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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist

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Posted - 07/01/2007 :  08:33:13  Show Profile Send Cuneiformist a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I see that Behe's got a new book out, called the Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism. It's reveiwed in today's New York Times by Richard Dawkins. Obviously, the review is not kind:
I had expected to be as irritated by Michael Behe's second book as by his first. I had not expected to feel sorry for him. The first — “Darwin's Black Box” (1996), which purported to make the scientific case for “intelligent design” — was enlivened by a spark of conviction, however misguided. The second is the book of a man who has given up. Trapped along a false path of his own rather unintelligent design, Behe has left himself no escape.
I haven't read it yet (but the first chapter is available here), but look forward to following some of the debate. Behe's last book, with its "irreducible complexity" argument, had a lot of legs-- even if it eventually was shown to be false. How his newest arguments will hold up remains to be seen...

Dave W.
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Posted - 07/01/2007 :  08:55:56   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Blake Stacey has a sort of meta-review about the book, and includes a huge list of links to reviews of it (including Dawkins'). The pioneer review was Behe's Dreadful New Book: A Review of "The Edge of Evolution" by Mark Chu-Carroll, of "Good Math, Bad Math" fame.
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