Inferior Design

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Choice quotes from Richard Dawkins' review of Michael Behe's new book -- The Edge of Evolution -- in the New York Times:

I had expected to be as irritated by Michael Behe’s second book as by his first. I had not expected to feel sorry for him.

...his own department of biological sciences at Lehigh University, has publicly disowned him, via a remarkable disclaimer on its Web site: “While we respect Prof. Behe’s right to express his views, they are his alone and are in no way endorsed by the department. It is our collective position that intelligent design has no basis in science, has not been tested experimentally and should not be regarded as scientific.”

and my favourite bit:

Behe correctly dissects the Darwinian theory into three parts: descent with modification, natural selection and mutation. Descent with modification gives him no problems, nor does natural selection. They are “trivial” and “modest” notions, respectively. Do his creationist fans know that Behe accepts as “trivial” the fact that we are African apes, cousins of monkeys, descended from fish?