Michael Behe on The Colbert Report 8/2

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In case you missed this appearance, and will also fail to catch one of the many replays, I suggest you check out the recap video when it is put on Comedy Central's page. If you ever wondered why people believe in creationism, here's your answer. Behe sat up there with Colbert and lied through his teeth. He claimed that scientists are now discovering that intelligent design is the only way to explain life. He likened himself to Einstein. He was so convincing and so sure of himself in his lies, that if I did not know better, I might have believed him too.

You can check out his bio here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Behe


It is imperative that we keep tabs on these pseudo-scientists who use their credentials to try to bully the creationist screed into our lives.

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1. Poor Michael, he has even been disowned by his own University

He was forced to print this official disclaimer on his webpage at Lehigh University.

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inbios/faculty/behe.html
My ideas about irreducible complexity and intelligent design are entirely my own. They certainly are not in any sense endorsed by either Lehigh University in general or the Department of Biological Sciences in particular. In fact, most of my colleagues in the Department strongly disagree with them.


Oh, and here is a refutation of the irreducible mouse trap. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jXcCDxykW8

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3. HAHA!! I know and I love it!!

He had to turn to those wack-o supporter(Heritage or Templeton) clubs for support.

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2. "Scientists" are claiming?

He seems to be lumping all Scientists into one creationist believing group. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I hope Colbert tore him a new asshole but with his reich-wing "style" it probably came off looking like he agreed with him.

Creationism is one of the most ignorant arguments on the market today. Too bad Colbert didn't have someone there with a brain to refute the silly-assed moron.

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4. Inferior Design: Richard Dawkins reviews Behe's lastest book

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. Poster boy of creationists everywhere, he has cut himself adrift from the world of real science. And real science, in the shape of his own department of biological sciences at Lehigh University, has publicly disowned him, via a remarkable disclaimer on its Web site: "While we respect Prof. Behe's right to express his views, they are his alone and are in no way endorsed by the department. It is our collective position that intelligent design has no basis in science, has not been tested experimentally and should not be regarded as scientific." As the Chicago geneticist Jerry Coyne wrote recently, in a devastating review of Behe's work in The New Republic, it would be hard to find a precedent.


More: http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,1360,Inferior-Design-Richard-Dawkins-reviews-Behes-lastest-book,Richard-Dawkins

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5. I think he's part of the panel discussion on an Ali G episode re: Science

and he made a fool of himself on that show. He's the one that Ali G accused of leaving "a floater" in the toilet backstage and then not flushing it. It was one of the most hilarious things I've ever witnessed on TV.

I watched the segment last night but was only half paying attention, or else I would have recognized him. Funny that I recognized his name from your post. Did I imagine it, or did he insinuate that Colbert was stupid and Colbert abruptly ended the interview? I could be wrong, however, because it was the end, but after it was over I noticed that Stephen deliberately didn't even make eye contact with him after it was over. I'll have to try and watch the rerun of it sometime today.