The video seems to be two episodes in one. So far I just watched the first.
Earlier on Behe says:
"Well in the ten years after that I didn't come across any science publications that adequately answered the nagging question: exactly how did the cell get to be so complex?"
Flip this around, and look at ID. I have been looking at ID for around 20 years. In that 20 years I haven't come across any science publications - or even a Youtube video as that seems to be ID's preferred outlet for its "science" - that adequately answered the nagging question:
exactly how did the intelligent designer create living organisms?
This seems to be Behe's big argument, and he comes back to it at the end. Essentially he is saying he will reject evolution until scientists can provide a complete step-by-step path from early bacteria to humans.
He tried the same trick at the Kitzmiller court case. After claiming the blood clotting system is irreducibly complex, he was presented with a whole pile of scientific articles that soundly refuted his claim. His response was to reject the lot out of hand because they did not give the level of detail he demanded.
A level of detail a million miles from what he demands for his own pet theory, of course. Why is that? Because his position is founded on faith, not science. AKA creationism.
It is interesting that Behe says he was convinced evolution was wrong by Denton's book, "
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis", given Denton has since acknowledged that he got much of that book wrong. Denton is now an evolutionist - though he advocates guided evolution, and rejects Darwinian evolution. He has gone from saying common descent is wrong in his earlier book to accepting it as true in his later book.
Behe's conversion to ID is based on a book that is now acknowledged to be wrong by the author!
But then, this is not about evidence, this is about a theist cherry-picking the data to support his faith position. AKA creationism.
From just before the 6 minute mark he goes off on irreducible complexity, and he is still plugging away at his mousetrap. This is old news. He was banging this drum back in 1996.
It has been soundly refuted, even in a court of law. Here is a great summary of why he is wrong.
Around nine minutes he starts rabbiting on about how great insects are. His argument seems to be that he cannot see how evolution can create complexity, therefore it cannot. This is the same argument IDists have been peddling from the start, and creationist before that.
Then we get to how polar bears evolved around 13 minutes. Not too sure what his point is there; he tells us how evolution explains it.... and leaves it at that. There is no suggestion it is wrong as far as I can see...
Finally he circles back to his original position. Until evolutionists can provide a step-by-step account for the evolution of life over the last four billion years, he will reject it in favour of "God did it"
He asks:
- What precisely are those helpful mutations in DNA?
- How exactly do genes change?
It is, as ever, god-of-the-gaps, with the creationist careful to find gaps that, while small, are going to be around for a while.
This is just a "taste" of Dr. Behe's latest book: Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
So far I have seen nothing new in the video, precious little about DNA and certainly nothing that challenges evolution.
Perhaps, Arkycharlie, you can present Behe's new argument in your own words? I mean, I am guessing you cannot, but maybe you will surprise us.
Whoa fantastic immunity
