Re: Behe/Newton, bombardier beetle

paracelcus@email.com
Mon, 31 May 1999 15:48:28 -0400 (EDT)

Rich Daniel wrote:
Not a good analogy. Newton didn't have all the information available to Einstein; Behe does have all the information available to you.

My comments:
The only difference between Newton and Einstein was that Newton believed that time and space were absolute, and Einstein believed that time ans space were relative. Yet Newton knew that time and space were not absolute because Leibniz told him they weren't, but Newton wouldn't accept it because he had been taught by an academic elite that believed that British science was superior to Continental science.

Behe was taught by an academic elite that believed that evolutionary theory was superior to design theory, so he has a hard time accepting that common descent is not true (which I know from the frequent conversations we have had). Yet just as his work proves that abiogenesis is false, it also proves that common descent is false. My work and the work of my colleagues here and elsewhere supports that conclusion, but we cannot publish it safely for fear of loosing our positions and reputations. That's all there is to it. End of discussion.
Paracelcus
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