From: FMAJ1019@aol.com <FMAJ1019@aol.com>
>ID proponent M. Behe does accept common descent but doubts that IC systems
>could have arisen naturally. Although he does admit that natural pathways
for
>IC systems exist, he considers them to be of low probability. It seems that
>Behe is willing to accept that evolutionary mechanisms can generate complex
>structures, just not IC structures. And then only IC structures at the
>biochemical level, for which fossilized evidence is likely to be lacking.
And he fails either to give an adequate definition of IC or any substantive
reasons why the probability of IC systems evolving should be lower than that
of any other systems. Hence, his argument from IC is a dud, and his whole
argument amounts to no more than God-of-the-Gaps: the evolution of certain
biochemical systems has not been explained in sufficient detail to satsify
him, so he concludes that they cannot have evolved and must be the work of
an intelligent designer.
Richard Wein (Tich)
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