Behe falsely claims vindication again!
My memory of the central thesis of Darwin Devolves is that it can be summarised reasonably well from this quote from its Amazon blurb:
A system of natural selection acting on random mutation, evolution can help make something look and act differently. But evolution never creates something organically. Behe contends that Darwinism actually works by a process of devolution - damaging cells in DNA in order to create something new at the lowest biological levels. This is important, he makes clear, because it shows the Darwinian process cannot explain the creation of life itself. “A process that so easily tears down sophisticated machinery is not one which will build complex, functional systems,” he writes.
(My emphasis)
Behe’s point is not that evolution and adaption sometimes works by breaking genes – a point I would suspect that the vast majority ef evolutionary biologists would agree with, but that it “cannot” work and “never” works in any other way.
This opinion is echoed in the Amazon blurb by DI-ally Matti Leisola:
Behe introduces new molecular-level facts that sink the Darwinian view of life once and for all: Darwinian mechanism sometimes helps survival of an organism but always by damaging or breaking genes. The conclusion is clear: life is the product of a mind.
(My emphasis)
The trouble is that, even if you accept Behe’s summary of Van der Valk, Tom, et al. & Helsen, J. et al. at face value (difficult, given his long record of misrepresentation of others scientific work), this only demonstrates that it “sometimes” happens, not that it “always” happens, and “never” & “cannot” happen any other way.
This leaves Behe holding nothing but a “mammoth” nothing-burger. 