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Motorhead Duck Song
07 February 2005
Michael J. Behe, a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute, pleads the case of Intelligent Design in The New York Times, explaining I.D.'s "four linked claims," and disingenuously describing the first two controversial assumptions as "uncontroversial." It's an exercise in anachronism, pointing mechanical metaphors backwards towards biology to prove that "life overwhelms us with the appearance of design." Like this: we can see that Mount Rushmore isn't a naturally occurring phenomenon, but designed. Likewise, clerics have described cell life as resembling man-made mechanics, like a watch, designed. And even Darwinists admit that life is complex, so let's call that agreement with watch-theory. Don't trouble your head about putting this in any sort of chronological order. Go with the flow. This is about motors and watches, not watchmakers. Resting on these supposedly shared presumptions, Behe leads to his "controversial" claims: 3, Darwinists haven't recreated evolution in any studies, and 4, until they prove otherwise, it's scientifically reasonable to believe in I.D., according to Behe's final, binding scientific standard: "The Duck Song."

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