Well if he does that’s 3 then.
I don’t see why. They believe either that life, or at the very least parts of life, was independently created. The first cell, bacterial flagella, or similar things.
You must be joking John. All of their output REEKS of this view.
I can’t quote them making the statements that unambigously, but it follows from their writing generally. Stephen Meyer’s “Darwin’s Doubt” is an example of a piece of literature that implies how basically the entire field of molecular taxonomy is some sort of fantasy. Buggs has written articles that seem designed to support that same sentiment. We had a thread about that not too long ago:
For other examples of this sort of indirect denial of these methods there’s how Michael Behe has characterized and responded to the work of Joe Thornton with ancestral sequence reconstruction.