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		By: Argus		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Argus]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m a little late to the party, but as a feminist, I have no problem with the term &quot;douchebag.&quot;  I see it as a synonym for &quot;unnecessary irritation.&quot;Michael Behe is definitely unnecessary and irritating.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m a little late to the party, but as a feminist, I have no problem with the term &#8220;douchebag.&#8221;  I see it as a synonym for &#8220;unnecessary irritation.&#8221;Michael Behe is definitely unnecessary and irritating.</p>
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		By: Ann		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And negentropyeater, look up &lt;i&gt;phenomenon!&lt;/i&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And negentropyeater, look up <i>phenomenon!</i></p>
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		By: Mark		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Flaky, look up the Fermi Paradox.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flaky, look up the Fermi Paradox.</p>
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		By: uncle noel		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[uncle noel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Careful, negen., asking these people for evidence delights them. They can go on and on about &quot;irreducible complexity&quot;. It&#039;s all nonsense, of course; it&#039;s essentially criticizing scientists because they haven&#039;t explained everything.And, I can&#039;t help myself: &quot;Bible humpers&quot; are those who know the Bible in the Biblical sense. (And what does that beget?)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Careful, negen., asking these people for evidence delights them. They can go on and on about &#8220;irreducible complexity&#8221;. It&#8217;s all nonsense, of course; it&#8217;s essentially criticizing scientists because they haven&#8217;t explained everything.And, I can&#8217;t help myself: &#8220;Bible humpers&#8221; are those who know the Bible in the Biblical sense. (And what does that beget?)</p>
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		By: negentropyeater		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/10/proven-michael-behe-is-a-moron/#comment-3772</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[negentropyeater]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Consider Behe&#039;s definition of ID :&quot;Intelligent design is just the idea that there are some things in nature that are better explained by deliberate intelligent design rather than simple laws and accidents.&quot;Why is he using the word &quot;better&quot; ?Take Mt Rushmore, is the explanation&quot;it was sculpted between 1927 and 1941, by Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers&quot;a &quot;better&quot; explanation than&quot;it is a natural phenomena&quot; ?No, it is the only explanation. Moreover, the fact that we know that in this case, the &quot;intelligent designer&quot; was a naturally occuring human being (not an Alien or a supernatural spiritual carver), it does qualify as the only valid explanation.So, Mr Behe, why not use the word &quot;only&quot; instead of &quot;better&quot; ?And then, how do you show that an observed phenomena can &quot;only&quot; be explained by the intervention of an Int. Designer, when you have neither, an explanation for the designer and any evidence that he did intervene, nor any reason to abandon methodological naturalism ?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Consider Behe&#8217;s definition of ID :&#8221;Intelligent design is just the idea that there are some things in nature that are better explained by deliberate intelligent design rather than simple laws and accidents.&#8221;Why is he using the word &#8220;better&#8221; ?Take Mt Rushmore, is the explanation&#8221;it was sculpted between 1927 and 1941, by Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers&#8221;a &#8220;better&#8221; explanation than&#8221;it is a natural phenomena&#8221; ?No, it is the only explanation. Moreover, the fact that we know that in this case, the &#8220;intelligent designer&#8221; was a naturally occuring human being (not an Alien or a supernatural spiritual carver), it does qualify as the only valid explanation.So, Mr Behe, why not use the word &#8220;only&#8221; instead of &#8220;better&#8221; ?And then, how do you show that an observed phenomena can &#8220;only&#8221; be explained by the intervention of an Int. Designer, when you have neither, an explanation for the designer and any evidence that he did intervene, nor any reason to abandon methodological naturalism ?</p>
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		By: DiscoveredJoys		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/10/proven-michael-behe-is-a-moron/#comment-3771</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DiscoveredJoys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;But now we know, through the efforts of science, that the cell is an ultra-sophisticated nanotech-driven factory filled to the brim with complex and elegant molecular machinery. The sophistication of such foundation of life is the strongest evidence for intelligent design.&lt;/blockquote&gt;We really ought to kill this sort of hyperbole before it becomes another DI meme. Yes the cell is complicated, there are lots of molecules and structures, but all the diagrams and animations that show &quot;how cells work&quot; &lt;b&gt;don&#039;t&lt;/b&gt; show how the molecules bash about at their scale of activity and often &#039;undock&#039; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;almost&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; as often as they &#039;dock&#039; with their corresponding targets. Not so much a sophisticated factory, more like the dogems at the carnival.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>But now we know, through the efforts of science, that the cell is an ultra-sophisticated nanotech-driven factory filled to the brim with complex and elegant molecular machinery. The sophistication of such foundation of life is the strongest evidence for intelligent design.</p></blockquote>
<p>We really ought to kill this sort of hyperbole before it becomes another DI meme. Yes the cell is complicated, there are lots of molecules and structures, but all the diagrams and animations that show &#8220;how cells work&#8221; <b>don&#8217;t</b> show how the molecules bash about at their scale of activity and often &#8216;undock&#8217; <b><i>almost</i></b> as often as they &#8216;dock&#8217; with their corresponding targets. Not so much a sophisticated factory, more like the dogems at the carnival.</p>
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		By: Monado		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Monado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is still a typo: &quot;&lt;b&gt;Preying&lt;/b&gt; to the Invisible Man.&quot;Preying mantises are so-called because they catch things, not because they neatly fold their &quot;hands&quot; before doing so.Good analysis. In my local news, the inventor of an apparent perpetual-motion machine was solemnly interviewed by the &lt;i&gt;Toronto Star&lt;/i&gt; (of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near the Great Lakes) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/300042&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the other day&lt;/a&gt;. Let me know if you have trouble getting to the article.It works with a magnet making an electric motor run. Nothing about friction or the motor&#039;s eventual demise.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is still a typo: &#8220;<b>Preying</b> to the Invisible Man.&#8221;Preying mantises are so-called because they catch things, not because they neatly fold their &#8220;hands&#8221; before doing so.Good analysis. In my local news, the inventor of an apparent perpetual-motion machine was solemnly interviewed by the <i>Toronto Star</i> (of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near the Great Lakes) <a href="http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/300042" rel="nofollow">the other day</a>. Let me know if you have trouble getting to the article.It works with a magnet making an electric motor run. Nothing about friction or the motor&#8217;s eventual demise.</p>
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		By: Greg Laden		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Uncle noel:  It was the best thing I did all week.(writing it, not doing it)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uncle noel:  It was the best thing I did all week.(writing it, not doing it)</p>
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		By: uncle noel		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/10/proven-michael-behe-is-a-moron/#comment-3768</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[uncle noel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I thought &quot;bible humping&quot; was a funny malapropism. Some people really love their bible. Intentional?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought &#8220;bible humping&#8221; was a funny malapropism. Some people really love their bible. Intentional?</p>
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		By: Doug		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doug]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Although we can certainly laugh at Behe&#039;s logical fallacies and strawmen, the less critically minded populace will not give a second&#039;s pause to his misleading statements. Sigh.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although we can certainly laugh at Behe&#8217;s logical fallacies and strawmen, the less critically minded populace will not give a second&#8217;s pause to his misleading statements. Sigh.</p>
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