{"id":3826,"date":"2008-03-28T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/reviews-of-michael-behes-the-edge-of-evolution\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T09:23:00","slug":"reviews-of-michael-behes-the-edge-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/reviews-of-michael-behes-the-edge-of-evolution.html","title":{"rendered":"Reviews of Michael Behe&#8217;s The Edge of Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/stephen-webb-on-michael-behe.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yesterday<\/a> I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2008\/marchweb-only\/113-42.0.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen Webb\u2019s review of Behe\u2019s <em>The Edge of Evolution<\/em><\/a> for <em>Christianity Today<\/em>\u2018s web site. A while back I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/heart-of-matter-what-does-god-do.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a review of Behe\u2019s book<\/a> on this blog, which I also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/RO3M4AN15HAZ5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon.com<\/a>, where it also led to some discussion. I also addressed the old \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/monkeys-and-typewriters-on-edge-of.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">monkeys with typewriters<\/a>\u201d illustration, emphasizing that to be a meaningful analogy, one has to have a typewriter with only four letters (A, C, G and T), a language where every word has three letters, and where every combination of three letters is found in nature and means <em>something<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the discussion of the book is apparently ongoing, I thought I\u2019d revisit these earlier posts. For the perspective of biologists, see in particular the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2008\/marchweb-only\/113-42.0.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/sean-b-carroll.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sean Carroll<\/a>, as well as those by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creationismstrojanhorse.com\/Gross_Behe_Review_10.2007.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paul Gross<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncseweb.org\/resources\/news\/2007\/US\/686_miller_drubs_behe_in_emnatur_6_27_2007.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ken Miller<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/01\/books\/review\/Dawkins-t.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ei=5090&amp;en=a8d3b05b1f9ae784&amp;ex=1340942400&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Richard Dawkins<\/a>. Ken Miller and Francisco Ayala are two Christians who are also top-notch biologists who have addressed Intelligent Design in general, and Behe\u2019s claims in particular, in their books, considering them from a theological as well as a scientific perspective. They find Behe\u2019s arguments wanting on both counts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1205384768580440153?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned Stephen Webb\u2019s review of Behe\u2019s The Edge of Evolution for Christianity Today\u2018s web site. A while back I wrote a review of Behe\u2019s book on this blog, which I also posted at Amazon.com, where it also led to some discussion. I also addressed the old \u201cmonkeys with typewriters\u201d illustration, emphasizing that to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reviews of Michael Behe&#039;s The Edge of Evolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yesterday I mentioned Stephen Webb&#039;s review of Behe&#039;s The Edge of Evolution for Christianity Today&#039;s web site. 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