Ooooh, shiny.

[elfs]

Sweet! On my "unlikely" Christmas list: A new Nokia phone. My less-than-a-year-old Motorola seems to crash at random.

On the other hand, I think I need to buy a t-shirt. I'm not a Che fan at all-- quite the opposite-- but this is a rockin' riff. Given how the Intelligent Design hawkers were 7()7@LLY PWNED yesterday, it's intellectual open season on the Discovery Institute and their useful idiots.

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[mo-hair.livejournal.com]

hehe. that'd be a great shirt to wear while driving my vw wagon with a flying spaghetti monster emblem on the back!

[tagryn]

I'd need to know that all the reviews were as cursory as Achinson's before drawing the conclusion that the peer review for Behe's work was fatally flawed. Tracking back through that link, I can't find any evidence one way or another on that. If there were 3 reviewers who went over it in some detail, that's more or less what I'd expect from the usual review process.

I wonder how peer review is handled in philosophy, since this whole debate is rooted more in that field than in hard science?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

The important part here is to realize that Behe's book, Darwin's Black Box, was never "peer reviewed" in the sense that it was submitted to an editor interested in its scientific validity and examined by other microbiologists who could review the book, anonymously, contributing back comments on what flaws they perceived.

The book has been savaged in the scientific press, and every single one of its key examples has been shown to be wrong both premise and conclusion.

Behe once claimed that a key element of the human immune system was "irreducibly complex," meaning that it could not have emerged from other systems through evolutionary processes. In a key courtroom proceeding this week, Behe was shown 50 papers, papers that had gone through the per-review process, that contained workable and evidentiary emergent paths for the human immune system and Behe still insisted that he was right and they were all wrong.

You can only maintain that level of ignorance by believing in the Darwinian Cabal Conspiracy.