{"id":723,"date":"2010-11-29T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/michael-behe-publishes-and-other-irreducibly-complex-news\/"},"modified":"2010-11-29T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T10:07:00","slug":"michael-behe-publishes-and-other-irreducibly-complex-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/michael-behe-publishes-and-other-irreducibly-complex-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Behe Publishes (and other Irreducibly Complex News)"},"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>That someone engaged in scientific research publishes a scientific article is par for the course, not news. That <a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/29\/behe-gets-published\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Behe\u2019s publication of an article in a respected science journal<\/a> (<i>The Quarterly Review of Biology<\/i>) is an occasion for surprise and considered <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2010\/11\/december-2010-q.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">noteworthy<\/a> is <i>itself noteworthy<\/i>. If one searches for publications by Behe in an academic database, the only results going back several years are letters to the editor and contributions to <i>theology<\/i>\u00a0journals. I have no problems with anyone contributing to theology journals, including scientists, if they can get their work accepted. But I expect scientists to also be publishing in science journals.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen what Behe\u2019s article will say. A contribution of his to <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctns.org\/tstocs.html#62\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Theology and Science<\/a><\/i>\u00a0indicates that he does not regard common ancestry as incompatible with intelligent design. The latter, he suggests, is only incompatible with <i>random<\/i>\u00a0mutations, and he says ID is compatible with a view of evolution as unfolding according to a front-loaded program that does not require subsequent intervention.<\/p>\n<p>If that is so, it isn\u2019t clear why he could not actually do research on the relevant processes, irrespective of whether the results supported, contradicted, or were simply irrelevant to his theological views.<\/p>\n<p>The same issue of <i>The Quarterly Review of Biology<\/i> features <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/maartenboudry\/irreducible-incoherence\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article that shows problems with Intelligent Design and categorizes it as pseudoscience<\/a>. That article is already available <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/maartenboudry\/irreducible-incoherence\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pigeonchess.com\/2010\/11\/29\/irreducible-complexity-reduced\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Troy Britain<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2010\/11\/28\/explaining-the-problems-with-irreducible-complexity\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hemant Mehta<\/a> shared this video about irreducible complexity:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W96AJ0ChboU?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W96AJ0ChboU?fs=1<\/a>\n<p>Finally, let me mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/neuroskeptic.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/9-circles-of-scientific-hell.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cartoon<\/a> illustrating the wages of scientific sin which <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2010\/11\/the_wages_of_scientific_sin.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+scienceblogs\/pharyngula+(Pharyngula)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">PZ Myers<\/a> shared.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6818440021281994869?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That someone engaged in scientific research publishes a scientific article is par for the course, not news. 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