perhaps, he [Darwin] goes on once more to oppose separate creation, and thinks his theory "accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator." Atheist neo-Darwinists will never quote such statements ... or will say Darwin was appeasing his wife ... but the fact remains that he himself said evolution and religion were compatible, and towards the end of his life he also made it clear that he regarded himself as an agnostic and had never been an atheist. I do wish atheists and theists alike would stop using and abusing Darwin to suit their own purposes.-In the preceding entry by Behe, he carefully dissects the Darwin theory as three portions: common descent, natural selection and random mutation. He accepts common descent as very important and and the other two as relatively minor. Natural selection can only act when competition is present and on whatever organism is presented to NS by evolution. He discusses mutations as generally destructive of DNA, and wonders if evolution has reached its pinnacle of development. His discussion of malaria shows that the so-called beneficial changes in hemoglobin to thwart the parasite are really very distrutive to humans with the various anemias that have appeared as a result.The video has poor sound when the introducing lady is at the mike. Behe is quite clear once he adjusts his mike. Behe offers no clue as to how a new species might develop. Darwim also had no clue. -He also discusses Lensky's work with 50,000 generations of E. coli. No new species, some minor modifications. Where is evolution is the question.