Intelligent Design

[The Inquisition]

If he 's going to get a PhD in molecular biology while denying the fact of natural evolution, I'd be really interested in where he places the line between natural evolution that requires no deity and theistic evolution that requires a creator. Where is this dividing line? Be specific!

Your hero Michael Behe draws this line at chloroquine resistance of malaria, is this where you draw the line?

You want me to decide right now which parts of evolution occur and which do not? I don't have a completely coherent hypothesis or anything, but I would say that the genetic code is incapable of increasing in complex arrangements of nucleotides that lead to new functions. Therefore I would say that all the observable functions that are the result of proteins would have had to been programmed by an intelligent agent. This is just my thought so far. I can't be much more specific. But it is important to know that I don't have to propose a complete alternate to scientifically scrutinize an existing theory.

Chloroquine resistance in malaria would qualify under that definition. It developed resistance to a drug that we developed to combat malaria.

Do you understand that such a god is a bio-terrorist?

Of course the scientists understand why chloroquine resistance developed, it did it through multiple convergent paths, not paths that were contingent as Behe asserted. This is why Behe; and ID proponents, are regarded as a laughingstock among the scientific community. It's why he lost in the Kitzmiller vs. Dover trial.

Behe’s (malevolent) intelligent designer is still at work

If you are serious about pursuing an actual career in science, then you need to consider the crank status that Behe has in the scientific community. Behe writes books that are there to dupe people, but they have zero credibility among scientists.

ID proponents are some of the most dishonest, quote-mining cranks I have ever had the displeasure of interacting with online.