From: Charles Vanderford (proskuneo@fastermail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 25 2005 - 18:25:52 BST
Hello! I was reading through this thread and I have to agree with Ian that some more up-to-date arguments would be important for our understanding.
I just happen to be reading 'Darwin's Black Box' by Michael Behe. Has anyone else read this?
He's a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He argues in this book that based on advances made in the field of biochemistry, and the light it has shed on the complexity of the biological systems in the human body (including some animal examples), that we can now, and should, bring the argument to that level and see if Darwinian evolution can account for their origin and present state.
I know that the thread hasn't been about evolution, it's been about the universe - but our knowledge of the universe is not broad enough yet to make a strong argument either way. Most of the time only generalities can be made, and conclusions drawn from those.
It would be much more interesting to be more specific, and if anyone requests, I can post some of the information from the book and we can bat it around. I remember reading some about Hume's arguments against ID in it.
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