Comments on: Behe on Colbert Report

By: God (and a half)

God (and a half) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:21:58 +0000

Some people actually take him seriously? Really, this is an honest question. When does he start laughing and say “Just kidding”? He’s pulling a Cartman, isn’t he?
He hasn’t given a handjob to Ben Affleck yet, so it’ll still be a ways off.

By: The Ridger

The Ridger — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:29:36 +0000

To do Behe justice, he clearly means that physics teaches us the world is more than 6,000 years old, not evolution. Behe isn’t a YECer, after all.
Of course he’s still trotting out that tired mousetrap.
“We used to see mystery everywhere and explain it with God. But now, with everything science explains, God gets smaller.”
That’s it all in a nutshell, isn’t it?

By: c

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:21:50 +0000

The irreducible complexity here is the pathology that forces this sad little man to seek notoriety by making a clown of himself.
Forget the eye and the blood clotting cascade, I’d like him to explain why the intelligent designer designed a nose that has to be constantly blown or picked and an anus that requires wiping.

By: ElectronKid

ElectronKid — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:04:08 +0000

I found a nice antidote to irreducible complexity. The magazine itself had a feature on the evolution of the eye, but it's not online. http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0611/feature4/text3.html

By: ElectronKid

ElectronKid — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:51:04 +0000

Wait, he said that they did not know about the cell in Darwin’s time; but then says they did? And he is not darwin’s Einstein. Einstein’s discoveries were accepted by mainstream science

By: wrpd

wrpd — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:48:48 +0000

Some people actually take him seriously? Really, this is an honest question. When does he start laughing and say “Just kidding”? He’s pulling a Cartman, isn’t he?

By: greg

greg — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:42:13 +0000

phlogiston gets a bad rap. at least it was testable. it just turns out it makes more sense for a substance to have positive mass rather than negative mass. in a way it’s no more of an error than the conventional current was – just a bad guess. ID is not even that, of course.

By: Laelaps

Laelaps — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:54:11 +0000

I really am starting to think that Behe is a robot that is programmed to go over the same talking points over and over and over again. The mousetrap argument has been bogus for over a decade, but I guess he didn’t get the memo. At least Colbert called him out on the implied notion that ID (and by extension, Behe) is to evolution what Einstein’s ideas about gravitation were to Newton’s, even though Behe gets his history of science wrong.

By: Kevin Beck

Kevin Beck — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:26:50 +0000

What a freakin’ knob. The fact that Darwin got so much right in spite of not knoing about DNA or cells in general is, if anything, a point in his intellectual favor, not a limitation. We don’t criticize ancient mathematicians for getting some pretty good approximatons of irrational numbers and other things without the aid of calculators.
It’s also cute how Behe in one breath emphasizes how much more we know than we did in the 1800s, yet in the next notes that the “problem” (for him, at least) of whether life was consciously designed goes back to Aristotle’s time. That’s right, baby, it’s all a bigass phlogiston.
Colbert actually made some biting pointsand criticisms, but these probably lay beyond the scope of the average viewer.

By: DieFundie

DieFundie — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:19:39 +0000

Remember, it’s not the bible that teaches us that the Earth is only 6,000 years old… PHYSICS teaches us this! (Cue crazy person music)