Dembski Responds to Rosenhouse

[lee_merrill]

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@lee_merrill

So Rosenhouse agrees with Behe’s edge of evolution!

Everyone agrees that there is an edge of evolution, what they disagree with is that any known attribute of a living organism is beyond that edge.

But the point was that Rosenhouse agrees with Behe’s edge.

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@lee_merrill

If only it can be shown that multiple, simultaneous mutations are required, which I believe Behe shows, in regard to new protein-protein interactions.

But he doesn’t show this. He assumes it in order to argue protein-protein interactions are beyond the edge.

“We can adapt the lessons of the immune system and shape space to help understand the problems random mutation would face in making new protein-protein binding sites in the cell.” (The Edge of Evolution, pp. 130-131)

So Behe does not just assume this, he makes an argument based primarily on considerations of protein shape space.

@Rumraket

@lee_merrill

No, before the fact. And events can be probable, or improbable, before the fact.

And yet here you are pointing to the flagellum after the fact. Ironic.

No, I view the development of the flagellum before the fact, which is the only real probability of interest.